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26 Apr, 7 tweets, 5 min read
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Prison Planet saved a few of the Ricky Vaughn memes in a blog where he said there was zero evidence anyone was tricked into not voting. 🙃 Here's an archive so you don't have to click on Prison Planet: web.archive.org/web/2018081923…

Criminal complaint: justice.gov/opa/press-rele…
Prison Planet was right about one thing, it was part of a trolling campaign. A campaign that co-opted HRC's style guide:

"Keep the memes SQUARE. Some should use the same fonts/colors/styles as her official campaign to co-opt her branding." erin-gallagher.medium.com/advanced-meme-…
Anyway, he was not arrested just for tweeting a meme. huffpost.com/entry/fbi-rick… by @lukeobrien
Here's my thread with links to my Alt-Right Culture Jamming series about this campaign to troll the 2016 election:

Are more criminal complaints pending? 🤔
Just some shitposters from 4chan trying to influence the election nbd archive.ph/RTd1I
I just realized the Prison Planet byline is actually a link to another blog “Information Liberation” which has since removed their article (archive) web.archive.org/web/2017110518…

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Heads up on this unreleased report that Yahoo News got advanced access to... there's no way to confirm where an administrator is located (not via OSINT data and not via CrowdTangle) and there's quite a huge caveat that their methods of ID'ing admins are not “an exact science”
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I hesitate to even link to the article. A former State Department official is one of the authors of the (currently unreleased) report from the Soufan Center.
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There is so much going on in this story. npr.org/2021/04/14/986…
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El Pais investigation reports the Mexican Attorney General's Office (FGR) signed at least 4 contracts worth $5.6M for surveillance equipment Geomatrix, used for real-time cell phone geolocation & geofencing from Israeli firm Rayzone Group. r3d.mx/2021/04/14/fis… via @R3Dmx 1/
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Well this is all very bad. Rayzone Group Products: rayzone.com/products/ 3/💀
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Oh neat Facebook approved Jim Watkins' QAnon super PAC's Facebook page to run political ads. opensecrets.org/political-acti…
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“The assumption is that if a case does not receive media attention, it poses no societal risk … What is our responsibility when societal risk diverges from PR risk?” - Sophie Zhang theguardian.com/technology/202…
She was pulled into multiple “high-priority” escalations to investigate comments, which did not come from suspected “Russian bots”, but instead were the result of real-life Brexit supporters pretending to be Russian bots in order to troll Labour voters. theguardian.com/technology/202…
Zhang told Rosen that she had been informed that threat intelligence would only prioritize campaigns in “the US/western Europe and foreign adversaries such as Russia/Iran/etc”, a framework Rosen endorsed, saying: “I think that’s the right prioritization.” theguardian.com/technology/202…
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“Over one six-week period from June to July 2018, Hernández’s Facebook posts received likes from 59,100 users, more than 78% of which were not real people.“

“Honduras was simply not a priority.“ - Sophie Zhang former Facebook data scientist theguardian.com/technology/202…
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I published this in December 2017 and was floored at the response it got from people in Honduras, the blog currently has over 11K views. The same activity was happening across multiple platforms and it was blatant.
link.medium.com/QIn5NzKQofb
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