BREAKING: FEC finds 'reason to believe' Sen. Thom Tillis and John Bolton violated the 'foreign national ban' by working with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica businessinsider.com/fec-cambridge-…
FEC filing: “STATEMENT OF REASONS OF CHAIR SHANA M. BROUSSARD AND COMMISSIONER ELLEN L. WEINTRAUB”
🔥🔥🔥“Once again, the Commission has failed to take meaningful enforcement action on complaints alleging serious violations of the foreign national ban. Other agencies of the federal government were able and willing to take timely and meaningful action against Cambridge.”
Seeing the tech bros dunking on Senator Blumenthal for the "finsta clip." First q I have is how many of you knew what a finsta was before today? Second, if you are dunking, did you actually watch the hearing?
I'm a teen. I also work in tech policy. Here's my translation for you.
Here Senator Blumenthal perfectly explains what "finstas" are (fake instas). He's seen documents from the FB whistleblower which indicates FB sees a business proposition in users creating second, private accounts sometimes without the knowledge of parents. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Finstas can be accounts that you create just for your friends, call the account something that's not your name, make it private, and essentially shit-post.
They can also be accounts set up that your parents don't follow so they don't know about. Also meaning underage users do it
Spoke to a few teens w mental health challenges ahead of today's hearing who use Instagram. They dismissed the idea that Instagram helped them through any of it but said they went to it as a temporary distraction.
I would like to hear the accounts of teens who say Instagram was *beneficial* to their mental health challenges. My co-author, Destinee Adams, for @TIME certainly didn't think so.
STONE wanted to hire someone for social media on the 2016 Trump campaign from South Carolina and believed social media was an important vehicle.
Throughout these 302s it has become increasingly clearer how much Roger Stone valued social media for the campaign.
STONE, TRUMP, MANAFORT and others were anxious about when the release of certain Clinton, DNC emails would be released. One time, Gates says MANAFORT was very congratulatory of STONE suggesting STONE had a role to play in the Wikileaks releases.
Jerome Corsi (associate of Roger Stone) and Ted Malloch sought to access Wikileaks (for Hillary emails) and Julian Assange via "NIGEL FARAGE" and "OTHER BREXIT PEOPLE".
Increasingly seems ROGER STONE was interested in both the funding and implementation of the data side of things in the Trump campaign as he is copied into an email regarding "'Data Guy in Trump Tower'" and details about "Giles[-]Parscale" (as in BRAD PARSCALE).
“Candiru has likely sold spying tools to governments in the Middle East and Asia, according to the cybersecurity research group Citizen Lab, which identified people targeted by Candiru’s malicious software and helped Microsoft compile its report.”
“The firm has maintained a high level of secrecy, including by changing its official corporate name four times during its six years in operation, according to a Citizen Lab report. The firm is official named Saito Tech Ltd. now, though still widely known as Candiru.”