Flynn took the 5th when asked about Cambridge Analytica/SCL by Senate Intel and now that he’s pardoned, we’ll never know very much about Flynn’s paid consultancy with SCL Group during the Trump transition.
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Facebook engineers proposed a feature to notify users when they had shared false news items. "But that was vetoed by policy executives who feared it would disproportionately show notifications to people who shared false news from right-wing websites." https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html
Facebook developed but did not implement tools for reducing disinformation and "hate bait" content because it determined the measures mostly impacted right wing users and publishers, reducing engagement, report @kevinroose, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html?smid=tw-share
In October I asked two people I’d never met to give me their Facebook account passwords for three weeks leading up to and after Election Day. Then I talked to them at length about what I saw and why it was making them miserable. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/opinion/facebook-disinformation-boomers.html
In the course of [its] investigation, Denham says, the ICO discovered “that Cambridge Analytica was looking to move its services to a jurisdiction where it could actually be outside of any kind of scrutiny of a regulator… The thinking was to move to the Caribbean.” #DataRights
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Section 230 is such a useful distraction from the tech reform we actually need in 2021. https://promarket.org/2020/11/23/section-230-privacy-act-cambridge-analytica-ted-cruz/
Trump is tweeting lies about voting again.
Jon Ossoff: "Perdue's misconduct is repeated and flagrant. He is using his office to enrich himself, and he's refusing to debate me because he knows he can't defend the indefensible." https://bit.ly/3mfVEDJ
"Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here," Judge Stephanos Bibas wrote in the 3-0 decision.
Breaking: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has handed another loss to the Trump campaign's effort to undo Joe Biden's win in Pennsylvania, with a judge — one of Trump's nominees — writing that the campaign's "claims have no merit."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-court-loss-pennsylvania-election
Breaking: The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has handed another loss to the Trump campaign's effort to undo Joe Biden's win in Pennsylvania, with a judge — one of Trump's nominees — writing that the campaign's "claims have no merit."
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zoetillman/trump-court-loss-pennsylvania-election
Rep. Lucy McBath on CNN: "Georgia has been very upfront, we've run clean elections, we've had clean politics ... If the president is not happy with that, we’ve done what we were called to do, and we’ve done it fairly. And now we have a new president-elect."
CBS '60 Minutes': "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes or changed votes or was in any way compromised."
Chris Krebs, former CISA director: "Yeah, I stand by that."
Outside Trump's bedroom window is the sound of building: hammers, drills, trucks.
Construction of the parade platform for Biden's inauguration festivities is well underway. The viewing stand and bleachers are almost complete — and all within Trump's view. https://cnn.it/2V8akJj
Joe Biden is the first presidential candidate in US history to win more than 80 million votes https://cnn.it/39neR2S
A federal appeals court denies the Trump campaign's effort to revive a challenge to Pennsylvania's election results, ruling "the claims have no merit" https://cnn.it/36eQ2UE
The NRA's tax filing reports it paid "excess benefits" to some leaders, including nearly $300,000 for travel by its CEO that has since been paid back https://cnn.it/36d9MZ3
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says State Department will "honor" promise to conduct transition to Biden administration https://cnn.it/3mfto4n
The Justice Department opened a probe into Georgia Sen. David Perdue's stock sales for possible insider trading earlier this year but declined to pursue charges, according to The New York Times https://cnn.it/2J7PFCW
President-elect Joe Biden to face test over access to sensitive information as he inherits President Trump's secret server https://cnn.it/3fGW83j
Read the Supreme Court's dissent on a dispute from religious groups over Covid-19 restrictions in New York https://cnn.it/2V6RX7p
