A tacit agreement between the government and Facebook appears to have been made: you can keep the profits, but we control the message. As such, a cynic might wonder what functional difference there is between Facebook and the national security state.
The Facebook Team that Tried to Swing Nicaragua’s Election is Full of U.S. Spies
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Meet the Nicaraguans Facebook Falsely Branded Bots and Censored Days Before Elections
US puts Israeli spyware firm NSO Group on trade blacklist
Anti-Asian hate is a symptom of intensifying capitalist reaction
Capital can be resilient. Far more resilient than many revolutionaries have anticipated. Marx predicted that communist revolutions would initially come in the countries where the productive forces are most developed. But save for the eastern part of Germany at the cost of a catastrophic war, none of the core imperialist countries have so far undergone such revolutions. In these places, capital has held on in the face of multiple world wars, depressions, and pandemics, allowing them to continue holding back revolutions in most other places through imperialist meddling.
Anti-Asian hate is a symptom of intensifying capitalist reaction
The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up
The Internet Is Not Facebook; Regulating It As If It Were Will Fuck Things Up
There’s only one problem: What is health misinformation? I know of no oracular source of truth about Covid-19. Scientific consensus has shifted dramatically during the pandemic, and even now experts are divided over important issues, such as whether everyone should get a vaccine booster shot. Klobuchar and Luján’s bill elides these complications. Instead they designate an all-knowing authority: Health misinformation, the bill says, is whatever the secretary of health and human services decides is health misinformation.
Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate
Towards Technofascism: Vaccine Passports and the Inequality Virus in the Debate
Environmental activist and writer Chet Bowers claimed that their social agenda includes the imposition of barriers to people’s ability to vote; the use of the prison system to control a large segment of the poor and non-white population; the intertwining of fundamentalist religions and segments of government focused on national security; and the use of the military to globalize the American way of life; the suppression of basic human rights, especially for women; the undermining of the rights of workers to organize in order to oppose being exploited; and the authorization of fraudulent elections in which the
Avoiding a climate lockdown
Under a “climate lockdown,” governments would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, and impose extreme energy-saving measures, while fossil-fuel companies would have to stop drilling. To avoid such a scenario, we must overhaul our economic structures and do capitalism differently.
Left-wing billionaires George Soros, Reid Hoffman reportedly bankroll new media firm to fight ‘disinformation’
“McGowan says that the group’s goal in the next year is to raise more awareness about immediate solutions to counter disinformation before it spreads,” Axios reported.
More control over the narrative, in the interest of Big Business, whether it’s foreign or domestic!
Facebook and Washington vs Internet Sovereignty
Facebook and Washington vs Internet Sovereignty
It was as early as 2011 when Facebook along with the US State Department began weaponizing this control over a social media platform deeply entrenched in the information spaces of nations around the world and particularly in the Arab World.
The New York Times in a 2011 article titled, “US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings,” would admit that the US government had funded many of the opposition groups years in advance to the Arab Spring, training and equipping them to overthrow their respective governments.
The article also mentions US tech companies and their role in US-sponsored subversion abroad…
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These [security] clearances would not be possessed by a genuine whistleblower organization exposing real abuses inside the US government, but instead an organization posing as such to mitigate the damage real whistleblowers might cause if their information was brought to the press and released to the public before being sanitized, censored, and spun in a politically expedient manner.
Previously:
Facebook ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen represented by US intelligence insiders
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