And the dam has burst. The embargo has lifted & 17 news organisations are dropping their Facebook scoops into news cycle already flooded with Facebook scoops.
17 news orgs dropping Facebook mini-bombs into the news cycle.
But US news outlets blocked Guardian from partnering. No UK outlet has had access. Incredibly shortsighted given it’s here @FrancesHaugen is giving evidence to parliament & landmark legislation is under way
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Facebook is a malignant global empire destroying democracy.
Given I’m still paying a very very high personal cost for this talk (2+ years of the head-fuck & time-sink that is litigation), I hope you’ll forgive me for posting this again today of all days
Huge kudos to @FrancesHaugen & amazing work by dozens of journalists at 17 news orgs to report out these docs.
And today remember also the many many victims of Facebook, one of which is us, the British people. We still have *no idea* of what happened on its platform in EUref
Facebook is a black hole. It swallows the past. It’s a crime scene. And it refuses time & again to hand over the evidence.
What happened in Myanmar was an abomination. Yet *even last week* it was fighting legal attempts to uncover the truth
Whistleblowers need all the support they can get. In the UK, we saw @shahmirUK being outed & destroyed. @chrisinsilico put himself into prolonged legal & personal jeopardy. It is HARD. It is dangerous. And I am grateful & relieved that @FrancesHaugen has the support she needs.
I've been in awe of how impactful the roll-out of @franceshaugen whistleblowing has been & hope it encourages others to follow in her footsteps. gofundme.com/f/facebook-whi…
Adding another FB whistleblower @YaelEisenstat's comments here:
Oops. @llaurieclarke, that’s unfortunate. A crashing mistake in your very first paragraph. @IndependentSage didn’t organise that summit. 😱 Oh & they’ve never been called ‘iSAGE’. 😱😱 And the letter you refer to wasn’t them either 😱😱😱
This ain’t right either. ‘Activist’, sigh, Cambridge Analytica didn’t ‘break’ in 2016 & I’d love to hear more about this ‘troll army’ 🧐 Oh, & I don’t do ‘media support’ for the group that most definitely isn’t ‘iSAGE’ but if you’d answered my message you could have asked me that
Hello @bmj_latest. You literally footnote the paper yet failed to spot that the lead author *has nothing to do* with Independent SAGE. And that’s literally the opening to your article about how wrong they’ve been 😂
The entire system of science-based policy making in Britain is broken.
And to everyone who’s ever knocked @IndependentSage, allow me to point out that they’ve met twice weekly throughout the pandemic & put their advice directly into the public domain
Nobody in Britain has paid a blind bit of attention to who Deripaska is, the power he wields & the effect he’s had. But read this from US Senate. And understand how deep this rot runs. He ran the Kremlin’s influence ops, it said. And now pays @George_Osborne’s wages