Profile picture
, 11 tweets, 5 min read
My Authors
Read all threads
Get involved in our attempt to track #GE2019 campaigns targeting you.

Here @ruskin147 & I explain how to help: 2 simple screenshots from your Facebook/other feeds👇🏾

1. The ad
2. “why am i seeing this?”
& if you can hometown/ constituency send to Election.ads@bbc.co.uk
Thanks!
NEW: great response to our call for crowdsourced election ads -rather interesting patterns developing...but @ruskin147 immediately found this news story about mysterious “Fair Tax” campaign targeted at voters who contacted us, and now banned by Facebook
bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…
Meanwhile - you know what to do - 2 screenshots - one of the ad, and one of “Why are they targeting me?” And send to Election.ads@bbc.co.uk
Thanks!

NEW: Plot twist.... turns out that the mysterious “fair tax campaign” ad banned by Facebook today for violating its political advertising rules was placed by a longstanding former Boris Johnson aide, Alex Crowley, who was working in Number 10 for PM as recently as 5 weeks ago...
Campaign was registered at Companies House and website created a fortnight after Mr Crowley, who has worked with the PM for many years and wrote a book about Mayoral campaign, left Number 10 at end of September this year...
Immediate cracker @ruskin147 story from our crowdsourced digital election ad initiative - Facebook bans anti-Corbyn attack ad from mysterious “fair tax campaign” that turned out to be run by one of PM’s most long-standing aides, recently with him at No10 bbc.com/news/technolog…
Day 1 - election digital ad crowdsourcing project - myself and @ruskin147 buried in email traffic kindly supplied by you, the viewer, including mysterious tax campaign pushing a false claim that turned out to be run by a long-standing aide of the PM...

Election.ads@bbc.co.uk
NEW- Election Ads 100s results
Clear patterns:

- Cons ads on Brexit targeted at “Labour leave” seats
- Labour v general messages using Experian lists
- tonnes of LibDem ads (clearly well funded) aimed at surprisingly large majority Tory seats, eg Goves:

Election.ads@bbc.co.uk
LibDems targeting @MockTheWeek fans in Surrey Heath on Facebook in an ambitious tilt at the No Deal minister @michaelgove Surrey Heath from 31k behind in third place...
@ruskin147

Election.ads@bbc.co.uk
Labour sending very general untargeted messages using lists uploaded by data company Experian:
Conservatives targeting first wave of ads at Labour leave marginals -telling individuals in the relevant seats they personally can “get brexit done” - though occasionally with less than laser precision - this ad for Wirral West ended up in Clitheroe, Lancashire...
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh.

Enjoying this thread?

Keep Current with Faisal Islam

Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

Twitter may remove this content at anytime, convert it as a PDF, save and print for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video

1) Follow Thread Reader App on Twitter so you can easily mention us!

2) Go to a Twitter thread (series of Tweets by the same owner) and mention us with a keyword "unroll" @threadreaderapp unroll

You can practice here first or read more on our help page!

Related hashtags

#GE2019

More from @faisalislam see all

Profile picture
Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
Corporation tax was due to fall from 19% to 17% in April announced at 2016 Budget - so cancelling the cut still leaves UK c-tax at lowest rate. Means UK will still have lowest in G20 just not as low as Switzerland/Singapore..

£6bn cost to business as opposed to £1bn cut briefed
So that’s £5bn net tax rise versus what is already planned & legislated.

Though still a large gap on Labours existing plans (not yet confirmed in new manifesto) for 26% corporation tax.

Though that too is middle of G7 range
Given that the Government’s argument has long been that the cuts to corporation tax raise revenue, it is interesting to see the PM say raising it (or not going ahead with further cuts) will also raise revenue...
Read 3 tweets
Profile picture
Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
5 questions about Labour’s broadband policy...

1. What shares would the Government buy? It wants to buy Openreach off BT, not the whole of BT PLC. Openreach shares don’t exist.

2. What happens if BT refuse to sell at price Parliament sets?
3. How have they come up with an ongoing cost of £230m a year to run the entire broadband network? Openreach alone employs 30,000 people whose jobs have been guaranteed. What about repairs?
4. What revenues will British Broadband have - presumably zero?
So what asset value will British Broadband be to UK balance sheet?
Read 5 tweets
Profile picture
Faisal Islam
@faisalislam
Broadband plan is two different policies melded into one...

