Yesterday, we wrote about the adtech companies that are violating U.S. sanctions to funnel cash to Russian disinformation operatives.
But there are quite a few other tech platforms involved too.
SouthFront uses @PayPal for donations. They collect the cash under the very innocuous "Payment for information provision and analysis services."
This is all hella illegal.
SouthFront is also raising funds through @spring4creators. This means Spring is also violating U.S. sanctions to work with a Russian disinformation operation.
It brings me no pleasure to say that @gumroad is also in violation of U.S. sanctions against Russia.
Sometime in the last few days, @Patreon suspended SouthFront's account. Bravo.
Finally, SouthFront is hosted online by @Hetzner_Online, a web hosting provider based in Germany. This is not a great look for them!
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I’ve raised this issue privately several times with @bradberens, who has hosted Fox News on @iab panels like “The Value of News.”
I said actual news orgs don’t launch targeted harassment campaigns towards female reporters (like @BrandyZadrozny.)
I emailed @bradberens twice last month to open up a discussion on @iab’s relationship with Fox News.
I didn’t hear back. I’m not surprised. They don’t see themselves as playing a role in the harassment and physical endangerment of reporters just doing their job.
Ha, looks like I’ve been chatting tonight with one of the investors behind Gloo, the company that was selling data to the GOP under his fake leftist name “DEFUND THE POLICE.”
I was tipped off by one of my sources.
I’m guessing my source is correct because I’m blocked now.
Yeah, unfortunately @talkspace@Headspace and @betterhelp are not therapy providers — they are data brokers mining your most intimate conversations & reselling them to 3rd parties incl. advertisers.
It’s no joke: Before the 2020 elections, software co’s were helping churches identify mentally unwell & vulnerable people to recruit to into the church...and were then reselling that data to the Republican Party.
The GOP knew it could manipulate these voters more easily.
We don’t (yet) have proof of a direct link between the aforementioned services and the GOP, but given how little we know about how our personal data is used, managed and sold, I would assume it’s being used in the worst ways possible.