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7 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
OMG. Facebook’s dude-on-Twitter has come to troll me! Bring it on, Andeee...
Hey @andymstone! Why did @Facebook take legal action against @FBoversight’s ISP to get its website taken down today??? U scared?
Because nothing says ‘free speech’ quite as much as a multi-billion dollar corporation with a global monopoly getting its critics shut down & booted off the internet
I mean we literally weren’t going to mention this today..but if you want to comment on my tweets my dude please go ahead & comment
Andy my man, where u run to?
Facebook general counsel be like?

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9 Oct
Not a single UK news org reported on UK links in Senate Intel report. Including amazing detail that Cambridge Analytica polling data from Trump was passed to Russian spy. In fairness..it sounds too nutty to be true, right? Much easier to dismiss & move on. Except..it is true
I mean..I get it. It’s literally crazy. And...so un-British. We are not built for plots like this. Kitchen-sink dramas are our thing. But you can’t really understand the misreporting of this week’s Cambridge Analytica news without understanding the bizarro background context Image
Elizabeth Denham, the UK commissioner, has led the world in investigating the abuse in data in politics. She did something bold & brilliant in taking on the tech giants & trying to uncover the truth about how personal data has been weaponised but political parties & campaigns
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7 Oct
Tonight, like so many other nights, the data bros & ageing BBC presenters are jizzing over a Cambridge Analytica headline. That spectacularly misses point: a huge investigation has collapsed. Dozens of qs remain unanswered. Inc: why UK govt refused to co-operate with US intel?
I’m not even going to link to reports because they fail basic test of communicating what happened. A parliamentary committee has demanded answers about years-long investigation that has failed to materialise. Meanwhile, Senate Intel reports UK refused to co-operate with inquiry..
Yet a 2-page unevidenced response that fails to answer even basic qs after literally *years* of investigation is being used as basis for grossly misleading headlines by those who failed to report or reference anything at all on CA & UK evidence in Senate Intel...
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21 Sep
Well let’s see how this story pans out. La Repubblica has a source who saw Boris Johnson at the nearest airport to Lebedev’s palazzo & a flight plan that matches. Downing Street categorically denies it.
BUT there are some pretty inconvenient details. Perugia Airport actually put out a statement on Sept 17 confirming Boris Johnson’s presence at the airport ‘over the past few days’...
And there are some more odd details. A whole lot of activity in & out of the airport with flights coming from London - including Tony Blair - & the dates coincide with the super secretive christening of which no photos were released..
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14 Sep
Yet another devastating story about Facebook. Huge kudos to Sophie Zhang, an employee who turned down $64k severance to tell the truth.

The speed & scale of the damage Facebook is doing to democracies around the world is truly terrifying

buzzfeednews.com/article/craigs…
So many extraordinary details:

‘I have personally made decisions that affected national presidents without oversight & taken action to enforce against so many prominent politicians globally that I’ve lost count’
What’s so damning is how few resources Facebook devotes to the problem. And in the case of ‘smaller countries’, almost none at all. Decisions that affect the future of a country left up single individuals like Zhang
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10 Sep
Want to know what Boris Johnson’s £100 billion ‘moonshot’ programme will buy? Check out secret briefing pack. £100 billion = load of language ripped off Silicon Valley, a suite of totally untested technologies & a plan we have no idea - none! - if it’ll work. Oh. And ££££ to ???? Image
Bear in mind this is £100 billion - £100 billion! - govt Is preparing to spend on public health project that is ‘devoid of any contribution from scientists, clinicians, and public health and testing and screening experts’

But look at the pretty diagrams!
bmj.com/content/370/bm… Image
This is a government in thrall to Silicon Valley. That believes tech can magic up a quick fix. Even if that tech has yet to be invented. Or as doc points out ‘developing, validating, procuring, and operationalising testing technology that currently does not exist’ Image
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31 Aug
KLAXON! Facebook newsroom has announced a new research project on 2020 election. By Sir Nick Clegg.

‘One of the much debated questions around social media is: what impact does it have on democracy’

NO. SHIT. SHERLOCK
How furious does this post make me? Let me count the ways.

‘Facebook has helped fight interference in more than 200 elections since 2017’

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK?
‘As a company we looked hard at what went wrong with Russian interference in 2016’

OH. PLEASE.

Hard?!? You turned over some limited material when forced by congress. You have taken zero responsibility. And ‘Russian interference’ was only 1 single strand. What about the rest??
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