Nadat schreeuwlelijk Alex Jones op ‘internetplatforms’ en zoekmachines, resp. Facebook, Spotify, Apple en Google werd geblokkeerd, overkwam (bijna) hetzelfde de directeur van het Ron Paul Institute, Daniel McAdams, Scott Horton van de Scott Horton Show en Peter van Buren, klokkenluider en ex-werknemer bij het ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken, nu ‘directeur’ van ANTIWAR, echter zij werden op Twitter geblokkeerd……. Nu blijkt dat er een innige samenwerking is tussen de hiervoor genoemde internetbedrijven als Facebook en Google met The Atlantic Council, een rechtse oorlogshitsersclub….. The Atlantic Council adviseert Facebook direct welke accounts te verwijderen vanwege buitenlandse bemoeienis (hieronder een meer uitgebreide formulering)…..

Afgelopen mei werd e.e.a al bekend gemaakt, intussen zijn er meer bijzonderheden openbaar gemaakt over deze samenwerking en beste bezoeker dat is niet mis….. Zo zou de samenwerking leiden tot meer objectiviteit en neutralitijd wat betreft het opsporen en uitschaklen van ‘fake accounts’, die het gevaar in zich herbergen dat ze door buitenlandse mogendheden zouden kunnen worden gebruikt…. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Ofwel een uiterst rechtse denktank van oorlogshitsers en lobbyisten van het militair-industrieel complex, beoordeelt ‘objectief en neutraal’ over accounts en sites, die haar eigen agenda dwars zouden kunnen zitten……

Nu blijkt bovendien dat Facebook van de zwaar over een hondendrol getilde zakkenwasser Zuckerberg, één van de grootste donors is van The Atlantic Council…….. Voorts wordt deze denktank gefinancierd door de NAVO, het Pentagon (wat mij betreft is deze denktank zelfs een instrument van het Pentagon en daarmee van de NAVO), westerse regeringen (de EU in haar geheel >> NEXIT zo snel mogelijk!) en de dictatoriale Golfstaten, dit nog naast bedrijven uit het militair-industrieel complex, plus het fake news ‘journalisten’ clubje Bellingcat……..

Lees het volgende artikel van Tyler Durden, eerder gepubliceerd op Zero Hedge en zie hoe het internet langzaam maar zeker zal worden gezuiverd van websites die kritiek hebben op de huidige inhumane neoliberale status quo die zo wordt gesteund door de reguliere (massa-) media die zogenaamd onafhankelijk hun nieuws zouden brengen:

Facebook and NATO Unite to Censor News They Dislike

August 13, 2018 at 9:14 pm

Written by Tyler Durden

(ZHE) — This is not at all comforting: during a week that witnessed Alex Jones’ social media accounts taken down by Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google, and what appears to be a growing crackdown against alternative media figures including several prominent Libertarians, notably the Ron Paul Institute director, and the Scott Horton Show, who found their Twitter accounts suspended — we learn that the Atlantic Council is directly advising Facebook on identifying and removing “foreign interference” on the popular platform.

While the initiative was initially revealed last May through an official Facebook media release, more details of the controversial think tank’s role have been revealed.

Supposedly the whole partnership is aimed at bringing more objectivity and neutrality to the process of rooting out fake accounts that pose the threat of being operated by nefarious foreign states.

(Clinton en Kissinger: twee grote oorlogsmisdadigers, die het goed kunnen vinden met elkaar)

And yet as a new Reuters report confirms, Facebook is now itself a top donor to the Atlantic Council, alongside Western governments, Gulf autocratic regimes, NATO, various branches of the US military, and a number of major defense contractors and corporations.

What’s more is that the team of four total individuals running the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab) is headed by a former National Security Council advisor for the last four years of the Obama administration, Graham Brookie, who is also its founder.

Apparently the group’s work has already been instrumental in Facebook taking action against over two dozen “suspicious pages” flagged potential foreign actors such as Russia. According to Reuters:

Facebook is using the group to enhance its investigations of foreign interference. Last week, the company said it took down 32 suspicious pages and accounts that purported to be run by leftists and minority activists. While some U.S. officials said they were likely the work of Russian agents, Facebook said it did not know for sure.

This is indeed the shocking key phrase included in the report:“Facebook said it did not know for sure.” And yet the accounts were removed anyway.

The Facebook-Atlantic Council alliance reportedly springs from the social media giant’s finding itself desperate for outside “neutral” help after a swell of public criticism, mostly issuing from congressional leaders and prominent media pundits, for supposedly allowing Russian propaganda accounts to operate ahead of the 2016 elections.

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The suspiciously simultaneous censorship of Infowars by Google, Apple, Facebook came just one week after U.S. Senate intelligence committee hawk Mark Warner (D) circulated this policy paper threatening new regulation against those same media companies: https://graphics.axios.com/pdf/PlatformPolicyPaper.pdf …

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And in perhaps the most chilling line of the entire report, Reuters says, “But the lab and Atlantic Council bring geopolitical expertise and allow Facebook to distance itself from sensitive pronouncements.” This is ostensibly to defuse any potential conflict of interest arising as Facebook seems a bigger presence in emerging foreign markets.

Facebook’s chief security officer Alex Stamos recently told reporters, “Companies like ours don’t have the necessary information to evaluate the relationship between political motivations that we infer about an adversary and the political goals of a nation-state.” He explained further that Facebook would collect suspicious digital evidence and submit it to “researchers and authorities”.

Since at least May when the relationship was first announced, the DFR Lab has been key to this process of verifying what constitutes foreign interference or nefarious state propaganda.

But here’s the kicker. Reuters writes of the DFR Lab’s funding in the following:

Facebook donated an undisclosed amount to the lab in May that was enough, said Graham Brookie, who runs the lab, to vault the company to the top of the Atlantic Council’s donor list, alongside the British government.

Facebook employees said privately over the past several months that Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg wants to outsource many of the most sensitive political decisions, leaving fact-checking to media groups and geopolitics to think tanks.

Facebook has defended the process as part of ensuring that it remains politically neutral, yet clearly the Atlantic Council itself is hardly neutral, as a quick perusal of its top donors indicates.

Among the DFR Labs partners include UK-based Bellingcat, which has in the past claimed “proof” that Assad gassed civilians based on analyzing YouTube videos and Google Earth. And top donors include various branches of the US military, Gulf states like the UAE, and notably, NATO.

The Atlantic Council has frequently called for things like increased military engagement in Syria, militarily confronting the “Russian threat” in Eastern Europe, and now is advocating for Ukraine and Georgia to be allowed entry into NATO while calling for general territorial expansion of the Western military alliance.

Further it has advocated on behalf of one of its previous funders, Turkish dictator Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and gave a “Distinguished International Leadership” award to George W. Bush, to name but a few actions of the think tank that has been given authorization to flag citizens’ Facebook pages for possible foreign influence and propaganda.

Quite disturbingly, this is the outside “geopolitical expertise” that Mark Zuckerberg’s been seeking.