Hamilton 68 was a Twitter based dashboard designed to be used by reporters and academics to “measure Russian disinformation”
Chris Hedges wrote: The panic over Russian disinformation that followed the election of Donald Trump often relied on a source now known to have been fraudulent, Hamilton 68.
Matt Taibbi wrote: Virtually every major news organization in America has used material from the Hamilton 68 dashboard, including NBC, CBS, ABC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC, The New York Times and the Washington Post. Mother Jones alone did at least 14 stories pegged to the group’s “research.” Even fact-checking sites like Politifact and Snopes cited Hamilton 68 as a source.
This is a February 10, 2023, interview by Chris Hedges of Matt Taibbi on The Real News Network. Taibbi is one of the journalists who was given access to the Twitter archives by the new owner, Elon Musk.
Matt Taibbi is an author, journalist, podcaster, and former contributing editor for Rolling Stone. He is publisher of the newsletter, Racket on Substack. Chris Hedges is a journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and commentator. He worked as war correspondent and reported for the New York Times from 1990 to 2005.
DATE: 2/10/2023
CREDIT: TRNN – The Real News Network
Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.8MB)
