8chan/8kun QResearch Posts (97)
#20695140 at 2024-04-08 04:14:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25383: TheY Have Been Eclipsed Edition
International Q Research Threads
>>20545607 ------ Australia #35
>>20658862 ------ Canada #56
>>20584322 ------ China #1
>>16694358 ------ France #7
>>19988670 ------ Germany #106
>>20187083 ------ Japan #22
>>20584358 ------ Korea #1
>>16694250 ------ Nederland #10
>>17784579 ------ QAJF #1
>>20584333 ------ Russia #1
>>20584424 ------ Saudi Arabia #1
>>20038152 ------ Scotland #9
>>19636057 ------ South Africa #12
>>19804572 ------ UK #51
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>>20186509 How to filter namefags
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>>19089065 Baking Tools & Guidelines
>>20673838 Common sense rules for new bakers NEW
>>17322509, >>17322518 How to bake/e-bake
>>17835052 Formatting Q posts
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Plz sign out clearly when e-baking or ghosting, use RED TEXT
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#25382 >>20694560
>>20694449, >>20694473, >>20694503 Brazil shutting down X
>>20694460 Newly obtained email reveals that the EPA could have invoked section 1881A of the Social Security Act in East Palestine and given residents access to lifelong health care, but failed to do so
>>20694468 Party of abortion and drugs set its sights on Florida
>>20694476, >>20694644 The Saga of USAF Senior Airman Lance Castle, after refusing the CV-19 bio-weapon
>>20694498 New York Yankees postpone game Monday due to solar eclipse
>>20694501 "Trump Will Be The Worlds 7th Richest Person If MAGA Investors Push Newly Listed DJT to $2k Per Share"
>>20694524 missed pb notables for #25379 >>20693141
>>20694570 10 News Stories They Chose Not to Tell You - Episode 17
>>20694576 Louisiana Becomes First U.S. State to Reject WHO-WEF Power Grab
>>20694609 Russia, Iran, China, and North Korea are becoming increasingly aligned, Jens Stoltenberg has said, NATO chief (Dunce) calls on members to stand up to 'authoritarian powers'/sux for NATO
>>20694653, >>20694710 NWO continues trans sports chaos
>>20694689 Scientists from the Guangdong University of Technology have released a new study claiming wearing jeans is "bad for the environment."
>>20694701 Fentanyl wink, wink C_A
>>20694890, >>20695096 New Scavino storm building picrel?? Music Brazilian Love Affair
>>20694916 Con/cons (constitutional conservatives) Torturing Bastiat to defend the Tyranny
>>20694938 2023 Duke-NUS and NHCS scientists first in the world to regenerate diseased kidney, Blocking an immune-regulating protein reverses the damage
>>20695129 #25382
#25381 >>20693674
>>20693695 ABC Actress Jenifer Lewis Says Trump Will Put Minorities in Camps if Reelected
>>20693707 Dan Scavino???
>>20693711, >>20693716 Biden Admin Takes Cues From Hitler to Label Jewish Goods From 'Occupied Territory'
>>20693734, >>20693742 Reminder: Looks like we Trumped Red China
>>20693738 Declassified Docs Reveal Explicit NATO Pledge Not to Meddle in Russia's Neighborhood
>>20693750 GOOGLE WON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL USING ITS PHOTO SOFTWARE TO CREATE GAZA "HIT LIST"
>>20693756 A study conducted by Pfizer Stooges proves mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination during Pregnancy is highly likely to cause a Spontaneous Abortion but Health Authorities have been Bribed to dismiss it
>>20693771 "THEIR GOAL IS CIVIL WAR IN THE U.S." AMERICANS VS ILLEGAL ALIENS
>>20693786, >>20693794, >>20693769, >>20693782, >>20693805 SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Powerball ticket worth $1.326 billion was sold in northeast Portland and is the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history, the Oregon Lottery said Sunday
>>20693801 Diddy looks tense as he sits outside his Miami mansion... amid mounting lawsuits and sex trafficking probe
>>20693812 Death to America,' 'Death to Israel' chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last day of Ramadan
>>20693819 I got this message from a fellow MIT alum just now. The tl;dr is that vaccines are NOT safe to give to pets.
>>20693826 Donald Trump delights the crowds at LIV Golf Miami as he arrives at his Doral course to watch final day... and the former President was pleased to see us too:'I love the Daily Mail!'
>>20693840 (For the kek) The best item at Trump International gift shop. Joe Biden toilet flushers.
>>20693854 I've had to spend money and time talking with Congressional stooges over this. They could care less about posts on qresearch. It is not their target. The users of pol are.
>>20693868 Government-Funded NGOs, Linked To NATO, Are Interfering In European Elections
>>20693891 Have files on Prince Andrew's controversial role as Britain's trade envoy been destroyed?
>>20693969, >>20693961 2023 What is matter? It's not as basic as you'd think.
>>20693983 @realDonaldTrump TURN ON YOUR TELEVISION AND WATCH THE GREAT LIV GOLF TOURNAMENT LIVE FROM DORAL, MIAMI.
>>20694050, >>20694210 AI Hell
>>20694284, >>20694305 @SpaceX Liftoff of Bandwagon-1!
>>20694309 University of Arkansas police cutting down a pro Trump flag at the Ole Miss vs Arkansas baseball game last night
>>20694415 Massive Cargo Ship Loses Power in New York City Near Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
>>20694553 #25381 posted in 82
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078, >>20693641 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake, 1.4km deep
>>20693354, >>20693443 President Trump has arrived at LIV Miami
>>20693412 Baltimore Orioles and Ravens Offer Millions in Key Bridge Assistance
>>20693417 Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"
>>20693430 Lara Trump ???
>>20693483 Ireland Antifa dig
>>20693468 CNN Endorses Trump for President
>>20693472 Rutgers President Abandons Terrified Jewish Students - Flees Town Hall as Pro-Hamas Radicals Shout Anti-Israel Slogans
>>20693474 Polish Government Pushes Scottish-Style LGBT Hate Speech Law with Three Years in Prison
>>20693481, >>20693504 Biggest night in fundraising history
>>20693484 President Biden wants companies like SpaceX that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes
>>20693494 BNL's Electron Ion Collider receives government funds, approval to purchase materials
>>20693497 Nonprofit in Democrat Detroit: Director For Home Ownership Programs For Detroit Arrested For Stealing 30 Homes
>>20693511 Bill Gates' Synthetic Milk Found To Contain 92 Carcinogenic Compounds
>>20693513 Minnesota Senate dems voted down an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs to be labeled as such
>>20693529, >>20693537 Anthony Albanese, Australian Prime Minister
>>20693541 Diddy's ex-bodyguard Gene Deal breaks silence on TD Jakes and Diddy rumors
>>20693623 Michael McKibben, CEO of Leader Technologies, announces Polymorphic Encryption tech
>>20693655 Mil tweets
>>20693657 #25380
Previously Collected
>>20693220 #25379
>>20690467 #25376, >>20691223 #25377, >>20692007 #25378
>>20688380 #25373, >>20688932 #25374, >>20689659 #25375
>>20688196 #25371, >>20688620 #25372, >>20688380 #25373
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#20694423 at 2024-04-08 00:42:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25382: Is It Such A Bad Thing? Edition
International Q Research Threads
>>20545607 ------ Australia #35
>>20658862 ------ Canada #56
>>20584322 ------ China #1
>>16694358 ------ France #7
>>19988670 ------ Germany #106
>>20187083 ------ Japan #22
>>20584358 ------ Korea #1
>>16694250 ------ Nederland #10
>>17784579 ------ QAJF #1
>>20584333 ------ Russia #1
>>20584424 ------ Saudi Arabia #1
>>20038152 ------ Scotland #9
>>19636057 ------ South Africa #12
>>19804572 ------ UK #51
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>>20186509 How to filter namefags
BAKERS: NEW & RETURNING BAKERS, PLZ READ BELOW
>>19089065 Baking Tools & Guidelines
>>20673838 Common sense rules for new bakers NEW
>>17322509, >>17322518 How to bake/e-bake
>>17835052 Formatting Q posts
>>20186534 No "Muh Joos" in notes. Discrimination based on race or religion will be removed
Plz sign out clearly when e-baking or ghosting, use RED TEXT
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#25381 Partial
>>20693695 ABC Actress Jenifer Lewis Says Trump Will Put Minorities in Camps if Reelected
>>20693707 Dan Scavino???
>>20693711, >>20693716 Biden Admin Takes Cues From Hitler to Label Jewish Goods From 'Occupied Territory'
>>20693719 Diddy's former body guard has released audio of Diddy destroying Meek Mill in the bedroom after Meek's drink was spiked by Diddy...
>>20693738 Declassified Docs Reveal Explicit NATO Pledge Not to Meddle in Russia's Neighborhood
>>20693750 GOOGLE WON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT ISRAEL USING ITS PHOTO SOFTWARE TO CREATE GAZA "HIT LIST"
>>20693756 A study conducted by Pfizer Stooges proves mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination during Pregnancy is highly likely to cause a Spontaneous Abortion but Health Authorities have been Bribed to dismiss it
>>20693771 "THEIR GOAL IS CIVIL WAR IN THE U.S." AMERICANS VS ILLEGAL ALIENS
>>20693786, >>20693794, >>20693769, >>20693782, >>20693805 SALEM, Ore. (KTVZ) – A Powerball ticket worth $1.326 billion was sold in northeast Portland and is the fourth-largest Powerball jackpot in the game's history, the Oregon Lottery said Sunday
>>20693801 Diddy looks tense as he sits outside his Miami mansion... amid mounting lawsuits and sex trafficking probe
>>20693812 Death to America,' 'Death to Israel' chants pour out of Muslim protesters in Michigan on last day of Ramadan
>>20693819 I got this message from a fellow MIT alum just now. The tl;dr is that vaccines are NOT safe to give to pets.
>>20693826 Donald Trump delights the crowds at LIV Golf Miami as he arrives at his Doral course to watch final day... and the former President was pleased to see us too:'I love the Daily Mail!'
>>20693840 (For the kek) The best item at Trump International gift shop. Joe Biden toilet flushers.
>>20693854 I've had to spend money and time talking with Congressional stooges over this. They could care less about posts on qresearch. It is not their target. The users of pol are.
>>20693868 Government-Funded NGOs, Linked To NATO, Are Interfering In European Elections
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078, >>20693641 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake, 1.4km deep
>>20693354, >>20693443 President Trump has arrived at LIV Miami
>>20693412 Baltimore Orioles and Ravens Offer Millions in Key Bridge Assistance
>>20693417 Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"
>>20693430 Lara Trump ???
>>20693483 Ireland Antifa dig
>>20693468 CNN Endorses Trump for President
>>20693472 Rutgers President Abandons Terrified Jewish Students - Flees Town Hall as Pro-Hamas Radicals Shout Anti-Israel Slogans
>>20693474 Polish Government Pushes Scottish-Style LGBT Hate Speech Law with Three Years in Prison
>>20693481, >>20693504 Biggest night in fundraising history
>>20693484 President Biden wants companies like SpaceX that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes
>>20693494 BNL's Electron Ion Collider receives government funds, approval to purchase materials
>>20693497 Nonprofit in Democrat Detroit: Director For Home Ownership Programs For Detroit Arrested For Stealing 30 Homes
>>20693511 Bill Gates' Synthetic Milk Found To Contain 92 Carcinogenic Compounds
>>20693513 Minnesota Senate dems voted down an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs to be labeled as such
>>20693529, >>20693537 Anthony Albanese, Australian Prime Minister
>>20693541 Diddy's ex-bodyguard Gene Deal breaks silence on TD Jakes and Diddy rumors
>>20693623 Michael McKibben, CEO of Leader Technologies, announces Polymorphic Encryption tech
>>20693655 Mil tweets
>>20693657 #25380
#25379 >>20692016
>>20692075, >>20692248, >>20692259, >>20692633 Jaguar Wright Exposes Patti Labelle, The Temptations, Diddy & More
>>20692100 Barack Obama's fake birth Certificate Report
>>20692101 (UK) DEI suspect kills mother by stabbing her five times in the neck while pushing baby boy
>>20692328 Hillary Clinton and island enjoyer Bill get called killers and predators to their faces in Manhattan
>>20692409 NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day April 7, 2024: A Total Solar Eclipse over Wyoming
>>20692420 Container Ship Reportedly "Lost Power" In NYC Harbor, Right Before Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge
>>20692468 Xcel Energy cuts power in Colorado due to fire risk, plus top wind speeds
>>20692559 Ohio lawmaker introduces bill to repeal 16th Amendment (income tax)
>>20692580, >>20692582 (Canada) NDP Caught Laundering Money through Carbon Tax EV Grant
>>20692596, >>20692607 Tom Fitton: I seem to have broken the Biden Justice Department / Jack Smith and their Left media minions…
>>20692621, >>20692626, >>20692629 11 ways Biden and his handlers are hell-bent on destroying America
>>20692632 European space consultancies merge to form Novaspace
>>20692753, >>20692769 Users on Israeli messaging app Odigo were warned 2 hours before the first plane hit on 9 / 11
>>20692861 This is what the Starlink satellite network looks like
>>20692878 Chanel Rion on Ashley Biden Diary Investigation: The SDNY Is Biden's Personal Gestapo
>>20692900 Pathological Liar 101
>>20692906 Swiss To Hold Referendum That Will Restrict Population To 10 Million Until 2050
>>20692914 The interest on the US national debt is already at $1 trillion per year
>>20692916 Just a coincidink that the eclipses 7 years apart match the Space Force logo...
>>20692924 (Nov, 2023) A small town in Michigan ousted its entire local government after it approved a CCP-linked green energy project
>>20692934 Kari Lake Senate Challenger Democrat Rep. Ruben Gallego Parties With George Soros's Son
>>20693219 Mil tweets
>>20693220 #25379
Previously Collected
>>20690467 #25376, >>20691223 #25377, >>20692007 #25378
>>20688380 #25373, >>20688932 #25374, >>20689659 #25375
>>20688196 #25371, >>20688620 #25372, >>20688380 #25373
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Q Research Notables #22: This Is War >>20349940
#20693664 at 2024-04-07 20:28:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25381: The Magician Edition
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078, >>20693641 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake, 1.4km deep
>>20693354, >>20693443 President Trump has arrived at LIV Miami
>>20693412 Baltimore Orioles and Ravens Offer Millions in Key Bridge Assistance
>>20693417 Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"
>>20693430 Lara Trump ???
>>20693483 Ireland Antifa dig
>>20693468 CNN Endorses Trump for President
>>20693472 Rutgers President Abandons Terrified Jewish Students - Flees Town Hall as Pro-Hamas Radicals Shout Anti-Israel Slogans
>>20693474 Polish Government Pushes Scottish-Style LGBT Hate Speech Law with Three Years in Prison
>>20693481, >>20693504 Biggest night in fundraising history
>>20693484 President Biden wants companies like SpaceX that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes
>>20693494 BNL's Electron Ion Collider receives government funds, approval to purchase materials
>>20693497 Nonprofit in Democrat Detroit: Director For Home Ownership Programs For Detroit Arrested For Stealing 30 Homes
>>20693511 Bill Gates' Synthetic Milk Found To Contain 92 Carcinogenic Compounds
>>20693513 Minnesota Senate dems voted down an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs to be labeled as such
>>20693529, >>20693537 Anthony Albanese, Australian Prime Minister
>>20693541 Diddy's ex-bodyguard Gene Deal breaks silence on TD Jakes and Diddy rumors
>>20693623 Michael McKibben, CEO of Leader Technologies, announces Polymorphic Encryption tech
>>20693655 Mil tweets
>>20693657 #25380
#20693657 at 2024-04-07 20:27:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake
FINAL
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078, >>20693641 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake, 1.4km deep
>>20693354, >>20693443 President Trump has arrived at LIV Miami
>>20693412 Baltimore Orioles and Ravens Offer Millions in Key Bridge Assistance
>>20693417 Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"
>>20693430 Lara Trump ???
>>20693483 Ireland Antifa dig
>>20693468 CNN Endorses Trump for President
>>20693472 Rutgers President Abandons Terrified Jewish Students - Flees Town Hall as Pro-Hamas Radicals Shout Anti-Israel Slogans
>>20693474 Polish Government Pushes Scottish-Style LGBT Hate Speech Law with Three Years in Prison
>>20693481, >>20693504 Biggest night in fundraising history
>>20693484 President Biden wants companies like SpaceX that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes
>>20693494 BNL's Electron Ion Collider receives government funds, approval to purchase materials
>>20693497 Nonprofit in Democrat Detroit: Director For Home Ownership Programs For Detroit Arrested For Stealing 30 Homes
>>20693511 Bill Gates' Synthetic Milk Found To Contain 92 Carcinogenic Compounds
>>20693513 Minnesota Senate dems voted down an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs to be labeled as such
>>20693529, >>20693537 Anthony Albanese, Australian Prime Minister
>>20693541 Diddy's ex-bodyguard Gene Deal breaks silence on TD Jakes and Diddy rumors
>>20693623 Michael McKibben, CEO of Leader Technologies, announces Polymorphic Encryption tech
>>20693655 Mil tweets
#25380
#20693633 at 2024-04-07 20:19:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake
NOTABLES @ 605
BAKING SHORTLY
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693001 Israeli Politician Threatens To Use Nukes If America Stops Supplying Weapons Aid
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693167 U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker 'Polar Star' Returns from 27th Antarctic Deployment
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake, 1.4km deep
>>20693354, >>20693443 President Trump has arrived at LIV Miami
>>20693412 Baltimore Orioles and Ravens Offer Millions in Key Bridge Assistance
>>20693417 Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"
>>20693483 Ireland Antifa dig
>>20693468 CNN Endorses Trump for President
>>20693472 Rutgers President Abandons Terrified Jewish Students - Flees Town Hall as Pro-Hamas Radicals Shout Anti-Israel Slogans
>>20693474 Polish Government Pushes Scottish-Style LGBT Hate Speech Law with Three Years in Prison
>>20693481, >>20693504 Biggest night in fundraising history
>>20693484 President Biden wants companies like SpaceX that use American airspace for rocket launches to start paying taxes
>>20693494 BNL's Electron Ion Collider receives government funds, approval to purchase materials
>>20693497 Nonprofit in Democrat Detroit: Director For Home Ownership Programs For Detroit Arrested For Stealing 30
>>20693511 Bill Gates' Synthetic Milk Found To Contain 92 Carcinogenic Compounds
>>20693513 Minnesota Senate dems voted down an amendment that would have required foods containing bugs to be labeled as such
>>20693529, >>20693537 Anthony Albanese, Australian Prime Minister
>>20693541 Diddy's ex-bodyguard Gene Deal breaks silence on TD Jakes and Diddy rumors
#25380
#20693465 at 2024-04-07 19:30:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake
NOTABLES @ 450
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693001 Israeli Politician Threatens To Use Nukes If America Stops Supplying Weapons Aid
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693161 Sicily's Mount Etna puffs out near-perfect circles, known as 'volcanic vortex rings'
>>20693167 U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker 'Polar Star' Returns from 27th Antarctic Deployment
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake only, 1.4km deep
>>20693327 Young Thug has challenged the use of lyrics and music videos as evidence in their trial for gang-related crimes
>>20693354, >>20693443 President Trump has arrived at LIV Miami
>>20693412 Baltimore Orioles and Ravens Offer Millions in Key Bridge Assistance
>>20693417 Smith & Wesson Fears Rifle Could Be Declared "Weapon of War"
>>20693429 Xcel: Power outages in Colorado could continue into Monday
>>20693430 Lara Trump ???
#25380
#20693361 at 2024-04-07 19:02:25 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake
NOTABLES @ 370
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692994 New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693001 Israeli Politician Threatens That Israel Will Use Nukes If America Stops Supplying Weapons Aid
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims
>>20693019 (PDF) An Illuminati Primer: Understanding The System Through the Eyes of its Whistleblowers
>>20693033, >>20693049, >>20693156 CERN Tarot Cards (hidden knowledge pay attention or some shit)
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds - Israel does
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos (co-founder of the Election Integrity Project) Transcript
>>20693078 The Liberals who claim white folks are dangerous are all married or dating white people
>>20693079 Governor Greg Abbott has warned of an impending drone war between the US and Mexican drug cartels
>>20693121 @Rasmussen_Poll: Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide
>>20693152, >>20693173, >>20693195, >>20693204, >>20693218, >>20693229, >>20693251, >>20693264, >>20693272, >>20693342, >>20693349 Antifa dig
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693161 Sicily's Mount Etna puffs out near-perfect circles, known as 'volcanic vortex rings'
>>20693167 U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker 'Polar Star' Returns from 27th Antarctic Deployment
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia
>>20693182 Alexandre de Moraes
>>20693199 Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 flight to Houston returns to Denver after engine cover tears away during takeoff
>>20693221 Persistent radiation spike in Northern Netherlands
>>20693240 The farmer protests are reaching Canada, particularly in Quebec
>>20693258, >>20693267, >>20693280, >>20693331 Planefags
>>20693281 Oklahoma earthquake only, 1.4km deep
>>20693327 Young Thug has challenged the use of lyrics and music videos as evidence in their trial for gang-related crimes
#25380
#20693198 at 2024-04-07 18:10:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake
>>20693075
TYB!
o7
Here's some notables so far
p.s.
I don't include notables that are from telegram cause they're just not easy to verify unless you have it. a big nono to me, but they do seem legit.
#25380 >>20692983
>>20692987, >>20693030, >>20693078 @simonateba URGENT, I NEED YOUR TAKE: People are asking: since many Democrats/liberals claim that white folks are oppressive and extremely dangerous, why are these Democrats married to or dating white people? What do you think is the right answer? You forgot your friend and her ex.
>>20692994 ? New NEJM Study Finds Pfizer's Paxlovid Does 'Little or Nothing' for COVID-19
>>20693001 Israeli Politician Suggests Israel Will Use Nukes If America Stops Supplying Weapons Aid
>>20693003 America Is Hurtling Toward A Full-Blown Hot Civil War
>>20693004 Houston Car-Theft Ring Tied to Mexican Terrorist Drug Cartel
>>20693018 'Game of Thrones' star Joseph Gatt sues DA George Gascon and LA for $40 million over false pedophilia claims.
>>20693033, >>20693049 Back in 2018 Suzanne Treister, a British artist became a winner of the Arts at CERN Collide Residency Awards with her CERN tarot cards..
>>20693035 @simonateba Some claim Melania Trump does not seem happy here. This was at a fundraising event yesterday. Do you agree? What should she have done? Jumped up and down? Smiled all the time? She always allows her husband to shine and prefers being less demonstrative.
>>20693036 Artist with Michelle Obama Connection Stabbed to Death Just Before Returning to US
>>20693048 Bytedance doesn't curate our feeds- Israel does. And Marco also forgot to use the hashtag #ad to go with his propaganda.
>>20693057, >>20693099, >>20693118 Greta got arrested again..
>>20693066 EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak to Appear for Public Hearing
>>20693073 Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos Transcript
>>20693075 collecting lb, expect delay on this breads notes
>>20693080, >>20693103 Lightning struck the Statue Of Liberty during a thunderstorm in the New York City area this week ?
>>20693121 Handy Legacy Media Translator Guide: While publicly claiming there was no fraud in 2020, he (Barr) PRIVATELY ordered those with credible fraud evidence to stand down.
>>20693133 How climate change is driving a global epidemic of immune health problems, and how to stop it
>>20693145 This week's wins: Don't let the news media get you down. We are winning
>>20693152 Looks like some IrelandFags got a hold of an Antifa phone. Nice work lads
>>20693160 RFK Jr 'disturbed' by 'weaponization of government' against Trump, vows to appoint Jan 6 special counsel
>>20693161 Sicily's Mount Etna puffs out near-perfect circles, known as 'volcanic vortex rings'
>>20693167 U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker 'Polar Star' Returns from 27th Antarctic Deployment
>>20693173 ? It appears that someone baring a remarkable likeness to Paul Connolly @NewstalkFM is on video in a hotel room with individuals ( some foreign ) defacing our national flag ??
>>20693179 Peter Pellegrini was elected to serve as the next president of Slovakia, beating pro-Western Ivan Korcok. Pellegrini is a close ally of Prime Minister Robert Fico, who is a staunch opponent of sending weapons to Ukraine
>>20693182 ?? This is @Alexandre de Moraes, the supervillain who has taken Brazil hostage. This country is on the verge of sliding into an authoritarian dictatorship. Now, our only hope lies in the military or substantial national and international pressure. Please pray for us!
#20693073 at 2024-04-07 17:32:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25380: Easy Like A Sunday Morning E-Bake
Judiciary Republicans Release Alex Stamos Transcript
April 5, 2024
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) released the transcript from the Committee's transcribed interview with Alex Stamos, co-founder of the Election Integrity Project.
