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As the community note makes clear, I didn't delete it because I stand by it. But if MAGA world has decided their best play is to insult Mainers' intelligence by trying to fool them into thinking Platner's old tattoo makes him a Nazi sympathizer, best of luck in November!

Geneva: Thiago Ávila and Saif Abu Shek were not released with the other participants after interception and are currently taken by Israel. They have been abducted by Israel and are being kept under unlawful detention. Being in international waters to deliver aid to Gaza is not a crime. Israel continues to be allowed to act with imputing and face no consequences for illegal actions and violations of international law. UN member states must act now The reported torture of a civilian activists, combined with the unlawful transfer of detainees from European waters, marks a dangerous escalation with far-reaching legal and moral consequences. Failure to act now risks not only the safety and lives of Saif Abukeshek and Thiago Ávila, but further erodes the credibility of international law in the face of ongoing atrocities in Gaza. All the UN member states must take immediate action to ensure the safety of all flotilla participants and the release of Thiago and Saif. Release them now!!!!!! Issued by Dr Tlaleng Mofokeng, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to health

To Clash Report's credit, their influence model is brilliant. They post a staggering volume of tweets daily, and always on topics already going viral. Classic news aggregator behavior. Nothing suspicious on the surface. But strategically interspersed among the legitimate news posts are conspiracies, antisemitism, anti-Americanism, and pro-Erdoğan narratives. "Iran is winning the war." "The Zionist lobby owns Congress." "The government is out to get you." "Epstein was Mossad." If even 5% of their posts follow that pattern — scattered among hundreds of real news updates — the messaging enters people's information diet as if it were actual news, without ever triggering their skepticism. To the casual follower, "Israel controls Trump" lands with the same apparent authority as the latest battlefield update. It's really quite sophisticated. Worth understanding how the mechanism works so that you can see it and avoid in real time.

My biggest investigation ever: Clash Report — the conspiracy-peddling account that half of X treats as gospel — is a Turkish influence operation, disguised as breaking news and tied to Erdoğan's family. The operators didn't put their names on the door. So I did it for them.

What drew my attention is how profoundly evil and carefully engineered this is, and how readily millions fell victim to it. Candace Owens promoted the accusation that Erika Kirk is a pedophile, child-grooming lesbian who participated in the cover-up of Charlie's murder, child trafficking, and MKUltra-adjacent occult networks, while fabricating her own background, including her birth records. She crafted and implanted this defamatory narrative into the minds of tens of millions. It resulted in the public disfigurement, character murder, and personal torment of the woman she set out to ruin. This is not "asking questions." It is a deliberate psychological operation employing subliminal messaging and real-time mass manipulation.