An Email From Brianna Wu Accusing Me Of An “Outrageous, Baseless Lie.”

Apparently Brainna Wu went digging through archives and found a 2 year old blog I’d taken out of publiction where I said she’s a “former GOP fundraiser” and is wrong for Progressives.

Brianna, a former GOP staff member for Trent Lott (R -MS) and intern for Michael Steele apparently worked for 5 years for the GOP according to her own tweets.

@glennf Did you know I spent a summer interning for Michael Steele, who I thought got a very unfair rap in the press.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) December 24, 2013

http://archive.is/2FB5C

She was also “as Republican as you can be” until age 25 according to her own tweets.

I don’t think that’s “briefly” according to the standard dictionary definition.

Since I am happy to correct any unintional mistakes I emailed back a pretty extensive set of questions.

1..  What party did she fundraise for?

@glennf Some day, Glenn. I will tell you about my job fundraising for a certain political party. And the awful things I saw along the way.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 2, 2014

http://archive.is/WPXy7

2. How long did she work for Trent Lott (R – MS)

I used to work for the Republicans in DC. I will tell you, working in the game industry, I routinely deal with more misogyny here than there

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) November 17, 2014

http://archive.is/GBHwM

When I was 19, I launched my first $200k startup. When I was 22 I threw all my stuff in my car, moved to DC and got a job in politics.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 8, 2014

http://archive.is/K3KAf

@collinsz i'd also say this. I believe this because I was his Republican as someone could possibly be up until I was 25.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 23, 2014

http://archive.is/1y58h

Is “fundraising” a part of a political campaign?  She said she’s worked at every level of a campaign.

As someone who has worked at every level of an election, there is work everyone can do. Data entry, phone banking, emailing friends.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) September 5, 2017

http://archive.is/QOYQe

5/ Eventually, I left a career in D.C – primarily over the Iraq war. Went home to Mississippi. We had the most soldiers serving per capita.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 7, 2017

http://archive.is/vZaxB

Is 5 years a “brief” period?

@andriajensen @jwilker Oh, that's cool. I spent 5 years doing the politics thing in DC, right next door. ^^

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) January 13, 2014

http://archive.is/b7lGI

Brianna Wu emailed back saying,

Okay, that’s fair to base it off that Tweet. I was trying to sum up a summer where I attended a lot of fundraisers in the evening as part of my job and saw a lot of really weird shit. It was an imprecise statement on Twitter, back in 2014 when there was only 140 characters.

But, I’m telling you directly, I never worked as a fundraiser.

 

Brianna’s job duties included some activities linked to fundraising.

That’s certainly reasonable and expected in Washington D.C. where networking is a critical job function.

She was not a “Fundraiser” which some may take to mean “rain maker” or “bundler” or something illicit.

I apologize for any negative implications that may have been inferred by others based upon the title of the blog.

Social Media & “Big Data” Responsible For Character Assassination, Inc.™ Repeal CDA 230.

Big data.

New @datasociety report “Alternative Influence” by @beccalew covered in @guardian https://t.co/XqVK0FrQI2

— Data & Society (@datasociety) September 18, 2018

Flow charts of who talks to who, who was seen by whom and little is said about what was said at those meetings.  Or public events.  Or if the nature of the “discussion” was an attempt to understand another or just pure propaganda.

https://twitter.com/Bernstein/status/1042787226244075522

Imagine for a moment that the algorithms and API’s that provide the data “big data” scienists use to evaluate networks is itself biased.

Does that sound impossible?

A woman that silenced LGBT with her bots meets with tech companies to influence their policies.

Fighting online abuse w/ @FeministaJones @TheQuinnspiracy @roseveleth @randileeharper @jamiaw @CCRInitiative @femfreq pic.twitter.com/5xPp3jVL0T

— Jigsaw (@Jigsaw) September 23, 2015

That’s right.

https://twitter.com/magicalfeyfenny/status/887894452311793664

https://twitter.com/magicalfeyfenny/status/887895854215946241

https://twitter.com/magicalfeyfenny/status/887896276519354368

https://twitter.com/emily_esque/status/707728619188187136

That same woman begged for “feminism” in the code.

We need more activism as code. We need more feminism in code. I want *these* politics in my code.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) July 2, 2015

Do you think a woman who became a renowned public speaker had any influence at Google and Youtube over how their algorithm was coded?

Brianna Wu has spent years asking Google to put “trusted sources” into the code.

Tech platforms, including Facebook Google and Bing, treat something a troll writes exactly the same as something vetted by a journalist at a reputable publication.

