Constructing the Project Alamo Database
Under the guidance of Jared Kushner, a senior campaign advisor and son-in-law of President-Elect Trump, Parscale quietly began building his own list of Trump supporters. Trump’s revolutionary database, named Project Alamo, contains the identities of 220 million people in the United States, and approximately 4,000 to 5,000 individual data points about the online and offline life of each person. Funded entirely by the Trump campaign, this database is owned by Trump and continues to exist.
Trump’s presidential election victory is the most successful digital voter suppression operation in American history. The secret weapons in Trump’s digital arsenal were Project Alamo, his database of 220 million people in the United States, and the Facebook Advertising Platform. By leveraging Facebook’s sophisticated advertising tools, including Facebook Dark Posts, Facebook Audience-Targeting, and Facebook Custom Audiences from Customer Lists, the Trump campaign was able to secretly target Hillary Clinton’s supporters and covertly discourage them from going to the polls to vote.
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New York Times |
Russia Uses Its Oil Giant, Rosneft, as a Foreign Policy Tool
New York Times The company, which Russia has long relied on to finance its government and social programs, has been pushing deeply into politically sensitive countries like Cuba, China, Egypt and Vietnam, as well as tumultuous places where American interests are at … |
Jared Kushner is facing enough legal trouble on the federal level that various pundits have mentioned his name as being among those who could be arrested tomorrow in relation to Donald Trump’s Russia scandal. That in turn has led to the question of whether Trump would try to pardon his son-in-law Kushner, in order to keep Kushner from cutting a deal against him. However, if that is Donald’s plan, a big monkey wrench has just been thrown into it.
Let’s hypothetically say that Jared Kushner is arrested tomorrow – or in a later round of Trump Russia arrests – on federal charges related to his secret meetings with the Russians during the campaign and transition period, and his subsequent failure to disclose those meetings on his White House security clearance forms. Let’s further say that Kushner then decides not to cut a deal, on the premise that Trump will pardon him anyway. The trouble: Kushner is suddenly facing the possibility of state level charges as well.
The Attorney General of Maryland is now investigating Jared Kushner’s family business for a number of serious alleged violations in the real estate field (link). That doesn’t mean that Kushner or anyone in his family is guilty. Nor does it mean that charges will be brought. But these investigations tend to lead to charges more often than not. If Kushner is hypothetically charged with state level crimes, Donald Trump can’t pardon those.
This could result in a situation where even if Donald Trump pardons Jared Kushner on all Russia-related federal charges, Kushner could still be facing potential jail time in Maryland – and Trump wouldn’t be able to get him off the hook for that. In the interest of the greater good, Maryland could offer to let Kushner off the hook if he flips on Trump on the federal level. It’s unclear if Special Counsel Robert Mueller is involved in the Maryland probe into Kushner.
