Ex-topmensen van Facebook stellen dat dit medium onder meer een gevaar is voor de samenhang in de maatschappij op elk vlak en dat dit niets te maken heeft met Russische manipulaties…… Oké, niets nieuws onder de zon, maar gezien de volhardendheid van de reguliere westerse (massa-) media en het grootste deel van de westerse politici, in de leugen dat Rusland de VS verkiezingen en verkiezingen elders zou hebben gemanipuleerd, is het belangrijk elk bewijs tegen deze kul te noemen, kul die niet anders gezien kan worden dan als anti-Russische propaganda……..
Eén van de ex-topmensen van Facebook, Chamath Palihapitiya, stelde zelfs dat zijn kinderen niet op Facebook mogen……
De hysterie over Russische bemoeienis kent geen grenzen meer en zelfs de wil tot onafhankelijkheid van het Catalaanse volk en de Brexit worden Rusland in de schoenen geschoven. Rusland zou met name ‘sociale media’ als Facebook en Twitter gebruiken om het volk elders te manipuleren…… Waar Rusland bijvoorbeeld voor de VS verkiezingen ‘het enorme bedrag’ van 100.000 dollar zou hebben geïnvesteerd in reclames op Facebook voor wodka* enz……. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Als je het totale bedrag ziet dat werd gebruikt voor de campagne t.b.v. de VS presidentsverkiezingen, is die 100.000 dollar een schijntje ‘dat nog niet een deuk in een pak boter kan slaan…..’
Dat bedrag voor die ‘Russische advertenties’, advertenties die de mensen bepaald niet opriepen tot revolutie, is het ‘enige bewijs’ dat aan Rusland (en niet aan de Russische regering) is te linken, hoe hard men ook schreeuwt dat er bergen bewijzen liggen, getoond worden ze niet!! ‘Vreemd genoeg’ is wel het tegendeel te bewijzen, dus VS manipulaties van een groot aantal zaken in landen waar de VS niets te zoeken heeft….. Sterker nog: de VS heeft via Wikileaks getoond dat het een enorm aantal ‘instrumenten’ heeft, waarmee men de schuld voor VS manipulaties in de schoenen kan schuiven van een andere regering….**
Hetzelfde wat betreft die ‘Russische advertenties’ geldt overigens voor Groot-Brittannië, waar voor het EU referendum (Brexit) een bedrag van minder dan 1 pond, zou zijn gebruikt voor die advertenties, aldus de fascist Farage. Het echte bedrag zal wel ‘iets hoger’ zijn geweest, maar deze overdrijving is wel degelijk gepast als je ziet hoeveel geld men in de campagne voor/tegen de Brexit heeft gestoken…….
Mensen lees het volgende artikel dat, oh gruwel, van RT komt en dat ik tegenkwam op het blog van Stan van Houcke. RT zou ook bezig zijn met het manipuleren van westerse bevolkingen, ook al kan men daar niet 1 bewijs voor aanvoeren…… Zie wat het echte gevaar van Facebook is en de manipulaties van westerse bedrijven, media en (de meeste westerse) politici, door misbruik te maken van o.a. Facebook:
Ex-Facebook
chiefs deplore its ‘social destruction’ – and it’s got
nothing to do with Russia!
© Jaap Arriens / Reuters
Finian
Cunningham Published time: 13 Dec, 2017 15:55
Former
executives at Facebook are now coming out to condemn how the social
media giant is “destroying society and civil discourse” and
spreading “misinformation.” Moreover, they say, it’s got
nothing to do with Russia.
One
of the former Facebook gurus is Chamath Palihapitiya who told a
business conference in the US that he doesn’t even let his own
children use the social media platform, so harmful is it, in his
view.
Those
admissions should be seen as a welcome rational perspective to
counter the hysterical Western mainstream media discourse propagated
over the past year, which seeks to blame Russia for interfering in
elections and sowing discord in society – largely, it is claimed,
through manipulation of social media like Facebook.
Where is the screaming conspiracy theory about Russia and the EU referendum, now we we know they spent less than £1 on Facebook? telegraph.co.uk/technology/201…
Before
getting to the admissions from the former Facebook executives, let’s
recap on the pandemic delirium of alleged Russian influence.
US
Congressional committees – at huge taxpayer expense – haul social
media executives to face McCarthyite interrogations into “Russian
interference”;
British Prime Minister Theresa May accuses Russia of “sowing
division”
in Western societies; NATO and aligned think tanks, and media accuse
the Kremlin of destabilizing elections with “fake news” sluiced
through social media.
Over
the past year, it has become almost an article of faith among Western
governments, media and think tanks that Russian state agents used
Facebook and other social media to wage cyberwar. “Russia
is at war with us,”
say hawkish senators like John McCain.
The
biggest victory for the Russians, we are told, was the election of
Donald Trump to the White House.
Incredibly,
the Kremlin is accused of manipulating Facebook, Twitter, YouTube,
and so on, by placing adverts and posts to orchestrate public opinion
across entire Western societies. Never mind that the evidence for
this alleged nefarious scheme is tenuous at best, and never mind that
the money spent on ads supposedly placed by Russians is paltry
compared with the total revenues earned by social media companies.
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de-ranking of RT in search results is a form of censorship
The
dearth of rational perspective in this narrative of “Russian
meddling”
is largely driven by Cold War-style stereotypical Russophobia. The
notion that Russian agents or “Kremlin-sponsored
news media”
could sway voters and societies completely misses the forest for the
trees. That is that Facebook and other mainly US-based social media
have already a preponderant influence on billions of people around
the world.
