It’s official: Mark Zuckerberg is a complete whore for the Deep State. There’s probably no age restriction, but he seems a little young to be selling his soul. From Jake Johnson at theantimedia.org:
The Atlantic Council “will now assist Facebook in suppressing what they decide is disinformation.”
In a new project Facebook insists is a completely objective and nonpartisan effort to root out what it deems “disinformation,” the social media giant announced on Thursday that it is partnering with the Atlantic Council — a prominent Washington-based think-tank funded by Saudi Arabia, major oil companies, defense contractors, and Charles Koch — to prevent its platform from “being abused during elections.”
“This is alarming,” independent journalist Rania Khalek concluded in a tweet on Thursday. “The Atlantic Council — which is funded by gulf monarchies, western governments, NATO, oil and weapons companies, etc. — will now assist Facebook in suppressing what they decide is disinformation.”
According to its statement announcing the initiative, Facebook will “use the Atlantic Council’s Digital Research Unit Monitoring Missions during elections and other highly sensitive moments.”
The statement continued:
“This will allow us to focus on a particular geographic area — monitoring for misinformation and foreign interference and also working to help educate citizens as well as civil society…
“This effort is part of an broader initiative to help provide credible and independent research about the role of social media in elections, as well as democracy more generally. We look forward to working together to protect free and fair elections across the world.”
While Facebook’s statement fawned over the Atlantic Council’s “stellar reputation,” critics argued that the organization’s reliance on donations from foreign oil monarchies and American plutocrats puts the lie to the project’s stated mission of shielding the democratic process from manipulation and abuse.
“Monopoly social media corporations teaming up with [the] pro-U.S. NatSec blob to determine truth was always the logical end of ‘fake news’ panic,” Adam Johnson, a contributor at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), argued on Twitter in response to Facebook’s announcement.
To continue reading: Facebook Partners with Saudi-Funded Think Tank to Censor Posts That Threaten “Democracy”
