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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/…
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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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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.
When we discovered that US voter data was processed by Cambridge Analytica in the UK we realized we could complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. There is no such equivalent in the US. What if Cambridge Analytica hadn’t exported our data to UK?
My personal highlight of 2018: Realizing the work of 2017 had paid off. The world’s first criminal prosecution of Cambridge Analytica is because a simple filing with the UK ICO. Turns out, my Independence Day. Essentially, why is a British company interfering with my elections?
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In this 2015 paper for NATO StratCom journal edited by a PSYOPs and TAA veteran from SCL, Giesea advocates for meme warfare, opening his essay by valorizing mega-troll Chuck C Johnson who was eventually investigated by the Senate Intelligence Committee. stratcomcoe.org/jeff-giesea-it…
In this May 2017 tweet, Steve Tatham of SCL (Iota Global), veteran of British Military PSYOPs, banter about TAA as a strategy for meme warfare.
Alas, the British military connections between Brexit and Trump just didn’t get the same sensational traction as a Reid Hoffman-funded disinfo test in Alabama. buzzfeednews.com/article/thomas…
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