Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant @EmmaLBriant Twitter profile

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Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

2 years

NEW READ: A real honour to be interviewed on my work by the esteemed veteran #freedomofexpression organization @IndexCensorship here in “The woman exposing the propaganda puppet masters” 👇

The woman exposing the propaganda puppet masters - Index on Censorship

Emma Briant researches the players behind some of the largest misinformation and disinformation campaigns today

www.indexoncensorship.org

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@EmmaLBriant

4 years

Well this is a tragic embarrassment. New York authorities say they can only shut schools during coronavirus as an absolute last resort because 114,000 of the school children are homeless & would have nowhere else to go. ⁦ @nytimes ⁩

Coronavirus in N.Y.C.: Why Closing Public Schools Is a ‘Last Resort’ (Published 2020)

The city’s schools will probably stay open because they double as social service centers for hundreds of thousands of poor students.

www.nytimes.com

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Sweden has launched The Swedish Psychological Defence Agency - for identifying, analysing and responding to influence campaigns and 'misleading information' directed at Sweden or Swedish interests.

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Dr Emma Briant in the ⁦ @guardian ⁩ today “There’s evidence of really quite disturbing experiments on American voters” .. “This is an entire global industry that’s out of control but what this does is lay out what was happening with this one company.”

Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’

Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents

www.theguardian.com

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Maddow just tweeted my research. I'm sorry, but am I allowed to be a bit excited about how awesome that is?

Rachel Maddow MSNBC

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"There are direct links between the political movements behind Brexit and Trump. We’ve got to recognise the bigger picture here. This is being coordinated across national borders by very wealthy people in a way we haven’t seen before."

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WOW - this is the full 30min documentary on #brexit crimes and lies with me interviewed by @ZDF (big TV in 🇩🇪 ), they filmed me at the European Parliament too, this is the English language version with Farage, @carolecadwalla whistleblowers etc. @SMPAGWU

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When I was sent an anonymous #Brexit -related death threat last year it it said they would send me to ‘meet Jo Cox’. Words & memories have power. @BorisJohnson language in Parliament today isn’t carelessness, he surely knows invoking her name as he did is inflammatory, polarising.

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If you are teaching about propaganda in 2023, you should not be using Chomsky as the authority on propaganda or disinformation. Plenty still are. Not only because he’s been wrong about important world events. His model (led by Ed Herman actually) also just misunderstands

Idrees Ahmad | idreesahmad.bsky.social

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Noam Chomsky, who spread disinformation about wars from Cambodia, Bosnia, Syria to Ukraine, has been commissioned to deliver a @MasterClass how to “fight disinformation”! I first thought it was satire.

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What @snowden revealed was the construction and foundations of the same surveillance and influence nightmare that is now coming of age, weaponised worldwide. We needed that knowledge. Let’s learn the lessons, reform surveillant infrastructure and influence.

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My evidence has just been published by the UK @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry here: #CambridgeAnalytica #SCL #emerdata #brexit This was not easy but it was my public responsibility as an academic and matter of personal conscience to submit to the inquiry.

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BREAKING My Interactive #CambridgeAnalytica Map is LIVE - the first project to collate, analyze and map reporting of the worldwide activities of SCL, CA scandal-ridden companies see @carolecadwalla @profcarroll @DamianCollins @VickerySec #datarights #trump

Home | Propaganda Machine

This is Propaganda Machine the website for Dr Briant's ongoing research on SCL, Cambridge Analytica and the rapidly developing and opaque global influence industry. Home of the Cambridge Analytica...

www.propagandamachine.tech

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Is he honestly now suggesting the holocaust happened because or was triggered by the US entry to WW2? This is incredible. @TwitterSafety

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New article in the @Guardian based on my research, new @CommonsCMS evidence 'Emails reveal Arron Banks’ links to Steve Bannon in quest for campaign cash' thanks to @carolecadwalla @TownsendMark

Emails reveal Arron Banks’ links to Steve Bannon in quest for campaign cash

Businessman sought Trump strategist’s help to raise funds for Leave.EU in the US

www.theguardian.com

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In 2018 I provided evidence to the UK Fake News Inquiry & ICO of Arron Banks’ misuse of LeaveEU data for his insurance company. He wasted months of @ICONews and courts time fighting £105,000 data protection fines and of course has lost his flimsy appeal.

