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Susan Schmidt

Washington, D.C.
As seen in: MSN, Business Insider, HuffPost, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, SFGate, Patch, The Minnesota Star Tribune, NJ.com and
Writer, researcher. Longtime Washington Post investigative journalist.
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Twitter Files Extra: The Manufacture of the "Russian Bot" Panic

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By Susan Schmidt
| RacketNews
In the week before Christmas in 2018, scare headlines about Russian bots were everywhere: Stories like Russia used social media for widespread meddling in U.S. politics, Russia “meddled in all big social media” around US election, and Russian 2016 Influence Operation Targeted African-Americans on Social Media represented the peak of “Russiagate” mania.
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"Damn, That's Thin," "I know," "It sucks": The Untold Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation

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By Susan Schmidt
Special Counsel John Durham’s “Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising Out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns” trickled out yesterday afternoon, hitting journalist inboxes just after 3:00 p.m. A quick read revealed the following key takeaways: There was no valid predicate for the investigation, and the FBI knew it.
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The Censorship-Industrial Complex: Top 50 Organizations To Know

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By Susan Schmidt, Andrew Lowenthal, Tom Wyatt, Techno Fog
| Popular Resistance
Americans are used to thinking of a binary state of either war or peace. That is the way our organizations, doctrine, and approaches are geared.
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