Read the full Alex Stamos transcript here.
https://judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/republicans-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Stamos%20Transcript_Redacted_Errata.pdf
https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/judiciary-republicans-release-Alex-Stamos-transcript
#20447390 at 2024-02-20 20:22:30 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #25083: Crime Of The Century Edition
>>20446946
>>20447203
TRANSCRIPT OF Tucker's MIKE BENZ INTERVIEW
Tucker [00:00:00] The defining fact of the United States is freedom of speech. To the extent this country is actually exceptional, it's because we have the First Amendment to the Bill of rights. We have freedom of conscience. We can say what we really think. There's no hate speech exception to that. Just because you hate what somebody else thinks, you cannot force that person to be quiet because we're citizens, not slaves. But that right, that foundational right that makes this country what it is, that right from which all other rights flow is going away at high speed in the face of censorship. Now, modern censorship bears no resemblance to previous censorship regimes in previous countries in previous eras. Our censorship is affected on the basis of fights against disinformation and malinformation. And the key thing to know about these is they're everywhere. And of course, they have no reference at all to whether what you're saying is true or not. In other words, you can say something that is factually accurate and consistent with your own conscience, and in previous versions of America, what an absolute right to say those things. But because someone doesn't like them, or because they're inconvenient to whatever plan the people in power have, they can be denounced as disinformation, and you could be stripped of your right to express them, either in person or online. In fact, expressing these things can become a criminal act and is. And it's important to know, by the way, that this is not just the private sector doing this. These efforts are being directed by the US government, which you pay for and at least theoretically own. It's your government, but they're stripping your rights at very high speed. Most people understand this intuitively, but they don't know how it happens. How does censorship happen? What are the mechanics of it? Mike Benz is, we can say with some confidence, the expert in the world on how this happens. Mike Benz had the cyber portfolio at the State Department. He's now executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online, and we're going to have a conversation with him about a very specific kind of censorship, by the way, we can't recommend strongly enough if you want to know how this happens Mike Benz BENZ is the man to read. But today we just want to talk about a specific kind of censorship and that censorship that emanates from the fabled military industrial complex, from our defense industry, and the foreign policy establishment in Washington. That's significant now because we're on the cusp of a global war. And so you can expect censorship to increase dramatically. And so with that, here is Mike Benz, executive director of Foundation for Freedom Online. Mike, thanks so much for joining us. And I just can't overstate your audience how exhaustive and comprehensive your knowledge is on this topic. It's almost it's almost unbelievable. And so if you could just walk us through how the foreign policy establishment and defense contractors and DoD and just the whole cluster, the constellation of defense related, publicly funded institutions strip from us our freedom of speech?
Mike Benz [00:02:59] Sure. You know, one of the easiest ways to actually start the story is really with the story of internet freedom and its switch from internet freedom to internet censorship, because free speech on the internet was an instrument of statecraft almost from the outset of the privatization of the internet in 1991. We quickly discovered, through the efforts of the Defense Department, the State Department in our intelligence services, that people were using the internet to congregate on blogs and forums, and free speech was championed more than anybody by the Pentagon, the State Department, and our sort of CIA cut out NGO blob architecture as a way to support dissident groups around the world in order to help them overthrow authoritarian governments, as they were sort of billed. Essentially the, internet free speech allowed kind of instant regime change operations, to be able to facilitate the foreign policy establishment's State Department agenda. Google is a great example of this. Google began as a DARPA grant, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were Stanford PhDs. And they got their funding as part of a joint CIA, NSA program to chart how, quote, birds of a feather flock together online through search engine aggregation. And then one year later, they launched Google and then became a military contractor quickly thereafter. They got Google Maps by purchasing a CIA satellite software, essentially, and the ability to track to use free speech on the internet as a way to circumvent state control over media, over in places like Central Asia, or all around the world, was seen as a way to be able to do what used to be done out of CIA station houses or out of embassies or consulates in a way that was totally turbocharged. And all of the internet free speech technology was initially created by our national security state. VPNs, virtual private networks to hide your IP address. Tour the dark web, to be able to buy and sell goods anonymously and to end encrypted chats. All these things were created initially as DARPA projects or as joint CIA NSA projects, to be able to help intelligence backed groups to overthrow governments that were causing a problem, to the Clinton administration or the Bush administration or the Obama administration. And this plan worked magically from about 1991 until about 2014, when there began to be an about face on internet freedom and its utility. Now, the high watermark of the sort of internet free speech moment was the Arab Spring in 2011, 2012, when you had this one by one. All of the adversary governments of the Obama administration, Egypt, Tunisia, all began to be toppled in Facebook revolutions and Twitter revolutions. And you had the State Department working very closely with the social media companies to be able to keep social media online during those periods. There was a famous phone call from Google's Jared Cohen to Twitter to not do their scheduled maintenance so that, the preferred opposition group in Iran would be able to use Twitter, to win that election. So it was, free speech was an instrument of statecraft from the national security state to begin with. All of that architecture, all the NGOs, the relationships between the tech companies and the national security state had been long established for freedom. In 2014, after the coup in Ukraine, there was an unexpected counter coup where Crimea and the Donbas broke away and they broke away with essentially a military backstop that NATO was highly unprepared for at the time. They had one last Hail Mary chance, which was the Crimea annexation vote on, in 2014. And when the hearts and minds of the people of Crimea voted, to join the Russian Federation, that was the last straw for the concept of free speech on the internet in the eyes of NATO as they saw it, the fundamental nature of war changed at that moment. And NATO at that point declared something that they first called the Gerasimov doctrine, which is named after this Russian military, a general, who they claimed made a speech that the fundamental nature of war has changed. You don't need to win military skirmishes to take over Central and Eastern Europe. All you need to do is control the media and the social media ecosystem, because that's what controls elections. And if you simply get the right administration into power, they control the military. So it's infinitely cheaper than conducting a military war to simply conduct an organized political, influence operation over social media. And legacy media and industry had been created that spanned the Pentagon, the the British Ministry of Defense in Brussels into a organized political warfare outfit, essentially infrastructure that was created, initially stationed in Germany and in Central and Eastern Europe to create psychological buffer zones, basically to create the ability to to have the military work with the social media companies, to censor Russian propaganda, or to censor domestic right wing populist groups in Europe who were rising in political power at the time because of the migrant crisis. So you had the systematic targeting by our State Department, by our ISI, by the Pentagon, of groups like Germany's AfD, the alternative for Deutschland there, and for groups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Now, when Brexit happened in 2016, it was that was that was this crisis moment where suddenly they didn't have to worry just about Central and Eastern Europe anymore. It was coming westward, this idea of Russian control over hearts and minds. And so that was Brexit was June 2016. The very next month at the Warsaw Conference, NATO formally amended its charter to expressly commit to hybrid warfare as there as this new NATO capacity. So they went from, you know, basically 70 years of tanks to this explicit capacity building for censoring tweets if they were deemed to be Russian proxies. And again, it's not just Russian propaganda. This was these were now Brexit groups or groups like Matteo Salvini in Italy, or in Greece or in Germany or in Spain with the Vox party. And now at the time, NATO was publishing white papers saying that the biggest threat NATO faces is not actually a military invasion from Russia. It's losing domestic elections across Europe in two. All these right wing populist groups who, because they were mostly working class movements, were campaigning on cheap Russian energy at a time when the U.S. was pressuring this energy diversification policy. And so they made the argument after Brexit. Now the entire rules based international order would collapse unless the military took control over media, because Brexit would give rise to "Frexit" in France, with Marine Le Pen to "Spexit" in in Spain with a Vox party to "ItAlexit" in Italy, to "Grexit" in Germany, to "Grexit" in Greece, the EU would come apart, so NATO would be killed without a single bullet being, being fired. And then not only that, now that NATO is gone, now there's no enforcement arm for the International Monetary Fund, the IMF or the world Bank. So now the financial stakeholders who depend on the battering ram of the national security state would basically be helpless against governments around the world. So from their perspective, if the military did not begin to censor the internet, every all of the democratic institutions and infrastructure that gave rise to the. World after World War Two would collapse. So you can imagine that we.
Tucker [00:10:56] May I ask.
Mike Benz [00:10:57] Later. Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
Tucker [00:11:00] So you well, you just told a remarkable story that I've never heard anybody explain as lucidly and crisply as you just did. But did anyone at NATO or anyone at the State Department pause room and say, wait a second, we've just identified our new enemy as democracy within our own countries. I think that's what you're saying. They feared that the people, the citizens of their own countries would get their way, and they went to war against that.
Mike Benz [00:11:24] Yes. Now, you know, there's a rich history of this dating back to the Cold War. You know, the Cold War in Europe was essentially a similar, a similar struggle for hearts and minds of people, especially in Central and Eastern Europe. You know, in these sort of, you know, Soviet buffer zones. And, you know, starting in 1948, the national security state was really established. Then, you know, you had the 1947 act, which established the Central Intelligence Agency. You had, you know, this new world order that had been created with all these international institutions. And you had the 1948 U.N. Declaration on Human Rights, which forbid the territorial acquisition by military force. So you can no longer run a traditional military occupation government in the way that we could. In 1898, for example, when we took the Philippines, everything had to be done through a sort of political legitimization process, whereby there's some ratification from the hearts and minds of people within the country. Now, often that involves simply puppet politicians who are groomed as emerging leaders by our State Department. But the battle for hearts and minds had been something that we had been giving ourselves a long moral license. Leash, if you will. Since 1948, one of the godfathers of the CIA, George Kennan, at, 12 days after we rigged the Italian election in 1948 by stuffing ballot boxes and working with the mob, we published a memo called The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare, where he said, listen, it's a mean old world out there. We at the CIA just rigged the Italian election. We had to do it because if the communists won, maybe there'll never be another election in Italy again. So. But it's really effective, guys, we need a department of dirty tricks to be able to do this around the world. And it's essentially a new social contract we're constructing with the American people. Because this is not the way we've conducted diplomacy before, but we are now forbidden from using the War Department. In 1948, they also renamed the War Department to the Defense Department. So, again, as part of this, this diplomatic onslaught for political control, rather than looking like it's overt military control, but essentially what ends up happening there is we created this foreign domestic firewall. We said that we have a department of dirty tricks to be able to rig elections, to be able to control media, to be able to meddle in the internal affairs of every other plant of dirt in the country. But this sort of sacred dirt on which the American homeland sits will, they are not allowed to operate there. The State Department, the Defense Department and the CIA are all expressly forbidden from operating on US soil. Of course, this is so far from the case, it's not even funny. But, but that's because of a number of laundering tricks that they've developed over 70 years of doing this. But essentially, there was no moral quandary at first with respect to the creation of the censorship industry when it started out in Germany and in Lithuania and Latvia and Estonia and in Sweden and Finland, there began to be a more diplomatic debate about it after Brexit. And then, it was it became. Full throttle when Trump was elected and what little resistance there was. Was washed over by the rise and saturation of Russiagate, which basically allowed them to not have to deal with the moral ambiguities of censoring your own people. Because if Trump was a Russian asset, you no longer really had a traditional free speech issue. It was a national security issue. It was only after Russiagate died in July 2019, when Robert Mueller basically choked on the stand for three hours and revealed he had absolutely nothing. After two and a half years of investigation that the foreign to domestic switcheroo took place, where they took all of this censorship architecture spanning DHS, the FBI, the CIA, the DOD, the DOJ, and then the thousands of government funded NGO and private sector mercenary firms were all basically transmitted from a foreign folk, from a foreign predicate, a Russian disinformation predicate to a democracy predicate, by saying that disinformation is not just a threat when it comes from the Russians, it's actually an intrinsic threat to democracy itself. And so by that, they were able to launder the entire democracy promotion regime change toolkit, just in time for the 2020 election.
Tucker [00:15:50] It I mean, it's almost beyond belief this has happened. I mean, my own father worked for the U.S. government in this business in the information war against the Soviet Union. And, you know, was a big part of that. And the idea that any of those tools would be turned against American citizens by the U.S. government was, I think I want to think was absolutely unthinkable and say, 1988. And you're saying that it's there really hasn't been anyone who's raised objections. And it's just it's absolutely turned inward to manipulate and rig our own elections, as we would in say, Latvia.
Mike Benz [00:16:25] Yeah. Well, as soon as the democracy predicate was established, you had this professional class of professional regime change artists and operatives. That is the same people who argued that, you know, we need to bring democracy to Yugoslavia. You. And that's the predicate for getting rid of, you know, Milosevic or any other country around the world where we basically overthrow governments in order to preserve democracy. Well, if the democracy threat is homegrown now, then that becomes, you know, then suddenly these people all have new jobs moving on the US side, and they can go through a million examples of that. But one thing on what you just mentioned, which is that, you know from their perspective, they just weren't ready for the internet. 2016 was really the first time that social media had reached such maturity that it began to eclipse legacy media. I mean, this was a long time coming. I think folks saw this building from 2006 through 2016. You know, internet 1.0 didn't even have social media. From 1991 to 2004, there was no social media at all. 2004 Facebook came out 2005, Twitter, 2006 YouTube, 2007 the smartphone and so. And in that initial period of social media, nobody was getting subscriber shifts at the level where they actually competed with legacy news media. But over the course of being, you know, so initially, even these dissident voices within the US, even though they, they may have been loud, in moments, they never reached 30 million followers, they never reached, you know, a billion impressions a year type thing as a uncensored, mature ecosystem allowed citizen journalists and independent voices to be able to outcompete legacy news media. This induced a massive crisis both in our military and in our State Department and intelligence services. And I give you a great example of this. In 2019, at a meeting of the German Marshall Fund, which is, you know, an institution that goes back to the US, basically, and I'm don't want to say bribe, but the essentially the soft power economic soft power projection in Europe as part of the reconstruction of European governments after World War 2, to be able to essentially pay them, with Marshall Fund dollars. And then in return, they basically were under our thumb in terms of how they reconstructed. But the German Marshall Fund held the meeting in 2019. They held a million of these, frankly, but where they, where a four star general, got up on the panel and said that that the what happens, he posed the question, what happens to the to the US military? What happens to the national security state when the New York Times is reduced to a medium sized Facebook page? And he posed this thought experiment as an example of we've had these gatekeepers, we've had these bumper cars on democracy in the form of a century old relationship with legacy media institutions. I mean, our mainstream media is not in any shape or form, even from its outset, independent from the national security state, from the State Department, from the War Department. You know, you had the initial, all of the initial, broadcast news companies NBC, ABC and CBS were all created by Office of War Information veterans from the from the War Department's effort in World War II. You had these operation mockingbird relationships from the 1950s through the 1970s. Those continued it through the use of the National Endowment for democracy and the privatization of intelligence capacities in the 1980s under Reagan. There's all sorts of CIA reading room memos you can read, even on CIA.gov about those continued media relations throughout the 1990s. And so you always had this backdoor relationship between The Washington Post, The New York Times, and all of the major broadcast media corporations. By the way, you know, Rupert Murdoch and Fox are part of this as well. You know, Rupert Murdoch was actually part of the National Endowment for democracy coalition in 1983 when it was formed as a way to do CIA operations in an above board way after the Democrats were so ticked off at the CIA for manipulating student movements in the 1970s. But essentially there was no CIA intermediary to random citizen journalists, there was no Pentagon backstop. You couldn't get a story killed. You couldn't have this favors for favors relationship. You couldn't promise access to some random person with 700,000 followers who's got an opinion on Syrian gas. And so this induced and this was not a problem for the initial period of social media from 2006 to 2014, because there were never dissident groups that were big enough to be able to have a mature ecosystem on their own. And all of the victories on social media had gone, in the way of where the money was, which was from the State Department, and the Defense Department, and the intelligence services. But then as that maturity happened, you now had this situation after the 2016 election where they said, okay, now the entire international order might come undone. 70 years of unified foreign policy from Truman until Trump are now about to be broken. And we need a the same analog control systems. We had to be able to put bumper cars on bad stories or bad. Political movements through legacy media, relationships and contacts. We now need to establish and consolidate within the social media companies. An initial predicate for that was Russiagate. But then after Russiagate died and they used a simple democracy promotion predicate, then it gave rise to this multi-billion dollar censorship industry that joins together the military industrial complex, the government, the private sector, civil society organizations, and then this vast cobweb of media allies and professional fact checker groups that that serve as this sort of sentinel class that surveys every word on the internet.
Tucker [00:22:46] So, can you give us a, and thank you again for this almost unbelievable explanation of why this is happening. Can you give us an example of how it happens? How just and just pick one among I know countless examples of how the national security state lies to the population, censors the truth, in real life.
Mike Benz [00:23:08] Yeah. So, you know, we have this State Department outfit called the Global Engagement Center, which was created by a guy named Rick Stengel, who described himself as Obama's propagandist in chief. He was the undersecretary for public affairs, which is essentially the relationship which is the liaison office role between the State Department and the mainstream media. So this is basically the exact nexus where government talking points about war or about diplomacy or statecraft get synchronized with mainstream media.
Tucker [00:23:39] And I, may I add something to that is someone I know, Rick Stengel, he was at one point a journalist. And Rick Stengel has made public arguments against the First Amendment and against free speech.
Mike Benz [00:23:50] And, oh, yeah, he wrote a whole book on it. He published an op-ed in 2019. He wrote a whole book on it. And he, you know, he made the argument that that we just, you know, went over here that essentially, the Constitution was not prepared for the internet. And, we need to get rid of the First Amendment, accordingly. And, you know, he described himself as a free speech absolutist when he was the managing editor of time magazine. And even when he was in the State Department under Obama, he started something called the Global Engagement Center, which was the first government censorship, operation within the federal government. But it was foreign facing, so it was okay. Now, at the time, they used the, the homegrown ISIS predicate threat for this. And so it was very hard to argue against the idea of the State Department, having this formal coordination partnership with every major tech platform, in the U.S. because the, you know, at the time, there were these ISIS attacks that were and we were told that ISIS was recruiting on Twitter and Facebook. And so the Global Engagement Center was was established essentially to be a State Department, entanglement with the social media companies to basically put bumper cars on their ability to, to platform accounts and to and, and one of the things they did is they created a new technology, which it's called natural language processing. It is a artificial intelligence, machine learning, ability to create meaning out of words in order to map everything that everyone says on the internet and create this vast topography, topography of how communities are organized online, who the major influencers are, what they're talking about, what narratives are emerging or trending, and to be able to create this sort of network graph, in order to know who to target and, and, and how information moves through an ecosystem. And so they began plotting the language, the prefixes, the suffixes, the popular terms, the slogans that ISIS, folks were talking about on Twitter when, when Trump won the election in 2016, everyone who worked at the State Department, was expecting these promotions to the white House, National Security Council under Hillary Clinton, who I should remind, viewers, you know, was also secretary of state under Obama, actually ran the State Department, but these folks were all expecting promotions on November 18th, November 8th, 2016 and were unceremoniously, put out of jobs by a guy who was a 20 to 1 underdog, according to the New York Times, the day of the election and when when that happened, these State Department folks took their special set of skills coercing governments, to, for sanctions in the State Department led the, the effort to sanction Russia over the Crimea annexation in 2014. These State Department diplomats did an international roadshow to pressure European governments to pass censorship laws, to censor the right wing populist groups in Europe, and as a boomerang impact to censor populist groups who were affiliated in the U.S.. So you had folks, you had folks who went from the State Department directly, for example, to the Atlantic Council, which was which was this major facilitator, between the government, between government to government censorship. The Atlantic Council is a group that was one of Biden's biggest political backers. They bill themselves as NATO's think tank. So they represent the political senses of NATO in many respects. When NATO has, civil society actions that they want to be coordinated to, to synchronize with military action, a region the Atlantic Council essentially is deployed to consensus, build and make that political action happen within a region of interest to NATO. Now, the Atlantic Council has seven CIA directors on its board. A lot of people don't even know that seven CIA directors are still alive, let alone all concentrated on the board of a single organization. That's kind of the heavyweight in the censorship industry. They get annual funding from the Department of Defense, the State Department, and CIA cutouts like the National Endowment for democracy. The Atlantic Council in January 2017 moved immediately to pressure European governments to pass censorship laws to create a transatlantic flank attack on free speech in exactly the way that Rick Stengel essentially called for to have US mimic European censorship laws. One of the ways they did this was by getting Germany to pass something called NetzDG in August 2017, which was which, which was essentially kicked off the era of, of automated censorship in the U.S. what NetzDG required was unless unless social media platforms wanted to pay a $54 million fine for each instance of speech, each post left up on their platform for more than 48 hours that had been identified as hate speech. They would they would be fined basically into bankruptcy when you aggregate 54 million over tens of thousands of posts per day. And the the safe haven around that was if they deployed artificial intelligence based censorship technologies, which had been again created by DARPA to take on ISIS, to be able to scan and ban speech automatically. And this was a this gave no. I call these weapons of mass deletion. These are essentially the ability to censor tens of millions of posts with just a few lines of code. And the way this is done is by aggregating basically the field of censorship science fuzes together two disparate groups of study, if you will. There's this sort of political and social scientists who are the sort of thought leaders of what should be censored. And then there are the sort of quants, if you will. These are the programmers, the computational data scientists, computational linguistics. Every university, there's over 60 universities now who get federal government grants to do this. Censorship, the censorship work and the censorship preparation work, where what they do is they create these code books of the language that people use the same way they did for ISIS. They do this, for example, with Covid, they created these these Covid lexicons of what dissident groups were saying about mandates, about masks, about vaccines, about high profile individuals like Tony Fauci or, were, Peter Daszak or any of these others protected VIP and individuals whose reputations had to be protected online. And they created these code books. They broke things down into narratives. The Atlantic Council, for example, was a part of this, this government funded consortium, something called the Virality Project, which which mapped 66 different narratives that dissidents were talking about around Covid, everything from Covid origins to vaccine efficacy. And then they broke down these 66 claims into all the different factual sub claims. And then they plugged these into these essentially machine learning models to be able to have a constant world heat map of what everybody was saying about Covid. And whenever something started a trend that was bad for what the Pentagon wanted or was bad for what Tony Fauci wanted, they were able to take down tens of millions of posts. They did this in the 2020 election with Mail-In ballots. It was this week.
Tucker [00:31:04] I'm sorry. I just got to have there's so much here and it's so shocking. So you're saying the Pentagon, our Pentagon, the U.S. Department of Defense censored Americans during the 2020 election cycle?
Mike Benz [00:31:19] Yes, they did this. They oh, they did this through the so so there's the two most censored events in human history, I would argue to date are the 2020 election and the Covid 19 pandemic. And I'll explain, you know, how I arrived there. So the 2020 election was determined by mail in ballots. And I'm not weighing into the substance of whether mail in ballots were or were not a legitimate or safe and reliable form of a voting. That's a completely independent topic from my perspective and the censorship issue. One but the censorship of mail in ballots is really one of the most extraordinary stories in our American history I would argue. What happened was, is you had this plot within the Department of Homeland Security. Now this gets back to what we were talking about with the State Department's Global Engagement Center. You had this group within the Atlantic Council in the foreign policy establishment, which began arguing in 2017 for the need for a permanent domestic censorship government office to serve as a quarterback for what they called a home of society. Counter misinformation, counter disinformation alliance. That just means censorship. The counter missed this info, but whole of their whole society model explicitly proposed that that we need every single asset within society to be mobilized in a whole of society effort to stop misinformation online. It was that much of. An existential threat to democracy. And so it but they they fixated in 2017 that it had to be centered within the government because only the government would have the clout and the coercive threat powers and the and the perceived authority to be able to tell the social media companies what to do, to be able to summon in a government funded NGOs form, to create that media surround sound, to be able to arm in a, you know, an astroturf army of of fact checkers and to be able to liaise and connect all these different censorship industry actors into a cohesive, unified whole. And the Atlantic Council initially proposed with this blueprint called forward defense. It's not offense, it's forward defense guys. They initially proposed that running this out of the State Department's Global engagement Center, because they had so many assets there who were so effective at censorship under Rick Stengel Steed, and under the Obama administration. But they said, oh, we we're not gonna be able to get away with that because we don't really have a national security predicate, and it's supposed to be foreign facing. We can't really use that hook unless we have a sort of national security one. Then they contemplated parking at the CIA and they said, well, actually, there's two reasons we can't do that. CIA is foreign facing, and we can't really establish a counterintelligence threat to bring it home domestically. Also, we're going to need essentially tens of thousands of people involved in this operation spanning this whole society model. You can't really run a clandestine operation that way. So they said, okay, well, what about the FBI? They said, well, the FBI would be great. It's domestic. But the problem is, is the FBI is supposed to be the intelligence arm of the Justice Department and weak. And what we're dealing with here are not acts of lawbreaking. That's basically support for Trump. Or if, you know, if a left wing populist had risen to power like Bernie Sanders or Jeremy Corbyn, I have no doubt they would have done in the UK, they would have done the same thing to him there. They targeted Jeremy Corbyn and other left wing populist NATO skeptical groups in Europe. But in the U.S. it was it was all Trump. And so essentially what they said is, well, the only other domestic intelligence equity we have in the US besides the FBI is the DHS. So we are going to essentially take the CIA's power to rig and bribe foreign media organizations, which is a power they've had since the day they were born in 1947. And we're going to combine that with the power, with the domestic jurisdiction of the FBI by putting it at DHS. So DHS was basically deputized. It was empowered through this obscure little cyber security, agency to have the combined powers that the CIA has abroad with the jurisdiction of the FBI at home. And the way they did this, how did a cyber and an obscure little cyber security agency get this power was they did a funny little series of switch ruse. So this little thing called CISA the and call it the Disinformation Governance Board. They didn't call it the censorship agency. They gave it an obscure little name that no one would notice, called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, who its founder said, we just security, we care about security so much it's in our name twice. And everybody sort of closed their eyes and pretended, you know, that's what it was. But it was created by act of Congress in 2018 because of the perceived threat that Russia had hacked the 2016 election, had physically hacked it. And so we needed the cyber security power, to be able to, to be able to deal with that. And essentially on the heels of a CIA memo on January 6th, 2017, and a same day, DHS executive order on January 6th, 2017, arguing that Russia had interfered in the 2016 election and a DHS mandate, saying that elections are now critical infrastructure. You had this new power within DHS to say that cyber security attacks on elections are now our purview. And then they did two cute things. One, they said so they said, miss this. And information online are a form of cyber security attack. They are a cyber attack because they are happening online. And they said, well, actually Russian disinformation is we're actually protecting democracy in elections. We don't need a Russian predicate after Russiagate died. So just like that, you had the Cyber Security Agency be able to legally make the argument that your tweets about Mail-In ballots, if you undermine public faith and confidence in them as a legitimate form of voting, was now you were now conducting a cyber attack on US critical infrastructure by by articulating misinformation on Twitter. And just like that and now what they did then is they.
