Doxxing is intentionally researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual with the intent and purpose of having law enforcement called on them for spurious reasons.
The doxxing term is derived from “dropping dox” or “documents,” and it refers to the malicious practice of researching, collecting, and publicly disclosing someone’s personal and private information without their consent. This information can include home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, social security numbers, or any other data that can compromise an individual’s privacy.
The intent behind doxxing is often to intimidate, harass, shame, or exact revenge on the target by exposing them to potential threats, unwanted contact, or public scrutiny.
The act of doxxing can have serious repercussions, not just infringing on an individual’s privacy but also potentially leading to real-world consequences such as stalking, identity theft, and physical harm. In the digital age, where vast amounts of personal data can be found online, doxxing has become a significant concern.
The ease with which personal information can be gathered and disseminated across various platformsβsocial media, forums, and websitesβamplifies the risks associated with this invasive act, making digital literacy and privacy protection more crucial than ever.
What I do when I have compromising files to hide is I distribute them evenly across 3 different laptops and ensure that all 3 highly reliable βworks for decadesβ Apple machines go kaput at the same exact time, at which point I leave my home and fly across the country to a jurisdiction patrolled by Rudy Giuliani to service these machines and perform data recovery because I am looking to add maximum inconvenience to my very busy life β a life so busy that I completely forget about my 3 precious laptops which once contained both my livelihood and my most deeply personal and secret materials.
surveillance won’t be obvious and overt like in Orwell’s classic totalitarian novel 1984 — it’ll be covert and subtle (“more like a spider’s web”)
social networks use persuasion architecture — the same cloying design aesthetic that puts gum at the eye level of children in the grocery aisle
Example:
AI modeling of potential Las Vegas ticket buyers
The machine learning algorithms can classify people into two buckets, “likely to buy tickets to Vegas” and “unlikely to” based on exposure to lots and lots of data patterns. Problem being, it’s a black box and no one — not even the computer scientists — know how it works or what it’s doing exactly.
So the AI may have discovered that bipolar individuals just about to go into mania are more susceptible to buying tickets to Vegas — and that is the segment of the population they are targeting: a vulnerable set of people prone to overspending and gambling addictions. The ethical implications of unleashing this on the world — and routinely using and optimizing it relentlessly — are staggering.
Profiting from extremism
“You’re never hardcore enough for YouTube” — YouTube gives you content recommendations that are increasingly polarized and polarizing, because it turns out that preying on your reptilian brain makes you keep clicking around in the YouTube hamster wheel.
The amorality of AI — “algorithms don’t care if they’re selling shoes, or politics.” Our social, political, and cultural flows are being organized by these persuasion architectures — organized for profit; not for the collective good, not for public interests, not subject to our political will anymore. These powerful surveillance capitalism tools are running mostly unchecked, with little oversight and with few people minding the ethics of the stores of essentially a cadre of Silicon Valley billionaires.
Intent doesn’t matter — good intentions aren’t enough; it’s the structure and business models that matter. Facebook isn’t a half trillion dollar con: its value is in its highly effective persuasion power, which is highly troubling and concerning in a supposedly democratic society. Mark Zuckerberg may even ultimately mean well (…debatable), but it doesn’t excuse the railroading over numerous obviously negative externalities resulting from the unchecked power of Facebook in not only the U.S., but in countries around the world including highly volatile domains.
Extremism benefits demagogues — Oppressive regimes both come to power by and benefit from political extremism; from whipping up citizens into a frenzy, often against each other as much as against perceived external or internal enemies. Our data and attention are now for sale to the highest bidding authoritarians and demagogues around the world — enabling them to use AI against us in election after election and PR campaign after PR campaign. We gave foreign dictators even greater powers to influence and persuade us in ways that benefit them at the expense of our own self-interest.
When usability pioneers have All the Feels about the nature of our creeping technological dystopia, how we got here, and what we might need to do to right the ship, it’s wise to pay attention. Don Norman’s preaching resonated with my choir, and they’ve asked me to sing a summary song of our people in bulleted list format:
What seemed like a virtuous thing at the time — building the internet with an ethos of trust and openness — has led to a travesty via lack of security, because no one took bad actors into account.
Google, Facebook, et al didn’t have the advertising business model in mind a priori, but sort of stumbled into it and got carried away giving advertisers what they wanted — more information about users — without really taking into consideration the boundary violations of appropriating people’s information. (see Shoshana Zuboff’s definitive new book on Surveillance Capitalism for a lot more on this topic)
Tech companies have mined the psychological sciences for techniques that — especially at scale — border on mass manipulation of fundamental human drives to be informed and to belong. Beyond the creepy Orwellian slant of information appropriation and emotional manipulation, the loss of productivity and mental focus from years of constant interruptions takes a toll on society at large.
We sign an interminable series of EULAs, ToS’s and other lengthy legalese-ridden agreements just to access the now basic utilities that enable our lives. Experts refer to these as “contracts of adhesion” or “click-wrap,” as a way of connoting the “obvious lack of meaningful consent.” (Zuboff)
The “bubble effect” — the internet allows one to surround oneself completely with like-minded opinions and avoid ever being exposed to alternative points of view. This has existential implications for being able to inhabit a shared reality, as well as a deleterious effect on public discourse, civility, and the democratic process itself.
The extreme commercialization of almost all of our information sources is problematic, especially in the age of the “Milton Friedman-ification” of the economic world and the skewing of values away from communities and individuals, towards a myopic view of shareholder value and all the attendant perverse incentives that accompany this philosophical business shift over the past 50 years. He notes that the original public-spiritedness of new communication technologies has historically been co-opted by corporate lobbyists via regulatory capture — a subject Tim Wu explores in-depth in his excellent 2011 book, “The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.“
Is it all bleak, Don?! His answer is clear: “yes, maybe, no.” He demurs on positing a definitive answer to all of these issues, but he doesn’t really mince words about a “hunch” that it may in fact involve burning it all down and starting over again.
Pointing to evolution, Norman notes that we cannot eke radical innovation out of incremental changes — and that when radical change does happen it is often imposed unexpectedly from the outside in the form of catastrophic events. Perhaps if we can’t manage to Marie Kondo our way to a more joyful internet, we’ll have to pray for Armageddon soon…?! π±
I’m giving Better Oats my just-invented Everyday User Experience Award for this simple twist: turning the pouch into the measuring cup you need to deliver the correct amount of liquid to your instant oatmeal. Understated and genius.
This list casts a wide net in enumerating the various principals of interest to Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election… and beyond. The Russia scandal has continued to unspool throughout the Trump presidency, including the real estate magnate’s first impeachment over his extortion of Ukraine, and his second impeachment over the armed insurrection he incited following his failed re-election bid. It continues to this day.
Plus, don’t miss the RussiaGate Lexicon — and please note these are both works in progress and being updated frequently as new details emerge about the Russia scandal, the Trump family criminal organization, and Putin’s revanchist influence in American politics.
Bestiary
Label
Nationality
Type
Known for
American
Civil servant
Top aide to Hillary Clinton
Latvian
Bank
One of the largest private banks in Latvia
Russian
Oligarch
Russian steel magnate whose Evraz company was given the green light to supply steel to DAPL by the Trump administration
Lobbyist
A company seeking to build nuclear power plants in the Middle East in partnership with a sanctioned Russia company; Mike Flynn was working for them without having disclosed it to the US government as required.
Russian
Russian
Oligarch
Emin's father; a wealthy Russian-Azerbaijani oligarch who has received lucrative construction contracts from the Kremlin. Known as "Putin's Builder"
Russian
Oligarch
Popular Russian-Azerbaijani singer and businessperson who may have facilitated a handoff of hacked information to Donald Trump Jr via surrogates
Russian
Russian Mafia
Ukranian
Oligarch
Ukranian steel magnate who brokered the relationship between Paul Manafort and defeated presidential candidate Victor Yanukovich
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Former Soviety spy who attending the June 9 meeting in Trump Tower between Don Jr, Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya
Russian
Oligarch
CEO of Lukoil, Russia's second largest oil and gas company, that sought the services offered by Trump data firm Cambridge Analytica
Russian
Bank
Largest private commercial bank in Russia, that reportedly had a mysterious secret server connection to the Trump Organization during the campaign. The head of Alfa Group is the father-in-law of Dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan, currently serving 30 days in federal prison after being indicted by the FBI in the Mueller investigation.
Azerbaijani
Wife of Emin Agalarov and daughter of the president of Ajerbaijan.
Company
Head of Crowdstrike, the US security firm that first broke the results of the DNC hack investigation, concluding the Russian military intelligence agency was behind it.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
IRA-controlled Twitter account, an anti-immigration persona with 24,000 followers
American
Media Outlet
Helped bury stories portraying Trump in a bad light before the election, via catch and kill methodology among others
Chinese
Company
Flight 93
American
Company
The House might come after messaging records for principals.
Oligarch
co-founder of Bayrock and Kazakh-born Soviet official turned real estate tycoon
Ukranian
Member of the Ukranian parliament who says Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen and business crony Felix Sater confirmed the White House received his βpeace proposalβ (suggesting Russia βleaseβ the country for 100 years)
Australian
Hacker
Editor-in-chief of Wikileaks and former hacker from Australia, currently holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy in London on the lam from rape charges in Sweden; he is suspected of coordinating with the Russian government on the cyber attack on the American election in 2016.
