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#19894200 at 2023-11-10 18:33:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24427: Celebrate Veterans, Marine Birthday #248 Edition
Anon saw this (lb) and thought it notable so is reposting. Is there a second?
>>19894021 (lb)
What is the mysterious Aspen Institute and why did it hold a Hunter Biden 'exercise'?
By Bruce Golding
Published Dec. 19, 2022
Updated Dec. 21, 2022, 2:08 p.m. ET
A US government-funded nonprofit known as "the mountain retreat for the liberal elite" sponsored a "tabletop exercise" intended to influence coverage of a leak of documents related to Hunter Biden, the latest installment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" reveals.
In a series of tweets Monday, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger posted confidential documents from the Aspen Institute's September 2020 event, which he said was attended by Twitter's then-head of trust and safety, Facebook's head of security policy and top national security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The exercise by the "Aspen Digital Hack-and-Dump Working Group" involved an 11-day scenario in October 2020 that began with the imaginary release of falsified records related to Hunter Biden's controversial employment by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid him as much as $1 million a year to serve on its board when his father was vice president.
"The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it," Shellenberger wrote.
But the drill was put into practical use weeks later, when The Post broke the news about Hunter Biden's infamous laptop — which was either ignored or downplayed by most mainstream news outlets and suppressed by both Twitter and Facebook.
While they derided the reporting as potential disinformation well after the story broke, some two years later major news organizations including the Times and The Washington Post chose to authenticate key emails from the laptop and both Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have since admitted it was wrong to crack down on The Post's reporting.
In a message sent just three days after The Post's Oct. 14, 2020, scoop, journalist and author Garrett Graff apparently reached out to fellow participants in the Aspen Institute exercise.
"Stephen was right!" he wrote.
Graff, whose latest book is "Watergate: A New History," didn't immediately return a request for comment and it's unclear who "Stephen" is.
The exercise was organized by Vivian Schiller, a former top executive at National Public Radio, Twitter, The New York Times and NBC News, Shellenberger reported.
Since January 2020, she's been the executive director of Aspen Digital, which its parent organization says "empowers policymakers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world."
#19894021 at 2023-11-10 17:56:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24426: Getting the Drop on the Global Disinformation Network! EditionEdition
>>19893916
>The missing link in these, is the bridge to media/journalists.
What is the mysterious Aspen Institute and why did it hold a Hunter Biden 'exercise'?
By Bruce Golding
Published Dec. 19, 2022
Updated Dec. 21, 2022, 2:08 p.m. ET
A US government-funded nonprofit known as "the mountain retreat for the liberal elite" sponsored a "tabletop exercise" intended to influence coverage of a leak of documents related to Hunter Biden, the latest installment of Elon Musk's "Twitter Files" reveals.
In a series of tweets Monday, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger posted confidential documents from the Aspen Institute's September 2020 event, which he said was attended by Twitter's then-head of trust and safety, Facebook's head of security policy and top national security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The exercise by the "Aspen Digital Hack-and-Dump Working Group" involved an 11-day scenario in October 2020 that began with the imaginary release of falsified records related to Hunter Biden's controversial employment by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid him as much as $1 million a year to serve on its board when his father was vice president.
"The goal was to shape how the media covered it - and how social media carried it," Shellenberger wrote.
But the drill was put into practical use weeks later, when The Post broke the news about Hunter Biden's infamous laptop - which was either ignored or downplayed by most mainstream news outlets and suppressed by both Twitter and Facebook.
While they derided the reporting as potential disinformation well after the story broke, some two years later major news organizations including the Times and The Washington Post chose to authenticate key emails from the laptop and both Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have since admitted it was wrong to crack down on The Post's reporting.
In a message sent just three days after The Post's Oct. 14, 2020, scoop, journalist and author Garrett Graff apparently reached out to fellow participants in the Aspen Institute exercise.
"Stephen was right!" he wrote.
Graff, whose latest book is "Watergate: A New History," didn't immediately return a request for comment and it's unclear who "Stephen" is.
The exercise was organized by Vivian Schiller, a former top executive at National Public Radio, Twitter, The New York Times and NBC News, Shellenberger reported.
Since January 2020, she's been the executive director of Aspen Digital, which its parent organization says "empowers policymakers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world."
#18476355 at 2023-03-09 23:31:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22656: Who is Dana Hyde & How Did She Die? Edition
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>>18474868 So this came up in a search for "aspen digital hack and dump working group"
>https://archive.ph/bSk8a
10.07.2020 02:02 PM
The Right Way to Cover Hacks and Leaks Before the Election
The media knows it screwed up in 2016 with John Podesta. Here's how it should do better in the final weeks of the 2020 race.
John Podesta speaking to reporters
The media continues to struggle to contextualize the release of stolen documents, without doing the bidding of the thief.?Photograph: Drew Angerer/Getty Images
New!
