“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.” We know this now! Trump thread cont.

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This is a quote of Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon has a number of quotes when Read through the lens of Trump are eerily prescient. Napoleon wasn’t of the same political bent as Trump necessarily, and he was certainly more cerebral, but the lust for power is the same.

Previous thread: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/3191613-Even-if-you-subpoena-us-we-wont-turn-up-on-the-Trump-threads

Or maybe I’ve got this backwards and it’s facebook who has the responsibility to tell you how they will use your data if you log onto mumsnet using a Facebook account?

I've asked some of these questions and others here, I've done a little GDPR training, but only in how much applies to small businesses:

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_stuff/3199266-MN-FB-marketing-companies-and-our-data?watched=1

Interesting... I am a low level FB user (just for connecting to far flung rellies and the DCs) and I never ever log into anything via FB despite constant prompts.

I always watch Sky News followed by BBC and BBC had nearly 10 minutes on Analytica/FB and yet Sky did not even mention it at all. Strange. I read somewhere that all this date was harvested and relevant ads targeted through these stupid personality tests etc. I never do those either.

cozie love the political insults!

There's more to come... this will be tonight

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Tomorrow Channel 4 in Britain Will air the second half of their Cambridge Analytical expose.

The second half will show Cambridge claiming that they won the election for Trump and explaining how they did so.

Trump must be freaking out and he can't do a thing about it!!

2:43 pm - 19 Mar 2018

No Alexa in this house but fb? Well fukit. I use FB a lot as a general family notice board (family scattered over 3 continents), It’s all fairly light and fluffy as I tend to treat it as being as private as conversation on a crowded bus. I log into lots of apps using FB including MN, Twitter and MFP and various newspapers

I’m as boring as hell and although I know that I am “the product” I tend to have a bit of a so what attitude to that - maybe time to rethink that!

It may be as well to lurk on the thread I've created lettuce, in case it leads us to more of an understanding of the issue.

(plus at the moment it only looks like two of us are interested in it on the site stuff thread!)

It's interesting because my adult DCs will not have an Alexa, Amazon echo etc... youngest DD thinks it's invasive, she says every command is recorded and that includes fractions of conversations before and after. You can access these conversations and apparently it records far more than you would imagine.

$37bn wiped off FB

I think I will do that Badkitten, after I’ve ran this mornings errands.

DH and I were talking about the CA/FB scandal last night and whether it’s killed off Zuckerberg’s nascent presidential ambitions. How could you trust that he and his competitors were campaigning on a level playing field?

Asa Bennett
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"I'm not a fish thrower", Rees-Mogg tells LBC. "I won't be throwing fish anywhere. I have a nasty feeling if I started throwing fish they'd be brought back by the wind and hit me in the face"

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Unintentional but quite perfect Brexit analogy.

Sorry, wrong thread but it's an enjoyable comparison nonetheless!

This was the promoted tweet on my timeline

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www.thedailybeast.com/yes-this-is-going-to-be-worse-than-watergate?source=politics_sum&via=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thedailybeast%2Fpolitics+%28The+Daily+Beast+-+Politics%29

Judd Legum
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We are living in a world where the POTUS can doctor a quote from the former FBI director a key witness in a potential obstruction of justice charge against to him to make it seem like the FBI director committed perjury and IT'S NOT EVEN A MAJOR STORY

Trump doctors quote in desperate effort to smear Comey, undermine Mueller investigation
thinkprogress.org/trump-doctors-quote-to-smear-comey-mueller-81e654762560/

that made me giggle Pain. Time to clear the cookies again.

I should be asking mn about google too.

I didn't realise the extent of their reach outside of "pure" facebook

Scott Galloway
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Facebook owns four of the five most used apps in the world, but AT&T needs to sell CNN? Is the DOJ ignorant of tech and media, or is it just Trump’s bitch? #ATTTimeWarner

www.l2inc.com/daily-insights/no-mercy-no-malice/trust-vs-new

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The data scientist who gathered info on millions of Facebook users for a firm tied to Trump's campaign says he'd be "happy to testify" before Congress and speak to the FBI about the work he did for the company cnn.it/2u3i70f

Package bound for Austin, site of recent bombings, explodes at Texas facility

www.cbc.ca/news/world/package-explodes-texas-facility-1.4583763

Carole Cadwalladr
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BREAKING: Facebook demanding to inspect Cambridge Analytica whistleblower @chrisinsilco's computer & phone. "What do they want? To look through my dick pics?"

Tonight's C4 news will be er... interesting.

Last night's allegations of dirty tricks to trap opponents made me wonder who might have been compromised in the UK and US. It might explain a lot, and be clearer for people to understand than data stealing which people see as very technical. On an LBC phone in yesterday, people were hugely sceptical about illegal data gathering and on line manipulation. Of course they knew it happened, but who cared?

Stormy, Mueller and CA/FB - what a week and what will SCROTUS do to distract attention? The Austin thing is worrying, and will possibly overshadow it all.

Last night's allegations of dirty tricks to trap opponents made me wonder who might have been compromised in the UK and US.

As I listened to Corbyn yet again equivocating about Russia’s involvement about the Salisbury nerve agent incident, I was reminded of Trump’s similar equivocation about Salisbury and waiting on the facts. It made me wonder if Corbyn could be compromised. He’s so tone deaf to the fury in his own party and the wider country, I’m struggling to understand why is sitting on the fence over this.

^ On the news this morning - I should have said.

I wasn't thinking of Corbyn boatyard, but you could be right. I had assumed Corbyn's reluctance was because of his (or at least Seamus Milne's) 'admiration' for the USSR and not recognising how much Russia has changed , but mainly because of Iraq, the dodgy dossier and a suspicion of what the govt was trying to do. I don't agree, but I can see how far Iraq has poisoned the well.

I was thinking of a member of the Cabinet, who may or may not have pulled out of the leadership election because there was compromat, allegedly. whistles

Oh and some senior members of Congress who were outspoken against Trump but seem to have lost their backbone.