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Just learning about the ongoing “Lockdown Files – more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages sent between UK ministers, officials and others – showing how the Government used scare tactics to force compliance and push through lockdowns.”

Do we know who leaked them? Was it someone at Meta?
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jacob 2y ago

Have you gone down the rabbit hole of this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym_(organization)

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miles 🌞 2y ago

I remember the Iowa Democratic caucus vote being messed up while using their app, but haven’t dove deep. Def link me

Note to self: Shadow Inc is not a good name for your pro-democracy vote tallying app 😅

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miles 🌞 2y ago

Lmao they really got Buttigieg to ‘win Iowa,’ I’d forgotten.

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jacob 2y ago

Check footnotes 21-24, see how the funds were used to set up sites …

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/05/dark-money-networks-fake-news-sites/

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jacob 2y ago

Links the money to the political ad spend to COVID ads etc,