Tech platforms bear a HUGE amount of responsibility on this. It’a why none of us can agree on any common reality.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) July 30, 2018

Thank you! I was very honored to give this talk at @Google! https://t.co/qtIh6Nnuef

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 11, 2015

Important to note: Google’s algorithm issues are congenital on YouTube, where young children are getting radicalized by the fringe right. https://t.co/pjFopmM3OV

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 2, 2017

The Alt-Right is very successful at using bots to manipulate public opinion like this. It also manipulates Google/YouTube results. https://t.co/wj0K3mJbqA

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 9, 2017

2/ I have been pulling out my hair in backchannel for years with Google, asking them to consider the trustworthiness of source in ranking.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) October 2, 2017

If we are considering “trustworthiness” isn’t it important that Randi Lee Harper, who worked with Brianna Wu, silenced LGBT with her bots on Twitter?

Dear @jack,

I’ve worked with your Trust and Safety department since 2014. I know @twitter is working hard and doesn’t get the credit you deserve. And I know it’s tempting to tune out critique.

But, I implore you to consider what your legacy will be if Trump starts a nuclear war

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) January 3, 2018

I really believe that Anita, Zoe, Randi and I are changing history. We're fighting these battles so other women don't have to. @freebsdgirl

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) February 28, 2015

Who is zooming who here?

Who elected Brianna Wu and Randi Lee Harper Chiefs of Social Ostracization™?

There is no equivalent of Milo on the left because we hold ourselves to higher standards. Our Milo wannabes get ostracized pretty quickly.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) February 22, 2017

I want a revote.

Hey all!! I'm excited to share my new @datasociety report. The tldr: a giant network of influencers on YouTube is broadcasting reactionary ideas to young viewers – and radicalizing them in the process. https://t.co/jvDUyiHjNK

— Becca Lewis (@beccalew) September 18, 2018

Tim Pool, who did excellent reporting on the water shortage (crisis) in East Porterville,CA …

…and who is a self employed journalist (multi racial) and non high school graduate finds himself lumped in with some actually awful people.

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1042794151358676992

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1042798285646389248

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1042170685127380992

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1042807065792659457

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1042798449144426496

How do you deal with data scientists that not only rely on biased algorithms and API data but falsify facts?

How to measure the harm to a self employed journalist who the Left appears to be trying to silence?  Tim Pool relies on Youtube monetization for his living.

Congress needs to heavily regulate these monoliths.  And investigate them for Antitrust violations.  CDA 230 needs to be repealed and social media held accountable for the falsehoods their ‘data” enables and their platforms spread by accounts they allow to exist.

In short, social media companies need to have the same risks and responsibilities everyone else int he United States. They have abused their privilege of immunity and have abused others Civil Rights in doing so.

https://twitter.com/Timcast/status/1042535807611953152

Si Se Puede!

Social Advocate Who Silenced #LGBT Wants Jack Dorsey to Suspend Senator Marco Rubio (R -FL) $twtr

Randi Lee Harper, thinks little of free speech, or @civilrights, or of LGBT and their rights…

@Principia @AnaMardoll @ShaulaEvans their policies lean more towards protecting the user than promoting a false free speech ethos.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 5, 2015

http://archive.is/cjsjW

…thinks Senator Marco Rubio should be suspended by twitter for suggesting his followers call a Miami (his constituency) business to register their displeasure that the restaurant owner who supports the dictator of Venezuela.

Okay. Report this tweet as inciting harassment. Twitter, ball is in your court. You’ve got rules that are clearly against this kind of behaviour. What are you going to do, @jack? Is this the valuable conversation that needs to be protected? https://t.co/Gl532hhtHo

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 18, 2018

http://archive.is/kbeJI

I mean of all the boneheaded things to tweet. What a fucking idiot. He's not even smart enough to hide behind the whole "i had no idea my followers would harass people" facade that others have used because he's literally saying "in case anyone wanted to call" jesus fucking christ

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 18, 2018

http://archive.is/jSvFm

You are a fucking idiot. How is it possible to be a grown ass man and be this much of a baby?

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 18, 2018

http://archive.is/sdNKU

Randi Lee Harper has her own mob of harassers.

@tjslater haha, seems like everyone does! i like where i am for now. careful what you wish for – i come with a mob of harassers. 😛

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 17, 2014

http://archive.is/8MNpx

Randi also has directed that mob to attack people like Mark Kern and tweets intimidating threats of directing that mob at businesses if content is not taken down.

I don't often ask the mob to do things. But please, please, tell @lauthinv to take down this exploitative post: http://t.co/FxFlmCbIer

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) May 1, 2015

http://archive.is/iaDAn

How does/did Randi control her “mob of harassers?”

She tweets to them.

