Whistleblower describes how firm linked to former Trump adviser Steve Bannon compiled user data to target American voters• How Cambridge Analytica’s algorithms turned ‘likes’ into a political tool Source: Revealed: 50 million Facebook profiles harvested […]
Australia is pushing back against a campaign of political interference orchestrated by China. Source: How China Interferes in Australia
The refugee crisis has highlighted a strategic problem for Europe’s left: how to approach immigration and immigrant voters without driving away their working-class base. … The central problem for the European left is this: the […]
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-stupidity-and-unenforceability-of-polands-speech-law/2018/02/02/95888e36-082b-11e8-8777-2a059f168dd2_story.html
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Russia-based Twitter accounts that targeted the US presidential election also used divisive and racist rhetoric in an attempt to disrupt politics in the UK and Europe Source: Here’s the first evidence Russia used Twitter to […]
Fake news-debunking East Stratcom unit saw upsurge in false information published in Russian and Spanish about independence referendum Source: Catalan independence: EU experts detect rise in pro-Kremlin false claims
A new book on the Malmedy massacre offers a timely study of the process of historical mythmaking—how false and distorted accounts come to constitute their own durable reality. Source: Malmedy Massacre: How a Nazi War […]
Widespread ignorance bordering on idiocy is our new national goal. It’s no use pretending otherwise and telling us, as Thomas Friedman did in the Times a few days ago, that educated people are the nation’s […]
Source: Who is hacking Brexit? And why we need our own Robert Mueller inquiry
Dominic Cummings seemed the perfect man to lead Vote Leave’s strategic team. Where did he discover his passion for data? Source: Vote Leave donations: the dark ads, the mystery ‘letter’ – and Brexit’s online guru
The Catalan independence referendum was the most dangerous outcome of a populist nationalism aimed at breaking Europe apart. Source: Opinion | Who’s a Spaniard These Days?
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