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5 Apr, 5 tweets, 3 min read
It’s easy to become a bit immune to Facebook scandals - there’s so many of them! - but Facebook’s comms admitting they knew of this latest breach - of 533 million people - almost 2 years ago *but did not inform users* is pretty breathtaking
Facebook: ‘We found & fixed this issue in August 2019.’ Fixed it how?? That data - your tel number, email, DOB, r’ship status, gender - is sitting exposed on internet for absolutely anyone to see. Extraordinary response. Has Facebook learned anything since Cambridge Analytica?!?
Thrilling to hear Nick Clegg say in this podcast that the Cambridge Analytica scandal rocked Facebook to its core. But it paid the record FTC $5bn fine, it settled with the SEC for $100m & ICO for £500k. *It got away with it.* It learned nothing

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dec…
Zuckerberg has never answered question of what he knew when (as expertly asked by @aoc). Board member Marc Andreessen has never answered. The SEC didn’t go after the directors. Nobody was ever held to account. So shit like this is just inevitable

theguardian.com/technology/202…
Dear @aoc, this was most difficult questions Mark Zuckerberg has ever faced. We still don’t have these answers. And FB still failing to protect users’ data. Can you pls consider pursuing this massive can of worms??

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6 Apr
Last week, @nick_clegg published 5,000 words of pro-Facebook propaganda & did big interview to promote. But Facebook’s only response to massive data breach of 1/2 billion accounts has been to claim the breach is ‘old’. Everything about this is fucked up
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This is a massive breach of incredibly sensitive information. When was reported on Friday & FB’s comms people took to Twitter to say this breach was ‘old’ & had been ‘fixed’ in August 2019. And since then..nothing. Not a word.
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businessinsider.com/stolen-data-of…
Facebook - like all companies - has an obligation under GDPR to tell the regulator & inform users. Users like @zamaan_qureshi are discovering their data is in there. But FB never said a word.

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1 Apr
You only have to look at the replies to @DavidLammy’s tweets to understand how this government is not just ignoring the reality of racism in Britain, it’s *actively fuelling it*. Yesterday’s report was a dog whistle to racist trolls. This is not an accident. It’s incitement
There are people & organisations in this country who know exactly how this works. How certain words & phrases mobilise an online army. This report will provide rocket fuel for this racist abuse against figures in public life for months to come. It mainstreams it. It licences it.
Platforms have failed to deal with this abuse. And governments have failed to make them. Racism (& antisemitism & misogyny) is encoded into public life through this technology which fuels & is fuelled by ‘real life’ interventions like this report. You can’t separate them.
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28 Mar
I’m glad that @Jennifer_Arcuri is finally telling her story on her terms. She was framed as scarlet woman, accused of fraud, had her privacy destroyed. But she’s not the baddie here. That’s the man who failed to disclose his r’ship to the relevant parties
mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
If Johnson had disclosed his r’ship with Arcuri to city hall, the funding she received would not be in question. But he didn’t. And so she’s carried the can of all the qs around impropriety. But the impropriety was *his*. She was just some wannabe startup. He was mayor of london
Disclosure: I met Arcuri in London before GE2019. I tried to persuade her to come forward then. Before the election. When it might have made a difference. I showed her @MonicaLewinsky’s amazing @tedtalks on how she’d been abused & shamed & silenced

ted.com/talks/monica_l…
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21 Mar
I believe Dylan Farrow
I’m so glad that @RealDylanFarrow & @MiaFarrow have finally told their version of events in @hbo’s Allev v Farrow. But there is a lot to reckon with.
For years, we only had Woody Allen’s version of events. Mia pursued a policy of silence. And Dylan didn’t speak up until 2014.
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16 Mar
This piece is upsetting to read. The 11 days from March 12 to March 23 were an agony. Overwhelming evidence we needed to act. Govt refused.

@bbclaurak says no 10 realised it had got it wrong ***by March 13***

What she doesn’t say is that this vital info was withheld from us
‘Advisors’ convinced ministers on March 13 that the virus was moving far far quicker than it admitted.

And yet: they didn’t even ban mass events. Cheltenham Gold Cup took place that day.

Scientists begged to see the evidence behind govt’s decisions. IT REFUSED TO DISCLOSE IT
Our govt culture of secrecy, this lack of transparency, the lobby system of anonymous sources, the total lack of accountability, is what created the conditions for this massive loss of life. If we don’t tackle that, we learn nothing from this man-made disaster
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13 Mar
It was this article by @Gmvolpi that set my alarm bells wildly ringing a year ago today. Cummings & the tech bros planning a land grab for NHS data in support of a chilling herd immunity strategy. A year on, every one of the fears has come to pass
wired.co.uk/article/domini…
I’d spent 3 years trying to find out what Cummings had done with data in EUref. And this article was huge flashing red alert. My personal clanging alarm was focussed on the govt’s refusal to disclose this data, or publish the evidence behind the decision to let the virus rip
The 11 days from March 12-23 were some of most difficult I’ve experienced on here. And speaking out had consequences that still affect me personally & professionally. But it was also blindingly obvious that every day of inaction would cause 1000s more deaths. And so it turned out
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