Thread by @profcarroll

Bannon helped Brexit by offering his Cambridge Analytica as defence-grade TAA to sow group division in Britain. Brexit proved to Bannon that Trump could win.

Brexit taught Putin’s IRA how secessionist influence campaigns could be iterated in the USA.

↗️Sources:
–Brittany Kaiser evidence to DCMS committee, LeaveEU proposal, p24 parliament.uk/business/commi…
–New Knowledge white paper for SSCI, p71 newknowledge.com/disinforeport

Kaiser also gave evidence to DCMS committee that boundaries between Cambridge Analytica and defence contract entity called SCL Group were porous. Note how TAA was articulated to win no-bid/sole-source contract with State Dept to study violent extremism. time.com/5372923/cambri…

Guess who probably scored SCL Group’s no-bid/sole-source contract for Bannon (Mercer, Nix, Oakes, Wheatland)?

Mike Flynn. While on the transition in Nov/Dec of 2016. apnews.com/bfc2de11c52f40…

What’s going here? The post 9/11 “hearts and minds” PSYOPs designed to fight terror have been repurposed for political campaigns, while also leveraged by foreign influence operations like Putin’s IRA or campaign-facing troll factories like PSY Group. emptywheel.net/2018/10/10/the…

Electioneering has been militarized. Dirty campaigns run by defense contractors are treating the electorate no differently than terrorists. And they openly brag about it. wired.com/story/uk-regul…

DARPA has been studying memetic warfare for decades.

Thiel acolyte/alt-right-ish memetic warfare theorist published in NATO journal edited by SCL’s PSYOPs vet.

Our information space has been transformed into a battlefield whether we realize it or not. motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/…