Exposed: The vast pro-Ukrainian ‘bot army’ designed to influence Western policy makers

Researchers at the University of Adelaide have published a landmark paper on the activities of bot accounts on Twitter related to the conflict in Ukraine. These Australian findings are truly staggering – of 5.2 million tweets on the social media network from February 23 to March 8, between 60 to 80% were shared by fake accounts. What’s more, 90% of those posts were pro-Ukraine.

In particular, these accounts pushed the hashtags #IStandWithUkraine, #IStandWithZelenskyy, and #ISupportUkraine, and myths like the ‘Ghost of Kiev’, a fictional Ukrainian fighter pilot who is farcically alleged to have taken down 40 Russian jets within hours of the military operation commencing.

Significant spikes in activity were recorded at key points in the initial stages of the fighting, such as Russia’s capture of Kherson on March 2, and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant on March 4.

The accounts identified were overwhelmingly English language, leading the researchers to conclude these fake users sought to “drive more disruption in English-speaking countries” and “influence a variety of user groups.” Despite the significant focus on English, Ukrainian bots also employed the Russian language to “cause more disruption” in the country.

The accounts were successful in their objective of stimulating discussions and trends around particular topics, kickstarting and increasing online discussion around a number of subjects, including the question of whether Ukrainians should flee the country. The researchers recorded “significant flows” of information from Ukrainian bots to non-bot accounts.

The study is the first analysis of social media content related to the conflict, and covers a very small time period – just two weeks. It is almost inevitable that the level of pro-Kiev sentiment expressed by users – troll and organic alike – will have increased even further beyond the 90% recorded during this timeframe. Numerous commentators have drawn attention to the weaponization of Twitter, Facebook, et al in support of the Western proxy war in Ukraine.

One need only spend a few minutes scrolling major social media networks to identify a profusion of anonymous, recently registered users pumping out pro-Ukraine, pro-NATO, and pro-war propaganda, and attacking anyone critical of ascendant Western narratives. It is, in the words of writer Caitlin Johnstone, “the most aggressively trolled war of all time.”

https://www.rt.com/news/562509-ukrainian-bots-in-twitter/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=RSS

Romanian lawmaker GRILLS Big Pharma executives over lack of accountability for dangerous COVID-19 vaccines

Romanian member of the European Parliament (MEP) Cristian Terhes lambasted Big Pharma executives on Monday, Sept. 5, for their faulty Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines.

Terhes spoke out against the so-called science supporting the use of the COVID-19 vaccines while Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stephane Bancel and AstraZeneca Executive Vice President Iskra Reic were in the European Parliament for a meeting with the European Union’s COVID-19 commission.

He questioned whether AstraZeneca and Moderna really did decode the DNA of SARS-CoV-2, or if they used data provided to them by the communist government of China. He also questioned whether any individuals died during phase three of clinical trials, which involved large numbers of human test subjects. (Related: Former Big Pharma employee says entire industry knew engineered COVID-19 pandemic was coming.)

“Have you tested if the vaccines are stopping the spread of the virus or not?” Terhes asked. “Because the data clearly shows that your products are not stopping the spread of this virus.”

Terhes also demanded that Moderna and AstraZeneca publish in full and without redactions their contracts with the European Commission, the main executive body of the EU, and with the individual member states of the bloc.

The MEP noted that he was able to obtain a copy of Moderna’s contract with the European Commission, but most of it is fully blacked out.

Moderna, AstraZeneca execs pass blame on governments

The lawmaker also touched on the fact that Big Pharma companies like Moderna and AstraZeneca have signed contracts with national and supranational organizations to shield them from taking any kind of accountability for reported COVID-19 vaccine adverse events and deaths and to prevent them from having to compensate the victims.

“You were asked by our colleague here about the liabilities and you avoided to answer this question, so my question to you is: Why are you pushing the liabilities on the states and on the people who receive these vaccines and might have – and I’m saying ‘might have’ – adverse effects, while you get all the profits?” asked Terhes.