It seems clear, with four years of hindsight, that the American news media owes John Podesta an apology. The political media did almost everything wrong in covering the theft-and-leak of his private emails amid the heat of the 2016 presidential campaign, four years ago today-and yet it's not at all clear that if confronted by an operation similar to what Russian intelligence executed in targeting the Democratic National Committee via Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, that we'd get it any more right now.
In fact, so-called "hack-and-leaks" remain one of the most difficult stories to confront appropriately. As we enter the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign, when each day seems primed for an October surprise, it's worth thinking deeply about what makes these incidents so pernicious-and how we as a news media and a society might respond more maturely and rationally than in 2016.
From dozens of conversations this year with numerous reporters, editors, researchers, and executives-as well as a tabletop exercise I ran at the Aspen Institute this summer along with Vivian Schiller, the former CEO of National Public Radio, who now directs Aspen's media and technology program-it's clear there's a shared unease about how the news media handled the 2016 Russian attack on the DNC and Clinton campaign chair John Podesta. The unease stems not from any partisan preference for or against Hillary Clinton; it has to do with the sense that the US media allowed itself to be the delivery mechanism for a Russian attack on our democracy.
The basic details of the Podesta leak have come into focus thanks to the work of US intelligence and Robert Mueller's investigation as special counsel: On October 7, 2016, just hours after US intelligence first warned publicly of Russia's unfolding attack on the presidential election and just 30 minutes after the damaging Access Hollywood tape was released, Wikileaks began publishing thousands of emails stolen earlier that year by Russia intelligence from Podesta's personal email account.
Ever since the dust settled in November following Trump's surprise victory, there's been an uncomfortable sense that the media's tendency toward horse-race coverage aided and abetted a surprise attack by America's foremost foreign adversary. The Podesta theft and subsequent leak destabilized the campaign and muddled the line between two controversies-confusing many voters between the leak of the Podesta emails and the questions around Hillary Clinton's use of a private email at the State Department.
A "hack and leak" is among the most likely attacks the US might face in the closing weeks of the presidential race, and it is also one of the hardest to respond to adequately and effectively. The path forward requires understanding both the lessons of previous attacks and why Donald Trump's words and actions have made the current landscape particularly vulnerable.
How We Got to Now
The first major hack-and-leak was met with more amusement than alarm. To this day, North Korea's 2014 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment remains misunderstood-a bizarre incident by a bizarre regime, more embarrassing than harmful, protesting a mediocre stoner movie with Seth Rogen and James Franco.
Yet it was actually a deeply destructive landmark attack, as it turns out, for reasons we didn't realize at the time. Beyond the actual financial and physical damage, the Sony hack burned itself into America's mind because the hackers hit the softest part of the company's IT system-emails-and weaponized that information through the use of social media. North Korea got the mainstream media to pick up on those leaks and do the hackers' bidding, causing reputational and financial damage to the company as Sony's innermost secrets were spread across the internet for all to read. A stolen spreadsheet of a company's executive salaries proved irresistible to reporters, who published it quickly; ditto for reporting on executives' candid comments on colleagues, actors, directors, and other Hollywood luminaries. Particularly in the sped-up news cycles of the digital age, the media had decided that the "newsworthiness" of purloined internal secrets outweighed any ethical dilemmas raised by how that material was obtained. In Sony's case, there was no sense or allegation of wrongdoing-just hot gossip.
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#18314958 at 2023-02-09 20:17:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22446: Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government Edition
Twitter Execs Testify That Their Election-Meddling Decisions Were Even Flimsier Than Previously Claimed By: Margot Cleveland February 09, 2023 1 of 2
Twitter executives being beholden to so-called experts' tweets is hardly better than doing the FBI's bidding.
When the New York Post dropped its bombshell reporting on documents recovered from Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop in October of 2020, Twitter did not reach out to the FBI to ask whether the reporting was Russian disinformation - despite extensive coordination with the FBI to prepare to combat foreign election interference. Instead, according to testimony at Wednesday's House Oversight Committee hearing,Twitter relied on the tweets of supposed experts, making the tech giant's decision to censor the Post's story even more outrageous.
The House Oversight Committee, now in the hands of Republicans, questioned four former Twitter executives on their decision to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story. Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., pushed Twitter's former global head of trust and safety, Yoel Roth, to explain the timing of Twitter's decision to censor the New York Post story.
Biggs noted that in an 8:51 a.m. email on Oct. 14, 2020, Roth had taken the position that the laptop "isn't clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy."
But then, by 10:12, Roth emailed his colleagues with Twitter's decision to censor the story, stating that "the key factor informing our approach is consensus from experts monitoring election security and disinformation that this looks a lot like a hack-and-leak operation."
What cybersecurity experts had Roth consulted between 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m. on Oct. 14, 2020, the morning the Post story broke, Biggs asked the former Twitter executive.
