Facebook Has Ex-CIA Agents Censoring You

Facebook Has Ex-CIA Agents Censoring You

Oct. 31, 2022

The Jimmy Dore Show

Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, Fascism

Facebook reportedly has 40,000 individuals on staff involved in so-called "content moderation," and one of the most fertile breeding grounds for these professional censors is the Central Intelligence Agency. According to a recent Alan MacLeod piece in MintPress News, ex-spooks are littered up and down the chain of content moderation command at Facebook, further blurring the line between Facebook as a private company and Facebook as a partner of the government in silencing inconvenient voices that oppose the dominant establishment narrative.

Jimmy and America's comedian Kurt Metzger discuss the dangerous ramifications of having a team of ex-intelligence officers determining what Americans can and can't see on social media.

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

* Many of the people in charge of moderating content at Facebook have been recruited from the government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, FBI and Department of Defense

* So many ex-government workers are now employed by Facebook that's it's difficult to view Meta as a private company instead of a government partner, intent on silencing anyone who speaks out against the official narrative

* In January 1977, Washington Post reporter Carl Bernstein's 25,000-word article was published in Rolling Stone, detailing the close relationship between the CIA and the press

* The program was known as Operation Mockingbird and involved the CIA paying hundreds of journalists to write fake stories and spread propaganda instead of real news

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has stated that Facebook's values are based on the American tradition of free expression. Yet, censorship on social media has gone mainstream as part of the campaign to control what you see online, and therefore what you think and how you perceive reality.

In an official Facebook video, a Meta employee identified as "Aaron" states that he's the manager of "the team that writes the rules for Facebook," deciding "what is acceptable and what is not." These gatekeepers effectively dictate what the platform's 2.9 billion active users see when they're scrolling their feeds.

In all, 40,000 individuals are part of Facebook's content moderation staff, yielding incredible power over public information. Writing for MintPress News, journalist Alan Macleod explains:

"It is here where decisions about what content is allowed, what will be promoted and who or what will be suppressed are made. These decisions affect what news and information billions of people across the world see every day. Therefore, those in charge of the algorithms hold far more power and influence over the public sphere than even editors at the largest news outlets."

But according to Macleod's MintPress investigation, many of the people in charge of moderating content at Facebook have been recruited from the government, including the Central Intelligence Agency, FBI and Department of Defense (DoD), to the extent that, he says, "some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. national security state ends and Facebook begins."

`Aaron Is CIA'

Facebook employee Aaron, featured in their marketing video, formerly worked for the CIA, up until July 2019, though this isn't disclosed by Facebook. According to Macleod:

"In his 15-year career, Aaron Berman rose to become a highly influential part of the CIA. For years, he prepared and edited the president of the United States' daily brief, "wr[iting] and overs[eeing] intelligence analysis to enable the President and senior U.S. officials to make decisions on the most critical national security issues," especially on "the impact of influence operations on social movements, security, and democracy," his LinkedIn profile reads. None of this is mentioned in the Facebook video."

Meta Is Teeming With Ex-Government Agents

* Berman is not the only ex-CIA agent working at Facebook — far from it. So many ex-government workers are now employed by Facebook that's it's difficult to view Meta as a private company instead of a government partner, intent on silencing anyone who speaks out against the official narrative. Macleod's investigation, for instance, uncovered the following ex-CIA agents at Facebook:

* Deborah Berman, a trust and safety project manager for Meta, was an intelligence analyst at the CIA for 10 years
Bryan Weisbard, now a director of trust and safety, security and data privacy for Meta, worked as a CIA intelligence officer from 2006 to 2010 before becoming a diplomat. While at the CIA, his job involved leading "global teams to conduct counter-terrorism and digital cyber investigations" and "Identif[ying] online social media misinformation propaganda and covert influence campaigns"

* Cameron Harris, a trust and safety project manager at Meta, was a CIA analyst until 2019

READ MORE: https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2022/10/31/facebook-has-ex-cia-agents-censoring-you.aspx

https://www.thoughtco.com/totalitarianism-authoritarianism-fascism-4147699

Original: https://youtu.be/2MhDZBoI96A

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