“Our democracy is not going to work if the people who are supposed to be our leaders lie everyday & just make things up. We’ve become numb to it. We’ve become immune to it. Every single day. Fact checkers can’t keep up.” @BarackObama
#Trump #BorisJohnson
#Trump #BorisJohnson
“And so by malice, stealth & brutishness a pattern is set. Less & less transparency. Less & less scrutiny. Less & less accountability. Until they’re entirely unleashed to bundle aside the truth & speak only their truths."
A lesson from history. Emerson Warner writing in 1949.
A lesson from history. Emerson Warner writing in 1949.
The patterns are disturbingly similar in the US & the UK
Not just in terms of behaviours but also in terms of the way in which both countries have given a central role in their #COVID19 response to the shadowy data-mining company, Palantir. #PalantirPlan
Not just in terms of behaviours but also in terms of the way in which both countries have given a central role in their #COVID19 response to the shadowy data-mining company, Palantir. #PalantirPlan
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1311971344402219008?s=21https://t.co/NJOdEkOJP1
In April #Palantir ‘won’ a contract to build the #COVID data store for the NHS
At the SAME TIME, they also ‘won’ a $7.5m contract to build the digital platform for the HHS
They’re also working with govts around the world
Are they storing genomic data?
At the SAME TIME, they also ‘won’ a $7.5m contract to build the digital platform for the HHS
They’re also working with govts around the world
Are they storing genomic data?
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1310703032846475265?s=21https://t.co/wD2lcgHHX9
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