{"id":34398,"date":"2018-05-21T07:38:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34398"},"modified":"2018-05-21T07:38:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T12:38:24","slug":"facebook-atlantic-council-unite-now-social-media-giant-serves-natos-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=34398","title":{"rendered":"Facebook &#038; Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO\u2019s agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article__heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/427207-facebook-atlantic-council-nato\/\">Facebook &amp; Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO\u2019s agenda<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article__cover\">\n<div class=\"media \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media__item \" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2018.05\/article\/5b003dbafc7e93080e8b45e6.jpg\" alt=\"Facebook &amp; Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO\u2019s agenda\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"media__footer media__footer_bottom \">\n<div class=\"media__title media__title_arcticle\">\u00a9\u00a0NurPhoto \/ Getty Images<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It&#8217;s akin to hiring arsonists to run the fire brigade.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>If Facebook truly wanted to <em>\u201cprotect democracy and elections worldwide,\u201d<\/em> it would build a broad coalition of experts and activists from a wide and disparate range of the countries it serves. Instead, the American social media giant has outsourced the task to NATO\u2019s propaganda wing.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, the Atlantic Council serves as the American-led alliance\u2019s chief advocacy group. And its methods are rather simple: it grants stipends and faux academic titles to various activists that align with NATO\u2019s agenda. Thus, lobbyists become <em>\u201cfellows\u201d<\/em> and <em>\u201cexperts,\u201d<\/em>while the enterprise constructs a neutral sheen, which is rarely (if ever) challenged by Western media outlets \u2013 often reliant on its employees for easy comment and free op-eds.<\/p>\n<p>While that has always been ethically questionable, Facebook\u2019s latest move, given its effective monopoly position, is far more sinister. Because it is now tied to a <em>\u201cthink tank\u201d<\/em> which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/354751-us-atlantic-council-moscow-rt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">proposed<\/a> terrorist attacks in Russia and has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanticcouncil.org\/blogs\/ukrainealert\/the-us-should-require-russia-s-rt-to-register-as-foreign-agent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demanded<\/a> Russian-funded news outlets be forced to register as <em>\u201cforeign agents\u201d<\/em> in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Make no mistake: this is a dream scenario for NATO and those who depend on it for their livelihoods and status. Because the Atlantic Council is now perfectly positioned to be the tail wagging the Facebook dog in the information space.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fresh hell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the social network announced how it was <em>\u201cexcited to launch a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, which has a stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook &amp; Atlantic Council unite: Now social media giant serves NATO\u2019s agenda \u00a9\u00a0NurPhoto \/ Getty Images Facebook has engaged a think tank funded by weapons manufacturers, branches of the US military and Middle-Eastern monarchies to safeguard the democratic process. It&#8217;s akin to hiring arsonists to run the fire brigade. If Facebook truly wanted to \u201cprotect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[18453,18867,1493,553,8114,1169],"class_list":["post-34398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-atlantic-council","tag-bryan-macdonald","tag-facebook","tag-nato","tag-rt-news","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34399,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34398\/revisions\/34399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}