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Pierre Omidyar’s Financing of the Facebook “Whistleblower” Campaign Reveals a Great Deal<\/a><\/h3>\n

The internet is the last remaining instrument for dissent and free discourse to thrive outside state and oligarchical control. This campaign aims to put an end to that.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pierre Omidyar, Founder of eBay, and Publisher of the Intercept looks on during the final session of the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, on Thursday, September 23, 2010. (Photo by Ramin Talaie\/Corbis via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

It is completely unsurprising<\/strong>\u00a0to learn, as\u00a0Politico<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0last Wednesday, that\u00a0the major financial supporter<\/a>\u00a0of Facebook “whistleblower\u201d Frances Haugen’s sprawling P.R. and legal network coordinating her public campaign is the billionaire founder of EBay, Pierre Omidyar. The Haugen Show continues today as a consortium of carefully cultivated news outlets (including those who have been\u00a0most devoted to agitating for online censorship<\/a>: the\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u2019 “tech\u201d unit and NBC News’s \u201cdisinformation\u201d team) began publishing the\u00a0trove of archives<\/a>\u00a0she took from Facebook under the self-important title “The Facebook Papers,\u201d while the star herself has traveled to London to\u00a0testify today to British lawmakers<\/a>\u00a0considering\u00a0a bill to\u00a0<\/a>criminally punish<\/a><\/em>\u00a0tech companies that allow \u201cfoul content\u201d or \u201cextremism\u201d \u2014 whatever that means \u2014 to be published.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Haugen\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0The New York Times<\/em> that her own personal Bitcoin wealth means she is relying on \u201chelp from nonprofit groups backed by Mr. Omidyar only for travel and similar expenses.\u201d But the paper also confirmed that the firm masterminding Haugen’s public campaign roll-out and complex media strategy, a group “founded by the former Barack Obama aide Bill Burton,\u201d is \u201cbeing paid by donors, including the nonprofit groups backed by Mr. Omidyar.”…<\/p>\n

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Pierre Omidyar’s Financing of the Facebook “Whistleblower” Campaign Reveals a Great Deal The internet is the last remaining instrument for dissent and free discourse to thrive outside state and oligarchical control. This campaign aims to put an end to that. Pierre Omidyar, Founder of eBay, and Publisher of the Intercept looks on during the final […]<\/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":[3484,1493,5437,1339,14545,32035,876],"class_list":["post-60137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-dissent","tag-facebook","tag-glenn-greenwald","tag-internet","tag-narrative-control","tag-pierre-omidyar","tag-whistleblower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137","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=60137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60138,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions\/60138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}