[Rob Lee] The reason why many bad "OSINT" accounts gain a huge following is because people with credentials retweet/legitimize them. They often try to demonstrate expertise by copying other people's tweets like Calibre's, and hyperbole is incentivized by people who seek confirmation bias.
[Calibre Obscura]...listen to charlatans, or just steal others' work and present it as their own. And no, I don't mean copying images.
This is a rotting ecosystem. People like news or analysis that they agree with, not accuracy. This platform has gone downhill, but it's not the cause.
When people complain about bad "OSINT" on twitter, it isn't actually the fault of real OSINT accounts. It is a reflection that people with the right credentials can't determine OSINT credibility and boost the wrong people and behavior. This actually disincentivizes good OSINT.
There is an irony that many of the worst culprits of boosting fake OSINT/misinformation accounts comes from people who write for prominent outlets that have written the most about mis/disinformation. Or there is only a concern with misinformation when it comes from one side.
Good OSINT illuminates and interprets what we see from open sources and accurately conveys what it doesn't show as well as uncertainty. Good OSINT accounts will make mistakes, but they'll acknowledge and learn from them. We saw a lot of the opposite this summer.
One extremely frustrating thing to see on twitter and elsewhere this summer was prominent people with the right credentials misrepresenting what was happening in the counteroffensive despite strong open source information that contradicted what they were saying.
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