Roth responded that the experts were ones the Twitter heads were following on the platform. "We were following discussions about this as they unfolded on Twitter," Roth explained. "Cybersecurity experts were tweeting about this incident and sharing their perspectives, and that informed some of Twitter's judgment here."
Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., was incredulous: "After 2016, you set up all these teams to deal with Russian interference, foreign interference, having regular meetings with the FBI, you have connections with all of these different government agencies, and you didn't reach out to them once?"
"That's right," Roth said, noting he didn't think it would be appropriate.
Instead, Twitter relied on the tweets of supposed national security experts.
Who those experts were, Roth didn't say, but here we have another strange coincidence: In his testimony on Wednesday, Roth told the committee that a few weeks before the Post story dropped, he had participated in an exercise hosted by the Aspen Institute, with other media outlets and social media companies, that posed a hack and leak October surprise involving Hunter Biden. Roth testified that Garrett Graff facilitated that event.
And at 8:23 a.m. on Oct. 14, 2020, after the Post story broke, Graff tweeted his playbook for how the media should react to "this Biden-Burisma crap."
(Garret Graff 1 tweet)
Graff followed about some 10 minutes later, tweeting, "Also, what a TOTAL coincidence that this fake Hunter Biden scandal drops the literal day after it becomes clear that both of Bill Barr's other intended October surprises-the Durham investigation and the unmasking investigation-have fallen apart??!"
(Garret Graff tweet)
Not long after Graff began pushing the "fake" Hunter Biden scandal narrative, Vivian Schiller joined in, calling the Hunter Biden story "nonsense" and claiming Graff's exercise was "to test readiness of some MSM."
(Vivian Schiller tweet)
And who is Schiller? According to Graff, Schiller "designed and ran" the Hunter Biden tabletop exercise that Roth participated in. She was also the former head of news at Twitter, in addition to previously being the CEO of NPR, among other gigs.
In addition to Graff and Schiller, CNN's consultant and so-called national-security expert weighed in at 8:23 a.m., questioning the "amplifying" of the New York Post's story, stressing that "amplification is the key to disinformation."
(Juliet Kayyem tweet)
https://thefederalist.com/2023/02/09/twitter-execs-testify-that-their-election-meddling-decisions-were-even-flimsier-than-previously-claimed/
#17983030 at 2022-12-19 22:02:56 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22030: Tunes Flowin' Edition
One Month Before Hunter Biden Laptop Story, Twitter Execs And Journalists War-Gamed An Eerily Similar Scenario
Twitter and Meta executives, as well as journalists from a variety of mainstream media outlets, participated in a training excercise regarding a potential leak of data related to Hunter Biden that had similarities with a New York Post story published roughly one month later, according to internal documents published by author Michael Shellenberger as part of Elon Musk's ongoing "Twitter Files."
The Post's original Oct. 14, 2020, story was based on a laptop, apparently belonging to Biden, containing a 2015 email that linked then-Vice President Joe Biden to his son Hunter's business dealings with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma. At an unspecified date in September, a training exercise hosted by the Aspen Institute titled "The Burisma Leak," outlined a potential timeline of events following a hypothetical Oct. 5, 2020 hack and leak of Burisma documents showing Hunter receiving more compensation than previously reported for his work with the company and communicating with his father about the firm.
The Aspen Institute excercise imagines a hypothetical timeline between Oct. 5, 2020 to Oct. 15, 2020, where a cache of documents implies that the Joe Biden pressured the Ukrainian government to fire prosecutor Viktor Shokin, Shellenberger reported. The purpose of this training exercise was to "shape how the media covered it - and how social media carried it," according to Shellenberger.
The meeting was headed by Vivian Schiller, the former CEO of NPR and head of news at Twitter, and was attended by security executives at Meta and Twitter and reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post, according to Shellenberger.
In actuality, the Post's story contained an email - verified shortly thereafter by the Daily Caller News Foundation - which alleged that the then-vice president had met with Burisma executives, contradicting his claims to contrary. Another email from a Burisma executive to Hunter Biden, published by the New York Post, asks for "advice" in stopping "politically motivated actions" against the company, stressing that damage to Burisma "may result in multy-level [sic] negative social,econimical and political consequnces. [sic]"
Leaked audio in 2020 and a public statement in 2018 from Joe Biden suggest that Joe Biden was instrumental in securing Shokin's ouster in 2016. Biden has denied any wrongdoing by him or his son.
Shokin was investigating Burisma at the time for behavior that took place before Hunter Biden joined the company.
