(Source: / Github )Īfter the inauguration, Powell’s Telegram posts continued to spread on Twitter. The number of times the 32 Telegram messages that were also on Twitter were tweeted or retweeted on Twitter.
On January 16, a Powell channel post asking for a miracle and prayers garnered at least 1,231 Twitter copies, and another message, stating “There are powers still available to the President” - implying that Trump could still do something ahead of inauguration - received at least 191 tweets or retweets. The three Telegram messages that spread most on Twitter all occurred prior to the inauguration of President Biden, and concerned whether it was still possible for the election results to be overturned. The Telegram messages on Twitter were even translated into different languages to go alongside the English, including into French, Japanese, Chinese, and Hebrew. Many of the tweets specifically attributed the Telegram message to Powell, and some of them even linked the Telegram channel. The tweets did not seem to garner much attention, however - the vast majority of tweets received zero likes, with an average of 0.60 likes per tweet and a median of zero. On average, a unique Telegram message from Powell was tweeted or retweeted 76 times. Out of 42 unique messages on the channel in January, at least 32 of them - or 76 percent - were circulated on Twitter, in a total of 2,444 tweets or retweets. The Telegram-to-Twitter pipelineĪ DFRLab analysis of the channel’s activity in January 2021 shows that the majority of unique Telegram posts were posted on Twitter verbatim by multiple users. For example, Lin Wood’s Telegram channel has forwarded Powell channel messages to his channel, while journalist Yashar Ali depicted the channel as hers on Twitter. Even if the channel is not Powell herself, it is treated as such by both outside journalists and Powell’s own compatriots.
Powell did not respond to DFRLab requests for verification. Sidney,” there are two authors posting in the Telegram, one labeled “Sidney” and the other “S P”. While some of the Telegram messages end with “-Sidney”, and one early post in the channel claimed, “All posts here will be made by me personally. It purports to be the “official” channel of Powell, although this is unconfirmed. election, foreign interference, and Dominion Voting, as well as frequently forwarding messages from pro-Trump fan channels and the channels of other prominent Trump crusaders, including fellow pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood. The channel frequently circulates conspiracies about the outcome of the U.S. According to the Telegram statistics tool telemetr.io, the channel has over 310,000 views per post, and has been growing in subscribers since its first post. The Sidney Powell Telegram channel, with over 360,000 subscribers, is the most popular Powell-related Telegram channel, and has been active since January 13, after being created November 30. Her Twitter ban came amid the de-platforming and migration of influential election deniers from mainstream social media platforms after January 6, including President Trump. presidential election, was banned from Twitter on Janufor “ Coordinated Harmful Activity,” as was former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. Powell, a lawyer best known known for attempting to overturn the outcome of the 2020 U.S.
A DFRLab review of 42 unique Telegram channel posts in January 2021 showed that 32 of them - or 76 percent - were also circulated on Twitter in at least 2,444 tweets or retweets. Capitol, Twitter users are nonetheless circulating messages from a Sidney Powell Telegram channel, demonstrating that de-platforming an account does not necessarily eliminate its messages from the platform. (Source: REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File Photo)Īlthough pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell was banned from Twitter after the violent insurrection at the U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani (not pictured) at RNC headquarters in Washington DC, November 19, 2020. Sidney Powell, an attorney later disavowed by the Trump campaign, participates in a news conference with U.S.
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