Setting the record straight on the Gravel Institute FUD: Sen. Mike Gravel had long disowned his own twitter account. It is run by a bunch of teenage kids who are spreading lies and propaganda. Disgraceful [included: Video of Sen. Gravel disowning the Twit

There is a new FUD hit piece going on around BTC, spread by an account posing as "Gravel Institute". The hit piece is just old regurgitated talking points that have been debunked a thousand times over and have been doing the rounds since 2011 alteast - No government backing, only used by drug dealers, too volatile, no one uses it etc.

The funny thing is that the account spreading these attacks is the account of Sen. Gravel, now named as "Gravel Institute". This Institute was apparently founded by Sen. Mike Gravel in his last days in 2019, when Sen. Gravel was 89 years old, by those same teenagers who ran his 2020 Presidential Campaign. Safe to say that at 89 years old, Sen. Gravel didnt have much to do with this so called Gravel Institute. Even wikipedia says that "The Gravel Institute is mainly run by Henry Williams, David Oks, and Henry Magowan, the teenagers who ran Gravel's 2020 presidential campaign. Gravel himself, who was 90 years old when the institute launched, was not involved in day-to-day operations but served as a consultant and provided advice."

However, there is more.. even before Sen. Gravel's passing away, his twitter accounts has been spreading propaganda and lies, and someone managed to directly ask Sen. Gravel about the content posted by his own account.

Sen. Gravel's account tweeted that "Americans should hang their head in shame" regarding abandonment of Kurds. When asked about it, Sen. Gravel said that no, he does not think Americans should hang their head in shame. Finally when put to him that his own account tweeted this, he then categorically disowned this account. He said "This quote appears to come from me, but doesnt come from me in this regard. And the fact that these teenage kids have views that are not vetted by years of experience is self evident"

While Gravel was more forgiving towards these kids attitude (even though, right at that time, the actions of these kids using Senator's account to spread their narrative amounted to nothing but elder abuse), the fact that these kids still continue to use Sen. Gravel's account post his death, to spread lies and propaganda on issues that Sen. Gravel really had no opinion on, is nothing but stealing his identity for their own selfish interest. These bunch of nothing kids have no right to use Senator's name to spread their own propaganda. Its actually shameful and a damn disgrace that they spread such lies by using the name of a well regarded Senator.

Video of Mike Gravel disagreeing with his Twitter account

Imo this whole account should be shut down, as it is nothing but identity theft and it is evident that Senator had distanced himself from the account. The ones running it dont have any experience in real issues (in Senator's own words) and they have been only a brief part of Senator's career. The persons behind the account - David Oks and Henry Williams - only got in touch with Senator Mike Gravel in 2019, when he was 89 years old! David was a high school senior at that time, and Henry was a college freshman. By every sense, they were too inexperienced and unaware of Senator Gravel's views on a lot of important issues. They entered Senator's life when he was 89 years old! It would be totally different if the account was run by his family or someone who has worked many years with Senator Gravel.

During Sen. Gravel's campaign, this twitter account took to posting personal attacks on other 2020 contenders. This is from the Wiki page of Gravel's 2020 campaign:

His Twitter account was run by Oks and Williams who became the campaign manager and chief of staff, respectively. They posted attacks on other Democratic presidential candidates and potential candidates Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Pete Buttigieg, and Beto O'Rourke while praising fellow candidates Bernie Sanders and Tulsi Gabbard, including when Gravel urged them not to make personal attacks and rather focus on policy critiques.

These kids knew the Senator for just 2 years, when he was 89 and 90, and after his death are using the Senator's identity to run their propaganda machine. Pathetic