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The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
Sun Jul 28, 2019, 11:31 PM Jul 2019

Netflix documentary :::"The Great Hack"::: Watch!It!

My brain is gonna run out of my ears any second now.

Everything we know, deduced or intuited before and right after the election about Cambridge Analytica, Bannon, Farage - the whole crew of scoundrels - is laid out with tight editing, excellent production values, and the ring of truth. David Carroll, Chris Wylie and Brittany Kaiser on camera, telling us a data story that will curdle your blood, and make you think every time you swipe a card.

Perhaps THE most important documentary about the 2016 election.

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Netflix documentary :::"The Great Hack"::: Watch!It! (Original Post) The_jackalope Jul 2019 OP
Thanks for posting this. I may need my xanax for this doc. Deep breath. YOHABLO Jul 2019 #1
One response. So I guess everyone has already seen it? nt The_jackalope Jul 2019 #2
I just saw your post lunatica Jul 2019 #3
put it on watchlist. Preview was chilling enough. Captain Zero Jul 2019 #4
My brain is gonna run out of my ears any second now. Maru Kitteh Jul 2019 #5
yes watch it scarytomcat Jul 2019 #6
Some pieces missing from the film: The_jackalope Jul 2019 #7
On the "to-do" list. Duppers Jul 2019 #8
I was horrified! No matter what type of system we need massive poll watchers out, faymer7 Jul 2019 #9

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
3. I just saw your post
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 01:18 AM
Jul 2019

It’s Sunday. People want to do something to distract themselves.

I’ll watch it when I work up the nerve so I can steel myself. I just know I’m not going to like the subject matter. I don’t know if I want the unvarnished truth about something we don’t seem to be able to fix.

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
5. My brain is gonna run out of my ears any second now.
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 04:44 AM
Jul 2019

Yeah, that pretty much sums up how I feel too. Just saw it Saturday night.



Blood fell to my feet about 10 minutes in and then stayed there. Everyone who can, should see it.



The_jackalope

(1,660 posts)
7. Some pieces missing from the film:
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 09:31 AM
Jul 2019

There are several aspects of this ginormous story that are (understandably) left out of the film. One is the Trump Tower - Spectrum Health - Alfa bank data transfers: https://investigaterussia.org/media/2018-10-08/revisiting-alfa-bank-trump-organization-server-mystery

Another is the Israeli connection: https://www.businessinsider.com/israeli-hackers-gave-data-to-cambridge-analytica-2018-3

And then there is the omnipresent Russian mob connection - the one coming down from the capo del tutti capi Semion Mogilevich Through a network of oligarchs including Oleg Deripaska and Dmitri Rybolovlev, and sweeping up Mitch McConnell in the process.

This is an enormous and catastrophic story. It's the global political equivalent of the global climate emergency.

Duppers

(28,094 posts)
8. On the "to-do" list.
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 04:56 PM
Jul 2019

Will watch this evening and read the links you posted. (Sorry, just now reading your post.)

TY!!

 

faymer7

(59 posts)
9. I was horrified! No matter what type of system we need massive poll watchers out,
Mon Jul 29, 2019, 05:01 PM
Jul 2019

especially in those red states. A lot of people have been displaced by natural disasters so there may be some hanky=panky with eligible voters. We need to do some vetting of precinct captains and watch that paper ballots are not destroyed in purple areas.

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