2016 Postmortem

emulatorloo

(44,131 posts) Sat Jul 23, 2016, 06:13 PM Jul 2016

"Shills and Scandals: The misleading #DNCLeaks, tweet by tweet."

Shills and Scandals: The misleading #DNCLeaks, tweet by tweet

http://www.amalanetwork.com/2016/07/23/shills-and-scandals-the-misleading-dncleaks-tweet-by-tweet/

"Three days before the DNC is scheduled to begin, Wikileaks dropped a bombshell on the public. Their leak purportedly contains 20,000 emails concerning people within the DNC, as well as their interactions with donors, media, and others.

The leak was announced with a series of tweets—some containing screenshots of text from emails—and links to said emails on their website. Several of these tweets are framed in a compromising way against the DNC and those involved, but examination of their source shows Wikileaks is being a little bit misleading with the public; some tweets make assumptions regarding the information of the emails that don’t really hold up under scrutiny, while others seem to omit important information at odds with Wikileaks’ presentation.

We’ll be looking at ten tweets from #DNCLeaks, comparing the information to the framing used by Wikileaks."

More at link.

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"Shills and Scandals: The misleading #DNCLeaks, tweet by tweet." (Original Post) emulatorloo Jul 2016 OP

interesting source.. HR_Pufnstuf Jul 2016 #1

Sorry, couldn't find anything on Breitbart or Moonie Times for ya emulatorloo Jul 2016 #3

I am just shocked... shocked I tell you ! nt DURHAM D Jul 2016 #2

I just left a website that was okieinpain Jul 2016 #4

The bolded passage sounds like an excellent summary of the past few months on DU. TwilightZone Jul 2016 #5

worst.ratfuck.ever. Scurrilous Jul 2016 #6

color me shocked that a rapist would lie to prevent a woman from becoming President dsc Jul 2016 #7

+1, by May 5th there was already a clear winner of the primary uponit7771 Jul 2016 #8

not only that but they never did any public smear about Sanders religion OKNancy Jul 2016 #9

Ah, ... fuckin wow wiki leaks... way to totally remove benefit of the doubt !!! Sounds like uponit7771 Jul 2016 #10

They had been sued by Sanders and accused of money laundering geek tragedy Jul 2016 #11

Who knew deception could happen like this? Utterly unthinkable in politics! L. Coyote Jul 2016 #12

"Shills and Scandals: The misleading #DNCLeaks, tweet by tweet." Her Sister Jul 2016 #13

"WEAKLEAKS" oasis Jul 2016 #14

HR_Pufnstuf

(837 posts)

1. interesting source..

Reply to emulatorloo (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 06:17 PM

Jul 2016

Hi, my name is Colby.

http://www.amalanetwork.com/2016/01/31/my-name-is-colby/

emulatorloo

(44,131 posts)

3. Sorry, couldn't find anything on Breitbart or Moonie Times for ya

Reply to HR_Pufnstuf (Reply #1)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 06:22 PM

Jul 2016

That's actually a pretty moving story about the site founder, so thanks for highlighting it.

Article itself is well reasoned and researched.

DURHAM D

(32,610 posts)

2. I am just shocked... shocked I tell you ! nt

Reply to emulatorloo (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 06:18 PM

Jul 2016

okieinpain

(9,397 posts)

4. I just left a website that was

Reply to emulatorloo (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 06:22 PM

Jul 2016

Rinning the story and if you take the emails out of context or look at them with a narrow view, yeah they are terrible. You put them in the correct perspective and it's just office chit chat.

TwilightZone

(25,471 posts)

5. The bolded passage sounds like an excellent summary of the past few months on DU.

Reply to emulatorloo (Original post)

Sat Jul 23, 2016, 06:26 PM

Jul 2016

Misleading sources that don't hold up under scrutiny and omit important information. Who needs context!

The intent and context of some of the leaked e-mails that many have already focused on are certainly not as clear as some assert them to be. I suspect there will be a lot of that in the coming days.