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-**Facebook** is an American online [[social media]] and social networking service owned by [[Meta]] Platforms.
+**Facebook** is an American online [[:social media]] and social networking service owned by [[:Meta]] Platforms.
+===== Ventures =====
+==== Metaverse ====
+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's direction towards implementing the [[:Metaverse]].((Ortutay, B. (2021, October 28). //Facebook is changing its name to Meta to emphasise “metaverse” vision.// The Sydney Morning Herald. https://archive.ph/f4yy2))
+==== Media ====
+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, E. (2021, November 11). //Ottawa doctor pleads for help from the prime minister after death threat.// CTV News Ottawa. https://web.archive.org/web/20220908052455/https://ottawa.ctvnews.ca/ottawa-doctor-pleads-for-help-from-the-prime-minister-after-death-threat-1.5662499))
+===== Controversies =====
+==== Election Interference ====
+[[: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 [[:Facebook]]. Prather's Facebook account was suspended 8 days before the election date.((//Chad Prather v. Meta Platforms Inc. formerly known as Facebook.// (2022, February 24). Courthouse News. https://web.archive.org/web/20220228040120/https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/prather-meta-complaint.pdf))
 === Go Fund Me Links ===
-A venture capital firm, [[Accel]], and [[Technology Crossover Ventures]], own the majority stake in GoFundMe.
+A venture capital firm, [[:Accel]], and [[:Technology Crossover Ventures]], own the majority stake in GoFundMe.
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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, CFR, World Economic Forum, major fund investor in China.)
+Jim Breyer, head of Accel, attached a $13 million rocket to Facebook, and nothing has ever been the same. (Breyer---billionaire, CFR, World Economic Forum, major fund investor in China.)
-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, [[In-Q-Tel]].
+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, [[:In-Q-Tel]].
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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, headed up by Breyer. Dr. [[Anita Jones]] also joined BBN at that time. Jones had worked for the CIA’s In-Q-Tel and was an adviser to [[DARPA]], the Pentagon’s technology department that helped develop the Internet.
+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, headed up by Breyer. Dr. [[:Anita Jones]] also joined BBN at that time. Jones had worked for the CIA’s In-Q-Tel and was an adviser to [[:DARPA]], the Pentagon’s technology department that helped develop the Internet.
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-Accel co-owns the majority stake in [[GoFundMe]]. Accel has a history of rubbing shoulders with the CIA. Accel helped launch Facebook, the largest profiling and data-mining company in the world.
+Accel co-owns the majority stake in [[:GoFundMe]]. Accel has a history of rubbing shoulders with the CIA. Accel helped launch Facebook, the largest profiling and data-mining company in the world.
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-It’s also worth mentioning that Accel has invested in [[Spotify]], the platform whose number-one star is Joe Rogan. Spotify is now under pressure to cancel Rogan, because his views and guests don’t align 100% with the official COVID narrative. In step one of a new censorship program, Spotify has stated it will post warning messages on all content that veers from official COVID positions and offer links to approved government and public health sources (for outrageous lies).
+It’s also worth mentioning that Accel has invested in [[:Spotify]], the platform whose number-one star is Joe Rogan. Spotify is now under pressure to cancel Rogan, because his views and guests don’t align 100% with the official COVID narrative. In step one of a new censorship program, Spotify has stated it will post warning messages on all content that veers from official COVID positions and offer links to approved government and public health sources (for outrageous lies).
-GoFundMe, Accel, Facebook, CIA, In-Q-Tel, Jim Breyer, CFR, World Economic Forum, major investments in China.
+GoFundMe, Accel, Facebook, CIA, In-Q-Tel, Jim Breyer, [[:CFR]], [[:World Economic Forum]], major investments in China.
 ((https://blog.nomorefakenews.com/2022/02/07/the-truckers-gofundme-and-the-cia-connecting-dots/))
+==== Social Media Spycraft ====
+{{ ::cia_at_facebook_mintpress.png?800|}}
+How One Spook-Run London College Department Is Training the World’s Social Media Managers
+Mintpress News  by [[:Alan Macleod]]
+August 22nd, 2022
+Facebook’s Global Director of Strategic Response is also a former War Studies student. After graduating, [[:Caitlin Baker]] worked on Middle Eastern [[:counterterrorism]] policy in the [[:Office of the Secretary of Defense]] in Washington and as Director for Jordan and Lebanon at the [[:National Security Council]] at the [[:White House]].
+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.
+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.
+**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**.
+There are many more War Studies graduates in influential roles at Facebook, including:
+      * [[:Louis Babington-Reynolds]], Public Policy Manager for Dangerous Organizations;
+  *     [[:Monica Thurmond Allen]], Director of Public Policy for Campaigns and Programs;
+  *     [[:Claire Akkaoui]], Intelligence Lead for Europe, the Middle East and Africa;
+  *     [[:Olivia Minor]], Intelligence Analyst for Europe, the Middle East and Africa;
+  *     [[:Évia Orlando]], Imminent Risk Project Manager;
+  *     Fiona Moodie, Lead Regulatory Litigation Counsel;
+  *     [[:Dane Roth]], Design Program Manager;
+  *     [[:Kettianne Cadet]], Program Manager, People Experience.
+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.
+Today, Facebook’s head of intelligence is NATO’s former press officer. And a [[:MintPress]] study published last month detailed how the company has hired dozens of former [[:CIA]] officials, many of whom now hold the most politically sensitive positions in the company and are in charge of deciding what billions of users see daily. ((https://www.mintpressnews.com/kings-college-london0training-social-media-managers/281787/))