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O’Keefe To Release Footage From Inside Newsrooms ‘WikiLeaks Style’
Daily Caller ^ | 2/22/17 | Justin Caruso

Posted on 02/22/2017 3:01:23 PM PST by markomalley

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To: markomalley

Wikileaks style? Not possible, CNN already told us that only they have the authority to review and report on wikileaks material. I’m sure that applies to this as well.


21 posted on 02/22/2017 3:50:25 PM PST by AmusedBystander (The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next)
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To: markomalley

Anyone hear anything remarkable about Vault 7, besides the SpyOnFranceLikeHell bit..?


22 posted on 02/22/2017 4:03:28 PM PST by gaijin
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To: markomalley

OK that’s one tease. That’s enough James.

Cough it up or risk putting your credibility down the Anonymous toilet.


23 posted on 02/22/2017 4:04:18 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: markomalley

OK Twitter says “tomorrow”. PV - do not disapoint!


24 posted on 02/22/2017 4:06:28 PM PST by bigbob (We have better coverage than Verizon - Can You Hear Us Now?)
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To: markomalley

O’Keefe Telephone Repair Shenanigans:

Originally they were trying to get him and his colleagues TEN YEARS IN PRISON FOR A FELONY..!

They were so pissed they were also bandying around “terrorism” verbiage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/politics/27landrieu.html

(short version - He and some buds dressed up as telphone repairmen and visited the office of someone in Congress, they were trying to get some overhear in the room audio involving corruption)


25 posted on 02/22/2017 4:07:50 PM PST by gaijin
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To: fwdude
is work is invaluable in exposing corruption.

Without a doubt.

26 posted on 02/22/2017 4:20:57 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: txhurl

Image still up ... may have blocked some followers.

https://twitter.com/GriffithsCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor


27 posted on 02/22/2017 4:24:05 PM PST by maggief
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To: maggief

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i83lG23WSU

A conversation with CNN VP Richard Griffiths and Dean Susan King

Richard Griffiths, VP and senior editorial director at CNN, spoke with UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication Dean Susan King in the Carolina News Studio on March 18, 2014. Griffiths was at the school to talk with students in classes — something he’s been doing for near a decade.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/20/twitter-dataminr-cia/

Dataminr, a New York-based startup that Fortune profiled in a recent magazine feature, is one of few companies authorized to analyze the entire Twitter “firehose,” identifying important events and patterns as they unfold and often acting as an early warning system for natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other anomalies. As Twitter’s only data partner that is also allowed to resell the complete stream of tweets, Dataminr sells its service to hedge funds, news outlets, large corporations and government bodies—including, until recently, the CIA.

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Twitter abruptly revoked the CIA’s access to Dataminr out of apparent concern that its reputation would suffer if it was perceived to be too cozy with the spy agency. But critics quickly accused Twitter of being hypocritical in its decision after Russian state-owned news outlet RT said it still had Dataminr access. “Agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service, formerly known as the KGB, have full access via RT to the alerts now being denied to the CIA,” a Journal op/ed columnist wrote.

https://www.rt.com/news/374208-dataminr-rt-terminated-access/
Dataminr terminates RT access to Twitter news discovery tool, gives no official reason
Published time: 19 Jan, 2017

https://www.dataminr.com/press/announcing-dataminr-for-news/

Announcing Dataminr for News in partnership with Twitter & CNN
January 29, 2014
Today, I am thrilled to announce our upcoming launch of Dataminr for News, a new product developed in close partnership with Twitter and CNN. Dataminr for News will provide newsrooms around the world with a powerful new technology to rapidly discover emerging information on Twitter.

With more than 500 million Tweets sent per day, identifying critical information when it first emerges on Twitter is a tremendous challenge. Dataminr’s unique technology solves this challenge by algorithmically discovering, qualifying, categorizing and alerting clients to key information in real-time.

Powered by the same proprietary pattern-recognition algorithms behind Dataminr’s highly successful Finance and Public Sector products, Dataminr for News delivers a customizable set of alerts directly into the user’s existing work-flow. This creates a seamless, real-time bridge between the front edge of Twitter and decision-makers in the newsroom.

