The night before America’s election, Fast Company reported: On the internet, we’re subject to hidden A/B tests all the time, but this one was also part of a political weapon: a multimillion-dollar tool kit built by a team of Facebook vets, data nerds, and computational social scientists determined to defeat Donald Trump. The goal is to use microtargeted ads, follow-up surveys,…
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Judge Orders Twitter To Unmask FBI Impersonator Who Set Off Seth Rich Conspiracy
AmiMoJo shares a report from NPR: A federal judge in California has ordered that Twitter reveal the identity of an anonymous user who allegedly fabricated an FBI document to spread a conspiracy theory about the killing of Seth Rich, the Democratic National Committee staffer who died in 2016. The ruling could lead to the identification of the person behind the Twitter…
Massive New Cambridge Analytica Leak Will Show Global Voter Manipulation on ‘Industrial Scale’
A new leak of more than 100,000 documents from Cambridge Analytica’s work in 68 different countries “will lay bare the global infrastructure of an operation used to manipulate voters on ‘an industrial scale,'” writes the Guardian. Long-time Slashdot reader Freshly Exhumed shares their report: The release of documents began on New Year’s Day on an anonymous Twitter account, @HindsightFiles, with links…
Most Americans believe Trump lied to them, but think impeachment is a bad idea
Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/27/18519806/poll-americans-trump-lied-impeachment-mueller-report…
In the Aftermath of the Mueller Report
Readers criticize Robert Mueller’s tactics and discuss impeachment, President Trump’s memory and echoes of Watergate.Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/opinion/letters/trump-mueller-impeachment.html…
Polling shows Fox News has been amazingly effective at shaping opinion on the Mueller report
Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/23/18512347/mueller-report-polling-fox-news-trump…
Edward Snowden: Assange’s Arrest and the Mueller Report Show a ‘Two-Tiered System of Justice’
In this week’s CYBER podcast, we sat down with Edward Snowden to talk about his life in Russia, Julian Assange, and press freedom.Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/597pvk/edward-snowden-assange-arrest-mueller-report…
The scientific maneuver Mueller used that implicates the president
Source: https://www.vox.com/mischiefs-of-faction/2019/4/22/18510837/mueller-report-president-trump…
Rudy Giuliani: There’s nothing wrong with taking info from Russians
Source: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/21/18509789/rudy-giuliani-nothing-wrong-with-taking-info-from-russians…
Bitcoin Couldn’t Hide Russia’s Operatives From Mueller’s Investigation
“Russian operatives used cryptocurrency at almost every stage in their online efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, according to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s final report on his investigation.” So says CNN, adding that “Systems used in the hacking of the Democratic Party were paid for using Bitcoin, as were online hosting services that supported websites which published hacked…