Leave.EU donor Arron Banks loses data breach appeal

Tribunal ruling noted Brexit campaign and insurance company owned by its key backer had a ‘two-faced approach to regulation’

www.theguardian.com

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Well this is interesting. One can only assume this may be linked to the FBI inquiries into her Chief of Staff meddling in Puerto Rico. As someone who studies Anglo-American relations, this is both a hell of a snub and an unusually blatant incursion in America’s backyard.

Reuters UK

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British Prime Minister Truss won't meet Biden in Downing Street on Sunday

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Facebook has had all its chances. Why we need to #breakupfacebook and build open source algorithms and non-profit privacy-enabled social media architecture now. @FBoversight

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Steve Bannon is back and streaming on Facebook Live a day after calling for the execution of two government officials. 6.9k concurrent viewers, 1.4k reactions, 1.6k comments, 820 shares

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Very proud that I was able to play a role in contributing key evidence to this important investigation through my academic research. Well done to all those who worked so hard and bravely took risks to get the truth out. Especially @chrisinsilico @shahmiruk @carolecadwalla

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

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So, the cat is officially out of the bag. Tomorrow’s ICO’s report on FT front page. Maximum possible fine for Facebook. Criminal enforcement against Cambridge Analytica. Huge investigation ongoing into MULTIPLE crimes potentially committed in referendum. The ICO is bringing it..

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Extremely important breaking news story. Americans need to see these transcripts.

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@EmmaLBriant

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Sorry to see @NewYorker in generally good article let Banks pretend that Cambridge Analytica went to HIM with the suggestion to fund campaign using illegal foreign funds, emails in my evidence show HIM asking CA for this. Here he was allowed to spin it.

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Whistleblower @shahmiruk is considering running for MEP! RT this if you think he’d be great and to show him would donate the cost of a pint to crowdfund the £5k he needs to register! #brexit #EuropeanElections @carolecadwalla @brexit_sham

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BIG BREAKING NEWS! The DC Attorney General is suing Mark Zuckerberg over #CambridgeAnalytica - but you know, that was clearly a storm in a teacup… snake oil… hmmm?! (READ the suit here: ) ⁦

D.C. attorney general sues Zuckerberg over Cambridge Analytica scandal

The suit filed Monday morning accuses the CEO of Facebook parent company Meta of being directly involved in decision making that led to the Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@EmmaLBriant

5 years

BIG: my latest evidence just published by @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry including the earliest planning emails of the LeaveEU campaign, Arron Banks' seeking foreign funding and Steve Bannon's role. Please share! also see: @carolecadwalla @JaneMayerNYer

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BIG NEWS BREAKING ON #LEAVEEU and #BREXIT Supports my own evidence that work was done by #CambridgeAnalytica

Nick Stylianou 👀

@nmsonline

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Cambridge Analytica emails have been published by the DCMS committee from Brittany Kaiser, former Director of Business Development, stating that "chargeable work was done at the direction of @UKIP and @LeaveEUOfficial and @UKIP ". @Arron_banks then paid UKIP, who didn't pay CA.

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This is important news. It's also far from the only reason TPA shouldn't be a go-to source for journalists. On anything. Very frequently they are reported without even declaring the narrow interests they represent. That must stop.

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Considering the @DailyMailUK has greatly contributed to building the anti-refugee sentiment that likely weighted the decision to NOT save Afghan refugees and bring them to Britain, this is a bit rich.

Rt Hon Johnny Mercer

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“Ministers were accused of presiding over the biggest foreign policy catastrophe for 65 years”. Indeed. Take responsibility. We are a sovereign Nation state. They deserved better than the nil response this weekend.

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The most important person in my life is gone. I'll miss you forever Mum.

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@EmmaLBriant

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My heart is breaking. My Mum is in the hospital and I can't be there. We are on FaceTime but it's likely she is not able to understand me. I want to have every hug I could not give and every conversation we could not have.

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Oh look it’s Governor Bryant from Mississippi with Farage again. Wonder what they’re up to this time. What does #brexit have to do with #Mississippi hmmm??! #Mississippianalytica #TheGreatHack

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Proud to have joined my friends @Nigel_Farage and @peggy_grande in NYC at an event to support the fight for Brexit.