Russian
Oligarch
Russian banker and consultant who bought Bank of Cyprus's Russian-based businesseses; a transaction overseen by Wilbur Ross
Ukranian
Politician
Former Prime Minister of Ukraine who was ousted in the Maidan revolution along with President Viktor Yanukovych.
Cypriot
Bank
American
Principal actor
Suspected organized crime figure who accompanied Ivanka and Don Jr to Russia in 2007-2008
Russian
Oligarch
Head of investor relations for Rosneft who met with Carter Page in Moscow after his 2016 speech.
Russian
Worked at the Internet Research Agency
French
Foreign Intelligence
Cooperated with Russia in the Syrian civil war and nominated Putin for a Nobel Peace Prize; Donald Trump, Jr. spoke at an event held by Baussart's French think tank.
Company
Employed Felix Sater for a number of shady real estate dealings involving Mr Trump. Founded by Tevfik Arif, a Russian oligarch.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook group that bought ads in support of the Trump campaign, and had over 200,000 followers by the time it was finally deactivated in mid-2017
Civil servant
Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's criminal division; once represented a Putin-tied Russian bank
Russian
Hacker
Hacker group
Russian
Journalist
Well-known journalist who was the founding editor of Russiaβs top business daily, Vedomosti, as well as the first publisher of the Russian edition of Forbes; left the country during the Brain Drain. βThe Kremlin doesnβt care because it doesnβt consider the likes of me Russiaβs best and brightest,β he told me by email after his departure to Germany in the summer of 2014. βTo them, weβre the traitors, the fifth column.β
Russian
26-year-old former worker at the Internet Research Agency in Russia who has spoken to the US media about his experiences in the "factory of lies"
American
Lawyer
U.S. Attorney who was prosecuting the Prevezon Holdings case when he was fired by Trump, shortly after which the huge case about to go to trial abruptly settled.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
IRA-controlled persona claiming to want to teach African-Americans self-defense to protect themselves when contacted by police, that hired an actual self-defense instructor in NY to offer classes sponsored by Black Fist
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
IRA-controlled account posing as grassroots activists
American
his company Colt Ventures provided data management services to the Trump campaign
American
Civil servant
John Kerry's deputy secretary of state under Obama
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Worked for the Internet Research Agency from at least April 2014 to at least July 2014; she served on the translator project and oversaw the group's data analysis operations. She is one of the operatives who traveled to the United States to gather intel.
Politician
Russian deputy foreign minister
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Director of FSB circa 2015
Foreign Intelligence
Worked for the Internet Research Agency from at least November 2013 to at least October 2014. She was at one time head of the translator project, along with other positions.
Civil servant
American
Intelligence Community
Acting CIA director under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016
American
Company
LLC begun by Maria Butina and Paul Erickson in South Dakota
American
Lobbyist
Major Trump campaign donor and Deputy Finance Chair of the RNC, who suspiciously took hundreds of millions of dollars from the UAE and was working on a business deal with the corrupt Prime Minister of Malaysia implicated in a heist of $4.5 billion dollars. Had himself been charged with felony bribery, ended up turning state's witness, plea-bargained his case down to a misdimeanor while those he bribed went to prison. Also, he was reportedly negotiating a deal wherein he stood to benefit to the tune of $75 million, to drop the Feds' case into the Malaysian theft.
American
Activist
Founder of Hermitage Capital, who worked with Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky to uncover a $230 million money laundering scheme from Prevezon Holdings into NYC real estate. He has sought justice for the murder of Magnitsky in 2009.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
One of the 13 Russian nationals indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in February 2018, in connection with the Internet Research Agency's attack on the U.S. 2016 election. Burchik was Executive Director, the #2 in the organization, from at least March 2014.
American
Politician
(R-NC) and chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, one of the committees in Congress conducting Russia investigations
American
Lobbyist
Helped Trump write his first foreign policy speech
Russian
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
"Personal assistant" to Alexander Torshin, she claims to have started several gun rights organizations in Russia
American
Media Outlet
Originally broke the story of the Steele dossier and published what of it they had.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
One of the 13 Russians indicted by Robert Mueller's Special Counsel in February 2018, Bystrov was General Director -- the organization's highest-ranking position -- by April 2014.
British
Company
Data analytics company that worked for the Trump campaign and has been indicted in the UK for data theft.
American
Unregistered Foreign Agent
Member of Trump's campaign team, in charge of communications for New York. Left the campaign after voicing approval of the installation of Paul Manafort, replacing Corey Lewandowski as Trump's campaign manager.
American
Company
Cloud computing company that hosted the Trump Organization and may have information on the Alfa Bank link during the campaign
French
French right-wing group that hosted a Trump trip to Paris during the home stretch of the campaign
American
Media Personality
Alt-Right personality in the U.S. who lives in Orange County, CA
American
Media Personality
Bowing out of politics after announcing a move to Fox and whining about the cost of living as a Senator
Lawyer
Russian prosecutor general
American
Intelligence Community
Director of National Intelligence under Obama; one of the 3 who brief Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016
American
Politician
American
Politician
American
Intelligence Community
Director of National Intelligence who testified that there is no doubt Russia sees its 2016 efforts as having been successful.
American
Lawyer
Trump's personal lawyer. Convicted of various federal crimes including campaign finance violations; sentenced to 3 years in prison.
American
Lawyer
Trump's mentor and ruthless, vicious lawyer
American
Politician
Senator from Maine who has been a voice of moderation within the Republican-controlled Senate, siding several times with the Democrats and voting against her own party.
American
Intelligence Community
Being fired by Donald Trump as the FBI Director
American
Intelligence Community
new leader of the House Intelligence Committee's Russia probe after the recusal of Devin Nunes
Russian
Company
Company owned by Yevgeniy Prigozhin, known to be nicknamed "Putin's Chef" and inside the Russian president's inner circle.
American
Company
provided data management services to the Trump campaign, and an investor in VizSense -- a social media company who worked reportedly for the campaign and for Michael Flynn
American
Politician
Leader of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal
American
Lawyer
Husband of Kellyanne Conway, a lawyer who has represented a corporation accused of bribing Russian officials
American
Oligarch
American
Politician
Criticized the firing of Sally Yates: "If dedicated government officials deem [Trump's] directives to be unlawful and unconstitutional, he will simply fire them as if government is a reality show."
Lobbyist
Managing director of ACU Strategic Partners, a firm Mike Flynn was consulting for regarding building nuclear power plants in the Middle East.
American
Media Personality
Intermediary between Roger Stone and Wikileaks, an arm of the Russian intelligence apparatus
American
New York Republican Party Chairman and son-in-law of Richard Nixon who recommends Carter Page to the Trump campaign
Roger Stone's publicly identified intermediary between himself and Julian Assange of Wikileaks. When subpoena'd by Congress, he pled the Fifth.
Russian
Company
Real estate developmenr firm owned by the Agalarovs, that secured the Moscow location for Trump's 2013 Miss Universe pageant
American
Company
One of the US private security contractors who implicated the Russians in the hack of the DNC servers.
American
Media Personality
The reigning Miss Universe at the time of the 2013 Moscow pageant (and former Miss USA, and noted Trump favorite)
American
Politician
ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, one of the first to request an investigation into Michael Flynn
American
Intelligence Community
White House director of cybersecurity
American
American
Company
Political consulting company created by Paul Manafort in 2005.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
A cutout of the GRU, this account directly released and coordinated with Wikileaks to release more widely the stolen emails from Clinton, the DNC, and the DCCC
American
American
Lobbyist
GOP strategy firm hired by Facebook to besmirch its rivals and tar them with accusations of being tied to George Soros
Oligarch
Ex-wife of Rupert Murdoch, friend of Ivanka Trump, and friend of Russian oligarhcs + Putin (rumored to be Putins' girlfriend)
American
American
Government agency
Russian
Oligarch
Russian billionaire and Kremlin insider barred from the US due to organized crime links [contact w/Paul Manafort]
German
Bank
Both the Risk Division's Goup Risk Office and Credit Risk Management teams are under scrutiny from House Democrats at the HPSCI for due diligence on Trump transactions that have anything to do with the bank's own confirmed history of laundering Russian money.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Chief executive of the state-run Russian Direct Investment Fund, their sovereign wealth fund, who met with Erik Prince at a bar in the Seychelles, with George Nader present.
Company started by Paul Manafort in 2011 to consult, lobby, and do PR for Ukranian dictator Victor Yanukovich, whom Manafort helped get elected in 2010 until fleeing the country in 2014.
