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Paul Lewis

@paullewis
11 posts
2023-02-15
Today we're unmasking ‘Team Jorge’, a hacking and disinformation unit who covertly meddle in elections. They told undercover reporters they've interfered in more than 30 presidential campaigns.🧵 https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2023-02-15 View on X
The Guardian

An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections

- Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles  — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world

One service they sell: a software controlling an army of 30,000 avatars with accounts on Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Telegram, Gmail, Instagram and YouTube. Some even have Amazon accounts with credit cards, bitcoin wallets and Airbnb accounts. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2023-02-15 View on X
The Guardian

An investigation exposes “Team Jorge”, an Israeli hacking and social media disinformation unit for hire claiming covert involvement in 33 presidential elections

- Group sells hacking services and access to vast army of fake social media profiles  — Evidence unit behind disinformation campaigns across world

2022-07-12
The source of the #Uberfiles has come forward to explain why he leaked 124,000 documents to the Guardian. He is Mark MacGann, formerly Uber's chief lobbyist in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Here's his exclusive interview with us. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-07-12 View on X
The Guardian

Mark MacGann, who led Uber's lobbying in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, comes forward as the leaker of 124K+ files, says Uber flouted laws and sold a lie

2022-07-11
We've been leaked a trove of more than 124,000 confidential files from the tech giant Uber. If you have the app on your phone, you might want to discover the methods that enabled its global expansion.... https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-07-11 View on X
The Guardian

A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion

- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian  — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne

The leak contains personal text messages between Emmanuel Macron and Uber execs, revealing how he secretly helped the Silicon Valley's lobbying operation in France. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2022-07-11 View on X
The Guardian

A trove of 124k+ internal Uber documents from 2013 to 2017 reveals management discussions and lobbying efforts during the company's aggressive global expansion

- More than 124,000 confidential documents leaked to the Guardian  — Files expose attempts to lobby Joe Biden, Olaf Scholz and George Osborne

2020-04-22
Last week we revealed how Peter Thiel's Palantir has been at the heart of the UK government's response to Covid-19, building a huge datastore. Looks like Palantir is doing pretty much the same thing for Donald Trump. https://www.thedailybeast.com/ ...
2020-04-22 View on X
The Daily Beast

Sources say Palantir's data suites are a primary contributor to HHS Protect Now, a US government tool to track the spread of coronavirus in use since April 10

Palantir, a longtime partner of intelligence agencies, co-founded by major Trump backer Peter Thiel, is helping build “the single source for [coronavirus] testing data.”

2020-04-13
We've seen documents revealing how the American big data firm Palantir and British AI company Faculty are helping build an “unprecedented” UK government database to help respond to the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2020-04-13 View on X
The Guardian

Leaked docs reveal the extent of UK's cooperation with Faculty and Palantir on a “Covid-19 datastore” to power the previously announced NHS pandemic dashboard

The Guardian :

We've seen documents revealing how the American big data firm Palantir and British AI company Faculty are helping build an “unprecedented” UK government database to help respond to the coronavirus outbreak. https://www.theguardian.com/ ...
2020-04-13 View on X
Light Blue Touchpaper

A list of issues that make contact tracing an impractical solution in the real world, from trolling others to cheating to insufficient adoption

There have recently been several proposals for pseudonymous contact tracing, including from Apple and Google.

2020-03-11
‘The company drew heavy criticism in 2014 when the Guardian reported that the company gathered location data on its users, including some who had opted out. Users at the time were posting more than 2 million messages a day...’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-03-11 View on X
Washington Post

Researchers find anonymous social media app Whisper left hundreds of millions of intimate user messages, tied to personal details like location, exposed online

Drew Harwell / Washington Post :

2019-12-29
This is important for people who care about YouTube radicalisation and may have read the flawed research (which Google will have loved) downplaying the problem. https://twitter.com/...
2019-12-29 View on X
Mark Ledwich

A new study finds that YouTube's late 2019 algorithm actively discourages users from watching radicalizing content, directing them to more mainstream videos

In 2018, Kevin Roose published a piece in the New York Times in which Caleb Cain, a liberal college dropout, described his experience …

2019-08-30
YouTube knows which side their bread is buttered on. https://www.buzzfeed.com/...
2019-08-30 View on X
BuzzFeed

YouTube reinstated channels belonging to a European white nationalist and a British nationalist, calling the removal of their channels a “wrong call”

The video platform said it was a “mistake” to remove the channels of Martin Sellner and another far-right personality known as …