{"id":38239,"date":"2018-09-25T05:57:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38239"},"modified":"2018-09-25T05:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T10:57:04","slug":"3-ways-facebook-is-increasingly-becoming-an-arm-of-the-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=38239","title":{"rendered":"3 Ways Facebook Is Increasingly Becoming An Arm Of The US Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-09-24\/5-orwellian-facebook-initiatives-you-should-be-worried-about\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">3 Ways Facebook Is Increasingly Becoming An Arm Of The US Government<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1447\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1447\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Facebook has lately announced a series of major steps it would take to combat fake news and the global spread of misinformation that it says could influence elections, but the more we learn about just who it is Facebook is partnering with in this endeavor, the clearer it becomes that these initiatives are not at all designed to foster independent thought and discourse, but to ultimately ensure that public online discourse doesn&#8217;t stray too far from official state narratives.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Weisbrot, a co-director at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkWeisbrot\/status\/1043238450944790529\">recently<\/a><strong>slammed Facebook\u2019s decision to work with US government-funded organizations\u00a0as &#8220;Orwellian&#8221;\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>especially given the fact these organizations themselves &#8220;specialize in overseas propaganda.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus while claiming to fight Russian, Iranian, and other propaganda these very groups will strictly enforce an official establishment Washington and NATO view of world events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/NED%20entry.jpg?itok=tjLvOIzn\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/NED%20entry.jpg?itok=tjLvOIzn\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/NED%20entry.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/NED%20entry.jpg?itok=tjLvOIzn 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"47e0b00d-0530-45e3-8fec-d5405856f2df\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are 3 extremely worrisome Facebook initiatives to which the public should\u00a0pay close\u00a0attention, and which suggest the social media giant\u00a0<strong><em>is increasingly becoming a censorship arm of the US government and its allies&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><strong>Facebook&#8217;s Partnership with US state-funded\u00a0think tanks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last Wednesday Facebook announced it would work with two\u00a0US government-funded think tanks in order bolster the social media giant\u2019s \u201celection integrity efforts\u201d around the globe.<\/p>\n<p>The new partnership with the International Republican Institute (IRI) and the National Democratic Institute (NDI) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-elections\/facebook-expands-fake-election-news-fight-but-falsehoods-still-rampant-idUSKCN1LZ2XY\">has been described by\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-facebook-elections\/facebook-expands-fake-election-news-fight-but-falsehoods-still-rampant-idUSKCN1LZ2XY\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>as an initiative to &#8220;slow the global spread of misinformation that could influence elections, acknowledging that fake news sites were still read by millions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>both the IRI and NDI are funded by\u00a0the National Endowment for Democracy (NED)<\/strong>, which has since its late Cold War era founding defined itself as a &#8220;soft power&#8221; wing of the US government abroad focused on &#8220;democracy promotion&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3 Ways Facebook Is Increasingly Becoming An Arm Of The US Government Facebook has lately announced a series of major steps it would take to combat fake news and the global spread of misinformation that it says could influence elections, but the more we learn about just who it is Facebook is partnering with in [&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":[6],"tags":[1493,13637,553,655,843,865,4318],"class_list":["post-38239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-facebook","tag-mark-weisbrot","tag-nato","tag-propaganda","tag-us-government","tag-washington","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239","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=38239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38240,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38239\/revisions\/38240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}