Tue 25 Sep, 2018 11:28 pm
Quote:‘Orwellian’ move: Facebook teams up with US government to police ‘fake news’ in foreign elections
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Facebook has teamed up with two US government-funded think tanks as part of a new initiative to bolster the social media giant’s “election integrity efforts” around the globe.
The new partnership with the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) was revealed by Facebook in a call with reporters last week and reported by Reuters — but the company’s choice of partners has since raised a few eyebrows. Both think-tanks are funded by the US government, through the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Tweeting about the initiative, Mark Weisbrot, a co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, called Facebook’s decision to work with the US government-funded organizations “Orwellian” and said that they “specialize in overseas propaganda.” Weisbrot also criticized Reuters reporting of the news which focused on Facebook’s supposed fake-news busting efforts and seemed lacking in “any awareness” of who the two groups were.
And the world keeps sleepingg as if nothing is going on! ZzZzZz......
don't forget that the internet, and Google, and Facebook, and youtube , and twitter and... where created by DARPA, the technological division of the Pentagon!
Why? for 24/7 surveillance!! a Hitler's wet dream!
and we are buying it....!!!!! even worse, we get addicted to all this shite!!!
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