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Archived on 8 December 2021 at 8:30am [URL redacted]
@IsiahFrauhiger [name pseudonymized] [ontology] : @DavidLammy @KayBurley #partytime #lammyBleats give it a rest ! #woke #Lammy couldn’t take the truth that’s why @BorisJohnson humours him and all the other #egits let’s move on #covid there’s a country #UK to run ! #AllWeAreIsAllWeNeed let’s rock 🤘@Carrie lbjohnson [URL redacted]
GIF of #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyBorisJohnson making the #SymbolGestureThumbsUp
Context the GIF is an extract from the #OrgClassifPPUKConservativeParty #2019_UnitedKingdomGeneralElection #LiteralMessagingCampaignPolitical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj-YK3JJCIU&t=119s #SloganGetBrexitDone, which presumably seeks to leverage popular awareness of #PhenomnMeme.s that recycle the #2003_LoveActually #MemeCardsOnTheDoorstep scene (perhaps, to evoke #ReasoningFallacyAppealToTraditionEverydayPeopleEveryman / sense of familiarity).
Supplementary "Boris Johnson's infamous 'Get Brexit Done' slogan was dreamed up after a disgruntled Yorkshire woman first uttered the phrase in a focus group, it has been revealed. The three-word catchphrase - credited with helping the Tories win the 2019 general election - was formulated soon after the woman said it during the session in Bradford, according to the party's election mastermind Sir Lynton Crosby." https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/get-brexit-done-origin-yorkshire-woman-b1914214.html #PhenomnBrexit #IRLPoliticalStrategistLyntonCrosby [Wikipedia] And https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/01/revealed-johnson-allys-firm-secretly-ran-facebook-propaganda-network
Addendum The new Conservative digital campaigners, both New Zealanders in their 20s, also flew around the world to promote the interests of clients such as Glencore, one of the world's biggest miners, while concerns - which they strongly denied - were raised about some of their behaviour in the office. The pair's arrival comes after their success helping Australia's rightwing coalition unexpectedly win the country's general election, where they were praised by local media for their understanding of how to fight online campaigns. Purposefully low-quality memes based around popular shows such as Game of Thrones were used in a bid to drive interactions - good or bad - at any cost, on the basis that this would boost the reach of future Facebook posts. 'We'd make them really basic and deliberately lame because they'd get shares and lift our reach; that made our reach for the harder political messages higher,' an anonymous individual told the Sydney Morning Herald, dubbing the strategy 'boomer memes' as the content appealed to older audiences. In recent days, the Conservatives have begun purposefully posting badly-designed social media material, at one point urging MPs to back a Brexit deal using the often-derided Comic Sans font. The Tories' political opponents lined up to mock the image, inadvertently sending it viral and ensuring it was seen by a wider audience."https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/aug/01/revealed-johnson-allys-firm-secretly-ran-facebook-propaganda-network #BrandTophamGuerinTGSeanTopham and #BrandTophamGuerinTGBenGuerin #EpistemologyAmateurShittyMemes
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Archived on 29 March 2021 at 12:15am [URL redacted]
@ColterRemine [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [32]: @KeiraSavage00 @CaroDiRusso Hey @ScottMorrisonMP #StuartRobert is nowhere man, you will lose the base you worked so hard to get back last election, @KeiraSavage00 is right leave Dutton where he is & put @JimMolan as defence minister. A reminder for your #woke #Turnbull like advisers, get back to the centre! [URL redacted]
#NMAUSkyNewsAustraliaPetaCredlin #OrgClassifPPAUSAustralianLaborPartyALPBillShorten #OrgClassifPPAUSLiberalPartyOfAustraliaScottMorrison #2019_AustralianFederalElection [Wikipedia]
Supplementary #TVAUABC https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-11-08/topham-guerins-boomer-meme-industrial-complex/11682116 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlNHVOxIRw #BrandTophamGuerinTGSeanTopham and #BrandTophamGuerinTGBenGuerin #TheorySociologyRecuperation #AdvocacyAUAustralianLibertarianSocietyALS [DeSmog] #AdvocacyAUAustralianTaxpayersAllianceATA [DeSmog] #2019_FriedmanConference [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QeHsjnGcpg&t=1929s
