#facebook complicit

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The NAACP announced it's boycotting Facebook and Instagram over Russia campaign targeting black voters

“NAACP has returned a monetary donation we recently received from Facebook, and we are calling on supporters to log out of Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday, December 18."

New Knowledge, a cybersecurity firm found Russian accounts heavily targeted African Americans during the 2016 election in a bid to suppress votes for Hillary Clinton.

Facebook was COMPLICIT  #DataBreach #CambridgeAnalytica  #RussiaGate

#LogOutFacebook  #LogOutInstagram  #LogOutWhatsApp for one week... better yet...for ever

A report commissioned by the Senate Intelligence Committee obtained by The New York Times on Monday read that a group known as the Internet Research Agency (IRA) sought to exploit racial divides during the 2016 election and make an impact on Facebook and Instagram.

The report stated that at least 30 pages created by the IRA targeting black voters gained 1.2 million followers, The New York Times reported. It also targeted Bernie Sanders supporters and those who were likely to vote for then–Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. “The most prolific IRA efforts on Facebook and Instagram specifically targeted black American communities and appear to have been focused on developing black audiences and recruiting black Americans as assets," the report obtained by the Times stated.

“Facebook’s engagement with partisan firms, its targeting of political opponents, the spread of misinformation and the utilization of Facebook for propaganda promoting disingenuous portrayals of the African-American community is reprehensible,” said Derrick Johnson, NAACP president and CEO, in a statement.

“NAACP has returned a monetary donation we recently received from Facebook, and we are calling on supporters to log out of Facebook and Instagram on Tuesday, December 18. We implore you, our partners, friends, and supporters to join us. #LogOutFacebook”, NAACP @NAACP - Dec 17, 2018

“The #LogOutFacebook is a protest—a way to signify to Facebook that the data and privacy of its users of color matter more than its corporate interests, and that as the largest social network in the world, it is Facebook’s corporate social responsibility to ensure that people of color are well represented in their workforce and recognize that users of color have a right to be protected propaganda and misinformation,” read the statement from the NAACP.

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Facebook’s outgoing policy chief takes the fall for smearing George Soros

The social network dumped the news at 5pm the day before Thanksgiving.

The truth is that Elliot Schrage could NOT have hired or directed Republican dirty tricksters Definers Public Affairs without the direct approval of his Commander in Chief Mark Zuckerberg or even Facebook’s #2 Sheryl Sandberg, the Chief Operating Officer.

Schrage is not innocent by any means. He ran Facebook’s Communication’s department more like a political party. Why was Definers Public Affairs chosen?

Is it a coincidence that Definers Public Affairs promoted negative stories about FB competitors - Apple and Google?

Or that they had experience running propaganda campaigns against Soros?

Facebook offered up a departing executive Wednesday to shoulder the blame for hiring a Republican-leaning PR firm to dig up dirt on liberal billionaire donor George Soros.

Elliot Schrage, the company’s Head of Communications and Policy, took the fall in a blog post, admitting he asked Definers Public Affairs to open a file on Soros after the philanthropist called Facebook “a menace to society” in a speech earlier this year.

“We had not heard such criticism from him before and wanted to determine if he had any financial motivation, Schrage wrote. “Definers researched this using public information.”

Schrage also admitted Definers urged journalists to investigate Soros’ links to “Freedom from Facebook,” hoping to debunk activists’ claims that the campaign was a grassroots coalition.

Elliot Schrage has a history. He apologized to Natasha Lamb, an investor after she accused him of making a 'sexist' remark to her BUT only after she wrote about it in the Financial Times.

Elliot Schrage, apologized to Natasha Lamb, a managing partner at Arjuna Capital, after an exchange at the end of Facebook's investor meeting where she raised concerns about Facebook's gender pay gap and other scandals, including fake news and hate speech.

— Business Insider, June 11, 2018

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These are pictures of all the Facebook ads the Russians purchased in order to try and sway the U.S. Election in 2016.

Russian ads ran from 2015 to 2017. Even after Trump was sworn in. #PsyOps

“There’s no question that Russia sought to weaponize social media platforms to drive a wedge between Americans, and in an attempt to sway the 2016 election.” 

“Russia sought to divide us by our race, by our country of origin, by our religion, and by our political party.”

— Rep. Adam Schiff, the ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence committee

Here are a few 

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Cambridge Analytica Stole Data From More Countries

Mark Zuckerberg and Mike Schroepfer stated Cambridge hijacked data on “up to 87 million people”. However, the total number of users provided by Facebook is 77,140,104:

United States: 70,632,350

Philippines: 1,175,870

Indonesia: 1,096,666

UK: 1,079,031

Mexico: 789,880

Canada: 622,161

India: 562,455

Brazil: 443,117

Vietnam: 427,447

Australia: 311,127

What countries do the remaining 9,859,896 people live?

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Tone-Deaf: How Facebook Misread America’s Mood on Russia

The social-media giant played down allegations Russia exploited its platform during the 2016 elections, deepening perceptions that its leaders are oblivious to public concern about its social impact. The reaction has exacerbated a brewing backlash against many of Silicon Valley’s largest companies.

Facebook’s Security Team told Execs about Russian election tampering in Dec. 2016.

Facebook and Zuck are COMPLICIT #ElectTrump

‘Personally I think the idea that fake news on Facebook...influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea.’

—CEO Mark Zuckerberg, November 2016

Facebook is a failed country!

‘In the last year, the complexity of the issues we’ve seen has outstripped our existing processes for governing the [Facebook] community.’

—Mr. Zuckerberg, February 2017

“Indeed, while the security team worked to uncover Russian accounts through 2017, Facebook assigned a small team to boost user growth in Russia and other markets, says a person familiar with the team.”

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Trump Russia Facebook Inc operating since 2016

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Cambridge Analytica's Facebook data was accessed from Russia, MP says

The now infamous Facebook data set on tens of millions of Americans gathered by a Cambridge University scientist for a firm that went on to worked for Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was accessed from Russia, a British member of parliament tells CNN.

Declaring Russian Witch Hunt Bingo 

when Mueller links the Russian IP addresses back to the 12 Russian Intelligence Officers he and the DOJ indicted.

How did Russia know who to target with their online ads? Putin and Trump campaign closed the loop. Cambridge Analytica shared their data on 87 million Facebook users and 220 Million Americans with Russia.

Putin admitted he wanted Trump to win and ordered the Russia government to do just that at the Helsinki Summit

Jared Kushner hired Cambridge Analytica which was run by Steve Bannon and owned by Robert and Rebekah Mercer. 

The Mercers funded Trump’s campaign and alt-right. And installed their people into Trump’s White House including Kellyanne Conway and Bannon.

Damian Collins, the Conservative MP leading a British parliamentary investigation into online disinformation, told CNN that a British investigation found evidence that the data, collected by Professor Aleksandr Kogan on behalf of Cambridge Analytica, had been accessed from Russia and other countries. The discovery was made by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), Britain's data protection authority, Collins said.

"I think what we want to know now is who were those people and what access did they have, and were they actually able to take some of that data themselves and use it for whatever things they wanted," Collins said.

“Jared Kushner and a digital team then oversaw the building of Trump’s database on the shopping, credit, driving and thinking habits of 220 million people.”, Newsweek

"We have profiled the personality of every adult in the United States of America—220 million people",Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix

Cambridge was Trump’s mind readers #PsyOps #ItsMuellerTime