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Drew Harwell Profile picture
@drewharwell
Feb 13 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This "large scale social deception" contract was:

* first awarded under Trump
* paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom
* for researching *defenses* against deception
* not revealed by "DOGE investigations"; was a public record, visible online for many years
Here are all the contract details: highergov.com/contract/FA865…

From the request for bids in 2017: "DARPA is soliciting innovative research proposals in the area of automated defense against social engineering attacks" highergov.com/document/hr001…
Again, this contract was started and awarded during Trump's first term Image
Here's the story that got @elonmusk thinking about Reuters reuters.com/world/us/musk-…Image
Reuters won awards last year for covering Elon Musk reuters.com/business/media…Image

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Mar 23, 2023
Today, members of Congress who have never used TikTok will be calling for the ban of a free-expression platform used by 150 million across the U.S. We're covering it all here:

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I got lunch with TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew last month. He's a Singapore-born, Harvard-educated, former Facebook intern: "It’ll be a real shame if our users around the world are not able to hear" U.S. voices anymore wapo.st/40a34wq
The hearing has started. @cathymcmorris says TikTok collects "nearly every data point imaginable," which is not nearly true, as @geoffreyfowler's technical analysis found: wapo.st/3LLytRt
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Mar 21, 2023
New: Our big preview of TikTok chief Shou Zi Chew's upcoming congressional testimony. "If you give them the power to ban social media companies, you think this is going to be the only time it happens?” wapo.st/3LIPeNi
Shou Zi Chew, the 40-year-old former Facebook intern now leading TikTok, runs a company that's increasingly more influential in the U.S. than Mark Zuckerberg's or Elon Musk's. And virtually no one here knows who he is.

Free-to-read link: wapo.st/3LI5Xjz
He posted a video from D.C. yesterday in classic Silicon Valley garb - hoodie and jeans - to warn about how the U.S. "could take TikTok away from all 150 million of you"

Top comment: "You know something went wrong when the boss has to show up 😂"

tiktok.com/@tiktok/video/…
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Dec 14, 2022
New: A college student used public data to create a Twitter account following @elonmusk's jet. But the billionaire "free speech absolutist" didn't like it. Now it's gone. Elon "literally said he was keeping my account up for free speech" wapo.st/3YrxDNu w/ @faizsays
@elonmusk @faizsays It's not just @ElonJet that's suspended. All of @JxckSweeney's accounts for mapping air travel, plus his personal one, are now gone. No explanation, and totally goes against what Musk said last month:
@elonmusk @faizsays @ElonJet @JxckSweeney Here's where it gets really wild. Try to tweet a link to the Musk-jet-tracking account on Instagram. You can't. Twitter blocked it as "potentially harmful." Again, this is *publicly available data*. But it's about something Musk doesn't want people to see wapo.st/3YrxDNu Image
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Oct 15, 2022
New: Will Wilkerson helped create Trump's media company. He even posted Trump's first "truth" on Truth Social. Now he alleges the company violated securities laws and that Trump pressured executives to give their shares to his wife. And there are tapes wapo.st/3exJGH0

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Wilkerson has emails. In one, Trump Media co-founder Andy Litinsky, an "Apprentice" contestant who once praised Trump's loyalty, said Trump had "repeatedly demanded" he give his equity to Melania. When he refused, he said, he was kicked off the board wapo.st/3exJGH0
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Here's Wilkerson posting Trump's first "truth" on Trump's Truth Social profile eight months ago. “Get Ready! Your favorite President will see you soon!” wapo.st/3exJGH0
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Oct 21, 2021
On Trump's new social network, TRUTH Social, you can post TRUTHs, which are like tweets, or Re-TRUTHs, which are retweets. There's also a TRUTH Feed and notifications so you can know who’s interacting with your TRUTH’s ImageImage
Trump's social network is where families will come together to have an amazing time and share their viewpoints of the world. "We welcome these varied opinions," Trump's social network said apple.co/3DXCHyg Image
The Trump Media & Technology Group's pitch deck definitely includes all of the relevant historical events concerning political segmentation between October 1996 and Jan. 8, 2021 Image
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