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Inside Mark Zuckerberg's private meetings with conservative pundits news.yahoo.com/inside-mark-zu… via @Yahoo
"CNN commentator Mary Katharine Ham, conservative commentator Ben Shapiro, AEI fellow and former Washington Free Beacon editor Matt Continetti, Town Hall editor and Fox News contributor Guy Benson, and Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell have also attended the dinners..."
"...Washington Examiner chief political correspondent and Fox News contributor Byron York also confirmed his attendance but declined to disclose the contents of the dinner because there was a prior agreement that it was off-the-record."
The people pushing that video are the same people pushing a conspiracy theory about yet another imaginary mass uprising (remember that stupid Nov 4 shit?) that’s supposedly scheduled for this week. Put together, it paints a very ugly picture. Incitement truthorfiction.com/disinformation…
This shows premeditation. Also, is this or something like it showing up as a dark ad on @Facebook? Served straight to the very people identified as those who will see it as a goad or as permission, but invisible to everyone else?
The fact that “Carpe Donktum” is being used as low paid labor to crank out violent propaganda should be prima facie evidence that his memes are terrible, show no imagination, and suck
Disinformation is a tool that only is used in service of oppression and conflicts, throughout history. There is literally no other reason for its existence. That is why I always took “fake news” so seriously and why I have been so forthright and confrontational pushing back.
Where is disinformation thickest on the ground? What happens next? Cui bono? Ask yourselves that now, today, before you can’t anymore.
Even the most innocent-seeming “junk news” plays into a specific narrative over time.
When I talk about dark ads, this is what I’m talking about specifically. Consider all the data FB has on you and what you may or may not be seeing based on what they’ve gleaned about you.
Now think about what they might be selling to the scariest people you know, and how.
Now think about what they might be selling to the scariest people you know, and how.
Oh and check out my pinned thread.
And think about who has that data and what they’re trying to market, and to whom. That data is all out there now. Corrupt corporations and politicians are using it for their own ends.
Facebook has allowed too many vulnerable people to be silenced and smeared far too many critics to be allowed to hide behind the banner of “free speech” ever again.
apparently some free speech is more important than other free speech.
theguardian.com/technology/201…
theguardian.com/technology/201…
Right? eff.org/deeplinks/2019…
Look at this shit. It's a project of the local Republican party masquerading as an actual news outlet. What a crock.
h/t @potsie
This is some sick bullshit. Instead of doing what they can to ensure there is a healthy journalism industry in the United States, which is in this age of disinformation a national security issue, they take advantage of it being killed
This is some sick bullshit. Instead of doing what they can to ensure there is a healthy journalism industry in the United States, which is in this age of disinformation a national security issue, they take advantage of it being killed
By the way, the people screeching about the nonexistent "Democrat attacks" next week are the same ones who were frothing about the November 4 "#antifa attacks" that were supposed to be happening. Remember that? rationalwiki.org/wiki/November_…
They've been pushing and prodding unstable people for years to try to get this to happen, people whose sanity hangs on by a thread and who have been psychologically aroused by dangerous rhetoric served fresh to them daily via algorithm. They're trying to trigger them now.
This is an attempt from hostile entities both within and without the United States to create chaos and violence around what looks like it is going to be a highly damning IG report. PLEASE DO NOT REPORT THIS AS THOUGH IT IS LEGITIMATE, COLLEAGUES.
This is dangerous disinformation.
Dangerous disinformation that is now being laundered and echoed by slightly less disreputable people (take note of what site it credits, but "State Department Watch" sounds more official.)
This is a hostile attempt to weaponize QAnon followers.
web.archive.org/web/2019101013…
This is a hostile attempt to weaponize QAnon followers.
web.archive.org/web/2019101013…
"Sources have alerted that DHS, law enforcement and even the reserves have been prepared for possible civil unrest in cities like New York and Los Angeles on or around October 19th, conveniently right before the Inspector General’s report is released."
Uh huh.
Uh huh.
Since I’ve been doing more TV/video interviews and panels etc. I’ve had to pay more attention to my appearance than I ever have in my life. If you don’t think shitty people latch on to your looks to smear you or question your credibility, then I don’t know what to tell you.
I mean, they do no matter what but at least looking polished frightens a lot of the worst ones, because they’re easily intimidated lol
But personal appearance is heavily fraught, especially when you’re a woman. I have no idea how to deal with this shit most days, so I stay inside and tweet instead
Corrosive disinformation at all levels.
