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Lachlan Markay

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Lachlan Markay

@lachlan

Founding partner @Argus_Insight. Tracking foreign influence with @FARAmonitor.

Born February 17

Joined August 2008

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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Mar 10
Are you a journalist/researcher/public affairs pro tracking foreign influence? You may be interested in a new product I’ve developed. Automated daily summaries of new FARA filings as they drop. Contact me for details: lachlan at faramonitor dot com.
FARA Monitor
From faramonitor.com
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Jun 17, 2025
Something extremely simple that @elonmusk could do to dramatically improve the health of this platform would be to automatically verify and display accounts' (or at least verified accounts') actual countries of origin
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Oct 8, 2025
Finally watched that Hasan clip
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Oct 1, 2025
All else aside, "the October 7, 2023 incidents in Gaza" is such a revealing phrase. That is not in fact where the "incidents" on that date took place
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Dec 11, 2024
Huge no votes from Manchin and Sinema denying Dems a presumptive NLRB majority for the first two years of Trump's term
Burgess Everett
@burgessev
Dec 11, 2024
Manchin votes NO on NLRB nominee McFerran. Looks like it will fail Vote is now 49-50
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Jul 25, 2025
Calling it a "hack" is quite generous to the company behind this app, which simply left these files in a publicly accessible cloud storage bucket waiting for someone to find
Ben Goggin
@BenjaminGoggin
Jul 25, 2025
Update: the Tea app has been hacked, and 72,000 images from the app have been leaked, including verification selfies and photos of users' driver's licenses nbcnews.com/tech/social-me….
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Feb 5, 2025
This is a DARPA program to counter cyberattacks targeting human vulnerabilities (things like spear phishing) Thompson Reuters is a data and tech company much larger than its newswire division, and seems a good vendor for this worthwhile initiative
Ian Miles Cheong
@ianmiles
Feb 5, 2025
Can someone explain to me why the Department of Defense provided $9,147,532.00 to Reuters for "ACTIVE SOCIAL ENGINEERING DEFENSE (ASED) LARGE SCALE SOCIAL DECEPTION (LSD)"
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Sep 19, 2025
Notable: of the nearly $500k AOC's political operation has spent on Facebook and Instagram ads over the last 3 months, 93% has gone towards ads *explicitly excluding* users in her own congressional district
Alex Thompson
@AlexThomp
Sep 19, 2025
New: AOC and her team are positioning her to run for president or the U.S. Senate in 2028, according to people familiar with her operation. My look at her 2028 crossroads and what she’s doing to give herself options. axios.com/2025/09/19/aoc…
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Jan 7, 2025
A handy tip for DC people who miss trash pickup day: pack up all your garbage into a few Amazon boxes, tape them up, leave them out front, and let the porch pirates do your waste collection for you. We'll squeeze some civic value from these SOBs yet!
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Jun 17, 2025
Replying to @TheAmishDude and @elonmusk
maybe verify it via the location associated with a premium/verified payment method? Not unbeatable, but it'd solve the VPN challenge
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Jun 25, 2025
Delighted to share a take in this morning's @PirateWires. Label the fake-American slop, @elonmusk!
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Oct 22, 2025
The quote at the end is laughable, and such a revealing sentiment. When lefty donors fund voter registration and political transparency groups it's nonpartisan good government work. When righty donors fund a universally praised resource like Ballotpedia it's sinister subterfuge
Kyle Tharp
@kylewilsontharp
Oct 22, 2025
Ballotpedia has always gone to great lengths to brand itself as “neutral,” “unbiased,” and “nonpartisan,” positioning its election data and candidate profiles as civic education for all Americans. But its funding history tells a much more complicated story.
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Mar 1, 2025
According to the National Transportation Safety Board, February 2025 was the safest month for US air travel in at least 43 years (as far back as its data goes). NTSB logged 55 total aviation accidents, 6 of them fatal. Both are all-time lows ntsb.gov/safety/data/Pa…
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Lachlan Markay
@lachlan
Jan 14, 2025
Replying to @JeremiahDJohns
I just had to go find this whole thread and boy it did not disappoint
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