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When Tulsi Gabbard recently released intelligence documents pertaining to biolabs, she claimed they contained “never before seen” intelligence. But the thing is, some of those very same documents *had* been seen before — in a 2022 Russian disinformation campaign. Link below.

In 2022, Russia included much of the same “never before seen” intelligence in a presentation to the UN meant to justify its illegal invasion of Ukraine. It was part of an expansive disinformation campaign that Tulsi Gabbard revived four years later. Link: open.substack.com/pub/weaponized
The documents from the Russian disinformation campaign are on the left. The “never before seen” US intelligence documents released by Tulsi Gabbard are on the right. They’re the same.
While it would be alarming coming from any U.S. government official, it is of particular concern to see the (now-former) head of the U.S. intelligence community use her final days in office to reignite a decades-old conspiracy theory by employing the very tactics that our adversaries have long used to deceive the American people.
Full article with additional details on the origins of the Russian disinformation campaign that Tulsi Gabbard just revived: weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/the-russian-
Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D
Behavioral Scientist. Studying influence, systems, (dis)information, & power. Interested in how reality gets negotiated.
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