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30 Jul, 7 tweets, 4 min read
Exclusive: Leaked chats reveal how the former lead psychologist for Cambridge Analytica is secretly working behind the scenes to influence anti-vaccine efforts.

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Patrick Fagan, who has worked for Cambridge Analytica, the tobacco and gambling industries, as well as on voter deterrence campaigns, is secretly aiding the UK-based organization known as HART.

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HART is a self-described group of 'highly qualified UK doctors, scientists, economists, psychologists and other academic experts.'

But their private chats reveal a group inundated with QAnon-type conspiracy theories.

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Some users even appeared to call for spreading outright disinformation: "I think we need to seed the thought that vaccines cause covid..."

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Fagan, the former Cambridge Analytica psychologist, shared a manifesto with the group linking face masks to internment camps.

He published a highly-sanitized version of the same article months later in a UK newspaper.
The leak, which was made by someone who gained access to the chats, was provided to numerous journalists, including the team at @LogicallyAI, and to the activist collective DDoSecrets, which is currently hosting the data cache.

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For those interested in more information about the HART group and the leak, this @LogicallyAI piece written by @JordanWildon, @nickbackovic, and @whoisernie provides an excellent overview.

logically.ai/articles/hart-…

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8 Jul
New: Twitter was flooded with identical pro-lockdown tweets this week, leading many to blame a 'bot campaign' on behalf of a foreign government.

But it looks like the tweets were just part of a 'copypasta' effort from internet trolls.

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Several high-profile accounts alleged that a 'bot army' had been deployed after dozens of tweets shared identical criticisms of the UK government's plan to ease lockdown restrictions.

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I was able to track down the original tweet to a woman in the UK who was confused at why so many people were copying her tweet.

"I think the accounts were doing it to make the story of my brother look false," she said.

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4 Jun
Microsoft's Bing search engine appears to be censoring image results for "tank man"—a reference to the lone protester who stood in front of Chinese tanks—on the 32nd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre vice.com/en/article/qj8…
Meanwhile, a search for "tank man" on Google images displays what you would expect. Both the search on Google and Bing were made from the US, not China.
To be clear, searching "tank man" on either Google or Bing does return the relevant web results.

It's the image results on Bing that don't return any results. This could be a simple glitch at the end of the day. I reached out to Microsoft to ask.
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14 May
The preliminary hearing for this case was today and police never presented the so-called deepfake to the court.

Because, as I exclusively revealed in April, the cops never even had the video. The lawyer for the alleged deepfake mom has told me that the vaping video was real.
The district attorney in the case against the Pennsylvania mom accused of making deepfakes has now said that the videos in the case many not be deepfakes at all.

buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/202…
Prosecutors, who backtracked on their claims Friday that a Pennsylvania mom created deepfakes to harass her daughter's cheerleading rivals, are still taking the case to trial.

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14 May
Scoop: Document reveals Trump's D.C. hotel purposely spiked prices to keep out QAnon supporters. dailydot.com/debug/trump-ho…
In February, Forbes reported that the price of hotel rooms had increased from around $476 to $1,331 per night for March 3 & 4.

The hotel wouldn't confirm whether the price surge was related to the belief among QAnon supporters that Trump would be inaugurated on March 4.
An intelligence briefing leaked onto the dark web by a ransomware gang this week shows that D.C. police contacted Trump Hotel.

The hotel said it spiked prices as a "security tactic" in order to keep potential protesters from booking rooms.
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24 Nov 20
While there is an unconfirmed report of Parler being hacked, the screenshot circulating of a Parler database password is old.

I looked into the database leak in July and confirmed thanks to @WhiskeyNeon that it was for a site not held on the same infrastructure as the main site.
As you can see in an archived version of the configuration file, the page was discovered as early as July of this year.

This isn't to deny that a hack may have taken place, but that this screenshot is almost certainly unrelated. archive.ph/Mll5H
The leaked database was linked to a WordPress page that Parler seemingly used for blog posts and announcements. It would not have hosted user data.

The main Parler site is not based on WordPress.
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19 Nov 20
Thread: The debunked claim that servers run by Dominion Voting Systems were seized in Germany is making the rounds again.

So I'm going to explain where this claim originated from and how it devolved into its current incarnation. dailydot.com/debug/us-army-…
The claim appears to have originated in the form of a garbled German screenshot posted to Twitter that claimed the U.S. Army had raided Scytl, a Spanish election technology company, at their offices in Frankfurt.

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The screenshot made its way to Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tx.) several days later, who referenced the tweet during a Zoom call and during an interview on Newsmax.

Gohmert admitted that he didn't actually know whether the tweet was true.

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