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NEW: The House Democrats' trove of Russia-linked Facebook ads contained ads targeting suspicious Chrome extensions at teenage girls. The extensions gained wide access to users' browsing behavior and Facebook accounts. h/t @d1gi for spotting wired.com/story/russia-f…
The landing page for the ads where users could install the extension was registered in April 2016 in St. Petersburg, Russia. The ads went live in May. By June, people were already complaining about how the extension had spammed all their Facebook friends wired.com/story/russia-f…
Google confirmed it had removed the extension from the Chrome store and from users' devices. Unclear how many people downloaded the extension from the Facebook ads. The ads only got a little over 80 clicks. wired.com/story/russia-f…
Oh and the ads, offering an extension to stream music on Facebook for free, were promoted by the IRA page Stop All Invaders. Kinda a non sequitur for an anti-immigrant page. wired.com/story/russia-f…
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Lawmakers from 9 countries are questioning Facebook's Richard Allan right now in London. First up is Canada's Charlie Angus, who's going in on the fact that Zuckerberg didn't show up like they wanted him to. He condemns the "frat boy billionaires" in CA upending global democracy.
"You have lost the trust of the international community to self-police." - Angus of Canada
Background: This should be an interesting day. Last week, the British MPs seized a cache of internal FB documents that are part of a legal case in CA and were ordered sealed. The docs allegedly back up accusations of Facebook exploiting user data and anticompetitive practices.
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A researcher with lots of foresight scraped 5 million political ads on Facebook during 6 weeks before the 2016 election. She found that half of the advertisers had absolutely no federal records or online footprint. Of that half, 1 in 6 were Russian trolls. wired.com/story/russian-…
These "suspicious" advertisers predominantly targeted voters in swing states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. She also found that white voters received 87 percent of all immigration ads. wired.com/story/russian-…
She found that the advertisers that were not required to file any disclaimers or disclosures with the FEC ran 4 times as many of these divisive ads as advertisers that did have to file with the FEC: wired.com/story/russian-…
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Facebook call with Mark Zuckerberg is starting now. They say it'll be 45 minutes (!).
“We're an idealistic and optimistic company and for the first decade we really focused on all the good connecting people brings” - Zuck

But in the past, "We didn't take a broad enough view of what our responsibility is...It was my mistake."
"Yesterday we took a big action by taking down Russian IRA pages targeting their home country." - Zuck
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May 23rd – 2018
Part I – The FISA Court Grants The Authority, Not The Ability…
theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/05/23/par…

1) There is a meeting scheduled tomorrow between key congressional oversight committee heads (Nunes, Gowdy etc.) and leadership of the FBI (Director Wray),
2) DOJ (Edward O’Callaghan) and ODNI (Dan Coats). The meeting was set up by White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, and the purpose of the meeting is to come to some agreement on access to documents being withheld by the DOJ, DOJ-NSD and FBI.
3) However, amid the ongoing debate over spies & informants used by the CIA & FBI to conduct political surveillance, there’s an aspect of the ongoing investigation that seems to be entirely overlooked.

On January 7th, 2016 the Inspector General of the National Security Agency,
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@Secy_State_US Senate Intel report: Russia waged an "unprecedented, coordinated cyber campaign" against US voting systems.

Russia-linked hackers were in a position to "alter or delete voter registration data" in a small number of states before the election
(ht @Gus_802)
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@Secy_State_US Shot.
Senate Intel: Russia conducted "unprecedented, coordinated" campaign against US voting systems, successfully penetrating voter registration databases
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@Secy_State_US Full cache of over 3,000 Internet Research Agency (Prigozhin) #Facebook ads released to public, show how pro-Kremlin effort to sow discord around the US election grew increasingly sophisticated and inflammatory wsj.com/articles/full-…
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NEW Q Posts 03/28/18 00:03:07 EDT This is lengthy so I’ll break it down! First Q asks why Kim traveled to China & why this is possible when it wasn’t before! Kim is free! The CIA chains are gone! nytimes.com/2018/03/27/wor… #QAnon #GreatAwakening @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
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#CambridgeAnalytica #Russia ties.
1.Alexander Kogan a #CambridgeUniversity academic, who orchestrated harvesting #Facebook data, is tied to a #Russian University and had grants for researching into social media networks.
2.Alexander Kogan harvested the data in cooperation with #CambridgeAnalytica.
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#New PA cong. map increases D chance of winning the House majority by 4%. They only need a 6.8% generic ballot margin now (down from 7.7) to be favored.

Diff. will be closer to 10% in Nov when uncertainty from polls is ⬇️. Redraw is a very big deal.

One major reason the new PA map is such a big gain for Democrats is that it solidifies, not just tips, PA districts in Philly burbs. Also creates one additional vulnerable R district. (Easily seen in this map made by @JMilesColeman)
My forecasting model will have new PA map in the near future. This is not just a simple switch; it’s a coding redesign, restructuring of input, & drawing new geographic files. Takes a while (for me, a student).

In the meantime, just add 3-4% to the model: bit.ly/2018_house
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🔥PROJECT ALAMO🔥

THREAD: Congressional probes homing in on connections btwn Brad Parscale👉🏼Facebook & Twitter. 🤔 1/

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Brad Parscale came from nowhere👉🏼Trump paid him $88 million for 18 months of work👉🏼creating/placing ads on social-media, like Facebook.🤔 2/
Parscale Plan
👉🏼test 40-60k Facebook ads/day
👉🏼start day w/70 ads per target: FL, NC, PA
👉🏼buy new ad based on success, peak 200k unique ads
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