SPECIAL REPORT: How media giants that control our acess to information have turned themselves into portals to the world under the guise of impartiality. By @LavenderNRed mintpressnews.com/social-media-c…
Facebook isn’t the only Silicon Valley firm with partisan oversight of what we see: the bipartisan billionaire class and their security state have partnered with tech firms to control the parameters of users’ thinking. politico.com/news/2019/10/1…
However, behind a facade of separateness, strong connecting links bind the tech giants to the oligarchy and security state on which they rely, giving the interests of the elite determinative influence over which information we access. theintercept.com/2019/10/25/mar…
The revolving door between these tech companies and intelligence agencies, think tanks, defense contractors and security companies is constantly revolving, especially at the higher echelons of important departments, like cybersecurity. innovation.defense.gov/Media/Biograph… 
Notably, many of these companies cater along partisan lines depending on the political proclivities of their owners, in a bid to tip the scales toward their point of view.
Facebook and Google, in particular, have also become two of the largest funders of journalism around the world, helping to further entrench State Department-approved models of truth in key hotspots of geopolitical interest. cjr.org/special_report…