The
impact of such social media on societies and personal relations
is profound and inestimably huge. Yet, there is hardly a
proportionate debate on this insidious influence. The alleged
interference or manipulation by Russiam agents – a charge which the
Russian government has categorically rejected – is transformed into
a frenzied debate, when in reality the actual infringement is
negligible.
Contrast
that with the relative silence over the more plausible deleterious
impact of Facebook and other Western social media.
Chamath
Palihapitiya, a former vice president for user growth at Facebook who
left the company in 2011, told the
business conference that he felt “tremendous
guilt”
over his role in building the social media platform to its global
reach of two billion users.
Scathing
of the negative influence he believes now that Facebook is having on
society, communities, families, and individuals, he said bluntly: “I
don’t use that sh*t.”
Nor,
he says, does he allow his own children to join Facebook.
Why?
Because, according to Palihapitiya, Facebook is “ripping
the social fabric apart and how society works.”
The
former executive told the Stanford Business School event in the US:
“This
is not about Russian ads. This is a global problem. It is eroding the
core foundations of how people behave by and between each other.”
Did
you hear that? “This
is not about Russian ads.”
If
that’s not damning enough, the founding president of Facebook, Sean
Parker, has also recently come out to condemn
the
harmful impact of social media on society and on personal
interactions.
“
God
knows what it is doing to our children’s brains,”
he said.
Parker,
who is no longer with the company, said the social platform was
deliberately designed to exploit people, to turn users into addicts
to consume their time and thoughts. He referred to the “Like”
button as a device to induce “dopamine
hits”
– the natural happy hormone in humans.
This
profit-making abuse is something which he is not proud of now.
Indeed, the former president says he is using his wealth to help
discover cancer treatments.
Parker,
who made over $2 billion from developing Facebook, along with the
current CEO Mark Zuckerberg, said the social media platform was aimed
consciously at “exploiting
human vulnerability through social-validation feedback loops.”
The
pervasive influence of Facebook and other social media raises
troubling questions about the future of society, and social
communications and cohesion.
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us what’s true or democracy will die: German spy chief’s
Sure,
it can be said the growth of global communications has got to be a
good thing in terms of fostering awareness, solidarity, and action
for change on a worldwide basis.
On
the downside though, the reverse is also true. Facebook and the like
can absorb billions of people into an artificial, atomized existence
where individuals end up being disempowered and feeling deeply
dissatisfied with their lives.
Contrary
to what advocates say, the scope for human interaction and social
change can become diminished to the point of atrophy and apathy.
Add
to this the enormous potential of Facebook being used to disseminate
information (propaganda) that promotes the US and other Western
governments’ political agendas.
Facebook,
Twitter and Google are openly engaging in censorship of alternative
media sources which have been fingered as “fake”
or “illegitimate.”
Fingered that is, by Western governments. Russian news media have
borne the brunt of this campaign to discredit and censor.
However,
the influence of US-based social media giants goes way beyond the
control of information that users of these networks are allowed to
access.
The
bigger picture is the harmful impact that these communication media
are having on the very fabric of society, on social relations, and
the way human beings associate and organize. And in particular, the
way humans organize to create political and social change.
Karl
Marx once sardonically deprecated organized religion as the “opium
of the people.”
Today,
the opium can be said to be Facebook and its ilk of paralyzing social
media. Just ask the founders.
Finian
Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international
affairs, with articles published in several languages. Originally
from Belfast, Northern Ireland, he is a Master’s graduate in
Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for the
Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a
career in newspaper journalism. For over 20 years he worked as an
editor and writer in major news media organizations, including The
Mirror, Irish Times and Independent. Now a freelance journalist
based in East Africa, his columns appear on RT, Sputnik, Strategic
Culture Foundation and Press TV.
https://www.rt.com/op-edge/412985-facebook-russia-misinformation-media/
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* Wel verdacht natuurlijk: bezopen mensen gaan niet stemmen!!
** Gisteren werd bekend gemaakt, dat ‘uiterst betrouwbare’ VS geheime diensten, Noord-Korea beschuldigen van WannaCry ‘virus’ lancering, NB gedaan met VS instrumenten zoals die werden weergegeven op de Vault 7 en 8 documenten op Wikileaks…… ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! Dit ging weer geheel viraal en alle reguliere westerse media herhaalden dit als een kip zonder kop……. Zie wat dit betreft ook: ‘‘False flag terror’ bestaat wel degelijk: bekentenissen en feiten over heel smerige zaken……….‘ (ook de bewering dat Noord-Korea het WannaCry virus heeft verspreid, is naar grote waarschijnlijkheid een ‘false flag’ operatie van de CIA en/of de NSA, om zo Noord-Korea nog meer rijp te maken voor een illegale inval door de VS……)
en: ‘Publicly Available Evidence Doesn’t Support Russian Gov Hacking of 2016 Election‘
en: ‘Democraten VS kochten informatie over Trump >> Forgetting the ‘Dirty Dossier’ on Trump‘
en: ‘Russia Is Trolling the Shit out of Hillary Clinton and the Mainstream Media‘
en: ‘‘Russiagate’ een verhaal van a t/m z westers ‘fake news…..’‘
en: ‘FBI, de spin in het Russiagate web……..‘
en: ‘Rusland zou onafhankelijkheid Californië willen uitlokken met reclame voor borsjt…….‘
en: ‘CIA deed zich voor als het Russische Kaspersky Lab, aldus Wikileaks Vault 8…..‘ (zie ook de andere links onder dat bericht)
en: ‘CIA en 70 jaar desinformatie in Europese opiniebladen…………‘