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As a Brit it concerns me that somebody can donate the use of such a powerful tool for a political campaign without registration. Especially as the donation was
by ed_blackburn 10y ago
As a Brit it concerns me that somebody can donate the use of such a powerful tool for a political campaign without registration. Especially as the donation was from a foreign citizen.
There is far too much shadiness going on. Yes the horse has bolted with Brexit but there are more elections around the world and if the democratic process _may_ be being distorted then I think it needs investigation.
- sjg007 10y agoBig data wars 2.0
- crusso 10y agoWhat is distortion of democratic process, specifically? Most political processes are distortion. Political ads are never basic presentations of fact. At best, they're just exercises in cherry picking, but typically they're spin and outright lies. Major media outlets all have their political slants and their subsets of slants presented by their various journalists. More distortion. Is it political distortion when you bus in voters of a particular party to the polling places who would otherwise not have bothered to vote?
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- ed_blackburn 10y agoWe don't really have political ads in the UK, it's certainly illegal to lie in any advertisement in the UK. I meant a tool was used and was not registered as a donation. This may have distorted the campaigns because the two sides had to disclose all donations. That one chose not to, is in my view dishonest, thoroughly inappropriate and may very well have been ilegal. I am not naive, hence my comment. For future elections election officials will need to be observant.