Vivek Saxena, American Wire: Elon Musk calls ‘Hamilton 68’ scandal ‘biggest journalism scam in a very long time’
Billionaire Elon Musk has weighed in on the emerging Hamilton 68 dashboard scandal, describing it as “the biggest journalism scam in a very long time.”
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As previously reported via Taibbi, Hamilton 68 “is a computerized ‘dashboard’ designed to be used by reporters and academics to measure ‘Russian disinformation.'”
But instead it was used by the establishment press to push the false narrative that Twitter was teeming with Russian disinformation bots.
“Their secret sauce was a list of 600 accounts they said were linked to Russian influence,” Taibbi explained Friday on Fox News’ “One Nation.”
“The list, let’s just say, is mostly bereft of Russians, but is full of real Americans, and what they basically did is a fraud. They took ordinary conversations of ordinary conservatives mostly, and essentially just called it Russian influence,” he added.
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