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12 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
Fantastic work by @sophie_e_hill getting the “My Little Crony” map of Tory cronyism (PPE contracts etc) - based on work by @allthecitizens & @carolecadwalla - mentioned today in Parliament
Here’s the map. And I think it’s going to grow: sophieehill.shinyapps.io/my-little-cron…
I don’t have a Soundcloud but you’re a tech person and interested in building stuff like this then join us @TechForUK techforuk.com
This would make another good "Cronyism Map"

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27 Jan
THREAD: I’m pretty sick of the poor quality debate about whether to involve Huawei in the roll-out of 5G in the UK and elsewhere. The simple fact is that it is NOT the only provider of 5G networks - but it is the largest and (surprise!) the CHEAPEST
... not just because it is successful but because its R&D is *massively subsidized* by the Chinese government.

This support allowed Huawei to invest ~$12bn in 2017, which is nearly 3x Ericsson’s $4.1bn.
Back in 2018 Huawei said it would invest $800m in 5G R&D and would eventually spend $10-$20 BILLION *annually* in future on 5G R&D.

I repeat: $10-$20 BILLION!
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16 Nov 19
The “ITV Exposure” documentary on Sunday at 11pm will be a 1hr investigation into the Boris Johnson & Jennifer Arcuri story, by award-winning journalist John Ware. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…
I don’t know why it’s scheduled in such a late, “graveyard” slot, but I should imagine the documentary makers opted for any slot they could get from ITV, so they could get the piece out while the election was still on and the issue was still relevant.
“Jennifer Arcuri: ‘I’ve kept Johnson’s secrets – now he’s cast me aside like a one-night stand’ -
The businesswoman tells ITV show that she is heartbroken, humiliated – and that the PM hangs up the phone on her”
theguardian.com/politics/2019/…
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12 Nov 19
The Tories have taken out a Google Ad to appear top of the page when people search 'register for a postal vote uk'. It comes ABOVE the .gov.uk official website portal. Before you can register you have to give them all your contact and personal data... gov.uk/government/pub…
Should you click? This will cost them but very insignificantly. Your click will give them useful data on the google search data. If they switch off cookies they can still identifiy you via fingerprinting and IP tracking. Better to report the ad to Google.
You can report it to Google for “Misleading content or scam" in the drop-down next to the advert.
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20 Oct 19
German TV put the #PeoplesVoteMarch at 2.2 million, according to a German methodology for estimating crowds
The method is based on how many people pass every second on the official march route.

200 / sec for 3 hours is 2.16 million. The march was actually longer than 3 hours. Even if you call it 100 people every second you get 1.08m.
Germany’s Die Zeit said over 1 million people.

This does not count:
- people joining and leaving except at start / end
- side roads / unofficial routes
- parallel streams
- people taking a break in coffee shops / toilets
- stragglers who are early / late
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16 Sep 19
TECH FRIENDS!

There are connections between people/orgs in the whole #Brexit debacle that we just don't know about.

And they are hard to MAP.

So, we want people in tech to look at the best way to map them (e.g. LittleSis). Come to our meetup!

forms.gle/R63KftEuwn9tUs…
This will be an @TechForUK Project, and we’re agnostic about the mapping platforms. The main thing will be to make it open source and extendable by the tech and journalism community.
If you want to know more about a LittleSis there will soon be a free training session online (not run by us btw) zoom.us/meeting/regist…
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5 Apr 19
Astounding that media STILL reporting that 44% of Brits prefer a #NoDealBrexit when that was the “EXTREME scenario” option! In fact only 26% picked it, as against 37% who want a 2nd Ref & to REMAIN IN THE EU! Even in the extreme scenarios, 42% still preferred to remain! YouGov:
In the letter 25 Labour MPs (including frontbenchers) sent to Jeremy Corbyn urging him to agree a deal with Theresa May - and NOT request a second referendum, they MISINTERPRETED this YouGov poll to justify their position. But now we have a media narrative based on this crap!
If your MP has fallen for this false position, contact them via Hey-MP.uk & send them the results from Revoke.info (thanks @TechForUK) which will show them how many people in their constituency signed the #RevokeArticle50 petition, versus their majority!
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