Tucker [00:37:14] So in other words, complaining about election fraud is the same as taking down our power grid.
Mike Benz [00:37:21] Yes, you could literally be on your toilet seat at 9:30 on a Thursday night and tweet, "I think that Mail-In ballots are illegitimate." And you were essentially then caught up in the crosshairs of the Department of Homeland Security, classifying you as conducting a cyber attack on U.S. critical infrastructure because you were doing misinformation online in the cyber realm and misinformation is a cyber attack on democracy when it undermines public faith and confidence in our democratic elections and our democratic institutions. They would end up going far beyond that. They would actually define democratic institutions as being another thing that was a cyber security attack to, to undermine. And lo and behold, the mainstream media is considered a democratic institution. That would come later. What ended up happening was in advance of the 2020 election, starting in April of 2020, although this goes back before. You had this essentially Never-Trump neocon Republican DHS working with essentially NATO on the national security side and and essentially the DNC, if you will, to to use DHS as the launching point for a government coordinated mass censorship campaign spanning every single social media platform on Earth in order to pre censor the ability to dispute the legitimacy of mail in ballots. And here's how they did this. They aggregated four different institutions: Stanford University, the University of Washington, a company called Graphika, and the Atlantic Council. Now all four of these institutions, the centers within them, were where we're essentially Pentagon cutouts. You had, you had at the Stanford Internet Observatory. It was actually run by Michael McFaul. If you know Michael McFaul, he was the U.S. ambassador to Russia under the Obama administration. And he personally authored a seven step playbook for how to successfully orchestrate a color revolution that is, in part of that involved maintaining total control over media and social media, juicing up the civil society outfits, calling elections illegitimate in order…. All of these people were professional Russiagaters, professional election de-legitimizers in 2016. So Stanford University, the Stanford Observatory under Michael McFaul was run by Alex Stamos, who was formerly a Facebook executive who coordinated with DNI and the, with respect to, Russiagate, you know, taking down Russian propaganda at Facebook. So this is another, liaison essentially to the national security state and under Alex Stamos at Stanford Observatory was Rene DiResta, who started her career in the CIA and wrote the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian disinformation. And there's a lot more there that I'll get to at another time. But, the next institution was was the University of Washington, which is essentially the Bill Gates University in Seattle, who is headed by Kate Starbird, who, is is basically three generations of military brass who got her PhD in crisis informatics, essentially doing, you know, social media surveillance for the Pentagon and getting, you know, DARPA funding and, and working essentially with the national security state then repurposed to take on mail in ballots. The third firm, Graphika, got $7 million in Pentagon grants, and got their start as part of the Pentagon's Minerva initiative. The Minerva initiative is the psychological warfare research center of the Pentagon. This group was doing social media spying and narrative mapping for the Pentagon until the 2016 election happened and then were were repurposed into a partnership with the Department of Homeland Security to censor, you know, 22 million Trump tweets, pro-Trump tweets about Mail-In ballots. And then the fourth institution, as I mentioned, was the Atlantic Council, who's got seven CIA directors on the board. So one after another, it is exactly what Ben Rhodes described it during the Obama era as the blob, the foreign policy establishment. It's a it's the it's the Defense Department, the State Department, or the CIA every single time. And of course, this was because they were they were threatened by Trump's foreign policy. And so while while much of the censorship looks like it's coming domestically, it's actually by our foreign facing department of dirty tricks, color revolution blob, who are professional government topless, who were then basically descended on the 2020 election. Now they did this. They explicitly said the head of this election integrity partnership on tape and my foundation clipped them. And it's been played before Congress. And it's in, you know, a part of the Missouri v Biden lawsuit now, but they explicitly said on tape that they were set up to do what the government was banned from doing itself. And then they articulated a multi-step framework in order to coerce all the tech companies to take censorship actions. They said on tape, the tech companies would not have done, but for their pressure, which involved using threats of government force. Because they were the deputized arm of the government, they had a formal partnership with the DHS. They were able to use DHS as proprietary domestic disinformation switchboard to immediately talk to top brass. All the tech companies for takedowns, and they bragged on tape about how they got the tech companies to all systematically adopt a new terms of service speech violation band called delegitimization, which meant any tweet, any YouTube video, any Facebook post, any TikTok video, any discord posts, any Twitch video, anything on the internet that that, undermined public faith and confidence in the use of mail in ballots or early voting dropboxes or or ballot tabulation issues on election Day was a prima facia, Terms of Service violation policy under this new delegitimization policy that they only adopted because of past through government pressure from the Election Integrity Partnership, which they bragged about on tape, including the grid that they used to do this and simultaneously invoking threats of government, breaking them up, or government stopping doing favors for the tech companies unless they did this, as well as inducing crisis PR by working with their media allies. And they said the government, DHS could not do that themselves. And so they set up this basically constellation of State Department, Pentagon, and I.C. networks to run this pre censorship campaign, which by their own math, had 22 million tweets on Twitter alone. And I think it's on 15 platforms. This is hundreds of millions of posts which were all scanned and banned or throttled so that they could not be amplified or they exist in a sort of limited state purgatory, or had these frictions affixed to them in the form of fact checking labels where you couldn't actually click through to thing or you had to. It was is an inconvenience to be able to share it. Now, they did this seven months before the election because at the time they were worried about the perceived legitimacy of a Biden victory in the case of a so-called red mirage blue shift event. They knew the only way that Biden would be able to was would win mathematically, was through the disproportionate Democrat use of mail in ballots. They knew there would be a crisis because it was going to look extremely weird if if Trump looked like he won by seven states and, you know, and then three days later it comes out, actually, the election switched. I mean, that that would put the election crisis of the Bush Gore election, on a level of steroids that the national security state said, well, the public will not be prepared for it. So what we need to do is we need to in advance we need to pre censor the ability to even question the legitimacy this took out.
Tucker [00:45:11] Wait, wait, wait. May I ask you to pause right there. So what you're saying is… What you're suggesting is they knew the outcome of the election seven months before it was held.
Mike Benz [00:45:21] It looks very bad.
Tucker [00:45:25] Yes, Mike, it does look very bad.
Mike Benz [00:45:29] You know, and especially when you combine this with the fact that this is right on the heels of the impeachment, the Pentagon-led, CIA-led impeachment. You know, it was, Eric Ciaramella from the CIA, and it was the Vindmans from the Pentagon, who led the impeachment of Trump in late 2019 over, you know, an alleged phone call around withholding Ukraine aid. This same network, which came straight out of the Pentagon, hybrid warfare military censorship network created after the first, you know, Ukraine crisis in 2014, were the lead architects of the Ukraine impeachment in 2019 and then essentially came back on steroids as part of the 2020 election censorship operation. But, you know, from their perspective, I mean, it certainly looks like the perfect crime. These were the people DHS at the time had actually federalized much of, of the national election, administration through this January 6th, 2017, executive order from outgoing Obama DHS head Jeh Johnson, which essentially wrapped all 50 states up into a formal DHS partnership. So DHS was simultaneously in charge of the administration of the election in many respects, and the censorship of anyone who challenged the administration, of the election. It's just like, you know, putting essentially the defendant, of a trial, as the judge and jury of the trial.
Tucker [00:47:01] But you're not describing democracy. I mean, you're describing a country in which democracy is impossible.
Mike Benz [00:47:06] What I'm essentially describing is military rule. I mean what's happened with the rise of the censorship industry is a total inversion of the idea of democracy itself. You know, the democracy sort of draws its legitimacy from the idea that it is, rule by consent of the people being rule. That is, it's not really being ruled by an overlord, because the government is actually just our will expressed by our consent with who we vote for. The whole push after the 2016 election and after Brexit and after a couple of other, you know, social media run elections that went the wrong way from. What the State Department wanted, like the 2016 Philippines election, was to completely invert everything that we described as being the underpinnings of a democratic society in order to deal with the threat of free speech on the internet. And what they essentially said is we need to redefine democracy from being about the will of the voters to being about the sanctity of democratic institutions. And who are the democratic institutions? Oh, it's us, you know, it's the military, it's NATO, it's the IMF and the World Bank. It's the mainstream media, who it is, the NGOs. And of course, these NGOs are largely State Department funded or IC funded. It's essentially all of the elite establishments, that were under threat from the rise of domestic populism that declared their own consensus to be the new definition of democracy. Because if you define democracy as being the strength of democratic institutions rather than a focus on the will of the voters, then what you're left with is essentially democracy is just the consensus building architecture within the democratic institutions themselves. And from their perspective, that takes a lot of work. I mean, I mean, the amount of work these people do. I mean, for example, we mentioned the Atlantic Council, which is one of these big coordinating mechanisms for the oil and gas industry in a region for the for the finance and the JPMorgan's in the BlackRock's in a region, for the NGOs in the region, for the media, in the region. All of these need to reach a consensus. And that process takes a lot of time. It takes a lot of work and a lot of negotiation. From their perspective, that's democracy. Democracy is getting the NGOs to agree with Blackrock, to agree with the Wall Street Journal, you know, to agree with, you know, the community and activist groups who are onboarded with respect to a particular initiative. That is the difficult vote building process from their perspective. At the end of the day, a bunch of, you know, populist groups decide that they like a truck driver who's popular on TikTok more than the, you know, carefully constructed consensus of the NATO military brass. Well, then, from their perspective, you know, that is now an attack on democracy. And this is what this whole branding effort was. And of course, democracy again, has that magic regime change predicate, where democracy is, is our magic watchword to be able to overthrow governments from the ground up in a sort of color revolution style, whole of society effort to toppling a democratically elected government from the inside. For example, as we did in Ukraine, Viktor Yanukovych was democratically elected by the Ukrainian people, like him or hate him. I'm not even issuing an opinion there. But the fact is, is we color revolutioned him out of office, we January 6th'd him out of office. Actually, to be frank, I mean with respect to… you had, you know, a State Department funded right sector thugs and, you know, $5 billion worth of civil society money pumped into this to overthrow a democratically elected government in the name of democracy. And they took that special set of skills home. And now it's here, perhaps potentially, to stay. And this is fundamentally changed the nature of American governance because of the threat of, you know, one small voice becoming popular on social media.
Tucker [00:51:04] May I ask you a question. So into that, that group of institutions that you say, now define democracy, the NGOs, foreign policy establishment, you included the mainstream media. Now, in 2021, the NSA broke into my private text apps and read them and then leaked them to the New York Times against me. That just happened again to me last week. And I'm wondering how common that is for the Intel agencies to work with so-called mainstream media like the New York Times to hurt their opponents.
Mike Benz [00:51:43] Well, that is the function of these interstitial, government funded non-governmental organizations and think tanks. Like, for example, we mentioned the Atlantic Council, which is, you know, NATO's think tank. But other groups like the Aspen Institute, which draws the lion's share of its funding from the State Department and other government agencies. You know, the Aspen Institute was busted doing the same thing with the Hunter Biden laptop censorship. You know, you had this strange situation where the FBI had advance knowledge of the pending publication of the Hunter Biden laptop story, and then, magically, the Aspen Institute, which is run by essentially former CIA, former NSA, former FBI, and then a bunch of sort of civil society organizations, all hold a mass, stakeholder censorship simulation, a three day, conference. You know, this came out and Yoel Roth was there. This was a big part of the Twitter file leaks. And it's been mentioned in multiple congressional investigations. But somehow the Aspen Institute, which is basically an addendum of the national security state got the exact same information that the national security state spied on journalists and political figures to obtain and not only leaked it, but then basically did a joint coordinated censorship simulator in September, two months before the election, in order, just like with the censorship of mail in ballots, to be in ready position to pre censor anyone online amplifying a news story that had not even broken yet.
Tucker [00:53:19] The Aspen Institute? So I mean, which is, by the way, I've spent my life in Washington'… Walter Isaacson, formerly of Time Magazine, ran it, for former president of CNN. I had no idea it was part of the national security state, I had no idea its funding came from the US government. This the first time I ever heard that. But given assuming what you're saying is true, it's a little weird that Walter Isaacson left Aspen Institute to write a biography of Elon Musk. Strange?
Mike Benz [00:53:48] Yeah. I don't know. I haven't read that book. I from what I've heard from people, it's a relatively fair treatment. I, you know, just total speculation. But I suspect that Walter Isaacson has struggled with this issue and may not even firmly fall in one particular place, in the sense that, you know, Walter Isaacson did a series of interviews of Rick Stengel, actually, with the Atlantic Council, in other settings, where he interviewed Rick Stengel, specifically on the issue of you know, the need to get rid of the First Amendment and the threat that free speech on social media poses to democracy. Now, at the time, I was very concerned. This was between 2017 and 2019 when he did these Rick Stengel interviews. I was very concerned because Isaacson expressed what seemed to me to be a highly sympathetic, view about the Rick Stengel, you know, perspective on killing the First Amendment. Now, he didn't formally endorse that position, but it left me very skittish about Isaacson. But what I should say is, at the time, I don't think very many people, in fact, I know virtually nobody in the country, had any idea how deep the rabbit hole went when it came to the construction of the censorship industry and how deep the tentacles had grown within the military, in the national security state, in order to Bouie and consolidated much of that, frankly, did not even come to public light until even last year. You know, frankly, some of that was galvanized by Elon Musks acquisition in the Twitter files and the Republican turnover in the House that allowed these multiple investigations, the lawsuits like Missouri v. Biden in the discovery process there. And, you know, multiple other things like the Disinformation Governance Board, who, by the way, the interim head of that, the head of that, Nina Jankowicz, got her start, in the censorship industry from this exact same, clandestine intelligence community censorship network created after the 2014 Crimea situation. Nina Jankowicz, when her name came up in 2022, is part of the Disinformation Governance Board. I almost fell out of my chair because I had been tracking Nina's network for almost five years at that point, when her when her name came up as part of the UK inner cluster cell of a busted clandestine operation to censor the internet called the Integrity Initiative, which was created by the UK Foreign Office and was backed by NATO Political Affairs unit, in order to carry out this thing that we talked about at the beginning of this, of this dialog, the NATO, sort of psychological inoculation, and, the ability to kill so-called Russian propaganda or rising political groups who wanted, to maintain energy relations with Russia at a time when the U.S. was trying to kill the Nord Stream and another, pipeline relation.
Tucker [00:56:45] Well, they did that.
Mike Benz [00:56:48] Nina Jankowicz was a part of this outfit. And then who is the head of it after Nina Jankowicz went down. It was Michael Chertoff, and Michael Chertoff was running the Aspen Institute Cyber Group, and then the Aspen Institute then goes on to be the censorship simulator for the Hunter Biden laptop story. And then two years later, Chertoff is then the head of the disinformation governance board after Nina was forced to step down. Of course, Michael Chertoff was the chairman at BAE I'm sorry. And Michael Chertoff was the chairman of the largest military contractor in Europe, BAE Military.
Tucker [00:57:24] So you've blown my mind so many times in this conversation that I'm going to need a nap directly after it's done. So I've just got two more questions for you. One short, one a little longer. The short one is, for people who've made it this far i- an hour in - and want to know more about this topic. And by the way, I hope you'll come back whenever you have the time to explore different threads of the story. But for people who want to do research on their own, how can your research on this be found on the internet?
Mike Benz [00:57:53] Sure. So our foundation is FoundationForFreedomOnline.com. We publish all manner of reports on every aspect of the censorship industry from what we talked about with the role of the military industrial complex in national security, state to what the universities are doing to, you know, like I sometimes refer to as digital MKUltra, there's just the field of basically the science of censorship and how and the funding of these psychological manipulation methods in order to nudge people into different belief systems, as they did with Covid, as they did with energy and every sensitive policy issues, what they essentially had an ambition for. But my FoundationForFreedomOnline.com website is one way. The other way is just on X. My handle is at Mike Benz Cyber. I'm very active there and publish a lot of long form video and written content on all this. I think it's one of the most important issues in the world today.
Tucker [00:58:48] It certainly is. And so that leads directly and seamlessly to my final question, which is about X. And I'm not just saying this because I post content there, but I think objectively it's the last big platform that's free or sort of free or more free. You post there too. But, you know, we're at the very beginning of an election year with a couple of different wars unfolding simultaneously in 2024. So do you expect that that platform can stay free for the duration of this year?
Mike Benz [00:59:20] It's under an extraordinary amount of pressure, and that pressure is going to continue to mount as the election approaches. Elon Musk is a very unique individual, and he has a unique buffer, perhaps when it comes to the national security state, because the national security state is actually quite reliant on Elon Musk properties, whether that's for the, the electrical, you know, the sort of the green revolution when it comes to Tesla and, and the battery technology there when it comes, when it comes to Space X, the State Department is hugely dependent on, on space, because of its unbelievable, you sort of pioneering and saturating presence in the field of low Earth orbit satellites that, are basically how our telecom system runs to things like Starlink. There are dependencies that the national security state has on Elon Musk. I'm not sure he'd have as much room to negotiate if he had become the world's richest man, selling, you know, at a lemonade stand. And if the national security state goes too hard on him by invoking something like CFIUS to sort of nationalize some of these properties, I think the shockwave that it would send to the international investor community would be irrecoverable at a time when we're engaged in great power competition. So they're trying to kill, you know, they're trying to sort of induce a, I think, a sort of corporate regime change through, a series of things involving a sort of death by a thousand paper cuts. I think there are 7 or 8 different Justice Department or SEC or FTC investigations into Elon Musk properties that all started, after his acquisition of X. But then what they're trying to do right now is what I call the transatlantic flank attack 2.0. You know, we talked in this dialog about how the censorship industry really got its start when a bunch of State Department exiles, who were expecting promotions, took their special set of skills in coercing European countries to pass sanctions on themselves to cut off their own leg despite themselves, in order to pass sanctions on Russia. They ran back that same playbook with doing a road show for censorship instead for sanctions. We are now witnessing, you know, transatlantic flank attack 2.0, if you will, which is because they have lost a lot of their federal government powers to do this same censorship operation they been doing from 2018 to 2022, in part because the House has totally turned on them, in part because of the media, in part because Missouri v. Biden, which won a slam dunk case actually banning government censorship at the trial court and appellate court levels, is now before the Supreme Court. They've now moved into two strategies. One of them is state level censorship laws. California just passed a new law which the censorship industry totally drove from start to finish around… They call it platform accountability and transparency, which is basically forcing Elon Musk to give over the kind of narrative mapping data that these CIA conduits and Pentagon cutouts were using to create these weapons of mass deletion, these abilities to just censor everything at scale because they had all the internal platform data. Elon Musk took that away. They're using state laws like this new California law to crack that open. But the major threat right now is the threat from Europe, with, with, you know, something called the eU Digital Services Act, which was cooked up in tandem with folks like Newsguard, which is run by, you know, which has has a board of Michael Hayden, head of the CIA, NSA, four star general. Rick Stengel is on that board. You know, from from the State Department's propaganda office. Tom Ridge is on that board from the Department of Homeland Security. Oh, and Anders Fogh Rasmussen is on that board. He was the, the general secretary of NATO under the Obama administration. So you have NATO, the CIA, the NSA, four star general, DHS, and the State Department working with the EU to craft the censorship laws that now are the largest existential threat to X other than potential advertiser boycotts, because there is now disinformation is now banned as a matter of law in, in the EU. And the EU is a bigger market for X than the US. There's only 300 million some people in the U.S. there's 450 million in Europe. X is now forced to comply with this brand new law that just got ratified this year, where they either need to forfeit 6% of their global annual revenue to the EU to maintain operations there or put in place essentially the kind of, you know, CIA bumper cars, if you will, that I've been describing over the course of this, in order to have an internal mechanism to censor anything that the EU, which is just a proxy for NATO, deems to be disinformation. And you can bet with 65 elections around the globe this year, you can you can predict every single time what they're going to define disinformation as. So that's the main the main fight right now is, is dealing with the transatlantic flank attack from Europe.
Tucker [01:04:16] I said this five times, but that's just one of the most remarkable stories I've ever heard. And I'm grateful to you for bringing it to us. Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation for Freedom Online. And I hope we see you again.
Timestamp Headline
00:02:59
From internet freedom to internet censorship
The National Security State & the Inversion of Democracy Uncensored
Published Feb 16, 2024 - 64 mins
The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I'm describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It's the inversion of democracy."
https://tuckercarlson.com/uncensored-the-national-security-state-the-inversion-of-democracy/
#19999227 at 2023-11-29 22:47:22 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24550: Unthinkable Edition
'Censorship-Industrial Complex' architect suggested tanking Tesla after Musk purchased Twitter
Tesla shareholders should be "really angry" at Musk for crossing regulators that demand more censorship, Stanford Internet Observatory leader said while warning Musk could cripple misinformation research.
An architect of a Department of Homeland Security-backed private consortium whose aim was squelching purported election "misinformation" suggested that Tesla investors retaliate when its cofounder and CEO Elon Musk bought Twitter, according to a little-noticed podcast at the time.
On an "emergency edition" of the Stanford Internet Observatory's in-house show Moderated Content Oct. 28, 2022, a day after the sale went through, then-director Alex Stamos and Stanford law professor Evelyn Douek repeatedly invoked the threat to Tesla from Musk's stated intent to make Twitter less censorious.
SIO co-led the Election Integrity Partnership, which reported a 35% success rate of getting tech platforms to label, remove or restrict content in the months leading up to the 2020 election.
Emails from another participant, recently made public by the House Judiciary Committee, showed DHS and its Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency asked the groups to set up the consortium, with CISA and other agencies reporting purported misinformation through the ticketing system. Removal requests targeted Just the News among other media outlets.
Stamos, also Facebook's former chief security officer, and Douek mentioned Tesla 14 times on the podcast, which was flagged this week by Foundation for Freedom Online Executive Director Mike Benz, a former State Department official and critic of the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" that includes SIO.
Tesla shareholders should be "really angry" at Musk for his "huge strategic mistake" in buying Twitter, Stamos said, because the electric-car company has "huge exposure to all of these different regions that want to control the internet," which will be "the number one fight over the next 10 years" around the world.
Musk has made himself "personally responsible for content moderation" on Twitter when Tesla has a factory in Berlin, "the headquarters of European content moderation with Germany and NetzDG," and a quarter of its revenue comes from Communist-controlled China, Stamos said.
"Musk has bought himself into a hellish existence" especially overseas because "his personal focus has been on a handful of US political disinformation decisions or harassment decisions," including Twitter's de-platforming of President Trump and satire site The Babylon Bee and suppression of reporting on Hunter Biden's abandoned laptop, Stamos said.
https://justthenews.com/nation/free-speech/censorship-industrial-complex-architect-suggested-tanking-tesla-after-musk
#19993053 at 2023-11-28 22:58:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24543: #Uniparty Remove the Blockades: Ronna McDaniel Recall Edition
>>19993052
During the attack:
[T]hreat actors conducted reconnaissance, exfiltration, and data collection; identified product and network vulnerabilities; harvested credentials of SolarWinds employees and customers; and planned additional attacks against SolarWinds' products that would be deployed during later stages of the campaign.
They claim the malicious code provides a "backdoor" into the network's of SolarWinds customers who were using the infected versions of the software. Once SolarWinds was made aware of the vulnerabilities and the ensuing "SUNBURST" attack, the SEC claimed "[SolarWinds] did not fully disclose its known impact."
Following the discovery of the attack, the New York Times reported that it impacted the DOJ, DHS, State, Treasury, and Commerce Departments, the National Security Agency, and parts of the Pentagon, among others.
Ironically,Chris Krebs, after being fired, would go on to form the Krebs Stamos Group with Stanford Internet Observatory founder Alex Stamos. Stamos's Stanford Internet Observatory, along with The University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and The Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab were members of the Election Integrity Partnership. They infamously published "The Long Fuse" report, which explicitly admits to "engag[ing] with government stakeholders primarily to provide analytical capability and context around election-related misinformation."
The Long Fuse Report also admits to a corroboration with the EI-ISAC, which was a "singular conduit for election officials to report false or misleading information to platforms."
