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Sep 28, 2020 18 tweets 4 min read Read on X
C4 news tonight leading with data leak from Trump's 2016 campaign database: “a major investigation reveals data leak & evidence that 3.5m Black voters were marked as ‘deterrence’ in a bid to stop them going to polls."
“In one of biggest database leaks ever” C4 reveals that 3.5 million black voters were targeted in Wisconsin by Trump campaign and other swing states. Clear racist voter suppression.
#C4News have obtained a huge cache of Trump 2016 campaign database. They had a group called “Deterrence” they knew wouldn’t vote for them and so they tried to stop from voting.
Facebook claims it won’t happen again but won’t reveal what did happen. So that’s convincing.
Trump campaign had data on almost 200 million US citizens for micro-targeting on Facebook and other platforms, including 3.5 million black voters they worked to “strategically disenfranchise."
So I guess for those of us wondering why African American turnout fell for the first time in two decades in 2016, maybe we’re starting to see an answer.
Many were “dark posts,” which could appear on people’s Facebook pages and then disappear - working with Cambridge Analytica. Black citizens were disproportionately categorized for “deterrence.” 54% of their “deterrence” was targeted at black and other ethnic minorities.
Black voters in Wisconsin made up 5.4% of voters but 17% of Trump’s “deterrent” vote, whereas 75% of the voters they thought they could “persuade” were white.
They are identifying streets and wards where the Trump campaign marked them for deterrence and turnout fell precipitously. Wow they are now interviewing individual voters to tell them they were targeted.
Wisconsin State Senator shocked that there was this level of micro-targeting.
Ah here is Brad Parscale, denying on PBS that they ran any campaigns that targeted African Americans. I remember reading this.
Here is Parscale saying he’s nearly 100% sure they “did not run any campaigns that targeted… African-Americans." Image
This is the same team who helped break Cambridge Analytica, by the way.
“Facebook didn’t deny any of the claims we put to them” says #C4news and “declined” to share any ads or info or put anyone up for interview. They just said it won’t happen again. So that’s fine then.
C4 being very careful about the Parscale aspect but has mentioned that Parscale was taken to the hospital yesterday after threatening self-harm.
C4 promises that this is the first of a series - they’ve obtained this major campaign data leak so it seems there’s more to come…
Ah, thanks - here is link to whole (first) report.
Great thread following up implications of #C4News #DeterringDemocracy report, including Parscale’s perjury & Facebook’s active assistance in Trump campaign.

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Jul 2
Fascism always frames itself as counter-revolutionary, and I've said for years that American fascism is no different.

I just didn't know that the revolution in question was the American Revolution.
This guy is in charge of Project 2025, aka Trump's Presidential Transition Project. He has just said their second revolution will be "bloodless if the left allows it to be."

This means they will bring serious violence if we resist them. Pay attention. Image
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Jul 23, 2022
Today I published a new essay on a topic - the history of what was once known as "race suicide" - I've been researching for a while, and I thought some people might be interested in some of the back story and research context. 1🧵
The editors have headlined this essay a "secret history" of abortion debates in America. It's not really secret, but it's also certainly not part of the popular understanding of abortion in the US a century ago. 2 theguardian.com/books/2022/jul…
There have been passing references to "race suicide" in several responses I've seen to the overturning of Roe v. Wade, describing it (accurately) as an early iteration of Great Replacement Theory. Most of them attribute the phrase to a eugenicist sociologist, Edward A. Ross. 3
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Jul 16, 2022
Actual announcement on actual British train: "Our card reader is not working so we can't take payments. Please do not come to the buffet car, there is no buffet service. If you're in standard, there will be an at-seat trolley service, but it won't be able to sell you anything."
Such a perfect metaphor for British life today.
I'm in First (weekend upgrade, don't @ me), where trolley service is 'complimentary.' Attendant just offered me a breakfast box, I asked what was in it. She snapped, 'I don't know, they change it every week you'll just have to take it and find out.'

Metaphors piling up.
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Jul 7, 2022
🎉🎊 Today is publication day for my new book The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells. 🥳
Publication day is always dramatic for any author. It represents the culmination of many months, and often, especially with heavily researched books, years of hard work. The Wrath to Come has taken me 3 years to write.
But the publication of The Wrath to Come has been more than usually dramatic, to say the least. 😳
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Feb 14, 2022
Yesterday, my friend Prof Suzannah Lipscomb, whom many of you know as @sixteenthCgirl, was featured in a Sunday Times article, calling for a women's prize for nonfiction writing, akin to the @WomensPrize for fiction.
In the interview she calls out the "authority gap," as described by @MASieghart - that women are statistically and demonstrably less likely to be taken seriously when they speak and write than men.
In the piece, she is described as "Suzannah Lipscomb, the academic and author," and quoted saying, "People think women lack authority." The @ST_Newsroom then adds that Lipscomb is a professor emerita. Nowhere in the piece does it grant her the title "Professor."
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Dec 29, 2021
So @BBCNews has decided that the expert witness they need on the Maxwell trial is Alan Dershowitz. Who has taken the opportunity to say that it shows how accusations against him and Prince Andrew are wrong.
I’d really like to understand how @BBCNews treats as an expert witness someone who literally admits without being asked that he is among the people implicated in the case. “The question is when will Giuffre be charged rather than her charging people like Prince Andrew and me.” 🤯
I am not a lawyer, so I can’t comment on the legality. But journalistically, he should not have been presented as an impartial expert witness only to say the verdict vindicates him, personally.
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