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12 Oct, 12 tweets, 5 min read
BREAKING My article with @OCCRP on #Emic, spun off from #cambridgeanalytica parent company SCL - it continued work for governments shaping the future of global influence operations amid ongoing investigations @carolecadwalla @peterjukes @AndreaChalupa @DamianCollins @BardCollege
Training from #Emic may include the familiar faces including Nigel “no company’s whiter than white” Oakes - see my parliamentary evidence from 2018, here he is discussing how Hitler didn’t have a problem with the Jews...
Apparently these are trainers delivering methods that governments such as Canada and the Netherlands were happy to ignore the past history of unethical use to obtain. We must demand more of governments when they promise to investigate.
How is it acceptable to fight a disinformation crisis by using a company immediately spun off from one centrally implicated in the ongoing scandal?
Check out my map of Cambridge Analytica and SCL operations worldwide....
ALSO... watch the important new film I contributed research to #PeopleYouMayKnow on data misuse in US elections in 2020 along with lead researcher @BrentAllpress on Amazon Prime and Sundance Now watch.amazon.com/detail?gti=amz…
And please sign up to receive occasional updates on my website here: emma-briant.co.uk/sign-up-for-im… please RT this thread 💥 thanks!!!
At what point does a military consider the ethics of a campaign one must ask? Considering ethics within the context of planning an influence operation should be integral to decision-making, built-in to the strategy not an afterthought. Image
It is incredibly problematic not to have ethics clearly built in as a stage in the decision-making process. Influence is often seen as agnostic - dependent on how it's used. But militaries must actively build in ethical considerations as deliberate stage of planning.
Tacking on an ethics lecture as sometimes happens is simply not good enough.
Why is this not as important a stage as collecting data on effectiveness?
It should be clearly included throughout training as a conscious stage in the process of planning.

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17 Oct
It’s good to see the media discussing possibility of coordination during the #brexit campaign again as more documents come out. This significance was unspoken in a lot of reporting on whether #CambridgeAnalytica worked on LeaveEU after @carolecadwalla and my evidence raised it.
Now people are seeing more of what the #CambridgeAnalytica scandal was about. The #scandal which spun off from it subsumed so much of the media attention it’s been difficult to get across other parts of the scandal. I discuss it all in my upcoming book see propagandamachine.tech
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This is the most MUST-READ article/upcoming book I’ve seen in a long time thanks to ⁦@doctorow⁩ “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, a New Book by Cory Doctorow | OneZero” I disagree/agree in numerous ways I will detail but it’s thoughtful 👍 so: onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…
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What @snowden revealed was the construction and foundations of the same surveillance and influence nightmare that is now coming of age, weaponised worldwide. We needed that knowledge. Let’s learn the lessons, reform surveillant infrastructure and influence.
Don’t enable governments arguments designed to weaken Whistleblowing across the board and strip journalism of important protections.
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Often people say to me well propaganda is just telling people what they want to hear. If they think it anyway and seek reinforcement out 🤷🏻‍♀️ aren’t they just giving them what they wanted anyway? Has anything changed. These people miss the point...
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Great to see other outlets like @politico finally report this. Was @JeffHorwitz scoop that #CambridgeAnalytica staff were doing #Trump2020, other media v slow. Interesting effort to claim CA experience got nothing to do with Matt Oczkowski hire tho! 😆 politico.com/news/2020/02/1…
Yeh.... we believe you!
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“A former Obama administration official who has faced criticism from press freedom groups for her role as a senior adviser at NSO Group has stepped down from the Israeli spyware company.“ ⁦ theguardian.com/world/2020/feb…
She’s a Senior Lecturer at @Kennedy_School and was going to host a webinar on safety of women journalists. The appalling irony. @Kennedy_School cancelled it yesterday. Unbelievable. hks.harvard.edu/faculty/juliet…
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