Paul D. Thacker on X: "8. Note that Imran Ahmed released his report to coincide with Biden's vaccine rollout and congressional hearings w/ Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.
QUESTION: Who is Ahmed working with?"
8. Note that Imran Ahmed released his report to coincide with Biden's vaccine rollout and congressional hearings w/ Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.
QUESTION: Who is Ahmed working with?
2. First thing I found was Twitter officials discussing action they were taking on @RobertKennedyJr b/c of a report put out by the Center for Countering Digital Hate @CCDHate
CCDH's report was called "The Disinformation Dozen."
But was the report credible?
5. It's run by a British political operative named Imran Ahmed, who wrote "New Serfdom" a book critical of free market ideology."
QUESTION 1: How did being a Labour Party political operative prepare Ahmed to rebrand himself as an expert in vaccines and disinformation?
8. Note that Imran Ahmed released his report to coincide with Biden's vaccine rollout and congressional hearings w/ Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey.
QUESTION: Who is Ahmed working with?
9. Twitter placed a âVaccine Safetyâ label on this tweet where Kennedy sent a letter to Biden. What is wrong with sending the President a letter?
How does this violate safety? It's just odd.
13. Another incident involves disinformation researcher Filippo Menczer at the U of Indiana. Back in 2014, a member of the Federal Communications Commission wrote a Washington Post essay calling his federally funded research âOrwellianâ
15. Menczer later told the Columbia Journalism Review that criticism of him had nothing to do with the reality of his researchâit merely confirmed the problem of misinformation.
(Most disinformation researcher claim any criticism is "disinformation")
16. Fast forward several years and what is Menczer doing? SURPRISE!!!!
Defining types of speech as misinformation, tracking peopleâs social media, and creating an online database.
17. In December 2021, Menczer emailed a misinformation group âOur CoVaxx dashboard quoted in the article, ranks CHD as the top source of COVID vaccine disinformation,â Menczer wrote. The abbreviation âCHDâ stands for Childrenâs Health Defense, the group Kennedy runs.
18. Menczer also falsely claimed that Kennedy has misrepresented his research. Kennedy hadn't.
QUESTION: Why do misinformation experts put out misinformation so often?
QUESTION 2: Who is paying for all this research?
20. When explaining his research, Menczer sometimes makes it appear abstract and nebulous. When he won a recent $1.2 million Department of Defense grant to study misinformation, his university put out a statement.
QUESTION: What does this mean?