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Here’s Bari Weiss honouring Peter Thiel ahead of his special suck-a-broligarch’s-dick award from the new owner of the Daily Telegraph. Should you ever be tempted to take that paper seriously ever again: don’t H/t @jeremymbarr

wow, I found this Facebook employee's recent deposition. The scandal has always been about cover-up - what Facebook knew and when, especially c-level + board. Highlights are mine, purple stood out to me. She was told don't even say the name -> "career suicide" BEFORE March 2018.

“When was the last time that you discussed Cambridge Analytica with anyone at Facebook?” “St. Patrick’s Day 2018. When the second scandal broke” That was @carolecadwalla ‘s reporting. theguardian.com/news/2018/ma…

We endorse this must- read comment piece by @labourlewis on the glaring integrity gap in Tom Watson’s Palantir appointment. (And not just b/c it links to our reporting. It really is an excellent summary of why it matters.) theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Palantir didn’t hire a former Labour deputy leader for his coding skills. It hired him for access. Tom Watson’s move is more than a private career choice. It’s the revolving door in action and another blow to public trust. The integrity gap won’t close until politicians pick a side. My piece for the Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfre…

A wonderful conversation with the great @carolecadwalla about a possible Russian attack on Europe beyond Ukraine, why Trump defers to Putin, and Moscow's shadowy ties to the UK Reform Party. We were on stage at a sell-out event at London's @frontlineclub thenerve.news/p/russia-war-n…

In case anyone is wondering why Meta tried to squeeze claims from another cover-up into its massive $19B child harm settlement, this testimony was in a filing last night, “warned "to not pursue investigating Cambridge Analytica specifically" because "it would be career suicide."

"For a man whose academic field was built largely on faulty studies to ignore the intellectual fraud in his circle and lash out at people like Arday for bad scholarship – well, psychologists used to call that projection" thenerve.news/p/steven-pinke…

There was a time when Steven Pinker was the media's favourite scientist. Then came the debunking of his field of study, a flirtation with “race science”, and links to Epstein Journalist and cultural critic @virginiaheffernan dissects what went wrong 🔗👇

I’m still reeling from the @tom_watson / Palantir news. But I also think it will blow up in both their faces. It’s so transparently desperate. @andyburnham is going to have to respond to people’s disgust & anger at Palantir’s role in the UK state. Read the thread 🧵

In any normal world, this would be an address from the President of the United States.

Good morning @tom_watson Your journey from MP who most understood the Cambridge Analytica scandal to paid-up Palantir apologist is really quite the journey. Hope the 💰💰💰💰is worth it. Here’s some background reading ahead of your first day 🧵👇

I wrote last year about the ‘Integrity gap’ in UK politics as part of the Robin Cook memorial lecture. “The public see a political class whose proximity to wealth has corroded its independence and whose language of public service has become a hollowed-out ritual.”

Oh I see! @PalantirTech & @louismosley think they have cunningly got round rules by employing @tom_watson on a ‘leave of absence’ from the Lords. What genius! I would expect nothing less from the company that published a technofascist manifesto on its Twitter feed. Keep it up lads.