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"Now, authoritarian regimes in the Gulf, along with Western companies and expertise, are using digital technology and social media to try and hack democracy wherever they find it, including in the U.S."
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"Companies are also involved. Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, SCL Social Limited, worked with the UAE to create a social media advertising campaign attacking Qatar, a Gulf rival that’s home of the largest U.S. military base in the region."
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CNN analyst says the intel Trump stole are so sensitive that FBI agents will begin FINGER PRINTING each document to find out who actually touched them.
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It was actually SECOND mention of Arron Banks in parliament today. @CatherineBelton told Foreign Affairs committee that NCA had been unable to properly investigate the true source of his donation
Blimey @CatherineBelton has just said the words ‘Arron Banks’.
‘The NCA wasn’t able to properly investigate the source of Arron Banks’s donation to the Vote Leave campaign because it’s jurisdiction stopped at the Isle of Man company which was co-owned by Arron Banks’
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Given [Putin’s campaign of espionage and infiltration, designed to cause destruction to Britain’s prestige and international effectiveness, why did the security services or the UK Government fail to counter it? And what was the role of Brexit?
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Let me say this.
Convicting #DerekChauvin is just the beginning.
It should never have taken a nearly 10 minute video, millions protesting around the globe for us to convict a murdering cop.
Until today is the norm in our legal system, we will push this government to change.
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The gender binaries of "male" and "female" aren't as universal as you think 🌍
From Samoa 🇼🇸 to Albania 🇦🇱, here are eight cultures throughout history showing that the concept of non-binary gender is far from new 🧵👇
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So the Mail succeeded in getting the Government to delete an entirely correct tweet, criticising a fatuous anti-lockdown article, to keep their cosy ‘relationship’ intact.
Great scoop from @WritesBright
We live in a punditocracy
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Nothing says, “we are doing something about disinformation” by deleting a bazillion fake accounts that were operating with their full knowledge through the last election season.
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2/ RE Fraud - 1.3 billion is *a lot* of accounts. Think of all the advertisers on the platform (political orgs, civic groups, corporations).
Facebook took money from advertisers, then FB showed those ads to fake accounts they let proliferate on the platform unchecked. It's fraud
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1/ Facebook announced today they deleted 1.3 billion fake accounts between Oct - Dec 2020. They're highlighting this as an example of them fighting disinformation effectively.
Actually, it shows opposite and there's a big question about consumer fraud that needs to be asked.
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Populations:
D.C. -- 712,000
Vermont -- 623,000
Wyoming -- 582,000
Senators:
D.C. -- 0
Vermont -- 2
Wyoming -- 2
This isn't complicated. Don't let anyone tell you it is.
#DCStatehood
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Instrumentalization of the tragedy of Jews who suffered, were humiliated, marked with a yellow star, and finally isolated in ghettos and murdered during the Holocaust, in order to argue against vaccination that save human lives is a sad symptom of moral and intellectual decline.
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Google "doesn't have the budget" to pay my speaker's fee for a talk on misogyny and internet safety
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Dorries just said that most nurses will understand and accept the1% pay rise BECAUSE THEY HAVE HUSBANDS AND PARTNERS WHO ARE BRINGING IN SALARIES.
How are we STILL having this conversation???? 😡😡😡
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To save Democracy we need to get rid of Fox News, One America Network, Newsmax, etc. To do this we need to not only boycott their sponsors, but we also need to tell our Cable companies to drop these channels or face a nationwide boycott.
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The week of placebo pills in birth control were designed, not based on medical science, but in an attempt to gain acceptance from the Pope. For 60 yrs, women have suffered monthly bleeding, headaches & mood changes to please a male religious leader. usatoday.com/story/news/heal…
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Pro-tip: Our great-grandfathers knew exactly what to do with Nazis.
Hint: It didn't involve building stages that paid tribute to their iconography, as CPAC did.
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Australia accused of 'shamefully' holding back global action on climate change theguardian.com/australia-ne…
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“Research shows that Kamala Harris may be the most targeted American politician on the internet, one who checks every box for the haters of the fever swamps: She’s a woman, she’s a person of color and she holds power.” lat.ms/2MyN5aM