emptywheel

Do you know who founded the group "Alliance for Securing Democracy"? Do you know what their methodology is for assessing the activity of these "trolls"?

Soros?

No, an alliance of neoconservative and liberal interventionist DC operatives who use secret methodology that they refuse to make available for independent verification, and who have succeeded in goading media members like yourself to uncritically promulgate their "findings."

Mike. I trust YOU.

Not asking you to trust me, just asking you to apply a modicum of skepticism to this Bill Kristol / Mike Chertoff organization whose information you keep uncritically promulgating.

They're not hiding who is behind it, it's prominently posted on the site. I'm not a big fan of Kristol/Chertoff, as I'm not a fan of yours but that doesn't mean I think TYT is somehow unreliable.

Of course there are real limits to how useful it can be. Like anything else, there's useful signals that should be taken as part of a spectrum. It's certainly not definitive.