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Remember Jade Helm? After a summer of heated racial justice protests that drove President Donald Trump to dispatch federal law enforcement officers to liberal cities — and prompted a sitting senator to call for the president to “send in the troops” against the American people — it’s quaint to look back on a crackpot conspiracy theory about former President Barack Obama enacting martial law. “Jade Helm 15” was a multi-state military training exercise that took place in the summer o...

No, Chinese troops are not on the Canadian border — and the dangers of misinformation December 15, 2020 No, there are no Chinese troops on the border with Maine. This photo, originally taken in October 2020, shows refurbished howitzers being moved in Maine. (Screengrab via Twitter) It may seem like an updated version of the 1966 comedy “The Russians Are Coming! The Russians are Coming!” but there is nothing funny about conspiratorial ravings from the Twitterverse that Chinese troops ...

A tale of two elections What to make of an election in which Donald Trump openly sought to subvert the will of the American electorate and did so, often with the tacit support of the GOP? By Michael A. Cohen Contributor,Updated December 16, 2020, 12:22 p.m. Email to a Friend In dozens of lawsuits, Republicans tried to make voting and counting votes harder.Tamir Kalifa/NYT On Monday afternoon, the Electoral College took care of its singular quadrennial responsibility and certified Joe Biden the ...

A small earthquake in Maine and a fatal F-16 crash in Michigan have given rise to a new and extreme conspiracy theory claiming that 50,000 Chinese troops have invaded the US. Theres nothing to that claim, and the proliferation of that conspiracy theory and others like it can actually threaten national security if they spread unchecked. Every evolution of American politics gets the conspiracy theories it deserves. During the administration of President George W. Bush, an alarming number of Ameri...

Counterterrorism. and then the russians under general officer developed a new concept of warfare, one we had explored but had largely pushed back on largely for legal and constitutional reasons. we became cyber guys. the russians became information guys. they wanted to go and conduct information warfare and grasimov writes several years back about contact-less warfare, how i can use dominance in the information space to directly attack the will of an adversary population and win that way. they d...

In 2015 when we really started to see them do influence and social media, they focused on social issues. thats what youre seeing from these facebook disclosures. race, religion, rich versus poor, police violence, bundy ranch standoff, jade helm, military exercises, second amendment rights. thats how they stack up. they find those audiences that are receptive to their message and when it comes election year, thats when they start pushing these themes on candidates. so, what youre seeing now is ev...

Facebook account that was removed by facebook in august. joining us now, clint watts, former fbi agent and senior fellow at the foreign policy research institute. hes also an msnbc contributor. and, clint, so now we are finally seeing the russian-backed material. it seems pretty crude. >> right. that example is extremely crude and one i doubt moved a lot of the american minds. but what the russians do that americans dont necessarily do is they try everything. you know, theyll try every platform,...

That has been fed over and over and over and over again. >> it may not have been totally obvious at the time but jade helm was a kind of an early warning about how fake news can be mainstreamed, especially when the misinformation is powered through fact free part sisan politics. its a rhetorical specialty of the candidate who took conspiracy theories to another level this year, donald trump, and he perhaps was eclipsed only by ben carson for peddling things he should have known better than to pe...

Also his chief of staff and we know how a government transition e-mail account already has been pushing a hillary clinton sex ring conspiracy theory that involves a pizza restaurant in washington, d.c., and he continued to push that theory over the past day, even after a gunman entered that very restaurant and fired at least one shot. the gunman reportedly telling police he was there to self-investigation one of those conspiracy theories. we want to be clear tonight, we dont know enough yet abou...

Walmarts. the tunnels went into deep military bases, dums for short. you can see the network of underground walmart tunnels where the chinese troops would set up their headquarters or stash all of the texas patriot guns after the jade helm troops helped take them away. whatever it was, folks, it was all in the maps. >> there are maps circulating that show deep underground bases in the united states and maps circulating that show tunnels that connect those bases. you will also see how walmart con...