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😮 “M'Barki ran reports on a variety of subjects - luxury yachts in Monaco, a Sudanese opposition leader, allegations of corruption in Qatar - that had all one thing in common: they were planted by an Israel-based outfit specialising in 'news for hire'.” bbc.com/news/world-eur…
"The second report, broadcast in mid-December, was about a leafleting campaign in #Paris accusing a former state prosecutor in #Qatar of corruption.” This is an important illustration of how the #influenceindustry works to coordinate across legacy/online media….
“When originally shown in the early hours of the morning, the reports would have gone almost unobserved.
But that changed when they were picked up by #SocialMedia and #TeamJorge's massed avatars. Suddenly they were viral."
But that changed when they were picked up by #SocialMedia and #TeamJorge's massed avatars. Suddenly they were viral."
Incredible reporting here on the industry that lets the powerful rewrite history…
Chilling new reporting on reputation laundering and #eliminalia from @OCCRP
“The legitimate uses for this kind of reputation management are few compared to the advantages for corrupt individuals,” Emma Briant, a research fellow at Bard College who studies information warfare, told Forbidden Stories.
If any of you haven’t yet seen @thegreathackdoc grab your 🥤 and 🍿 get comfy in front of Netflix and remember you are only seeing a tiny sliver of the full global #cambridgeanalytica story when you watch. There’s a lot more coming in my upcoming book.
If you haven’t yet seen it do, it’s a very good introduction to the problems of #datamisuse and our elections, propaganda and #disinformation and why I argue we need to be thinking about independent regulation of social media platforms and the #influenceindustry #stratcom #IO
And now there’s the added excitement that it’s shortlisted for the #Oscars2020! I could not be more amazed that a project I was involved with as a researcher has made it this far! But raising awareness isn’t enough we need to continue the fight for policy reform.