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VITAL today that everyone writes to the @electoralcommission to demand they reopen the investigation into whether LeaveEU received services from Cambridge Analytica.

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@EmmaLBriant

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BIG NEWS BREAKING ON #LEAVEEU and #BREXIT Supports my own evidence that work was done by #CambridgeAnalytica

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@EmmaLBriant

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Quite honestly, I’m not downloading any contact tracing app that hasn’t been made by a university, ideally with clear involvement of and approval by a privacy organisation. Keep the profit making companies out of this.

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'Information unearthed by Emma Briant, a British academic, revealed Bannon's name was on Brexit-related corporate emails dating to October 2015, when he was a vice president of Cambridge Analytica.'

Steve Bannon: Fired architect of Trump's campaign insists he's still relevant. Others aren't so sure

Nearly 18 months after Steve Bannon was fired from the Trump White House he insists he's as relevant as ever. The evidence is hard to see.

www.usatoday.com

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@EmmaLBriant

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BREAKING now on #CambridgeAnalytica - A year long investigation extracted from my upcoming book now in @BylineTimes examines @FinancialTimes relationship with CA and their attempts to cover it up during the scandal.

Byline Times

@BylineTimes

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EXCLUSIVE ➡️Dark Ironies: The Financial Times and Cambridge Analytica @EmmaLBriant reports on the contract between the famous media company and the now-defunct data operation set up by Steve Bannon and Robert Mercer 👇

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BREAKING: Met Police will now only investigate breaches of Covid laws which have not happened yet.

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@EmmaLBriant

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This is THE most important change needed in US politics today. The money drives everything... everything.

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BREAKING: Congress just reintroduced a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. This is huge.

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@EmmaLBriant

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Awesome! Now with subtitles! Footage of the inside of the Eldon Insurance building LeaveEU call center in Bristol.

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@EmmaLBriant

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Delighted to see this really excellent US reporting of my evidence being published Mon by @CommonsCMS from @JaneMayerNYer in the @NewYorker today 'New Evidence Emerges of Steve Bannon and Cambridge Analytica’s Role in Brexit' @donie @rowlsmanthorpe

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‘Prevent disruption’ = they were doing nothing wrong. There is absolutely NO evidence of anything problematic, no violence. These were peaceful protesters criminalized for their political speech, for wanting a true democracy.

Reuters

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Police arrested the leader of anti-monarchy group Republic and 51 others at King Charles' coronation, saying their duty to prevent disruption outweighed the right to protest 1/6

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NEW reporting from ⁦ @daveyalba ⁩ ⁦ @dzuidijk ⁩ with comment from me on how hate and deception is spreading on ⁦ @Twitter ⁩ as @ElonMusk deletes the tweet where he amplified these harmful narratives.

Musk Posts Then Deletes Tweet Spreading Conspiracy Theory on Pelosi Attack

Episode shows pressures ahead as free-speech goals run up against Musk’s pledges to advertisers

www.bloomberg.com

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@EmmaLBriant

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Former FBI spy hunter pleads guilty to working for Russian oligarch. Charles McGonigal, once special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York office, admitted that he took money from Putin crony Oleg Deripaska.

Former FBI spy hunter pleads guilty to working for Russian oligarch

Charles McGonigal, once special agent in charge of counterintelligence at the FBI’s New York office, admitted that he took money from Putin crony Oleg Deripaska.

www.nbcnews.com

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@EmmaLBriant

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In the light of this horrific fakery by LeaveEU I am sharing here the full list of links of my evidence submitted to the Fake News Inquiry on LeaveEU's horrific nazi-esque campaign fuelled by data misuse and with unclear funding sources @CommonsCMS #brexit

Policy Reports, Testimony & Written Evidence – MAVEN OF PERSUASION

UK Parliament – Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee 2021 Response Submitted to UK Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Select Committee ‘Inquiry into the...

emma-briant.co.uk

Channel 4 News

@Channel4News

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Channel 4 News investigation reveals how Arron Banks' pro-Brexit group Leave EU faked a migrant-crossing video and appeared to have staged photos of migrants attacking women in London. Watch the full report at 7pm on Channel 4.