When Stamos and Krebs formed the Krebs Stamos Group, their first customer was...you guessed it...SolarWinds.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/president-trumps-latest-motion-compel-discovery-exposes-foreign
#19990884 at 2023-11-28 16:18:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24541: Tuesday Morning Melania Edition
>>19990753
>>19990787
>>19990784
>>19990809
Moar Krebs from the filing.
Allowed Russia to infiltrate via SolarWinds hack, then
became a consultant for SolarWinds.
This sounds like an electino securtity executive order violation
D. The Solar Winds "SUNBURST" Attack
One of the reasons that the CISA Election Statement was inaccurate is that, between
January 2019 and at least December 2020, parties reportedly linked to Russia's Foreign
Intelligence Service, the SVR, perpetrated what the SEC recently described as "one of the worst
cybersecurity incidents in history." Ex. C ? 11. In connection with what is now known as the
"SUNBURST attack,"
[T]he threat actors inserted malicious code into three software builds for SolarWinds' Orion
products. SolarWinds then delivered these compromised products to more than 18,000
customers across the globe. The malicious code provided the threat actors with the ability
to access the systems of these compromised customers, provided certain other conditions
were met, and became known as the SUNBURST attack.
Id. ? 13. During the attack:
[T]hreat actors conducted reconnaissance, exfiltration, and data collection; identified
product and network vulnerabilities; harvested credentials of SolarWinds employees and
On December 13, 2020, CISA issued Emergency Directive 21-01, titled "Mitigate
SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise." Ex. D. The Directive noted that "SolarWinds Orion
products . . . are currently being exploited by malicious actors," which posed "an unacceptable risk
to Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies and requires emergency action." Id. CISA made
those findings based on, among other things, the "[h]igh potential for a compromise of agency
information systems" and "[g]rave impact of a successful compromise." Id. As a result, CISA
directed "[a]ffected agencies" to "immediately disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion
products." Ihe next day, the New York Times reported that the attack had impacted the DOJ,
n December 2020 and January 2021, CISA issued joint statements regarding the attack
with the FBI, the National Security Agency, and the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence. 3 On January 6, 2021, CISA "determined that this threat poses a grave risk to the
Federal Government and state, local, tribal, and territorial governments as well as critical
infrastructure entities and other private sector organizations." 4
Following the termination of the CISA Director, he formed a consultancythat was retained
bySolarWinds in early 2021. 5
SolarWinds has hired ex-CISA chief Chris Krebs and Facebook's former security lead Alex Stamos months after its huge hack
Stamos
Election Integrity Partnership
Electino Censorshipfags
#19908608 at 2023-11-13 14:18:59 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24444: Last Gasps of the Old Guard Edition
#24442
>>19906358, >>19906385 He can't touch the bouquet of flowers - twat and mp4 vid biden and obama
>>19906420 Trump just told everyone he IS COMMANDER IN CHIEF - mp4 vid
>>19906481 Washington D.C. is trying to eliminate a test for social workers because many people of color are failing it - twat and mp4 vid
>>19906526 San Francisco built these makeshift walls and disappeared the homeless before they roll out the red carpet for Xi Jinping. - twat and mp4 vid (xi in usa, how and why?)
>>19906580 A seminar with an advertised purpose of brainwashing children: w.e.f led.
>>19906553, >>19906555, >>19906569, >>19906595, >>19906603, >>19906605, >>19906666, >>19906673, >>19906688, >>19906694, >>19906703, >>19906738, >>19906781, >>19906803, >>19906805, >>19906820, >>19906835, >>19906860, >>19906879, >>19906914, >>19906962, >>19906971, >>19906996, >>19907011, RH negative blood type and reptilian blood, dna question. Qdrop 4966 dna, mp4 vid bun
>>19906641 Economic Schedule for Week of November 12, 2023 - anon dig and source bun
>>19906686 Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is demanding the Biden administration provide a full account of the scope of its "CBP One" program
>>19906692 A jury ruled that St. Petersburg, Fla. based Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital must pay a family $211 million
>>19906730 Tragic: 15-Month-Old Girl Dies from Organ Failure and Cardiac Arrest Two Days After Receiving Three Vaccines During Routine Visit
>>19906734 Tim Scott is suspending his presidential campaign
>>19906799 12:00 AM EST Austin, South Korean Official Hold Briefing
>>19906897, >>19906937 Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina says he is dropping out of the 2024 GOP presidential race
>>19906964 David Axelrod warns 80 year-old Biden's 'age issue' is huge for Democrats
>>19906976 Rare Government Support Seeks To Contain China Debt Risks
>>19906986 Failed Speaker Kevin McCarthy Is Angry He Got Fired For Not Doing His Job
>>19907005 LB NOTABLE links: The UFC fight videos are comms for Watch the Water: Trump UCF Comms for China GO
>>19907070 #24442
#24441 >>19907087
>>19905584, >>19905596, >>19905601, >>19905635 Brian Cates on Q, Trump and the game of footsie.
>>19905649, >>19905710, >>19905715, >>19905737, >>19905765, >>19906072, >>19905821, >>19906072 Plane Faggotry
>>19905657 Conservatives are increasingly focused on silencing those who critique Israel
>>19905717 "Antisemitism Has No Place Here" - Harvard Pres. Condemns "From The River To The Sea" Phrase After 1600 Jewish Alum Pull Donations
>>19905725 Dan and Donald, posting multiple posts about fight fight fight
>>19905728, >>19905732, >>19905761, >>19905867 Georgia elections official downplays cybersecurity threats despite report
>>19905735 Still Think 'Allahu Akbar' Means 'God is Great'? You Should Probably Read This.
>>19905752 FBI accused by whistleblower of targeting veteran agents as 'disloyal' to US for having profiles 'consistent with a Trump supporter':
>>19905832 Exposed: Klaus Schwab & WEF's Secret Blueprint to Control Every Aspect of Your Life
>>19905877 Oxford AstraZeneca Covid jab was 'defective'
>>19906057 Denmark: Black Flags and Allahu Akbar chanted in the streets
>>19906150 Musk is over the target...Elon Musk has 'cut off the good guys, empowered the bad guys' on X, says Stanford's Alex Stamos
>>19906154 Palestinian / Hamas supporters take over the streets of the State Capital of Texas.
>>19906173 Stephen Miller: Trump will implement 'spectacular migration crackdown'
>>19906206 Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Judge in Trump Fraud Case
>>19906270 Recap: Terror Training Camps in New Mexico & just over the border in Mexico across from Brownsville
>>19907087 #24441
Previously Collected
>>19903900 #24438, >>19905271 #24439, >>19905545 #24440
>>19901551 #24435, >>19903200 #24436, >>19903262 #24437
>>19899871 #24433-A, >>19900743 #24434-B, >>19900620 #24434-A
>>19898687 #24431-B, >>19899126 #24432, >>19899873 #24433-B
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#19907087 at 2023-11-13 04:12:23 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24442: E-BAKE EKAB-E edition
>>19907047 (me)
>>19906353 Dough
NOTABLES ARE NOT ENDORSEMENTS
#24441
>>19905569 Dough
>>19905584, >>19905596, >>19905601, >>19905635 Brian Cates on Q, Trump and the game of footsie.
>>19905649, >>19905710, >>19905715, >>19905737, >>19905765, >>19906072, >>19905821, >>19906072 Plane Faggotry
>>19905657 Conservatives are increasingly focused on silencing those who critique Israel
>>19905717 "Antisemitism Has No Place Here" - Harvard Pres. Condemns "From The River To The Sea" Phrase After 1600 Jewish Alum Pull Donations
>>19905725 Dan and Donald, posting multiple posts about fight fight fight
>>19905728, >>19905732, >>19905761, >>19905867 Georgia elections official downplays cybersecurity threats despite report
>>19905735 Still Think 'Allahu Akbar' Means 'God is Great'? You Should Probably Read This.
>>19905752 FBI accused by whistleblower of targeting veteran agents as 'disloyal' to US for having profiles 'consistent with a Trump supporter':
>>19905832 Exposed: Klaus Schwab & WEF's Secret Blueprint to Control Every Aspect of Your Life
>>19905877 Oxford AstraZeneca Covid jab was 'defective'
>>19906057 Denmark: Black Flags and Allahu Akbar chanted in the streets
>>19906150 Musk is over the target...Elon Musk has 'cut off the good guys, empowered the bad guys' on X, says Stanford's Alex Stamos
>>19906154 Palestinian / Hamas supporters take over the streets of the State Capital of Texas.
>>19906173 Stephen Miller: Trump will implement 'spectacular migration crackdown'
>>19906206 Stefanik Files Ethics Complaint Against Judge in Trump Fraud Case
>>19906270 Recap: Terror Training Camps in New Mexico & just over the border in Mexico across from Brownsville
#24441 Posted in #24442
#19906150 at 2023-11-13 00:09:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24441: THANK YOU! #UFC295 FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT Edition
this is how you know Elon Musk is over the target...
Elon Musk has 'cut off the good guys, empowered the bad guys' on X, says Stanford's Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos,KrebsStamos Group partner, Stanford Internet Observatory director and former Facebook chief security officer, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss X, formerly known as Twitter, slashing its disinformation and election integrity team ahead of the 2024 election, the potential implications for next year's presidential election, and more.
THU, OCT 5 2023AT 8:56 EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2023/10/05/elon-musk-has-cut-off-the-good-guys-empowered-the-bad-guys-on-x-says-stanfords-Alex-Stamos.html
#19892799 at 2023-11-10 13:34:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24425: [KAMINOKAZE] exists with MAGA/THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA o7 Edition
>>19892793
2/6Election Integrity Partnership's Friends at Stanford Internet Observatory
Stanford Internet Observatory Cyber Policy Center - Alex Stamos
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/people/Alex-Stamos
- Director Stanford Internet Observatory
- Chief Security Officer ofFacebook
- mitigating information security risks
-Instagram and WhatsApp
- led the company's investigation into manipulation of the2016 US election
- helped pioneer several successful protections against these new classes of abuse
- representedFacebook and Silicon Valleyto regulators,lawmakersand civil societyon six continents
- April 2017, he co-authored "Information Operations and Facebook"
- highly cited examination of the influence campaign against the US election
- Chief Information Security Officer atYahoo
- led the company's response to theSnowden disclosures
- open hearing of theUS Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
- co-foundediSEC Partners(see David Thiel who was also at iSEC)
- holds five patents
- noted speaker and writer
- Munich Security Conference
- NATO CyCon
- Web Summit
- DEF CON
- CanSecWest
- organizer of the Trustworthy Technology Conference and OURSA
-securingtheUS election systemas a contributor
- Harvard's Defending Digital Democracy Project
- Stanford's Cybersecurity Policy Program
- UC Berkeley's Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity
-Aspen Institute's Cyber Security Task Force
- Bay Area CSO Council
-Council on Foreign Relations
-NATO's Collective Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia
- worked under Prof. David Patterson while earning a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science atUC Berkeley
Stanford Internet Observatory Cyber Policy Center - David Thiel
https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/people/david-thiel
- Facebook
- focusing on security and safety for Facebook Connectivity
- Terragraph mesh networking system
- Magma open source mobile network platform
- Express Wi-Fi and Facebook Lite
- iSEC Partners (VP) - (see Alex Stamos who co-founded iSEC)
- NCC Group, managing the North American security consulting and research team
- speaker - atBlack Hat,DEFCON, PacSec, SOURCE Boston
- author of iOS Application Security (No Starch Press) and Mobile Application Security (McGraw-Hill)
#19888666 at 2023-11-09 20:46:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #24420: Infinite Powered Edition
5. That EIP was a fig leaf for DHS/CISA was never a mystery. Stanford's Alex Stamos said it was formed because CISA "lacked both kinda the funding and the legal authorizations" for its "necessary" work:
(YT Clip, I'll grab later)
https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1722697375951536284
#19482816 at 2023-09-03 16:10:41 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23928: Burning Man Rainy Day Edition
In Monitoring Sex Abuse of Children, Apple Is Caught Between Safety and Privacy
SAN FRANCISCO - In 2021, Apple was embroiled in controversy over a plan to scan iPhones for child sexual abuse materials. Privacy experts warned that governments could abuse the system, and the backlash was so severe that Apple eventually abandoned the plan.
Two years later, Apple is facing criticism from child safety crusaders and activist investors who are calling on the company to do more to protect children from online abuse.
A child advocacy group, Heat Initiative, has raised $2 million for a new national advertising campaign calling on Apple to detect, report and remove child sexual abuse materials from iCloud, its cloud storage platform.
Next week, the group will release digital advertisements on websites popular with policymakers in Washington, such as Politico. It will also put up posters across San Francisco and New York that say: "Child sexual abuse material is stored on iCloud. Apple allows it."
The criticism speaks to a predicament that has dogged Apple for years. The company has made protecting privacy a central part of its iPhone pitch to consumers. But that promise of security has helped make its services and devices, 2 billion of which are in use, useful tools for sharing child sexual abuse imagery.
The company is caught between child safety groups, which want it to do more to stop the spread of such materials, and privacy experts, who want it to maintain the promise of secure devices.
A group of two dozen investors with nearly $1 trillion in assets under management have also called on Apple to publicly report the number of abusive images that it catches across its devices and services.
Two investors - Degroof Petercam, a Belgian asset manager, and Christian Brothers Investment Services, a Catholic investment firm - will submit a shareholder proposal this month that would require Apple to provide a detailed report on how effective its safety tools are at protecting children.
"Apple seems stuck between privacy and action," said Matthew Welch, an investment specialist at Degroof Petercam. "We thought a proposal would wake up management and get them to take this more seriously."
Apple has been quick to respond to child safety advocates. In early August, its privacy executives met with the group of investors, Welch said. Then, on Thursday, the company responded to an email from the Heat Initiative with a letter that defended its decision not to scan iCloud. It shared the correspondence with Wired, a technology publication.
In Apple's letter, Erik Neuenschwander, director for user privacy and child safety, said the company had concluded that "it was not practically possible" to scan iCloud photos without "imperiling the security and privacy of our users."
"Scanning for one type of content, for instance, opens the door for bulk surveillance and could create a desire to search other encrypted messaging systems," Neuenschwander said.
Apple, he added, has created a new default feature for all child accounts that intervenes with a warning if they receive or try to send nude images. It's designed to prevent the creation of new child sexual abuse material and limit the risk of predators coercing and blackmailing children for money or nude images. It has made those tools available to app developers as well.
In 2021, Apple said it would use technology called image hashes to spot abusive material on iPhones and in iCloud.
But the company failed to communicate that plan broadly with privacy experts, intensifying their skepticism and fueling concern that governments could abuse the technology, said Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory at the Cyber Policy Center, who opposed the idea.
Last year, the company discreetly abandoned its plan to scan iCloud, catching child safety groups by surprise.
Apple has won praise from both privacy and child safety groups for its efforts to blunt the creation of new nude images on iMessage and other services. But Stamos, who applauded the company's decision not to scan iPhones, said it could do more to stop people from sharing problematic images in the cloud.
"You can have privacy if you store something for yourself, but if you share something with someone else, you don't get the same privacy," Stamos said.
Governments around the world are putting pressure on Apple to take action. Last year, eSafety Commissioner in Australia issued a report criticizing Apple and Microsoft for failing to do more to proactively police their services for abusive material.
moar
https://www.yahoo.com/news/monitoring-sex-abuse-children-apple-142505098.html
#19356983 at 2023-08-14 16:54:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23772: Yes You, No Comment Edition
Chinese Bots Are Filling Twitter with Porn Spam to Hide Mass Protests in Major Cities
Chinese bots are spamming Twitter with posts primarily of porn and escorts in an attempt to stop the spread of news about massive protests against coronavirus lockdowns across the country. The spam operation is evidence of more problems for Elon Musk, with one former employee stating, "All the China influence operations and analysts at Twitter all resigned."
Searches for major Chinese cities that have experienced mass protests will "mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results." according to the account "Air-Moving Device" that was one of the earlier sources that located the trend.
Air-Moving Device continued: "Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets." The account shared data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatory director Alex Stamos.
The analysis noted that the "vast majority" of accounts appear to be spam accounts that "tweet at a high, steady rate throughout the day, suggesting automation." Mengyu Dong of Stanford University shared images of some of the "escort ads," adding that they "make it more difficult for Chinese users to access information about the mass protests."
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2022/11/28/chinese-bots-are-filling-twitter-with-porn-spam-to-hide-mass-protests-in-major-cities/
Past NEWS
#19236085 at 2023-07-25 01:33:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23625: Blackwater Bread Edition
Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem. Instagram too.
"Mastodon, the decentralized network viewed as a viable alternative to Twitter, isrife with child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to a new study from Stanford's Internet Observatory (via The Washington Post). In just two days, researchers found 112 instances of known CSAM across 325,000 posts on the platform - with the first instance showing up after just five minutes of searching.
…
"We got more photoDNA hits in a two-day period than we've probably had in the entire history of our organization of doing any kind of social media analysis, and it's not even close," David Thiel, one of the report's researchers, saidin a statement to The Washington Post. "A lot of it is just a result of what seems to be a lack of tooling that centralized social media platforms use to address child safety concerns."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/24/23806093/mastodon-csam-study-decentralized-network
Also by David Thiel (no relation to Peter Thiel that this anon could find) last month:
"Cross-Platform Dynamics of Self-Generated CSAM
"A Stanford Internet Observatory investigation identified large networks of accounts, purportedly operated by minors, selling self-generated illicit sexual content. Platforms have updated safety measures based on the findings, but more work is needed.
David Thiel, Renee DiResta, Alex Stamos - June 6, 2023
"A new Stanford Internet Observatory report investigates networks onInstagram and Twitterthat are involved inadvertising and trading self-generated child sexual abuse material (SG-CSAM). Our investigation finds that large networks of accounts,purportedly operated by minors, are openly advertising SG-CSAM for sale on social media.Instagram has emerged as the primary platform for such networks, providing features that facilitate connections between buyers and sellers."
https://fsi.stanford.edu/publication/cross-platform-dynamics-self-generated-csam
#19163082 at 2023-07-11 22:24:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23535: The Edition Edition
>>19162870
>Name one 'disinfo' careerist...
Where have you been?
Renee Diresta
Clint Watts
Alex Stamos
Ben NImmo
Kate Starbird
Chris Krebs
Nina Jankowicvz
>>19162852
>The official anthem of 'disinfo' careerists
#18966825 at 2023-06-07 16:06:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23286: Canadian Smoke On The Water Edition
INSTAGRAM CONNECTS VAST PEDOPHILE NETWORK
JUNE 7, 2023
From a Wall Street Journal story by Jeff Horwitz and Katherine Blunt headlined "Instagram Connects Vast Pedophile Network":
Instagram, the popular social-media site owned by Meta, helps connect and promote a vast network of accounts openly devoted to the commission and purchase of underage-sex content, according to investigations by The Wall Street Journal and researchers at Stanford University and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Pedophiles have long used the internet, but unlike the forums and file-transfer services that cater to people who have interest in illicit content, Instagram doesn't merely host these activities. Its algorithms promote them. Instagram connects pedophiles and guides them to content sellers via recommendation systems that excel at linking those who share niche interests, the Journal and the academic researchers found.
Though out of sight for most on the platform, the sexualized accounts on Instagram are brazen about their interest. The researchers found that Instagram enabled people to search explicit hashtags such as #pedowhore and #preteensex and connected them to accounts that used the terms to advertise child-sex material for sale. Such accounts often claim to be run by the children themselves and use overtly sexual handles incorporating words such as "little slut for you."
Instagram accounts offering to sell illicit sex material generally don't publish it openly, instead posting "menus" of content. Certain accounts invite buyers to commission specific acts. Some menus include prices for videos of children harming themselves and "imagery of the minor performing sexual acts with animals," researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory found. At the right price, children are available for in-person "meet ups."
The promotion of underage-sex content violates rules established by Meta as well as federal law.
In response to questions from the Journal, Meta acknowledged problems within its enforcement operations and said it has set up an internal task force to address the issues raised. "Child exploitation is a horrific crime," the company said, adding, "We're continuously investigating ways to actively defend against this behavior."
Meta said it has in the past two years taken down 27 pedophile networks and is planning more removals. Since receiving the Journal queries, the platform said it has blocked thousands of hashtags that sexualize children, some with millions of posts, and restricted its systems from recommending users search for terms known to be associated with sex abuse. It said it is also working on preventing its systems from recommending that potentially pedophilic adults connect with one another or interact with one another's content.
Alex Stamos, the head of the Stanford Internet Observatory and Meta's chief security officer until 2018, said that getting even obvious abuse under control would likely take a sustained effort.
"That a team of three academics with limited access could find such a huge network should set off alarms at Meta," he said, noting that the company has far more effective tools to map its pedophile network than outsiders do. "I hope the company reinvests in human investigators," he added.
Technical and legal hurdles make determining the full scale of the network hard for anyone outside Meta to measure precisely.
Because the laws around child-sex content are extremely broad, investigating even the open promotion of it on a public platform is legally sensitive.
In its reporting, the Journal consulted with academic experts on online child safety. Stanford's Internet Observatory, a division of the university's Cyber Policy Center focused on social-media abuse, produced an independent quantitative analysis of the Instagram features that help users connect and find content.
The Journal also approached UMass's Rescue Lab, which evaluated how pedophiles on Instagram fit into the larger ecosystem of online child exploitation. Using different methods, both entities were able to quickly identify large-scale communities promoting criminal sex abuse.
#18940191 at 2023-06-02 14:17:03 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23252: Happy Flannel Friday Edition
>>18940189
According to AFL, working groups were also launched globally to "monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of IFCN's actions to help fact-checkers." The groups were also implemented to help combat the "harassment against fact-checkers." The core working group shows individuals from fact-checking and news organizations from 9 countries, including the U.S.
There were multiple instances where the FOIA documents show approved media outlets became "mouthpieces for the state media" and the Biden administration. And, in cases like the Biden Laptop article written by the New York Post, the Washington Post "reached out to the GEC" to request a call on "more declassified Russian disinformation" ostensibly to write a countering article, thus running interference for the Biden campaign. The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times allegedly did the same in early 2021 to "publish a story promoting the GEC's talking points on Russian disinformation and COVID-19 vaccines." The GEC even provided talking points for reporters.
AFL notes that media organizations with whom they disagree were excluded from the working groups and used media that was "strongly biased towards the promotion of State-approved talking points."
Media Literacy a Burgeoning Field: Government-Funded Media Literacy and MDM Studies Programs at Universities
Media literacy is a burgeoning field in the MDM arena, as revealed in recent entries by Mike Benz written for the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO) by Mike Benz, founder of the organization. Benz notes that "Disinformation Studies" is" 'academic speak' for online censorship." According to Benz's research, government funding is going to Harvard and other major universities and academic institutions to teach courses in the "field of mis- and disinformation studies."
Notably, it seems much of the censorship coming out of our government is against conservatives. AFL and FFO broke a story on a DHS snitch program" called CP3 that has allegedly been "weaponized against conservatives" with "$39.6 million in taxpayer dollars."
AFL Files Historic Class Action Lawsuit Will Show "Scope of Surveillance and Censorship Cannot be Overstated"
On May 2, 2023, AFL also filed a "historic federal class action lawsuit against key persons and entities involved in the so-called 'Election Integrity Partnership' and the 'Virality Project,'" on behalf of Jill Hines, the co-Director of Health Freedom Louisiana, and Jim Hoft, the founder the popular news website The Gateway Pundit. Defendants include the Stanford Internet Observatory and its Director and Research Manager, Alex Stamos and Ren?e DiResta, Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Research Council's Digital Forensic Lab. This lawsuit alleges:
"that these parties conspired with the federal government to conduct a mass surveillance and censorship operation targeting the political speech of millions of Americans on social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (under its prior ownership). This operation was specifically designed to target conservative political speech on questions of great public interest like election integrity, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccine mandates."
"The scope of the surveillance and censorship cannot be overstated. The Defendants admitted that during 2020, they surveilled a staggering 859 million posts on Twitter alone and that they tracked for possible censorship almost 22 million Tweets. Again, during seven months in 2021, they tracked posts about COVID-19 with about 200 million engagements for possible censorship. Americans who dared to speak out against the woke liberal orthodoxy that has infiltrated every sector of corporate America would face the threat of censorship and de-platforming by Big Tech giants and these elusive surveillance organizations acting together with the federal government."
