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David Carroll 🦅 @profcarroll
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Remember that time when facebook threatened @guardian with lawsuits over @carolecadwalla’s Cambridge Analytica reporting as a breach. Now there’s an incontrovertible breach and The Guardian is marked as spam.
Can confirm. Facebook is blocking this Guardian story for me too. theguardian.com/technology/201…
TIL that @ap and @guardian are not whitelisted from spam filtering on facebook
How do you fix a false positive threshold problem like this? You probably put domains on a whitelist.
First rule about Facebook:
Don’t talk about Facebook.
Didn’t mean for a weird spam glitch against the guardian to distract from the actual massive headline of the day. Ooops.
OK here’s the story that created the viral surge that created an unreated meta story
motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…
This story keeps on giving. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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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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Facebook slapped with maximum fine. Criminal proceedings against Cambridge Analytica. @guardian reports on groundbreaking ICO investigation. BUT...much more to come. Multiple investigations into multiple crimes in referendum are still ongoing
theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. 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
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Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
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Facebook bans Trump campaign’s data analytics firm, Cambridge Analytica, for stealing user data wapo.st/2phRGOQ
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