Ian Lucas
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Writer: “Digital Gangsters” How greed, lies and technology broke democracy. https://t.co/VgoMUxdIc1 Former Labour MP for Wrexham (2001-19) and Minister.
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Joined March 2010
Overseas interference in plain sight since February 2018. Tories covered it up and took Russian-linked money. Full story in https://t.co/3f4oIjb4rD out now.
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Digital Gangsters The inside story of how greed, lies and technology broke democracy Online campaigning has transformed politics worldwide in the last 5 years. Electoral earthquakes such as Brexit...
(1) Facebook admitted foreign interference in UK elections to me in February 2018
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The trial has not happened yet. Today is the first time the detail of the charges has been made public.
Given the current circumstances I'm surprised that this trial isn't getting a lot more coverage.
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I was on Newsnight in 2019 talking about Russian interference and wrote https://t.co/HA2vx3KJhr about it published 2022.
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Digital Gangsters The inside story of how greed, lies and technology broke democracy Online campaigning has transformed politics worldwide in the last 5 years. Electoral earthquakes such as Brexit...
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes https://t.co/j8GQEmzMsK
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When you look, it’s amazing what you find.
bbc.co.uk
The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.
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Hmmmm.
Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes - BBC News
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Remember Vote Leave’s Euro2016 lottery?
Looks like a data collecting scam to me.
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Looks like a data collecting scam to me.
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“Time, you must entangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me to untie.”
‘Akpom has no interest in Sunderland.’ ‘Sunderland in advanced talks to sign Akpom.’
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It’s a rich man’s world…
The Washington Post’s Will Lewis saved at the last minute by Murdoch’s millions https://t.co/isaKAk5vrk
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Murdoch’s poison has flooded public life in this country for almost a half a century. Its impact is almost impossible to quantify but it has corroded the UK’s very foundations. Sometimes, I think it is beyond repair.
Like every other person persecuted by News Group Newspapers, I wish they had left my family alone. But what happened, happened.
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Exactly.
Respectfully, @arusbridger and @K_Mansour_, what did you expect when you joined Meta's Oversight Board? This is exactly what @FBoversight has been warning about for years and shows that Meta's policies, like the OB, are always about political capital/PR. https://t.co/5SZU2a9m01
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Tonight, I think, the snow goes. Despite everything, there is beauty in the world.
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Zuckerberg, Cummings…now Musk … all talk big except when they are asked to explain themselves to our Parliament.
Elon Musk appears “reluctant” to give evidence to Parliament about X despite his interest in British society, a senior MP has said https://t.co/FvpzgiI5Ez
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Cummings remains in contempt of Parliament for chickening out of giving evidence to explain his “Vote Leave” actions, found to be illegal by @ElectoralCommUK
🚨 NEW: Senior government sources claim Dominic Cummings is coordinating Elon Musk’s social media attacks on British politicians, including Keir Starmer, via WhatsApp [@DailyMailUK]
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We live in the age of do what you like, whatever the consequences.
Meta’s new content moderation policy is essentially to not have one. How worried should we be? @meenakshirv reports.
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Now Zuck has binned fact-checking and Musk's "X" is used as a fact free political weapon, democracies must act to promote open, rational debate in elections. has https://nation.cymru/news/wales-can-be-a-trail-blazer-in-ensuring-fact-based-political-claims-are-accurate-says-expert
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Spoiler alert?
The End. GET CARTER (1971) Huge kudos to the Location Scout for this sequence btw. #MichaelCaine #IanHendry
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Amazing film, especially for those of us from County Durham.
Director Mike Hodges, Michael Caine, Ian Hendry & Crew on location shooting that iconic scene by the slag dumper. GET CARTER (1971)
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Does anyone not know the answer to this?
🤔 What is the name of Sunderland’s 1973 FA Cup-winning captain? Test your knowledge in our latest quiz 👇🧠
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