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Here it is. The landmark @CommonsCMS report on fake news published today. Absolutely damning on @facebook’s ‘moral failure’. @DamianCollins tells @ObserverUK: ‘Russian interference is real. Britain needs a Mueller’
theguardian.com/politics/2018/…
Damning, damning, damning indictments...on @Facebook, Cambridge Analytica & Russia. Multiple recommendations for new laws. Big tech companies to be regulated. & calls for major police investigations. Including into Russian interference & @arron_banks
theguardian.com/technology/201…
This is a landmark moment for Silicon Valley. British Parliament says the Wild West is over. The tech companies black boxes need to be opened to the light
The report is a comprehensive critique of Silicon Valley, data targeting & the urgent need to update our election laws. But it also sets down the very many troubling questions about Russian interference
The committee has handed over evidence to the FBI but it is now calling on the government to make a announcement of what it is doing - if anything - re Russia. The public needs to know, says @DamianCollins
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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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Russia and Iran are engaged in disinformation campaigns aimed at US citizens. Twitter just released over 10 million tweets from over 4500 Russian and Iranian accounts engaged in influence operations dating back to 2009. We've analyzed the data. Here's what you need to know...
Russia's influence operations are far-reaching, aimed at a number of countries. This, of course, includes ops aimed at US voters in 2016, but also includes their own people. 58 Russian-language accounts tweeted regional "news" related to Crimea, Syria, and other military action.
44 US-directed local "news" accounts amassed over half a million followers. By using local-sounding news source names, they were able to dupe Americans from *other* regions to share what they thought was authentic news.
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I'm tired of the "too stupid" to collude defense.

Trump is a proven liar/manipulator. He's attacking the free press to discredit it so it can't hold him accountable. Any critical coverage of him is deemed as "fake news."

Russia did most of the work. Trump was given an easy task
Russian interference in our election would not have been so effective if Trump hadn't cooperated and enabled it.

1) On June 9, 2016, Trump Jr, Manafort & Kushner met Russians who promised election help.
2) On July 27, 2016, Trump called for Russia to hack
When Paul Manafort joined the Trump campaign in March 2016, some people were already SOUNDING the alarm. Why? B/c they actually knew who Paul Manafort was and what he did in Ukraine. Manafort helped install a corrupt pro-Putin president in Ukraine in 2010.
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Here's Amazon's political action committee giving the maximum donation to Bruce Poliquin, Republican congressman in Maine's second district, and among the top recipients of NRA donations in the House. Poliquin has cashed over $200K of NRA checks in his career.
The Great Slate has supported Poliquin's opponent, @golden4congress, a former Marine and assistant minority leader in the Maine House who is running at a terrific financial disadvantage to Poliquin, but has a chance to win in November if we can fund him. secure.actblue.com/donate/great_s…
If you work at Amazon, Google, Twitter, Facebook, or Microsoft, know that your labor is being used to fund large donations to Republicans like Poliquin, Cruz, Nunes, Scalise and worse. Have a look at donationsfrom.tech for some good examples. Make a ruckus to your CEO!
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So this is interesting & let me tell you why.

@savethe8thinfo is apparently run (in part) out of Hungary.

Do you know who else is based in Hungary & heavily involved in the Anti Choice movement in both countries?

Jim Dowson. The money man behind Britain First.

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Some background on Dowson 1st. He was kicked out of the Orange Order in the 90s for being too extreme and was both heavily involved in both the BNP, and the loyalist flag riots in Belfast in 2010/11. He has several criminal convictions,
Aside from the aforementioned protest at the Mary Stopes Clinic in Belfast, were he was working with Youth Defence (who are behind the savethe8thinfo facebook page, Dowson has ties to Belfast Anti Choice activist Bernadette Smyth running the Scottish Chapter of "Precious Life"
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#Facebook thread:
Ahead of Zuckerberg's Congress testimony, a quick revision guide.
All you need to know about Facebook (and why you should be concerned), brought to you by the Observer/Guardian's investigation into data and democracy...
Hard to believe it was less than a month ago that @carolecadwalla broke the story about GSR harvesting 50m+ Facebook profiles for @CamAnalytica to use in political campaigning:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Via the first major interview with @CamAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico which explained Facebook had known about the leak for at least 18months and detailed Robert Mercer / Steve Bannon's central roles ‘I made Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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Facebook is setting up a booth in the CPAC exhibit hall.

Two attendees just told me they saw proof on Facebook this morning that the Parkland students are crisis actors. Facebook reps here told me they’re not going to talk about that.
.@facebook just emailed me a statement on their CPAC presence.

"Facebook routinely participates in events hosted by organizations across the political spectrum."
I don’t remember such a prominent Facebook booth at past CPACs (I’ve been covering it for 4 years), but policy manager Nu Wexler tells me they were also here last year
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