Exactly one year ago, I published "Understanding ADOS: The Movement to Hijack Black Identity and Weaken Black Unity in America." This week Harvard Kennedy School's MisInformation Review published, “Disinformation creep: ADOS and the strategic weaponization of breaking news.”

Harvard Kennedy School and @MoveOn did a content analysis of 534,000 #ADOS tweets. They found that ADOS founders Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore used breaking news cycles to manipulate online discussions & move Black communities towards adopting a right-wing agenda.

The authors refer to this as “disinformation creep.” They found that Moore and Carnell used right-wing talking points “to promote Black voter disenfranchisement.” And, that “Carnell engages in disinformation creep by using anti-racist messaging to support racist policies.”

The findings show that online content pushed by ADOS co-founders, uses pop culture, AAVE, and Black cultural issues as an entry point to disengage Black voters, promote anti-immigrant policies, and attack Black collective activism and cross-cultural engagement - Pan Africanism.

The content analysis noted, this is similar to the Trump campaign's targeting of Black communities online. "That is, instead of attempting to win over Black voters, the Trump campaign’s strategy was to use disingenuous rhetoric to discourage civic participation entirely.”

They also note, like I have, Carnell’s ties to “Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), a subsidiary of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which has been identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center…”

I appreciate the researchers, authors, and activists that wrote and participated in this content analysis and appreciate that they also cited my work.

How it started. How it’s going.

Here's the link: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/disinformation-creep-ados-and-the-strategic-weaponization-of-breaking-news/

I anticipate that more discussions of what really happened concerning the Black community and the ADOS hashtag will be taking place in the coming months and years. Email me if you'd like additional information. jamaiwuyor (at) http://gmail.com