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"The #Military Origins of #Facebook war on humanity
Facebookâs growing role in the ever-expanding #surveillance and âpre-crimeâ apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the companyâs origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently the worldâs largest social network.
A few months into Facebookâs launch, in June #2004, Facebook co-founders Mark #Zuckerberg and Dustin #Moskovitz brought Sean #Parker onto Facebookâs executive team.
Parker, previously known for co-founding Napster, later connected Facebook with its first outside investor, Peter #Thiel.
As discussed, Thiel, at that time, in coordination with the CIA, was actively trying to resurrect at least one controversial DARPA program that had been dismantled the previous year. Notably, Sean Parker, who became Facebookâs first president, also had a history with the CIA, which sought to recruit him at the age of sixteen soon after he had been busted by the FBI for hacking corporate and military databases. Thanks to Parker, in September 2004, Thiel formally acquired $500,000 worth of Facebook shares and was added its board. Parker maintained close ties to Facebook as well as to Thiel, with Parker being hired as a managing partner of Thielâs Founders Fund in 2006. Thiel left the Facebook board, which he had joined in 2005, in 2022 to focus on supporting âTrump-aligned candidates,â including J.D. Vance.
Thiel and Facebook co-founder Mosokvitz became involved outside of the social network long after Facebookâs rise to prominence, with Thielâs Founder Fund becoming a significant investor in Moskovitzâs company Asana in 2012. Thielâs longstanding symbiotic relationship with Facebook co-founders extends to his company Palantir, as the data that Facebook users make public invariably winds up in Palantirâs databases and helps drive the surveillance engine Palantir runs for US police departments, the military, and the intelligence community. Facebook data also feeds another Thiel-backed company, Clearview AI.
Notably, even LifeLogâs architect, Douglas Gage, has publicly commented on Facebookâs similarities to the program he had once hoped to lead. In 2015, He told VICE that âFacebook is the real face of pseudo-LifeLog at this point.â He tellingly added, âWe have ended up providing the same kind of detailed personal information to advertisers and data brokers and without arousing the kind of opposition that LifeLog provoked,â precisely because it is now a private company and not a project housed at the Pentagonâs DARPA."
Author: #WhitneyWebb
Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She is contributing editor of Unlimited Hangout and author of the book One Nation Under Blackmail.
shame on them an their evil ways !
