Daniel Dale

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Amid false claims that Biden has shut down American oil, helpful context from @ella_nilsen on so-called "energy independence" and what's actually happening with US production these days: https://t.co/DZ4GkdUq67 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Here's Biden's public schedule for today. (Public schedules don't include all of a president's activities.) https://t.co/r80M9NOWEn — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I suspected it because the excellent @JaneLytv suspected it. All of the "several sources" were just citing bad sources, who were themselves citing bad sources. Will explain more later. https://t.co/rajTsKDl3W — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

The story of how this false story spread is a good case study in how false information spreads these days. More later! — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

DiCaprio stands with Ukraine and did make donations to a variety of humanitarian organizations trying to help Ukraine, the source said, but it wasn't $10 million, wasn't to Ukraine's government or military as some stories said, and wasn't connected to his grandmother. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

There is an internationally viral story, repeated by lots of news sites, that Leonardo DiCaprio made a $10 million donation to Ukraine in part because his grandma is from there. DiCaprio didn't donate $10 million and has no family member from Ukraine, a source close to him says. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @Shayan86: It's day 14 of the Russian invasion. A doctored image of President Zelensky holding a shirt bearing a swastika has been spre… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

https://t.co/CcqmjywiI3 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@yeeeeeaaahhhhh Correct - but if you're saying "under this Dem president we're way below 2019" and don't mention "we fell way below 2019 under a GOP president in 2020, because of the pandemic, and are now closer to 2019 than we were in 2020," that needs mentioning — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

1) US companies can increase production today if they want; 2) Rubio skipped 2020. US production plummeted during the early-2020 pandemic crash under Trump, then rose later in 2020 under Trump, then rose further under Biden. https://t.co/WwxYKda0OV https://t.co/tOk4xwTera https://t.co/HX7crL4hOg — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Here’s Biden’s public schedule for tomorrow. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/vJbCHrZ8NY — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @CraigSilverman: NEW: Over a dozen Russian-language videos spreading on social media claim to debunk Ukrainian disinfo. But they’re ac… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

I post this data because, the way some GOP lawmakers and pundits talk about "energy independence," it can sound like the US had ceased using foreign/Russian oil by the end of Trump's tenure, then started again under Biden. That's very much not what happened. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

The US export/import balance has improved since the Bush era, thanks in large part to the fracking boom. The improvement continued under Obama, then Trump. But the US always continued to import petroleum -- from Russia (see chart below) and elsewhere. 3/ https://t.co/fqBza3Jo4d https://t.co/zzZagjxHJF — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump wasn't lying when he said the US was "energy independent" in 2020: the US exported more crude+products that year than it imported; that's one of the pop definitions of "energy independent." But the US also exported more than it imported in 2021. 2/ https://t.co/2OGcZ3FdgL https://t.co/cSbFdDYwXD — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

"Energy independent" is a political, non-literal phrase -- "horrible term," one expert tells me -- that has never meant that the US stopped using foreign oil. In 2020, the US imported 7.9 million barrels per day of foreign crude and petroleum products. 1/ https://t.co/j1RRL4awMt https://t.co/PAmDqDUykK — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Always but especially in this climate, be wary of "screenshots of news coverage" that aren't attached to a link to an underlying article or TV segment. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

This (at left) is another fake image pretending to be from CNN coverage. CNN's actual article (at right, and here https://t.co/9HXoHYOtcd) did not use photos from Belgrade. https://t.co/YqXG0pGh7P — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @Shayan86: It's day 13 of war in Ukraine. All but two of this TikTok account's supposed Ukraine war livestreams are old clips dubbed wi… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Here's Biden's public schedule for today. (Public schedules don't include all of a president's activities.) https://t.co/w1kE25L6xI — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

False tweets, still up three days later, no apparent regret, man has 837,000 followers. https://t.co/pPEBjmX0jP — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @shaunwalker7: Somewhat bizarre to have endless messages in my mentions telling my this is photoshopped and “schooling” me in being able… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

This thread from the BBC's @Shayan86 is fantastic - a giant and growing list of online fakes related to the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/TEiYKGAxtL — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

RT @christogrozev: Someone has been spreading a clearly forged "phone call" between Putin and Shoigu, in which Putin appears to admit the c… — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Biden’s updated public schedule for today. (Public schedules don’t include all of a president’s activities.) https://t.co/ZB0myXBgYU — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

How this fake is being used. https://t.co/utrMO9q277 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

This hoax is *not* "ha ha, people are trying to convince us that living people are supposedly dead." It's "wow, the media reported people died in Ukraine, but they actually showed actors lying in body bags - Ukraine casualty reporting is lying to you" https://t.co/OxHl7S6QM2 — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@WhyIsKorisTaken A lot of people don't seem to understand what the deceivers are trying to do here — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

@daknls2006 A serious news organization didn't do this. — PolitiTweet.org

Daniel Dale @ddale8

That's the point, though: the video of people in body bags moving around is being used by pro-Russia trolls and others to claim that Ukraine deaths/Ukraine news reports are being faked, when, in fact, the footage is not actually about Ukraine. https://t.co/Q0sVg8ufGA — PolitiTweet.org