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6 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
This is a totally extraordinary story. A London court finds PM of the UAE to have hacked his ex-wife & her lawyers phones using NSO spyware.

But where my jaw hits the floor is here:

‘Cherie Blair, who works with the Israeli NSO Group’

WHAT?

theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…
Ok. There’s more here.

Cherie Blair is an ‘ethics advisor’ to NSO spyware group.

I just cannot..what the?!?!

Ethics advisor to a company implicated in MURDER?

thetimes.co.uk/article/cherie…
Totally normal for a leading human rights lawyer & ex-Labour PM’s wife to be advising a spyware firm accused of facilitating horrific abuses of human rights.
theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
What @WendySiegelman says here.

This is dangerous, dangerous, dangerous. Journalists & activists who’ve been surveilled, harassed & murdered are the canaries in the coal mine for everybody else.
There’s more:
More weirdness of this very weird story by @skirchy.
theguardian.com/world/2021/oct…

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8 Oct
I’m so incredibly DELIGHTED for @mariaressa but I also want to explain why this decision by @NobelPrize is so important at this moment (& why it’s more very bad news for Facebook)
More perhaps than anyone, @mariaressa has explained how ‘a lie told a million times becomes a fact’.

She’s watched how her country became a brutal dictatorship & understood first hand how this was done through control of the information space

theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
She’s spent much of the last 5 years trying to warn the west what is coming for us.

How the firestorm of lies & distortions & fake news are a dictator’s best friend.

And how Silicon Valley’s failure to deal with it is a fundamental danger to democracy

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5 Oct
Hey Andy! Your tweet just got read out & you’ve been invited to testify to Congress under oath! Congrats
Pitching this in as the first question you might like to ask, @MarshaBlackburn @SenBlumenthal
Oh boy. G'luck, @andymstone
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4 Oct
Ok. Here’s a thought. Could someone at @facebook tell us what’s happening?
It’s like ‘Here’s a news story we didn’t like, have a 5,000-word blog post from @nickclegg.’ But wipe out half the planet’s ability to communicate &:
Last observed sighting of Mark Zuckerberg yesterday as a whistleblower accused his company of ‘moral bankruptcy’:
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4 Oct
Congrats & bravo to the Facebook whistleblower @FrancesHaugen_.

8 complaints to SEC.

Documents handed to 5 state attorney generals

Evidence to Congress on Tuesday

Scheduled to appear before UK parliamentary committee this month
Read @wsj piece by @JeffHorwitz who broke the story.

What’s staggering is that she found these docs on Facebook’s ‘Workplace’ forum accessible to any of its 63k employees.

She methodically & systematically copied them & approached a whistleblowing lawyer
wsj.com/articles/faceb…
‘I believe in truth & reconciliation,’ she says. ‘We need to admit reality. The first step of that is documentation.’

I 💯agree with this.

(It’s why I’ve banged on forever about necessity of getting access to the data from EUref. Facebook simply buried it.)
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3 Oct
🚨First interview with @wsj’s Facebook whistleblower tonight on @60Minutes tonight🚨

A BIG deal. The total failure to hold Facebook to account after Cambridge Analytica is coming home to roost.

How many more insurrections have to happen before we do?

Facebook is out running interference ahead of interview. Nick Clegg is on manoeuvres. Because this is serious.

So many civil society groups - including & esp @FBoversight - were involved in strenuous attempts to get FB to take action ahead of US election

nytimes.com/2021/10/02/tec…
The point is that so many academics, experts, civil rights groups were warning of exactly this.

The insurrection wasn’t some sort of black swan event impossible to predict. Facebook’s failure to take essential measures to protect against violence was pointed out *repeatedly*
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20 Sep
I’m with @jason_kint. The stench coming off the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica SEC settlement is only getting stronger. And this relationship between Zuck & Thiel is only the half of it. Big Theranos energy
I keep thinking about what one of the earliest Facebook whistleblowers @sandyparakilas told me in 2018: pay attention to the financial filings. ‘The SEC has real powers. You can get away with most things in America,’ he told me. ‘But you can’t fuck with our capitalism’
Facebook has helped elect authoritarians & incited an insurrection & actual genocide all with zero consequences. But…In last 2 years, an increasing body of evidence suggests it may have gone a step too far & *gasp* misled investors: America’s only true sin
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