Thread by @blmohr

"Coincidental" connections between Zuckerberg, Thiel, Trump, Russia and Goldman Sachs.
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In 2008, Facebook sues Germany's StudiVZ due to its "...blatant, unabashed and wholesale theft of Facebook’s user interface and Web page...

designs.”
tcrn.ch/2gV6jn2

But gives a free pass to VK.com, the Russian Facebook clone owned by Russian Internet giant, Digital Sky Technologies (DST)

bit.ly/2xUlSlA

May 2009, DST invests $200 million in Facebook.

June 2009, DST buys back up to $100 million of Facebook employee shares.

DST is co-owned by Alisher Usmanov, a Russian billionaire with a net worth of roughly $7.2 billion.

Usmanov has longstanding relations with members of Russia's intelligence community.
bit.ly/2eWHY3p

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev also plays a role in this. He's accused by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny of receiving...

bribes from Usmanov. In an investigation published by Navalny, he claims Usmanov allegedly "donated a property in the wealthy Rublyovka...

village outside Moscow worth $85M to a nonprofit fund for state social projects reportedly led by 2 former univ. classmates of Medvedev."

Navalny accuses "Medvedev of using an array of charity and nonprofit organizations to collect donations from oligarchs and state banks...

and then redirecting the funds to purchase pricey assets."
bit.ly/2wTeA2q

Goldman and DST are also fairly tight.

Jan. 2011, Goldman invests $450 million and DST invests $50 million, putting Facebook’s valuation at $50 billion.

Goldman sold $1.09 billion of stock it owned for itself and on behalf of its clients in the 2012 Facebook IPO.
bit.ly/2eOG0OQ

Zuckerberg visited Medvedev in Russia in 2012.
read.bi/2eWzLfh

Oct. 2016, Thiel, a Facebook board member, announces a $1.25 million donation to Trump's presidential campaign.
nyti.ms/2xY3YPJ

Zuckerberg defends Thiel's donation and support for Trump.

Diabolically speaking, Thiel is off-the-chain.

Consider Palantir and the data mining software it sells to law enforcement and military clients.
bit.ly/2vlDk2n

Thiel and Zuckerberg go way back. Thiel invested $500K in Facebook in 2004. When Facebook went public, Thiel made $1B off his investment.

cnb.cx/2gTSp8d

Zuckerberg announces in Jan. 2017 he'll be going on a 50-state listening tour. Many interpret the move as his leap into the 2020 pres. race.

Zuckerberg also creates a new class of non-shares that will allow him to invest & donate his holdings in Facebook without losing control...

of his company. The filing states he would retain control of the company even if he were “serving in a government position or office."

bit.ly/1T3cCzt

All the while, his group FWD.us donates $5,000 to Trump's transition team.
politi.co/2vXw4NJ

And he admits he's talked to Trump multiple times since the election.

Fast fwd 4 months, and Facebook is forced to admit it’s accepted at least $100,000 in political ads from fake Russian Facebook accounts.

nyti.ms/2vO4YbU

bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

washingtonpost.com/politics/faceb…

vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/d…

Update: Enter Twitter. Twitter founder Ev Williams admits Twitter spreads political misinformation.
money.cnn.com/video/technolo…

And there’s this.
cnn.com/videos/politic…

Zuckerberg: the idea that fake news on Facebook influenced the election is ‘crazy.’
theverge.com/2016/11/10/135…