FSB handler of Russian DNC hacker
Ukranian
Territory
Area of Ukraine where a counter-revolution emerged after students ousted former President Viktor Yanukovych and Prime Minister Mykola Azarov and overthrew the government.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook group with more than 250,000 followers by the time it was deactivated in mid-2017
American
Tech tycoon
Co-founder and CEO of Twitter and Square
Top Australian diplomat in Britain, who had drinks with George Papadopolous in London the night he blabbed about the Russians having dirt on Hillary Clinton.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Hacker group
Russian
Russia's most well-known neo-fascist ideologue, & Kremlin confidant
Russian
Founder of the successful VKontakte social network website, often described as Russiaβs Facebook. Durov said he had been forced out of the company over his refusal to co-operate with the security services, and that his company was now under the βfull controlβ of Kremlin-friendly figures
American
Civil servant
Obama White House press secretary in 2016
Oligarch
MMA star, former Trump business partner, and friend of Putin
Company
One of Oleg Deripaska's companies whose sanctions were lifted by the Trump administration.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Hacker group connected to the Kremlin
American
Unregistered Foreign Agent
Attempted to set up a backchannel between the NRA and the Russian government during the Trump campaign.
Foreign Intelligence
ex-KGB chief linked to helping the Christopher Steele dossier on Trump, reportedly found dead in the back of his car in Moscow on Boxing Day
Lobbyist
NGO entity created by Manafort and Gates in Belgium in 2012 to serve as an "arm's length" front for their work with Yanukovich.
Russian
Company
One of Oleg Deripaska's companies whose sanctions were lifted by the Trump administration.
American
Company
Russian
Principal actor
Fictional corporate twin entity to the IRA (indicted by Mueller) that is suing Facebook on First Amendment grounds... surely to go up to a COTUS tipped by Kavangaugh, as all such hyper-controversial cases are liable to be?!?!
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Hacked Democratic Party emails during the 2016 US presidential election; also hacked MAcros campaign emails in France.
British
Politician
Former UKIP leader now under investigation for ties to WikiLeaks and Julian Assange
American
Intelligence Community
Investigation of domestic terror units and criminal cells, as well as foreign criminal groups within the U.S.
Russian
Russian Parliament
American
Politician
Overseeing the process generally of national and state elections
American
Politician
US Senator from California who published Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS's transcript of testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
American
Company
Security firm
Ukranian
Oligarch
Ukranian oligarch and nagural gas magnate who got sweetheart deals within Putin's inner circle
American
Civil servant
John Kerry's chief of staff
Icelandic
Company
Icelandic hedge fund with ties to Putin, that invested in Trump Soho via FBI informant and convicted felon Sal Lauria
American
Intelligence Community
As the new NSA director he advocated military intervention in the Middle East and an alliance with Russia; later it turned out he'd accepted undisclosed payments from the Rurkish government and lied about undisclosed meetings with the Russian Ambassador, ξ€Sergey Kislyak
American
Company
Company
Hosted the meeting in the Seychelles between Erik Prince and Kirill Dmitriev, head of Russia's sovereign wealth fund
American
Media Outlet
American
Media Outlet
see: Washington Free Beacon
Russian
Oligarch
invested $200m in Uber (?)
American
Company
Erik Prince's company, who has ignored document requests from Congress relating to the meeting in the Seychelles with Kirill Dmitriev
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
the Russian Federal Security Service
American
Political research firm hired first by conservative billionaire, later by the Clinton campaign, that ultimately led to the Steele dossier.
Russian
Principal actor
Worked at the Internet Research Agency before being employed at Facebook
Intelligence Community
American
Intelligence Community
American
Lobbyist
Paul Manafort's right hand man, indicted along with the former Trump campaign manager for a number of federal crimes from money laundering to illegal foreign lobbying and tax evasion.
Russian
Media Outlet
Russian
Company
Russia's energy monopolgy and largest gas company
American
Georgian
Nation-state
Former Soviet state
Russian
Military
Russian General who wrote seminal asymmetric warfare doc
Journalist
Journalist and author who has lived extensively in Russia and studied the rise of Putin
Russian
Activist
Leader of the Ukranian pro-Russian separatists in Donbas, he is alleged to have been connected to the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17
American
Politician
Publicly "predicted" the Comey "re-opening" of Clinton's emails when the Anthony Weiner laptop was found
Russian
Russian Mafia
Former Boris Berezovsky associate turned up murdered in the UK, 8 days after the poisoning and attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal in London.
Russian Mafia
Publicist of Russian-Azerbaijani singer Emin Agalarov who set up the June 9 meeting between Don Jr, Kushner, Manafort, and the Russians
American
Company
Online search company whose system was gamed, hacked, or perhaps simply used intentionally to sow disinformation to some of the most vulnerable citizen targets, as identified by stolen and purchased predictive user data.
Russian
Politician
Glasnost
Hungarian
Media Personality
Former counterterrorism analyst for Fox News who joined the administration as an adviser; his ties to the Hungarian right had come increasingly under scrutiny before his departure from the White House. Prior to immigrating to the United States, Gorka had mounted an unsuccessful political career in Hungary and, in doing so, once expressed support for a far-right militia in the country.
American
A watchdog organization for financial and other high-profile crimes within the U.S.
American
Politician
(R-SC) Chair of the House Oversight Committee
American
Politician
(R-IA)
Russian
Intelligence Community
Soviety military intelligence services
American
Government agency
Has been asserted by TFA that documents were "unlawfully" given to the Special Counsel's Office by this agency, including parts susceptible to privilege.
Russian
Hacker
A cutout of the GRU, this account directly released and coordinated with Wikileaks to release more widely the stolen emails from Clinton, the DNC, and the DCCC
American
Civil servant
Hillary for America IT chief
American
Intelligence Community
Testified before the House Intelligence Committee on the probable ability of the Russians to hack an election
American
Media Personality
Made claims on his show that the Steele dossier launched the Russia probe, which isn't accurate.
European
Politician
Informal name given to the set of former European politicians whom Paul Manafort and Rick Gates paid to espouse pro-Yanukovich talking points.
American
Lawyer
Representing Trump in the Stormy Daniels case; also represented Terry Bolea in the Gawker trial
American
Politician
Member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal
The investment fund client of Russian lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who uncovered a $230 million money laundering scheme through New York real estate via Prevezon, a Russian holding company.
American
Principal actor
Yet another former White House Communications Director, she resigned the day after giving 9 hours of testimony on the Hill to the House Intelligence Committee. Til then she had been the longest-running current member of the Trump campaign.
American
American
Civil servant
US Ambassador to Russia
American
Lawyer
Paul Erickson's lawyer
Tied to VizSense Inc. and White Canvas Group, 2 firms that did business with Michael Flynn
Russian
Christian fascist philosopher who inspired much of Vladimir Putin's political philosophy
American
Company
Platform used by the Russian disinformation campaign that House Democrats want to subpoena
American
Company
Platform used by the Russian disinformation campaign that House Democrats want to subpoena the transition team for records of
Russian
Principal actor
Well-known troll farm with ties to the Kremlin, funded and run by Russian oligarch and "Putin's Chef" Yevgeniy Prigozhin (who also oversees private mercenary military forces in Syria and Ukraine.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Media Outlet
The main Bolshevik newspaper in the early 20th century
American
Politician
Russian
One of Putin's closest allies, he's the head of anti-narcotics in Russia; has spoken out against marijuana legalization in the US (!)
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
IRA-controlled Twitter account claiming to be a Virginian Trump supporter with 70,000 followers
Russian
Politician
Chechnya's Kremlin-backed leader, who is thought to be behind the murder of Putin critic and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. Kadyrov received a medal from Putin the month after Nemtsov's murder.
Russian, American
Foreign Intelligence
Former KGB agent who became a U.S. citizen and grew critical of Putin's regime.
Russian
Oligarch
Sole shareholder of Prevezon, implicated in the $230m theft of Russian taxpayer dollars
Russian
Russian Mafia
8th person at Don Jr's June 9 meeting; VP at Crocus Group, owned by Aras Agalarov β a lawyer for the Russian real estate firm, he has been identified by the Government Accountability Office as part of a large ring of Russian money-laundering operations.
American
Lawyer
Mike Flynn's lawyer
American
Politician
Georgia secretary of state who bristled at the idea of DHS's warning about the election integrity and attempts to hack voter registration
American
Politician
Secretary of State under Obama from 2013 to 2018
American
Company
Western PR firm that helps place pro-Russian op-eds in Western media (like Putin's in NYTimes on 9/11/13)
Russian
Intelligence Community
The Soviet secret service, renowned for ruthlessness and duplicity
Russian
Daughter of a Russian oligarch, married to Alex van der Zwaan -- the first to go to prison in the Mueller investigation.
Russian
Oligarch
Russian oligarch billionaire, principal of Alfa Bank (Russia's largest privste bank) and the father-in-law of Alex van der Zwaan who has pleaded guilty to MUeller's team.
Russian
Oligarch
Ex-oil tycoon unexpectedly freed by Putin ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics
Russian
Principal actor
FAN's chief accountant and an indictee under Mueller's Russian investigation
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Paul Manafort's business associate in the Ukraine
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Russian Ambassador who spoke with ξ€Mike Flynn [tracker] about lifting sanctions in undisclosed series of meetings
Company
Company formed by Peter Smith to facilitate and manage his question to find Hillary's missing emails.
