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The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork ... Ambitious media frauds Stephen Glass and Jayson Blair crippled the reputations of the New Republic and New York Times, respectively, by slipping years of invented news stories into their pages. Thanks to the Twitter Files, we can welcome a new member to their infamous club: Hamilton 68. If one goes by volume alone, this oft-cited neoliberal think-tank that spawned hundreds of fraudulent headlines and TV news segments may go down as...

Can we trust the judgement of think-tanks who have labeled Twitter users as part of a ‘Russian influence campaign’ as sound when those same entities provide little evidence, and their high-level members include former Clinton supporters?At the beginning of 2017, an initiative was launched by a non-partisan think-tank called the German Marshall Fund US (GMFUS) under the name “The Alliance For Securing Democracy” (ASD).During the Summer, ASD started working on a project they called the “Hamilton 68 Dashboard“, an effort that was presented to the public as a means of monitoring Russian disinformation efforts on Twitter, apparently boosted by...

Clara Rosenberger, 77, may she rest in peace, is widely known today as the 30th person to die from the Passover Massacre at Netanya's Park Hotel. It wasn't the first time she was known by a number. She had one tattooed on her arm. Clara was born in Czechoslovakia, and remembered a time in her childhood when the head of state came to a wedding in the town's rebbe's family. But then everything changed. Her family was rounded up and taken to Auschwitz. Her father perished. Young enough to work, she sorted the personal items of men, women and children...