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Campaigns @AccountableTech, Co-Chair @DesignItForUs | Alum: @AmericanU, @FBOversight, @SenMarkey, @RepCasten | YNWA | 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | he/him | views my own
Nov 6, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
BREAKING: FEC finds 'reason to believe' Sen. Thom Tillis and John Bolton violated the 'foreign national ban' by working with British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica
businessinsider.com/fec-cambridge-… FEC filing: “STATEMENT OF REASONS OF CHAIR SHANA M. BROUSSARD AND COMMISSIONER ELLEN L. WEINTRAUB”

fec.gov/files/legal/mu…
Sep 30, 2021 9 tweets 3 min read
Seeing the tech bros dunking on Senator Blumenthal for the "finsta clip." First q I have is how many of you knew what a finsta was before today? Second, if you are dunking, did you actually watch the hearing?

I'm a teen. I also work in tech policy. Here's my translation for you. Here Senator Blumenthal perfectly explains what "finstas" are (fake instas). He's seen documents from the FB whistleblower which indicates FB sees a business proposition in users creating second, private accounts sometimes without the knowledge of parents. THIS IS IMPORTANT.
Sep 30, 2021 6 tweets 2 min read
Thoughts from me (a teen Instagram user) during this hearing. I'll thread below. ⬇️
commerce.senate.gov/2021/9/protect… Spoke to a few teens w mental health challenges ahead of today's hearing who use Instagram. They dismissed the idea that Instagram helped them through any of it but said they went to it as a temporary distraction.
Sep 2, 2021 15 tweets 6 min read
I've gone through all 359 pages of this release to @JasonLeopold and compared them against prior releases to see what redactions have been removed ⬇️

⏺️Most removals are related to Roger Stone, Wikileaks
⏺️Some removals around Manafort, Gates Ukraine including Podesta Group, MCW STONE wanted to hire someone for social media on the 2016 Trump campaign from South Carolina and believed social media was an important vehicle.

Throughout these 302s it has become increasingly clearer how much Roger Stone valued social media for the campaign.
Aug 3, 2021 11 tweets 6 min read
I've gone through all 488 pages of this release to @JasonLeopold and compared them against prior releases to see what redactions have been removed⬇️

⏺️Most removals are related to Roger Stone, Wikileaks, and Jerome Corsi
⏺️Nigel Farage appears more
⏺️Some removals on Bannon 302s "STONE wanted to reach Assange through FARAGE"

Jerome Corsi (associate of Roger Stone) and Ted Malloch sought to access Wikileaks (for Hillary emails) and Julian Assange via "NIGEL FARAGE" and "OTHER BREXIT PEOPLE".
Jul 15, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
A private Israeli firm called Candiru has helped governments hack journalists and human rights advocates @Joseph_Marks_
washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/07… “Candiru has likely sold spying tools to governments in the Middle East and Asia, according to the cybersecurity research group Citizen Lab, which identified people targeted by Candiru’s malicious software and helped Microsoft compile its report.”
Jul 15, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
It’s almost midnight and I’m reading the Senate Intel report on Russia. Why now? Idk Roger Stone spoke 67 times with Erik Prince in April/May of 2016.
Jun 1, 2021 14 tweets 8 min read
Mueller 302s database at work:

Here's a thread of all mentions of William SAMUEL PATTEN, the Washington lobbyist, former Cambridge Analytica consultant, and close contact with Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik

This one's of interest to you, @profcarroll ;)
Credit: @JasonLeopold First up, is one of Patten's interviews with the FBI, detailing a whole range of relationships, principally Konstantin Kilimnik and his work for Cambridge Analytica in Mexico.

Patten was caught by the FBI deleting emails and messages related to his work with CA in Mexico
May 25, 2021 13 tweets 9 min read
Check out my new database for FBI 302s aka Mueller Memos. Here's a thread on all 302s that mention #CambridgeAnalytica:

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discussionisgood.wixsite.com/302s/search/ta… First up, Rick Gates proffer agreement detailing CA's "psychological polling," integration with Conway and Fabrizio, and sensitive information Rick Gates passed along to Konstantin Kilimnik.

FBI(19cv1278)-1898
discussionisgood.wixsite.com/302s/post/fbi-…

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Apr 16, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
THREAD: Yesterday's upgraded @USTreasury Dept sanctions against Russian agent Konstantin Kilimnik confirm what we knew all along, that #CambridgeAnalytica engaged with Russian intel services (indirectly or directly) for the benefit of the Trump Campaign in 2016. I'll say it
[1/3] FOIA challenges from @JasonLeopold helped to reveal that #CambridgeAnalytica's psychological polling was lumped together for the Trump campaign and then Paul Manafort instructed Rick Gates to pass that information along to Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik [2/3]
Apr 11, 2021 7 tweets 4 min read
So I decided to download my Facebook data after learning I was a part of the 533m breach.

Clicked on a folder called “your_off_facebook_activity” and was unsurprised to learn that Facebook is following me all over the internet. Facebook knows when I ordered pizza
Jan 26, 2021 5 tweets 5 min read
Testimony from Elizabeth Denham of the @ICOnews to the @CommonsDCMS as it relates to the investigation of Cambridge Analytica | A THREAD ⬇️

First up, Ms. Denham says the Senate Intelligence Committee did not contact the ICO despite the SSCI in the their report saying they did. Denham fails to specify what changed between April 2019 and October 2020 for there not to be a final report issued. Over 700 TB of information analyzed and the @ICOnews chose not to issue a final report on an almost 2 year investigation. @carolecadwalla @jason_kint @EmmaLBriant
Jan 24, 2021 10 tweets 7 min read
Yesterday, the Central Bureau of Investigation in India registered a case against #CambridgeAnalytica and GSR for misusing Facebook data. The Bureau alleges only 335 people installed the app yet 562k people had their data harvested.

@EmmaLBriant research: propagandamachine.tech The poster of The Indian National Congress party in Alexander Nix's office as seen in @thegreathackdoc has been the source of much debate in India (according to reports) over which parties Cambridge Analytica worked for.
opindia.com/2021/01/cbi-fi…
Dec 22, 2020 7 tweets 4 min read
💥A DC judge just ordered Steve Bannon to testify under oath to the @FTC about his involvement with #CambridgeAnalytica 💥

Judge said that the hearing can happen before May 2021, before Bannon's NY criminal case.
law360.com/articles/13402… story by @AtkinsonReports Bannon had previously been fighting the FTC saying that he could hurt his NY criminal case by testifying to them.
Dec 1, 2020 7 tweets 6 min read
Excellent work by @JasonLeopold!

Unfortunately the secrets behind these redactions from August remain a mystery. #CambridgeAnalytica whistleblower Brittany Kaiser told #TheGreatHack that she was cooperating with Mueller team. The Russia question remains..
buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl… For context @JasonLeopold obtained Kaiser's 302 in August of 2020. It's entirely redacted. ALL pages in the Mueller report related to #CambridgeAnalytica and any potential Russian connection is redacted. ICO in the UK referred Russia connection to the NCA

buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonl…