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Aggregate AIQ's targeted fake news ads for vote.Leave (and illegally for Be.Leave) used a two step strategy. First they needed to collect your data. So they either bought it from Facebook, or got you to give it away free by participating in fake competitions like this
Once they had your data, they'd use your age, address and social media history to target you directly. Most ads were interactive, and every click you made gave them more information. If you posted lots about animals, for instance, they'd target you with ads and lies like these
Sometimes they'd send out what seemed to be non-political ads, based on topical themes. Once again, the idea was to get you to react by clicking one of the answers. Because as soon as you did that, they'd have more information on you, and could target you better next time
As far as immigration was concerned, the Leave campaign's fake ads knew no restraint. Even people who weren't too concerned about imigration before would be scared by ads, or better said lies, like these
And don't forget, these vote.Leave lies went hand in hand with UKIP's poster campaign, which used Nazi imagery to instill immigration fear
This is one of the illegally distributed ads from Be.Leave. It seems softer and more inclusive than those from vote.Leave, but the message, or lie, is still the same: foreigners are taking your jobs and pushing down pay!
Not surprisingly, given the amount of lies told by vote.Leave, Boris was the only politician to voluntarily appear in their ads. Here he is jumping on the immigration bandwagon
Jeremy Corbyn was also instrumentalised by the Leave campaign. This ad was targeted at younger voters and accompanied by the real Corbyn quote: "The EU takes away from national parliaments the power to set economic policy and hands it over to an unelected set of bankers."
It was all about targeting. If the data collected on you told vote.Leave that you were interested in business, you'd be targeted by ads like this
And if you were more concerned about the NHS, then you were targeted with the same £350 million lie that Boris, Gove and all the others were selling you on the side of a bus
In fact, even if your data showed that you weren't interested in politics, and just liked to relax in your armchair with a cup of tea, vote.Leave and Aggregate AIQ would still find a way to get to you!
But the most frightening thing of all about these targeted adds, which were illegally financed and used data collected on you without your knowledge, was that they really did have an effect on how people voted. Especially in the final day of the campaign.
Here's a thread of recent articles on Brexit impacts that have gone under the radar. They're well worth a read and a retweet.
#BrexitHasFailed
"43% of British goods and services exporters have seen a decrease in trade over the past year. The most frequently cited reason is Brexit. Among the most prominent concerns are red tape and a reduction in demand for UK products."
#BrexitHasFailed thegrocer.co.uk/brexit/brexit-…
According to the UK government's own August figures, British GDP is still 0.2% lower than before the pandemic. Meanwhile, Eurozone GDP is 2.7% higher than before the pandemic.
#BrexitHasFailed
She has more courage than all the oligarchs put together!
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Editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst on the set of a live news broadcast shouting: 'Stop the war. No to war.' She held a sign saying 'Don’t believe the propaganda. They’re lying to you here'."
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Apparently, Marina Ovsyannikova knew she would be arrested for her protest, so before she carried it out she pre-recorded this message:
"Unfortunately I’ve spent the last years working on Channel One and spreading Kremlin propaganda. And I am ashamed”.
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Here's a translation of what Marina Ovsyannikova said in her video. #StandWithUkraine️ 🇺🇦
Russian troops have attacked Europe's largest nuclear power station in #Zaporizhzhia Ukraine. It is now on fire. Someone needs to stop Putin ASAP or he will take us all down with him. #PutinWarCrimes 🇺🇦
A short thread about the 3 songs chosen by Angela Merkel tonight for the traditional #Zapfenstreich (military tattoo) as she leaves the Chancellorship after 16 years. Every Chancelor has the ceremony when they leave office, and the songs say a lot about their characters 😎
1. "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen" (You forgot to bring the colour film).
A nostalgic song from the 1970s DDR, which is much deeper than it sounds. It's about fading memories, the desire to relive things in vivid colour rather than black & white.
2. "Für mich solls rote Rosen regnen" (Let it rain red roses for me)
A moving ballad from one of the stars of postwar Germany. The song is about how the things you want most change as you grow older, even though, deep down, you still remain the same.
This scene is apparently due to a temporary strike, nothing structural. But the poster doesn't mention that. @politico must be so pleased that one of its reporters is intentionally spreading fake news that's now being RTd by Brexiters as proof that Boris Johnson isn't lying.
Here's the truth. @politico should really have a word with him if they don't want to be compared to GB News.
This is the journalist poster who apparently works for @politico.
He knew the truth of the story, but intentionally refused to include it in his original tweet or correct it by deleting and reposting. He knew exactly what he was doing, and posters of Brexit fake news thank him.
So embarassing !!!
German news just showed the British petrol shortages. They expressly indicated it was caused by Brexit, then showed a bunch of bald, scrapping Brits 🤦♀️ and ended with Johnson saying it's nothing to do with Brexit coz the same thing's happening everywhere.
WTF!