Cc @popehat @adamsteinbaugh @2dAmMuslim pic.twitter.com/EBjoZE45Mi

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) July 24, 2015

http://archive.is/3yhJ9

@2dammuslim explained how he and his mob work(ed) in a series of tweets that were archived prior to his suspension.

Randi funds her “work” through her Patreon account.

Just so we're clear, my Patreon allows me to do this full time. If it drops too much, I go back to tech. But I won't EVER stop this work.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) October 11, 2015

My patreon just dipped below the minimum required for me to pay my bills. whelp. That means it’s time to post it. https://t.co/NGP9HAcuDo

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) April 2, 2018

Uh. My bot has found a way to make money.https://t.co/SAZ9VNE6yx

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) July 31, 2015

http://archive.is/S2EIP

Randi hacked a “Protected” twitter account and tweeted what she found to her mob of harassers.

down the rabbit hole pic.twitter.com/GtVId7luFZ

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 22, 2015

http://archive.is/UxtXP

She also begged Oauth tokens from her followers, which seems to violate the reason for the existence of Oauth in the first place.

I'm looking for more twitter auth tokens to use for research. Please take a second and help me out! Info here: https://t.co/QQtrohmA0Z

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 23, 2016

@mcclure111 np. 😀 once i finish this oauth token swapping code, i'll be refactoring & publishing.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 28, 2016

http://archive.is/vugAC

Randi apparently wrote code that allows “token swapping” so anyone can swap tokens and fool the host of the content(such a a social media website) into thinking they are an authorized individual operated in good faith.

Randi has over 1,000 Oauth tokens.

@harper i've got a store of about 1k oauth tokens, so it's not a problem for me. might be for other people, though.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 4, 2015

http://archive.is/YPgHF

She uses these Oauth tokens to monitor Twitter consumers.

I wrote a program that helps monitor stuff going down. Searches name/phrase, displays colorcoded to followers/gaters/non-gaters/age of acct.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) June 4, 2015

http://archive.is/7ayNd

This is like 4x the normal blocklist. Gonna take a minute, hitting API limits that I can't easily skirt by switching user tokens mid-call.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 23, 2015

If you'd like to help out with the work I'm doing, there's an easy way for you to do so: I need your twitter tokens! https://t.co/C3pophz7FL

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 31, 2014

Randi, who found a way for her bot to “make money” was able to silence LGBT advocates on Twitter who were tweeting to a hashtag she didn’t approve of.

Did Randi Lee Harper register an application and comply with Twitter ToS and Twitter Developer ToS when she was making those API calls with borrowed Oauth tokens?

LGBT had to approach her and beg to not be blocked.

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707623113828085760

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707623338999328769

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707624993689964544

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707625395290374144

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707626754249138176

https://twitter.com/Herracks/status/707625202889306113

https://twitter.com/emily_esque/status/707728619188187136

@emily_esque i'm willing to talk privately, but you've been really angry about me for a while in your timeline. see my recent tweets.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 10, 2016

https://twitter.com/emily_esque/status/707729818394238976

@emily_esque i'm happy to unblock you, but you should know that if you use the HT again, it'll get picked back up.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 10, 2016

@emily_esque you've been unblocked, should propagate out through BT in the next few minutes.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 10, 2016

Why was Randi Lee Harper, who is not a Twitter employee, able to decide what a LGBT advocate & DC based attorney could retweet and still be connected to her social network?

Her response to was to remove the LGBT from her blocklist, but if they tweeted AGAIN to the same hastag they would be blocked.

This had the effect of separating vulnerable LGBT from their social support networks and was an intentional, but avoidable, harmful act against a protected category of Twitter customers.

Ask someone transgender how many friends they’ve lost to suicide. The answer will probably be in the double digits.

We’re going to give transgender people access to life saving health care. Therapy. HRT. GCS. FFS. We will treat this like the health crisis it is. https://t.co/L6lGdsQsFT

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 3, 2018

Randi finds herself in a “privileged” position.

btw, yes. I'm pissing off a lot of people, on purpose. I'm privileged enough to be safe from their BS. their usual targets? not so much.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 23, 2015

Randi gets to decide what hashtag LGBT can tweet to and still be in their own social network on twitter.

He also got into politics with the express mission of destroying LGBT rights. He was angry that gay people were allowed to participate in the St. Patrick’s day parade.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) April 18, 2018

I really don't care about people that are posting to that HT with counterspeech. Some people don't want to see that HT at all. That's valid.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) March 9, 2016

http://archive.is/Zg8I4

How does Randi get to work WITH Twitter Safety, have a non disclosure agreement and tweet things like instructions on how to create an ISIS bot network?

