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Pluvious

(4,278 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 01:34 PM Feb 2021

Murdoch isn't the only billionaire fomenting and funding evil - Salons piece on the Mercers...

This vile pair have directly supported the devil's own work.

I guess we could call them...

Philanthropists of evil ?



The Mercers funded numerous key players who helped foment the Jan. 6 insurrection, though their full involvement remains unclear. Along with far-right candidates and groups, they have also funded the far-right social network Parler, which was used to coordinate the Capitol siege, and Cambridge Analytica, the now-defunct London-based data firm that stole Facebook user data to help Trump's 2016 campaign target potential voters.

"As I discovered first-hand, the Mercers are exceptionally skillful at obfuscating and masking their political enterprises," David Carroll, a professor at The New School in Manhattan who sued Cambridge Analytica for his data in London, said in an email to Salon. "I marveled at how their ownership of Cambridge Analytica was effectively shielded from the U.K. courts where they were prosecuted."
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Publicly available data shows that the Mercers helped fund numerous players who pushed the "big lie." The family donated $3.8 million to Citizens United, which is run by longtime Trump adviser David Bossie, who was tapped to lead the former president's legal challenges. Though the Mercers have pulled back their financial support in recent election cycles amid growing scrutiny, they donated $300,000 during this past cycle to the Republican National Committee, which joined Trump's legal battle.
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More recently, Rebekah Mercer co-founded Parler, ostensibly a "libertarian" moderation-free social network that quickly became a megaphone for far-right figures like Alexander and fellow organizer Alex Jones, both of whom had been banned from mainstream social networks for spreading disinformation. Alexander, Jones and others used Parler to spread falsehoods about the election while others simply trafficked in white supremacist content, according to the Anti-Defamation League. "Holocaust denial, antisemitism, racism and other forms of bigotry are also easy to find," the ADL said.


https://www.salon.com/2021/02/04/how-one-billionaire-family-bankrolled-election-lies-white-nationalism--and-the-capitol-riot/
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Murdoch isn't the only billionaire fomenting and funding evil - Salons piece on the Mercers... (Original Post) Pluvious Feb 2021 OP
You'd think they just be happy being THAT wealthy but no... tenderfoot Feb 2021 #1
That's father daughter - not a couple. Lucky Luciano Feb 2021 #2
Fixed, thx. nt. Pluvious Feb 2021 #5
She needs to go wash her face. murielm99 Feb 2021 #3
Brittany Kaiser LessAspin Feb 2021 #4
The Great Hack LessAspin Feb 2021 #7
These two spent way too much time at the forehead store. nt coti Feb 2021 #6
They Spelled Her First Name Incorrectly ProfessorGAC Feb 2021 #8
K&R for visibility. crickets Feb 2021 #9
Mercers are worse MrsMatt Feb 2021 #10

tenderfoot

(8,424 posts)
1. You'd think they just be happy being THAT wealthy but no...
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 01:41 PM
Feb 2021

If there's one thing I've seen from billionaires is that there isn't enough money, riches, stuff to buy that will ever satisfy them.

murielm99

(30,657 posts)
3. She needs to go wash her face.
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 01:52 PM
Feb 2021

I know it is not nice to comment on women's appearance, but why do some women pile on so much makeup?

LessAspin

(1,149 posts)
4. Brittany Kaiser
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 01:57 PM
Feb 2021
Brittany Kaiser’s work with Cambridge Analytica helped elect Donald Trump. She’s hoping the world will forgive her.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=
Brittany Kaiser first emerged in last year’s Cambridge Analytica scandal as a seemingly nefarious figure, an insider steeped in the dark secrets of a new kind of voter manipulation powered by Facebook data. To make matters worse, news reports also raised questions about Kaiser’s mysterious dealings with WikiLeaks mastermind Julian Assange at a time when he remained holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London.

For Kaiser — at the time a 30-year-old Democrat from Texas who’d become business development director for Cambridge Analytica, a firm created to elect Republicans — the massive wave of critical news reports about the company threatened to deliver catastrophic damage to her reputation and even made her fear possible arrest.

So she did something drastic: Kaiser fled to Thailand, and she let a crew of filmmakers tag along...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/02/brittany-kaisers-work-with-cambridge-analytica-helped-elect-donald-trump-shes-hoping-world-will-forgive-her/

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=242210

LessAspin

(1,149 posts)
7. The Great Hack
Fri Feb 5, 2021, 07:47 PM
Feb 2021
What followed was a highly public — and still unfinished — quest for moral redemption that has played out across the globe and, now, in a Netflix documentary called “The Great Hack,” released July 24. It includes images of Kaiser up to her shoulders in a giant pool under an impossibly blue sky in Thailand, uncertain what to do. And it later depicts Kaiser, in a far more determined frame of mind, testifying before the British Parliament about the many unsavory deeds of her former employer and warning of the ongoing privacy threats posed by Facebook, whose dealings with Cambridge Analytica resulted in July in more than $5 billion in U.S. fines.

But two important elements are missing from the film. The first is Kaiser’s private meetings with British and U.S. prosecutors, including those from then-special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s office, which she recently detailed in interviews with The Washington Post. In these she also explained her visit with Assange in 2017 and how close she came during the hottest days of the Cambridge Analytica scandal to turning over the entirety of her hard drive to WikiLeaks for publication online.

The second missing element is a decisive moment of reckoning for Kaiser, during which she fully acknowledges her role in matters she now regards as wrong and possibly illegal. She repeatedly calls herself a “whistleblower” but viewers of the film may wonder: Why didn’t she blow the whistle a little sooner — ideally before Cambridge Analytica’s misdeeds had become front-page news worldwide? ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/02/brittany-kaisers-work-with-cambridge-analytica-helped-elect-donald-trump-shes-hoping-world-will-forgive-her/








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