Dave Troy’s Tweets

Sep 7

I've been pre-publishing research related to an upcoming piece because I think there is an urgent need for others (and the intelligence community) to have it. Here are three of four planned threads, with raw research + links to sources. Part 1, The Event:

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Aug 29

1/PART 1, THE EVENT: I’ve been working on an investigation for @WashSpec that reaches to the very top of the Kremlin. It’s a few weeks from completion, but we decided to share this work in progress early because failing to do so may place people in significant danger.

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The (Almost) Bulletproof Plan to Take Down America — and How to Stop It

With respect to Saudi and OPEC price hikes today… it is a complex situation but here are some thoughts I wrote up about it a few months ago. I’m not sure there is any solution, but we can at least be clear about the problem.

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There is a nearly foolproof plan underway to crush the United States and bring it fully under fascist rule. In recent months, this chorus…

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Will Oremus

@WillOremus

What Elon Musk's text messages tell us about how he might run Twitter: - Fire tons of employees - Squeeze power users for $ - Prioritize free speech & reinstate banned users - Consult w/ conservatives like Ron DeSantis - Not put it on the blockchain More:

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Elon Musk may soon own Twitter. What will it look like if he does?

The Tesla CEO's fresh offer to buy Twitter for $44 billion represents a win for the firm's board. But Musk is almost sure to transform the company.

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Ruslan Trad

@ruslantrad

The Russian army is losing on all significant front lines. This is a fact. It is also a fact that Russia activates its soft propaganda through sympathizers among veterans, politicians, and figures in Western countries. More often we will read that "Ukraine must negotiate".

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The Pope blesses the new Czech province of Kaliningrad, now Královec. This is all moving so fast!

I won't be sending regular updates through this channel in the near term, and when/if I do, you'll be able to easily opt-out. This is just a proactive measure to start building capacity outside of this platform. Thanks for your ongoing support! 🙏

Elon Musk’s Twitter Will Be a Wild Ride

🚨NEW! You can now use this form to keep receiving updates from me no matter what happens with Twitter, or my account. While I do not anticipate any near-term changes, it's a good idea to mitigate platform risk and protect against arbitrary actions. eepurl.com/iaHqiv

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"virtually every Twitter employee I’ve spoken to in the last six months has told me that he or she plans to leave if Mr. Musk takes over"

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His deal to buy the company is back on. Here are six predictions about Twitter under Musk’s control, if it happens.

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Today is the 2-year anniversary of the Great Barrington Declaration, an influential document originating from fringe medical experts groomed by a Koch-funded libertarian think-tank urging governments to embrace mass infection and “focused protection” as the path to herd immunity.

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Additionally one wonders where he obtained these “images”, about their authenticity, and the intention behind their distribution.

The only “hysteria” has been in echoes of Russian State Media’s coverage of this. Regardless, if this submarine is in fact in the Arctic as Sutton indicates, that’s a notable datapoint.

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H I Sutton

@CovertShores

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***BREAKING*** New Images Reveal Russia’s ‘Missing’ Submarine Belgorod In Arctic Media hype claims that a unique Russian submarine, the Belgorod, has 'vanished'. This may be exaggerated #OSINT navalnews.com/naval-news/202

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Excited to be having a Twitter Spaces chat tomorrow (Wed 5 Oct 11am ET) with

@amywestervelt

@s_pastorelli

about my new report on how Big Fossil uses social media to greenwash and wokewash, & what we can do about it. Join us live tomorrow, 11am ET 📻: twitter.com/i/spaces/1jMJg

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Geoffrey Supran

@GeoffreySupran

Sep 21

NEW report today by me & ati.io @NCoC reveals European oil, car, & airline companies' systematic use of language & imagery (of nature & demographics) on social media to brand themselves as green, innovative, & charitable. THREAD. ati.io/three-shades-o

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thephiladelphiacitizen.org

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BRICS+ doing what they can to put the screws to Western democracies.

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Michael McFaul

@McFaul

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Wow. Very unfriendly. Saudi Arabia and Russia plan deep oil cuts in defiance of US | Financial Times ft.com/content/476d81

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Longtermism is a cautionary tale. No matter how finely tuned your cost/benefit model, if someone can introduce arbitrarily large numbers into the mix, they make it say whatever they want.

The Kyiv Post is #NAFO

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It's a very good time to request your Twitter archive & get ready to bail on this venue before a certain party gets his grasping paws on your personal contribution to twitter.

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Explosions heard throughout Bila Tserkva, #Kyiv Oblast. Russia reportedly hitting targets with suicide drones.

