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With the Blumenthal imbroglio, I've seen folks put forward this old article of mine, which was spiked after he threatened to sue (not due to factual errors). So I'm making a thread of scholarly articles that have backed its claims since I wrote it. /1 https://hummusforthought.com/2018/03/16/the-multipolar-spin-how-fascists-operationalize-left-wing-resentment/
First, there's the independent fact check, which is the easiest way of validating its claims (it was also fact checked by the SPLC and checked by a half-dozen scholars and experts before publication). /2 https://twitter.com/bobfrombrockley/status/1273708893831671815
Then there's this scholarly piece for the IEEE that I co-authored with @emmibevensee, in which earlier claims were backed up using quantitative methods. /2
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8622270&casa_token=EVuE4usIkC8AAAAA:nTgX09bAX20lzpKmgP9JCdLSub3EKOrGVXa--S_YqGD8EdodGwrLHhgqS5Q03NkhS-ZHrrXmSAM&tag=1
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8622270&casa_token=EVuE4usIkC8AAAAA:nTgX09bAX20lzpKmgP9JCdLSub3EKOrGVXa--S_YqGD8EdodGwrLHhgqS5Q03NkhS-ZHrrXmSAM&tag=1
Not to mention this extensive piece that I wrote for peer-reviewed journal Boundary2Online... /3 https://www.boundary2.org/2019/11/alexander-reid-ross-fooling-the-nation-extremism-and-the-pro-russia-disinformation-ecosystem/
Ah, then there's @emmibevensee et al's recent scholarly paper, which cites the previous B2O article, on disinfo (featuring Blumenthal's blog), published in ICWSM. /4
http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract?id=2020_18
http://workshop-proceedings.icwsm.org/abstract?id=2020_18
And of course, Starbird's excellent work (also from ICWSM), when Blumenthal's blog was still at Alternet... /5
https://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Starbird-et-al-ICWSM-2018-Echosystem-final.pdf
https://faculty.washington.edu/kstarbi/Starbird-et-al-ICWSM-2018-Echosystem-final.pdf
Starbird has some more recent stuff available that also corroborates my research wrt to the conspiracy theory media echo chamber and its relationship to the "white helmets." /6
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3359229
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3359229
While you're at it, you can check out this Stanford paper that gets more into some of the nitty gritty that I tried to expose in my work. /7
https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/potemkin-pages-personas-sio-wp.pdf
https://fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/potemkin-pages-personas-sio-wp.pdf
And of course, the New Knowledge piece that was solicited by the Senate, which identified many of the same actors as I had. /8
âŠhttps://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinformation-report/NewKnowledge-Disinformation-Report-Whitepaper.pdf
âŠhttps://disinformationreport.blob.core.windows.net/disinformation-report/NewKnowledge-Disinformation-Report-Whitepaper.pdf
Blumenthal is currently hanging out with Chris Williamson and Ken Livingstone, both mired in anti-Semitism scandals. When Blumenthal was invited to speak in London by an anti-Semitic Facebook group, a Holocaust denier opened for him. /9 https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2020/02/24/new-report-inside-keep-talking-the-antisemitic-conspiracy-theory-group/
They of course are demanding "Free Speech"! After gloating about taking down my fact-checked work with a lawsuit threat, in spite of all the scholarly corroboration, why wouldn't they? Perhaps they will sue all the peer-reviewed journals next. And wouldn't that be news? /Ends
