@georgelakoff 2) similar flooding of the zone was adopted by #Bannon #Mercers #Breitbart #infowars etc and scammers of every stripe who were invested in promoting each other. @katestarbird and other researchers started to create #dataviz on how these networks work. https://medium.com/stanford-magazine/where-does-fake-news-come-from-65c06d5f94c7
Tactics of opaque astroturfing by often powerful interests like oil and gas and state actors grew & became more sophisticated.

The #Mercers have been laundering #Putin’s money for a long time and funneled a shitload of it into Ron and Rand Paul’s pockets and into the anti-democratic “Liberty movement” around them.

Of course Peter #Thiel has been playing with Mercer money for over a decade as well, which explains why Tracy “Beanz” Diaz, who helped start both #Pizzagate and #QAnon for Mike #Flynn, came from the Ron Paul campaign. #PFT
#ArrestMikeFlynn
https://jimstewartson.substack.com/p/tracy-beanz-diaz-the-creation-of