How Elon Musk’s 16-million-view retweet of a WikiLeaks post may have been the culmination of an information laundering campaign: a thread.

@Staub_T Traurig, aber alles fließt.

@McFaul Here's a thread with a detailed investigation into how misinformation about USAID's role in Ukrainian media may have been laundered:

@SteelCity__88 How many times can they get away with the coup narrative

@gasandoilparty Yes I've found the conflation of the two so frustrating, and not just with Trump, but of course he does it easily

@kghaynes This isn’t about insider info – their post was just screenshots of other organizations’ articles and links to them - it’s about how falsified information gets seeded into legitimate news. Wikileaks’ post came after that happened; they’re the bridge to Musk where it all went big.

@pikaso_me screenshot this

@katz_erik Very easy to look that term up. And to read the thread. Guessing you did neither.

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@GiggityChad99 Maybe it's meant to be a NAFO dog not DOGE ;)

@micahsb @VasuEda In this particular case I think just willfully ignorant. He knows how much harm he can do with his audience, could easily pay to have four PhDs research things from problematic sources like Wikileaks first, but he distant doesn’t care.

@Jimdotbeep Read the thread. It's not a WikiLeaks article, it's something they shared.

@kisa_osya @I_Katchanovski Well put

@octoprime13007 Fortunately my following is growing because of this, I appreciate your kind words 😊 Merci pour le follow !

@Aksu09845728 Not a chance. I don’t it’ll even mean a Community Note.

@chaliy Once upon a time WL did some good, and perhaps they still do, but I don’t trust them. Their agenda can be for chaos.

@MarekMeissner Do you know when Rybar talked about this? I would be very interested to know. I looked on Telegram for a moment just now but didn’t find anything. I read your words through the translator.

@HSkriff Very true. I had no interest in Twitter until I learned what an information battleground it was becoming, being legitimized as media, and thought I might try to do something about it. Years ago I thought I just must not be cool enough to get it