Russian
Oligarch
Young Russian billionaire who claims to have been instrumental in getting Trump elected.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Cambridge Analytica researcher who oversaw the harvesting of 50 million Facebook user accounts' info who also moonlighted as a lecturer at St. Petersburg University
Russian
Media Outlet
Long-respected business newspaper purchased by pro-Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov
Russian
Leninist Youth League organization for Communists aged 14 to 28 in the late 80s & early 90s
Russian
Russian
CEO of VTB, one of the largest Russian banks (and under US sanctions)
Hungarian
One of the leaders of Jobbik, Hungary's pro-Putin rightist party, who is accused of being a Russian spy.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
One of the two main suspects in the UK's murder investigation case of former FSB/KGB spy turned informant and expat dissident, Alexander Litvinenko -- killed by polonium-210 poisoning after having tea with the two then-current KGB officers in November, 2006.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Senior Putin aide who attended the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in lieu of Putin.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
The Dutch intelligence community alerted the DNC way back in 2015 that they had been hacked back in 2014.
Russian
Principal actor
Former Bayrock partner who filed a lawsuit in January, 2017 alleging tax evasion of as much as $250 million in income + Russian money laundering
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Served as Director and 3rd highest employee within the Internet Research Agency, from at least September 2013. She was one of two employees of the IRA who obtained visas and entered the United States on June 4, 2014.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Russian diplomat recalled to Russia, fearing his cover would be blown re: heavy involvement in the 2016 election, including the veterans' pensions ruse
American
Oligarch
Father of Jared, the elder Kushner committed campaign fraud, blackmailed his own sister, and spent time in federal prison before re-emerging to help run the family business and, of course, suck at the teat of the Presidency
American
Principal actor
The evil son-in-law so evil he owned a billion dollar building at 666 Fifth Ave. in Manhattan
American
Company
American
Intelligence Community
Former chief of the DOJ's Counterintelligence & Export Control Section
Russian Mafia
FBI informant and convicted felon who brokered a $150 million deal for Sater with FL Group, an Icelandic hedge fund tied to Putin that also invested in the Trump Soho project
Politician
Russian Foreign Minister
French
Politician
head of the French far-Right party
Russian
Hacker
Russian hacker who ran the sprawling Kelihos botnet, a massive spam and scam network; indicted by a US grand jury on 4/21/17
Russian
Russian
Oligarch
Russian "king of diamonds" who was a partner in Prevezon (involved in the Magnistsky-exposed money laundering of $230m in Russian tax dollars) and sold several floors of the NYTimes building in Manhattan to Jared Kushner
Russian
Former police investigator from the Siberian city of Surgut, who left the force after becoming disgusted by the βculture of corruptionβ he had witnessed, and moved to Moscow in 2009. Inspired, like so many others, by the anti-Putin protests of 2011β12, Leviyev, a tattooed 29-year-old, is now one of the countryβs top βsocial media dissidentsβ.
Russian
Oligarch
Russian Canadian CEO of developer Talon (Trump Toronto); had no previous experience in real estate or construction
American
Lobbyist
Donald Trump's first campaign manager; succeeded by Paul Manafort.
Alleged mobster and associate of John Gotti, who is on video with Trump in the 80s at a WrestleMania event
Russian
Oligarch
Russian steel mogul who made $830m in 3 days after the election
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
former Russian FSB agent who informed on Putin's connections to the Russian mafia and was assassinated by polonium-210 poisoning in 2006
Russian
Ties to the Romneys?!
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
One of the two main suspects in the UK's murder investigation case of former FSB/KGB spy turned informant and expat dissident, Alexander Litvinenko -- killed by polonium-210 poisoning after having tea with the two then-current KGB officers in November, 2006. Lugovoy is currently a sitting member of the Russian parliament: deputy of the State Duma.
Russian
Company
Russia's second largest oil company after Rosneft, they contracted with Trump data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
American
Civil servant
US Attorney General under Barack Obama
American
Journalist
Host of the most popular nighttime news show on MSNBC; she's been following the Russia story aggressively for over a year in meticulously detailed fashion.
Lawyer
lawyer who tried to expose the theft of $230 million of Russian taxpayers' money by Prevezon Holdings (laundered into NYC real estate) before being arrested and allegedly tortured prior to his death in a Moscow prison in 2009; the 2012 Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act is a landmark human rights act named after him.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Division of the GRU that carried out the second half of the Russian attack on our democracy -- cyber intrusions and hacking of stolen materials from the Clinton campaign, disseminated by WikiLeaks
American
Principal actor
American
Intelligence Community
Head of cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security who confirmed to NBC News that the Russians successfully infiltrated "an exceptionally small number" of voter regidstration rolls in 21 states.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
IRA-controlled accouunt created in May 2016 to promote IRA-organized rallies in support of the Trump Campaign
American
Politician
American
Intelligence Community
Deputy Nartional Security Advisor under Mike Flynn. Asked to step down by HR McMaster.
American
Lawyer
White House counsel from XXXX-XXXX
American
Politician
American
Company
Social media and blogging community frequented by the Russians during their efforts at sowing propaganda and discord during the American 2016 Presidential election.
Russian
Politician
Russian Prime Minister
American
Oligarch
American
Principal actor
Shadowy billionaire Trump backer and donor who also backs Breitbart, Cambridge Analytica, and John Bolton.
Holds Trump debt
British
Foreign Intelligence
British intelligence agency; the rough equivalent of the American CIA.
Director of the London Academy of Diplomacy who meets with George Papadopoulos in Italy.
Oligarch
part owner of Novatek who made $1.9b from the stock pop post-Trump
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
GRU cyberunit dedicated to targeting military, politival, governmental, and non-governmental organizations outside of Russia, including the U.S. Separate from this investigation, Unit 26165 was charged by a grad jury for hacking the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, the World Doping Agency, and other international sport associations.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
A GRU unit engaged in cyber operations, including assisting in the release of the documents stolen by Unit 26165, the promotion of those releases, and the publication of anti-Clinton content on social media accounts operated by the GRU. This unit also hacked computers belonging to the stater boards of elections, secretaries of state, and U.S. companies supplying software and other technology related to elections.
American
Principal actor
Aggressively anti-immigrant advisor to Trump, co-writing many of his most vitriolic speeches
Belarusian
Russian Mafia
Trump associate, head of the Russian-American chamber of commerce, and one of the sources of the Steele dossier
Russian
Principal actor
Former worker at the Russian troll factory, the Internet Research Agency, who told the Western press what it was like inside the farm.
Russian
Russian Mafia
Notorious mobster
Emirati
The crown prince of Abu Dhabi.
Lawyer
World's fourth largest offshore law firm, whose files were published as the Panama Papers in a German newspaper
American
Civil servant
Special Counsel at the DOJ, investigating RussiaGate
Ministry of Internal Affairs; supervises all police, prisons, and "public order militias"
American
Lobbyist
Lebanese-American businessman who lobbies for the UAE, and was at the meeting in the Seychelles with Erik Prince and the Russians
Russian
Activist
Putin critic and activist blogger; has been arrested, charged, & sentenced several times (but recognized as a political prisoner by NGOs)
Russian
Politician
Putin critic and opposition politician who was shot dead in Moscow in 2015 by a member of the Chechen security forces
Russian
Company
Restaurant of Yevgeny Prigozhin that became a favorite of Putin's, netting Mr Prigozhin lucrative contracts for shady operations as "Putin's Chef"
Russian
British
Principal actor
CEO of Trump data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
a forerunner to the KGB under Stalin
American
Lobbyist
Hosted a number of conduits between the Trump campaign and Russian nationals, particularly Russian billionaires and oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin.
American
Intelligence Community
American
Civil servant
Former Trump aide who made a series of bizarre statements on cable TV before testifying to Robert Mueller's team
American
Politician
American
Media Outlet
Website owned by Jarek Kushner as part of Observer Media
American
Media Outlet
Media company owned by Jared Kushner.
American
Media Personality
American TV host
Ukrainian
Successor ruling party in Ukraine after Victor Yanukovich fled to Moscow and his Party of Regions toppled.
Hungarian
Politician
President of Hungary, noted for his pro-Putin and anti-refugee beliefs
British
Company
Steele's research firm
dead β Bryan Cohen's father-in-law (brother of Trump's personal lawyer
Russian
Media Outlet
Russia's TV network
Holds Trump debt
American
Principal actor
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
IRA-controlled Twitter account claiming to be a Texan Trump supporter with 70,000 followers
American
Principal actor
Member of the Trump campaign who has pled guilty in the Robert Mueller investigation and flipped to become a cooperating witness. Will serve jail time.
American
Principal actor
Head of the Trump campaign's digital operation
Ukranian
Ukranian political party run by Victor Yanukovych, the pro-Putin dictator ushered into power by Paul Manafort.
American
American
Principal actor
Helped American Media bury stories unfavorable to Trump leading up to the election -- a campaign contribution violation, not to mention a moral violation
American
Principal actor
Vice President of the United States
Russian
Principal actor
Putin's press secretary. Michael Cohen was in touch with him as late at June 2016, during the presidential campaign, in talks over the Trump Tower Moscow deal.