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The Patriot Ledger |
Mueller lands first blow in Trump-Russia election probe
The Patriot Ledger Mueller was tapped to head the investigation into the Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election as a special counsel after President Trump fired FBI Director James B.Comey. In May, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller … Trump Tries to Shift Focus as First Charges Reportedly Loom in Russia CaseNew York Times Adriana Cohen: CNN rushes to bring charges to light, but the facts get left behind in the darkBoston Herald Frustrated with the Russia investigation, Trump demands Democrats and Hillary Clinton face more scrutinyWashington Post Roll Call –Telegraph.co.uk –Mother Jones all 785 news articles » |
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The Guardian |
Trump, Assange, Bannon, Farage… bound together in an unholy alliance
The Guardian Because that was the day that the dramatis personae of two separate Trump-Russia scandals smashed headlong into one another. A high-speed news car crash between Cambridge Analyticaand Wikileaks, the two organisations that arguably had the most … |
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty |
US Senators Single Out Russia In Push Against Anonymous Online Political Ads
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty WASHINGTON — A bipartisan trio of U.S. senators has introduced legislation to regulate paid political ads that appear on Facebook, Google, and other social media in an effort to prevent foreign interference in U.S. elections, with special emphasis … EDITORIAL: Bogus online political ads undercut democracyChicago Sun-Times Despite backlash over political ads, Facebook’s role in elections will only growLos Angeles Times Facebook’s Political Ad Problem Spreads to EuropePacific Standard Splinter (blog) –ExpressNewsline –Bloomberg –New York Times all 211 news articles » |
Consortium News |
Ex-Pentagon official says Russia may be operating hundreds of “troll …
Sacramento Bee The number of networks of Russian-sponsored trolls spreading propaganda to the United States and Europe may number in the hundreds, including the one … Russians aim to control our mindsAltoona Mirror Blaming Russia for the Internet ‘Sewer’Consortium News |
Bloomberg |
Russian Trolls Would Love the ‘Honest Ads Act’
Bloomberg The idea is to make online platforms store all the political ads — both those that support specific candidates and those dealing with issues of national importance — so that the public could access them and see how they were targeted. Another … |
Metro US |
Sharing fake news should be punishable as libel, says former FEC chair
Metro US In the paper “Fool Me Once: The Case for Government Regulation of ‘Fake News,'” Ravel and two co-authors propose new rules to reduce “disinformation advertising” online by increasing transparency about where it comes from, whether it’s factual and slap … |
Essence.com |
Russian propagandists allegedly targeted blacks with free self-defense classes
WTOL.com The digital trail suggests the contact on the phone was part of a Russian propaganda campaign seeking to stoke racial tensions and disrupt the U.S. political system. The social media accounts connected to Black Fist are among the pages Facebook … Members Of The Congressional Black Caucus Won’t Let Facebook Get Away With Their Part InRussia’s MeddlingEssence.com |
The Atlantic |
The History of Russian Involvement in America’s Race Wars
The Atlantic The trolls, according to an interview with the Russian TV network TV Rain, were directed to focus their tweets and comments on socially divisive issues, like guns. But another consistent theme has been Russian trolls focusing on issues of race. Some of … |
The Guardian |
‘Our pain for their gain’: the American activists manipulated by Russian trolls
The Guardian I’m profoundly disgusted,” said Jones, who was stunned to hear that Russian propagandists had impersonated African American activists fighting police violence and racism and had created the event on Facebook, where hundreds RSVP’d. “Facebook should … |
Media Matters for America (blog) |
Fake news purveyors regularly cited a Twitter account revealed to be Russian propaganda
Media Matters for America (blog) Several news outlets have also reported that Russian operatives used these social mediaplatforms to push anti-immigration rhetoric, including organizing an anti-Muslim rally and impersonating a Muslim group to stir chaos in the U.S. In October, one of … |
Newsweek |
Facebook Must Come Clean About Its Russian Propaganda Ads
Newsweek On November 1, Facebook’s general counsel Colin Stretch will testify before the House and Senate intelligence committees as part of the congressional investigations into Russia’s use ofsocial media and internet platforms to interfere with the 2016 … |
Silicon Valley Business Journal |
Google and Facebook spend millions to lobby Congress as Washington inquiries ramp up
Silicon Valley Business Journal Jonathan Albright, a social media analyst at Columbia University, believes Russian propagandaon Facebook may have reached billions of users. His findings indicated that a Russian disinformation campaign may have used Facebook to identify voters’ … |
Daily Beast |
Exclusive: Russian Propaganda Traced Back to Staten Island, New York
Daily Beast Over the past two months, Russia’s efforts to integrate Americans and U.S. communities into its vast propaganda campaigns has become clearer, as social media companies began shuttering accounts originating from Russia’s Internet Research Agency, … |
The Hill |
UK lawmakers ask Facebook about Russian-linked Brexit activity
The Hill The inquiry signals an increased interest in learning the extent and success in which Russiapermeated the social media platforms with propaganda and fake news after Facebook announced earlier this month that roughly 10 million of its users saw the ads. |