Lee Fang

Independent Journalist. Reporting primarily on Substack via Contact email on my website.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

1. TWITTER FILES PART 8

*How Twitter Quietly Aided the Pentagon’s Covert Online PsyOp Campaign*

Despite promises to shut down covert state-run propaganda networks, Twitter docs show that the social media giant directly assisted the U.S. military’s influence operations.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

@themichelinmin Pure love of poasting

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W @razibkhan

[Daniel Marans @danielmarans]

Buried in @AlexSteigrad’s latest on @rossBarkan for @nypost: The @nytimes cleared Ross in an investigation of his columns for them. https://t.co/gYS2vRHqe0

[Balaji @balajis]

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[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Roy Cooper, the Democrat with the highest polling lead in the country in a swing state (+13) is flooding TV and online with ads explicitly about prosecuting criminals and opposing defund police lunatics. This is what voters everywhere want. It's not complicated.

[The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard]

RIP Bip City.

Car break-ins, long a symbol of dysfunction in San Francisco, have plummeted in recent years — from 22,700 in 2022 to 1,764 so far this year, thanks in part to surveillance technology.

Read the full story: https://t.co/hqtHGfabdU

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

I’ve met many socialist political streamers and influencers who talk endlessly about the need for government to own everything yet abolish police, who haven’t stepped foot in a housing project to interview people about their lives and daily concerns.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

A disproportionate number of political influencers are elite prep school-educated weirdos who have never practiced actual journalism (gathering facts, challenging assumptions, talking to normal people) or complete shut ins who barely leave home, or a combo of both. Ignore them.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

@jibbwell Republican billionaires are literally funding her campaign. You people are such marks https://t.co/jKjGOa2nUv

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Francesca Hong trashes Thanksgiving, scolds her own son for his racial identity, and rushed to defend a knife-wielding goon attempting to stab a cop. Why would anyone vote for this type of extremist?

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

The way in which many people behaved during the Great Awokening should really be utterly disqualifying because it demonstrates a total lack of judgment or character and often both. But precisely because so many people were involved, most of them will get away with it.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Also very funny to see how Jeremy Scahill described Akela -- a prep and private school educated activist who violently melts down at the smallest hint of political disagreement. For Jeremy, she is the true victim because of her race and gender.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Good reminder that people I worked alongside, including Jeremy Scahill and Naomi Klein, were very quick to jump on a bandwagon and support an unfounded vicious smear against me for absolutely no reason at all other than maintaining lefty herd mentality https://t.co/AJ9IMevYPd

[Michael Tracey @mtracey]

Peak Woke 1.0

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

Jeremy Scahill is honestly the biggest fraud in lefty media. Barely reported a single story at TI, would put on his cool leather jacket & demand we censor the comment section bc he didn't like mean feedback, jumps on every woke bandwagon like a child seeking validation.

[Lee Fang @lhfang]

During the height of 2020 insanity, I had coworkers, former colleagues, sources, etc. turn on me and invent fantastical claims. They did not care about right and wrong or what was true or not. They saw a social media mob forming and decided to pick up a rock to throw.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

This new tactic of AOC and her allies -- to giggle away their past "crazy" ideas -- should not be tolerated.

"Woke" wasn't just some harmless, zany moment. It was a sinister movement that destroyed careers and reputations for the smallest thought crimes. It needs a reckoning.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

If AOC and her allies want to renounce the ideas they aggressively imposed just a few years ago - now that they are deeply unpopular - that is, one could argue, positive. But the worst trait in leaders is obeying social pressure to spout deranged ideas:

https://t.co/3xJ5iTB04H

[Evan Barker @evanwch]

AOC’s strategy is to laugh away Woke 1 as “crazyyyy” and pretend it was some kind of mass hysteria

But it ruined careers, pushed an entire cohort of people out of Democratic politics, and is—according to the Dem staffers messaging me after reading my book—still happening inside the party now. If Francesca Hong is Woke 1, wait until you see a better organized and serious Woke 2. The “vibe shift” is a mirage