Managing editor, @DFRLab. NPR and Reportedly alum. Author of the book Distant Witness. Woodturner. Calling BS is my calling.
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acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
Btw, you can’t just become anti-Assad today. Too late.
We’ll never forget those who called the protests fake, the barrel bombs fake, the chemical weapons fake. It’s been 13 years of collective gaslighting of the Syrian revolution.
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
For god's sake reach to Saydnaya slaughterhouse prison & rescue the rest!! Upon release list their names, secure the prison for evidnce. Governments & int. organizations, must immediately offer support to released detainees & support efforts to reunite them with families
Oh, for those of you wondering why I'm not live-tweeting Syria here, it's because I'm doing it over on Bluesky.
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
What happens when Syrian opposition forces reach Damascus will be a test of their leadership and discipline.
The desire for revenge among many will be intense, but they need to resist acting on that desire in order to maintain a united Syria when the shift to governance occurs.
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
There is a case to be made—and I've made it here before—that the Syrian civil war is the most important event of the 21st century. Possible deadliest war, generated a host of other conflicts, produced ISIS and massive European refugee crisis, possibly gave us Brexit and Trump...
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
تحررت كفرنبل للمرة الثانية
بأيادي الأبطال
سنرجع قريباً ….
Left: the size of my pituitary tumor last April.
Right: the size of my tumor this week.
MRI shows tumor volume shrunk 55% over 6 months. Plus, my latest bloodwork reaffirmed that it's ceased wreaking havoc on my endocrine system.
Time to eat these blueberries. #prolactinoma
And no, I am not deleting my account here, despite this platform become a toxic slag pit. There's too much history documented during those early years, warts and all, and people should be able to access it.
Why yes, I am on Bluesky. If anything can capture the magic of early Twitter, this is it. bsky.app/profile/acarvin.bsk…
hahahahahaha washingtonpost.com/nation/20…
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
Today is the Biden-imposed deadline for Israel to allow a "surge" of humanitarian aid into Gaza are face suspension of US military aid. But Israel has utterly "failed" to meet that demand. Instead, conditions "are worse than at any point" in the war,
apnews.com/article/israel-pa…
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
Trump's emerging "national security" team is shaping up to be a kettle of hawkish neocons. His reported pick for NSA, Mike Waltz, was Dick Cheney's counterterrorism advisor and worked for Donald Rumsfeld. Marco Rubio, Elise Stefanik are B-list neocon warmongers.
acarvin.bsky.social aka Andy Carvin retweeted
Grok knows.
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This has been the big concern within the research community. As @dfrlab recently noted, Doppelganger is "a lightning rod for the attention of researchers, media, and government authorities while the Kremlin likely attempts to operate more covert forms of information warfare."
Great work by @antibot4navalny.
I'm increasingly convinced that the main goal of Ru info ops like Doppelganger, Matryoshka and Storm-1516 is not to influence voters but to tie up and distract anti-disinfo resources.
Ru plays factcheckers like a fiddle.
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