1. Reposted from 12/17 #Russianbots: Here's how I think voter data was used. Background: July 2016, I had reason to investigate what I thought was a theft of Hawaii Democratic Party data. It turns out it wasn't but I learned from the data firm that Democrats use the database
2. contained 4 fields. The fields are 1. Name; 2. District; 3. ID Document; and 4. Voter frequency. Name, District and frequency were likely used to target the key precincts in the three key swing states. Knowing that a person is going to vote and is in the Democrats database
3. is statistical gold. But work would have to be done to reach these targeted voters. That's where data from social media and brokers like Google would provide a reference database to merge with the voter data. In the end they would have email, Facebook and Twitter accounts of
4. certain Dem voters. This would be like Ford knowing a specific consumer was on the way to by a Ford. But in another car company hands would give the opportunity to show that same Ford customer videos of Ford's exploding and killing the passengers.
5. That's likely what the Russian sock puppets did. Targeting known Democratic high frequency voters on Facebook with videos that the showed Hillary in highly negative light at a minimum suppressed the vote. It may have caused votes for Trump that would not otherwise have been
6. made. The electoral college gives disproportional weight to certain states and within states key precincts. This is a fatal vulnerability that the Trump campaign with the assistance of the Kremlin's sock puppet army likely exploited. They only real fix is to amend the
7. Constitution. That's not likely so we can expect even greater manipulation in future. Another fix would be to shut down social media for final weeks of an election campaign. Again, not likely to happen.
8. Current US fraud laws may be employed to allow candidates to sue @Facebook & @Twitter to enjoin projection of fraudulent news. RICO could be employed to make the "see no evil" @Twitter & @facebook management risk their companies' financial ruin for failing to self police.

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23 Oct
1.A reminder what really happened in 2016. 11 days out here's a comparison of poll averages. @HillaryClinton was 3.9% ahead. @JoeBiden is 7.9%. With Hillary in a much closer position, James Comey, under pressure from the @HouseGOP & @SenateGOP broke policy and IMO violated 6(e). Image
2. That opened the door to a massive #GRU direct action attack, mostly on @Facebook, that targeted @TheDemocrats who were wavering in their support and interest and who were identified by Cambridge Analytics by Facebook violating its own policies in a few key precincts.
3. That swung WI, MI and PA to Trump. It was brilliant but it was an act of war facilitated by Americans and an FBI head who violated the rules and the faith. Mueller, under the gun, was not able or willing to identify the members of Congress.
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1. I was about the only person reporting on the Russian attack in 2016. I announced it on July 24, 2016. I didn't get it from the MSM I got it from being in the troll attacks on @Twitter that I recognized after two years of dealing with them over Russia's Ukraine invasion.
2. The data they hacked will be used on @Facebook @instagram, @YouTube and to a small degree on @Twitter. If you're a high frequency #DemocraticParty voter and show any doubts on @JoeBiden on social media, expect the Russians to identify you and hammer your accounts with what
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Case Number:1:15-cv-07433-LAP
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WARNING: CASE CLOSED on 05/25/2017
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