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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNetflix 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.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Its Sunday. People want to do something to distract themselves.
Ill watch it when I work up the nerve so I can steel myself. I just know Im not going to like the subject matter. I dont know if I want the unvarnished truth about something we dont seem to be able to fix.
Captain Zero
(6,715 posts)But I watched 'The Exception' tonight.
Maru Kitteh
(28,303 posts)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.
scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)then get mad and spread the word
The_jackalope
(1,660 posts)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)Will watch this evening and read the links you posted. (Sorry, just now reading your post.)
TY!!
faymer7
(59 posts)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.