THREAD:

Why did @DonaldTrumpJr tell Congress he talked to PSY-GROUP at the 8/3/16 Trump Tower meeting about "combatting fake news"?

Trump Sr didn't even say "fake news" until Jan 2017.

Psy-Group, meanwhile, offered social media manipulation services to the Trump campaign. /1

As I detailed extensively in this thread from Jul 2019, I discovered that the 2016 timeline supports that the "fake news sites" out of Macedonia began to be amplified on Facebook *days before* this Trump Tower meeting on 8/3/16. /2 https://twitter.com/visionsurreal/status/1146598079312867329?s=19

Amplifying these Macedonian fake news sites was an operation Psy-Group specifically described as helping Trump in a presentation they made after the election, so the fact such amplification did in fact begin around the 8/3/16 Trump Tower meeting w/ Zamel raises many questions. /3

This post-election presentation showcased Psy-Group's own capabilities.

" 'The PSY-Group said it had the capability of leveraging fake social-media accounts, which they call avatars, on behalf of political campaigns,' the Wall Street Journal explained."/4 https://www.justsecurity.org/57245/russian-trolls-company-evidence-israel-based-psy-groups-social-media-efforts-2016-election/

Per @jonathonmorgan of New Knowledge: “Maybe PSY Group was only using these accounts as an example of how social media conversation can be manipulated, but it’s hard to imagine why they would promote someone else’s work in a sales presentation for their company’s services." /5