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ICYMI Mark Zuckerberg will have to give a 6-hour deposition about Cambridge Analytica as part of a class-action lawsuit

Mark Zuckerberg will have to give a 6-hour deposition about Cambridge Analytica as part of a...

The class-action lawsuit was filed in 2018 on behalf of California Facebook users and will depose Zuckerberg, along with other key executives.

www.businessinsider.com

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@EmmaLBriant

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@060644FranceJen @UKLabour If you don’t address the systemic problem of abuses of our electoral and political communication systems how on earth do you hope to have a fair election?

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Breaking: Whistleblowers say Arron Banks ‘misled’ viewers on BBC Andrew Marr show - nice work @PeterKGeoghegan

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@EmmaLBriant

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@jayrosen_nyu @katestarbird 👇

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@EmmaLBriant

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Urgh… this is exactly what I went through at the hands of the far right during the #CambridgeAnalytica revelations. I didn’t speak out about it as Kate is but the tactics and effort to shut down the work I was doing were the same. Solidarity. ✊ Glad Kate at least has support.

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And wow states are banning things that don't exist now!

Tennessee legislature passes bill based on 'chemtrails' conspiracy theory: What to know

The Tennessee Senate has passed a bill targeting "chemtrails." Why the conspiracy theory has been debunked and what's next.

www.tennessean.com

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@EmmaLBriant

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Folks sharing videos of Tucker Carlson talking about the decline of sexy M&Ms - yes it’s nuts… He has that ridiculous content mixed in with his appalling propaganda to get you to share his damn BS and get people to watch like it’s harmless comedy. Stop it. Don’t share it!!!!

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@EmmaLBriant

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This raises real concerns about how robust the US investigation into Russia and #CambridgeAnalytica was. Appalling they did not ask for the data they needed to investigate then stated they could not get this from UK authorities!!!!

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

3 years

IMPORTANT - Elizabeth Denham from @ICOnews just responded to question I’ve been asking re senate intelligence committee report into Russia vol 5 statement they couldn’t get #Cambridgeanalytica emails from UK authorities- they did NOT ask her and she WILL provide if they ask (!)

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@EmmaLBriant

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Please share widely! They must not be allowed to bury bad news! #Brexit #BrexitShambles #VoteLeaveCheated

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@EmmaLBriant

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@AdamParkhomenko @davidalim Anybody might wonder if it has something to do with this

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@EmmaLBriant

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NEW ARTICLE: I argue ‘Censorship’ of the Kremlin’s war isn’t all it seems... responding to recent comments by Glenn Greenwald and Elon Musk's Twitter purchase on the back of claims that pro-Russia views are being censored.

How Russia benefits from ill-informed social media policies | Brookings

In today’s world of geolocation and digital forensics, it becomes harder to hide a war crime from the world. This is why building uncertainty is vital—to undermine trust in this evidence, Dr. Emma...

www.brookings.edu

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@EmmaLBriant

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Prigozhin hasn’t done anything “to avoid bloodshed” in his life. Reporters, please don’t do this.

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Rebel Russian mercenaries will turn back to avoid bloodshed, leader says

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Twitter literally states that it does NOT consider @NPR (and the @BBC ) to be state controlled in its definition of ‘state-affiliated media’. Hey @elonmusk what exactly has changed at @NPR for you to relabel it… and why does your policy contradict???

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Putin visits Mariupol 2023 Hitler visits Mariupol 1941 HT @johnpaul_newman photo on the right

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HUGE NEWS breaking on #CambridgeAnalytica parent #SCL ’s partnerships in the Passports industry: “three separate introduction agreements were found between Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL) and Henley & Partners.”

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A reminder of what Andy Wigmore said to me about #JoCox in my research interviews with him. When do we see LeaveEU Facebook ads? Did they stop? @carolecadwalla @chrisinsilico @shahmiruk @peterjukes @PeterKGeoghegan @brexit_sham @julie4nw read more:

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"We need tougher action against disinformation and propaganda" - my new piece in @BrookingsInst #Techtank looking at weaknesses in our approach to #disinfo #influence #infoops post- #CambridgeAnalytica #SCL and action STILL needed to tackle the problems.

