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3 Mar, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Academic researchers discover what Macedonian teens have known for years because it says so right there in the Facebook audience targeting dashboard.
Average pro-Trump Facebook user vs. the average Facebook user. Notice anything that might suggest why this user segmentation has certain propensities that help us understand why the right thrives on Facebook?

(src May 2016 medium.com/@robleathern/u…)
In reference to new NYU study medium.com/cybersecurity-…
Find myself reaching back for this gem when thinking about the fake news industry in Macedonia and how it was all enabled by a programmatic adtech get-rich-quick scheme thanks to FB’s targeting dashboards that put bulls-eyes on Trumpists. money.cnn.com/interactive/me…
It’s not just that Facebook is optimized for Trumpism.
It’s also that Trumpists are optimal for Facebook.

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23 Feb
This week in our #TechMediaDemocracy collab course @informor @justinhendrix and I hosted @JuliaAngwin @karaswisher @Moonalice @cwarzel for session on Platform Patterns & Algorithms thinking about what’s at stake this year, need for sources/methods, architecture of accountability
In our @parsonsdesign after-panel Zoom, we took cues from @JuliaAngwin @Moonalice to think about tools/methods/models yet built, or fully redesigned. Our design centric view framed UX as oft overlooked/mistaken as a mere byproduct of algos in these discussions. Also the Intl POV.
Mindblowing was @JuliaAngwin describing all the nuts and bolts that need to machined from scratch to build a data collector at the service of algorithmic accountability journalism that don’t leak data and cause collateral harm. What does building the tools you rely on teach you?
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15 Feb
1st @joinClubhouse I listened to was on the topic of my interest area: data privacy. What I learned from the speakers and Q&A made me decide to HODL my invites until they deal with some seriously troubling issues.
ie, Chinese language privacy policy indicates that all eligible data transferred to PRC affiliate for NLP processing. CCPA/GDPR seem like they haven’t even gotten to the afterthought stage yet. VCs seem to be gunning to grow in flagrant (but familiar) disregard for data rights.
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very cool 2 have a financial system for the lolz
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20 Jan
The diabolical genius of Qanon as a manipulation is its fundamental distraction for an audience from researching Trump’s actual heinous crimes proven with legal evidence, among which it has been painfully thrilling to excavate with the crowd similarly over these past 5 years.
It has been said Q is like an alternate reality game to excuse Trump, a LARP potentially managed abroad by adversaries and/or domestically by industrial grade grifters. Researching Trump’s actual crimes has been an occupation of volunteerism by the so-called resistance for years.
Tonight’s pardons are perhaps the true “storm.” The completion into truth of a cast of characters that true amateur researchers had pegged even before the professional press. The problem with Q is it perversely mirrors a dark truth about citizen journalism.
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31 Dec 20
Want to learn more about this internal polling data showing Trump could’ve promoted masking without losing support?!? nytimes.com/2020/12/31/us/…
It’s even Fabrizio data! (the same pollster Manafort instructed Rick Gates to send data to Russian agent KILIMNICK over WhatsApp per Mueller and SSCI report)
No words. Except to honor the dead. Each and every day. By the thousands.
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23 Dec 20
Missed this from Friday: FTC rips Bannon’s “bluster” for refusing to cooperate with their investigation of unresolved issues in the Cambridge Analytica case (such as whatever happened to the data, Steve?) law360.com/articles/13394…
“The FTC urged a D.C. federal judge to order Bannon to appear at a hearing the commission requested in September 2019 as part of its wide-ranging probe…”
law360.com/consumerprotec…
“Perhaps realizing that he cannot refuse to attend the investigational hearing simply because he intends to invoke his Fifth Amendment rights, Bannon resorts to groundless accusations of improper motive," the @FTC's attorneys wrote. "But it's all just bluster."
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