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by benlivengood 6y ago
https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/mikey-dickerson-to-sxsw-why-we-need-you-in-government-f31dab3263a0 https://medium.com/the-u-s-digital-service/mikey-dickerson-t... from the guy on the front lines. He has fascinating stories.
- oh_sigh 6y agoOhh, can he tell us about "Project Birmingham"? That would be a fun story. > A secret effort to influence the 2017 Senate election in Alabama used tactics inspired by Russian disinformation teams, including the creation of fake accounts to deliver misleading messages on Facebook to hundreds of thousands of voters to help elect Democrat Doug Jones in the deeply red state, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post. https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/secret-campaign-to-use-russian-inspired-tactics-in-2017-ala-election-stirs-anxiety-for-democrats/ https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/se... Of course, Mikey is an extremely hands on guy, and loves to dig into problems he's tasked with. But he threw all those personality traits all out the window when Reid Hoffman gave him almost a million dollars, and he (supposedly) had no idea what the money was being spent on.
- ineedasername 6y agoProject Birmingham is legitimately a concerning incident in dirty politics, but the inflammatory tone of your post makes it very easy to downvote you based on the appearance of flame bait for anyone who isn't already familiar with Project Birmingham.