I guess this story I wrote before the election with masterful research from @funder@TheDemCoalition about Trump's Saudi business ties seems more important in the wake of revelations that Mueller's #TrumpRussia probe... is now a #TrumpSaudi probe too.
And here's a nice story I wrote on July 25th, 2016.
Note the title.
Of course, saying such things made us "hyperpartisan" at the time... not people who recognize the problem of a Putin-linked foreign agent directing a political campaign.
@Lawrence the Russian historian Yuri Felshtinsky has written two major stories about my deep dive journalism. He's a world-famous Russian historian. He co-authored a book with Alexander Litvinenko, who Putin poisoned with polonium tea. Solid citation here. english.gordonua.com/amp/news/exclu…
Felshtinsky just released this story, which includes his affirmation of our work on Alexander Torshin and Maria Butina.
Social Media Analysis of the race for #Miami's easternmost #FL27 Congressional district which has five Democrats vying to be the nominee (and presumptive front-runner) to replace Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
I used @crowdtangle to analyze all 5 candidates last 3 months.
Twitter:
@david4florida - highest engagement rate, most retweets @matthaggman - most popular single post, lowest engagement rate, most posts. @VOTEHEPBURN - doing better than: @rosengonzalez - least posts, fewest interactions @DonnaShalala - nearly fewest posts, underperforming
The most popular post in the entire last 3 months is from @matthaggman who has the most overall engagements by posting more and more material. He's also leading in most posts, almost double Richardson, but has 1/4th of R's engagement rate. Effective tho.
The Vityaz are a prestigious former brigade of the Russian Ministry of Interior, which have been reorganized into three parts, two of them private.
- A battalion of regulars in RosGvard, Putin's praetorian guard.
- A spetznaz training center
- A private security company
Alexander Torshin frequently shares photos of himself with Vityaz, calling them "his people" and he frequently appears with their Commander, Col. Sergey Lysyuk, who is a Hero of the Russian Federation and Butina spent a considerable amount of time with them too.