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10 Aug, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Every new advertising sub-industry (influencer marketing today) immediately becomes weaponized for information warfare.
Every marketing tool marketed for marketing skin creams and ski vacations is at least EQUALLY effective at undermining humanity’s ability to defeat a virus.
The adtech stack infested the web like an invasive species during a period of unbridled optimism for digital technologies. Adtech’s core modality of incentivizing proxies of attention has deformed human behaviors toward automated monetization. To weaponize it, use as directed.
Meanwhile Adtech people are busy busy building an appropriately ridiculous post-cookie adtech stack (GDPR/CCPA spurring (mal)adaptations of adtech species within the adtech “ecosystem”). adexchanger.com/online-adverti…
Does “privacy-enhanced” also mean “information warfare resistant?”

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5 Aug
My take on why Facebook is not preventing another Cambridge Analytica by banning NYU ad researchers. It’s just being a terrible, horrible, no good company by smearing independent accountability efforts. techpolicy.press/facebook-is-ea…
The piece is a take-down of any insinuation that Fb is just following orders to prevent more Cambridge Analytica scandals. FTC order does not apply according to experts. Deeply cynical to deliberately associate a clandestine unlawful app with NYU’s tools. techpolicy.press/facebook-is-ea…
Facebook wants you to confuse an app that exploited Facebook’s flaws with an app that could’ve held Facebook more accountable. Don’t fall for it. techpolicy.press/facebook-is-ea…
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17 Jul
pushing ded medium of fleets to the limits rn tbh
basically teaching a free daily special topic arch history course lol “Everything There Is To Know About Norman Jaffe, Architect” bc why the hell not
fwiw i’m seeing 700-1K views per fleet which seems amazing but maybe bc of a dwindling supply of fleets *not* about fleets dying
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15 Jul
So I had this fun summer side project going where I meticulously thread 100 works of my all time favorite architect, 1 per day, and then fleeted the highlights with a bit of a storyline but I won’t finish all 100 houses on the schedule by the time fleets get the teardown on Aug 3
One theme of the threads are sleuthing out the important houses of record in satellite data that have since been torn down to make way for mcmansions and such. These houses are as ephemeral as fleeting fleets in the grand scheme of things.
But it turns out that Twitter HQ was disappointed that existing users employed the fleets feature to promote their own tweets (guilty as charged) instead of fleets yielding their intended business purpose to attract new Twitter users afraid of tweeting because they are durable.
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14 Jul
“Company over country.”

Facebook is a malign force.
businessinsider.com/facebook-execs…
They covered up Cambridge Analytica until forced to confront it because it was a GOP donor funded op.

They covered up Putin’s op because “company before country”

They do cover ups because they get away with it. There is no accountability. There is only public relations.
We are reminded of a factual error in the book #AnUgluTruth: Facebook learned about Cambridge Analytica before the Guardian report. This is public knowledge sourced from the Washington DC AG’s lawsuit against FB RE: CA.
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David Carroll Profile picture
24 May
Redactions newly revealed in this thread. Manafort’s lies about KILIMNICK ran much deeper than previously known. Incredible abuse to have pardoned the henchmen. Failures of Mueller, distortions by Barr, and cowardice of Senate Rs leading us down the path toward the insurrection.
“No collusion” but Manafort appears to have conspired with Putin’s spy to share voter data, campaign strategy, and Ukraine policy and lied about it, and was pardoned for lying about it.
In hindsight, Barr was diabolical in his redactions of the Mueller Report. Delay in getting redactions revealed by court allowed public and especially press to mistake the collusion question as resolved. Concealing the Cambridge Analytica question was a part of this clever scheme
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22 May
Laser eyes for extortion so that organized crime may prosper undeterred.
Cryptocriminology: “Last year was a banner year for ransomware groups, according to a task-force of security experts and law enforcement agencies which estimated that victims paid about $350 million in ransom last year, a 311% increase over 2019.” bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Thread on the criminality-at-scale intrinsically enabled by decentralized finance and digital currencies easily corrupted despite a religious belief in maths.
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