The Hunter Biden “scandal” becomes more bizarre by the moment.
That motherTucker Carlson now says that UPS has found the missing thumbdrive, but he still suggests the dark Biden forces somehow made it disappear in the first place. He also concedes he had a copy anyway, so there was nothing stopping him from running with the story. So why hasn’t he done so? Because, he says, he’s a nice guy who won’t kick a man when he’s down
More likely, his magnanimous decision has more to do with an expose by NBC News: How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge.
If anybody needed any evidence that Trump and his merry band of ratf*ckers are the sleaziest criminals ever to grace the White House, look no further.
And to think Rudy Guiliani came out with the remarkable proposition that Twitter & Facebook should allow this cr@p (he was referring to the NY Post smear) to spread because even if it is disinformation the American public has a right to know it :
That motherTucker Carlson now says that UPS has found the missing thumbdrive, but he still suggests the dark Biden forces somehow made it disappear in the first place. He also concedes he had a copy anyway, so there was nothing stopping him from running with the story. So why hasn’t he done so? Because, he says, he’s a nice guy who won’t kick a man when he’s down
More likely, his magnanimous decision has more to do with an expose by NBC News: How a fake persona laid the groundwork for a Hunter Biden conspiracy deluge.
Quote:One month before a purported leak of files from Hunter Biden's laptop, a fake "intelligence" document about him went viral on the right-wing internet, asserting an elaborate conspiracy theory involving former Vice President Joe Biden's son and business in China.
The document, a 64-page composition that was later disseminated by close associates of President Donald Trump, appears to be the work of a fake "intelligence firm" called Typhoon Investigations, according to researchers and public documents.
The author of the document, a self-identified Swiss security analyst named Martin Aspen, is a fabricated identity, according to analysis by disinformation researchers, who also concluded that Aspen's profile picture was created with an artificial intelligence face generator. The intelligence firm that Aspen lists as his previous employer said that no one by that name had ever worked for the company and that no one by that name lives in Switzerland, according to public records and social media searches.
One of the original posters of the document, a blogger and professor named Christopher Balding, took credit for writing parts of it when asked about it and said Aspen does not exist.
Quote:The document gained attention from disinformation researchers in part because of the image of the document's author.
Elise Thomas, a researcher at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, first spotted telltale signs of a fake photo when she went searching for Typhoon Investigations' Aspen on the web. Thomas found a Twitter account for Aspen named @TyphoonInvesti1, which had posted a link to Typhoon's WordPress page that contained the document on Aug. 15.
The profile picture for Aspen immediately showed signs of being a computer-generated image that can be created by computers and even some websites. Aspen's ears were asymmetrical, for one, but his left eye is what gave away that he did not really exist. Aspen's left iris juts out and appears to form a second pupil, a somewhat frequent error with computer-generated faces.
"The most obvious tell was the irregular shape of the irises," Thomas said. "The profile picture looks pretty convincing in the Twitter thumbnail, but when I popped it up into full view I was immediately suspicious."
Thomas then consulted with Ben Nimmo, director of investigations at the analytics company Graphika, who noted the other telltale sign of a computer-generated face.
"One of the things he and his team have figured out is that if you layer a lot of these images over the top of one another, the eyes align," Thomas said. "He did that with this image, and the eyes matched up."
Other parts of Aspen's identity were clearly stolen from disparate parts of the web. Aspen's Facebook page was created in August, and it featured only two pictures, both from his "new house," which were tracked back to reviews on the travel website Tripadvisor. The logo for Typhoon Investigations was lifted from the Taiwan Fact-Checking Center, a digital literacy nonprofit.
If anybody needed any evidence that Trump and his merry band of ratf*ckers are the sleaziest criminals ever to grace the White House, look no further.
And to think Rudy Guiliani came out with the remarkable proposition that Twitter & Facebook should allow this cr@p (he was referring to the NY Post smear) to spread because even if it is disinformation the American public has a right to know it :