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@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 #FacebookIsEvil <thread>:
1/ @oneunderscore__ refers to this⤵️: “We’re a different company than we were in 2016,” 👉Katie Harbath👈, Facebook’s director of global elections, was quoted as saying. “Including when it comes to elections.” (more)
Jan 8, 2020:
nytimes.com/2020/01/08/bus…
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 2/ Before Katie Harbath⤴️ became Facebook's director of global elections she was "a former Republican digital strategist 👉who worked on former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s 2008 presidential campaign👈." (more...)
Dec 21, 2017:
bloomberg.com/news/features/…
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 3/ Facebook "actively works with political parties and leaders including those who use the platform to 👉stifle opposition👈—👉sometimes with the aid of 'troll armies'👈 that spread misinformation and extremist ideologies." (more...)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 4/ Hired by Facebook in 2011, Harbath's employees "have become de facto campaign workers" "[i]n some of the world’s biggest democracies—from India🇮🇳 and Brazil🇧🇷 to Germany🇩🇪 and the U.K.🇬🇧"
"In India, the company helped develop the online presence of PM Narendra Modi...
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 5/ ...who now has more FB followers than any other world leader. In the Philippines🇵🇭, it trained the campaign of Rodrigo Duterte, known for encouraging extrajudicial killings in how to most effectively use the platform. And in Germany🇩🇪 it helped the anti-immigrant... (con't)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 6/ "Its effort effectively helping the Scottish National Party to victory in 2015 is recounted as a 'success story' on Facebook’s corporate website that lists business case studies, even though those who favor staying in the U.K. might see it otherwise. (con't)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 7/ ...In April [2017], Vietnamese🇻🇳 officials bragged that Facebook would build a dedicated channel to prioritize takedown requests for content that offended authorities." (more)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 8/ "[O]nly a small fraction (less than 10%) of Facebook’s 2.45 billion users live in this democracy, and many live in countries that are not democratic at all." (more...)
Nov 1, 2019:
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 9/ #PremeditationAndLiesFromEvilFacebook
Today's NYT article (tweet #1):
"Facebook pitched the idea for the article last year [2019], when the social media network and the online magazine were in talks about the Teen Vogue Summit... (con't)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 10/ ...a 3-day event that took place in Los Angeles in Nov [2019], w/speakers including the YouTube star Liza Koshy and the film director Greta Gerwig. 👉Facebook was a sponsor of the gathering👈. 'We had a paid partnership w/Teen Vogue related to their women’s summit... (con't)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 11/ 'We had a paid partnership w/Teen Vogue related to their women’s summit, which included sponsored content,' Facebook said in a statement." and then FB throws Teen Vogue under the bus🚐. “Our team understood this story was purely editorial, but there was a misunderstanding.”
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 11/ 'We had a paid partnership w/Teen Vogue related to their women’s summit, which included sponsored content,' Facebook said in a statement." and then FB throws Teen Vogue under the bus🚐. “Our team understood this story was purely editorial, but there was a misunderstanding.”
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 12/ Timeline
2009 Usmanov🇷🇺 throws FB 💰lifeline
2010 "Social Network" movie (Oct)
2011 FB hires Giuliani operative Katie Harbath⤴️
Milner 💰to FB/Zuck attends Milner's wedding
2014 Russian🇷🇺 IPs pull billions data points from FB (Oct)
2015 Sandberg husband dies (May)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 13/ 2009
Alisher Usmanov🇷🇺, Facebook "angel" investor: (more...)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 14/ 2011
Yuri Milner🇷🇺 joins the Facebook 💰party.
"The pair became friends and Zuckerberg attended Milner’s wedding in California late in 2011. (con't)
Nov 5, 2017:
theguardian.com/news/2017/nov/…
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 15/ 2011 continued:
...The ceremony was held at a vast mansion atop a hillside near Silicon Valley that 👉Milner had recently bought for $100m👈. Milner and Zuckerberg are advisers to each other’s philanthropic ventures and remain close." (more...)
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 16/ “An engineer at FB notified the company in Oct 2014 that entities w/a Russian🇷🇺 IP address have been using a Pinterest API key to pull over 3 bn data points a day through the 'ordered friends' API."
Nov 27, 2018 UK hearing re: materials seized from FB:
@oneunderscore__ @Agenthades1 17/ May 2015
Sheryl Sandberg's husband dies from "accidental" head trauma while on a family vacation in Mexico🇲🇽.
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