The GEC Disarms Disinformation While Ignoring the Constitution
One final thought about the GEC. Featured at the top of the GEC's "Disarming Disinformation" page is a statement from Joe Biden about the "shared responsibility" of "defend[ing] the truth and defeat[ing] the lies." His message is rife with irony, given what we now know about Biden and the Biden administration's efforts to use its partnerships with the media and Big Tech to launder state-approved narratives. Missouri v Biden, information released in the Twitter Files or AFL, and our reporting have shown this administration to be the antithesis of one that honors the Constitution. A scroll through the many reports, statements, and resources released by GEC on its Disarming Disinformation page may prompt readers who follow independent media sources to think twice before believing hook, line, and sinker the content delivered there.
https://www.uncoverdc.com/2023/06/01/afl-lawsuits-gec-partnerships-are-another-way-to-censor-americans/
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#18786365 at 2023-05-02 18:41:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23055: Beating Legacy Media One Mound At A Time Edition
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1653432092217229312.html
America First Legal Files Landmark Federal Class-Action Lawsuit Against Private Entities that Conspired With the Federal Government to Censor Speech
May 2, 2023
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, America First Legal (AFL) filed a federal class action against key persons and entities involved in the so-called "Election Integrity Partnership" and the "Virality Project," on behalf of Jill Hines, the co-Director of Health Freedom Louisiana, and Jim Hoft, the founder the popular news website The Gateway Pundit. Defendants include the Stanford Internet Observatory and its Director and Research Manager, Alex Stamos and Ren?e DiResta, Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Research Council's Digital Forensic Lab.This historic lawsuit alleges that these parties conspired with the federal government to conduct a mass surveillance and censorship operation targeting the political speech of millions of Americans on social media platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter (under its prior ownership). This operation was specifically designed to target conservative political speech on questions of great public interest like election integrity, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccine mandates.
The scope of the surveillance and censorship cannot be overstated. The Defendants admitted that during 2020, they surveilled a staggering 859 million posts on Twitter alone and that they tracked for possible censorship almost 22 million Tweets. Again, during seven months in 2021, they tracked posts about COVID-19 with about 200 million engagements for possible censorship. Americans who dared to speak out against the woke liberal orthodoxy that has infiltrated every sector of corporate America would face the threat of censorship and de-platforming by Big Tech giants and these elusive surveillance organizations acting together with the federal government.AFL's lawsuit alleges that this massive operation was concocted in collusion with government officials - including federal national security officials - to evade the First Amendment, all while shielding the government bureaucracy. If proven, this is an overt, intentional, and explosive violation of the Constitution at the hands of the government.
#18786053 at 2023-05-02 17:23:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #23054: Popcorn Interlude Edition
>>18785954
America First Legal
/1?BREAKING - We filed a class-action lawsuit against "Election Integrity Partnership" & "Virality Project" for conspiring with the federal government to censor conservative political speech.
We are going after the architects of censorship.
/2 Today, we filed a federal class-action lawsuit against key persons and entities involved in the "Election Integrity Partnership" and the "Virality Project," on behalf of the co-Director of Health Freedom Louisiana and the founder of @gatewaypundit
America First Legal Files Landmark Federal Class-Action Lawsuit Against Private Entities that Conspired With the Federal Government to Censor Speech
https://aflegal.org/america-first-legal-files-landmark-federal-class-action-lawsuit-against-private-entities-that-conspired-with-the-federal-government-to-censor-speech/
/3 Defendants include the Stanford Internet Observatory and its Director and Research Manager, Alex Stamos and Ren?e DiResta, Dr. Kate Starbird of the University of Washington, Graphika, and the Atlantic Research Council's Digital Forensic Lab.
/4 This historic lawsuit alleges that these parties conspired with the federal government to conduct a mass surveillance/censorship operation targeting the political speech of millions of Americans on social media platforms.
/5 This operation was specifically designed to target conservative political speech on questions of great public interest like election integrity, COVID-19 vaccines, and vaccine mandates.
/6 The scope of the surveillance and censorship cannot be overstated.
The Defendants admitted that during 2020, they surveilled a staggering 859 million posts on Twitter alone and that they tracked for possible censorship almost 22 million Tweets.
Matt Taibbi?Apr 6
Restoring report that, per the Election Integrity Partnership's own report, their work resulted in flagging of 22 million tweets.
They're playing games with terms like "unique original URL," where more than 1000 tweets can be "collpased" into one "incident":
@mehdirhasan
/7 During 2021, they tracked posts about COVID with about 200 million engagements for possible censorship.
Americans who spoke out against the liberal orthodoxy faced censorship and de-platforming by Big Tech and these elusive surveillance orgs acting with the government.
Mike Benz?Apr 7
No. EIP literally created a ticket for every single one of these election narratives, flagged each NARRATIVE to be mass banned by the tech platforms, and every major tech platform responded to EIP's narrative-level censorship demands.
Those narratives total to 22 million tweets.
/8 Our lawsuit alleges that this massive operation was concocted in collusion with government officials - including federal national security officials - to evade the First Amendment, all while shielding the government bureaucracy.
Mike Benz?3h
Just so we're clear: the US government (CISA, at DHS) set up the private sector censorship group (EIP) w/ the censorship switchboard operator (CIS).
The censorship group (EIP) only existed in the first place after its concept was presented to the government (CISA).
12:11 PM ? May 2, 2023
https://twitter.com/America1stLegal/status/1653432127705305090
#18605283 at 2023-03-30 01:42:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22822: Maximized Comfy Edition
>>18605281
Kept a secret from the public, the switch was "plotted on DHS's own livestreams and internal documents," according to Mike Benz. "DHS insiders' collective justification, without uttering a peep about the switch's revolutionary implications, was that 'domestic disinformation' was now a greater 'cyber threat to elections' than falsehoods flowing from foreign interference."
Just like that, without any public announcements or black helicopters flying in formation to herald the change, America had its own ministry of truth.
Together they operated an industrial-scale censorship machine in which the government and NGOs sent tickets to the tech companies that flagged objectionable content they wanted scrubbed. That structure allowed the DHS to outsource its work to the Election Integrity Project (EIP), a consortium of four groups: the Stanford Internet Observatory; private anti-disinformation company Graphika (which had formerly been employed by the Defense Department against groups like ISIS in the war on terror); Washington University's Center for an Informed Public; and the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensics Research Lab. Founded in 2020 in partnership with the DHS, the EIP served as the government's "deputized domestic disinformation flagger," according to congressional testimony from journalist Michael Shellenberger, who notes that the EIP claims it classified more than 20 million unique "misinformation incidents" between Aug. 15 and Dec. 12, 2020. As EIP head Alex Stamos explained, this was a work-around for the problem that the government "lacked both kinda the funding and the legal authorizations."
Looking at the censorship figures that the DHS's own partners reported for the 2020 election cycle in their internal audits, the Foundation for Freedom Online summarized the scope of the censorship campaign in seven bullet points:
22 million tweets labeled "misinformation" on Twitter;
859 million tweets collected in databases for "misinformation" analysis;
120 analysts monitoring social media "misinformation" in up to 20-hour shifts;
15 tech platforms monitored for "misinformation," often in real-time;
<1 hour average response time between government partners and tech platforms;
Dozens of "misinformation narratives" targeted for platform-wide throttling; and
Hundreds of millions of individual Facebook posts, YouTube videos, TikToks, and tweets impacted due to "misinformation" Terms of Service policy changes, an effort DHS partners openly plotted and bragged that tech companies would never have done without DHS partner insistence and "huge regulatory pressure" from government.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/guide-understanding-hoax-century-thirteen-ways-looking-disinformation
#18495804 at 2023-03-13 01:19:34 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22681: Comfy Bank Habbenings Edition
>>18495419
>Anons Cloudflare is tied to SVB bank.
got any sauce?
that's 'dasting - because Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince is also linked to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)'sCybersecurity Advisory Committee- which is a major player in the WORLDWIDE DISINFORMATION NETWORK re #Twitterfiles
Below is a list of the individuals on CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee:
Ms. Marene Allison, Chief Information Security Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Ms. Lori Beer, Chief Information Officer, JPMorgan Chase
Mr. Ronald Green, Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Mastercard
Mr. Matthew Prince, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudflare & World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
Ms. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Public Policy & Trust and Safety Lead, Twitter
Ms. Nuala O'Connor, Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel, Digital Citizenship, Walmart
Ms. Nicole Wong, Principal, NWong Strategies & Former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration
Ms. Nicole Perlroth, New York Times Cybersecurity Journalist
Mr. Chris Young, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy, and Ventures, Microsoft
Mr. Stephen Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer, Amazon Web Services
Mr. George Stathakopoulos, Vice President of Corporate Information Security, Apple
Mr. Alex Stamos, Partner, Krebs Stamos Group
Ms. Niloofar Razi Howe, Board Member, Tenable
Mr. Steve Adler, Mayor, City of Austin, Texas & Vice President of the National Council of Democratic Mayors
Mr. Robert Chesney, James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs, University of Texas School of Law
Mr. Thomas Fanning, Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company
Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor, University of Pittsburg
Mr. Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer, Mandiant
Mr. Jeff Moss, President, DEF CON Communications
Mr. Ted Schlein, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins; and Caufield & Byers
Ms. Suzanne Spaulding, Senior Advisor for Homeland Security, CSIS
Dr. Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Brigadier General Alicia Tate-Nadeau (ARNG-Ret.), Director, Illinois Emergency Management Agency
https://warroom.org/2022/12/16/exposed-full-list-of-companies-aiding-governments-disinformation-censorship-campaign/
CISA's gotten exposed as corrupt by Patel Patriot - i think it's drop #5, i also dug on CISA corruption because it takes its cues a group of Dominion and other major election system reps…..can sauce it if anyone wants to follow up.
cozy huh?
#18481020 at 2023-03-10 20:44:40 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22662: SVB/Alfa Bank Ties To Ukraine/BLM Edition
>>18480999
TWITTER FILES Mar. 9, 2023
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21.While Twitter sometimes pushed back on technical analyses from NGOs about who is and isn't a "bot," on subject matter questions like vaccines or elections they instantly defer to sites like Politifact, funded by the same names that fund the NGOs: Koch, Newmark, Knight.
22. #TwitterFiles repeatedly show media acting as proxy for NGOs, with Twitter bracing for bad headlines if they don't nix accounts. Here, the Financial Times gives Twitter until end of day to provide a "steer" on whether RFK, Jr. and other vax offenders will be zapped.
23. Well, you say, so what? Why shouldn't civil society organizations and reporters work together to boycott "misinformation"? Isn't that not just an exercise of free speech, but a particularly enlightened form of it?
24. The difference is, these campaigns are taxpayer-funded. Though the state is supposed to stay out domestic propaganda, the Aspen Institute, Graphika, the Atlantic Council's DFRLab, New America, and other "anti-disinformation" labs are receiving huge public awards.
25. Some NGOs, like the GEC-funded Global Disinformation Index or the DOD-funded Newsguard, not only seek content moderation but apply subjective "risk" or "reliability" scores to media outlets, which can result in reduction in revenue. Do we want government in this role?
26. Perhaps the ultimate example of the absolute fusion of state, corporate, and civil society organizations is the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), whose "Election Integrity Partnership" is among the most voluminous "flaggers" in the #TwitterFiles:
27. After public uproar "paused" the Orwellian "Disinformation Governance Board" of the DHS in early 2020, Stanford created the EIP to "fill the gaps" legally, as director Alex Stamos explains here (h/t Foundation for Freedom Online).
28. EIP research manager Renee DiResta boasted that while filling "gaps," the EIP succeeded in getting "tech partners" Google, TikTok, Facebook and Twitter to take action on "35% of the URLS flagged" under "remove, reduce, or inform" policies.
29. According to the EIP's own data, it succeeded in getting nearly 22 million tweets labeled in the runup to the 2020 vote.
30. It's crucial to reiterate: EIP was partnered with state entities like CISA and GEC while seeking elimination of millions of tweets. In the #TwitterFiles, Twitter execs did not distinguish between organizations, using phrases like "According to CIS[A], escalated via EIP."
31. After the 2020 election, when EIP was renamed the Virality Project, the Stanford lab was on-boarded to Twitter's JIRA ticketing system, absorbing this government proxy into Twitter infrastructure - with a capability of taking in an incredible 50 million tweets a day.
32. In one remarkable email, the Virality Project recommends that multiple platforms take action even against "stories of true vaccine side effects" and "true posts which could fuel hesitancy."
None of the leaders of this effort to police Covid speech had health expertise.
33. This is the Censorship-Industrial Complex at its essence: a bureaucracy willing to sacrifice factual truth in service of broader narrative objectives. It's the opposite of what a free press does.
34. Profiles portray DiResta as a warrior against Russian bots and misinformation, but reporters never inquire about work with DARPA, GEC, and other agencies. In the video below from @MikeBenzCyber, Stamos introduces her as having "worked for the CIA":
35. DiResta has become the public face of the Censorship-Industrial Complex, a name promoted everywhere as an unquestioned authority on truth, fact, and Internet hygiene, even though her former firm, New Knowledge, has been embroiled in two major disinformation scandals.
36. This, ultimately, is the most serious problem with the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
Packaged as a bulwark against lies and falsehood, it is itself often a major source of disinformation, with American taxpayers funding their own estrangement from reality.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633830002742657027.html
#18480999 at 2023-03-10 20:40:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22662: SVB/Alfa Bank Ties To Ukraine/BLM Edition
1. TWITTER FILES: ==1/4 or 5=
Statement to Congress
THE CENSORSHIP-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX
2. "MONITOR ALL TWEETS COMING FROM TRUMP'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT/BIDEN'S PERSONAL ACCOUNT"
When #TwitterFiles reporters were given access to Twitter internal documents last year, we first focused on the company, which at times acted like a power above government.
3. But Twitter was more like a partner to government.
With other tech firms it held a regular "industry meeting" with FBI and DHS, and developed a formal system for receiving thousands of content reports from every corner of government: HHS, Treasury, NSA, even local police:
4. Emails from the FBI, DHS and other agencies often came with spreadsheets of hundreds or thousands of account names for review. Often, these would be deleted soon after. Image.png
5. Many were obvious "misinformation," like accounts urging people to vote the day after an election.
But other official "disinfo" reports had shakier reasoning. The highlighted Twitter analysis here disagrees with the FBI about accounts deemed a "proxy of Russian actors":
6. Then we saw "disinfo" lists where evidence was even less clear. This list of 378 "Iranian State Linked Accounts" includes an Iraq vet once arrested for blogging about the war, a former Chicago Sun-Times reporter and Truthout, a site that publishes Noam Chomsky.
7. In some cases, state reports didn't even assert misinformation. Here, a list of YouTube videos is flagged for "anti-Ukraine narratives":
8. But the bulk of censorship requests didn't come from government directly.
9. Asked if Twitter's marketing department could say the company detects "misinfo" with help of "outside experts," a Twitter executive replied:
10. We came to think of this grouping - state agencies like DHS, FBI, or the Global Engagement Center (GEC), along with "NGOs that aren't academic" and an unexpectedly aggressive partner, commercial news media - as the Censorship-Industrial Complex.
11. Who's in the Censorship-Industrial Complex? Twitter in 2020 helpfully compiled a list for a working group set up in 2020.
The National Endowment for Democracy, the Atlantic Council's DFRLab, and Hamilton 68's creator, the Alliance for Securing Democracy, are key:
12. Twitter execs weren't sure about Clemson's Media Forensics Lab ("too chummy with HPSCI"), and weren't keen on the Rand Corporation ("too close to USDOD"), but others were deemed just right.
13. NGOs ideally serve as a check on corporations and the government. Not long ago, most of these institutions viewed themselves that way. Now, intel officials, "researchers," and executives at firms like Twitter are effectively one team - or Signal group, as it were:
14. The Woodstock of the Censorship-Industrial Complex came when the Aspen Institute - which receives millions a year from both the State Department and USAID - held a star-studded confab in Aspen in August 2021 to release its final report on "Information Disorder."
15. The report was co-authored by Katie Couric and Chris Krebs, the founder of the DHS's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Yoel Roth of Twitter and Nathaniel Gleicher of Facebook were technical advisors. Prince Harry joined Couric as a Commissioner.
16. Their taxpayer-backed conclusions: the state should have total access to data to make searching speech easier, speech offenders should be put in a "holding area," and government should probably restrict disinformation, "even if it means losing some freedom."
17. Note Aspen recommended the power to mandate data disclosure be given to the FTC, which this committee just caught in a clear abuse of office, demanding information from Twitter about communications with (and identities of) #TwitterFiles reporters.
judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subs...
18. Naturally Twitter's main concern regarding the Aspen report was making sure Facebook got hit harder by any resulting regulatory changes:
19. The same agencies (FBI, DHS/CISA, GEC) invite the same "experts" (Thomas Rid, Alex Stamos), funded by the same foundations (Newmark, Omidyar, Knight) trailed by the same reporters (Margaret Sullivan, Molly McKew, Brandy Zadrozny) seemingly to every conference, every panel.
20. The #TwitterFiles show the principals of this incestuous self-appointed truth squad moving from law enforcement/intelligence to the private sector and back, claiming a special right to do what they say is bad practice for everyone else: be fact-checked only by themselves.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1633830002742657027.html
#18313782 at 2023-02-09 16:38:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22444: The Hunt for Red October is Ober Edition
>>18313776
>Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos,
Stamos works with Chris Krebs nowbtw
#18313776 at 2023-02-09 16:37:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22444: The Hunt for Red October is Ober Edition
>>18313767
Cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos, a former Facebook security chief, tweeted Thursday that there is a "serious risk of a breach with drastically reduced staff" that could also put Twitter at odds with a 2011 order from the Federal Trade Commission that required it to address serious data security lapses.
"Twitter made huge strides towards a more rational internal security model and backsliding will put them in trouble with the FTC" and other regulators in the U.S. and Europe, Stamos said.
The FTC said in a statement Thursday that it is "tracking recent developments at Twitter with deep concern."
"No CEO or company is above the law, and companies must follow our consent decrees," said the agency's statement. "Our revised consent order gives us new tools to ensure compliance, and we are prepared to use them."
#18309920 at 2023-02-08 22:55:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22439: God Woke (You) up for a reason Edition
CISA NAMES 23 MEMBERS TO NEW CYBERSECURITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Original release date: December 01, 2021 | Last revised: February 01, 2022
https://www.cisa.gov/news/2021/12/01/cisa-names-23-members-new-cybersecurity-advisory-committee
The members of the Committee are:
Mr. Steve Adler, Mayor, City of Austin, Texas
Ms. Marene Allison, Chief Information Security Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Ms. Lori Beer, Chief Information Officer, JPMorgan Chase
Mr. Robert Chesney, James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs, University of Texas School of Law
Mr. Thomas Fanning, Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company
Ms. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Public Policy & Trust and Safety Lead, Twitter
Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor, University of Pittsburg
Mr. Ronald Green, Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Mastercard
Ms. Niloofar Razi Howe, Board Member, Tenable
Mr. Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer, Mandiant
Mr. Jeff Moss, President, DEF CON Communications
Ms. Nuala O'Connor, Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel, Digital Citizenship, Walmart
Ms. Nicole Perlroth, Cybersecurity Journalist
Mr. Matthew Prince, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudflare
Mr. Ted Schlein, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins; and Caufield & Byers
Mr. Stephen Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer, Amazon Web Services
Ms. Suzanne Spaulding, Senior Advisor for Homeland Security, CSIS
Mr. Alex Stamos, Partner, Krebs Stamos Group
Dr. Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Mr. George Stathakopoulos, Vice President of Corporate Information Security, Apple
Brigadier General Alicia Tate-Nadeau (ARNG-Ret.), Director, Illinois Emergency Management Agency
Ms. Nicole Wong, Principal, NWong Strategies
Mr. Chris Young, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy, and Ventures, Microsoft
#18252819 at 2023-01-30 13:35:27 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22365: Are You Ready for Brain Transparency? Edition
Excellent long article
Bad News
by Joseph Bernstein
In the beginning, there were ABC, NBC, and CBS, and they were good. Midcentury American man could come home after eight hours of work and turn on his television and know where he stood in relation to his wife, and his children, and his neighbors, and his town, and his country, and his world. And that was good. Or he could open the local paper in the morning in the ritual fashion, taking his civic communion with his coffee, and know that identical scenes were unfolding in households across the country.
Over frequencies our American never tuned in to, red-baiting, ultra-right-wing radio preachers hyperventilated to millions. In magazines and books he didn't read, elites fretted at great length about the dislocating effects of television. And for people who didn't look like him, the media had hardly anything to say at all. But our man lived in an Eden, not because it was unspoiled, but because he hadn't considered any other state of affairs. For him, information was in its right-that is to say, unquestioned-place. And that was good, too.
Today, we are lapsed. We understand the media through a metaphor-"the information ecosystem"-which suggests to the American subject that she occupies a hopelessly denatured habitat. Every time she logs on to Facebook or YouTube or Twitter, she encounters the toxic byproducts of modernity as fast as her fingers can scroll. Here is hate speech, foreign interference, and trolling; there are lies about the sizes of inauguration crowds, the origins of pandemics, and the outcomes of elections.
She looks out at her fellow citizens and sees them as contaminated, like tufted coastal animals after an oil spill, with "disinformation" and "misinformation." She can't quite define these terms, but she feels that they define the world, online and, increasingly, off.
Everyone scrounges this wasteland for tainted morsels of content, and it's impossible to know exactly what anyone else has found, in what condition, and in what order. Nevertheless, our American is sure that what her fellow citizens are reading and watching is bad. According to a 2019 Pew survey, half of Americans think that "made-up news/info" is "a very big problem in the country today," about on par with the "U.S. political system," the "gap between rich and poor," and "violent crime." But she is most worried about disinformation, because it seems so new, and because so new, so isolable, and because so isolable, so fixable. It has something to do, she knows, with the algorithm.
What is to be done with all the bad content?In March, the Aspen Instituteannounced that it would convene an exquisitely nonpartisan Commission on Information Disorder, co-chaired by Katie Couric, which would "deliver recommendations for how the country can respond to this modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions." The fifteen commissioners include Yasmin Green, the director of research and development for Jigsaw, a technology incubator within Google that "explores threats to open societies"; Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and Kremlin critic; Alex Stamos, formerly Facebook's chief security officer and now the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory; Kathryn Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's estranged daughter-in-law; and Prince Harry, Prince Charles's estranged son. Among the commission's goals is to determine "how government, private industry, and civil society can work together .?.?. to engage disaffected populations who have lost faith in evidence-based reality," faith being a well-known prerequisite for evidence-based reality.
The Commission on Information Disorder is the latest (and most creepily named)addition to a new field of knowledge production that emerged during the Trump years at the juncture of media, academia, and policy research: Big Disinfo. A kind of EPA for content, it seeks to expose the spread of various sorts of "toxicity" on social-media platforms, the downstream effects of this spread, and the platforms' clumsy, dishonest, and half-hearted attempts to halt it. As an environmental cleanup project, it presumes a harm model of content consumption. Just as, say, smoking causes cancer, consuming bad information must cause changes in belief or behavior that are bad, by some standard. Otherwise, why care what people read and watch?...
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
#18050426 at 2023-01-01 01:49:09 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22122: Palindrome Confirms 2023 Will Be Glorious Edition
>>18050335
https://www.businessinsider.com/solarwinds-hires-chris-krebs-and-Alex-Stamos-2021-1
SolarWinds has hired ex-CISA chief Chris Krebs and Facebook's former security lead Alex Stamos months after its huge hack
#17955064 at 2022-12-16 18:44:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22010: Coup de Grâce Edition
https://t.me/BannonWarRoom/4907
EXPOSED: Full List Of Companies Aiding Government's 'Disinformation' Censorship Campaign.
(Hint: COVID-19 Vaccine Makers, World Economic Forum leaders, Major banks, Obama alumni, etc.)
https://warroom.org/2022/12/16/exposed-full-list-of-companies-aiding-governments-disinformation-censorship-campaign/
Below is a list of the individuals on CISA's Cybersecurity Advisory Committee:
Ms. Marene Allison, Chief Information Security Officer, Johnson & Johnson
Ms. Lori Beer, Chief Information Officer, JPMorgan Chase
Mr. Ronald Green, Executive Vice President and Chief Security Officer, Mastercard
Mr. Matthew Prince, Chief Executive Officer, Cloudflare & World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer
Ms. Vijaya Gadde, Legal, Public Policy & Trust and Safety Lead, Twitter
Ms. Nuala O'Connor, Senior Vice President & Chief Counsel, Digital Citizenship, Walmart
Ms. Nicole Wong, Principal, NWong Strategies & Former?Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer in the Obama Administration
Ms. Nicole Perlroth,?New York Times?Cybersecurity Journalist
Mr. Chris Young, Executive Vice President of Business Development, Strategy, and Ventures, Microsoft
Mr. Stephen Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer, Amazon Web Services
Mr. George Stathakopoulos, Vice President of Corporate Information Security, Apple
Mr. Alex Stamos, Partner, Krebs Stamos Group
Ms. Niloofar Razi Howe, Board Member, Tenable
Mr. Steve Adler, Mayor, City of Austin, Texas & Vice President of the National Council of Democratic Mayors
Mr. Robert Chesney, James A. Baker III Chair in the Rule of Law and World Affairs, University of Texas School of Law
Mr. Thomas Fanning, Chairman, President and CEO, Southern Company
Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Chancellor, University of Pittsburg
Mr. Kevin Mandia, Chief Executive Officer, Mandiant
Mr. Jeff Moss, President, DEF CON Communications
Mr. Ted Schlein, General Partner, Kleiner Perkins; and Caufield & Byers
Ms. Suzanne Spaulding, Senior Advisor for Homeland Security, CSIS
Dr. Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Brigadier General Alicia Tate-Nadeau (ARNG-Ret.), Director, Illinois Emergency Management Agency
#17954278 at 2022-12-16 15:58:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #22009: The Truth Hurts Edition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRUZwX7A1I0
State Media, Social Media, and the Conflict in Ukraine: What Should the Platforms Do?