Fox News counterterrorism analyst & one of Trump's 5 initial national security advisors
American
Civil servant
His stolen emails were one of several tronches of stolen documents released by Wikileaks at strategic moments during the 2016 presidential election campaign.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Russian agent who received intelligence information from American energy consultant Carter Page beginning in January 2013
Russian
Worked for the Internet Research Agency as its head of IT from April 2014 to at least July 2014; he oversaw the buildout of the U.S. infrastructure for the Russian operations.
American
Civil servant
CIA Director who went from praising to condemning Wikileaks
Ukranian
Politician
Ukranian president
Cypriot
Company
a Cyprus company that has invested in Manhattan real estate and which prosecutors allege was the receptacle for some of the $230 million stolen from Russian taxpayers in 2007; part of Hermitage Capital, the investment fund Magnitsky was investigating until his murder in a Moscow prison in 2009.
American
Civil servant
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
"Putin's Chef" -- a former caterer and restauranteur who now runs Vladimir Putin's internet propaganda operations via the Internet Research Agency as well as overseeing mercenary forces operating in Syria and Ukraine.
American
Oligarch
Sec. of Education Betsy DuVoss's brother, who met a Russian oligarch in the Seychelles during the campaign to talk about lifting sanctions. Founded and runs Blackwater, a formidable private security firm often accompanying US military operations as the theater of war becomes increasingly privatized and mercenaries find themselves duking it out in the desert armed with the plausible deniability of being at arm's length from their country's official foreign policy.
American
Media Outlet
Russian
Activist
Russian
Principal actor
American
Politician
Member of the House Intelligence Committee, one of the Congressional committees investigating the Russia scandal
American
Company
Was asked by House Democrats on March 7, 2018 to provide intel on the scope and scale of the Russian disinformation effort on their platforms during the 2016 election
Russian
Company
One of the first private companies or "collectives" formed under Gorbachev's glasnost reforms, it brokered the first proto-Internet within the Soviet Union and first connection to the outside world β playing a key role in thwarting the attempted coup against Gorbachev by the KGB in August, 1991
Russian
Moscow-based entity begun by Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin -- odd, in a country with no gun rights at all.
American
Company
Hosted Donald Trump during his 2013 visit to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant
Russian
extreme nationalist party in Russia c. 2003 that hinted at ethnic cleansing; The Guardian reported it had actually been set up as a prop by Putin & cronies, to draw votes away from the other far-right Communist Party
American
Lobbyist
Hired by Alfa Bank: a former REagan administration official
American
Intelligence Community
Admiral and Director of the National Security Agency under Obama; one of the 3 who briefed Trump and Obama about the Russian attack on Election 2016
American
Politician
Representative (R-CA 48th District) since 2013; dubbed "Putin's favorite Congressman"
Russian
Putin ally implicated in the Panama Papers
Russian
Company
Russia's state oil company
Russian
Media Outlet
Russia's official government newspaper
American
Politician
US Secretary of Commerce and single largest shareholder of the Bank of Cyprus, the famous haven for Russian oligarchs to stash their billions
Russian
CEO of Vornado, a $20 billion real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns 49.5% of Jared Kushner's building at 666 Fifth Avenue; he's also on Trump's economic advisory team
Russian
Media Outlet
Russian state-owned news service
Russian
Media Outlet
The Kremlin's new video news agency
Russian
Company
One of Oleg Deripaska's companies whose sanctions have been lifted by Trump's Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.
Russian
Russia's sovereign wealth fund
Russian
part of the far-right coalition within Russia seeking to build an international consensus, this group advocates "Christian Orthodox imperial nationalism"
Russian
Politician
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister
American
Politician
Speaker of the House (R-WI) and a Trump defender and denialist
Russian
Oligarch
the βFertilizer Kingβ β fertilizer billionaire who purchased Trump's Palm Beach mansion for $95 million, but never moved in
American
Oligarch
American
Civil servant
Russian
Russian Mafia
Russian mobster and FBI informant who runs Bayrock, a money-laundering firm designed to hide dirty Russian money in Trump's taxes
Saudi Arabian
Nation-state
Russian
Bank
Russia's largest bank
American
Civil servant
Trump press secretary for all of 10 days
American
Principal actor
Managed the Trump campaign's social media
American
Politician
Top-ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee overseeing that chamber's Russia investigation
American
Trump's longtime security chief and confidant
American
Lawyer
New York State Attorney General who has a long history of legal cases with Trump
American
Politician
(D-NY) and Sen. Minority Leader
Russian
Oligarch
President of Rosneft at the time Exxon violated Russian sanctions to help protect his property interest
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook group that bought ads in support of the Trump Campaign, and had over 130,000 followers at the time it was deactivated in mid-2017
American
Lawyer
Trump's personal lawyer
American
Principal actor
Trump's first US Attorney General, before Bill Barr. He has recused himself from the Russia investigation because of his curious, multi-part memory loss of meetings with Russian agents.
Ukranian
Oligarch
Ukrainian steel magnate & partner at Talon International who is managing Trump Toronto hotel as it goes into default
American
President of the Miss Universe Organization, who reported directly to Trump at the time of the 2013 Moscow pageant
Russian
Director of PArtnership Marketing for vKontakte, a Russian social media site, that had communications with the Trump campaign about setting up a profile.
Company
American
Media Outlet
Conservative broadcasting conglomerate gobbling up local TV stations and forcing them to air canned right-wing footage with each segment.
American
Head of research firm Fusion FPS who commissioned the Christopher Steele dossier.
American
Oligarch
Billionaire financier who originally commissioned research firm Fusion GPS to start compiling opposition research on Donald Trump. He abandoned the project after Trump secured the nomination.
Lawyer
Law firm retained by Paul Manafort and Rick Gates to "whitewash" Victor Yanukovich's imprisonment of his political rival, Yulia Tymochenko, in Ukraine.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook account that organized a pro-Trump rally near Trump Tower in mid-2016
Russian
Former Russian official turned British spy who was attacked with his daughter Yulia with nerve gas in southern England, reputedly by agents of the Kremlin.
Russian
Sergei's daughter
American
Civil servant
Head of the State Dept's intelligence bureau under Obama
American
Alleged to have solicited help on the dark web in finding Hillary's "missing" emails from the Russians
American
Company
One of the social networks the Democratic oversight committees want to send document requests to, to request more intel on the scope and scale of the Russian campaign on their platforms
American
Intelligence Community
Controversial former employee for private firms working within the US government who absconded with millions of top secret NSA and other departmental intelligence documents, fled to Hong Kong where he alerted the press, and flew on to Moscow where he lives under the protection of the Kremlin.
Polish
Polish workers' party confronting Communism in the late '80s
Russian
Nuclear non-proliferation expert who briefed Mike Flynn on the ACU's nuclear program and rejoiced that he would be named head of the NSA.
American
Civil servant
Trump's press secretary
Russian
Media Outlet
Russian news wire proffering fake news
Russian
Politician
American
Principal actor
Ex-Facebook security chief
German
Foreign Intelligence
Nickname for the Ministry of State Security in East Germany during the Cold War
British
Foreign Intelligence
Former British MI6 intelligence agent who put together the Steele Dossier on Donald Trump's dealings with Russia
American
Lobbyist
Long-time political advisor best known for being part of Richard Nixon's "Dirty Tricks" crew who perpetuated Watergate among much else; he "predicted" the release of Clinton's hacked emails
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook group
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook group that bought Facebook ads in support of Donald Trump
Media Personality
Works for Sputnik in Russia. Never responded to an official Congressional inquiry.
Russian
Russian
Media Outlet
Russia's largest blogging service via acquisition of LiveJournal from Six Apart
Russian
Principal actor
Putin's disinformation machine
Russian
Intelligence Community
Russian foreign intelligence service
American
Politician
Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee
Company
Russian
Russian Mafia
organized crime ring based in St. Petersburg w/ties to Putin; led by Gennadiy Petrov and Aleksandr Malyshev
Lobbyist
GOP strategy firm hired by Facebook
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Twitter account posing as the Tennessee GOP Party.
American
Trump for America, Inc., the business entity formed to handle the Trump transition
American
Principal actor
U.S. Secretary of State and former CEO of Exxon
Oligarch
23% owner of natural gas company Novatek, who made $1.8b from surges in pro-Russian market following Trump's election
Russian
Program director at the Russian International Affairs Council, a government-funded think tank, who met with George Papadopolous to try to establish a meeting between Trump and Putin.
Russian
Russian Mafia
Nicknamed "The Little Taiwanese," he's one of Russia's most notorious mobsters. At the time of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, he had been indicted in the U.S. for protecting a high-stakes illegal gambling operation run out of Trump Tower.
Russian
Principal actor
Russian central banker, Putin confidant, NRA whisperer, handler of Maria Butina
Russian
Russian Mafia
Ran a Russian-American gambling crime ring out of Trump Tower. Serving 5 years for racketeering.
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
Department within the IRA dedicated to U.S. operations
American
Principal actor
American
Principal actor
American
American
Principal actor
American
Oligarch
Donald Trump's father, who built the family real estate fortune and handed it off to his son to ruin it
American
Principal actor
Daddy's little girl
American
Principal actor
American
Principal actor
American
Principal actor
Russian
American
Company
Was asked by House Democrats on March 7, 2018 to provide intel on the scope and scale of the Russian disinformation effort on their platforms during the 2016 election
Ukranian
Company
Ukranian state-owned company who was the target of a bribery offer from ACU Strategic Partners -- who Mike Flynn was working with -- to accept a $45 billion contract to build reactors in Saudi Arabia in exchange for supporting the lifting of sanctions levied against Russia by the US and EU.
