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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Yesterday, Twitter users busted what looks like the Qatari opposition organising fake protestors for a rally at Downing St. The casting agency now saying this is the person who hired them....
More from @jimwaterson coming soon. But what’s so interesting is how fake Twitter hashtags led to real life fake protestors. And how London is at the centre of another battle for informational dominance. theguardian.com/world/2018/jul…
This is psy-ops. It’s what SCL, Cambridge Analytica’s parent company specialised in. To those who said ‘They all do it.’ No, they don’t. This is not advertising. It’s not campaigning. It’s information warfare laid bare. And it’s what happened to us in UK & US in clumsy microcosm
And not only that. SCL/Cambridge Analytica were actually employed by UAE govt to do anti-Qatari messaging. Who inherited that contract?
mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-…
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Ugh. So here we go again. Major £££ Facebook campaign targeting dozens of Labour MPs. When is Britain going to wake up to what's going on. What went on. And how our democracy has been utterly corrupted & debased by Facebook
Constituents of target Labour MPs being sent these ads by right-wing group. Here's @YvetteCooperMP but there's dozens more. When will Labour wake up & see the issues we've uncovered aren't to do with party politics, they're to do with democracy
Loads more here...
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NEW: Cambridge Analytica said US voter @profcarroll had no more right to know what data the company held on him than "a Taliban sitting in a cave". Today, it pleads guilty in case brought by Britain's ICO. This is a big deal. US citizens! You have..drum roll..rights to your data!
This has been a long haul for @profcarroll. We first wrote about his battle to get this data here. Today, Cambridge Analytica finally concede that he had a right to this data. Next question: will he actually get it?
theguardian.com/technology/201…
This all happening in the glamorous environs of Hendon magistrate's court. About as incongruous a location as you can imagine for qs about what data Cambridge Analytica had on 230 million US voters. Why was CA so determined not to hand it over? No answers to that today...
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Instead of shitting on other journalists, Buzzfeed, why not *do* journalism? Your biggest investor sits on Facebook's board & is a close friend of Zuck's. He's refused to answer my qs about his sale of Facebook stock - right before Cambridge Analytica story first broke. Why?
You were the main publication shitting on the Cambridge Analytica story two years ago. "Snake oil"! "Conspiracy theory"! And you've been shitting on me ever since I published Wylie's story back in March.

buzzfeednews.com/article/kendal…
It's all been just a bit odd
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This has been going on for years. Article is from 2012:

#Twitter is failing to police #ChildPornography efficiently

#PedoGate
#PedoGateNews
#GreatAwakening
#ChildSexCrimes
#SaveOurChildren

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
First #Pizzagate, Now #Twittergate: Twitter Suspends User After She Exposes Over 20,000 Child Porn Linked Accounts (2016)

#PedoGate
#PedoGateNews
#GreatAwakening
#ChildSexCrimes
#SaveOurChildren
#Twitter #Pedophile Database

#PedoGate
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#Twitter: what is it good for? How do you get good at it? And what will we do when it's gone? Today in pulp I share a few insights I've gleaned from almost five years of running this account.

Its about to get all meta...
Most people's tweets are a stream of consciousness, and Twitter itself is a daily flow of 500 million of these across the surface of your phone. You are currently looking at the collective unconscious of the planet...
And like any examination of the unconscious you will see things on Twitter that fascinate you and things that disgust you. This is part of its attraction: the filters of discourse become permeable, allowing the unsayable to leak across.
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(1) Wut?

Twitter censorship is "HERE TO STAY?" [emphasis mine]

The EFF?

What would happen to @jack-azz if he walked down a street & STOPPED people from conversing with each other?

Would he not get arrested?

Violations of First Amendment, much?

dailycaller.com/2018/07/29/twi…
(2) Violations of the 1st Amendment Rights of people of their speeches are a crimes, yes?

Violations of the 1st Amendment Rights of people of free assembly are a crimes, yes?

A telephone company that interferes with phone calls based on political content commits crimes, right?
So, HOW IN THE HELL is it different when Twitter commits THOSE SAME CRIMES?

What sort of "legal angle" is anyone looking for?

@Jack, and #Twitter's #deranged #liberal employees, have COMMITTED CRIMINAL ACTS in numerous violations of the Rights of Twitter users.

#MAGA
#KAG
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@jack Dear Jack, there is not the "perception of #shadowbanning”, but the reality of it and much worse: The #suspension of many bona fide #Twitter-users, who do not troll, harass or engage in #hatespeech, but simply push a conservative agenda. This happened in the #US, #UK, FRA & #GER.
@jack 2. You now find many of those accounts on #GAB & users like #KoljaBonke, an author from #Frankfurt, who was suspended on #Twitter for giving daily updates about migrant #crime in #Germany (just posting articles or police reports). So content you find in a newspaper!
@jack 3. So Jack, this is NOT about perception, but your "conversational health work" is clearly just one sided #censorship, which many users have experienced for years, from the reality of #shadowbanning, to the many #suspensions! @nicolabeerfdp
#Twitter #Zensur
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This is my commentary on #twitter #movements. Before I go I want to preface this with a statement: I love humans. We're amazing creative & powerful beings. I'm fascinated by human behaviour and the hidden motivations underlying our basic need to belong. 1/
I've observed some movements taking off on Twitter. Some for #MedEd, raising awareness, knowledge sharing, inspiration and sharing failings, wounds & triumphs. Generally they support creative expression in 280 characters. Awesome! 2/
As these movements gain momentum, more people want to join in b/c #belonging. I'm seeing a disturbing trend of sharing experiences of patients/clients to promote how deep & human they are. Some are purely intended, some not. 3/
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🛑BREAKING🛑

Michael Cohen negotiated a deal in late 2017 to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model who said she was impregnated by ELLIOTT BROIDY, a top @GOP fundraiser close to Trump who is the former **Deputy Finance Chair of the #RNC‼️

wsj.com/articles/trump…
🔥Broidy: “I had a consensual relationship w/a Playboy Playmate. At the end of our relationship, this woman shared w/me that she was PREGNANT. She alone decided that she did not want to continue with the pregnancy & I offered to help her financially during this difficult period.”
Meaning: Broidy paid for her to have an ABORTION‼️🙄

#Busted
#Hypocrite

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