As the war intensifies in Ukraine, the propaganda battles related to the conflict are already in full force. European governments have attempted to ban RT and Sputnik from platforms operating in the region. Facebook and Twitter have taken an array of actions to demote, label, and demonetize content from these sources. As is so often the case, precedents are being created in wartime that could have dramatic implications for the ways state-sponsored media will be regulated even outside these extreme contexts. To discuss what is happening and what the challenges are, this webinar will bring together scholars from the Stanford Cyber Policy Center (Renee Diresta, Alex Stamos, and Nate Persily), and Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Security Policy for Facebook.
#17875728 at 2022-12-04 17:12:54 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21917: Let's welcome ET's Elon! Edition
Elon Musk and Twitter: Is he in over his head?
Twitter may not be the biggest social media platform out there, but it's certainly one of the most influential, because what happens on Twitter doesn't just stay on Twitter. Which might be why the world's richest man, Elon Musk, is such a fan.
Musk bought the company for an eye-popping $44 billion, despite the fact that Twitter, which relies on advertising for much of its revenue, has turned a profit in only two of the last ten years.
Who is financing Elon Musk's $44 billion deal to buy Twitter? (Reuters)
Tech journalist and podcast host Kara Swisher harked back to businessman Victor Kiam advertising Remington electric shavers: "There was an old thing, 'I liked the shaver so, I bought the company.'"
Since his takeover, Musk has fired, or accepted resignations from, about two-thirds of Twitter's staff. "He thinks he can reform it," Swisher said. "If you looked at it as a business, you'd have to say, 'No, no, stay away from this.' But it's sort of like buying a yacht or a baseball team for a rich person. This is interesting to him."
Elon Musk set to fire roughly half of Twitter's workers
Musk job cuts continue at Twitter; Contractors pink slipped over weekend
Twitter workers flee after Elon Musk's "hardcore" ultimatum
SpaceX workers say they were fired for complaining about Elon Musk's tweets
Swisher has known Musk for over 20 years and has interviewed him
extensively. Lately though, he hasn't been such a fan of her coverage of him.
Since buying Twitter, Musk (a self-proclaimed "free speech absolutist") has invited back some users who had previously been banned or otherwise restricted. He's fired employees who have tweeted criticisms of him, and he posted (and then deleted) what one commentator called "the most expensive tweet ever": a conspiracy theory about Nancy Pelosi's husband. Expensive because there's speculation that that tweet, and many others from Musk, have caused advertisers to flee Twitter in droves.
"Now he's antagonizing advertisers and calling them 'woke,'" Swisher told correspondent Luke Burbank. "Advertisers will advertise on Satan, Inc., if it'll sell a Fitbit. I mean, honestly!"
A documented rise in hate speech since Musk's takeover came to a head this past week after the rapper formerly known as Kanye West tweeted a photo of a swastika, prompting Musk to suspend his account.
Hate speech's rise on Twitter is unprecedented, researchers find (New York Times)
Swisher said, "Anything that's more moderated - and I'm using word 'moderated,' not 'censored' - tends to do better with users, with advertisers, with the entire experience."
But Musk thinks Twitter's prior management unfairly stifled conservative speech. On Friday, when reporter Matt Taibbi tweeted a trove of internal emails purporting to prove Twitter's "liberal bias," Musk retweeted the thread approvingly.
Alex Stamos, the former chief security officer at Facebook, says the Russian hacking of Democratic National Committee emails in 2016 made Twitter wary of foreign influence campaigns. "In the days before the 2020 election, Twitter made the decision to not allow people to post the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop until they could try to figure out whether or not that was part of a government influence campaign," he said. "And then they decided, since it was going to get covered, that they should allow it to be posted. So, they did make a mistake. But the idea that it affected the election is just ludicrous."
For some, Twitter's suppression of that article became a First Amendment issue. But Swisher thinks that misses the point: "It's gotten sucked up into a free speech conversation or First Amendment conversation, largely by people who've never read the First Amendment. Because it's about 'government shall make no law.' That's all it says, folks. And so, companies certainly can, and they certainly do."
And speech on Twitter can have real-world implications. For years, Twitter's "blue checkmarks" have verified that a user is who they say they are. But when Musk started selling the checkmarks without actual verification, a slew of imposter accounts sprang up, like one posing as Eli Lilly tweeting out "Insulin is free now," causing the pharmaceutical company's stock price to tumble. In fact, due to security concerns, CBS News briefly paused its Twitter use two weeks ago.
Verified Twitter accounts impersonating LeBron James, George W. Bush and others send out fake tweets
Twitter was once a necessity for major brands. Under Elon Musk, it's now "high risk."
One current Twitter employee who spoke to "Sunday Morning" asked that we not identify him, for fear of reprisal from Musk and his online fans.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-and-twitter-is-he-in-over-his-head/
#17848303 at 2022-11-29 15:57:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21875: FOCUS Edition
CCP 50 Cent army is behind all the shilling….like I said a thousand times. CHINA CHINA CHINA everything leads back to China. All the billionaires and money in the world, all the censorship all the same model over and over again.
China reportedly floods Twitter with porn to block news of widespread COVID protests
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-reportedly-floods-twitter-with-porn-to-block-news-of-widespread-covid-protests/ar-AA14EWmJ
China is reportedly spamming Twitter with posts about porn and escorts in an apparent attempt to block news about the widespread protests across the country against COVID lockdowns.
Users searching for major Chinese cities that have seen mass demonstrations like Beijing and Shanghai will "mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results," Air-Moving Devices tweeted, along with a series of charts.
"Still working on our own analysis, but here is some good initial data that points to this being an intentional attack to throw up informational chaff and reduce external visibility into protests in China (Twitter being blocked for most PRC citizens)," Alex Stamos., director of the Stanford Internet Observatory, retweeted.
Stanford University's Mengyu Dong also shared images of Chinese escort ads, possibly made in an effort to make it difficult to access information about the mass demonstrations.
"Some of these acts have been dormant for years, only to become active ... after protests broke out in China," she wrote.
She noted that one account joined Twitter in 2015 but that all of its more than 2,000 tweets have come within the past 15 hours. Another joined in March and had only sent four tweets before Nov. 26. By the next day, it had more than 3,000 posts.
Former U.S. diplomat David Cowhig also questioned the timing of the sexually-explicit accounts.
"Chinese net censors at attacking this Twitter tag by posting great numbers of sexy photos to distract people from Wuhan protests?" he wrote. "Or just to jam the channel?
Fox News has reached out to Twitter.
China has erupted in chaos in recent days over leaders Xi Jinping's tightening of the nation's COVID lockdowns.
Protests began over the weekend across China over the country's "zero-COVID" policy. Ten people burned alive in an apartment in Urumqi, which reportedly was a result of the Beijing's hardline COVID restrictions.
Chinese citizens have taken to the streets to voice anger and outrage over the measures.
#17834294 at 2022-11-28 18:06:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21865: Taters Red Scarf Christmas Edition
Chinese Bots Flooding Twitter With Porn and Escorts to Bury News of Massive Protests Against COVID Lockdowns
The Chinese people have had enough of the brutal "zero-Covid" policies of the authoritarian CCP controlled country.
Citizens have been suffering under the cruel measures for years leading to isolation, starvation and even suicide.
Angry protesters have gathered all over China, including Tsinghua university in Beijing, with massive protests against the authoritarian regime's zero-Covid policies. Demonstrations have occurred recently in multiple in cities - including Shanghai, Nanjing and Guangzhou.
The regime is apparently using Chinese bots to flood Twitter with porn and escort ads to stop the spread of news about the protest and make it more difficult for users to access information.
The New York Post reports:
Chinese bots are swamping Twitter with sexually explicit posts about porn and escorts in an apparent bid to stop the spread of news about the massive protests against lockdowns and President Xi Jinping.
Searches for major Chinese cities that have seen mass protests will "mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results," said Air-Moving Device, sharing a series of charts.
"Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets," the outlet said, sharing data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatorydirector Alex Stamos.
The "vast majority" - more than 95% - appear to be spam accounts that "tweet at a high, steady rate throughout the day, suggesting automation," the analysis said.
Twitter user Mengyu Dong shared images of some of the bot's work including examples of dormant bots that suddenly are tweeting thousands of tweets a day.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/11/chinese-bots-flooding-twitter-porn-escorts-bury-news-massive-protests-covid-lockdowns/
#17746485 at 2022-11-11 04:45:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21752: GOP Establishment Losing Edition
"It was Alex Stamos's department at Stanford who hosted President Obama for that speech. The introduction to President Obama was given by Stamos's boss at Stanford and the head of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Michael McFaul.
Again as a reflection of the partisan bias of the personnel DHS outsourced social media censorship to, McFaul was a loud, proud and driving force behind the Congressional impeachment of President Trump in 2019.
On September 4, 2020, while McFaul was tweeting that Trump could no longer lead because he had lost the intelligence community and the military, McFaul's faculty lieutenants Alex Stamos and Renee DiResta had just been deputized the day before, by Chris Krebs's CISA, to censor millions of Trump's supporters off the Internet ahead of the election."
and Twitter too.
"Perhaps most concerning among the Atlantic Council's funders in the censorship context has been the scandal-plagued Ukrainian gas company, Burisma. Burisma is the company that was under criminal investigation for corrupt practices in Ukraine. The company paid a handsome salary to Hunter Biden on its board as Biden allies allegedly lobbied State Department officials on Burisma's behalf."
this is notable, imo
#16443968 at 2022-06-14 11:24:57 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20803: Happy Birthday President Trump! Edition
Morning anons…
On the call to shovels on Krebs…here is some interesting info…
When he was fired he turned around formed a security group with Alex Stamos who was the Facebook CISO. Security firm is called Krebs Stamos Group.
Their first client was SolarWinds…
#16435135 at 2022-06-12 14:29:10 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #20792: Red Text Girlfriend Is Missing Ebake Edition
>>16435065
>>16435101
Bingo.
https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/08/chris-krebs-and-Alex-Stamos-have-started-a-cyber-consulting-firm/
#15056755 at 2021-11-22 17:38:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19049: Maxwell's Trial BEGINS II Edition
CNN is becoming increasingly agitated about being in the bottom of the ratings pile. Boo hoo.
Former Facebook insider Alex Stamos tells @brianstelter: "We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences… There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN."
https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1350867883753091076
#14678247 at 2021-09-28 11:35:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18566: E-Bake Edition
Facebook announced Monday it was pausing development of the children's version of its Instagram photo-sharing app, after widespread criticism and building worries the platform could damage young people's mental health.
The decision to hold the iteration for children under 13 comes as Facebook grapples with fallout from a withering Wall Street Journal series revealing the social media giant's own research showed it knew of the harm Instagram can do to teenage girls' well-being.
Facebook's announcement was also made just days ahead of testimony from one of its executives before US senators at a hearing they called to probe "toxic effects of Facebook and Instagram on young people".
Instagram chief Adam Mosseri said that the project aimed at children, which would have created a parentally-supervised version of the app for youngsters, had been misunderstood.
"I still firmly believe that it's a good thing to build a version of Instagram that's designed to be safe for tweens," Mosseri said on NBC's Today show.
"But we want to take the time to talk to parents and researchers and safety experts and get to more consensus on how to move forward," he added.
In a written statement he noted "it's better for parents to have the option to give their children access to a version of Instagram that is designed for them".
Widely referred to by the unofficial name "Instagram Kids", the initiative has attracted criticism from various groups since reports of its development emerged earlier this year.
In May, a group of US senators wrote to Facebook urging the social media giant to halt its rollout, accusing it of a "clear record of failing to protect children on its platforms".
- 'Toxic effects on young people' -
Several US lawmakers signalled their approval of the pause, but some called for it to go further.
"A 'pause' is insufficient. Facebook must completely abandon this project," Senator Ed Markey tweeted.
Following the Journal revelations regarding potential harms linked to Facebook platforms, senators Marsha Blackburn and Richard Blumenthal announced a hearing Thursday focused on the question of protecting children on social media.
"This hearing will examine the toxic effects of Facebook and Instagram on young people and others, and… will ask tough questions about whether Big Tech companies are knowingly harming people and concealing that knowledge," Blumenthal wrote in a statement last week.
Facebook has confirmed that Antigone Davis, its global head of safety, will testify at the hearing.
Child advocacy groups also welcomed the news and criticized the risks for children associated with Instagram.
"Today's announcement… should give hope to anyone who believes children's wellbeing should come before Big Tech's profits," said children's protection non-profit Fairplay.
Facebook has hit back at the Wall Street Journal's characterization of the internal research, stressing that the studies detailed both positive and negative experiences of social media by young people.
However, Alex Stamos, a former chief security officer for the social media giant, argued that the problems online go beyond software and apps.
"Preteens probably shouldn't have phones, but parents give them anyway… Young teens shouldn't be on social media, but parents allow," Stamos tweeted.
#14502101 at 2021-09-01 09:11:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18345: Donald J. Trump: Shana, you are 100% correct Edition
>>14502100
Calls seeking information from Antrim county's clerk and the local prosecutor were not immediately returned; a call to the judge's office was referred to the county clerk. The Michigan secretary of state's office declined comment.
In Colorado, authorities are investigating whether Mesa county elections staff provided unauthorized access to systems. The county elections clerk, Tina Peters, appeared with Lindell in South Dakota and told the crowd she was being targeted by Democrats.
Colorado's secretary of state, Jena Griswold, said she alerted federal officials of the breach and was told it was not viewed as a "significant heightening of the election risk landscape at this point". This week, Mesa county commissioners voted to replace voting equipment Griswold ordered no longer be used.
Geoff Hale, who leads election security at the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa), said his agency has always operated on the assumption system vulnerabilities are known by malicious actors. Officials are focused instead on ways to reduce risk, such as using ballots with a paper record that can be verified by the voter and rigorous post-election audits, Hale said.
Having Dominion's software exposed publicly did not change the agency's guidance, Hale said.
Jack Cable, a security researcher, said he assumed US adversaries already had access to the software. He said he was more concerned the release would fan distrust among the growing number of people not inclined to believe in the security of US elections.
"It is a concern that people, in the pursuit of trying to show the system is insecure, are actually making it more insecure," said Cable, who recently joined a cybersecurity firm run by the former Cisa director Christopher Krebs and former Facebook security chief Alex Stamos.
Concerns over access to voting machines and software first surfaced in Arizona, where the Republican-controlled state senate hired Cyber Ninjas, a firm with no elections experience, to audit Maricopa county results. The firm's chief executive tweeted support of conspiracy theories surrounding last year's election.
After the county's Dominion voting systems were turned over, Arizona's top election official determined they could not be used again and ordered new ones.
Dominion has filed suits contesting unfounded claims about its systems. In May, it called giving Cyber Ninjas access to its code "reckless" and said it would cause "irreparable damage" to election security.
Ryan Macias, an election technology and security expert who was in Arizona earlier this year to observe that review, was alarmed by a lack of cybersecurity protocols. There was no information about who was given access, whether those people had passed background checks or were asked to sign non-disclosure agreements. Cyber Ninjas did not respond to an email.
Macias was not surprised to hear copies of Antrim county's system had surfaced online, given the questionable motives of the various groups conducting the reviews and the central role that voting systems have played in conspiracy theories.
"This is what I anticipated would happen, and I anticipate it will happen yet again coming out of Arizona," Macias said. "These actors have no liability and no rules of engagement."
#14399922 at 2021-08-19 20:44:18 (UTC+1)
Q General Research #18216 Roseberry Video Updates Edition
A very well-written article in Harper Magazine, that tries to be balanced, but fails. It is a good long read about the evolution of propaganda and advertising in the past century, however.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/09/bad-news-selling-the-story-of-disinformation/
Just some tidbits:
What is to be done with all the bad content? In March, the Aspen Institute announced that it would convene an exquisitely nonpartisan Commission on Information Disorder, co-chaired by Katie Couric, which would "deliver recommendations for how the country can respond to this modern-day crisis of faith in key institutions." The fifteen commissioners include Yasmin Green, the director of research and development for Jigsaw, a technology incubator within Google that "explores threats to open societies"; Garry Kasparov, the chess champion and Kremlin critic; Alex Stamos, formerly Facebook's chief security officer and now the director of the Stanford Internet Observatory; Kathryn Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch's estranged daughter-in-law; and Prince Harry, Prince Charles's estranged son. Among the commission's goals is to determine "how government, private industry, and civil society can work together .?.?. to engage disaffected populations who have lost faith in evidence-based reality," faith being a well-known prerequisite for evidence-based reality.
This mechanistic view of humanity was not without its skeptics. "The psychological premise of human manipulability," Hannah Arendt wrote, "has become one of the chief wares that are sold on the market of common and learned opinion." To her point, Eisenhower, who carried 442 electoral votes in 1952, would have likely won even if he hadn't spent a dime on TV.
if one fake news article were about as persuasive as one TV campaign ad, the fake news in our database would have changed vote shares by an amount on the order of hundredths of a percentage point. This is much smaller than Trump's margin of victory in the pivotal states on which the outcome depended.
A quick scan of the institutions that publish most frequently and influentially about disinformation: Harvard University, the New York Times, Stanford University, MIT, NBC, the Atlantic Council, the Council on Foreign Relations, etc. That the most prestigious liberal institutions of the pre-digital age are the most invested in fighting disinformation reveals a lot about what they stand to lose, or hope to regain. Whatever the brilliance of the individual disinformation researchers and reporters, the nature of the project inevitably places them in a regrettably defensive position in the contemporary debate about media representation, objectivity, image-making, and public knowledge. However well-intentioned these professionals are, they don't have special access to the fabric of reality.
#14328750 at 2021-08-11 22:49:05 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18127: The Great Pillow Symposium Edition
>>14328235
All FSI Publications
PUBLICATIONS
The Long Fuse: Misinformation and the 2020 Election
Books
Author(s)
Stanford Internet Observatory, Samantha Bradshaw, Daniel Bush, Elena Cryst, Renee DiResta, Isabella Garcia-Camargo, Josh A. Goldstein, Shelby Grossman, Carly Miller, Shelby Perkins, Alex Stamos, David Thiel, Alex Zaheer, Matt Masterson
https://fsi.stanford.edu/publication/long-fuse-misinformation-and-2020-election
#14300223 at 2021-08-08 20:44:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #18091: EBake
Facebook-Funded "Researchers" and the New York Times Team Up to Attack Gab
This evening I received an email (shared below) from Davey Alba at the New York Times. Davey explained that "researchers" from two organizations with direct connections to and funding from Facebook were defaming both myself personally and Gab as a whole for spreading "misinformation."
I'll get into the baseless and defamatory claims, but first I'd like you to tell you a little more about these two organizations.
Stanford Internet Observatory is led by Alex Stamos who is the former Chief Security Officer for Facebook. The CTO of Stanford Internet Observatory, David Thiel, also worked at Facebook before starting at SIO. Stanford itself is of course widely known as the Ivy League snob school that the "best and brightest" in Silicon Valley all attended and have deep connections to.
The second organization is Graphika. Graphika is a Facebook-funded "research" group whose executive leadership team includes Camille Francois, a woman worked at Google's infamous censorship technology incubator "Jigsaw," and Lauren Pencek who previously worked for the National Security Agency (NSA) among others.
The New York Times own reporting confirms that Graphika receives its funding from Facebook and Facebook is also listed as one of Graphika's top clients right on the front page of their website. Aside from Facebook, Graphika also partners with DARPA, a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense, along with Google, TikTok, and Pinterest.
Gab will never work with organizations like these and will never subject our community members to the slimy eyeballs of people who wish to "research" them. In fact we have spent years and a considerable amount of our engineering resources to stop these type of "reeeesearchers" from treating our community like lab rats.
Perhaps that's another reason why Graphika has spent almost an entire year attacking Gab, but I suspect it has more to do with their deep connections to our competitors.
Let's dive into the email from the New York Times, shall we?
Hi Andrew,
I'm a reporter from The New York Times, where we are writing about some viral posts about the coronavirus that have gained traction online in the past few weeks. I wanted to get your comment on a post by you that the Virality Project - a consortium of research groups focused on misinformation, including the Stanford Internet Observatory and Graphika, among others - identified as misinformation.
You can find their assertions here: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/60025974f9f7920e6b40885b/t/61097813bdc29713648c24bf/1628010515835/Virality+Project+-+0803+Weekly+Briefing+.pdf
I've also screenshotted the relevant portion in the document:
https://www.blacklistednews.com/article/80563/facebookfunded-researchers-and-the-new-york-times-team-up-to-attack.html
#14089124 at 2021-07-09 21:03:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #17828: Classic EBake
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1413601642889367552?s=20
they were too busy banning and censoring conservatives, thsta how
"Oh f—, how did we miss this?" Mark Zuckerberg said during a security brief, according to "An Ugly Truth."
Russia-based operatives published about 80,000 posts over two years, Facebook admitted in 2017.
See more stories on Insider's business page.
Mark Zuckerberg was shocked to learn the Russian government had infiltrated Facebook during the 2016 election.
"Oh f—, how did we miss this?" he said in a December 2016 meeting with Facebook's top brass, according to an upcoming book about the company, excerpted in Axios.
The Facebook CEO had just been briefed on information that nobody - including the US government - knew at the time, The New York Times' Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang write in their book, "An Ugly Truth," which comes out Tuesday.
The book excerpt reveals additional details about what exactly went down when Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg first learned about Russian interference on the platform, one of the company's biggest scandals. "An Ugly Truth" is based on existing reporting by The New York Times.
Russia's goal, Facebook's chief security officer at the time, Alex Stamos, explained to the room of executives was to influence the 2016 US presidential election.
The revelation was a shocking one. The book details that "no one else spoke as Zuckerberg and Sandberg drilled their chief security officer." The two executives asked why they were being told this now, nine months after Facebook's security team first spotted Russian activity.
"Yup, Sheryl Sandberg yelled at me," Stamos wrote in his 2018 account of the discovery for the Washington Post.
According to "An Ugly Truth," "Stamos felt that he had been trying to sound the alarm on Russia for months."
"It was well within my remit to investigate foreign activity within the platform," Stamos said. "And we had appropriately briefed the people in our reporting chain … It became clear after that that it wasn't enough."
Frenkel and Kang write that "no one at the company knew the full extent of the Russian election interference," according to Stamos, and that it could be much worse.
Article
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-mark-zuckerberg-reacted-to-learning-facebook-russian-election-interference-2021-7?amp&__twitter_impression=true
#12784290 at 2021-02-01 01:51:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16319: What Happened In SA Will Happen Here Edition
People Pretending To Do Journalism Are Mounting Pressure Campaigns To Silence Conservative Media
Using the wreckage of the Jan. 6 Capitol riots as leverage, corporate media and the pundit class postured themselves as the de facto arbiters of public opinion, and promptly set their sights on conservative media.
They took almost no time to pounce.
Within hours of the riots, corporate media reporters and pundits pointed to the presence of Proud Boys at the Capitol riots and organizing on social media. They implied or outright called for more censorship and encouraged the White House to enact new domestic surveillance powers. Naturally, deplatforming media companies that do not adhere to the dominant liberal orthodoxy became a subject of serious discussion.
Facebook's former chief security officer Alex Stamos alleged during a Jan. 17 segment of CNN's "Reliable Sources" that conservative influencers and media outlets have "abused" press freedom, and advocated deplatforming conservatives from both traditional and social media.
"We have given a lot of leeway - both in the traditional media and on social media - to people who have a very broad range of political views," Stamos told CNN host Brian Stelter. "We have to turn down the capability of these conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences."
Stamos singled out One America News Network (OANN) and Newsmax in particular and accused those outlets of promoting "violent extremism" in the same vein as the Islamic terrorist group ISIS.
"We are going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem. These companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such bringing them into tens of millions of homes," he told Stelter.
CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy also commented on the "Reliable Sources" segment in a Jan. 17 tweet, adding that broadcasters and cable providers should be asked "about why they beam channels" like OANN and Newsmax.
https://dailycaller.com/2021/01/30/corporate-media-deplatform-conservative-fox-cnn-censorship-journalist/
#12597700 at 2021-01-19 04:27:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16084: Final Countdown to the SHOWTIME Edition
>>12597663
The Ballad of Christopher Krebs: Connection to Voting Fraud Scheme
Doubled Down on the real "Big Lie" - Most Secure Election EVER
- - - - Part 2 - - - -
Risk Limiting Audits a Technique to Bypass Fraud and do a Pretend Recount'
Risk Limiting Audits a Technique to Bypass Fraud - VotingWorks Founder Ben Adida
https://twitter.com/benadida
Georgia Falls for Arlo Technique as Recommended by Krebs/CISA
To prepare for statewide post-election audits in 2020, the Secretary of State's Office is partnering with VotingWorks, and the Center for Election Innovation and Research, national non-partisan organizations that have experience with election audits in multiple states. Arlo, the auditing tool used in Georgia's risk-limiting audit, was recognized Thursday by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
https://sos.ga.gov/index.php/elections/secretary_of_state_proposes_rules_for_election_audit_transparency
CISA Recommends VotingWorks Arlo Tool as a Hedge to Foreign Influence
CISA rolls out post-election audit tool for 2020 article on Nov 22, 2019
The Department of Homeland Security has announced a partnership with election nonprofit VotingWorks to pilot new open-source post-election auditing software in several states ahead of the 2020 U.S. elections.
