"When I saw #QAnon, I knew exactly what it was and what it was doing. I had seen it before. I had almost built it before. It was gaming’s evil twin. A game that plays people. (cue ominous music)" medium.com/curiouserinsti… "There is no reality here. No actual solution in real world. Instead, this is a breadcrumb trail AWAY from reality. Away from actual solutions and towards dangerous psychological rush. Works very well because when you “figure it out yourself” you own it." medium.com/curiouserinsti…

@jayrosen_nyu @vermontgmg @jayrosen_nyu @vermontgmg

With all due respect, but Germany's AfD are not even toddlers in comparison to what the GOP is pulling off in the United States. The are powerless wannabe Fourth Reich villains. @jayrosen_nyu @vermontgmg We're seing some slight resemblances to McConnell here and there (but that's done by the CSU, because they hold actual power).

AfD is cheerfully watching in awe what's happening in the States. Nothing beyond Volksverhetzung and activism, disinformation. No power.

"Ich wünschte", sagt Silicon-Valley-Investor und Facebook-Kritiker Roger McNamee, "wir könnten die ganzen Plattformen von jetzt bis zur Amtseinsetzung des Präsidenten im Januar einfach komplett ausschalten. Weg damit für eine Weile. Weg mit dem Lärm." 👍🔥
spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/s… "Die sozialen Medien - und das Zerrbild, das sie erzeugen - sind zur realen Gefahr für die demokratischen Prozesse und Institutionen der USA geworden. Das glauben keineswegs nur die üblichen Kritiker."
spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/s…

Ich finde es ehrlich gesagt unfassbar grauenhaft und schäbig, was da gerade stattfindet.
#HunterBiden

#Giuliani und #Bannon als treibende Kräfte. Was für absolut widerwärtige "Menschen".

Ich weiss auch nicht, wie man "Wahlkampf" noch ekelhafter betreiben kann.
#BidenHarris2020

https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1316454005665652736

Was mich auch massiv abturned (und verwundert bzw. enttäuscht), ist die Tatsache, dass hier @bellingcat-Mitglieder aktiv daran mitwirken, die betreffenden Inhalte trotz der "Schutzmaßnahmen" von @Twitter zugänglich zu machen.

Ich bin der Meinung, dass das kontraproduktiv ist.

Important 👇🔥👍

"We hope these recommendations—based on decades of research into electoral processes, news coverage, and public opinion—support the important work journalists are doing to cover the election and safeguard democracy."
mediafordemocracy.org "When voters and election administrators are the protagonists of election coverage, the public wins.
... covering the horse race... rarely contains substantive information voters can use to make decisions at the polls."
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"In #Polen sind binnen eines Tages so viele Menschen am/mit dem #Coronavirus gestorben wie noch nie. Gesundheitsministerium meldet 116 Todesfälle. Damit steigt Gesamtzahl auf 3217. Auch Zahl der täglichen Neuinfektionen hat erstmals 6000 überschritten."
spiegel.de/wissenschaft/c… "#Russland meldet Höchstwert an Neuinfektionen. Binnen 24 Stunden gibt es 14.231 weitere #Coronavirus-Fälle. Gesamtzahl der Infektionen steigt auf 1,34 Millionen. Weitere 239 Menschen starben, wodurch sich die Zahl der Todesfälle auf 23.205 erhöht."
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"The fact that #Emic was able to rise from the ashes of #SCL while the #CambridgeAnalytica and SCL debacle was still under investigation shows that governments have not learned the lessons of 2016." occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/c… @EmmaLBriant: "Governments are failing us. Such firms continue to provide training, or engage directly, in tactics to influence the behavior of citizens." occrp.org/en/37-ccblog/c…

"...the training Canadian military staff received is a direct descendent of #SCLGroup’s “behavioural dynamics methodology” which promises to help military clients analyze and profile groups to find best strategy to influence target audience’s behaviour."🔥 ottawacitizen.com/news/national/… "The Canadian contracts were awarded to Emic Consulting, a British firm.

Emic’s director, Gaby van den Berg, previously worked with #SCL. She stressed in an email to this newspaper that her company uses science-based techniques to help NATO militaries..." ottawacitizen.com/news/national/…

""#Unmasking" probe commissioned by #Barr concludes without charges or any public report" 🤷‍♂️😤🙄🖕 washingtonpost.com/national-secur… "Even if it ultimately produced no results of consequence, legal analysts said, it allowed Trump and other conservatives to say Obama-era officials were under scrutiny, as long as the case stayed active." washingtonpost.com/national-secur…

Public Accountability Initiative: “Many powerful companies that drive environmental injustice are also backers of the same police departments that tyrannize the very communities these corporate actors pollute” theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j… "Carroll Muffett, the president of the Center for International Environmental Law, said: “This report sheds a harsh light on the ways police violence and systemic racism intersect with the climate crisis.” theguardian.com/us-news/2020/j…

“When you’ve got the president saying it, you’ve got his attorneys saying it, you’ve got all these congressmen saying it, you’ve got all these senators saying it... everybody would talk about it: ‘This #Soros guy.’ That’s why I look at it as a #cult.” 🙄😒 thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-dis… "#Parnas said he was in the meeting, and that #Giuliani used it to try to get material from the oligarch that would bolster his attacks on Special Counsel Robert #Mueller’s probe of #Trump." thedailybeast.com/lev-parnas-dis…