-- a young man wearing a self-assured smirk and a red “Make America Great Again”
++ a young man wearing a red “Make America Great Again” hat
-- More video shows Phillips wiping away tears in reaction to the harassment.
++ More video shows Phillips wiping away tears after the incident.
"The report does not say whether the project purchased the Russian bot Twitter accounts that suddenly began to follow Mr. Moore. But it takes credit for “radicalizing Democrats with a Russian bot scandal” and points to stories on the phenomenon in the mainstream media. “Roy Moore flooded with fake Russian Twitter followers,” reported The New York Post."
Deception.
> Which seems to have involved at least one New Knowledge member but it seems wasn't actually run by New Knowledge.
Reid Hoffman, the billionaire funding AET wrote an apology. What does he have to apologize for? Well he paid AET $750k, AET paid New Knowledge at least $100k of that to run this disinformation campaign. So you can knock it off with the "at least one member... seems wasn't run by New Knowledge..." Obviously my patience has run thin on this - it has been proven that Morgan is a liar and that New Knowledge was deeply involved.
https://medium.com/@reidhoffman/truth-and-politics-1a532bc6c...
As I said, they've change their story more than once. When Morgan was pressed on the leaked internal report's clearly political goals, he said that "it didn't ring a bell".
Oh, and go check out their release of the report they provided the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in December. What, you didn't know that this politically motivated organization with an agenda was asked to inform the Senate about Russian interference in US election? Yeah, they were - and did, in December. Checkout the timestamp on that pdf - not December... weird...
> That said, I find it hard to believe you're arguing in good faith when you're drawing parallels between a limited spread of misinformation centered around a single event with literally murdering people.
When you say "limited spread" do you actually mean "completely unrestrained"? And no. I find it hard to believe that you don't see the parallels between the justifications for unethical experimentation conducted on an unwitting population during the cold war, and the rationalization you've provided in this thread. It has nothing to do with deaths, it has everything to do with the ethics and the non-zero cost to individuals. In the cold war a statistically insignificant portion of the population involuntarily paid a heavy price, in this "experiment" (it wasn't, the leak shows it was a political action) a statistically insignificant portion of the population was convinced that their president was a traitorous Russian agent and driven mad with impotent rage.