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His twitter account prior to February 24, 2022

jjulius 4y ago
There's a tweet from him on February 11th that says the media's gross for pushing for a war. Beyond that, all he does is suggest we should be demanding more evidence for claims of an impending war that Biden and the intelligence community were pushing. He's even talked about the invasion as recently in June in a way that suggests he doesn't think it's invented[1] by media. Do you actually have a specific example of Snowden saying that "the Russian Invasion of Ukraine was invented by the American media"? [1]https://www.coindesk.com/video/recent-videos/edward-snowden-explains-why-he-doesnt-talk-about-ukraine-crisis/ https://www.coindesk.com/video/recent-videos/edward-snowden-...
- wnevets 4y ago
  That is because he deleted a lot of his tweets. For example > Now that the promised invasion has failed to materialize, maybe we could take another look at the story that was breaking when the White House was suddenly overcome with a mysterious and inexplicable desire to change the news cycle: [1] > So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility. [2] edit: browsing archive.org for deleted tweets isn't a great experience, anyone know of a an easier way? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220216175036/https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1494006204896620548 https://web.archive.org/web/20220216175036/https://twitter.c... [2] https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493641714363478016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493641714363478016
  - dTal 4y ago
    He went very quiet after that, and after a tweetstorm to the effect of "are you even alive" he eventually posted quite testily that he'd got it wrong and was now proceeding to shut the hell up: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705 A more thorough mea culpa would certainly have been nice, but the man was clearly quite rattled that his own "journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns". It's hard to appreciate what pressures he might be under.
kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
You realize that he has to lick his master's boot and any pro-Russia statements he makes are automatically suspect.

There's a tweet from him on February 11th that says the media's gross for pushing for a war. Beyond that, all he does is suggest we should be demanding more evidence for claims of an impending war that Biden and the intelligence community were pushing. He's even talked about the invasion as recently in June in a way that suggests he doesn't think it's invented[1] by media. Do you actually have a specific example of Snowden saying that "the Russian Invasion of Ukraine was invented by the American media"? [1]https://www.coindesk.com/video/recent-videos/edward-snowden-explains-why-he-doesnt-talk-about-ukraine-crisis/ https://www.coindesk.com/video/recent-videos/edward-snowden-...

wnevets 4y ago
That is because he deleted a lot of his tweets. For example > Now that the promised invasion has failed to materialize, maybe we could take another look at the story that was breaking when the White House was suddenly overcome with a mysterious and inexplicable desire to change the news cycle: [1] > So... if nobody shows up for the invasion Biden scheduled for tomorrow morning at 3AM, I'm not saying your journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns you like to write about, but you should at least consider the possibility. [2] edit: browsing archive.org for deleted tweets isn't a great experience, anyone know of a an easier way? [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20220216175036/https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1494006204896620548 https://web.archive.org/web/20220216175036/https://twitter.c... [2] https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493641714363478016 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1493641714363478016
- dTal 4y ago
  He went very quiet after that, and after a tweetstorm to the effect of "are you even alive" he eventually posted quite testily that he'd got it wrong and was now proceeding to shut the hell up: https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705 A more thorough mea culpa would certainly have been nice, but the man was clearly quite rattled that his own "journalistic credibility was instrumentalized as part of one of those disinformation campaigns". It's hard to appreciate what pressures he might be under.

kevin_thibedeau 4y ago

You realize that he has to lick his master's boot and any pro-Russia statements he makes are automatically suspect.