We need tougher action against disinformation and propaganda | Brookings

Emma Briant calls for action to address online influence campaigns in the United States and abroad.

www.brookings.edu

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@EmmaLBriant

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Can I just take a moment to thank everyone who voted Trump out of the White House. This is a terrifying week for the world. But I can’t even imagine how this crisis would be if Trump were still in a position to help Putin.

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Incredible- a multi year cover up and of course most of the media no longer covering this… even as the PR driven stories that called it a nothing burger are debunked one court doc at a time

Jason Kint

@jason_kint

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this is first time I've seen these exact words in a court doc, "his [Mark Zuckerberg] role in covering up Cambridge Analytica when Facebook first discovered it in 2015." This all gets to timeline where Zuckerberg's testimony and Facebook's failure to answer Parliament. /3

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Hey America apparently it’s vitally important in US national interest to have Britain’s biggest racist fuckwit Nigel Farage here - which rather begs the question of what is so *vitally important* to Trump about him being here that gets him in...? What ARE you up to NF?

Ashley Cowburn

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US Department of Homeland Security says Nigel Farage was allowed to board flight as it was in "the national interest". He was initially denied boarding.

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Hey, this is a big deal folks 👇

Wendy Siegelman

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The Scottish Government has been urged to apply for an unexplained wealth order to investigate Trump’s deals to acquire his Scottish properties - a UWO is tool to target suspected foreign officials who may have laundered stolen $ in the UK, by @MartynMcL

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My important new article on @medium Oxford University can’t hide its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal by @emmalbriant please RT and share widely thanks @carolecadwalla @profcarroll @ProfessorShaw

Oxford University can’t hide its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal

By Emma L Briant*

medium.com

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BREAKING: My new article @Wired - After many headlines on the scale of 'disinfo for sale' -is the @oiioxford recent study offering useful insight for policymakers into its growth? I say no. 'The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation'

The Grim Consequences of a Misleading Study on Disinformation

An influential study relies too heavily on news media reporting—which has only recently acknowledged the social media manipulation problem at all.

www.wired.com

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@EmmaLBriant

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I was told my private communications may have been hacked & released via a Russian state media journalist. He sent only a threatening message accusing me of ‘targeting’ people & promising to damage my career - no right of reply to an article in good faith. This isn’t journalism.

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The story behind my evidence submissions to the inquiries exposing Cambridge Analytica: "I’ve seen inside the digital propaganda machine. And it’s dark in there"

I’ve seen inside the modern propaganda machine. And it’s dark in there | Emma Briant

My research lifted the lid on Cambridge Analytica, its parent company SCL and Leave.EU, says journalism lecturer Emma Briant

www.theguardian.com

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I am completely astounded by this claim. Speechless.

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@EmmaLBriant @Und3rtak3rB33 Just like there is no broad consensus among the Ukrainian population as is painfully evident from nearly a decade of civil war. For every eye witness testimony from civilian victims of Russian atrocities, there is eye witness testimony of civilians pointing the finger at Azov...

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Here we go AGAIN… Folks sharing Tucker Carlson’s homoerotic montage - yes you fell for it again… He has that ridiculous content to get people to share his damn BS, it’s not harmless to share and laugh. Stop. Don’t share it!!!! I pointed this out about the sexy M&Ms - now stop!

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

2 years

Folks sharing videos of Tucker Carlson talking about the decline of sexy M&Ms - yes it’s nuts… He has that ridiculous content mixed in with his appalling propaganda to get you to share his damn BS and get people to watch like it’s harmless comedy. Stop it. Don’t share it!!!!

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@EmmaLBriant

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3 years ago my #CambridgeAnalytica and #SCL evidence was published by @CommonsDCMS Fake News Inquiry. You cannot know how hard, how terrifying it was. 3 years on I still live, write, publish in constant threat but I grow stronger, fight harder with a little help from my friends.

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

6 years

My evidence has just been published by the UK @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry here: #CambridgeAnalytica #SCL #emerdata #brexit This was not easy but it was my public responsibility as an academic and matter of personal conscience to submit to the inquiry.

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BREAKING: Fantastic reporting from @sarafarolfi -I know how long she worked on this - we began speaking about this in 2020! “A Faustian Pact”: How Henley & Partners’ “Passport King” and Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Firm Sought to Sway Caribbean Politics

“A Faustian Pact”: How Henley & Partners’ “Passport King” and Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Firm...