The software, Arlo, was developed by VotingWorks as a free, open-source tool to help states conduct post-election audits to verify voting results. DHS said that election officials from Pennsylvania, Michigan, Missouri, Virginia, Ohio and Georgia have already signed on to the pilot and that earlier iterations of Arlo have already been deployed by several states in off-year elections held this month.
"At a time when we know foreign actors are attempting to interfere and cast doubt on our democratic processes, it's incredibly important elections are secure, resilient, and transparent," Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Christopher Krebs said in a statement.
https://fcw.com/articles/2019/11/22/cisa-arlo-johnson.aspx
Set up Own Company with Facebook Associate Alex Stamos
Krebs Stamos Group helps organizations turn their greatest cybersecurity challenges into triumphs.
https://ks.group/
Chris Krebs most recently secured America's election as the first Director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. With a long career as a cyber-policy expert in private and public sector, Chris has unprecedented experience building coalitions to deal with critical security challenges.
Alex Stamos is the founder of the Stanford Internet Observatory and a recognized security technologist. He led the security teams at Facebook and Yahoo as they confronted some of the world's most challenging threat actors and has helped dozens of companies build strong security foundations.
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#12595692 at 2021-01-19 02:28:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16081: EO Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Edition
Governor Ron DeSantis Vows to Put an End to the Censorship of Conservative Ideas
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is working to make a name for himself, which could be a great thing for the conservative movement. His administration's response is leading the nation by balancing freedom and disease experience with COVID-19 despite having more elderly per capita than most states in the country. Last Thursday, he announced another first. He is the first Republican governor to take a stand against the growing push for censorship of conservative ideas.
Speaking at an event for the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, Texas, in the wake of the social media app Parler being completely shut down by Big Tech, DeSantis said:
"We need to really think deeply about if we are a disfavored class based on our principles, based on having conservative views, based on being a Christian, based on whatever you can say that is not favored in Silicon Valley," DeSantis said during a speech before a crowd of conservatives in Austin, Tx. Later, he added: "I think it's probably the most important legislative issue that we're going to have to get right this year and next year."
This is exactly correct. The pretext for taking down Parler was events on January 6th at the Capitol were organized on that platform. Later reports clearly demonstrated they were also organized on Facebook and Twitter, but Parler has not been restored, increasing the speculation that the move was anti-competitive and political.
Beyond the current drive for censorship online, some commentators suggest eliminating Fox News, OANN, and Newsmax from cable providers. Others favor pulling podcasts and YouTube channels using the riot at the Capitol as a pretext to color everything to the right of CNN as far-right and capable of inciting violence.
One example is former Facebook executive Alex Stamos appearing on CNN's Reliable Sources. Not only is he suggesting the social media networks crackdown as Joe Scarborough suggested on Morning Joe. He wants to close down all opposing views. After noting some YouTube channels had more viewers than daytime on CNN, he said:
"And, so, it is up to the Facebooks and YouTubes, in particular, to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation. And then we're gonna have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem, that these companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes. This is allowing people to seek out information if they really want to but not pushing it into their faces, I think, is where we're going to have to go here."
So, if you want a different point of view than the one Stamos approves of, you will need to hunt for it. At least until Amazon Web Services or GoDaddy boot those websites from their servers and hosting services. Governor DeSantis is looking for ways to prevent these actions from being taken and preserve the First Amendment for Floridians. It seems amending Florida's anti-discrimination law to prevent discrimination based on real or perceived political affiliation in commerce, employment, and other services would be a start.
An even more comprehensive plan would be for all 23 Republican-led states, where the party controls the governorship and legislature, to make similar legislative moves sooner rather than later. The justification is two-fold. The secular left has made political ideology something akin to religion. Even more moderate liberals critical of the left are excommunicated, as Eric Weinstein, a self-identified progressive, has pointed out. In these circumstances, political affiliation requires protection.
Additionally, researchers at the University of Toronto have linked specific personality traits to political preferences:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/stacey-lennox/2021/01/18/governor-ron-desantis-vows-to-put-and-end-to-the-censorship-of-conservative-ideas-n1394460
#12595196 at 2021-01-19 02:02:52 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16081: EO Ensuring Democratic Accountability in Agency Rulemaking Edition
Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos (FB and /Yahoo) guy.
https://ks.group/
#12587524 at 2021-01-18 19:08:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16071: National Guard Or US Marshalls? Edition
Liberal media, Big Tech increase calls to 'deprogram,' deplatform Trump supporters
Lincoln Project threatens Expedia group: 'You will feel immense pain if we fight'
Liberal journalists and social media voices have stepped up their calls to "deprogram," deplatform or outright threaten right-leaning voices in the aftermath of the deadly Capitol riot earlier this month.
During an appearance Friday on "Real Time with Bill Maher," former CBS News anchor Katie Couric ripped the Republicans in Congress who voted against impeaching President Trump over a charge of inciting rioters on Jan. 6.
"The question is how are we going to really almost deprogram these people who have signed up for the cult of Trump," Couric said.
Her language mirrored that of liberal Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson in the aftermath of the riot, when a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building in a deadly melee.
Robinson said last week on MSNBC "there are millions of Americans, almost all White, almost all Republicans, who somehow need to be deprogrammed," calling them members of a "Trumpist cult."
Forbes published an op-ed last week warning companies against hiring anyone who worked in communications for the Trump White House.
"Let it be known to the business world: Hire any of Trump's fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie," Randall Lane wrote.
Since the riot, Twitter and other social media outlets have banned Trump, and Google, Apple and Amazon deplatformed the right-leaning social media app Parler. On CNN's "Reliable Sources" on Sunday, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos called on Big Tech and major carriers like Verizon and AT&T to effectively deplatform right-wing outlets in the name of purging misinformation.
"It is up to the Facebooks and YouTubes, in particular, to think about whether or not they want to be effectively cable networks for disinformation," he said, questioning whether cable providers should provide conservative outlets.
"I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes. This is allowing people to seek out information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces I think is really where we're going to have to go here."
Reacting on "Fox & Friends" Monday, Fox News contributor Dan Bongino took issue with "activists for the left," like CNN host Brian Stelter, deciding what platforms should be allowed.
"They want to silence everyone," Bongino said, questioning how far Big Tech and the left will go in targeting opposing viewpoints.
"What happens when you send out an email questioning, say, climate change and all of a sudden Gmail says, nah, we're not deliver your email anymore. What, are you going to tell me that it is a conspiracy theory? I thought wiping Parler off the face of the Earth was a conspiracy too until I lived it."
https://www.foxnews.com/media/liberal-media-members-deprogramming-deplatforming-trump-supporters
#12586667 at 2021-01-18 18:24:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16070: Where There Is LIGHT There Can Be NO Darkness Edition
Former Facebook Exec: Some 'Conservative Influencers' Are Bigger than CNN, 'Turn Down' Their Reach
CNN has opened a new front in its efforts to blacklist its competitors. After former Facebook exec Alex Stamos told Brian Stelter that YouTube and other platforms have to "turn down the capability" of Conservatives to reach "huge audiences," CNN's Oliver Darcy took it one step further, calling on cable companies to stop delivering the right-leaning channels One America News Network (OANN) and Newsmax to paying customers.
CNN continues to give a platform to people calling for tech companies to escalate their censorship of conservatives, even after the tech platforms purged President Donald Trump, the most visible symbol of opposition to the ruling regime.
The network recently featured Alex Stamos, a former Facebook executive, who suggested that tech platforms should intervene to protect corporate news networks from independent competitors.
"We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences..." said Stamos. "There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN."
Former Facebook insider Alex Stamos tells @brianstelter: "We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences... There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN." pic.twitter.com/gP0XtnjhCQ
- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 17, 2021
Journalist Glenn Greenwald compared the campaign against conservative media to attempts to eliminate Islamic extremism from the internet.
"Here's a former Facebook executive on CNN *explicitly urging that the same tactics that were used in cooperation with the US security state to remove ISIS from the internet now be used against "conservative influencers," to deprogram everyone to believe the CNN/liberal consensus," said Greenwald.
But CNN does not seem content with just Silicon Valley censoring conservatives. Oliver Darcy, a CNN reporter who previously helped pressure Twitter to ban President Trump, revealed that he is asking cable companies to justify carrying the two conservative networks, which have surged in popularity since the election.
"Just a reminder that neither [Verizon], [ATT], nor [comcast] have answered any questions about why they beam channels like OAN & Newsmax into millions of homes," said Darcy on Twitter. "Do they have any second thoughts about distributing these channels given their election denialism content? They won't say."
Just a reminder that neither @Verizon, @ATT, nor @comcast have answered any questions about why they beam channels like OAN & Newsmax into millions of homes. Do they have any second thoughts about distributing these channels given their election denialism content? They won't say.
- Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 17, 2021
Darcy did not acknowledge his question to the cable companies, which have never in recent memory been asked to justify carrying news channels, as unusual.
Nor did he acknowledge that CNN is in direct competition with Newsmax and OANN, and would be strengthened if the latter two networks were removed from cable.
The attempt to pressure cable providers into blacklisting CNN's competitors is a sign that the far-left news network is looking beyond Big Tech censorship as a means of suppressing the competition and protecting the corporate media's agenda-setting power from heterodox points of view.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/18/former-facebook-exec-some-conservative-influencers-are-bigger-than-cnn-turn-down-their-reach/
#12585169 at 2021-01-18 16:55:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16068: Navy Yards In DC Afire Edition
Leftist big tech overlords calling for the de-platforming of truth telling broadcast news networks One America News and Newsmax because they have BIGGER AUDIENCES than CNN
https://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index3455.htm
https://www.rt.com/usa/512819-facebook-exec-deplatform-oann-newsmax/
Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos likened Republicans in Congress to ISIS supporters and argued that conservative voices such as OANN and Newsmax must be quieted to return Americans to "consensual reality."
"We're going to have to figure out the OANN and Newsmax problem - you know, that these companies have freedom of speech, but I'm not sure we need Verizon, AT&T, Comcast and such to be bringing them into tens of millions of homes," Stamos said on Sunday in a CNN interview, suggesting that the conservative news outlets be banned by cable TV carriers. "This is allowing people to seek out information if they really want to, but not pushing it into their faces, I think, is where we're going to have to go here."
On CNN this morning:"We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences.""There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN"Then calls for @OANN and @Newsmax to be deplatformed. pic.twitter.com/X34oewb1oU
- Benny (@bennyjohnson) January 17, 2021
Stamos, who was chief security officer at Facebook until August 2018, said press freedoms are being abused by "bad actors" that have an economic interest in becoming "more and more radical." As Fox News fell out of favor with devout Trump supporters for some of its post-election coverage - which Stamos called introducing "realism" in its reporting - OANN and Newsmax outflanked Fox "on the right" and allowed viewers to "put themselves into a sealed ecosystem," he argued.
"That becomes a huge challenge of figuring out, how do you bring those people back into the mainstream of fact-based reporting and try to get us all back into the same consensual reality?" Stamos said.
#12570990 at 2021-01-17 20:51:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16050: Awakenings Across America Edition
Former Facebook insider Alex Stamos tells
@brianstelter
: "We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences… There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN."
#12569258 at 2021-01-17 18:52:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16048: E pluribus unum, "Out of many, one" Edition Edition
Former Facebook Exec Calls For OANN, Newsmax to be Deplatformed: 'We Have to Turn Down the Capability of Conservative Influencers to Reach Huge Audiences'
Former Facebook executive Alex Stamos called for conservative news alternatives OANN and Newsmax to be deplatformed during his appearance on CNN Sunday.
Stamos said, "We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences."
"There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN," he added and CNN's Brian Stelter nodded in agreement.
Alex Stamos left Facebook after a series of massive failures on his part such as allowing sexualized images of children on the platform yet he believes he is the arbiter of truth.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/01/former-facebook-exec-calls-oann-newsmax-deplatformed-turn-capability-conservative-influencers-reach-huge-audiences-video/
#12536102 at 2021-01-15 19:24:06 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #16005: Fencing Around State Capitols? Edition
Did SolarWinds Make the Right Move in Hiring Former CISA Director Krebs?
By Julio Rivera Jan 15, 2021 10:35 AM ET
AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Christopher Krebs, the former director for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), still finds himself at the center of American cybersecurity issues despite the fact that his run at CISA ended with his firing by President Trump after the 2020 election.
Many observers and most in the media attempted to portray the firing as a vengeful act by the outgoing president who was upset that Krebs failed to acknowledge the evidence of voter fraud that the Trump legal team has worked so hard to collect in the days following November 3, 2020.
The incident that wound up sealing Krebs' fate within the administration was the November 17 joint statement released on the CISA website that was attributed to the Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council and the Election Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees. The statement claimed that "The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history. Right now, across the country, election officials are reviewing and double checking the entire election process prior to finalizing the result."
The statement directly contradicted the earliest claims of Trump attorneys including Rudy Giuliani and Jenna Ellis, as well of some of the wilder proclamations levied against Dominion Voting Systems, the company that sells electronic voting hardware and software, including many of the voting machines and tabulators that are currently in use in the United States and Canada, by attorney Sidney Powell by saying in clear bold lettering that "There is no evidence that any voting system deleted or lost votes, changed votes, or was in any way compromised."
Despite that statement, there was at least one verified compromise against the 2020 election that the CISA- and Christopher Krebs-endorsed statement regarding 2020 election security failed to mention. That was the hacking attack against Hall County, Ga., that exposed voter data of more than 180,000 residents.
After the ousting of Krebs at CISA, President Trump appointed Brandon Wales as the acting director for CISA as of November 17, 2020, and he remains in the position currently. Wales was certainly a highly qualified choice as he previously served as CISA's first executive director in addition to having served as the director of the DHS Office of Cyber and Infrastructure Analysis (OCIA). OCIA provides analyzes any potential cyber or physical risks to critical American infrastructure.
As the process of finger-pointing and assigning blame for matters related to the well-documented instances of election irregularities dragged on, perhaps the most pressing cybersecurity issue for America and CISA has become the fallout from the recently discovered SolarWinds hacking attack that affected at least 2,000 networks belonging to at least 100 government and non-government entities globally. News of the hack broke within a few weeks after Krebs' firing.
It can be argued that Krebs, while still serving at CISA, failed to protect the United States from foreign Advanced Persistent Threats, or APTs, which have attacked American entities from countries that include Russia, China, and Iran.
The SolarWinds attack has been attributed to a Russian hacking group known as APT29 (Advanced Persistent Threat). The group is known by several names, including the Dukes, Cozy Duke, Cozy Bear and Office Monkeys. The hackers are said to have used a new malware strain known as SUNBURST in the attack.
Interestingly enough, Krebs, who was America's top cybersecurity official during most of the time that the attack was ongoing, has just been hired to consult for SolarWinds.
According to a statement released by the company, "We have brought in the expertise of Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos to assist in this review and provide best-in-class guidance on our journey to evolve into an industry leading secure software development company."
In the coming weeks, we should learn more regarding the SolarWinds attack. The company is certainly hoping that the insider knowledge possessed by Krebs will help them secure themselves and their customers from any similar attacks in the future, while discovering what vulnerabilities led to their being attacked in the first place. Whether or not Krebs is up to the task is yet to be seen, but perhaps the application of his knowledge while focusing on this singular issue in his new capacity can bring out the best in the former CISA director.
https://pjmedia.com/columns/julio-rivera/2021/01/15/did-solarwinds-make-the-right-move-in-hiring-former-cisa-director-krebs-n1386771
#12422626 at 2021-01-09 13:14:31 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15859: The 'Do You Want A Republic Of Laws?' Edition
1 hit piece on retiring the punisher logo because Q stole it
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/punisher-skull-logo-marvel-capitol-riots?amp
And nothing to see here. Krebs hired by Solarwinds
https://gizmodo.com/solarwinds-hires-chris-krebs-and-Alex-Stamos-amid-fallo-1846018696/amp
#12418811 at 2021-01-09 05:58:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15854: Pray For The President Edition
Might be old news.
SolarWinds hires former CISA director Chris Krebs to consult on hack aftermath
Krebs has formed a cybersecurity firm with former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos.
by Laura Hautala
Jan. 8, 2021 11:13 a.m. PT
SolarWinds is getting help on the massive hack that infected its software and spread to thousands of its government and private sector clients. The Texas-based IT software company has hired Chris Krebs, former director of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, to consult on the breach.
SolarWinds is currently investigating how hackers penetrated its systems and inserted malicious software into an update to the company's popular Orion products. Thousands of SolarWinds customers installed the tainted update, and hackers were then able to access their systems. Federal agencies, major tech companies and hospitals were among the organizations targeted by the hackers.
"We have brought in the expertise of Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos to assist in this review and provide best-in-class guidance on our journey to evolve into an industry leading secure software development company," the company said in a statement. SolarWinds also published a blog post Thursday laying out its plan for addressing the hack going forward.
Krebs, who oversaw election security during the 2020 presidential election and was fired from his post by President Donald Trump in November, has formed a consultancy with former Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos. At CISA, Krebs ran a government website debunking false claims of election fraud. His firing received backlash from the cybersecurity community and lawmakers.
US intelligence agencies said Tuesday the hack likely originated in Russia. Russia has denied involvement in the hack.
https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/solarwinds-hires-former-cisa-director-chris-krebs-to-consult-on-hack-aftermath/
#12014373 at 2020-12-14 01:14:24 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15337: Freeze FRAME Edition
>>12013957
>will take up a position at the Stanford Internet Observatory, which is led by former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and researches security issues including election security.
is this a good thing or a bad thing?
#12013957 at 2020-12-14 00:36:58 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #15337: Freeze FRAME Edition
UMMM, GUYS. HOLY FUCK.
>Matthew Masterson, the senior election security advisor at the Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will depart the agency
>he intends to leave CISA for a job outside the federal government on Dec. 18.
>will take up a position at the Stanford Internet Observatory, which is led by former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos and researches security issues including election security.
so the director of CISA gives trump the middle finger on his way out by declaring that there was no election interference. now this masterson faggot is leaving the week DNI ratcliffe's report is due.
SOMETHING VERY SERIOUS IS GOING ON IN OUR GOVERNMENT. THIS IS NOT A COINCIDENCE.
https://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/529746-top-election-security-official-to-leave-federal-cybersecurity-agency
#11562480 at 2020-11-09 21:04:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #14762: Eyes on Anons, Attacks from All Directions
the narrative is clear (and dovetails with CM's tweets):
Experts say that the combination of President Trump's continued false assertions of a stolen election and rapidly-growing social media groups sharing those claims has led to the "most intense online disinformation event in U.S. history."
https://twitter.com/nprpolitics/status/1325831792318947330
The Next 2020 Election Fight? Convincing Trump's Supporters That He Lost
Even though all the major news networks, including Fox News, called the race for former Vice President Joe Biden, Saturday was the only the beginning of a long road to convincing a sizable portion of the American public who won the presidency.
President Trump has spent much of his four years in power amplifying false claims about election fraud, which has eaten into the confidence many Republicans have in the voting process.
Now those Republicans are having to decide whom to believe: election officials from both parties in charge of voting or Trump, who continues to falsely say he is the rightful winner. It's the latest step in a game plan he has laid the groundwork on for years.
Before this election, about two-thirds of people who said they had little to no confidence in the vote-counting process were supporters of the president, according to AP VoteCast data.
And now Trump has seized on those doubts. He and his campaign have shared conspiracy theory after conspiracy theory about why votes were still being counted after Election Day, even though the tallying process was going roughly according to plan.
"I am disturbed that this is being intentionally mischaracterized to undermine the election process," Tina Barton, the Republican city clerk of Rochester Hills, Mich., said Friday in a video debunking one of the Trump campaign's many claims.
While these sorts of assertions largely have not found a receptive home in the courts, they have found one online.
Social media groups have quickly sprung up in the days since voting stopped to spread disinformation about supposed cheating on the part of election officials, and in some cases organize in-person protests.
"This is the most intense online disinformation event in U.S. history and the pace of what we have found has only accelerated since [Election Day]," said Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory and Facebook's former chief security officer.
The social media groups are reusing channels that have previously been aimed at sharing other conspiracy theories that cater mostly to Republicans, says Melissa Ryan, who runs the firm Card Strategies, which researches disinformation.
"These 'Stop The Steal' protests are clearly building off the infrastructure from the reopen protests that we saw earlier in the year during the pandemic," Ryan said. "And frankly, they're using the same strategy and infrastructure as the Tea Party back in 2009, 2010."
Trump has been the driving force of that misinformation online, however. Three of the four most popular posts on Facebook in the past 24 hours were posts by the president in which he falsely claimed victory or alluded to doubts about the election's fairness.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-2020-election-results/2020/11/08/932543826/the-next-2020-election-fight-convincing-trumps-supporters-that-he-lost
#10373731 at 2020-08-21 19:27:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #13275: MAGA INTERSTATE DRAG 9-5-2Q2Q, SHOW YOUR COLORS Edition
Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results
SAN FRANCISCO - Facebook spent years preparing to ward off any tampering on its site ahead of November's presidential election. Now the social network is getting ready in case President Trump interferes once the vote is over. Employees at the Silicon Valley company are laying out contingency plans and walking through postelection scenarios that include attempts by Mr. Trump or his campaign to use the platform to delegitimize the results, people with knowledge of Facebook's plans said. Facebook is preparing steps to take should Mr. Trump wrongly claim on the site that he won another four-year term, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Facebook is also working through how it might act if Mr. Trump tries to invalidate the results by declaring that the Postal Service lost mail-in ballots or that other groups meddled with the vote, the people said. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and some of his lieutenants have started holding daily meetings about minimizing how the platform can be used to dispute the election, the people said. They have discussed a "kill switch" to shut off political advertising after Election Day since the ads, which Facebook does not police for truthfulness, could be used to spread misinformation, the people said.
The preparations underscore how rising concerns over the integrity of the November election have reached social media companies, whose sites can be used to amplify lies, conspiracy theories and inflammatory messages. YouTube and Twitter have also discussed plans for action if the postelection period becomes complicated, according to disinformation and political researchers who have advised the firms. The tech companies have spent the past few years working to avoid a repeat of the 2016 election, when Russian operatives used Facebook, Twitter and YouTube to inflame the American electorate with divisive messages. While the firms have since clamped down on foreign meddling, they are reckoning with a surge of domestic interference, such as from the right-wing conspiracy group QAnon and Mr. Trump himself.
In recent weeks, Mr. Trump, who uses social media as a megaphone, has sharpened his comments about the election. He has questioned the legitimacy of mail-in voting, suggested that people's mail-in ballots would not be counted and avoided answering whether he would step down if he lost. Alex Stamos, director of Stanford University's Internet Observatory and a former Facebook executive, said Facebook, Twitter and YouTube faced a singular situation where they "have to potentially treat the president as a bad actor" who could undermine the democratic process. "We don't have experience with that in the United States," Mr. Stamos added. Facebook may be in an especially difficult position because Mr. Zuckerberg has said the social network stands for free speech. Unlike Twitter, which has flagged Mr. Trump's tweets for being factually inaccurate and glorifying violence, Facebook has said that politicians' posts are newsworthy and that the public has the right to see them. Taking any action on posts from Mr. Trump or his campaign after the vote could open Facebook up to accusations of censorship and anticonservative bias. In an interview with The New York Times this month, Mr. Zuckerberg said of the election that people should be "ready for the fact that there's a high likelihood that it takes days or weeks to count this - and there's nothing wrong or illegitimate about that." A spokesman for Facebook declined to comment on its postelection strategy. "We continue to plan for a range of scenarios to make sure we are prepared for the upcoming election," he said.
https://dnyuz.com/2020/08/21/facebook-braces-itself-for-trump-to-cast-doubt-on-election-results/
#8798665 at 2020-04-15 03:30:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11264: All According To Plan Edition
Exclusive: Stay off Zoom and Google Hangouts, Standard Chartered chief tells staff
Standard Chartered Plc is the first major global bank to tell employees not to use Zoom Video Communications Inc during the coronavirus pandemic due to cybersecurity concerns, according to a memo seen by Reuters. The message, sent by Chief Executive Officer Bill Winters to managers last week, also warned against using Alphabet Inc's Google Hangouts platform for virtual gatherings. Neither service offers the level of encryption of conversations that rivals like Cisco System Inc's Webex, Microsoft Corp's Teams or Blue Jeans Network Inc do, industry experts said. A Standard Chartered spokeswoman declined to comment on a Reuters query on the memo. She said cybersecurity remains a top priority and that staff can use several authorized tools for audio and video conferencing.
The London-based bank is the latest entity to distance itself from Zoom after interlopers exposed security flaws by bursting into strangers' video chats in the nude, inserting lewd images into presentations, or hurling racial slurs at participants. These "Zoombombing" incidents have rattled all kinds of users, as hoards of business people, students, families and friends flocked to the service to stay connected while isolating during the pandemic. Zoom in March had about 200 million people using its system every day, up from 10 million at the end of last year. Banks have particular worries about cybersecurity because of regulations that can penalize them for exposing customer information, even if inadvertently. Standard Chartered staff are mostly using Blue Jeans, said two employees who were not authorized to speak on the matter.
