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Guess who else is waging a well-resourced information war on democracies and liberal freedoms using commercial infrastructure owned and controlled by Americans?
⚠️Information War Alert: Saudi operation surging on #KhashoggiCoverUp
YIKES: Saudis’ Image Makers: A Troll Army and a Twitter Insider nyti.ms/2R60weV
This reporting on the Saudi info-op is wild. Twitter ads enticing click workers into political entrapment. nyti.ms/2R60weV
Unsurprisingly, the Saudi PSYOP appears modeled on the tradecraft perfected by Bannon/Mercers starting in 2014. nyti.ms/2R60weV
Well this is distressing. Saudi intelligence infiltrating US tech cos to exfiltrate data on privacy wonks.
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Ooof. Little tidbit in there on MbS buying a yacht from a Russian oligarch for a half billion NBD. Sheesh.
Amateur analyst trollbot hunter documents Saudi op and Twitter’s rapid response
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Imagine casting Robert Mercer
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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.
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USA needs a GDPR. Europe is decades ahead of us and the next Congress needs to catch up. The FTC has clearly failed to protect America’s personal data. Our approach to privacy was a mistake. Time to admit it. Time to get serious.
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#Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed Bin Salman,suspected to have ordered murder of journalist #JamalKashoggi, launched unprecedented crackdown vs women’s rights activists in May. Those activists have been tortured & one has tried suicide 3 times google.com/amp/s/www.wash… h/t @SherifaZuhur
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Thread on #Saudi meddling in #Yemen's internal affairs. Listed and in chronological order. Keep this in mind, next time some nutjob on the news rants about supposed "Iranian meddling" in regards to Yemen.
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Senior adviser to Emirati Crown Prince/dictator Mohammad bin Zayed in response to the Ahvaz terrorist attacks:

"Taking the battle into the depths of #Iran is an option that has already been declared, and will increase in the next steps."
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Iran must not fall for the bait.
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