“Technology platforms are so much more powerful than any..mainstream press—there has to be..a global reckoning with disinformation, monopolistic power and control, and lack of accountability that platforms enjoy.”-@HillaryClinton @guardian theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m…
“In particular Facebook, which has the worst track record for enabling mistruths, misinformation, extremism, conspiracy..even genocide in Myanmar. So governments are going to have to decide right now that the platforms have to be held to some kind of standard.”-@HillaryClinton
“We never had a president* who essentially aligned himself with authoritarian thinking..that certain media really became mouthpieces for Trump’s view of reality..did do damage inside our own country, because it fed paranoia, conspiracy theories..”-@HillaryClinton@guardian
“Mainstream press had a very hard time coming to grips with the danger posed by Trump and his enablers..they were too slow in understanding that this..was a wholesale jettisoning of what we had come to understand as being appropriate boundaries for leaders to operate within.”-HRC
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A BETTER HEADLINE: Facebook’s ban of Donald Trump was upheld by a company-appointed panel, indicating a growing awareness that offering a platform for traitors who weaponize propaganda could be a liability.
Corporate ownership is underrated as a national security concern. Media corporate ownership is a massive national security concern. So when a story breaks about AOL/Yahoo’s new ownership, its Epstein-Russian ties should be reported, not ignored.
“Elvir Nabiullin, Assistant to the President and member of the RDIF’s Supervisory Board, and Leon Black, Chairman and CEO of Apollo Global Management.” rdif.ru/Eng_m/photogal…
Retired IRS criminal investigator Martin Sheil asks:
“Where is the punishment for Stone? Why is he not being criminally prosecuted? The government’s craven approach to enforcing law when it comes to Stone appears to be continuing.”-@just_security justsecurity.org/75954/is-roger…
More from Martin Sheil:
“This is a big deal to get a search warrant approved on an attorney, particularly the personal attorney to the ex-President,” said Martin Sheil, a retired Supervisory Special Agent for the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Division.”-@BylineTimes
“He got enormous publicity from prosecuting the Italian American mafia,” @craigunger, author of American Kompromat told @BylineTimes. “He would have white-collar criminals, who would be forced to do the perp walk in front of TV cameras.”
2/ Now, Giuliani may be the next high profile member of Donald Trump’s inner circle—and the second personal lawyer—to take the walk of shame.
3/ On Wednesday morning at 6 am, federal investigators raided the former New York Mayor’s home and office as part of a criminal investigation into potential violations of foreign lobbying rules.