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5/but it probably has to do with what kinds of accounts are counted as “live” and that criteria having perceived side effects. Speaking to all of this from my experience as the first developer using the Twitter API in 2007. If

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has input I’d love to hear it too.

4/Anyway, it’s unlikely that they’ve gone out and done a “knight of the long knives” purge of your followers; it’s more likely that their counter caches aren’t very good. That said, why this would seem to affect certain “kinds” of accounts more than others is anybody’s guess…

3/gyrations with respect to its sale and questions about “real” accounts, they may have held off making changes or even doing a hard refresh of cached counts. So what we are observing is the database becoming “consistent” based on current rules, which are a black box.

2/calculated and refreshed every so often. If conditions change in the code about what constitutes an “active” account, it could produce a significant variation in the cached approximation you see in your profile. What’s likely happening here is as Twitter is going through…

1/Re: people “losing” Twitter followers: a lot of modern applications use what’s called “eventually consistent” data models. They can be accurate for things that matter, but for things like counting one:many relationships with conditions, the numbers you see may only be…

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Replace government and voting with X, the “everything app.” Not kidding.

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Elon Musk

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Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app

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"Putin relies on controlling the information space in Russia to safeguard his regime much more than on the kind of massive oppression apparatus the Soviet Union used, making disorder in the information space potentially even more dangerous to Putin than it was to the Soviets." 1/

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“In a deeply reported piece in ⁦

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gets to the heart of the matter. She documents Mastriano’s ties (which he nonetheless denies) to the New Apostolic Reformation,… 1/

Doug Mastriano vs. the Free Press

PA gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano's war against the press is not run-of-the-mill media-blaming; it's downright autocratic

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In those Musk texts, the redacted senders and recipients lay the groundwork for a "war" and "battle" after Musk takes over Twitter — a "coordinated pressure campaign" that will lead to deplatforming of political enemies.

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Platform risk is real. Especially in the hands of even fewer people, and lack of any public oversight.

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Heshmat Alavi's Trenchcoat

@UrOrientalist

Remember Geoff Golberg, the guy who exposed how the Iran bot network works and then promptly got kicked off of Twitter, the same website which partly belongs to Saudi Arabia, which also happens to be a main sponsor of the Iranian opposition

twitter.com/HadiNasrallah/…

I’ll add: I don’t think there is some especially urgent risk of getting thrown off here (behavior being equal), but the platform isn’t very trustworthy now in its decision-making, and it may change in arbitrary ways. Mitigating platform risk is just a good idea for all creators.

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(Reuters) - The United States has no indication that Russia is preparing to use nuclear weapons, despite "nuclear saber-rattling" by Russian President Vladimir Putin, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday.

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I’ll have something specifically for this for myself very soon, stay tuned.

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My advice to high follower accounts on this platform who may be impacted by the Musk deal is to start building up a list of email addresses, so you can stay in touch with followers directly.

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reporting if this letter from Musk to court saying he'll buy Twitter for original price $54.20/share is legit, then he could own the company by end of this week.

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Twitter: $44bn. Multipolar world order: priceless.

That time Apple killed Facebook with an iOS point release.

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Valdis Krebs

@ValdisKrebs

Apple's App Tracking Transparency feature wreaked havoc on the global ad market. The feature is projected to cost Meta $12.8 billion this year. adguard.com/en/blog/apple-

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Timely.

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Apr 28

If 60% of people think Musk’s Twitter deal will fail; And 60% think Putin won’t use a nuke; And then both of those things happen… Isn’t it a bad thing that most people are wrong right now? And that our default position is delusion?

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Re-upping.

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Apr 5

Those concerned about how Musk’s involvement in Twitter may warp the US 2022 elections should expand their scope to consider how this will be used to shape discourse around the already unfolding World War III. Think big… think planet scale, think in historical terms.

From April.

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Please note: Musk buying Twitter is one front in the hybrid warfare of WW3, and he’s on Putin’s side.

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A consortium of investors aligned with a hostile foreign power is purchasing this messaging platform.

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Bloomberg

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BREAKING: Elon Musk is proposing to buy Twitter for the original offer price of $54.20 a share, according to people familiar with the matter trib.al/bzkyQ66

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2/For example, demonstrations of force that are designed to underpin information warfare are not equivalent to undertaking a full-blown kinetic war. We have to be able to make that distinction, and not be overly swayed even by scary-seeming provocations.

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1/Expect increased information warfare. Some of it may be rooted in scary facts; not all propaganda is false. The most effective information warfare is rooted in truth, and designed to manipulate emotions.

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