Turkish
Nation-state
Russian
Media Outlet
Independent Russian broadcaster
American
Company
Ukranian
Politician
Ran against Victor Yanukovich in the 2010 Presidentials elections, and was jailed by him under spurious charges following his Paul Manafort-aided win.
Holds Trump debt
Russian
Foreign Intelligence
An IRA-controlled Facebook account that had over 300,000 followers at the time it was finally deactivated in mid-2017
Russian
Political Party of Russian PResident Vladimir Putin
Russian
Oligarch
Putin-connected oligarch with connections to secretary of commerce ξ€Wilbur Ross [tracker]
Russian
Russian lawyer with ties to the Kremlin who met with Donald Trump Jr, Paul Manafort, and Kared Kushner at Trump Tower in June 2016 about the dirt Russia had on Hillary Clinton. At the time she was representing Prevezon Holdings in the case the U.S. Justice Department had brought against them for a $230 million money laundering scheme that lawyer Sergei Magnitsky had uncovered.
American
Company
Provided social media services to the Trump campaign and Michael Flynn
Russian
Russian social network; equivalent analog to Facebook
Russian
Bank
Russian state-owned development bank, under investigation for Russian election interference
Company
$20 billion REIT that's an ~equal partner with Jared Kushner in the 666 Fifth Ave. building in Manhattan; Steve Roth, CEO, is an advisor to Trump
Bank
Executive at Deutsche Bank's private wealth unit who helped finance many of Trump's real estate projects after other banks (and the "regular" side of Deutsche Bank) wouldn't deal with him any more, following massive losses
Russian
Bank
Russia's largest commercial bank; under US and EU sanctions for money laundering
American
Politician
(D-VA) β top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee
Media Outlet
American
Media Outlet
venerable local paper purchased by Jeff Bezos in 2013
American
American
American
Politician
American
Principal actor
The House HPSCI committee wants to subpoena them for communication records relating to principals in the Trump campaign
American
Intelligence Community
American
Lobbyist
Undertook Turkey-related work for Michael Flynn
American
Civil servant
Supposed to be a civil servant but often a lobbyist, The White House includes the President and high-level senior staff
Hacker
Global
umbrella term for Russia's movement to unite an international extreme far-right coalition
American
candidate for the next FBI Director, to replace James Comey
American
Whistleblower from Trump data team Cambridge Analytica who revealed the existence of a formerly secret client: Lukoil, Russia's #2 oil and gas company
Ukranian
Politician
Ukraine's former pro-Moscow president; he paid $12.7 million to help influence the Ukranian election his way before being ousted from power in 2013. Paul Manafort made many of the millions he later laundered with Rick Gates via undisclosed lobbying for Mr Yanukovych.
American
Deputy Attorney General under Barack Obama and Acting Attorney General following the inauguration of Donald Trump. She was dismissed by him after 10 days when she instructed the Justice Department not to allow Trump's Muslim ban to be enforced because it violated the law and the Constitution.
American
Russian
Politician
First President of the Russian Federation, after he orchestrated Russia's exit from the USSR (and thus, its downfall, as all the Soviet satellite republics followed suit). He ruled from 1991 to 1999, never quite managing to usher in a true democracy before settling on a successor, an obscure and unknown former KGB officer stationed in East Berlin during the Second World War: Vladimir Putin.
American
Company
Favored propaganda platform for Russian agents used in the cyberattacks against the 2016 election
Russian
"Young Army" β created in 2015 by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu to "encourage patriotism among schoolchildren"
American
Oligarch
CEO of Facebook, whose platform was used by the Russians in their influence campaign against the 2016 U.S. elections
Dutch
Dutch lawyer caught lying to the FBI about his law firm Skadden's report on Ukranian dictator Victor Yanukovich's imprisonment of his presidential rival Yulia Tymochenko in Ukraine. Has plead guilty to Robert Mueller's team.
As members of the white male oligarchy fall all over themselves to mock the Green New Deal in their prostrate subservience to special interest lobbyists and Wall Street, there’s an opportunity hanging out in the wind (…but mostly in the sun) for Main Street: invest in solar.
People who claim that solar power isn’t scalable are living like it’s 1999, or 1984, or maybe 1924. Solar power has been shown to so far follow the edicts of Moore’s Law, which describes the doubling of the number of transistors on the same size chip every 18 months to 2 years — leading to predictable cost reductions over time for technologies that exhibit this kind of growth curve.
Meanwhile, the substrates upon which solar photovoltaic cells can be deployed are getting smaller — ridiculously smaller. Thinner than a strand of human hair. Of course those solar implementations are still insanely expensive, but give Moore’s Law and markets some time to work and at some point (and probably in this lifetime, for some of us) we’ll be in a world where PV cells are everywhere — almost literally. We will pass out of the age of fossil fuel scarcity and into an age of true energy abundance, in which power can be harvested from almost any given surface.
So, get yourself a nice little solar ETF and plow some money into it, or squirrel away little bits over time — whatever you can afford. Eventually you’re liable to be laughing all the way to the bank as the dinosaurs cry themselves to sleep at night before the feverish petroleum-soaked nightmares set in.
It’s designed to whip you up into a frenzy in order to foment cheap pageviews. Its interest is in you becoming a histrionic attention whore, such that you suck in as much clandestinely stolen user data to your platform of choice as possible. Turns out, conflict gets attention.
Anger is also notably the “loophole” emotion — it’s the invisible one men get to have, while claiming for generations upon generations that “women are too emotional to be entrusted” with leadership or anything meaningful, really. Meanwhile male anger and aggression have killed hundreds of millions and wreaked destruction upon the earth many times over, as fragile masculinity is repeatably and predictably triggered over any little old thing.
We need to bring the fire down from the mountain. We are not on that project — we are still on the opposite project: keeping the wizards behind the curtain.
Too many of the wizards are male, and are busying themselves in playing petty economic and status zero-sum power games instead of recognizing the context they are in — we are all in — as an infinite game in which the enlargement of the participant group to include and, not just reluctantly tolerate, but to avidly welcome women in to the club will massively benefit all the players.Β
Then there are the white wizards who create pseudoscientific rationalizations for wasting time obsessing over 18th century racial animus as a massive distraction from having to do the work of creating anything useful or contributing any value to the world. They’ve taken their centuries of evolutionary advantage and painstakingly developed economic pie to split hairs over who ought to be denied a few of the crumbs, as a cheap method of papering over the deep well of collective insecurity and ego fragility precipitated by a lack of meaningful individuation and their failure to create anything useful or contribute any value to the world.
We could be playing this game together. Instead, we furtively dart about in Plato’s Cave imagining we are still living in a world of scarcity, rather than leveling ourselves up to behold the vision of the new world of abundance we have the capacity to create.
This was economist Thomas Schelling’s insight way back in 1969 — just one of many examples of “unknown knowledge” that exists in the world today. His Spatial Segregation Model takes a few simple premises and shows that a set of quite tolerant people, who genuinely prefer to live in a diverse neighborhood in terms of race, income, and other factors, nevertheless end up self-segregating into clusters of like individuals — as follows:
Slight preference for homophily: 30%
We set up a fairly dense environment with a low preference for similarity — people are quite tolerant and are only looking to have 30% of their near neighbors be similar to them:
But when we run the simulation, we end up with an equilibrium state where individuals are surrounded by 75.2% similar neighbors:
If we run the spatial segregation model with a 50% preference for similar neighbors, the outcome is even more stark: the agents achieve equilibrium at a whopping 87.7% similarity:
Did Russia hack the 2016 US election? Most certainly. The FBI, CIA, and entire intelligence community is in agreement on this point. Russian information warfare has been infamous the world over for decades — with a recent flare up starting with the Brexit vote as an obvious canary in a larger coalmine, and extending to the proliferation of right-wing movements around the world: particularly in Eastern Europe on Putin’s doorstep.
The following list is an attempt to demystify the language surrounding Russian interference in the election of Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin’s efforts to undermine the Western order — in retaliation for the fall of the Soviet Union which happened under his watch as a young KGB agent stationed in Dresden, Germany.
See also: the RussiaGate Bestiary which lists the individuals involved in the Russian 2016 election interference investigation of Trump campaign conspiracy and fraud. Please note: both of these resources are works in progress and are being updated frequently.
Term
Definition
4chan
A notorious internet message board with an unruly culture capable of trolling, pranks, and crimes.
8chan
If 4chan isn't raw and lawless enough for you, try the even more right-wing "free speech"-haven 8chan, which is notorious for incubating a large swath of the Gamergate culture.
The Act
Las Vegas nightclub in the Palazzo, owned by Sheldon Adelson, under surveillance by the Nevada Gaming Control Board for obscene performances. Site of the Miss USA pageant party attended by Trump and the Agalarov's in June 2013.
active measures
information warfare aimed at undermining the West
Air Force One
The U.S. presidential plane.