The Aspen Institute and Twitter did not immediately respond to a Daily Caller News Foundation request for comment.
https://dailycaller.com/2022/12/19/hunter-laptop-training-scenario-aspen/
#17982254 at 2022-12-19 19:22:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22029: Twitter Files Pt. 7 Edition
>>17981865
They always brag about their crimes, the Cabal of organizations, people, agencies, etc to take down Trump
TIMEThe Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election
by Molly Ball
February 4, 2021 5:40 AM EST
A weird thing happened right after the Nov. 3 election: nothing.
The nation was braced for chaos. Liberal groups had vowed to take to the streets, planning hundreds of protests across the country. Right-wing militias were girding for battle. In a poll before Election Day, 75% of Americans voiced concern about violence.
Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets. When media organizations called the race for Joe Biden on Nov. 7, jubilation broke out instead, as people thronged cities across the U.S. to celebrate the democratic process that resulted in Trump's ouster.
A second odd thing happened amid Trump's attempts to reverse the result: corporate America turned on him. Hundreds of major business leaders, many of whom had backed Trump's candidacy and supported his policies, called on him to concede. To the President, something felt amiss. "It was all very, very strange," Trump said on Dec. 2. "Within days after the election, we witnessed an orchestrated effort to anoint the winner, even while many key states were still being counted."
In a way, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs. Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans. The pact was formalized in a terse, little-noticed joint statement of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and AFL-CIO published on Election Day. Both sides would come to see it as a sort of implicit bargain-inspired by the summer's massive, sometimes destructive racial-justice protests-in which the forces of labor came together with the forces of capital to keep the peace and oppose Trump's assault on democracy.
The handshake between business and labor was just one component of a vast, cross-partisan campaign to protect the election-an extraordinary shadow effort dedicated not to winning the vote but to ensuring it would be free and fair, credible and uncorrupted. For more than a year, a loosely organized coalition of operatives scrambled to shore up America's institutions as they came under simultaneous attack from a remorseless pandemic and an autocratically inclined President. Though much of this activity took place on the left, it was separate from the Biden campaign and crossed ideological lines, with crucial contributions by nonpartisan and conservative actors. The scenario the shadow campaigners were desperate to stop was not a Trump victory. It was an election so calamitous that no result could be discerned at all, a failure of the central act of democratic self-governance that has been a hallmark of America since its founding.
Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers and got millions of people to vote by mail for the first time.They successfully pressured social media companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies to fight viral smears. They executed national public-awareness campaigns that helped Americans understand how the vote count would unfold over days or weeks, preventing Trump's conspiracy theories and false claims of victory from getting more traction. After Election Day, they monitored every pressure point to ensure that Trump could not overturn the result. "The untold story of the election is the thousands of people of both parties who accomplished the triumph of American democracy at its very foundation,"
https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/
Twitter Files 7 1h
30. Efforts continued to influence Twitter's Yoel Roth. In Sept 2020, Roth participated in an Aspen Institute "tabletop exercise" on a potential "Hack-and-Dump" operation relating to Hunter Biden The goal was to shape how the media covered it - and how social media carried it
@ShellenbergerMD
31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News
Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for @nytimes @wapo and others
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604897153121366017?s=20&t=6ACjuyVqPCzm4XMHeJq0-g
#17981834 at 2022-12-19 18:10:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22029: Twitter Files Pt. 7 Edition
>>17981733
>>17981767
>Vivian Schiller
We found our Russian Hacker.
Schiller is the daughter of Ronald Schiller, a former editor at Reader's Digest, and Lillian Schiller of Larchmont, New York.[5] She graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor's degree in Russian studies and Soviet studies, and a Master's degree in Russian from Middlebury College.[6] After finishing her degrees, Schiller worked as tour guide and simultaneous Russian interpreter in the former Soviet Union.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Schiller
I'd bet money she's Jewish too.
#17981767 at 2022-12-19 17:57:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22029: Twitter Files Pt. 7 Edition
>>17981763
TWITTER FILES: PART 7
31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News
Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for @nytimes @wapo and others
12:51 PM ? Dec 19, 2022
https://twitter.com/ShellenbergerMD/status/1604897153121366017
#14062369 at 2021-07-05 23:54:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17794: The SEETHING Continues - USS Liberty Edition
>>14062318
Not a good look, anon
My original post was asking if they were related
Boies Schiller → Susan Schiller?
and/or
Boies Schiller → Vivian Schiller?
I can sympathize with dig fatigue, believe me, but don't then notable them together if you're not sure if the things are related
#14062229 at 2021-07-05 23:31:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17794: The SEETHING Continues - USS Liberty Edition
Related?
Vivian Schiller - NPR
Susan Schiller - Fox 26 Houston
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/Schiller-forced-out-as-npr-president-following-hidden-camera-sting
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/breaking-fox-26-reporter-releases-tape-of-corruption-censorship-fox-corp/
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (1)
#155153 at 2022-12-20 19:41:57 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #771: Memes up Hoes Down EDITION
>>155152
31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News
Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for
@nytimes
@wapo
and others