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Rightful focus right now on who gets the commish slots at FTC, but as @ceciliakang  & I reported at the tail end of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, some of what critics deride as the commission's inaction on tech companies is *staff*-driven.

It's a race against time to avoid Cambridge Analytica-style interference in #Kenya , writes @Kenyanpoet 

It's hard not to look back and see the FTC cambridge analytica'>Facebook-Cambridge Analytica settlement - and the previous decade of policy misjudgments - as tragic missed opportunities wherein the FTC could have ended social media's toxic business model that led to the riots.

These researchers found an alarming increase in the use of "disinformation-for-hire" services across the world in 2020. This, despite the Cambridge Analytica scandal "exposing how private firms can meddle in democratic elections".

Industrial-scale online disinformation campaigns are rampant across over 80 countries, researchers have found. Modelled on Cambridge Analytica, new disinformation companies field "cyber troops" to confuse, manipulate, and enrage citizens on social media.

@DFW_Dee  @tedcruzT  @Ocas  @SenTedCruzio2018hat 's a good idea, particularly since he used Cambridge Analytica to spread weaponized disinformation in order to make political gains during his campaigns. He has no credibility any more.

Parler was co-founded by Rebekah Mercer—from the Mercer family that bankrolled Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and Donald Trump. And had close ties to Steve Bannon etc.

Remember the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Chris Wylie? @chrisinsilico  what marketers and advertisers call clusters, he calls ghettos #CourageON 

...the way open racism and misogyny has been encouraged daily, the attacks on journalists and journalism, the devastation of our institutions, our abandonment of the Kurds, Hong Kongers, Belarusians, the Cambridge Analytica scandals... just for a start.

Makes sense to me that Ted Cruz, an enthusiastic early adopter of Cambridge Analytica’s political gaslighting, would want to be in on this (this story and the previous one are both from 2018)