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The world is a casino. Even democracy is just another game to bet on. Playthings for plutocrats. Ain’t that right @Nigel_Farage? bloomberg.com/news/features/…
It’s literally a game to these people. Fomenting fascist far-right movements for fun and profit. Dismantling governments and alliances to wield power unaccountably. newyorker.com/magazine/2018/… by @JaneMayerNYer
Update: Turns out @berit_anderson and @bretthorvath designed the game with @randylubin but unclear how Bekah Mercer got a hold of it or how Jane Mayer got details to report on it.
Update: @JaneMayerNYer responds linking to report by @Bernstein and @RMac18 who got comments from Mercer that don’t exactly add up. We are left with the proverbial…
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Update: No correction required to this story. It’s not misinformation. Just need to read at least three articles to get more context.
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Criminal prosecution of Cambridge Analytica (SCL Elections Ltd) begins in UK tomorrow. It’s a crime to defy an order from the Information Commissioner’s Office. They refuse to disclose a complete US voter file despite a legal order from their regulator. ico.org.uk/media/action-w…
Meanwhile in the USA, our closest counterpart is the FTC and it is shutdown. Its Facebook Cambridge Analytica investigation is delayed. The FTC vs D-Link trial is now also delayed to the summer. #ShutdownStories
For the record, I won’t be attending the trial tomorrow, but I will share news as it comes in. I’m not the plaintiff/complainant here. This is the ICO vs SCL, the UK regulator simply upholding the Data Protection Act of 1998. Not sure if we’ll see Nix or Wheatland cross-examined.
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Brexit movie premiering on UK TV now (HBO in the US later this month). Apparently, it’s a fictionalization first and foremost. #UncivilWar
Imagine casting Robert Mercer
HBO audiences in America would need an understanding of the British campaign finance law scandal that taints Brexit to spot it in this Easter Egg.
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First President to engage in memetic warfare while holding a million federal employees and contractors hostage.
Trolling is Trump doctrine, leveraging Kremlin and DARPA methods.
The GoT wall meme is an intricately layered “in-group” cultural signifier. At the core it’s Trumpists vs everyone else, Us vs Them anti-immigration, those who get Game of Thrones reference vs those who don’t, those who spread meme to endorse it vs those who spread meme in dissent
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1. The world’s largest supplier of telecom equipment and the No. 2 maker of mobile phones, #HuaweiTechnologiesCo, is a Chinese colossus.
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