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24 Jun, 9 tweets, 2 min read
Important outcome of the Canadian domestic influence scandal last summer…. 👇
As a reminder here are my two articles which were important to reporting on the unfolding events... Thanks again for @davidpugliese amazing reporting and for picking up on what I discovered and sharing it with Canada! occrp.org/en/blog/13225-…
My opinion piece in the Ottawa Citizen ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…
“senior leaders had no authority to conduct such initiatives” - hugely important outcomes from the investigations into this situation… it’s great 🇨🇦 took it seriously and I hope real changes will result!
“The investigation found the Canadian Joint Operations Command headquarters not only didn’t follow established policy but such an initiative was never requested in the first place by the federal government.”
The reporting was dismissed by some personnel with little understanding as overreaction or misunderstanding of the events. I wonder if now they will reconsider their comments???
There’s MORE! “even after the then-chief of the defence staff, Jonathan Vance, verbally called off the overall influence campaign in April 2020, some influence activities aimed at Canadians carried on for another six months” cbc.ca/amp/1.6079084#…
It is vital that the abandonment of democratic values and restraint not become recast as
innovation.
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Political Communication departments please when you are writing your recruitment ads and planning your futures can you try and keep a little open minded? Always you specify scholars who use quantitative methods, data analytics and surveys focused on understanding public 1/
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3 years ago my #CambridgeAnalytica and #SCL evidence was published by @CommonsDCMS Fake News Inquiry. You cannot know how hard, how terrifying it was. 3 years on I still live, write, publish in constant threat but I grow stronger, fight harder with a little help from my friends.
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28 Feb
Often I am seeing what is being classified as disinformation is done so based on output which leads to it being misclassified, the producers of content are sometimes just wrong, producing misinformation based on error/ideological thinking rather than deliberate falsehood.
This difference should REALLY matter to researchers and for policy... people need to be allowed to get things wrong. The response to this needs to be journalism, fact-checking, education but also listening to and addressing the real world cause of a deficit of trust.
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US medicine containers confound me. They make regular stuff like aspirin impossible to get into, impenetrable to old folks, and then I buy the stuff you can make crack out of which you need ID to buy and it’s in super easy pop out pill packs.
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I don’t think anyone said ‘don’t engage with journalists’ and it’s unfortunate the reply doesn’t respond to much of my critique let alone speak to the experience of the excluded voices, ignored experiences and their real world delegitimising effects. However,
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