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianDavidConn, #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianPeterGeoghegan, #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianRobEvans and #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianRussellScott "The political communications company behind the Conservative party's controversial 2019 digital campaign strategy received a £3m government contract to work on Covid-19 messaging without a competitive tender and is negotiating with the Cabinet Office for more work, the Guardian and openDemocracy can reveal. ... Under emergency Covid-19 regulations that allow the government to ditch usual competitive tendering practices, no tender was conducted to allow other companies to bid for that work. A six-month contract was subsequently formalised on 7 May, with a retrospective 17 March start date, for a total of £3m. The details were not made public until mid-July." https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/aug/03/topham-guerin-pr-firm-covid-19-contract-conservative-party #ConditionVirusCOVID19Pandemic #WebsiteOpenDemocracy https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/revealed-tory-linked-pr-firm-given-3m-covid-19-contract-without-tender/
#NewspaperAUCompactTheSaturdayPaperJasonKoutsoukis [Muckrack] [Wikipedia] https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2024/12/07/exclusive-dutton-hires-morrisons-disinformation-team https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxPUP_-2h40
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Archived on 26 October 2020 at 6:15am [URL redacted]
@AlyssaCross [name pseudonymized] [ontology] [09]: Palantir, Getting #Woke Out Of #Tech, & the Future of #Healthcare | @JTLonsdale @RubinReport Great interview. [URL redacted]
#IRLCommentatorDaveRubin [Wikipedia] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMJQhVosLRA&t=49s #AdvocacyUSTheCiceroInstituteJoeLonsdale [Wikipedia] #BrandPalantirTechnologies [Wikipedia]
Context #AdvocacyUSTakeBackTheCourtFoundationSupremeTransparency "Founded by Joe Lonsdale, a venture capitalist who co-founded Palantir with billionaire Peter Thiel, the Cicero Institute is one of the main right-wing think tanks promoting state-level bans on 'unauthorized street camping,' otherwise known as sleeping in public while unhoused. Lonsdale and one of Cicero's senior advisors suggested on Lonsdale's podcast that the public should return to calling homeless people as 'vagrants,' 'bums,' and 'tramps.'" [networks of influence] #PhenomnVentureCapitalVC #PhenomnPolicymakingPoliticalAdvocacyLobbyingThinkTankPressureGroup #PhenomnDeprivationUnhoused #PhenomnResponsibilityBlamingVictim #BrandKochIndustries
#AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterCRCInfluenceWatch "Take Back the Court Foundation) is a left-of-center advocacy group which aims to add seats to the United States Supreme Court once Democrats gain control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate in order to effectively nullify Republican Supreme Court appointments." [networks of influence] #AdvocacyUSTakeBackTheCourtFoundation #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUS #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticParty #OrgUSFedGovCongressHouseOfRepresentatives [Wikipedia] #OrgUSFedGovCongressSenate [Wikipedia] #NMUKBBC #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSNeilGorsuch #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSBrettKavanaugh #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSAmyBarrett #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSClarenceThomas #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSNeilGorsuch #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSJohnRoberts #OrgUSFedSupremeCourtSCOTUSSamuelAlito https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33103973
#WebsiteDeSmog "As part of the conservative campaign to 'Defund the left' the Capital Research Center produces a range of publications targeting foundations, unions and activist groups that it views as supporting liberal causes." #AdvocacyUSCapitalResearchCenterCRC [Wikipedia] #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundationWillaJohnson [DeSmog] #AdvocacyUSCenterForMediaAndDemocracyCMDSourceWatch "Defund the left is a term used in America to describe efforts by conservative activists to eliminate government financial support for non-profit groups deemed to be 'liberal'. While initially coined in response to Reagan government proposals to curtail funding of non-profits, it has subsequently been more loosely used to describe a range of other administrative measures aimed at silencing advocacy groups." [SourceWatch] #PleaDefundTheLeft