We’ve worked closely with CNN to develop Dataminr for News. They’ve been an ideal partner given their best-in-class newsgathering operation, global focus, and strong commitment to innovation. By integrating our alpha product into their daily workflow, reporters at CNN were able to offer invaluable feedback about the product and its algorithms.

http://fortune.com/2015/01/30/dataminr/

Dataminr last year struck partnerships with Twitter (TWTR, -1.77%) and news outlets like CNN, the BBC and USA Today to help journalists find breaking news on the social network. Dataminr’s rival, a Boulder-based social data company called Gnip, sold to Twitter in 2014. Another social data startup, Topsy sold to Apple (AAPL, +0.30%) for more than $200 million in 2013. A third, Datasift, has raised $71.7 million in venture backing.

To date, Dataminr has raised $49.6 million in total VC funding, including a $30 million Series C round in 2013. Investors include Box Group, Deep Fork Capital, GSV Capital, Venrock and Institutional Venture Partners. The

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Per Twitter: CNN Leaks Confirmed Target of O’Keefe
02/22/2017 3:10:20 PM PST · 73 of 76
maggief to LucyT; txhurl; Jane Long
Per video, CNN partners with Dataminr, a startup which mines data from twitter.

https://www.dataminr.com

http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/19/14310498/dataminr-twitter-news-tool-beacon-lobbying-foreign-surveillance

LEAKED EMAILS REVEAL HOW DATAMINR WAS PITCHED TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS

by Andrew Perez and Frank Bass Jan 19, 2017, 9:01am EST

In March 2015, Philippe Reines, a former aide to Hillary Clinton at the US State Department, reached out to an old colleague about his consulting firm’s client.

Reines contacted Capricia Marshall, a consultant who had been the US chief of protocol, a top State Department officer who acts as a liaison with foreign diplomats. Reines wanted Marshall to arrange meetings with foreign embassies for Dataminr — a company that has come under scrutiny from privacy experts for its service analyzing Twitter data.

“If you could pull this off, would be a great way to get you a solid ongoing retainer,” Reines wrote in an email. Marshall responded: “Talking to Azerbaijan. May then ask Saudi?”

“Azerbaijan would be AWESOME. I think Saudi is in its own category because they aren’t sure what the Saudis would do with it,” Reines wrote back. Referring to Azerbaijan, a former Soviet republic accused of jailing journalists and online activists, Reines suggested using its territorial dispute with Armenia as leverage: “Pull out all the stops! Tell them if they don’t we’ll sell to the Armenians!”

Reines’ firm, Beacon Global Strategies, met with diplomats from Azerbaijan’s embassy, and quickly hired Marshall. A MapLight review of leaked emails found that Marshall arranged conversations between Dataminr and at least five embassies over three months.

The leaked emails shed light on the largely unregulated world of international lobbying in Washington, where “strategic advisors,” “consultants,” and lawyers use their US government experience to benefit clients and themselves, while avoiding public scrutiny both at home and overseas.

Beacon isn’t registered to lobby in Washington. The firm reportedly works for defense contractors and cybersecurity companies, but it hasn’t made its client list public, citing non-disclosure agreements. Beacon’s relationship with Dataminr has not been previously reported.

Emails show that Beacon offered Dataminr’s service to a foreign government in ways that suggest it could have been used for surveillance. A spokesperson for Dataminr told MapLight on Tuesday that the company “decided not to build or deploy the product capabilities” described by Beacon.

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Not sure this is James’ angle, but it should be one.

Smells like collusion.

http://fortune.com/2016/06/20/twitter-dataminr-cia/

Dataminr, a New York-based startup that Fortune profiled in a recent magazine feature, is one of few companies authorized to analyze the entire Twitter “firehose,” identifying important events and patterns as they unfold and often acting as an early warning system for natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other anomalies. As Twitter’s only data partner that is also allowed to resell the complete stream of tweets, Dataminr sells its service to hedge funds, news outlets, large corporations and government bodies—including, until recently, the CIA.