@freedominguez I saw. 🙂 I've been working directly with twitter's safety department. I have faith they want to do the right thing.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) February 5, 2015

http://archive.is/Fif7v

I'll talk about what I can, but I don't break NDAs, so we'll see how this goes.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 22, 2015

Here's instructions ISIS propagates for using/creating a botnet. https://t.co/kfima1gJkY – this is >1 yr old. It's also their fav site.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 14, 2016

http://archive.is/CJ164

Only Jack knows.

Being a crowd-funded activist is rough. It's basically like I have hundreds of bosses that I report to.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 22, 2015

I'll talk about what I can, but I don't break NDAs, so we'll see how this goes.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 22, 2015

http://archive.is/nSyTy

Strangely enough Randi Lee Harper worked closely with Brianna Wu prior to the election of Donald Trump.

I really believe that Anita, Zoe, Randi and I are changing history. We're fighting these battles so other women don't have to. @freebsdgirl

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) February 28, 2015

We emailed Brianna Wu for a comment about Randi’s silencing LGBT and she responded in a disdainful manner and then emailed that she had some info about Randi Lee Harper but wanted that information to remain private.

Brianna Wu responded with information that we already knew about Randi that anyone could have surmised from Randi’s own tweets.

lmao i was just suspended for a 3 year old tweet to a friend. pic.twitter.com/8bMVmLW9W2

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) November 6, 2017

I keep quiet about what is said at Twitter. But I can say this: a lot of activists & orgs haven't heard diddly squat from them lately.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 5, 2015

We can’t publish her response however her lack of concern for the LGBT Randi silenced (we showed her the tweets) is telling in and of itself.

Brianna Wu never responded to the question about harm to LGBT advocates.

Brianna Wu is a former GOP Staffer for Trent Lott (R -MS).

Randi Lee Harper alleges Wu had a somewhat close assocaition with Nazi Andrew “Weev” Aurenheim so is highly critical of Wu as a person.

3/ In the 90s, Trent Lott commissioned a poll asking white Southerners if they agreed with this statement. “The Democrats are trying to take away your culture.”

The results were through the roof. And so, the Republican Party started running on that message.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) May 8, 2018

oh jesus christ. https://t.co/hFUFNPj5AJ

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 21, 2016

every single fucking time she talked to a company, she'd throw a fit, only talk about HER problems, and we'd have to come in and clean up.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 21, 2016

 

if you vote for wu, you're just voting for another narcissistic idiot. seriously.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) December 21, 2016

Wu knew that the book she was contributing to last year was being put together by a weev sympathizer. We talked about it.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) May 17, 2017

I'll name and shame, I don't even care. Tarah Wheeler has publicly defended weev multiple times while trying to suck up to him on Twitter. Brianna Wu was told about Tarah's ties to weev and decided to participate in projects with her anyways because money/exposure was involved.

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 3, 2018

wu is the shanley of politics, just waiting for a moon rant 😂

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) August 4, 2017

don't be friends with nazis.
don't defend nazis.
don't get involved with people that have ties to nazis.

this seems pretty cut and dry in my book. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) January 3, 2018

Wu doesn’t follow her own tweeted rhetoric, having blocked the DNC’s @radiokeri.

There are issues you can compromise over. Civil rights isn’t one of them.

All too often, Democrats throw communities they aren’t part of under the bus. People of color. Transgender Americans. People with disabilities.

Not when I am serving. No compromises on civil rights.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) January 6, 2018

MA-8 is 30 percent people of color, and is 11 percent Asian.

It’s not enough to speak to those communities. We want to listen and truly represent those needs. We’re adding a dedicated staffer – if you want to help, please reach out at administrator@briannawu2018.com.

— Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) January 24, 2018

Wow. Blocked by @Spacekatgal. That's cool, I guess. #yikes #mapoli

— Keri Rodrigues (@radiokeri) January 26, 2017

Will Jack suspend a sitting US Senator?

Lord only knows because Twitter has proven to be absolutely unpredicatable on their moderation decisions.

How else to explain Randi Lee Harper’s own, extremely abusive, history on Twitter?

At least 200. https://t.co/5Tt2aTBpZA

— chasing the dopamine (@randileeharper) September 24, 2015

http://archive.is/a0szk

Jack, and Twitter Safety tolerate(d) some abuse, and not other abuse, is the only rational explanation.

Can people who work with Twitter Safety simply hack, silence and abuse LGBT and Twitter Support will not act to suspend/moderate them?

What is going on at Twitter?

They say they monitor behaviors and are trying to be proactive but Randi Lee Harper has been on twitter, openly conducting herself in the manner for years.