Supplementary #IRLComedianStewartLee "Good Law Project recently announced it is launching legal action regarding NHS England's use of patient data. But on 22 December, Good Law Project claimed it received leaked emails showing that a PR company called Topham Guerin was planning to discredit them, on behalf of Palantir, which wants that NHS data. Good Law Project believes social media influencers have been asked by Topham Guerin what their 'fee expectation' would be for sending two tweets criticising Good Law Project, while taking care not to mention Topham Guerin or link to Palantir. But if I was Topham Geurin, and I wanted to make Jolyon Maugham mad, I would try to get him to believe Palantir was paying for social media influencers to attack him. Is this deep-vein psyops stuff, or me overthinking everything? Topham Guerin's speciality is 'shitty memes'. 'Sometimes shitty memes are effective,' declared co-founder Sean Topham of content so deliberately unsophisticated it appears, in contrast to the slick memes of 'the elite', trustworthy. Those experts! With their lighting!! And their fonts!!!" https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/31/topple-tory-dark-lords-palantir-nhs-data-good-law-project-topham-guerin #IRLEntrepreneurPeterThiel #IRLEntrepreneurNathanGettings #BrandPalantirTechnologiesStephenCohen [Wikipedia] #BrandPalantirTechnologiesAlexanderKarp #BrandTophamGuerinTGSeanTopham & #BrandTophamGuerinTGBenGuerin #AdvocacyUKGoodLawProjectJolyonMaugham #MetaphorWarfarePsychologicalOperationsPSYOP #PhenomnCommunicationsMarketingInfluencer #OrgUKNtlHealthServiceNHS And https://goodlawproject.org/pr-firm-topham-guerin-tories-and-palantir-offers-to-pay-influencers-attacks-twitter-x/
#NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianDanMilmo "Palantir, which draws its name from the powerful crystal balls deployed in JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, is the favourite to win a £360m contract for the NHS's Federated Data Platform (FDP). Covering everything from individual patients' data to vaccination programmes, waiting lists and medical trials, the FDP will aggregate data from multiple sources and different formats on to a single platform. ... The ambitious scope of the platform has alarmed campaign groups, who fear for patient confidentiality, privacy and data security, but the identity of the frontrunner has also caused concern. US-based Palantir was co-founded by Peter Thiel, one of Silicon Valley's few high-profile Donald Trump supporters. The $15.6bn (£12.7bn) company has been criticised for its work with the US immigration agency, as well as its intelligence service and defence contracts. It already works closely with NHS England by providing software that processes data for a variety of purposes including take-up of Covid-19 vaccines and managing the post-pandemic bounce back in elective care (surgery or treatment booked in advance). But the prospect of it setting up an overarching data platform for NHS England has alarmed Foxglove, a UK legal campaign group that focuses on accountability in the technology industry. Foxglove's concerns, and those of similar organisations, centre on two aspects: the safety of patient data, and the nature of the company that will set up the data framework and seek to exploit it. ... The head of Palantir's London office is Louis Mosley, grandson of Oswald Mosley and nephew of the late former president of Formula One's governing body, Max Mosley, who became a privacy campaigner later in life. Speaking to the Sunday Times in 2020, Louis Mosley said Palantir's origins were as a defender of personal privacy. 'Palantir was actually started to guard against government overreach into personal privacy. Much of the software we've built is to prove those kinds of protections.'" https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/jun/21/palantir-concerns-over-data-firm-poised-to-be-operating-system-of-nhs #IRLAuthorJRRTolkien #1954_TheLordOfTheRings #BrandTechNHSFederatedDataPlatformNHSFDP [Wikipedia] #LiteralHealthcare #ToponymAmericaNorthUSCaliforniaNorthernSiliconValley #PhenomnPrivacyConfidentiality #ConditionVirusCOVID19 #AdvocacyUKFoxgloveLegal https://www.foxglove.org.uk/who-we-are/ [pdf] #JournalBritishMedicalJournalBMJ 'A controversial new federated data platform for the NHS in England', BMJ 2023; 383 (Published 29 November 2023). [academic source] #PhenomnAccountability #TauntBigTech #BrandPalantirTechnologiesLouisMosley #OrgFRFederationInternationaleDeLAutomobileFIAFormulaOneF1MaxMosley [Wikipedia] #NewspaperUKBrdshtTheGuardianJimWaterson https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/may/24/max-mosley-f1-racing-driver-fia-president-privacy-campaigner-dies-aged-81 #PhenomnPrivacyCampaigner #2020_ #PowerControlOverreach #PhenomnPersonal #IRLHistoricalFigureOswaldMosley [Wikipedia]
#OrgClassifPPUKLabourDawnButler https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3dq-Al1SQ8 #OrgClassifPPUKConservativePartyMattHancock #ConditionVirusCOVID19PandemicTestAndTrace
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