Tim Pool on history: what the evidence says · JRE #1258
“what they claimed to the New York Times was that it was a false flag. New York Times said they reviewed internal documents that showed they admitted it was a false flag operation.”
What the evidence says
During the 2017 Alabama Senate special election between Roy Moore and Doug Jones, a Democratic-aligned effort known as Project Birmingham used thousands of fake Twitter accounts with Russian-style names and imagery to make it appear Moore was being boosted by a Russian botnet, a tactic an internal after-action document described as an "elaborate false flag operation." The operation was primarily funded through American Engagement Technologies, run by former Obama administration official Mikey Dickerson using money from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman, with cybersecurity researcher Jonathon Morgan and his firm New Knowledge involved in aspects of the effort. Reporting on the leaked internal document, first published by the New York Times and Washington Post in December 2018 with follow-up coverage into January 2019, is well corroborated across multiple outlets, but the individuals involved gave contradictory accounts of their own roles: New Knowledge acknowledged "limited experimentation" with such tactics but disputed fully owning the conduct described in the document, while Morgan denied operating a botnet and characterized the work as research rather than an admission of a scheme designed to defraud voters. The false-flag characterization traces to the internal after-action document itself, which reporters obtained and quoted, rather than to a direct on-the-record admission from Morgan; the parties involved have since offered conflicting denials about who was responsible for what. Alabama's attorney general said in December 2018 that his office was examining whether the conduct violated state law, and the actual effect of the operation on the election outcome has never been established.