AMS Panel
The GRU's "nerve center" through which they monitored the middle servers that monitored the DNC and DCCC networks. Housed on a leased computer located in Arizona.
art critic in civilian clothing
"joke" used by the KGB to refer to themselves while informing on dissidents under Soviet rule
attorney work product
backdoor
a method, often secret, of bypassing regular login authentication or encryption of a computer or server
Baku
capital of Azerbaijan
banana republic
politically unstable countries whose economies are monocultures controlled by an oligarchy; puppet states
Bank Secrecy Act
Legal statute requiring persons managing funds in excess of $10,000 in foreign banks disclose said accounts to the US Treasury.
bespredel
"limitless and total lack of accountability of the elite oligarchs"
blind trust
A financial trust in which the beneficiaries have no access to the holdings of the trust, or any knowledge of its investments and contents
Bolotnaya Square
The square was the site of the biggest protests in Russia since the Soviet era, in December 2011
Bolshevik
The majority faction within the Marxist revolutionary party led by Vladimir Lenin to power in Russia during the October Revolution of 1917, eventually becoming the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
bolt hole
A type of retreat or refuge for those in the survivalist subculture, to be absconded to in case of disaster or apocalypse.
BND
German foreign intelligence agency
bug-out location (BOL)
Another name for a bolt hole or survivalist refuge location.
Calexit
Movement to split the state of Californnia into East and West states
capital flight
Refers to the massive ongoing exodus of both legitimate and illegitimate funds of Russian oligarchs and their state cronies to "safe havens" in foreign banks and offshore accounts outside of Russia
28 C.F.R. 600.8(c)
"at the conclusion of the Special Counsel's work, he...shall provide the Attorney General a confidential report explaining the prosecution or declination decisions the Special Counsel reached"
Charter 77
Informal Czech resistance movement against the communist regime, named after a document that was deemed a political crime to distribute.
Chekism
Loyalty to the concept of an unbroken chain of Russian security services, all the way from Lenin's Cheka to the KGB to the FSB
Chronicle of Current Events
Soviet dissident periodical (samizdat) from 1968 to the early 1980s that reported on the human rights violations in the Soviet Union
Cold War
Color Revolutions
computational propaganda
cooperating witness
CPAC
Conservative Political Action Conference
CPSU
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Crimea
territory in eastern Ukraine invaded and "annexed" by Putin in 2014; unrecognized and condemned by the international community
criminal investigation
Crocus City Hall
7000-seat theater complex in Moscow built by Aras Agalarov; site of the 2013 Miss Universe pageant in Moscow
Cuban Missile Crisis
cut out
cyberspies
cyberwarfare
Cyprus
DACA
dacha
country estate
Dark Web
data transfer
deep state
Networks of opposition within governments who undermine the official regime
strategy of easing geopolitical tensions between nations; used in particular to describe attempts to "cool off" antagonism during the Cold War
dezinformatsiya
Russian information warfare
diaspora
directories
The file folder organizational structure on your computer
disinformation
DIOG
The FBI's Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide
document theft
Donbas
Territory in eastern Ukraine where Russian aggression has resumed as of Jan 29, 2017 following two years of Minsk Two ceasefire agreement
Doomsday Clock
doxing
researching and broadcasting personally identifiable information about an individual
Duma
the lower house of the Federal Assembly, Russia's Parliament
Eastern Bloc
Echo Moskvy
Democratic radio station in Moscow seminal is thwarting the KGB-led coup against Gorbachev in 1991
encryption
"Eternal Rome"
ideology positing Russia as a geopolitical bulwark of conservatism against a weak-kneed West (part of Alexander Dugin's reformulation of Eurasianism theory)
Evening Internet
the first blog in Russia, founded by Anton Nossik
executive privilege
exfiltration
The removal or copying of data from one server to another without the knowledge of the owner
fake news
fallout shelter
false flag
covert operations designed to deceive by appearing as though they are carried out by other entities, groups, or nations than those who actually executed them
FAPSI
One of the agencies spun out from the former KGB to head Govt Comms & Info (modeled after the NSA) β this division was instrumental in controlling the unfolding of the Russian internet
Federal Assembly
Russian Parliament
fifth column
fifth world war
non-linear war; the war of all against all
Financial Crimes Enforcement NEtwork (FinCEN)
Department within the Treasury that handles and maiontains FBAR filings from US persons holding in excess of $10,000 in foreign banks.
FISA Court
FISA warrant
Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)
Legal statute requiring those persons lobbying on behalf of a foreign government or other entity to register such with the U.S. government.
foreign bank account report (FBAR)
Required disclosure to the US treasury by persons holding in excess of $10,000 in funds in foreign banks.
forensics
FreedomFest
Conservative evangelical event annually in Las Vegas
frozen conflict zones
term for several unrecognized pseudo states within former Soviet territories who have broken away from the national government and are operating as Russian protectorates
FSB
the Russian Federal Security Service
GamerGate
Gazeta.ru
Gazprom
Russia's energy monopolgy and largest gas company
Georgia
Ghost Stories
FBI operation allowing a sleeper cell of 10 KGB spies to operate in the U.S. for 10 years, to reverse engineer their methods. At the end of the sting, FBI Director Robert Mueller rounded them all up and expelled them from the country.
glasnost
"increased government transparency" or openness β a slogan employed by Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet leader in the 1980s
Glavplakat
"global cabal"
euphemism in far-right Russian discourse to refer to a perceived "Jewish conspiracy" behind the international order of institutions like NATO and the EU
globalization
Grand Jury
16 to 23 people impaneled to hear evidence from a legal prosecution, and decide if said prosecution has a caseworthy set of evidence to bring charges.
Grenadines
hashtag
Helsinki Accords
honeypot
hybrid warfare
IC (Intelligence Community)
iMessage
Apple's version of SMS
information warfare
interlocuter
IRC
Iskra
The main Bolshevik newspaper in the early 20th century
JacksonβVanik amendment to the Trade Act of 1974
kakistocracy
keylogging
Technique that enabled the GRU to record passwords, internal communications, banking info, and sensitive personal info from compromised DCCC and DNC employees
KGB
The Soviet secret service, renowned for ruthlessness and duplicity
kleptocracy
form of government in which the leaders harbor organized crime rings and often participate in or lead them; the police, military, civil government, and other governmental agencies may routinely participate in illicit activities and enterprises.
Kommersant
Long-respected business newspaper purchased by pro-Kremlin oligarch Alisher Usmanov
kompromat
compromising material on a head of state or other important figure; typically used for blackmail purposes
Komsomol
Leninist Youth League organization for Communists aged 14 to 28 in the late 80s & early 90s
The Kremlin
Kuchino
the oldest top-secret research facility of the KGB, 12 miles east of Moscow
Kurchatov Institute
Preeminent Soviet nuclear research facility still in operation today in the far north of Moscow
Latvia
Lenta.ru
liberalism
Political and ethical framework based on individual liberty via human rights and equal protection
Logan Act
lords on the boards
Mafia state
A systematic corruption of government by organized crime syndicates.
Magnitsky Act
Maidan revolution
Student protests that ousted the Ukranian President Viktor Yanukovych, that started Nov 21, 2013.
malware
Marxism
maskirovka
war of deception and concealment
Menatep
Menshevik
middle servers
Intermediary sets of servers used by the GRU to communicate with their malware implants in infected U.S. computers and networks -- for an arm's length, plausible deniability strategy
Mimikatz
Piece of malware whose function is a hacker credential harvesting tool
Minsk Two
Colloquial name of the 2015 ceasefire agreement between Russia & Ukraine following the annexation of Crimea
Mitrokhin Archive
Mokhovaya Square
well-known landmark in front of the Kremlin
MSK-IX
The main Internet exchange point in Russia
MVD
Ministry of Internal Affairs; supervises all police, prisons, and "public order militias"
nationalism
National Prayer Breakfast
neutralize
Never-Trump
Newsru.com
NKVD
a forerunner to the KGB under Stalin
non-linear warfare
NotPetya
novichok
military-grade nerve agent developed by Russia and used in the poisoning of former FSB agent turned Putin critic Andrei Skripal and his daughter in Lonson in March, 2018
Novorossia
region of eastern Ukraine occupied by Russian separatists
October Revolution
the Nov 7, 1917 Bolshevik revolution and armed overthrow of the government, leading to the creation of the USSR
October Surprise
oligarchy
one-party state
open source intelligence
operating system
operatives
oppo
short form of opposition research
opposition research
OSINT
open source intelligence
Ostankino
Russia's TV network
Ozero Cooperative
perestroika
policy of restructuring or rebuilding the Soviet government, employed by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s
plausible deniability
plea deal
plead the Fifth
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Safe "bolt hole" identified for Eastern European hackers paid by Trump and the Kremlin if things went south
ponyatiya
an unwritten understanding about how things must be done
populism
postmodernism
"post office boxes"
Secret Soviet military and security research facilities, known only to the public by their P.O. Box number
post-truth
power grid intrusions
Prague, Czech Republic
proizvol
Russian word for "arbitrariness"
Project Lakhta
Internal name for the operation that Prigozhin's IRA was running to interfere in elections across the Western world, according to the Mueller indictments.
