ICE Might Be Reading Your Encrypted Text Messages

Paragon is an Israeli firm whose spyware product “Graphite” focuses on breaching encrypted messaging applications such as Telegram and Signal. ICE, the immigration agency, has already acquired the technology.

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Prompt:
How might entities exploit loopholes to evade FARA, GDPR, and U.S. election laws, launder psychographic data, and influence targeted campaigns? What tactics and motivations could manipulate Americans, and which regions or demographics are most at risk? What organizations pose this treat?

Whistleblower explains shell media companies used to manipulate voters

"Urban Legend's model focuses on mobilizing trusted content creators to promote issues that matter, driving audiences to action."

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Prompt:
How might entities exploit loopholes to evade FARA, GDPR, and U.S. election laws, launder psychographic data, and influence targeted campaigns? What tactics and motivations could manipulate Americans, and which regions or demographics are most at risk? What organizations pose this treat?

On TikTok and X, it’s clear: pay-to-play is the name of the game. Organic reach is nice, but if you’re serious about visibility, the ability to promote is a must. Affordable, sure—but is this the new standard for creators?

#bluesky

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📱everything you do is tracked across websites, apps, and GPS. it's not just cookies and metadata. pixel tracking, Wi-Fi beacons, third-party brokers, etc. all aggregated, profiled, and sold.

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prompt(1/3):
Describe how modern tracking technologies like pixel tracking, device fingerprinting, and data brokers aggregate and profile user behavior across websites, apps, and IoT devices.

“Cheer up, someday you’ll attend my funeral.”

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On a scale of 1-10, how mad are you that a foreign billionaire bought your country

2/ First, you may wonder: "How can someone like Trump win an election at all?" He seems to represent everything we teach our kids not to be. The answer lies beneath a web of powerful interests that has been hidden in plain sight for years.

28/ This was the connection. The Koch brothers funded COFI, who contracted Cambridge Analytica and worked with Gloo to roll out the Insights platform.

The data Kriel found? It was a bridge between church apps, Cambridge Analytica, and the GOP.

12/ The company’s motto was: "With ten social media likes I can predict your behaviour better than your co-worker; with 300 likes, better than your spouse." Let that sink in. They could know you better than the people you live with.

38/ The Heritage Foundation, an ultra-conservative think tank, wasn’t just funding charity. They were funding tools to mobilize church members politically. This was the same group behind Project 2025, aiming to re-engineer the entire US government.

68/ Imagine a future where rights are quietly stripped away, not through major legislation, but by covertly influencing just enough voters to pass them. That’s the power of data and psychological profiling. Your vulnerabilities turned into tools against you.

You ever seen a society just collectively go "chaos it is"