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David Lammy
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The scale and depth of malicious disinformation and foreign interference this report uncovers demands an urgent response from @theresa_may on behalf of the British government.

theguardian.com/technology/201…
It is now blindingly obvious that we need a criminal investigation - equivalent to the US' Mueller inquiry - to investigate any possible links between the 2016 Leave campaign, Donald Trump's campaign team and Russia.
Moving forward, electoral laws need to be radically overhauled in order to fix the crisis of democracy facilitated by bad actors and irresponsible social media giants, in particular Facebook, in recent years.
Explosive details revealed in @BylineTimes report. We now need urgent action over this malicious interference in our democracy.

bylinetimes.com/2019/02/18/exp…
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David Lammy
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Tanesha Melbourne Blake, 17, was shot and killed in my constituency last Easter Monday. After this, Theresa May should have taken personal charge of this violent crime epidemic, convened COBRA and personally driven strategy across the country.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/m…
How many more young lives have to be taken before the PM takes this surge in violent crime seriously? How many teenagers need to be stabbed? How many have to be shot?
The main causes of violent crime have been the same for at least 200 years. Social deprivation, exclusion and poverty push people into gangs and crime. London's housing crisis (prices have quadrupled in 20 years) and vast inequality are driving this surge.
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David Lammy
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It's simply not true to say I did not respond: we had two meetings in my office. I had hoped - and still hope - your coverage would improve but Stacey's post was more of the same tried tropes. As I told you before, I'm not prepared to become part of a PR exercise.
It’s not about me making a nice film, but about you giving some of your very privileged platform on the BBC to the hundreds of African comedians, filmmakers, celebrities and everyday people who live on the continent.
My job as a politician is to raise the issue. The people of Africa do not need a British politician to make a film. I want African people to speak for themselves, not UK celebs acting as tour guides.
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David Lammy
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The world does not need any more white saviours. As I've said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes. Let's instead promote voices from across the continent of Africa and have serious debate.
mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/sta…
Hi @StaceyDooley. This isn't personal and I don't question your good motives. My problem with British celebrities being flown out by Comic Relief to make these films is that it sends a distorted image of Africa which perpetuates an old idea from the colonial era.
Comic Relief has a huge platform and privilege and it is the first and major way children learn about Africa. If they only show Africans as helpless victims to be pitied, children miss the broader picture of huge progress in Africa. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Martin Becerra
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El Comité de Digital, Culture, Media and Sport del Parlamento británico publicó finalmente su informe sobre Facebook, desinformación, fake news y manipulación política. Es lapidario.
A continuación algunos párrafos (más adelante haré un análisis):
theguardian.com/technology/201…
1. "Social media companies cannot hide behind the claim of being merely a ‘platform’ and maintain that they have no responsibility themselves in regulating the content of their sites";
2. "Our Interim Report recommended that clear legal liabilities should be established for tech companies to act against harmful or illegal content on their sites. There is now an urgent need to establish independent regulation."
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Peter Jukes
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Me for @BylineTimes on just some of the many revelations from @DamianCollins and @CommonsCMS landmark final report on Disinformation - especially what it reveals about the Trump Russia Brexit connection bylinetimes.com/2019/02/18/exp…
As @DavidLammy says of the explosive #DCMS report “the scale and depth of malicious disinformation and foreign interference this report uncovers demands an urgent response from the Prime Minister on behalf of the British government.”
“It is now blindingly obvious that we need a criminal investigation – equivalent to the US’ Mueller inquiry – to investigate any possible links between the 2016 Leave campaign, Donald Trump’s campaign team and Russia,” @DavidLammy told the @BylineTimes
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Carole Cadwalladr
@carolecadwalla
Okay, putting this out here now. Because it'll blow a massive hole in #PeoplesVote if it doesn't come out till later. Blair & Mandelson & Rudd - all involved with #PeoplesVote - are all compromised by their relationships with Deripaska, a central figure in Mueller's investigation
We need to talk about foreign interference, #PeoplesVote. And these are not the people to do it. Get some better spokesmen/backers/funders

theguardian.com/us-news/2018/n…
Deripaska paid Manafort (convicted) & Kliminik (accused of being Russian intelligence asset). The difference in the way he's been treated in the US & UK is hugely telling. British establishment utterly tainted by Russian money.

nyti.ms/2D0KQFS
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C. Graamans
@cgraamans
I want to talk a minute about how #Brexit is viewed by most of the #Dutch here in the #Netherlands.

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The #Dutch are mostly bewildered by #Brexit and why anyone would want to leave.

We do have a small EU critical faction in parliament (PVV+FvD=32 seats out of 150), but 4/5ths of the electorate are either uncaring or moderately to rabidly pro EU.

home.noties.nl/peil/

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Our #economy stands to take quite a hit from Brexit. Up to a few percent, even.

economics.rabobank.com/publications/2… …

This is seen as a betrayal by most #Dutch, who take the
health of our economy very seriously, especially after supporting Britain's liberal ideas in the #EU

3/
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Hala Jaber
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Hundreds of millions of pounds worth of #British-made missiles a& bombs have been sold to #Saudi_Arabia for use in #Yemen under an opaque licensing system that makes tracking arms sales more difficul
theguardian.com/world/2018/jun…
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Paula Chertok🗽
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Critically ill Russian national is 66yo Sergei Skripal, former intel colonel/double agent granted refuge in UK after a 2010 "spy swap" between US & Russia. He and a woman were apparently poisoned in/near Salisbury shopping center. bbc.in/2D2oj7X
Ex-Russian spy & daughter 'poisoned' in UK sparks fears of another Kremlin-backed hit. Investigators scrambling to identify the chemical used. Skripal feared for his life after his wife died in a car crash & his son was killed in a road incident.. thesun.co.uk/news/5733372/s…
UK warns Kremlin over poisoning of ex-spy Skripal & his daughter. Recalling Litvinenko murder, FM Johnson said UK was "in the lead across the world" in trying to counteract a "host of malign activity" by Russia.

Skripal's brother, son & wife have been killed in the last 2 year.
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