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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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Right. I've deleted the tweet in which I said I'd deleted the tweet..& to be clear the whole Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story began with Google propagating anti-semitic hate & Nazi sites. Also, fyi, they've never given a good account of why..
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
We have no idea how long Google was serving up violent anti-semitic hate when people were searching for terms like "jews" & "holocaust" but it seems probable it was throughout 2016. Google refused to acknowledge it had a problem. And this was the beginning of this entire story..
The tech giants have played a crucial role in fanning flames of anti-semitism & racism. And still haven't been held to account. Google changed its algorithm - eventually - in response to this series of articles..but never explained how this had happened..

theguardian.com/technology/201…
So, when I say disinformation plays a role in amplifying hate & stoking divisions this is what I mean. This is literally what led me down this rabbit hole. And Google & Facebook will still not acknowledge it. So please be clear where I am on this subject & why I think it matters
It was anti-semitism online that alerted me to these wider forces... And that's why what's happening now matters. Because it's leaked out. Off the web. Into real life. Permission has been given. Read this by @Freedland
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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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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EXCLUSIVE: CPS accused of failing to prosecute Far Right extremists who have used the same social media platform as Pittsburgh synagogue massacre suspect Robert Bowers.

Alison Saunders, who ends tenure as DPP today, has failed to tackle anti-Semitic hate crime, campaigners say.
Bowers - suspected of murdering 11 at the Tree of Life synagogue on Saturday - used a social media platform called Gab to post anti-Semitic hate.

He described Jews as "the children of Satan”.
Now LBC has been passed a file of British Far Right extremists, who have also posted anti-Semitic abuse on Gab.

The worst case is from this man:
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If I was Russian and wanted to travel *without a visa* to the US and EU... I would get a Maltese citizenship.

Henley and Partners would assist me. They also seem to have a working relationship with Cambridge Analytica (SCL.)
Daphne Galizia, the reporter investigating them, died in a car bombing last October.

‘Who Ordered The Car Bomb That Killed Maltese Journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia?’

npr.org/2018/07/22/630…
This report out of the UK is an important read if you have been following the Cambridge Analytica/Facebook story. It also references Galizia.

‘A withering verdict: MPs report on Zuckerberg, Russia and Cambridge Analytica’

amp.theguardian.com/technology/201…
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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 has some really creepy plans!
Just check their patents!
Small thread with thanks to @jashkenas 👇

1⃣ Facebook wants to track your eye movements
using special infrared LEDs that shine into your pupil & cornea to determine gaze patents.google.com/patent/US20180… #Facebook #privacy
Facebook wants to reads your comments for positive or negative “affinity scores”
to generate sentiments and “trust scores”
and use the resulting data sets from trusted users
to train a machine learning model
patents.google.com/patent/US20180… | #privacy #facebook
to manipulate people..
3⃣ Facebook wants to “automatically sense, record and identify all types of activities such as walking, running, jogging, cycling, rowing, driving with car, bus, train, walking stairs, jumping, swimming, playing football & skiing” patents.google.com/patent/US20150… | #Facebook #privacy
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Tweet storm on how India has built a worse manipulation engine for elections than Cambridge Analytica
When #Facebook allowed third parties to colonise your relationship with them, they corrupted the purpose for which you and Facebook came together medium.com/@anupamsaraph/…
One such third party, Cambridge Analytica, corrupted your relationship with your government by destroying your right to free choice motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
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50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica. Psych prof/developer Aleksandr Kogan accessed 270k FB users' data w his app, then collected their friends' data…& sold it all to Trump's data firm which used it to target ads in 2016 election theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
FB 2018: "We learned a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us…by passing data from an app…using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government… military work around the globe." FB knew in 2015
"purpose of Kogan’s work was to develop an algorithm for the 'national profiling capacity of American citizens' as part of SCL’s work on U.S. elections, according to an internal document signed by an SCL employee describing the research"– 3/2017 report theintercept.com/2017/03/30/fac…
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