Via Carole Cadwalladr:
America needs to learn the terrifying lesson of the British riots. This was #Musk’s trial balloon for the US election.
The prospect of political violence is real. And Musk’s behaviour is a warning shot of what’s to come. My piece for ObserverUK:
@TCatInReality @GottaLaff but sadly, no one with the authority to do anything seems to want to bother. From May & Johnson’s studious looking the other way to avoid any risk of seeing the Russian influence on Brexit to Starmer’s stated intention of “influencing” the broligarchy to behave responsibly
Talk about a lone voice in the wilderness - as you say, it’s crucial to keep sharing Carole Cadwalladr’s work, if only to bear witness
@66gardeners @GottaLaff and check your voter registrations frequently!
Edit: https://www.propublica.org/article/cybersecurity-expert-finds-another-flaw-in-georgia-voter-portal
The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.
@GottaLaff eep! That's a thought that's going to fester.
"But this is Britain, where extremist political violence is someone carrying a brick and throwing a chair leg. In America, there aren’t just automatic weapons and rights to openly carry firearms, there are actual militias."
Years later, Historians and Geologists from Mars(h) gather to examine Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s main contribution to the Planet Earth.
Separate from the point she makes in the quote, Cadwalladr's Cambridge Analytica coverage, and the subsequent parliamentary inquiries, etc., never made any sense. Yes, CA are mercenary thugs. No, CA doesn't have any so-called micro targeting capability, or anything else fancy like that.
Instead of reporting the facts, Cadwalladr spun fairytales fed to her by two grifting simpleton sources: Kaiser and Wylie.
@GottaLaff Cadwalladr was the one who pointed out --AT THE TIME-- that hacking and social media shenanigans associated with Brexit were a trial run for messing with the US election in 2016. She was right then. She has a good track record for being right now.
Wouldn't it be amazing if people paid attention?
“But what Musk – the new self-appointed Lord of Misrule – has done is to rip off the mask. He’s shown that you don’t even have to pretend to care. In Musk’s world, trust is mistrust and safety is censorship. His goal is chaos. And it’s coming.”
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@peterbutler It's all about the numbers of accounts they reach. They've said that over and over, to my frustration.
They just don't get the same numbers of reposts, replies, etc. on any other platform.
Threads is their second favorite.
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