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====== Facebook ====== | ====== Facebook ====== | ||
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+ | **Facebook** is an American online [[:social media]] and social networking service owned by [[:Meta]] Platforms. | ||
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+ | ===== Ventures ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Metaverse ==== | ||
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+ | In October 2021, [[:Mark Zuckerberg]] announced that Facebook would be changing its corporate name and branding to [[:Meta]] in order to fully embrace the company' | ||
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+ | ==== Media ==== | ||
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+ | Facebook provided funding alongside the [[Canadian Press News Fellowship]] for media coverage of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], including an article published on [[CTV News]] covering death threats sent to Dr. [[Nili Kaplan-Myrth]].((Ibrahim, | ||
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+ | ===== Controversies ===== | ||
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+ | ==== Election Interference ==== | ||
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+ | [[:Chad Prather]], a candidate for Texas Governor, filed a lawsuit on February 24, 2022 against Facebook and Meta alleging that [[:Greg Abbott]] has an undisclosed relationship with [[: | ||
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+ | === Go Fund Me Links === | ||
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+ | A venture capital firm, [[:Accel]], and [[: | ||
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+ | The big infusion of cash that sent [[Mark Zuckerberg]] and his fledgling college enterprise on their way came from Accel, in 2004. | ||
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+ | Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook, and nothing has ever been the same. (Breyer---billionaire, | ||
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+ | Earlier in 2004, a man named Gilman Louie joined the board of the [[:National Venture Capital Association of America]] (NVCA). The chairman of NVCA? Jim Breyer. [[:Gilman Louie]] happened to be the first CEO of the important [[:CIA]] start-up, [[: | ||
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+ | In-Q-Tel was founded in 1999, with the express purpose of funding companies that could develop technology the CIA would use to “gather data.” | ||
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+ | That’s not the only connection between Facebook funder and Accel’s [[:Jim Breyer]] and the [[CIA]]’s man, Gilman Louie. In 2004, Louie went to work for BBN Technologies, | ||
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+ | With these CIA/DARPA connections, | ||
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+ | Accel co-owns the majority stake in [[: | ||
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+ | Given all this, it might be more surprising if GoFundMe DIDN’T cut off the Canadian truckers’ $9 million. | ||
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+ | It’s also worth mentioning that Accel has invested in [[: | ||
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+ | GoFundMe, Accel, Facebook, CIA, In-Q-Tel, Jim Breyer, [[:CFR]], [[:World Economic Forum]], major investments in China. | ||
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+ | ==== Social Media Spycraft ==== | ||
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+ | How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers | ||
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+ | Mintpress News by [[:Alan Macleod]] | ||
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+ | August 22nd, 2022 | ||
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+ | Facebook’s Global Director of Strategic Response is also a former War Studies student. After graduating, [[:Caitlin Baker]] worked on Middle Eastern [[: | ||
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+ | Between 2015 and 2017, she was also VP Joe Biden’s Middle East Policy Advisor. During this time period, the administration rapidly expanded its [[:drone program]], coming to bomb seven countries simultaneously. | ||
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+ | In October 2017, Baker moved seamlessly from the Defense Secretary’s office to work for Facebook’s strategic response team, rising to become a global director. | ||
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+ | **The strategic response team decides how Facebook will react to global events like elections, wars and coups, determining what content will be permissible and which views will be banned or suppressed**. | ||
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+ | There are many more War Studies graduates in influential roles at Facebook, including: | ||
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+ | * [[:Louis Babington-Reynolds]], | ||
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+ | * Fiona Moodie, Lead Regulatory Litigation Counsel; | ||
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+ | While this is certainly not to say that all those mentioned are government plants, or even that they are anything but model employees, this connection does come at a time when Facebook has rapidly begun intertwining itself with the national security state. In 2018, the company announced that, in a bid to combat [[:fake news]], it was partnering with [[:NATO]] [[:think tank]], the [[:Atlantic Council]], in a deal that gave the latter significant influence on the platform’s content. | ||
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+ | Today, Facebook’s head of intelligence is NATO’s former press officer. And a [[: | ||
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