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Last week Twitter Files substack blogger Paul Thacker was back in my inbox, wanting to speak to the manager. Paul, if you didn’t send me stupid emails, I wouldn’t post them to the internet.
Here are excerpts from the latest bad faith media inquiry from the Bullshit Industrial Complex, shared to explain how it works. This man -a notorious hack- claimed to have “whistleblower” docs showing that I secretly ran election interference ops, particularly for the U.S. Dept of Defense.
This is a lie.
Often it’s a waste of time to respond to bad faith inquiries, but the bullshit industrial complex relies on non-response to say “DiResta declined to respond!” &create impression of guilt. Then comes innuendo: Thacker claims a company I left in early 2019 had sketchy DoD contracts & is implying I did too. Whether they did, whether I had anything to do with it, is irrelevant – the MO is to state two things and let the audience intuit the connection they want to believe.
So here was my response
Reader, it will SHOCK YOU to hear that when he ran his smear:
1. He had no documents showing anything he alleged and
2. He did not print my response
The material was *opinions* from some lady who got fired 2 weeks after I started. I think I met her once. I’m sharing to try to explain how the sausage is made. Because once he posted, other people - like Musk - simply cite his work, laundering it from one outlet to another, and it becomes reality for the fandom that follows him.
@Noupside I was friends with Paul in DC. I'm pretty sure he's a sociopath and in 2016 he started becoming more and more radicalized. He picks targets, usually women, and endlessly harasses them. He used to channel his anger at the universe into real investigative journalism; now he's just a troll.
@mem_somerville I saw that! I didn’t request it and don’t remember what it was. I did laugh at the effort.