What a fucking huge betrayal. This is absolutely disgusting.
Also: Splurt Shitturd
The relationship between the corrosive antisemitic rhetoric widely spread via social media algorithm on @Twitter and @Facebook and these attacks cannot be overstated.
It's not just antisemitism, mind you, please don't get me wrong. It's anti-Latinx. It's anti-Black. It's anti-woman, anti-journalist, and above all anti-democratic. This is politically motivated violence that is getting used to tip elections or at least throw them into chaos.
From last month.
cnn.com/2019/09/02/eur…
cnn.com/2019/09/02/eur…
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Hey @commiegirl1 and @RyCunn, if you want to join up on some kind of effort you can message me any time
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today.yougov.com/about/faqs/
"We collect what websites and apps you go to, and what devices you use to visit them. Nothing else, and never any data that you input into secure forms whilst browsing (such as usernames, passwords or online transactions)."
"We collect what websites and apps you go to, and what devices you use to visit them. Nothing else, and never any data that you input into secure forms whilst browsing (such as usernames, passwords or online transactions)."
That's Maricopa County, which under the reign of shameless anus-faced old racist Joe Arpaio had literal concentration camps
Dehumanization and labor and sex trafficking go hand in hand. So what's going on with the ~52,000 vulnerable people locked up in concentration camps on the U.S.'s watch now? Anyone?
Also if you're wondering what side Turkey's Erdogan administration is on, recall 2016
cnn.com/2016/07/25/wor…
cnn.com/2016/07/25/wor…
Harbath was "Deputy eCampaign Director at the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee" in 2007 and 2008 and fed conspiracy theories about other candidates to bloggers. Reporters really should look at who is running the show over at @Facebook
content.time.com/time/specials/…
content.time.com/time/specials/…
P.S. please see pinned thread etc. etc.
Former FCC chair Kevin Martin was accused of and investigated for his "heavy-handed, opaque, and non-collegial management style" which led to "distrust, suspicion and turmoil among the five... commissioners." He's U.S. public policy chief at Facebook now
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content…
The fact that so many men think that it’s a lie that women have been (and still do get) fired for being pregnant tells me all I need to know about how badly out of touch they are with the reality of being a woman. I’ve seen it happen to countless women, my entire career.
I was warned to never reveal anything about my personal life in job interviews, because interviewers would infer that I might be pregnant or trying to get pregnant. Laughable really, since media jobs also don’t offer health insurance if they can help it.
And because of this, I would get questions from (male) bosses constantly. “How come a cute little girl like you hasn’t gotten someone to marry you yet?” <- actual question from a news director. “Because I don’t want to be,” I would tell them without smiling when it came up.
Put ir directly into a trust to be transparently disbursed to small newsrooms annually. And this should be a first rather than a one-time payment. With more and better journalism, the @Facebook-fueled Myanmar genocide may never have been allowed to happen, for example
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Will someone better organized than I please steal this idea and implement it thank you
This is labor trafficking, but it’s so quotidian that it barely registers as such to many Americans. Then the victims — who are economic refugees by any metric — are abused, blamed, and rounded up and incarcerated or deported.
And because of this employers don’t have to pay them much — if at all — or insure them or worry about pesky lawsuits. These human rights violations have been going on in the U.S. for years and created a massive shadow economy from which corporations directly financially benefit
The grey area in which undocumented workers live in the United States is deliberate, but their treatment has been obfuscated by politicians and lobbyists who also directly benefit from both this labor (and sex) trafficking and the massive security and surveillance apparatus used
And there it is, the root of it all: male anxiety that the old authoritarian model is becoming obsolete as more women are educated and self-directed. It’s prompting a whole continuum of desperate behaviors. I’ve got news for you, boys — it’s been over for a while.
By the way, it’s just as gruesome as you might think 
Companionate marriage has been around — and generally suppressed by authoritarian forces — for centuries. The debate over same-sex marriage wasn’t just homophobia, it was fear that same-sex marriage provides different, more egalitarian models of relationships. And also homophobia
And of course it was the #LaRouchians. gizmodo.com/viral-video-ab…
They're probably going to try to show up in my mentions with their weak ass attempts to goad me into a slap-fight with them again lmao 🖕🏼
LaRouchians: "We aren't violent!"
Also LaRouchians: *screams about eating babies*
Also LaRouchians: *screams about eating babies*
