You can’t boycott Facebook. User’s can’t. Advertiser’s can’t. That why it must be dismantled. Nothing should be able to withstand a boycott from both the B2B and B2C side. Nothing is more clearly a trust worth busting. That it manages our elections is only insult to injury.
Many people are saying, just #DeleteFacebook. It does nothing. It is hopeless. It is not the responsibility of individuals. It is the responsibility of a democratically elected government to break up a boycott-resistant company to achieve accountability.
We built the railroads. We broke them up. We built a telephone a network. We broke it up. We built an operating system. We broke it up (kind of, but Google emerged as Microsoft floundered). We built the social network. We can break it up. Something better will come next.
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Newly FOIA’d Mueller docs support idea data pooled across RNC Data Trust, Cambridge Analytica, Fabrizio, and Kellyanne Conway polling and lines up with 2016 Trump campaign database obtained by @Channel4News and recent docs posted for @CampaignLegal illegal coordination complaint
Rick Gates was sending Fabrizio data to Russian Intelligence via Sam Patten’s business partner KILIMNICK over WhatsApp and it’s finally become clearer that this data was at least conceptually synced to RNC and Cambridge Analytica’s accurate predictions of the battleground states.
Obviously the bar for a campaign to get caught in a conspiracy with a foreign power is impossibly high despite sending data this way when you have enough layers of intermediaries, copious plausible deniability, cynical media skepticism, and a profoundly corrupt Attorney General.
Facebook sends its attack dogs against the NYU Ad Observatory for its essential work studying effects of ad targeting on the political process. This is disgusting, especially knowing there are actual data abusers out there actually selling Facebook data to political operatives.
Why isn’t Facebook going after Bridgetree!? They’ve been flagrantly *selling* scraped Facebook profiles for years! Is it because Bridgetree services the GOP and Facebook is afraid to give Joel Kaplan heartburn? Better attack the academics instead. Facebook is a malign force.
Here is head of Bridgetree boasting to Cambridge Analytica of its “very large scraping capabilities” and this a month after Facebook’s Allison Hendrix asked Alexander Nix to delete the Kogan data. So they went shopping for Facebook data elsewhere! But Facebook will do nothing.
Couched in language to appease skeptics and address controversies around the efficacy of political advertising more broadly, there is some basic evidence here in the C4 leak that is difficult to dismiss as “snake oil” —again, CA/SCL was not *magical* but it was also not nothing.
1. Against better judgement, I tap “Show more replies” 2. Account name has more random digits than the president’s looming debt 3. Scroll thru the sketchy AF TL 4. Gain first hand understanding why the Twitter algo marked this garbage account in the “Show more replies”
We did not have this feature in the lead-up to the last election!
*presidential elections in 2016 which was awash in poisonous digital toxicity with no remediation whatsoever, not the 2018 midterms, but you knew what I was talking about
Enjoy this uncritical and glossy coverage of Matt Oczkowski that doesn’t mention:
–Channel4 News exposé on CA’s voter deterrence
–AP’s alleged illegal campaign coordination story
–Oz & Bossie are in SSCI report
–FOIA redactions indicate FBI investigation politi.co/3jmcpex
Whatever happened to Oczkowski’s Data Propria and why make another company called HuMn Behavior to receive payments from Trump campaign? Clever of him to deny using psychographics for Trump campaign when he did use it for Mercer PACs, NRA, etc. wired.com/story/congress…
Is anyone going to ask Oz for a comment on @Channel4News coverage of the deterrence campaign in a clever weasel worded denial? Or do we just him let him go with the “no comment” strategy and hope for the best? channel4.com/news/revealed-…