Election internet influence ops: a reminder that HRC's campaign ran an astroturf troll operation. As the LA Times described it: "In effect, the effort aims to spend a large sum of money to increase the amount of trolling that already exists online."
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Election internet influence ops: An important study of Silicon Valley's role in the election reveals embedded teams that made companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter extensions of political campaigns — and a hidden form of influence and lobbying.
politico.com/story/2017/10/
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This is the original study, which deserves a lot more attention. It shows a total merging of Silicon Valley with the campaign apparatus of both the Democratic and Republican parties. Really amazing work. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10
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Election influence flops: Russian tweets did not cause Brexit, study finds. What a surprise. ft.com/content/fbf8ab
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Election influence flops: DHS officials says no one hacked the election systems of "21 states." c-span.org/video/?c470028 (HT: )
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In congressional testimony, DHS official Christopher Krebs denied that Russia attempted to hack the voting systems of 21 states. Countless major news outlets have still not corrected or clarified this discredited story, which they sourced to DHS. c-span.org/video/?c470028
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Election influence ops: Got money? Facebook's political propaganda machine is here to help.
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"...Facebook’s engine of democracy is deployed in an undemocratic fashion."
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Election influence ops: Facebook cites its work for far-right Ted Cruz's PAC as a success story.
"Cruz-ing to a win"
facebook.com/business/succe
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Election influence ops: Reminder that 's theory as to why the NSA will not offer evidence that Russia hacked the DNC is because "there were probably six or seven groups" inside that leaky server.
spiegel.de/international/
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Election influence ops: This WaPo story is nuts, complete with CIA proposals to create fake websites and fake personas.
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Election influence ops: mobile.twitter.com/notifications/
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In 1972, Senator Fulbright wanted to shut down America's government-fnded propaganda radio stations RFE/RL: "I submit that these radios should be given an opportunity to take their rightful place in the graveyard of cold‐war relics."
They weren't shut down, but expanded.
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Election Influence Ops: say hello to Trump State Department’s new lavishly funded propaganda division.
usatoday.com/story/news/wor
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More USG influence ops:
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Alert! America’s Foggy Bottom Troll Farm gets a uuuuge cash infusion. thehill.com/policy/cyberse
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More on HRC's troll farm:
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Hillary Clinton campaign's multi-million dollar troll farm:
thedailybeast.com/hillary-pac-sp
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Election influence ops: Global surveillance company Facebook bans insignificant "Trump-affiliated" data firm Cambridge Analytica
sfgate.com/business/techn
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Global surveillance corp Facebook doesn't like it when little spy goons like Cambridge Analytica try to muscle in on its turf:
"...the firm harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission"
nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/
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Remember: Facebook supports rightwing politicians, including those backed by Trump/Analytica sugar daddy Robert Mercer.
Exhibit A: Facebook's election ops for Ted Cruz.
facebook.com/business/succe
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Internet influence ops: Cambridge Analytica has contract with State Department to fight Russian propaganda...on Facebook. You can't make this up, folks.
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Ha-ha. Great find! The Facebook vs Cambridge Analytica battle. Who will win?
I dunno. But they both supported Ted Cruz, so that must mean something. twitter.com/adamjohnsonNYC
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Remember, the internet was designed by the Pentagon in the 1960s to be a info-weapon — a weapon of surveillance, influence and control. And it continues to be that today.
From Surveillance Valley...
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So Cambridge Analytica's whistleblower says they had a team of photographers and writers creating individually-targeted online articles based on voters' personalities. That would be a huge, costly effort. Seems a bit improbable, no?
Do we have evidence?
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interesting detail about CA whistleblower Christopher Wylie: he learned his data-based people manipulation craft from President Obama's election campaign.
theguardian.com/news/2018/mar/
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Just popped by bunker to briefly talk about big data snake oil and Cambridge Analytica.
Remember: Cambridge Analytica’s scary sophisticated data weapon was first used to get Ted Cruz elected president. How did that work?
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Guess when we knew Cambridge Analytica grabbed Facebook data?
2015. It is 2018 now.
theguardian.com/us-news/2015/d
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American election influence ops help the German far-right:
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American election influence ops: Helping the German Right.
"The Russian meddling that German state security had been anticipating apparently never materialized. Instead, the foreign influence came from America."
bloomberg.com/news/articles/
HT: @samhusseini
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Domestic Internet influence ops: boosting war with Iran.
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Twitter has been inundated by fake accounts like the one below. These fake "Iranians" praise Trump, call for sanctions and war with Iran, etc. They don't have many followers but they all appear to be following the same FDD folks. You do the math...
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Just throwing another one on top of my domestic internet influence ops thread. So many influence ops to keep track of!
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Courtesy of the Atlantic Council, a military thinktank repping oil companies, Gulf monarchies, Wall St, weapons makers and now...Silicon Valley. twitter.com/telesurenglish…
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And of course who can forget the Koch-backed Tea Party movement, one of the earliest and most successful internet influence ops:
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Reminder: the Tea Party was a Koch funded influence op.
exiledonline.com/exposing-the-f twitter.com/paulkrugman/st
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