Connecting More Election-Meddling Dots

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Carole Cadwalladr's latest on some of the investigations in the wake of Brexit Vote I:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/nov/24/mps-seize-cache-facebook-internal-papers

Quoth the article:

Facebook said: “The materials obtained by the DCMS committee are subject to a protective order of the San Mateo Superior Court restricting their disclosure. We have asked the DCMS committee to refrain from reviewing them and to return them to counsel or to Facebook. We have no further comment.”

It is unclear what, if any, legal moves Facebook can make to prevent publication. UK, Canada, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Singapore and Latvia will all have representatives joining what looks set to be a high-stakes encounter between Facebook and politicians.

Brasil, huh? Do they suspect similar tampering being part of how Balsonaro got elected there?

Also, I think Ukraine has a life-and-death need to be represented at this particular multinational gathering, for reasons similar to those of Latvia and the UK (and maybe the States as well)...

Comments

[thewayne]

Everything is now up to the UK Parliament for Brexit. Personally I think if they actually withdraw that it will crash the UK economy for an unknown period of time and it will be a big problem, but what do I know. And I think the EU did the right thing in voting to let them leave, it absolves them of blame from the British public if the worst happens.