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@carolecadwalla
Dec 3, 2018 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
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Well look at this. In rare speech, head of M16 says expulsion of diplomats post-Skripal "significantly degraded Russian intelligence capability". So MI6 is admitting that Alexander Udod - Arron Banks & Andy Wigmore's contact at Russian embassy - was a spy?
theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/d…
Reminded of the last time, Alex Younger made a speech.
...this was intro to @ObserverUk's May '17 Great Brexit Robbery article that laid out links between Trump-Brexit-Russia. Since then, we know US intelligence has worked closely with British intelligence...Mueller indictments show web of links through London
theguardian.com/technology/201…
...Alex Younger, head of M16, made that speech Dec 2016. "It’s not MI6’s job to warn of internal threats," intel analyst told me. "Was it pointed at Theresa May’s government? Does she know something she’s not telling us?" Remember May was head of Home Office - & M15 - in 2016
Here she is dodging @BenPBradshaw's question: did she block investigation into Arron Banks?? Why won't she answer the question?

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Apr 26
NEW: Palantir’s revolving door.

A new investigation by @thenerve_news has found Palantir has recruited more than 30 senior officials from UK govt, a strategy transparency experts say poses an ‘acute risk’ of corruption.
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Palantir recruited the two most senior AI strategists from the Ministry of Defence & NHS…& won multimillion £ contracts with both, a pattern repeated across the UK govt.
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Apr 13
Is Apple deleting place names from its map of southern Lebanon?

I emailed Apple to fact check this viral claim & I’m publishing its bullshit response in full as a teachable moment.

This ‘on background’ crap is how tech companies avoid accountability.
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This claim went viral yesterday & if you check Apple Maps, you can see that Lebanese place names are indeed missing.

But what’s not clear is why &/or if this has always been the case.

Which is why I went to Apple for a response.
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Apple replied with an ‘On background’ quote. This is tech PR bullshit: a way of trying to shape the narrative without leaving fingerprints.

Tech press offices do this routinely & it works! Journalists fall for it, the ‘explanation’ is included, the reader never knows
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Mar 28
NEW: I’ve found an opaque financial vehicle owns a large chunk of the Observer. And neither it or the Guardian will say who it is. Why?

Well there is a clue. Which goes by way of Saudi Arabia…
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The capture of US media orgs is accelerating. And the UK is next in line. The BBC has fallen to an AI hype guy. And my old newspaper, the Observer, is publishing Palantir puff pieces.

But why? I set out to find out..
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In Companies House I found the Observer has a mystery investor: the North Hatley Trust.

Who is the North Hatley Trust? Good question!

There’s only the tiniest bit of public info about it. With one important clue..
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Mar 25
NEW: Will Google's AI hype man kill the BBC?

I've written about Matt Brittin because the coverage of his time at Google is shockingly naive.

The BBC's next DG made his career as a yes man at a rapacious AI monopoly that preys on news journalism in order to destroy it.
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Out of a shortlist of 5, 4 were women with decades of experience of public service broadcasting. And one man with none at all: Matt Brittin.

But that maybe the least of his problems...
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The BBC's profile quotes sources "close" to Matt Brittin to deliver a fawning portrait of an "inspirational leader". Only he's never led anything.

Brittin is a middle manager whose job was to stop Google being regulated and grow the business like late stage cancer.
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Mar 17
Distracted by the slaughter of children in Iran & Lebanon? Me too! But what better time could there be for govt to quietly relaunch its Digital ID plan?

Missed it? Me too! But look who’s celebrating…

The director of ‘govt innovation’ at the Tony Blair Institute!
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The govt noisily scrapped Digital ID after huge pushback when nobody bought its ‘it’ll solve immigration’ bollocks. But as markets tanked last week - kudos to the comms team! - it was discreetly re-launched with all-new messaging: a ‘common sense solution to everyday probs’
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Darren Jones, Cabinet Office secretary, put out a press release claiming the govt will be holding a ‘consultation’.

NOT: ‘Do you want the govt & unknown tech companies to have all your data?’

BUT: (I kid you not): ‘At what age should you be able to get a digital id?’ 🤔
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Feb 28
Congrats to all the news orgs that signed syndication deals with this company. You’ve licensed your journalism to be a core component of Trump’s illegal war machine. Great job everyone 👏
A special shoutout to the editor-in-chief & CEO of the Guardian, Kath Viner & Anna Bateson. The deal with OpenAI was an unforced error which legitimised OpenAI’s illegal scraping of Guardian data & IP. In exchange for a quick buck. The NYTimes, in contrast, chose to sue.
Anthropic stood up to Trump. But OpenAI has capitulated. And now all its ‘partners’ are complicit in the consequences.

That includes Guardian. It will financially benefit from its journalists’ work - inc mine - being used to support Trump’s illegal wars & ICE’s reign of terror.
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