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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla
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NEW: Zuckerberg set up fraudulent scheme to "weaponise" data. A whole new data scandal brewing for @facebook? Latest from me & @_EmmaGH
theguardian.com/technology/201…
This case is based on a massive trove of internal Facebook docs. Developers claim Facebook's whole response to Cambridge Analytica scandal is a "fraudulent narrative".
In 2012, @facebook's profits crashed through the floor. Its ad model was based on desktop & the mobile revolution was killing it. Suit claims Mark Zuckerberg personally approved plan to use personal data as part of scheme to "blackmail" advertisers...
And look at this! Astonishing! How many times have you heard Facebook say it's not a publisher? And yet this is its entire defence...
Here! This is Zuck telling Congress that Facebook is not a publisher. And yet, @facebook in trying to get this case thrown out & these internal emails suppressed is claiming exactly that...
And THIS. Second piece now up: @facebook conducted mass surveillance, including accessing photos on iPhones & tracking non-Facebook users. The scale of this is truly massive...
theguardian.com/technology/201…
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Ugh. So here we go again. Major £££ Facebook campaign targeting dozens of Labour MPs. When is Britain going to wake up to what's going on. What went on. And how our democracy has been utterly corrupted & debased by Facebook
Constituents of target Labour MPs being sent these ads by right-wing group. Here's @YvetteCooperMP but there's dozens more. When will Labour wake up & see the issues we've uncovered aren't to do with party politics, they're to do with democracy
Loads more here...
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NEW: Cambridge Analytica said US voter @profcarroll had no more right to know what data the company held on him than "a Taliban sitting in a cave". Today, it pleads guilty in case brought by Britain's ICO. This is a big deal. US citizens! You have..drum roll..rights to your data!
This has been a long haul for @profcarroll. We first wrote about his battle to get this data here. Today, Cambridge Analytica finally concede that he had a right to this data. Next question: will he actually get it?
theguardian.com/technology/201…
This all happening in the glamorous environs of Hendon magistrate's court. About as incongruous a location as you can imagine for qs about what data Cambridge Analytica had on 230 million US voters. Why was CA so determined not to hand it over? No answers to that today...
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Instead of shitting on other journalists, Buzzfeed, why not *do* journalism? Your biggest investor sits on Facebook's board & is a close friend of Zuck's. He's refused to answer my qs about his sale of Facebook stock - right before Cambridge Analytica story first broke. Why?
You were the main publication shitting on the Cambridge Analytica story two years ago. "Snake oil"! "Conspiracy theory"! And you've been shitting on me ever since I published Wylie's story back in March.

buzzfeednews.com/article/kendal…
It's all been just a bit odd
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1) This is my Q thread for September 13, 2018.

Q posts can be found here: qntmpkts.keybase.pub

My theme: Military Planning at Its Finest
2) In this thread, we're going to take an in-depth look at censorship and the people who are attempting to control public opinion.
3) Yesterday, all Q related threads (subs) on Reddit were simultaneously shut down. The moderators claimed it was done because user content violated the terms of service.
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🔥WHOA🔥

Last July, Michal Kosinski, the @Stanford prof whose personality quiz was used to scrape #Facebook data of MILLIONS of Americans, **met in Moscow** w/#Russian🇷🇺PM Dmitry Medvedev, Sergey Lavrov & several members of #Putin’s cabinet. 1/

theguardian.com/technology/201…
Kosinski, who described Lavrov as “a guy who starts wars and takes over countries,” was “flattered” that the #Russians🇷🇺would listen to his talk. “Those guys strike me as one of the most competent and well-informed groups. They did their homework. They read my stuff.”😳 2/
Kosinski researches technology, mass persuasion & artificial intelligence (AI), including the use of AI to detect psychological traits👉🏼research that inspired the creation of #CambridgeAnalytica.🤨 3/
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The hearing is now officially starting, with opening remarks from the ranking members of both committees (Senate Judiciary Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee).
In her opening remarks, Sen. Feinstein mentions last night's news that Cambridge Analytica had access to Facebook users' private direct messages.
I hope someone asks Zuckerberg how Facebook can claim they didn't know Cambridge Analytica was still using data they harvested, given that FB sent employees to "embed" w/ the Trump campaign's digital team — so FB employees were working in the same office as Cambridge Analytica.
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#Facebook thread:
Ahead of Zuckerberg's Congress testimony, a quick revision guide.
All you need to know about Facebook (and why you should be concerned), brought to you by the Observer/Guardian's investigation into data and democracy...
Hard to believe it was less than a month ago that @carolecadwalla broke the story about GSR harvesting 50m+ Facebook profiles for @CamAnalytica to use in political campaigning:
Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica.. theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
Via the first major interview with @CamAnalytica whistleblower @chrisinsilico which explained Facebook had known about the leak for at least 18months and detailed Robert Mercer / Steve Bannon's central roles ‘I made Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/…
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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
NEW Q Post 03/28/18 Q continues by asking what US company previously entered NK to set up communications! We know from past Q posts it was Google & E. M Schmidt! Why did ES go to NK? CIA controlled perhaps? theguardian.com/technology/201… #QAnon #MarchMadness @POTUS @realDonaldTrump
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I FEEL IT NECESSARY TO ADD PERSPECTIVE BEYOND YESTERDAY. A QUICK SNAP SHOT OF JUST 10 SHORT YEARS AGO

think #FACEBOOK #CambridgeAnalytics and how the mass market media is casting the Trump campaign in light of "unfolding events" 👇👇👇
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