3 ways in which Facebook is becoming an arm of censorship of the government of the United States
3 ways in which Facebook is becoming an arm of censorship of the government of the United States
Facebook has recently announced a series of important steps to combat the false news and the global diffusion of erroneous information that says ...
Facebook has recently announced a series of important steps it would take to combat false news and the global spread of misinformation that says it could influence elections, but the more we know about who Facebook is partnering in this effort, the clearer it will be . it becomes that these initiatives are not designed to encourage independent thinking and discourse, but ultimately to ensure that online public discourse does not stray too far from official state narratives.Mark Weisbrot, co-director of the Center for Economic Research and Policy, recently crashed Facebook's decision to work with organizations funded by the United States government as "Orwellian"- especially since these organizations" specialize in propaganda abroad ".
Thus, while claiming to fight against Russian, Iranian and other propaganda, these same groups will strictly impose an official view of world events by Washington and NATO.
Here are 3 extremely troubling Facebook initiatives that the public should pay close attention to, and which suggest that the social media giant is increasingly becoming an arm of censure for the government of the United States and its allies:1. Partnership of Facebook with think tanks funded by the State of the United States
Last Wednesday, Facebook announced that it would work with two think tanks funded by the US government. UU To reinforce the "electoral integrity efforts" of the social media giant around the world.
The new partnership with the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) It has been described by Reuters as an initiative to "stop the global dissemination of misinformation that could influence elections, recognizing that millions of false news sites were still read."
But both the IRI and the NDI are funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), which since its founding in the last Cold War was defined as a "soft power" wing of the United States government abroad focused on the "promotion of democracy".
Journalist Max Blumenthal recently described the NDI as "a taxpayer-funded organization that has interfered in elections, mobilized coups and organized public relations campaigns against nations that resist the Washington agenda. "
Max Blumenthal explored the machinations of the National Endowment for Democracy in recent history and today in a mini-documentary entitled, "Inside America's Meddling Machine"
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzIJ25ob1aA]
This means that Facebook depends on the government of the United States to interpret the "false" news and those that do not.2. The close links of Facebook with the allies of NATO and the United States.
Another think tank, the Atlantic Council, has since last may I advised Facebook directly on the identification and elimination of "foreign interference" in the popular platform through its Digital Forensic Research Laboratory or "DFR Laboratory". The Atlantic Council is financed by NATO and the European governments and the Gulf monarchies..
Earlier, Mark Zuckerberg indicated the need for an external source that could identify "foreign influence" concentrated on malicious intentions through specialized geopolitical experts.
Supposedly, the whole association aims to bring more objectivity and neutrality to the process of eradicating false accounts that represent the threat of being operated by infamous foreign states.
However, as Reuters report confirmed, Facebook is itself a great donor to the Atlantic Council., together with Western governments, the autocratic regimes of the Gulf, NATO, various branches of the US Army. UU and several important contractors and defense corporations.
A partial list of the main financiers of the Atlantic Council and the DFR laboratory partners.
The Atlantic Council has frequently asked for things like greater military commitment in Syria, militarily Facing the "Russian threat" in Eastern Europe., and now calls for Ukraine and Georgia to enter NATO while demanding the general territorial expansion of the Western military alliance.Also has defended on behalf of from one of its previous founders, the Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and awarded a prize of "Distinguished International Leadership" to George W. Bush, to name just a few actions of the think tank that have been authorized to mark the Facebook pages of citizens for possible foreign Influence and propaganda.
Quite disturbing, this is the "neutral" external geopolitical "point of view" of Mark Zuckerberg that he has been searching for.
3. Facebook has established a "War Room" before the November elections.
Facebook announced on Wednesday that it plans to establish a "war room" on its Silicon Valley campus to avoid the possibility of meddling in foreign elections during the partial exams.
"We are creating a war room in Menlo Park for the elections in Brazil and the United States."Said the director of civic elections and civic engagement Samidh Chakrabarti, according to the AFP. He added, "It will serve as a command center so we can make decisions in real time as needed. "
A "command center" in a "war room" to make decisions "in real time" huh? ... and Facebook says will win help of artificial intelligence software to avoid the false publications of those annoying Russians.
The "war room" will also include help from the aforementioned funds financed by NATO DFR Lab, which serves to mark posts that could have a malevolent foreign power behind them. All this should translate into a very real concern about the potential for political censorship of American citizens in the name of protection against interference from foreign elections.
Wow, this is pretty Orwellian: Facebook chooses 2 organizations funded by the US government. UU They specialize in propaganda abroad and, sometimes, in regime change to fight against "malicious propaganda" Reuters reports without irony or awareness of who these groups are: https://t.co/t9wLZSmNFF
- Mark Weisbrot (@MarkWeisbrot) September 21, 2018
Earlier this year The New York Times reported that to combat the "discord" allegedly sewn by the Russians, most of whom the history of the Times admitted that it happened after the election, Facebook hired a fleet of people to review the content, added to their security team, hired counterterrorism experts and recruited workers with government security permits.What is the ultimate goal here?
Richard Stengel, former TIME editor of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), told a hearing on a CFR event at the end of April called "Political interruptions: Combat disinformation and false news" that governments "have to" direct "propaganda" towards their own populations.
In particular, CFR members also tend to be the leaders of the organizations mentioned above such as NED, IRI, NDI and the Atlantic Council.
These are the types of people looking to "guide" Facebook to mark misinformation. See what they have to say in their own words:
In a forum of the Council of Foreign Relations on "false news", the former editor of Time magazine, Richard Stengel, directly affirms that he supports the use of propaganda in American citizens, and then closes the session when it is questioned how it is used the propaganda against the third world. pic.twitter.com/ClAT5POv7G
- William Craddick (@williamcraddick) May 11, 2018
Source: ZeroHedge.com
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