https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👏🏽" title="Applaus-Zeichen (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Applaus-Zeichen (mittlerer Hautton)"> to @ObserverUK editors. This is a must-read, particularly if you saw any tweets this week attempting to minimize Cambridge Analytica as a “scam or nothing-burger” invented by the media. Observer sets the record straight. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/11/the-observer-view-on-the-information-commissioners-cambridge-analytica-investigation">https://www.theguardian.com/commentis...
Once you read it, and only then, I recommend this thread where you can see a NYT Pulitzer reporter (a day before his team broke another massive report on Trump taxes btw) also making similar observations. https://twitter.com/nickconfessore/status/1314562450105282560">https://twitter.com/nickconfe...
None of these journalists name the culprits who used their influence to mislead the public while likely not having even read the full UK, Canada reports last yr: @benedictevans @mtaibbi @ggreenwald @afneil stand out as causing misinfo, minimizing the case as a “hoax.”
And @carolecadwalla makes a small reference in this thread to journalists who had to jump in and cover so unintentionally missed the depth and nuance of what really happened. https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1315261244295778305">https://twitter.com/carolecad...
Regardless, nothing excuses Facebook’s role in scandal and their cover-up of it. Facebook’s DC PR office further disgraced itself this week with @andymstone’s critical tweets of Cadwalladr and the two dozen experts on @FBoversight working to provide oversight of FB.
As an example, if you haven’t read the Canadian Commissioner’s report on AIQ, the SEC complaint, or the actual ICO report last year, maybe y’all need to make some phone calls before reporting or weighing in. https://www.oipc.bc.ca/investigation-reports/2363">https://www.oipc.bc.ca/investiga...
Here is another reporter who actually tracked and reported on the matter from the beginning noting same issues with @ggreenwald https://twitter.com/issielapowsky/status/1314545439476273158">https://twitter.com/issielapo...
And on the positive side, there is an attorney general (DC) who is still pursuing this case hard focused on Facebook’s role and cover-up. He deserves your attention and support. Trust he won’t settle as the FTC and SEC did on matters of democracy for a mere $5B and change. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1314173784920858626">https://twitter.com/jason_kin...
And I will close with @carolecadwalla’s thread. She is relentless continuing to press for light and truth where significant forces have worked to cover-up their wrongdoing. In a case where complexity and messiness of truth-finding have often been weaponized against her. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏🏽" title="Folded hands (mittlerer Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Folded hands (mittlerer Hautton)"> https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/1315231308872912899">https://twitter.com/carolecad...
Adding this thread from @profcarroll whose case the UK data commissioner called groundbreaking for data rights. He also accurately describes case and breaks some news that the servers are being re-examined based on the evidence acquired and reported on by @Channel4News. https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/1315289018310045697">https://twitter.com/profcarro...
I’ll append these comments here. I only chose a few examples of why you should dismiss this “definitive history.” It’s not at all. Countless other examples lie within it. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1315648580410052609">https://twitter.com/jason_kin...
Hey @jamesrbuk, no doubt this was a complex investigation involving Canada, UK, US FTC, SEC and several state AGs (very much ongoing https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⬆️" title="Pfeil nach oben" aria-label="Emoji: Pfeil nach oben">). Your “definitive history” over the weekend is a hot mess for those who have indeed tracked the fact-finding and real implications. https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1315648580410052609">https://twitter.com/jason_kin...
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