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17 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Just published: The latest installment of WSJ’s #FacebookFiles series

Company documents show antivaccine activists undermined Zuckerberg’s ambition to support vaccination by flooding the site and using Facebook’s own tools to sow doubt and misinformation. wsj.com/articles/faceb…
One internal memo said initial testing concluded that roughly 41% of comments on English-language vaccine-related posts risked discouraging vaccinations.

Even authoritative sources of vaccine information were becoming “cesspools of anti-vaccine comments.” wsj.com/articles/faceb…
The vaccine documents are part of a collection of internal communications reviewed by @WSJ that offer an unparalleled picture of how Facebook is acutely aware that the products and systems central to its business success routinely fail and cause harm.
wsj.com/articles/faceb…
A staffer circulated a memo about a post that had 53,000 reshares and 3 million views. It said vaccines “are all experimental & you are in the experiment.” The staffer called it “a bad miss for misinfo”—systems mistakenly thought it was in Romanian, which is why it wasn’t demoted

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15 Apr
Biden is set to retaliate against Russia tomorrow with steep financial penalties, including new prohibitions on banks trading Russian government debt. Dozens of Russian firms and individuals will be designated for supporting hacking and elex meddling.

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More: A new executive order expected to prohibit U.S. financial institutions from buying new bonds directly from Russia’s central bank, finance ministry and the country’s massive sovereign wealth fund after June 14. wsj.com/articles/u-s-t…
The anticipated actions will include the formal accusation against Moscow’s foreign intelligence service, the SVR, holding it responsible for the SolarWinds hack wsj.com/articles/u-s-t…
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8 Apr
New: The intelligence community's Global Trends 2040 report says the pandemic is the most "significant, singular global disruption" since WWII, an event that is likely to profoundly impact world development for decades to come. wsj.com/articles/covid…
Among its dire predictions, the Global Trends 2040 report envisions continued fragmentation of communities where “people are likely to gravitate to information silos of people who share similar views, reinforcing beliefs and understanding of the truth.” wsj.com/articles/covid…
The pandemic is just one of numerous global challenges “without a direct human agent or perpetrator” likely to become more frequent and intense in coming decades. Others: demographic shifts, the impact of climate change, migration, and financial crises. wsj.com/articles/covid…
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3 Mar
This is strange, as the FBI has solicited proposals from vendors to pull vast troves of public data from social media “to proactively identify and reactively monitor threats to the United States and its interests” as @JeffHorwitz and I have reported.
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As @RachelBLevinson—who has done excellent research into this area—points out, this stated view appears in clear disagreement with FBI’s written policies.
FBI’s wish list included the ability to “obtain the full social media profile of persons-of-interest and their affiliation to any organization or groups,” and to monitor activity of people in specific neighborhoods and search for key words connected to potential illegal activity.
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15 Jan
11,869,478 (+1,080,708) vaccine doses have now been administered in the U.S., according to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker. bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
12,962,550 (+1,093,072) vaccine doses have now been administered in the U.S., according to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker. An average of 844,387 shots were recorded each day for the last week. bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
13,670,710 (+708,160) vaccine doses have now been administered in the U.S., according to Bloomberg’s vaccine tracker. An average of 849,387 shots were recorded each day for the last week. bloomberg.com/graphics/covid…
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7 Jan
New: The electronic filing system used by federal courts has likely been breached in the SolarWinds hack, extending to another branch of government the impact of a suspected Russian cyber-espionage campaign. wsj.com/articles/feder…
This might be rather significant. Gaining access to sealed judiciary records could be especially valuable to foreign spies because of the extreme sensitivity of info they often contain, like investigative techniques described in search warrants. wsj.com/articles/feder…
“Documents like these are a road map of investigations,” said @SeamusHughes. “In the right hands, they could tip off a target of investigation, be it an individual or a country’s intelligence apparatus.” wsj.com/articles/feder…
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22 Dec 20
President-elect Biden, in most extensive remarks on the SolarWinds hack to date, says Trump admin needs to clearly and publicly call out who is responsible and that all indications are Russia is the culprit.

“Even if (Trump) does not take it seriously, I will.”
Biden emphasizes cybersecurity is among the gravest threats facing the United States and it should be treated as such across the entire federal government. He likens it to other "unconventional weapons" that can wreck an unprepared nation.
Asked if the SolarWinds hack is an act of war (experts say no), Biden pivots. “First of all, it is a grave risk and it continues. I see no evidence that it is under control ... And the Defense Department won’t even brief us" on it.
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