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Aral Balkan
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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    1. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      We build a giant deception machine called marketing and advertising, and an adversary used it against us.

      23 replies 942 retweets 3,851 likes
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    2. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      We build a giant influence machine called social media, and an adversary used it against us.

      15 replies 851 retweets 3,561 likes
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    3. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      We left open, unreconciled divisions in our society, and an adversary used it against us.

      11 replies 705 retweets 3,191 likes
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    4. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      We weakened our press such that all the phony conflict inspired by this information warfare campaign was reported in real-time with little to no vetting, and an adversary used it against us.

      9 replies 768 retweets 3,261 likes
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    5. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      We allowed our democracy to become so corrupted by money and self-serving, power-hungry folks that we already didn't trust it, and an adversary used it against us.

      16 replies 986 retweets 3,784 likes
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    6. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      If the election had turned out differently, would we even know half of what we do? We only got Robert Mueller because Trump is president but also bad at wielding his power.

      27 replies 454 retweets 2,753 likes
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    7. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      And even though the Russians amplified divisions to be greater than they are, those divisions are real now. There is a basic level of trust we have to have in our environment to act appropriately, and that's severely broken.

      11 replies 514 retweets 2,586 likes
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    8. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      On top of that, one-half of the political establishment (the republican half) is completely uninterested in acknowledging, investigating, or responding to this sophisticated act of information warfare. They've done NOTHING to prepare us for the next campaign.

      36 replies 870 retweets 3,615 likes
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    9. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      The president still hasn't imposed the Russia sanctions that Congress passed overwhelmingly. And everybody's just acting like, "Meh. TRUMP WILL BE TRUMP! Undermining national security is just his THING ya know?"

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    10. Baratunde‏Verified account @baratunde Feb 16

      And Facebook. Oh Facebook. So happy to monetize the destruction of our civil fabric. They made $7B in the 3rd quarter of 2016. Zuckerberg smugly said 99% of posts are "authentic." We cannot trust this company to do what's best for us. Not just FB btw.https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/13/zuckerberg-claims-99-of-facebook-posts-authentic-denies-fake-news-there-influenced-election/ …

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      Aral Balkan‏ @aral Feb 17
      Replying to @baratunde @bracing

      #SurveillanceCapitalism has dire ramifications for democracy and human rights: Excuse Me, Your Unicorn Keeps Shitting In My Back Yard, Can He Please Not? https://ind.ie/excuse-me/  (Or, if you prefer longer form text: https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/ …)

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