emptywheel
@emptywheel.bsky.social
Some reasons to be cautious abt the Vanity Fair story (there are more I won't yet share).
1) Cole's claims to knowledge of this is very attenuated.
2) The model Discoveries via Dutch reconstruction of GRU hacks matches how OTHER RU disinformation was spread.
https://emptywheel.net/2026/10/23/jareds-account/