In 2009 and 2010, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, which infamously misused Facebook data in the 2016 U.S. election, oversaw multiple electoral campaigns across the Caribbean. Behind the ...

www.occrp.org

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@EmmaLBriant

2 years

After the Skripal poisoning in 2018, Johnson as foreign secretary insisted "unexplained wealth orders" would be "intensified" to seize suspect assets. ⁦ @PrivateEyeNews ⁩ find 0 issued to Russian holders of British wealth.

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@EmmaLBriant

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Yes, America, the big lesson to draw from the #UKElection is not ‘avoid being too left wing’ (this is not why @UKLabour are likely suffering) it’s to address the weakness of regulation of #dataprivacy and dark $$$ being funnelled into the opaque #influenceindustry

r0zetta

@r0zetta

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To my fellow US disinformation researchers: fake news, facebook ads, and dark money funnelled into offshore companies that control massive numbers of sockpuppets is enough to swing an election. We can't find all of it. And it can't be stopped. Look at what is happening in the UK.

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Emma Briant, an academic at Bard College, New York, who specialises in investigating propaganda and has had access to some of the documents for research, said that what had been revealed was “the tip of the iceberg”. ⁦ @guardian ⁩ #womenofinfluence

Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’

Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents

www.theguardian.com

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@EmmaLBriant

4 years

BREAKING My article with @OCCRP on #Emic , spun off from #cambridgeanalytica parent company SCL - it continued work for governments shaping the future of global influence operations amid ongoing investigations @carolecadwalla @peterjukes @AndreaChalupa @DamianCollins @BardCollege

Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project

@OCCRP

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OPINION: Just before Cambridge Analytica’s parent company filed for bankruptcy, an employee started a new firm specializing in the same “behavioral modification” tactics. @EmmaLBriant on how gov’ts are failing to oversee the global influence industry.

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@EmmaLBriant

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I’d really love to know who made the executive decision in 2016 that all propaganda studies would focus narrowly in on would be #disinformation to the exclusion of a more sophisticated understanding of strategic and manipulative communication.

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@EmmaLBriant

5 years

Anyone who saw @carolecadwalla excellent reporting today on Nigel Farage, Bannon, Russian officials... here is the research/emails from me that she mentions as published by @CommonsCMS

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

5 years

BIG: my latest evidence just published by @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry including the earliest planning emails of the LeaveEU campaign, Arron Banks' seeking foreign funding and Steve Bannon's role. Please share! also see: @carolecadwalla @JaneMayerNYer

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Crikey! Look what we did! The US Government is suing Facebook because of the Cambridge Analytica revelations! D.C. attorney general sues Facebook over alleged privacy violations from Cambridge Analytica scandal

‘It’s about time’: Facebook faces first lawsuit from U.S. regulators after Cambridge Analytica...

The attorney general for the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against Facebook for allowing Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy, to gain access to the names, "likes" and...

www.washingtonpost.com

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@EmmaLBriant

4 years

Politicians need to be given this treatment more often, interviews are too sycophantic.

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4 years

This was Trump's epic meltdown on 60 Minutes and it was even worse than reported. Trump literally ran away because he didn't like the questions.

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@EmmaLBriant

2 years

What a shocker more folk who worked with #CambridgeAnalytica spreading BS on the covid vaccine

Brian Moore

@brianmoore666

2 years

So, as a responsible journalist, I expect you tried to contact the three women and verify this hearsay, or did you just parrot the uncoroborated, dangerous nonsense?

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Urgh… this is exactly what I went through at the hands of the far right during the #CambridgeAnalytica revelations. I didn’t speak out about it as Kate is but the tactics and effort to shut down the work I was doing were the same. Solidarity. ✊ Glad Kate at least has support.

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@EmmaLBriant

3 years

IMPORTANT - Elizabeth Denham from @ICOnews just responded to question I’ve been asking re senate intelligence committee report into Russia vol 5 statement they couldn’t get #Cambridgeanalytica emails from UK authorities- they did NOT ask her and she WILL provide if they ask (!)