1. industrial policy - of investing billions in a perceived strategic industry

2. On top, they have layered what they see as an election-friendly retail policy of free broadband.

Attempt at statist populism /1
... Wheras Mrs Thatcher turned the 1980s privatisations into a retail policy, share windfalls/ giveaways/ mass participation capitalism, this, four decades on seeks to achieve the exact reverse, turn state ownership into a retail policy - of free broadband for all. /2
This is part of a more general push by Labour into “Universal Basic Services” that McDonnell argues the country “cant afford not to invest in”... and for which he says there is an international consensus (eg IMF) on deploying cheap state borrowing /3
Read 7 tweets

Related threads

Profile picture
Abeba Birhane
@Abebab
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power - Shoshana #Zuboff

#amreading

Get ready to get super angry at the tech giants
The Definition: Surveillance Capitalism, n. #Zuboff
The oldest questions have come roaring back with a vengeance. The digital realm is overtaking and redefining everything familiar even before we have had a chance to ponder and decide. #Zuboff
Read 314 tweets
Profile picture
Nina Jankowicz
@wiczipedia
Good morning! Day 1 of my trudging through the Russian ad dump is below.

Day 2 coming soon. But first, some observations of what I've read so far:
1. As we knew, the content sought to divide Americans on religious, racial, sexual & other social lines
2. A lot of the ads are positive and *not* divisive, seeking to build community before increasingly large asks (sharing, commenting, showing up to protests IRL)
3. In terms of "sophistication," the IRA was often very clumsy with their English & with targeting. Could they have been more effective? Undoubtedly. Did their efforts nonetheless have an impact? Absolutely. Their posts - many with a significant organic reach - reached millions.
Read 20 tweets
Profile picture
Nina Jankowicz
@wiczipedia
Goodbye to the rest of my day. Here are all of the Russian ads.
democrats-intelligence.house.gov/facebook-ads/s…
One of the first more successful/costly ads, from 2015. Posts promising "updates" (including one about the Charleston shooting) seem to perform better so far. Also notice targeting- Baltimore, Ferguson, and surrounding.
Nothing like some good old patriotism to generate some clicks 🇺🇸

Just like with RT's cat and tsunami videos, this page was looking to draw people in before delivering more divisive content...

#breaking #RussianAds #Facebook #disinformation
Read 47 tweets
Profile picture
Julie Laumann #FBPE 🌎
@Otpor17
@Secy_State_US Senate Intel report: Russia waged an "unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign" against US voting systems.

Russia-linked hackers were in a position to "alter or delete voter registration data" in a small number of states before the election
(ht @Gus_802)
thehill.com/policy/cyberse…
@Secy_State_US Shot.
Senate Intel: Russia conducted "unprecedented, coordinated" campaign against US voting systems, successfully penetrating voter registration databases
nyti.ms/2KMUn4U

Chaser.
NSA Bolton pushing to eliminate White House's top cybersecurity job politico.com/story/2018/05/…
@Secy_State_US Full cache of over 3,000 Internet Research Agency (Prigozhin) #Facebook ads released to public, show how pro-Kremlin effort to sow discord around the US election grew increasingly sophisticated and inflammatory wsj.com/articles/full-…
Read 13 tweets
Profile picture
Matthijs Pontier
@Matthijs85
Facebook has some really creepy plans!
Just check their patents!
Small thread with thanks to @jashkenas 👇

1⃣ Facebook wants to track your eye movements
using special infrared LEDs that shine into your pupil & cornea to determine gaze patents.google.com/patent/US20180… #Facebook #privacy
Facebook wants to reads your comments for positive or negative “affinity scores”
to generate sentiments and “trust scores”
and use the resulting data sets from trusted users
to train a machine learning model
patents.google.com/patent/US20180… | #privacy #facebook
to manipulate people..
3⃣ Facebook wants to “automatically sense, record and identify all types of activities such as walking, running, jogging, cycling, rowing, driving with car, bus, train, walking stairs, jumping, swimming, playing football & skiing” patents.google.com/patent/US20150… | #Facebook #privacy
Read 8 tweets

Trending hashtags

#RosanneBarr #DigIt #Iran #Russia #Hyderabad #daynine #Instagram #bigtrain #marketing #FACEBOOK #Treason #Florida #Glawischnig #FISA #privacy #GE2019 #UK #Wikistrat #Anonimato #CambridgeAnalytica #GDPR #Facebook #inception #libertàdiparola #MyAnalytics
Follow Us on Twitter!

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just three indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3.00/month or $30.00/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!