The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Twitter abruptly revoked the CIA’s access to Dataminr out of apparent concern that its reputation would suffer if it was perceived to be too cozy with the spy agency. But critics quickly accused Twitter of being hypocritical in its decision after Russian state-owned news outlet RT said it still had Dataminr access. “Agents of Russia’s Federal Security Service, formerly known as the KGB, have full access via RT to the alerts now being denied to the CIA,” a Journal op/ed columnist wrote.

https://www.rt.com/news/374208-dataminr-rt-terminated-access/
Dataminr terminates RT access to Twitter news discovery tool, gives no official reason
Published time: 19 Jan, 2017

https://www.dataminr.com/press/announcing-dataminr-for-news/

Announcing Dataminr for News in partnership with Twitter & CNN
January 29, 2014
Today, I am thrilled to announce our upcoming launch of Dataminr for News, a new product developed in close partnership with Twitter and CNN. Dataminr for News will provide newsrooms around the world with a powerful new technology to rapidly discover emerging information on Twitter.

With more than 500 million Tweets sent per day, identifying critical information when it first emerges on Twitter is a tremendous challenge. Dataminr’s unique technology solves this challenge by algorithmically discovering, qualifying, categorizing and alerting clients to key information in real-time.

Powered by the same proprietary pattern-recognition algorithms behind Dataminr’s highly successful Finance and Public Sector products, Dataminr for News delivers a customizable set of alerts directly into the user’s existing work-flow. This creates a seamless, real-time bridge between the front edge of Twitter and decision-makers in the newsroom.

We’ve worked closely with CNN to develop Dataminr for News. They’ve been an ideal partner given their best-in-class newsgathering operation, global focus, and strong commitment to innovation. By integrating our alpha product into their daily workflow, reporters at CNN were able to offer invaluable feedback about the product and its algorithms.

http://fortune.com/2015/01/30/dataminr/

Dataminr last year struck partnerships with Twitter (TWTR, -1.77%) and news outlets like CNN, the BBC and USA Today to help journalists find breaking news on the social network. Dataminr’s rival, a Boulder-based social data company called Gnip, sold to Twitter in 2014. Another social data startup, Topsy sold to Apple (AAPL, +0.30%) for more than $200 million in 2013. A third, Datasift, has raised $71.7 million in venture backing.

To date, Dataminr has raised $49.6 million in total VC funding, including a $30 million Series C round in 2013. Investors include Box Group, Deep Fork Capital, GSV Capital, Venrock and Institutional Venture Partners.


28 posted on 02/22/2017 4:26:43 PM PST by maggief
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To: txhurl; maggief

I still see Griffith on both his own twitter page and on the O’Keefe tweet w/pic.


29 posted on 02/22/2017 4:30:04 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Just tried to donate.

Will not let me.

“Privacy error”

“Your connection is not private” blah, blah.


30 posted on 02/22/2017 4:40:07 PM PST by saleman
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To: saleman; Jim Robinson

“Just tried to donate.
Will not let me.
“Privacy error”
“Your connection is not private” blah, blah.”

Did you see this, Jim?

Any solutions?


31 posted on 02/22/2017 4:55:05 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: markomalley

If he can only release on Hannity, the only people that are going to see it are the ones that already know this crap goes on.


32 posted on 02/22/2017 5:05:03 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: markomalley

Why warn them? Gives them a chance to gin up a big story to try to drown out the O’Keefe release.


33 posted on 02/22/2017 5:18:00 PM PST by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: fwdude

He did not actually give his name as Eric Holder. I recall that he asked if they had a ballot for Eric Holder.


34 posted on 02/22/2017 5:19:08 PM PST by Bigg Red (The LORD of hosts is with us; our stronghold is the God of Jacob. Ps 46:12)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo; saleman

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35 posted on 02/22/2017 5:31:41 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson; saleman

I KNEW there was a reason I don’t use Chrome!

Thank you.


36 posted on 02/22/2017 5:46:40 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Here’s a google post about its SHA-1 deprecation plan: https://security.googleblog.com/2016/11/sha-1-certificates-in-chrome.html


37 posted on 02/22/2017 5:58:10 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Again, thanks.


38 posted on 02/22/2017 6:00:01 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Actually, this information deserves a thread of its own.


39 posted on 02/22/2017 6:02:50 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!)
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To: markomalley

This could be awesome! O’Keefe has delivered many times, and I hope this is another case of him changing America for the better by shining a light in the dark corners where the Ctrl-Left plots against freedom.


40 posted on 02/22/2017 7:00:19 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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