Project Ripon
propaganda
provokatsiya
rar.exe
A hacker tool used to compile and compress materials for exfiltration to GRU servers from the DNC and DCCC networks
Reddit
American social network inhabited by numerous denizens of the alt-Right and hosting notoriously grotesque subreddits.
refuseniks
Term given during the Soviet era, particularly under Stalin, for Jews who had been denied permission to emigrate
reiding
Relcom
One of the first private companies or "collectives" formed under Gorbachev's glasnost reforms, it brokered the first proto-Internet within the Soviet Union and first connection to the outside world β playing a key role in thwarting the attempted coup against Gorbachev by the KGB in August, 1991
rent-a-peer
retweet
When a Twitter user amplifies the tweet of another, by "retweeting" it out to her or his network
Rodina
extreme nationalist party in Russia c. 2003 that hinted at ethnic cleansing; The Guardian reported it had actually been set up as a prop by Putin & cronies, to draw votes away from the other far-right Communist Party
Rosatom
Russian company building Turkey's first nuclear plant
Rose Revolution
Peaceful protest-driven pro-Western transfer of power in the former Soviet state of Georgia in Nov 2003
Rosneft
Russia's state oil company
Rossiiskaia Gazeta
Russia's official government newspaper
RT.com
state-owned Russian news service
Rublevka
billionaire's row in Moscow
Russian Imperial Movement
part of the far-right coalition within Russia seeking to build an international consensus, this group advocates "Christian Orthodox imperial nationalism"
Russophobia
Popular hysteria against Russia and Russians perceived to be the case by Russia and Russians
samizdat
in the Soviet era, the creation by hand and distribution of copies of literature and other material banned by the state
Sberbank
Russia's largest bank
SDNs (specially designated nationals)
Individuals against whom secondary sanctions have been applied
The Seychelles
shadow profiles
Data that Facebook collects on people who are not members of Facebook, via association with their friends who are
shestidesiatniki
"Sixties' Generation" in the Soviet Union, who shared a lot in common with the American New Left. Advocated for political reform.
Siemens AG
siloviki
Russian term for those who have backgrounds and employment in security services, the military, and police; more specifically a reference to Putin's security cabal
Signal
sistema
Russian term to denote "how the government really works" (as opposed to via formal state institutions)
SJW
Social Justice Warriors, a term which has somehow been wielded as a pejorative by alt-righters and other radical right cadre, energing out of Gamergate culture.
SMS
Aka "texting"
Snow Revolution
popular protests beginning in Moscow in 2011, demanding the reinstatement of free elections & the ability to form opposition parties
sockpuppet accounts
Fake social media accounts used by trolls for deceptive and covert actions, avoiding culpability for abuse, aggression, death threats, doxxing, and other criminal acts against targets.
Solidarity
Polish workers' party confronting Communism in the late '80s
SORM
System of Operative Search Measures β the system in use by the FSB to eavesdrop on the Russian internet
South Stream pipeline
Gazprom project through Balkans and Central Europe
"sovereign democracy"
system in which democratic procedures are retained, but without any actual democratic freedoms; brainchild of Vladislav Surkov
sovereign wealth fund
spasitelnii
Russian word for "redemptive"
spearphishing
An email designed to appear as if from a trusted source, to solicit information that allows the sender to gain access to an account or network, or installs malware that later enables the sender to gain access to an account or network
specialists
Moniker given to the IRA employees assigned to operate the social media accounts in the U.S., including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, and Tumblr.
Sputnik
Russian news wire proffering fake news
Stasi
Nickname for the Ministry of State Security in East Germany during the Cold War
Steele dossier
stochastic terrorism
Stoleshnikov Lane
pedestrian street in Moscow lined with designer boutiques
St. Petersburg
Location of the headquarters for the IRA, Internet Research Agency, aka Putin's troll farm, at 55 Savushkina Street.
Strana.ru
subpoena
SUP Media
Russia's largest blogging service via acquisition of LiveJournal from Six Apart
SVR
Russian foreign intelligence service
swatting
hoaxed reports to emergency services intended to provoke a SWAT team response at the target's home; a form of Internet-based attack used by Gamergate, the alt-Right, and other groups and individuals
tax returns
The Thaw
Brief period of reform under Nikita Khrushchev between 1956 and 1964, when Khrushchev takes over from Stalin and is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev
tradecraft
"translator project"
trial balloon
Information put out or leaked to the media to gauge public reaction.
Trump Tower Moscow
Then-candidate Trump signed a letter of intent to move forward with this project in 2015, while at the same time denying its existence publicly, repeatedly.
truthiness
Turkish Stream
Proposed gas pipeline allowing Russia to extend its control over Turkey and European energy markets
Ukranian occupation
unmasking
Intelligence protocol redacting American identities from transcripts of foreign intercepts
USPER
Velvet Revolution
vertical of power
reference to the tightly controlled power cabal structure Putin has amassed around himself
vKontakte
Russian social network; equivalent analog to Facebook
vlast
power
VPN
VTB
Russia's largest commercial bank
wag the dog
watering hole
hacker attacks that infect entire websites
whataboutism
Classic debate tactic of old Soviet apologists to deflect criticism of Soviet policy; whenever an American would levy a critique, the response would be, "What about the bad things America does?"
white knights
white nationalism
Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation
World National-Conservatism Movement (WNCM)
umbrella term for Russia's movement to unite an international extreme far-right coalition
X-Agent
Multifunction hacking tool that allowed Russian GRU Military Unit 26165 to log keystrokes, take screenshots, and gather other data about the infected computers
X-Tunnel
Hacking tool creating an encrypted connection between the victim DCCC/DNC computers and the GRU-controlled computers to facilitate a large-scale data transfer
Yes California
Movement to secede from the US entirely, run by Marcus Ruiz Evans, Louis J. Marinelli
Yukos
zakaz
news information that has been paid for by special interest
We have endured much together these past 2-3 years, Team America. Thankfully our civil society is incredibly robust — and time is accelerating demographic gains in an inexorably democratic direction. As Boomers give way to Millennials — slated to happen as early as this year — we are experiencing a seismic shift in the national consciousness.
Our values as a nation-state have always been evolving as the political consciousness and cultural landscapes shift, but in recent political times the changes have been radical, seemingly sudden, and jarring in a way that collective memory does not easily recall. I believe we are witnessing the swan song of a generation — the largest post-WWII generation dominant demo for decades, now facing only the long decline.
Much is said of the Hillbilly Elegies of our country, but to be fair these elders are legitimately terrified: of the U.S. they see around them today — bearing little resemblance to the nation of their boomingly patriarchal childhoods; of the world outside our borders and the immigrants (theoretically; allegedly) streaming into them illegally; of long disused portions of America drying up and economically (and in some cases literally) tumbleweeding away; of their own impending mortality.
We go high
Michelle Obama was right. Is right. We should make ourselves aware of the kinds of games the other side is willing to employ, but endeavor not to play them ourselves as much as we can. But beyond a moral reason to love thy neighbor, there’s the practical matter that we may find common cause in surprising territories. Non-wealthy elder whites and young Millennials who struggled through the 2008 housing and banking crash both have reason to want a robust safety net, for example. This is the essence of democratic politics done well: coalition-building — not among special interests, but among elected leaders representing their constituents in good faith.
The arc of justice
…goes at its own pace, or something like that. Fascism has a creep (or at the moment, more of an open stride), and justice has a methodical process of evidence-gathering and weighing; we can have some solid faith in the latter to do its work. Regardless of the levels of bitter partisanship in the air, we have an enormous cadre of professional civil servants who do their often thankless jobs tirelessly for years and decades out of the limelight, for sub-private sector pay and little recognition. This cohort works tirelessly for us now, investigating the many tentacles of the Trump corruption operation stretching back years and decades into American life and foreign investment.
Mr Mueller, do your worst. By which I mean your best. We understand each other, I think. ππ½βοΈ
Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey are a particularly toxic breed of billionaire welfare queen, who outwardly revile government with every chance they get while having both sucked at its teat to make their fortunes, and currently making a luxe living on taxpayer largesse.
They follow in a long line of right-wing denialism in which Austrian School econ acolytes (and trickle down aficionados) have claimed to be self-made men while reaping untold rewards from lucrative military contracts and other sources of government funding or R&D windfall. Barry Goldwater once famously invoked the mythology of the independent cowboy to describe his successful rise (as would union man Ronald Reagan years later) — when in reality he inherited the family department store business that itself became viable only due to the public money pouring in to nearby military installations springing up in Arizona since as far back as the Civil War.
If we’re lucky, Luckey will create some sort of VR seasteading community that sucks the Silicon Valley Supremacists right in and traps them in a sort of Libertarian Matrix forever.
More on Peter Thiel and his right-wing political network:
Buddies with right-wing Silicon Valley venture capitalist David Sacks
Please Note: This is very much a work in progress and much of the timeline hasn’t yet made it from my notes and scribblings into the Timeline.js environment that makes this interactive data visualization possible. Stay tunedβ¦ but for now, at least you can get a bit of a sense how deep this #Russiagate rabbit hole goes.