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• @channel4news @channel4news on x

  🚨🚨Tonight at 7pm:🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Channel 4 News investigation reveals a huge Trump campaign data leak, exposing how 3.5 million Black Americans were listed as ‘Deterrence’ - to try to stop them voting in 2016. #DeterringDemocracy https://twitter.com/...

• @channel4news @channel4news on x

  REVEALED: Trump's election campaign wanted to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016. The ‘Deterrence’ project can be revealed after Channel 4 News obtained the database used by Trump's digital campaign team. #DeterringDemocracy https://www.channel4.com/...

• @channel4news @channel4news on x

  Watch the full #DeterringDemocracy investigation by the Channel 4 News Investigations Team here: https://www.youtube.com/...

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  Everyone is talking about the Trump campaign and Cambridge Analytica, but @Facebook allowed this. They leaked the data, they allowed racial targeting and they installed themselves in with the campaign to ensure it all went according to plan.

• @slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x

  BIG LOL from this article. https://www.channel4.com/... @facebook is saying that this could “never happen now”. YOU LITERALLY *MADE IT HAPPEN* THEN. YOU PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN IT YOU LIARS! https://twitter.com/...

• @chrisinsilico @chrisinsilico on x

  As I testified at Congress, the Trump campaign used Cambridge Analytica data to deliberately suppress black voters. It was no exaggeration. As @Channel4News reveals, this is how data-driven voter suppression works: https://www.youtube.com/...

• @carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalladr on x

  💥💥💥 We knew it. We said it. Now @Channel4News has amazing cache of hard evidence. Facebook is a tool that Trump uses to suppress Black votes. If this isn't a MASSIVE scandal for Facebook, we are well & truly lost https://twitter.com/...

• @profcarroll @profcarroll on x

  The Cambridge Analytica saga breaks wide open again. The proof is finally being revealed. We always knew the truth was right there in the data. https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @hindsightfiles @hindsightfiles on x

  Parscale lied. Nix lied. I have receipts. “The document also showed $55,000 spent in Georgia targeting African American voters with advertising, including the Clinton ‘Superpredator’ video.” #Hindsightis2020 #OwnYourData #DeterringDemocracy https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...

• @asharangappa_ Asha Rangappa on x

  Senate Intelligence Committee Report on Russia's Active Measures in 2016 Election, Vol. 2, p. 6: “The Committee found that no single group of Americans was targeted by [Russia's Internet Research Agency] operatives more than African Americans.” Coincidence? You decide. https://tw…

• @marietjeschaake Marietje Schaake on x

  Watch this in full and ask yourself: What do independent regulators and researchers know about social media policies now?🚨No laws no limits!🚨Trump campaign strategy to deter millions of Black Americans from voting in 2016 ↘️ https://www.youtube.com/...

• @jemelehill Jemele Hill on x

  If your vote didn't matter, why are they always trying to prevent you from exercising your right to vote? https://twitter.com/...

• @alxthomp Alex Thompson on x

  Trump's FB page is a colossus The last 6 months: Trump total interactions: 361.40M Joe Biden: 40.54M per @crowdtangle https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  The latest FB story seems to go back to 2016, before FB was even trying to control political use (and when many would have argued it would be evil for trying). But now that it *is* trying, I keep wondering if a solution might be structurally impossible in social's current form. h…

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  When someone argues that a Facebook ad can swing an election, I sometimes suspect that really, they object to elections, not ads.

• @vote4robgill Rob Gill on x

  I used to work for Facebook, the trump campaign uses Facebooks “Custom Audience” tool to exclude black and hispanic Americans from most campaign ads https://twitter.com/...

• @jason_kint Jason Kint on x

  Pretty bold of Trump campaign to call a heavily investigated @Channel4News report with receipts “fake news” in the same statement that it brags about an absolutely mythical “relationship of trust with African American voters.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.c…

• @evan_greer Evan Greer on x

  Remember: Cambridge Analytica is not a “scandal” or a 'breach." It's Facebook's data harvesting and mass manipulation product working exactly as intended. The root of the problem is surveillance capitalism and monopoly power. We need to address that, not call for more censorship …

• @marietjeschaake Marietje Schaake on x

  The world over, people risk their lives for democracy, in America, it got sold out, literally. This is devastating ↘️ https://twitter.com/...

• @kfury @kfury on x

  I would really like Facebook to fully cooperate with an investigation to determine the truth and extent of this. https://twitter.com/...

• @hunterwalk @hunterwalk on x

  See, here's the 🥩 When pundits & even some FB employees stress how Trump used FB so much better than HRC, yes they're talking abt lookalike groups & content message testing. But they're also talking about high volume voter suppression via demo targeting. https://twitter.com/...

• @alexcrawfordsky Alex Crawford on x

  Pretty chilling stuff from @Channel4News about a campaign said to deter Black Americans from voting in 2016. Wonder what's happening in the current one.... https://twitter.com/...

• @cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x

  this is quite obviously a scandal for facebook. no question. but the one thing that i feel this never quite addresses is whether that segmenting + ads is effective. it's my main beef with Cambridge Analytica stuff. That connection has never felt like its been well proven to me ht…

• @rmac18 @rmac18 on x

  Hard to tell based on this piece whether this information came from Cambridge Analytica, so we'll have to wait for the program. Regardless, the accusations are incredibly troubling and for now, the most telling thing is the statement from a Facebook spox. https://www.channel4.com…

• @robinwauters @robinwauters on x

  “It's not ‘may the best candidate win’ at that point it's ‘may the best well-funded machine suppress voters and keep them at home thereby rigging the election so that someone can win’.” https://twitter.com/...

• @carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalladr on x

  This is EXACTLY why civil rights leaders inc @rashadrobinson @DerrickNAACP & @JGreenblattADL have come together with leading academics & activists to launch @FBoversight. It's what they've been screaming about for last 4 years. Truly, this a terrifying time for democracy https://…

• @ava Ava DuVernay on x

  BREAKING: UK's Channel 4 has obtained a huge data leak from Trump's 2016 campaign. The leak reveals personal data of almost 200 million voters used by Trump's campaign, which manipulated algorithms to deter millions of Black Americans from voting. https://twitter.com/...

• @blackamazon @blackamazon on x

  Over and over these “leaks” are confirming things Black people specifically women told people and folks spent years ignoring Their targeting / robocalls / #yourslipisshowjng was a concerted planned effort That happened in plain view https://twitter.com/...

• @mspackyetti @mspackyetti on x

  🗣I REPEAT: TRYING TO GET YOU TO STAY HOME IS PART OF TRUMP'S STRATEGY. Disinformation aimed at DEPRESSING the vote is a means of SUPPRESSING the vote. PERIOD. https://twitter.com/...

• @channel4news @channel4news on x

  The investigation reveals the Trump campaign targeted Black Americans with negative ads on Facebook and social media - despite the campaign's denials. Watch at 7 on 4 - and on our website. https://www.channel4.com/...

• @petebuttigieg Pete Buttigieg on x

  This is depraved. Let it be even more fuel for our motivation to turn out every vote. Democracy will not be deterred. https://twitter.com/...

• @profcarroll @profcarroll on x

  There's a reason why Facebook never let civil society look at all the ads run by the campaigns in 2016 and how they were targeted using CustomAudiences individual level targeting from lists generated from DataTrust/CA/SCL databases. It would be unbearable to behold. https://twitt…