Jason Kint

@jason_kint

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@EmmaLBriant @ICOnews Entirely agree. This paragraph in final Senate Intel Report last week is what Emma is referencing. Not only did @MarkWarner @SenatorBurr not have access, they never got a report from the UK authorities who booted Facebook’s people out and seized the servers.

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There will be more 2 follow I am sure – it's important that other people who have a small piece of this important puzzle to also be confident coming 4ward. Even if they are not used to or may feel daunted by the media attention. Particularly from powerful figures. @carolecadwalla

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

6 years

My evidence has just been published by the UK @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry here: #CambridgeAnalytica #SCL #emerdata #brexit This was not easy but it was my public responsibility as an academic and matter of personal conscience to submit to the inquiry.

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The things social media platforms are doing to respond to extremism are literally the things we found extremely creepy when the Stasi and Soviet Union did them. I really strongly feel getting people to monitor and report on each other is not the answer.

Facebook tests prompts that ask American users if they're worried a friend is 'becoming an extrem...

Some Facebook users in the United States are being served a prompt that asks if they are worried that someone they know might be becoming an extremist. Others are being notified that they may have...

www.ctvnews.ca

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@EmmaLBriant

1 year

*COUGHS* “John Hanick — a former #Fox News producer who helped Malofeev set up Tsargrad TV — was charged with violating sanctions and faces a maximum prison sentence of 25 years.”

Cyprus Firm Helped Sanctioned Russian Oligarch Move Funds - OCCRP

Cypriot corporate service provider MeritServus helped Konstantin Malofeev, an oligarch sanctioned for his support of Russian-backed separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine, transfer debt worth tens of...

www.occrp.org

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@EmmaLBriant

4 years

Seeing these charts each morning it’s like watching the creeping fingers of death extend. How can our leaders see these and be so slow to act?

Roland Paris

@rolandparis

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FT's tracking chart for today, March 20.

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@EmmaLBriant

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Look I’m sorry but if you are in the over 5k people who retweeted this or the over 1k people who quote tweeted this YOU are the problem. He is manipulating you. Most of you don’t believe in #ElonMusk but are helping him for clicks.

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@EmmaLBriant

2 years

The most insanely twisted load of lies about me from The Grayzone this morning. Wow. For the record I do not advise people on lists of people and organisations to censor. They really have flipped their lids.

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@EmmaLBriant

2 years

If Putin wanted to turn Azov into martyrs he’s going about it the right way. It seems highly likely to be part of the strategy. Resulting support for Azov will be weaponised further.

Facts Central 🇺🇦

@StillDelvingH

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Azov fighters were captured and sent to Russia, where they are to be tortured, used in a sick parody of justice theater to feed domestic and international propaganda before to be jailed and executed Speak up against that Speak up against the South starver

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@EmmaLBriant

5 years

I cannot emphasise enough how much you DO NOT KNOW THE FULL STORY yet on #cambridgeanalytica

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@EmmaLBriant

5 years

I look forward to a time when I stop discovering a new awfulness about #CambridgeAnalytica every week. My upcoming book ‘Propaganda Machine: Inside #CambridgeAnalytica and the Digital Influence Industry’ May need a sequel! For now, pre-order the first from

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what propaganda is, focusing on structural and political economy issues in journalism in a way that conflates the majority journalism with propaganda (which is a deliberate activity). At a time when investigative journalists are under attack, smearing them as mass propaganda

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@EmmaLBriant

3 years

I’ll be there.

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@EmmaLBriant

5 years

IMPORTANT -> The Final Report of @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry is out!!! Among other things. Great to see it highlights my proposals for how to tackle conflicts of interest in the influence industry - will we now see action on this? #fakenews #disinformation #CambridgeAnalytica

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@EmmaLBriant

2 years

It’s a very interesting trend of white male Tory journalists who feel too constrained by BBC’s commitment to impartiality & public service & apparently want to be able to do ideological journalism with more of their ‘voice’. Truth is Marr’s progs have always carried his ‘voice’.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

2 years

🚨BREAKING: Andrew Marr has quit the BBC, saying he was 'keen to get my own voice back'

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New legal case in India against #CambridgeAnalytica Alexander Nix and Aleksandr Kogan for allegedly harvesting personal data of up to 562,000 Indians from Facebook by its Central Bureau of Investigation.

