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cerebus said:
He filmed himself with his cellphone at the time. Then went home to get his video camera later. Apart from the sort of vague sneering cynicism that you bring to all your posts, there's very little to be legitimately dubious about here.
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Does he live right next to the school? I would like to see a timeline on that.
 
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rietrot said:
Does he live right next to the school? I would like to see a timeline on that.
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Snopes:

At 6 pm after the shooting, I took my camera, got on my bike. I rode in basically twilight. And I ride my bike three miles down winding sidewalks and find my way to the school, as I’ve done in previous years. All the while, I was making sure my camera bag didn’t rip open, because if you zip it a certain way, the camera falls out, and it would be destroyed.

I start shooting B-roll, and I see Fox News over there. I knew I wanted to talk on the news and make sure there was advocacy, especially with so many people from the [National Rifle Association] and different gun-toting Americans who watch Fox News. I went on the day of [the shooting], and said, “There cannot be another mass shooting,” and I think that’s partially why. But also other people started saying that at the same time.
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He only left at 6 and returned with the video camera in the evening. /shrug. Nothing much to see here I'm afraid.
 
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...s-uk-lawmakers-trumps-election-made-him-speak

Wylie, appearing in front of U.K. lawmakers in London this morning, said that the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president in 2016 made him speak out about the practices being employed by the political data firm.

"I wouldn't say it was just because of Donald Trump, but Donald Trump makes it click in your head that this actually has a much wider impact. I don't think that military-style information operations is conducive for any democratic process," he told the committee of lawmakers.

As CNBC notes, Wylie was the man who revealed to the New York Times and the U.K.'s Observer newspaper the practices of Cambridge Analytica and the data harvesting that took place. He is speaking to members of parliament on the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) Committee, chaired by lawmaker Damian Collins.

Lawmakers questioned Wylie on the links between Cambridge Analytica, its parent company SCL, and work on various political campaigns including Brexit.

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In other words, if Hillary had won, the general public would remain oblivious to Facebook's (and other social media giants) massive data-gathering efforts.. and Mark Zuckerberg would still be the 4th richest person in the world (instead of 8th!).
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Ever get the feeling that Cambridge Analytica pulled the trigger on themselves on purpose? :whistling:
 
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cerebus said:
He filmed himself with his cellphone at the time. Then went home to get his video camera later. Apart from the sort of vague sneering cynicism that you bring to all your posts, there's very little to be legitimately dubious about here.
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Took all of 5 seconds for the (surprise, surprise - QAnon spawned) insane conspiracies to get debunked, but even super serious conservative news site RedState ran with it and ended up striking-through the whole article in an embarrassing retraction.
 
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The_Assimilator said:
... what?

Why would they do that?

What, exactly, would that achieve for them?
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...all-personal-data-facebook-and-google-collect

The Cambridge Analytica scandal was never really about Cambridge Analytica.

As we've pointed out, neither Facebook nor Cambridge Analytica have been accused of doing anything explicitly illegal (though one could be forgiven for believing they had, based on the number of lawsuits and official investigations that have been announced).

Instead, the backlash to these revelations - which has been justifiably focused on Facebook - is so severe because the public has been forced to confront for the first time something that many had previously written off as an immutable certainty: That Facebook, Google and the rest of the tech behemoths store reams of personal data, essentially logging everything we do.
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...itron-warns-wait-til-congress-finds-out-about

Twitter stock is down over 5% following a report from Citron Research that exposes a major potential problem for the social media company...

Via CintronResearch.com,

Alongside Facebook and Google, Twitter is now being hauled in by Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) to a hearing on data privacy on April 10.

Wait until the Senate finds out that:

Twitter Will Generate $400 million THIS YEAR, by just selling user data. Not advertising.

How important is Data Licensing to Twitter? The Scary Answer

In 2017, ad revenue declined to $2.11 billion from $2.25 billion in the prior year while data licensing revenue grew to $333 million from $282 million in the prior year.

TWTR CFO Ned Segal on Q4’17 earnings call last month that data licensing is “a really high margin business”. TWTR generated $333 million in data licensing revenue in 2017.

If we assume 100% margin, this segment accounts for almost 80% of total profits.
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http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/...brad-parscale-warns-big-tech-we-are-watching/

Brad Parscale, who was recently appointed as campaign manager for Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection bid, has warned Google, Facebook, and Twitter to maintain a “level playing field,” following a month of high-profile revelations of bias at big tech.
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Now remind me: Who was Cambridge Analytica in fact working for?
 
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Trump aide Rick Gates was in touch with a former Russian spy weeks before the election

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team just released a document that buries an important detail about the Trump circle’s ties to Russia on its fourth page: top campaign associate Rick Gates was in touch with a person tied to Russian military intelligence weeks before the presidential election.

The court papers, which call for the judge to give jail-time to a lawyer who has admitted lying to Mueller’s probe, say that in September and October 2016 Gates was “directly communicating” with “Person A,” a former officer with the GRU—Russia’s military intelligence.

Gates had been number two to Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort until Manafort was fired in summer 2016. However, Gates continued working for the Republican National Committee until the election and afterwards took a senior position on Trump’s inaugural committee. He then went to work for a close friend of Trump’s and reportedly retained access to the White House until at least June 2017.
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Trump’s Lawyer Raised Prospect of Pardons for Flynn and Manafort as Special Counsel Closed In

A lawyer for President Trump broached the idea of Mr. Trump pardoning two of his former top advisers, Michael T. Flynn and Paul Manafort, with their lawyers last year, according to three people with knowledge of the discussions.

The discussions came as the special counsel was building cases against both men, and they raise questions about whether the lawyer, John Dowd, who resigned last week, was offering pardons to influence their decisions about whether to plead guilty and cooperate in the investigation.

The talks suggest that Mr. Trump’s lawyers were concerned about what Mr. Flynn and Mr. Manafort might reveal were they to cut a deal with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, in exchange for leniency. Mr. Mueller’s team could investigate the prospect that Mr. Dowd made pardon offers to thwart the inquiry, although legal experts are divided about whether such offers might constitute obstruction of justice.
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cerebus said:
Ronny Jackson is the physician who checked Trump and declared that he had excellent genes and was juuuuust under the threshold for obesity. No surprise that he got a big promotion for that one.
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Trump-arse-licking doctor gets prime position. What a ****ing surprise.
 
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greg0205 said:
Conservitards deflecting from the actual issue being addressed... Another ****ing surprise.
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What actual issue? Show that this doctor that Trump appointed isn't qualified or that it was wrong of him to fire the previous guy.

Anything more than just crying because this doctor gave Trump a clean bill of health would do.
 
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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018...nates-personal-physician-run-veterans-affairs
Looking back on David Shulkin's tumultuous, scandal-marred tenure atop the federal government's second largest agency,*it's amazing he made it this far.

Shulkin, the lone Obama holdover in Trump's cabinet, has been living under a cloud for weeks thanks to an investigation released last month which found that Shulkin and his staff committed several egregious ethics violations related to travel and access to other perk
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What actual issue? Show that this doctor that Trump appointed isn't qualified or that it was wrong of him to fire the previous guy.

Anything more than just crying because this doctor gave Trump a clean bill of health would do.
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BS. You know it and you're just trolling again.

It's a long weekend... Take some personal time to consider contributing to the world you live in rather than contaminating everything you come into contact with.
 
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greg0205 said:
BS. You know it and you're just trolling again.

It's a long weekend... Take some personal time to consider contributing to the world you live in rather than contaminating everything you come into contact with.
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Still have to work a bit today.
 
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