In response, both Bancel and Reic passed the blame on the world’s governments wanting to speed up the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines.

“The governments wanted the quick approval of a vaccine, and for that reason, for a conditional approval, it was important that we were given some guarantees in terms of damages because we couldn’t have no guarantees,” said Bancel. “They wanted the vaccine quickly, they didn’t give manufacturers time to have long-term studies because of the nature of a pandemic.”

“The liability and indemnity clause was discussed and agreed with many governments around the world because everyone wanted to see how we could speed up the production and delivery of vaccines,” claimed Reic. “This is considered standard practice in emergency situations, and equally the [practice] that protects and supports everyone to move forward with the greatest speed and to do the best we can in terms of producing and manufacturing [vaccines].”

Read the latest news about Big Pharma companies like Moderna and AstraZeneca at BigPharmaNews.com.

Watch this clip of Cristian Terhes from earlier this year speaking out against mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2022-09-09-romanian-lawmaker-grills-big-pharma-execs-vaccines.html

Trudeau supporter, trucker convoy hater, Hypochondriac and mandatory vaccinator Ryan Imgrund faces sexual misconduct accusations.

Ryan Imgrund, a former York Catholic teacher, is accused of inappropriate behaviour with five female students — including sending shirtless photos of himself to one of them — when he worked at a Newmarket high school, the Ontario College of Teachers alleges.

Imgrund, who resigned from the college last June, worked as a department head teaching and coaching.

A detailed notice of hearing posted on the college’s website alleges that Imgrund “abused a student or students psychologically or emotionally … sexually … and/or engaged in sexual abuse of a student or students.”

The notice of hearing alleges that while out of town for a provincial competition, “the member interacted in an inappropriate manner with members of the girls’ team,” including personal group messages sent late in the evening and in the early morning hours.

The notice of hearing also accuses him of inviting the girls to go down to the pool with him, banging on his hotel room ceiling — the floor of their room — when they didn’t message him back, and calling them in the early hours.

During the 2021 school year, he is also accused of sending one student “numerous text, email and/or social media messages of a personal nature,” including shirtless photos of himself. In one message, the notice of hearing alleges he wrote, “If you don’t say I’m good looking, I’ll cry,” and that he also requested and received photos from one student, including one in her bathing suit.

Imgrund is also accused of practising one-on-one with three of the student athletes, using a “technique requiring the students to push their buttocks up against him,” the notice of hearing says.

None of the allegations in the notice have been proven, and a disciplinary hearing has yet to be scheduled.

Imgrund could not be reached for comment either by phone or direct messages on Twitter by Star reporters.

Neither the girls, nor the school, are identified in the notice.

Imgrund, who was a teacher for almost two decades, is active on social media as a self-described biostatistician. He has garnered a large following during the pandemic with his sometimes controversial commentary.

He has also been a frequently cited source for pandemic-related news, including in the Star, where his data was used for stories on COVID risk assessment, among others.

The College of Teachers also accuses him of having “yelled at and/or scolded” one student when she didn’t respond to his messages, practising alone with her and trying to get her schedule changed so she would be in his class, the document states.

He also asked that same student to borrow her shorts for Halloween as well as taking her on “long drives alone in his personal vehicle” to and from his home so she could babysit, the notice of hearing alleges. The document also alleges he sent the other students personal messages, tried to FaceTime and followed one on Instagram.

Imgrund also sent messages asking one girl questions about her boyfriend, offered to take her to work and pick her up, and sent her Twitter messages, the notice of hearing alleges.

He is also alleged to have driven students in his car “at high rates of speed,” told them to call him by his first name and told students in his class that “this is a cool zone. You can swear,” the notice of hearing alleges.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2022/09/09/former-york-catholic-teacher-accused-of-sexual-misconduct-by-ontario-college-of-teachers.html