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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
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Apr 16 • 10 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
I just published about Meta and Lavender - specifically how Whatsapp is used to enable bombing of WhatsApp users
blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-laven…
Lavender uses WhatsApp messages as input to their AI - where do they get this from? Surely Meta should not be giving group membership to a military that is bombing their users and their entire families, without oversight?
Several of Meta's senior leaders have been significant supporters of Israel, including Zuckerberg donating to Zaka, and Sheryl Sandberg doing a propaganda tour
It is also not widely known that Lavender was produced by Unit 8200 (the Israeli NSA), and that Meta's CISO -- the most senior person responsible for policy and suppression of Palestinian content -- was in Unit 8200
Meanwhile, Meta has been systematically pro-Israel, suppressing Palestinian content, and has soft launched an anti-"anti-Zionist" policy that shocked @jvplive.
At the same time, they've neglected to release a transparency report for the time covered by Lavender's use
Overall, the lesson is that people should not trust WhatsApp at all, and should migrate to other messaging apps like @signalapp
A lot of difficult questions for Meta before that trust can be rebuilt, and I don't honestly believe that Meta can or will answer them Image
Read my full post for more detail
blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-laven…

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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
Apr 5
Lavender should be viewed as a systematization of genocide. It creates the system by which mass murder is enabled and accomplished, and is the Auschwitz of this war.
Nazi's could just have killed their victims where they stood, but the system -- the trains, the camps, the gas chambers -- was necessary to keep their population complacent to the genocide
Israel needs a similar "machinery" to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the genocide its committing, in particular to keep the US and western allies on the team. It has created many.
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
Feb 29
To put the intercept article in broader context:
- Israel pushed lies about sexual violence
- NYT editors demanded an article to supprt it
- NYT got a first time "reporter" to "investigate"
- they found nothing. zero. nada
- they published it anyway
- Israel murders 30,000 people
theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new…
And not only that, but the reporter readily said that the whole thing was to support "Israeli hasbara" (propaganda). She said it out loud. Image
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
Dec 14, 2023
I wrote about the genocide in Palestine, and how tech has been silent and complicit.

blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/
In it, I call out my investors who are whitewashing the genocide and promoting Israeli talking points while Israel bombs and murders innocent civilians.
Please read and share - I don't want to have torched my career for nothing

blog.paulbiggar.com/i-cant-sleep/
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
Jun 5, 2021
I want to draw attention to another founder, @ekadamer, who was also kicked out of @ycombinator, but this time for calling out YC's misogyny. Thread ⬇️
Here's the post where Katia called it out linkedin.com/posts/katia-da…
The really salient part of it is this, which AFAICT has not been picked up anywhere but is huge
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
Jun 4, 2021
lol just got kicked out of @ycombinator
for this tweet

last person I remember them kicking out was the guy who made gab 😂
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Paul Biggar 🇵🇸🇮🇪 Profile picture
Jun 4, 2018
Some thoughts on the GitHub/MS acquisition, as founder of @circleci, one of the GitHub’s biggest partners.

(PS am no longer at @circleci, and speaking in personal capacity)
GitHub was and is the dominant everything in devtools. Hard to fathom how much devs use github, probably more than all other devtool products combined, really more than anything except their editor/IDE/terminal
Microsoft just bought the center of an ecosystem growing at incredible pace (number of devs doubles every 5 years)
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