EXPLOITING WEAKNESS: “I go into the break room, I was sitting there in the dark, just full of emotion because I feel like I just went against everything that I believed in for my job.
REMEMBER THE PROJECT ALAMO: “You find the weakness and you exploit it... When Trump won we literally said hey this bunch of kids got this done, kids who just got out of college made this happen.”-Leo Reyes, former Trump digital campaign team, 2016, to @Channel4News
SOCIAL DISTORTION: “Reyes claimed the messages the campaign created were often distortions of the truth..’like a stretch to reality and almost like I’m taking what you said, and moving it to fit my agenda’.”-@Channel4News
MINDF*CK: “At one point, I remember I went to a meeting and they were talking about how they’ve tried hard to win over the Black vote and win over most millennials and they couldn’t.
“So the only thing that they could do was shift their way of thinking.”-Project Alamo insider
“Reyes supported Bernie Sanders and was deeply conflicted about some of the messages he created for Trump.
‘I made a video that was kind of making Bernie out to look like a hypocrite, and it got played on Hannity..I just completely went against everything that I believe in.’”-C4
FACEBOOK EMBEDDED: “Reyes told Channel 4 News that staff from Facebook who were embedded in Project Alamo helped the campaign to maximise engagement with their video messages..’Facebook came up with this idea of hey what if we filled the entire screen?..They created that for us.”
“Cyber Mind Crimes are War Crimes, we've never experienced Big Data enabling corruption of this magnitude. It's the first time a cyber misinformation war was waged on American soil, affecting the outcome of a presidency, and all part of a much larger con.”-me, 4/2017
“Let's force these clandestine operators out of their bunker$ and into the interrogation light, because it's time for citizens to see how their minds were twisted away from the truth by a gaslighting regime that only knows one racket: money.”-me, 4/2017
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SOME KIND OF MAGIC: How I Survived the Deception Wars with the Relentless Pursuit of Truth... a love letter to my tweeps maewestside.tumblr.com/post/633604838…
1/ THE IMAGINARY HOURS—Wide awake at 2 am, researching, posting, digging, poking. Tweets strewn about the bedroom floor. News delayed is news denied. I am a veteran investigative reporter, who resigned from corporate controlled media just in time to be a useful warrior for truth.
2/ UNSHACKLED AND LOUD—It’s 2017, and I am abandoned in my own home, my pursuit of truth during the Deception Wars was inconvenient. I am alone, and I’m fighting for truth to see sunlight during a time of grave deception. It’s my raison d’être. No sleep.
Removing a corrupt administration should never have taken four years. And yet, here we are.
As we stand on the precipice of regaining world trust by voting in leaders with intelligence and empathy, here’s a reminder of the evil we have been fighting.