CBI books Cambridge Analytica over Facebook data theft

New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has registered a case against Alexander Nix of British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Aleksandr Kogan of Global Science...

www.hindustantimes.com

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@EmmaLBriant

2 years

WOW

Paul Lewis

@PaulLewis

2 years

Credit Suisse asks investors to destroy documents relating to its richest clients’ yachts and private jets, in an attempt to stop information leaking about a unit of the bank that has made loans to oligarchs who were later sanctioned.

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I've been told by @Twitter I was definitely hacked. It's no shock that a Russian state media journalist threatened me as below. The work I do makes a difference. Please continue to support and defend my work.

creating knowledge about propaganda and disinformation

www.patreon.com

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

2 years

I was told my private communications may have been hacked & released via a Russian state media journalist. He sent only a threatening message accusing me of ‘targeting’ people & promising to damage my career - no right of reply to an article in good faith. This isn’t journalism.

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@EmmaLBriant

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Why exactly is this Bannon atrocity on @BBCRadio4 - it’s not journalistic analysis and investigative reporting- it’s a platform raising someone who’s largely irrelevant but looking for a podium. What are they doing? #bannon #bbcradio4 #todayprogramme

BBC Radio 4 Today

@BBCr4today

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"Brexit and the Trump election are inextricably linked" says Steve Bannon. "You ain't seen nothing yet... you're about to go into the red zone...it's going to be tough, choppy.. no-deal hard out [Brexit] is the way to go" #r4today @bbcjonsopel

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@EmmaLBriant

4 years

Britain, listen up, no journalist should be able to be targeted like this. British laws are completely dysfunctional and work to protect the powerful. You want brave journalism? You have to protect and defend it.

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

4 years

Clarification. I really didn’t mean that to sound like a bad Aaron Sorkin take or ‘I wield the sword of truth!’ type thing. It’s just literally true. I am *literally* being sued for doing my job. And I do literally face losing my home because of the state of Britain’s libel laws.

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@ICOnews Why were the US investigations not given access to the servers seized by the ICO? Why did the ICO stop investigating without issuing their report? I hope we will have answers soon when the Commissioner visits @CommonsDCMS but answers aren't enough. #PublishtheICOReport

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@EmmaLBriant

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Solidarity Carole. You are such a good person, an incredible journalist and a brave woman. The world is behind you and so grateful for your ongoing role in revealing big truths of our time. We stand by you. And all those being silenced and attacked.

Carole Cadwalladr

@carolecadwalla

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Verdict tomorrow. Win or lose, it's a dark day for press freedom in the UK. Singling out a journalist from their news organisation and putting them on trial is not what happens in healthy, functioning democracies.

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Big shocker

Tech firms fail to tackle Russian propaganda - EU

Russian disinformation has increased on X since Elon Musk's takeover, according to a report.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@EmmaLBriant

5 years

I swear that reminds me of something...... oh yes!!! Those emails from my research where #LeaveEU funder @arron_banks reaches out to #CambridgeAnalytics #CambridgeAnalytica and Steve Bannon to ask them to find ways to get US funding for brexit

Dr. Emma (only here for the trolls) Briant

@EmmaLBriant

5 years

BIG: my latest evidence just published by @CommonsCMS Fake News Inquiry including the earliest planning emails of the LeaveEU campaign, Arron Banks' seeking foreign funding and Steve Bannon's role. Please share! also see: @carolecadwalla @JaneMayerNYer

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@EmmaLBriant

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This is huge 👇 wow… Lebedev is a newspaper baron who is chummy with the Prime Minister

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@pcaruanagalizia

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My investigation into how Evgeny Lebedev became a House of Lords member, against security services advice, shows his father is a Kremlin agent and offered to act as a backchannel between Boris and Putin over the Skripal poisonings. Producer: @gemmanewby .

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Why this is BIG... Sam Patten (my #CambridgeAnalytica interviewee who worked on US campaigns in lead-up to Trump/close Manafort associate) is suspected of US based polling on attitudes to Putin for #CambridgeAnalytica was that the polling given 2 Kilimnik?

Paul Manafort shared 2016 polling data with Russian associate, according to court filing

The revelation came in an unredacted filing by the former Trump campaign chairman’s attorneys.

www.washingtonpost.com

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