FEAR PEDDLERS: “If you’re wondering why British political discourse began to degrade, look no further than the arrival of American right-wing conservatism via both the funding of activists and new media outlets which propagated their message.”-@peterjukes
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BANNON🤡+MERCER🧟:
“UK’s culture wars were triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling over free speech. Free speech was the wedge by which formerly marginal expressions of xenophobic nationalism, racism, and Islamophobia could become central in Britain’s public debate.”-@peterjukes
“UK’s culture wars were triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling over free speech. Free speech was the wedge by which formerly marginal expressions of xenophobic nationalism, racism, and Islamophobia could become central in Britain’s public debate.”-@peterjukes
CAMBRIDGE DATA CRIMES: “It didn’t matter if many voices expressing these opinions online were paid for by multiple accounts, boosted by dark digital analytics, or indeed often outright replicants run by troll farms hosted and funded by hostile foreign countries.”-@peterjukes
CITIZENS (DIS)UNITED: “If the Supreme Court had ruled that corporations were people, why not networks of bots and troll armies?”-@peterjukes @BylineTimes
BOT NATIONS: “And we fell for it. Millions of Brits and Americans read and believed opinions and facts effectively generated by robots.”-@peterjukes
😳”The pioneer of computing, Alan Turing, once suggested that artificial intelligence would arrive when, during a conversation, we failed to spot the difference between a computer and a person. We failed the Turing test, politically, in 2016.”-@peterjukes @BylineTimes
💣“By the time of Britain’s EU Referendum and Trump’s election in 2016, with most people receiving their news and opinions through algorithms devised by social media giants like Facebook and YouTube, this was effectively replaced by the ‘automation of consent’.”-@peterjukes
“Just one in 50 of the votes cast in the EU Referendum, or 70,000 votes in the US Rust Belt states in the 2016 Presidential Election, won the twin shock victories..Did the intervention of these dark-money-funded culture war interventions tip things over the edge?”-@peterjukes
“The protagonists certainly thought so. Nigel Farage🤡raised a pint after the EU Referendum victory to thank Bannon and Breitbart – ‘we couldn’t have done it without you’ – while Trump declared: ‘I’m Mr Brexit plus plus plus.’”-@peterjukes @BylineTimes
ETTD: “The failure of Donald Trump to secure a second term is a severe setback to that transatlantic ‘Alt-right’ alliance of libertarians and neo-nationalists.”-@peterjukes
PARASITE BANNON: “More profoundly, the media and lobbying networks around ‘MAGA’ and Brexit are going to have much less influence in Washington, where they matter. Steve Bannon is currently indicted for fraud.”-@peterjukes
“With a Biden nominee leading the Department of Justice, an unredacted version of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference could reveal more transatlantic connections with Vladimir Putin’s Russia.”-@peterjukes
🤡💰“Other ongoing FBI investigations into campaign finance and counter-intelligence will expose more about Trump’s various business dealings with hostile foreign powers and those could entrammel some key Brexiters.”-@peterjukes
🤡💰”Many on the UK right, and not just Farage and his Brexit Party outriders, were heavily invested in a Trump second term. We could soon discover why.”-@peterjukes
“US culture wars were designed to create ‘wedge issues’ around guns, religion, education, race and class to get working-class Americans, particularly in the South, to vote against their economic interests and for tax cuts for wealthy elite cuz they shared same nominal values.”-PJ
🐀“Well, Brexit was a lesson to everyone – a bad one.”-@peterjukes @BylineTimes
Mercer🧛🏻♂️and Putin🧛🏻♂️are for-profit fear peddlers, sucking the life out of democracies.
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