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The Substack Infiltration Nobody Is Talking About

    

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The Substack Infiltration Nobody Is Talking About

A warning about bots, fake accounts, paid rage-bait, and the coordinated effort to fracture the pro-democracy movement from within.


The Substack Infiltration Nobody Is Talking About

There are moments when you can feel something shift.

Not because one person attacks you.
Not because one post goes viral.
Not because a few trolls show up in the comments.

But because the pattern becomes impossible to ignore.

Over the past several months, through extensive sourcing, direct information coming to my attention, and patterns we have been carefully tracking, I believe something much bigger is happening here on Substack.


And almost nobody is reporting on it.

This platform — the place so many of us came to because we were tired of corporate media, tired of cable news spin, tired of algorithm-driven propaganda — is being targeted.

Not just by ordinary trolls.

Not just by people who disagree politically.

I’m talking about something far more organized.

Right-wing bot networks. Fake accounts. MAGA-aligned influencers. Anonymous operators. Coordinated disruption. Paid rage-bait. And even some so-called “independent” voices who present themselves as left-leaning or anti-Trump while appearing to do the same thing Trump’s machine has always done best:

Divide. Distract. Confuse. Destroy trust. And protect the powerful.

And here is the part that is going to be hard for some people to hear.

Some of the names we are going to discuss may be names you recognize.

Names you have followed.

Names you may have trusted.

Names you may have subscribed to, paid to hear from, shared with friends, and believed were standing there to protect you and tell you the truth.

I understand how hard that is.

Speaking truth is probably one of the hardest things anyone can do, especially when it means questioning people you once believed in. I know that personally. I have lived that for the past eight years since my arrest. I know what it feels like when people you trusted turn out not to be who you thought they were. I know what it feels like when the truth costs you friends, comfort, reputation, and sometimes even your freedom.

But I am not going to come to you with rumors.

I am not going to come to you with gossip.

I am not going to come to you with names just to create drama or clicks.

I am going to come to you with facts.

With evidence.

With patterns.

With documentation.

And like I always say — I will bring the receipts.

Because this is bigger than Substack drama.

This is about information warfare.

This is about who gets to control the narrative.

This is about whether independent media becomes a real movement for truth — or whether it gets hijacked from the inside by bots, bad actors, fake allies, and people being rewarded to tear communities apart.

And that is why I am asking every single person reading this to do something difficult:

Do not fall into the same cult mentality we have spent years warning people about.

Do not defend someone just because you like them.

Do not dismiss evidence just because you have followed someone for a long time.

Do not close your eyes because the truth is uncomfortable.

Look at the facts clearly.

Look at the evidence openly.

Watch with your own eyes.

Listen with your own ears.

And then decide.

Because there comes a time when hard decisions have to be made.

There comes a time when we have to stop allowing division, squabbling, ego, and infiltration to weaken the very movement that is supposed to save this country.

And that time is now.

For those who have been following my work, you know I do not say this lightly.

I have lived inside disinformation operations. I have seen how narratives are planted. I have seen how people are used. I have seen how fake outrage becomes a weapon. I have seen how powerful people hide behind influencers, friendly media personalities, fake accounts, and supposedly “independent” voices.

I saw it in Trump’s world.

I saw it in the Ukraine disinformation campaign.

I saw it when lies were manufactured against President Biden and his family.

I saw it when people were paid, pressured, rewarded, or manipulated into carrying a message that looked grassroots — but wasn’t.

And now, I am seeing the same fingerprints again.

Only this time, the battlefield is independent media.

The battlefield is Substack.

The battlefield is us.

And if we do not expose it now, then the same forces that poisoned Facebook, Twitter, cable news, and the mainstream political conversation are going to poison this space too.

What we are seeing is not random.

It is not organic.

It is not just “people disagreeing.”

It is coordinated behavior designed to weaken independent voices, divide pro-democracy communities, and make people lose faith in one another.

That is always how these operations work.

First they flood the space with noise.
Then they create suspicion.
Then they pit allies against each other.
Then they reward the loudest dividers.
Then they make truth feel impossible to find.

And once people are exhausted, confused, angry, and divided, the bad actors win.

That is the game.

And I am done watching it happen...

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Sunday, August 9, 2020

RSN: PODCAST: Marc Ash | Interview With Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen

 


 

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PODCAST: Marc Ash | Interview With Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen
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Ash writes: "In this the second episode of The RSN Podcast, I am joined by RootsAction co-founders Norman Solomon and Jeff Cohen. We discussed their article, 'New Progressive Campaign to Vote Trump Out in Swing States,' the direction of the progressive movement heading into the 2020 presidential election cycle, and what comes after. It was quite a good conversation."
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A Stricken Ship Is Leaking Tonnes of Fuel Into the 'Pristine Lagoons' of the Indian Ocean
Sara Spary and Amy Woodyatt, CNN
Excerpt: "Mauritius is facing a 'state of environmental emergency' after a wrecked ship began breaking up, spilling oil into the Indian Ocean."


The vessel ran aground at Pointe d'Esny on the east of the island nation in late July, according to local media reports and environmental campaigners. This is close to the Blue Bay Marine Park reserve and a number of popular tourist beaches. 

Damage to the boat has since caused it to leak out polluting waste into the surrounding area, and photographs circulating on social media appear to show thick, sticky oils coating the water and the ground.

On Friday, Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth declared a state of environmental emergency. Mauritius lies next to the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean, and Jugnauth also appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron for help on Twitter. 

The Mauritian leader said "our country does not have the skills and expertise to refloat stranded ships."

On Saturday, Macron said that France was deploying teams and equipment from Reunion Island in response.

Happy Khambule, Greenpeace Africa senior climate and energy campaign manager, warned that the bulk carrier was leaking "tonnes of diesel and oil into the ocean," and threatening the area's wildlife. 

"Thousands of species around the pristine lagoons of Blue Bay, Pointe d'Esny and Mahebourg are at risk of drowning in a sea of pollution, with dire consequences for Mauritius' economy, food security and health," Khambule said in a Friday statement. 

A clean-up operation is underway.

The country's minister of the environment Kavy Ramano said on Friday: "We are in a situation of environmental crisis." 

Younous Omarjee, a member of the European Parliament from Reunion Island, told CNN that international cooperation was needed to deal with the "ecological disaster." 

"This is a serious environmental crisis and we are not yet aware of all the consequences it could have. It's also terrible for Mauritius, whose economy is based on tourism and has already been severely impacted by the pandemic," he told CNN. 

France's Minister of Ecological Transition Barbara Pompili announced Saturday that France is providing support to the Mauritian authorities to deal with the fuel leak.

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Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Putin’s Long War Against American Science



Lengthy, but well worth reading.

Is this your source of disinformation?


RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION has been particularly effective with the ANTI-VAXXERS who are now promoting a campaign to fire Dr. Fauci.




What do you think have been the biggest successes of this effort?
The Kremlin’s anti-vaccine campaign has done much to drive Americans away from childhood immunizations, helping to stir a resurgence of measles, a disease once seen as defeated. Last year, the U.S. had 1,282 new cases, with 61 resulting in major complications such as pneumonia and encephalitis.
How might Putin’s campaign influence coronavirus misinformation?
At worst, it seems as if the false information on the coronavirus may help prolong the pandemic and contribute to new cases of incapacitation and death.













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