The internet is "a ripe target for foreign adversaries seeking to meddle in elections." The widespread effort by Russian state proxies to influence American politics included covert expenditures on political ads online.
Online political spending, is likely to increase. #REGULATE
We MUST have transparency for all sources of spending on political ads, regardless of the medium.
🚨FEC has not updated regulations for current realities of internet use.
🚨Congress has also failed to modernize campaign finance rules.
Viral disinformation on the internet + social media was a huge factor in the 2016 election. It was part of a Russian #ActOfWar, working together with American accomplices, to STEAL THE ELECTION + install Trump + his protectors in office.
Putin's model was executed by the Mercers for Trump's campaign (Bannon, Conway, Breitbart, Bossie). MOST of what Trump said during the campaign (and since) were LIES. Mercer's team spread disinformation and operated the "spin machine" for Trump.
London firm Strategic Communications Library (SCL) has one goal, used by authoritarian regimes:
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MANIPULATE PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR AWARENESS TO SOLVE A PROBLEM.
Their subsidiary, Cambridge Analytica, started in 2013 and PARTNERED WITH MERCER. Bannon = VP.
Cambridge Analytica (CA) skimmed personal data for 230 MILLION Americans from the web AND bought data from banks, credit card companies, Google, Facebook, Twitter...
Enough to build psychological profiles on MILLIONS of voters.
In June-July 2016, Trump paid $11,000,000 to CA
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Trump + his "campaign team", which we might better refer to as Russian #ForeignAgents, specifically used the SCL + Cambridge Analytica PSYOPs to target voters in key precincts to deliver the Electoral College to Trump.
Mercer + minion Bannon implemented Putin's disinfo war plan.
In October, as part of it massive ongoing #TrumpRussia investigation, the House Intel Committee requested information from Cambridge Analytica, regarding its "work" for the Trump campaign.
Trump's "digital director", Brad Parscale "denied having any knowledge of Russian involvement in the campaign's data operations".
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Good one to stick a pin in, @RepSwalwell@RepSpeier@MarkWarner.
Julian Assange says Cambridge Analytica asked known Russian propaganda outlet Wikileaks for help the Trump campaign, by releasing Clinton's "missing emails".
I personally believe nothing Assange says, but presumably this is confirmed by other sources.
Now, follow the trail of Putin's disinformation wars, Mercer's hiring of Cambridge Analytica to run PSYOPs and compile a massive database of information on MILLIONS (not to mention the Equifax hack, the Uber hack, etc), and potential VOTER REGISTRATION FILES with this:
Now, remember Parscale claimed he knew nothing about any Russian involvement in the Trump campaign data operations?
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Ask him about the domains/subdomains pointed to PARSCALE's OWN CLOUD, while multiple associated subdomains WERE POINTED AT RUSSIA.
If you're interested in other work by @mikefarb1 and his #unhackthevote team, here are a couple of samples.
Mike and team are currently working on EXPLOSIVE findings for #Pennsylvania (much more to come)
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Unhackthevote.com is systematically performing election forensics analysis on multiple states. Data and results are posted on VoteSleuth.org by @saill.
2/ These maps are made using election results data. These are numbers all tallied up in a database or spreadsheet summarizing how many people cast votes for each party's candidates on election day, by precinct.
The maps are only as good as the data.
3/ If the data are correct, the map is correct.
If the data are wrong… you get the picture.
Here’s summary level info for Raleigh, for example.
I am so disappointed in our country, but I know I am partly to blame. I was angry and disillusioned about the level of corruption in our government, at all levels, but I did not know how to change it. I became complacent and took too many things for granted.
NOW WE ARE AWAKE
I will never be complacent again. This corruption is completely intolerable. I am ANGRY + I will fight until we permanently change this country for the better.
I know you feel the same way. Our strength is in our numbers. We must stay united, strategic, and relentless. #SKorea
Step 1: It is URGENT that we get Dems to the polls in record-breaking, shocking numbers.
That is what it is going to take to overcome all the GOP cheating, hacking, propaganda, and election fraud. Go door-to-door. Talk to your neighbors. This is absolutely critical.