Intentionally Compromising Users’ Privacy

If there was any doubt remaining that Facebook is intentionally compromising its users' privacy, it can now be put to rest, with a new report from a British parliamentary committee: https://t.co/cLFRnOXgho pic.twitter.com/qoA8qpp0xb

— The New Yorker (@NewYorker) February 23, 2019

If there remained any doubt that Facebook’s business practices intentionally compromise users’ privacy and recklessly undermine democratic norms, it was put to rest on Monday, when the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British House of Commons issued a hundred-and-eight-page report, incongruously titled “Disinformation and ‘fake news.’ ” In a drama that played out over a few days in November, the committee’s chair, Damian Collins, a Tory M.P., had outwitted Facebook’s legal team when he summoned an American app developer named Ted Kramer to Parliament. []

Italy: A Little Help from Putin

Huge story breaking in Italy. Putin agreed to a request from Lega Nord leader Matteo Salvini to covertly finance his Euro election campaign. The plan was to conceal the payment behind an apparently normal business deal. Sound familiar?
https://t.co/9nVuDKXzyq via @espressonline

— David Clark (@David_K_Clark) February 22, 2019

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Now it's available in German too. Publisher is an Austrian social-democratic magazine. https://t.co/3uIMXSy7gj

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 22, 2019

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In English. https://t.co/JJ2jE0Ogvb

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 22, 2019

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Electoral Integrity in the Run up to the European Parliamentary Elections

Launched today: ISD's new report uncovers the online information campaigns active in the 2018 Bavarian State Election. The report sets out recommendations to strengthen electoral integrity in the run up to the European Parliamentary elections and beyondhttps://t.co/OX3tFPPXdHpic.twitter.com/0lnDL68om3

— Institute for Strategic Dialogue (@ISDglobal) February 15, 2019

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https://t.co/t4JUYgEDd9

— Goetz Kluge (@Bonnetmaker) February 15, 2019

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How Anti-Europeans Plan to Wreck Europe

No time to read our brand new scorecard on how anti-European parties will incapacitate the European Parliament after the #EUelections2019? Listen to @markhleonard, @sd270 and @PawelZerka discussing the results of this EU wide study. https://t.co/58vJdUFZu1 #podcast #WorldIn30

— ECFR (@ecfr) February 12, 2019

Just published: Our latest report finds that anti-European parties are on course to win the third of seats in @Europarl_EN #EUelections2019 necessary to paralyse
the #EU: https://t.co/0fcQFpSch1@sd270 @PawelZerka @ECFRPower pic.twitter.com/2ZCYXsOGof

— ECFR (@ecfr) February 11, 2019

 

The 2019 European election: How anti-Europeans plan to wreck Europe and what can be done to stop it
European Council on Foreign Relations
Authors: Susi Dennison and Pawel Zerka
Published: February 2019

Summary:

  • With anti-Europeans on their way to winning more than one-third of seats in the next European Parliament, the stakes in the May 2019 election are unusually high.
  • While there are significant divides between them on substance, anti-European parties could align with one another tactically in support of a range of ideas: from abolishing sanctions on Russia to blocking the EU’s foreign trade agenda, to pulling the drawbridge up against migration. This would put at risk Europe’s capacity to defend its citizens from external threats at exactly the time when, given global turmoil, it needs to show more resolve, cooperation, and global leadership.
  • This paper marks the start of ECFR’s campaign to strengthen Europe in the face of efforts by anti-European parties to divide it and make it weaker. We analyse, in detail, the political situation in each of the EU’s 27 member states ahead of the 2019 EP election.
  • For supporters of an outward-looking Europe, we offer a strategy to fight back: by driving a wedge between anti-European parties, exposing the real-world costs of their key policy ideas, and identifying new issues that could inspire voters: from the rule of law and the environment to prosperity and Europe’s foreign policy goals.
  • In the coming months, ECFR will explore these issues at a more granular level through quantitative and qualitative surveys across the EU27.

Link: https://www.ecfr.eu/specials/scorecard/the_2019_European_election

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This is not explicitely about Europe, but Russian hacks already had been affecting Europe, e.g. interfering with the 2016 Brexit referendum. The European elections are coming. The hacks won’t stop.
 

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/trump-putin-and-the-big-hack

Trump, Putin, and the Big Hack

By David Remnick
January 6, 2017

[…] A declassified report concluded that Putin ordered a campaign of covert operations, from defamatory “fake news” articles about Clinton to the hack itself. […]

[…] Like many nationalist politicians in Europe, Trump has made plain his admiration for Putin, complimenting the Russian leader’s “great control over his country,” while at the same time failing to address the reality that Putin’s regime has instituted wholesale censorship of television, increased repressive measures on ordinary citizens, and unleashed his forces in Ukraine and Syria. (Putin, of course, discounts criticism of his policies as Western hypocrisy and points to everything from the invasion of Iraq, which he opposed, to the eastward expansion of NATO, which he sees as an aggressive act.) […]

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