The bank joins others ranging from Elon Musk's SpaceX to New York City's public school system and governments in Taiwan and Germany in placing restrictions on Zoom. In a statement, Zoom said many global customers including financial firms, telecommunications companies, universities, and government agencies had performed "exhaustive security reviews" of its technology and chosen it as a service. Founded and headed by former Cisco manager Eric Yuan, Zoom last week tapped former Facebook Inc security chief Alex Stamos as an adviser on safety and privacy concerns to quell the global backlash against its perceived flaws.
TRICKY CHOICE
Choosing a communications provider is tricky for banks, which have to balance security concerns, data-access needs and the preferences of clients and employees, who may wander off to another service outside official channels if rules are too stringent. Industry workers described a mixed experience with video chats in the age of the coronavirus. Two JPMorgan Chase & Co employees said they regularly hold meetings on Zoom. It is one of a few videoconferencing tools the bank allows, including Blue Jeans. Some Goldman Sachs Group Inc employees have been holding virtual "pub outings" on Zoom, where they connect after work with a cocktail or beer in hand to chat, a source said. The bank's chief technology officer told staff in an April 3 video that they could use Zoom and Blue Jeans.
Morgan Stanley employees are also allowed to use Zoom, among other options, a source there said. Barclays Plc only uses Zoom if a client requests it, according to a source. People at Wells Fargo & Co and Citigroup Inc said Zoom is not a familiar option at their banks, which rely on other services. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority a self-regulatory group for U.S. brokers, is also still using Zoom after security experts worked through some issues with the company, Thomas Gira, who heads market regulation, said in an interview.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-zoom-exclusive/exclusive-stay-off-zoom-and-google-hangouts-standard-chartered-chief-tells-staff-idUSKCN21W2PX?il=0
#7883920 at 2020-01-23 06:47:16 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #10089: Swamp Dirty Edition
Cyber Expert Behind A Report On Saudi Arabia's Alleged Bezos Hack Was Paid $4 Million To Verify Steele Dossier
One of the experts who spearheaded a forensics report alleging Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman hacked Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos's phone was also part of an attempt to verify the Steele dossier. Bezos's iPhone began sharing large amounts of data after receiving an encrypted video file from bin Salman's WhatsApp account in May 2018, according to a November 2019 report cobbled together by Anthony Ferrante, a cyber expert at the advisory firm FTI Consulting. The report, which Vice News published Wednesday, concluded with "medium to high confidence" that the crown prince's phone was involved.
BuzzFeed asked Ferrante, a former FBI agent who joined CNN as a contributor in 2019, to investigate the Steele dossier's claims that Russian tech executive Aleksej Gubarev played a "significant" role in hacking Democrats' computer systems. BuzzFeed published the full dossier on Jan. 10, 2017. Ferrante determined that Gubarev's companies "have provided gateways to the internet for cybercriminals and Russian state sponsored actors to launch and control large-scale malware campaigns over the past decade." Gubarev's lawyer, Evan Fray-Witzer, dismissed Ferrante's contention in a March 2019 statement. "Buzzfeed spent $4.1 million on a team of former FBI agents to try to prove that Gubarev and his companies did what was alleged in the Steele Dossier and came up empty-handed," he said. Fray-Witzer added: "The Dossier directly and unequivocally accused Alex Gubarev of having been corrupted by the [Federal Security Service] FSB and having personally hacked (or directed others to hack) the [Democratic National Committee] DNC. And that defamatory statement was, and is, a lie, plain and simple." The FSB is Russia's military service.
The report does not claim to have conclusive evidence that bin Salman, commonly known as MBS, hacked Bezos's phone. "A massive and unauthorized exfiltration of data from Bezos's phone began, continuing and escalating for months" within hours of the video file being sent to the world's wealthiest person, the report noted. BuzzFeed paid Ferrante $4.1 million to verify elements of Christopher Steele's dossier, which pundits argued showed links between President Donald Trump and Russia. Ferrante's report comes after Bezos's private security consultant Gavin de Becker said in a March 2019 Daily Beast editorial that Saudi Arabia used its technological tools to obtain Bezos's text messages. The longtime Bezos confidant said he based his conclusion on interviews with Middle East experts, tech experts and people who have been on the receiving end of MBS's ire.
Bezos, a media tycoon who purchased The Washington Post in 2013, suggested in a February 2019 blog post that his outlet's coverage of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi as a potential reason for why Saudi Arabia would target him. Bezos and MBS exchanged cellphone numbers while the crown prince was visiting Los Angeles to meet with tech executives, the report noted.
A documentary film titled "The Dissident," which premiers Friday, suggests the video file Bezos received likely contained Pegasus, a hacking program allowing users to extract troves of data after a person clicks a link. Israeli digital firm NSO Group is known principally for its Pegasus. Alex Stamos, a former Facebook executive who now works as a security researcher, noted that Bezos could conceivably spot Pegasus from a long distance. "NSO Group uses Amazon Web Services to interact with WhatsApp's APIs. So if NSO was behind the intrusion, then some of the key evidence is available to Bezos' excellent AWS security team," Stamos said in a tweet Tuesday night highlighting NSO Group's use of Bezos's Amazon Web Services. MBS and Bezos discussed plans for Amazon to build data centers in Saudi Arabia, the documentary film notes, according to a Washington Post report explaining Ferrante's work fleshing out the crown royal prince's alleged hack. Saudi Arabian officials, for their part, dismissed Ferrante's report.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/01/22/jeff-bezos-donald-trump-amazon/
#5860363 at 2019-03-24 08:49:11 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7497: Long Weekend Edition
(not sure if noted due to NZ FF)
Facebook downgraded after 11 high-profile execs defect
March 18, 2019
Monday, 11 high-profile Facebook executives have left the social network, with more recent departures such as Chris Cox, WhatsApp chief Chris Daniels, Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos. Cox's and Daniels's departures, in particular, may be the most notable in some ways, because they reportedly stemmed from fundamental disagreements with Zuckerberg over a push towards creating a unified privacy-focused network, one where users on Instagram could one day message someone on WhatsApp, for example.
The note cautioned more Facebook executives may leave the company.
https://news.yahoo.com/facebook-downgrade-needham-162457787.html
#5844847 at 2019-03-23 14:06:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7477: EBAKE Edition
Users are identified only by numbers, and their identities remain anonymous. The result is two "politically incorrect" communities steeped in extreme views, where users can share white supremacist memes, spin conspiracy theories and encourage one another to commit acts of violence without fear of public reproach.
Mary Anne Franks, a law professor at the University of Miami, says the mosque shooter was clearly steeped in the hateful culture of 8chan.
"It's pretty clear the person involved here was radicalized online," she told The Associated Press last week. "The conversations in these chat rooms and message boards, with in-jokes and memes, are part of a cultivation of a certain kind of radical person in these spaces."
On Wednesday, for instance, an anonymous 8chan user attempted to shame other users for failing to "accelerate" the violence triggered in New Zealand. "Are we going to patiently sit around for another 8 years until the next one of us is going to do something?" the individual wrote. Another user rejected the suggestion and said the community is "one of peace."
Former FBI agent Michael German says it's "remarkable" how openly people discuss violence on sites like 8chan.
He says it's extremely difficult to keep up with all the threats and discussions of violence because there are so many, and they often don't amount to anything. However, a threatening post can become a good piece of evidence if it does lead to an attack, German says.
"Those channels leave breadcrumbs that law enforcement and researchers can track," said German, who is now a fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice, a left-leaning, non-partisan think tank at New York University Law School. German previously worked as an undercover agent who infiltrated white supremacist groups.
German says users on these sites are usually very technologically advanced, so it's often hard for law enforcement to track their location or determine their exact identities. However, he says the white supremacist movement is a trans-national problem that will continue to crop up in different parts of the world because of its strong online network.
Facebook revealed on Monday that 8chan users likely watched the shooting live without reporting it, then saved the video so it could be re-uploaded 1.5 million times over the following day. The social media company says fewer than 200 people watched the video live and 4,000 watched it overall before it was taken down. The video was not flagged to Facebook's censors until 29 minutes after the stream started.
"We continue to work around the clock to prevent this content from appearing on our site, using a combination of technology and people," said Chris Sonderby, vice-president and deputy general counsel at Facebook, in a statement on Monday.
Users uploaded the shooting video to YouTube at least once per second in the hours after the attack, the Washington Post reported.
"This was a tragedy that was almost designed for the purpose of going viral," Neal Mohan, YouTube's chief product officer, told the Post.
German says it's tempting to blame social media companies, but he compared that to "blaming the telephone."
Alex Stamos, Facebook's former chief security officer, explained in a series of tweets after the shooting that it's extremely difficult for the company's algorithms to stop every version of the video. He estimated that big tech companies were blocking 99 per cent of the uploads, but some watermarked or edited versions were still slipping through.
"What you are seeing on the major platforms is the water leaking around thousands of fingers poked in a dam," he said.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has called for the world to present a "united front" against the spread of hate on social media, where the threat of white supremacy can transcend borders and trigger violence in many different countries.
"This is not just an issue for New Zealand," Ardern said earlier this week. "Social media platforms have been used to spread violence (and) material that incites violence. All of us, I think, need to present a united front."
2/2 https://globalnews.ca/news/5084158/new-zealand-mosque-shooting-video-8chan/
#5570638 at 2019-03-08 05:43:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7123: Baker Assist Edition
Facebook : sees massive drop in users, Instagram gains
SAN FRANCISCO: Social networking giant Facebook today hosts around 15 million fewer people in the US than it did in 2017, with the biggest drop being among teen and millennial demographic.
A new US-specific survey data compiled by market research firm Edison Research highlighted that Facebook's user-base was shrinking, particularly in the coveted 12- to 34-year-old in America, which was once recognised as the most lucrative market for the platform.
ALSO READ | Facebook to become 'privacy-focused' like WhatsApp: Mark Zuckerberg
"Edison's survey signal that the social network's privacy woes and continued breaches of user trust may be having some noticeable effect on its most coveted slice of users. Also, there's conjecture about as Facebook has become more popular among older people, whether that's affected younger people," The Verge reported on Thursday.
One interesting element that was observed was that Facebook users who are swarming away from the app are flocking to Instagram.
"The photo-sharing platform, which by its nature collects less personal information from its users, can be a simpler, less toxic alternative to using the main Facebook service, now overrun by ads and plagued by all manner of misinformation and fake news," the report said.
ALSOREAD | Facebook security feature revealed users' phone number to others
Instagram now counts more than 1 billion global users and over 400 million monthly users of its Snapchat-like feature, Stories.
Facebook's biggest competitor is another one of its own products, and it seems unlikely the company will stop the shed of users anytime soon, the report added.
The decline in the user-base does not really come as a shock given that the platform has been pointed at several times for its practices of collecting user information without their consent for ad targeting and finding friends purposes which have outraged users and privacy advocates.
The company was pulled up on Tuesday over its secure login process two-factor authentication (2FA) where it asked users to add phone numbers, which could be searched by advertisers. The practice drew criticism even from Facebook's former chief information security officer Alex Stamos.
Last month, Facebook reportedly decided to put an end to its unpaid market research programmes after it was found to have been bribing teenagers in India and the US to give their personal information.
https://www.marketscreener.com/FACEBOOK-10547141/news/Facebook-sees-massive-drop-in-users-Instagram-gains-28131385/
#5544457 at 2019-03-06 23:27:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7089: FB RETURNING TO THE NEWS Edition
These are the Facebook execs who have announced their departure in 2018, as of Sept. 1st of 2018.
Jan Koum, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp
Elliot Schrage, head of communications and public policy
Colin Stretch, Facebook's top lawyer
Alex Stamos, formerly chief security officer at Facebook
Dan Rose, one of Facebook's earliest executives and VP of partnerships
Rachel Whetstone, a top communications executive at Facebook. (Who went to Netflix).
Alex Hardiman, head of news products.
#5033429 at 2019-02-05 04:33:44 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #6427: Shills Only Shill Edition
NBC News: Tulsi Gabbard is an Agent of Putin
Listen up, goys, do not believe a word this Russian bot says.
She has proposed peace in Syria before we have finished protecting Our Friends and Allies in the Middle East.
Representative Gabbard has questioned the story of Assad gassing his own people, just like Putin.
She has even talked to Assad personally, JUST LIKE PUTIN.
Shout out, anons, from NBC:
A few of our analysts saw some chatter on 8chan saying she was a good 'divider' candidate to amplify," said Renee DiResta, director of research at New Knowledge.
NBC News has exposed Rep Gabbard's ties to the Kremlin with this shocking expose:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/russia-s-propaganda-machine-discovers-2020-democratic-candidate-tulsi-gabbard-n964261
https://archive.fo/O8Sxt
Excerpts from article:
"DisInfo 2018, part of the cybersecurity firm New Knowledge"
"Analysts at New Knowledge, the company the Senate Intelligence Committee used to track Russian activities in the 2016 election, told NBC News they've spotted "chatter" related to Gabbard in anonymous online message boards, including those known for fomenting right-wing troll campaigns. The chatter discussed Gabbard's usefulness."
Russia's propaganda machine discovers 2020 Democratic candidate Tulsi Gabbard
Experts who track websites and social media linked to Russia have seen stirrings of a possible campaign of support for Hawaii Democrat Tulsi Gabbard.
"The Russian propaganda machine that tried to influence the 2016 U.S. election is now promoting the presidential aspirations of a controversial Hawaii Democrat who earlier this month declared her intention to run for president in 2020."
"…The CIA has called RT and Sputnik part of 'Russia's state-run propaganda machine.'
All three sites [RT, Russia-Insider, Sputnik] celebrated Gabbard's announcement, defended her positions on Russia and her 2017 meeting with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, and attacked those who have suggested she is a pawn for Moscow. The coverage devoted to Gabbard, both in news and commentary, exceeds that afforded to any of the declared or rumored Democratic candidates despite Gabbard's lack of voter recognition."
Alex Stamos, former chief security officer at Facebook:
"Her promulgation of positions compatible with Russian geo strategic interests can help them mainstream such discussion in the [Democratic] party"
"Gabbard helps them with all their 'lines of attack.'"
"…she has also angered the party's liberal base with her past positions on same sex marriage, abortion and guns. Just weeks after Donald Trump's upset victory over Hillary Clinton, she met with the president-elect at Trump Tower."
"She's accused the U.S. of pushing a policy of 'regime change' wars and in January 2017, she met with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad in Syria on what she called a 'fact-finding mission.' "
" 'How does going to war with Russia over Syria serve the interest of the American people?' she mentioned in a tweet. Gabbard has also supported Trump's diplomatic summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in one of her multiple appearances with Tucker Carlson."
"Experts in Russian on-line propaganda say Gabbard appeals to pro-Russian sites because her positions -and her appeal as an outsider in her own party - can be used to create division among Democrats."
"Former FBI agent Clint Watts, author of "Messing with the Enemy: Surviving in a Social Media World of Hackers, Terrorists, Russians, and Fake News," said Gabbard has past or present positions on several issues that would be attractive to the Russian propaganda machine, and she is already popular with the U.S. "alt-left." Besides her views on Syria, she responded to reports of Russian interference in the 2016 election by saying the U.S. had interfered in foreign elections too."
"Stamos agrees that Gabbard could be used to inject pro-Russian positions into the Democratic Party's discussions and debates during primary season."
" 'We should expect the Russian intel services and troll farms to be active in the Democratic primary process,' said Stamos, 'as this provides them with the best opportunity to create the most division in American society in 2020.' "
"Josh Russell, a researcher and 'troll hunter' known for identifying fake accounts, similarly told NBC News he recently spotted a few clusters of suspicious accounts that retweeted the same exact text about Gabbard"
#3961504 at 2018-11-19 18:00:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #5039: Mind Your Peas And Q Edition
Former Facebook Security Chief Alex Stamos: 'Yes, Facebook Made Mistakes... but We Weren't the Only Ones'
ormer Facebook Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos wrote an article for the Washington Post, Saturday, titled "Yes, Facebook made mistakes in 2016. But we weren't the only ones."
"To be clear, no one at the company ever told me not to examine Russian activity, nor did anyone attempt to lie about our findings, but Facebook should have responded to these threats much earlier and handled disclosure in a more transparent manner," declared Stamos in the article. "Yet Facebook's shortcomings do not stand alone. The massive U.S. intelligence community failed to provide actionable intelligence on Russia's information-warfare goals and capabilities before the election and offered a dearth of assistance afterward."
"Technology companies can build tools and teams to look inward on their products, but they will never have true geostrategic insight or ability to penetrate hostile countries. This relationship has greatly improved in 2018, mostly due to the initiative of hard-working intelligence professionals," he continued. "Our elected officials, however, can claim little credit. Lawmakers' public grandstanding at investigative hearings stands in stark contrast to their failure to establish facts, effectively oversee the executive branch and provide for the common defense."
Stamos also claimed that media outlets "rewarded" Russian hackers by publishing stories on leaked emails from Democrats.
"The sad truth is that blocking Russian propaganda would have required Facebook to ban stories from the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and cable news - not to mention this very paper," Stamos proclaimed. "Since the election of Donald Trump, print and television news organizations have staffed up and provided a critical service to Americans, but they have never adequately grappled with their culpability in empowering Russia's election interference."
Stamos has been a prominent media commentator since leaving Facebook in August following user data privacy scandals at the company, and in October, he called out Apple CEO Tim Cook, declaring that Apple needs to "come clean" about its practices in China.
Stamos also previously claimed that Facebook was run "like a college campus," and last week he criticized Google CEO Sundar Pichai.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/11/19/former-facebook-security-chief-Alex-Stamos-yes-facebook-made-mistakes-but-we-werent-the-only-ones/
#3591975 at 2018-10-24 23:10:02 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4557: Pre-Wisconsin Rally Edition
Ex-Facebook security chief calls out Tim Cook and Apple's practices in China
Former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos called out Apple over its actions to limit access to apps in China.
"We don't want the media to create an incentive structure that ignores treating Chinese citizens as less-deserving of privacy protections because a CEO is willing to bad-mouth the business model of their primary competitor, who uses advertising to subsidize cheaper devices," Stamos said in a series of tweets responding to recent comments made by Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Cook spoke about privacy regulations at a keynote speech during the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) conference in Brussels on Wednesday. He called out social media companies for abusing user privacy to create algorithms to "serve up increasingly extreme content, pounding our harmless preferences into hardened convictions."
Though Stamos said he agreed with "almost everything" Cook said, in a series of tweets he called out Apple for blocking the ability to download VPN and encrypted messaging apps in China, which could provide ways to connect to the internet and send messages privately and without surveillance.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/24/ex-facebook-exec-Alex-Stamos-calls-out-apple-practices-in-china.html
#3520741 at 2018-10-18 15:47:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4465: I Will Call Up the US Mil Edition
Ex-Facebook executive says US midterm election cybersecurity is weak
Facebook's former chief of security warned that the United States is not equipped to handle potential cyber interference in the 2018 midterm elections.
During an interview with NBC News, Alex Stamos said the U.S. has not launched the kind of massive upgrade in campaign infrastructure that would be needed to stand against a professional hacking agency.
"There's been small improvements in campaign security," Stamos said. "But we have not seen the kind of massive upgrade in campaign infrastructure that you would need to stand against a professional hacking agency like that."
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ex-facebook-executive-says-us-midterm-election-cybersecurity-is-weak
I'm sure DHS will disagree with this assessment
https://www.dhs.gov/topic/election-security
#2922182 at 2018-09-07 17:53:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3696: 1/Billion Edition
Former Facebook Security Exec Says Elections Can Still Be Disrupted
Facebook has been at the center of national discourse around potential election meddling by foreign entities ever since the 2016 presidential election. The behemoth social network has taken several measures to improve the situation ahead of the upcoming November midterm elections, but former security chief Alex Stamos told TechCrunch that there is still a long way to go in regards to election security.
Stamos offered his thoughts on the current state of cybersecurity at TechCrunch's Disrupt event in San Francisco on Thursday. In his mind, the midterm elections still have not been properly secured, and the possibility of chaos is still very much in play.
"There have been positive changes, but overall security of campaigns [is] not that much better, and the actual election infrastructure isn't much better," Stamos told TechCrunch.
Stamos did not necessarily think foreign hackers would use technology to change votes and directly affect the outcomes of elections. Rather, he said they could introduce an element of uncertainty potent enough to make large portions of the electorate lose faith in the United States's democratic systems.
Facebook, for its part, has taken some steps throughout 2018 to try and prevent the kinds of misinformation campaigns that rocked the site in 2016. For example, users who manage sufficiently large pages now have to verify their identities and prove that they reside in the country they claim to live in.
Some pages with large followings had been directly connected to sinister campaigns by Facebook. The site recently announced it had identified and shut down dozens of pages, some of which had hundreds of thousands of followers, for posting misleading and divisive political content. Facebook said they could have been connected to the alleged Russian hacking effort from 2016.
Stamos did applaud efforts by social networks to increase ad transparency. Both Facebook and Twitter have introduced policies in recent months to show users exactly who paid for any political ad they see. The general public now has access to granular data about political ads on their news feeds, which may help thwart attempts to sow chaos.
Stamos had been at Facebook as a security executive since 2015 when he left his post in August. He is now an adjunct professor at Stanford and studies cybersecurity.
https://www.ibtimes.com/former-facebook-security-exec-says-elections-can-still-be-disrupted-2714892
#2852697 at 2018-09-03 01:21:14 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3606 Slow Sunday Evening Edition
>>2852372
Q said "7" … Here 4 executives who have said they're leaving Facebook so far in 2018:
Jan Koum , co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, announced his exit in April in a Facebook post saying it was time to "move on."
Elliot Schrage , head of communications and public policy, said in June he was leaving Facebook after more than 10 years.
"I've decided it's time to start a new chapter in my life," Schrage said in a post to his Facebook page .
Colin Stretch , Facebook's top lawyer, announced he'd be leaving the company after more than eight years. As general counsel, Stretch represented Facebook before Congress to address Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
Alex Stamos , formerly chief security officer at Facebook, formally stepped down in August following earlier rumors of his departure and an internal memo to staff .
In the memo - reported by Buzzfeed news - Stamos said a re-organization of his team left him eyeing a transition. Stamos had been at Facebook since 2015. He's now teaching at Stanford University.
#2847811 at 2018-09-02 19:12:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3600: You're FIRED Edition
>>2847730
FTA
Jan Koum, co-founder of Facebook-owned WhatsApp, announced his exit in April in a Facebook post saying it was time to "move on."
Elliot Schrage, head of communications and public policy, said in June he was leaving Facebook after more than 10 years. "I've decided it's time to start a new chapter in my life," Schrage said in a post to his Facebook page.
In July, Colin Stretch, Facebook's top lawyer, announced he'd be leaving the company after more than eight years.
"When my wife Alyse and I made the decision a few years ago to move back to DC from California, we knew it would be difficult for me to remain in this role indefinitely," he said in a Facebook post.
Alex Stamos, formerly chief security officer at Facebook, formally stepped down in August following earlier rumors of his departure and an internal memo to staff.
Also in August, Dan Rose, one of Facebook's earliest executives and VP of partnerships, said he was leaving. Rose joined Facebook in 2006, and is leaving to join his family in Hawaii.
Earlier this week, Netflix announced it had poached Rachel Whetstone, a top communications executive at Facebook. Whetstone had only been at the company for a year. She is the only executive on this list not to comment on her exit on her personal Facebook account. She follows her boss, Schrage, in leaving.
That brings us to Wednesday, when Alex Hardiman, head of news products, announced her departure. Hardiman had been at Facebook for what she called "two deeply gratifying years," and will join The Atlantic.
"I've always been a news person. It's my passion during the workday and my guilty pleasure on nights and weekends,"
#2607151 at 2018-08-15 05:02:18 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3290: "House of GOD" Edition
Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared
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Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared Anonymous 08/14/18 (Tue) 06:48:04 000000 No.12005278>>12005295 >>12005356 >>12005421 >>12007549 [Watch Thread][Show All Posts]
>Anyone who tells you the recent escalation of censorship by U.S. tech giants is merely a reflection of private companies making independent decisions is either lying or dangerously ignorant.
In the case of Facebook, the road from pseudo-platform to willing and enthusiastic tool of establishment power players is fairly straightforward. It really got going earlier this year when issues surrounding egregious privacy violations in the case of Cambridge Analytica (stuff that had been going on for years) could finally be linked to the Trump campaign. It was at this point that powerful and nefarious forces spotted an opportunity to leverage the company's gigantic influence in distributing news and opinion for their own ends. Rather than hold executives to account and break up the company, the choice was made to commandeer and weaponize the platform. This is where we stand today.
Let's not whitewash history though. These tech companies have been compliant, out of control government snitches for a long time. Thanks to Edward Snowden, we're aware of the deep and longstanding cooperation between these lackeys and U.S. intelligence agencies in the realm of mass surveillance. As such, the most recent transformation of these companies into full fledged information gatekeepers should be seen in its proper context; merely as a dangerous continuation and expansion of an already entrenched reality.
But it's all out in the open now. Facebook isn't even hiding the fact that it's outsourcing much of its "fake news" analysis to the Atlantic Council, a think tank funded by NATO, Gulf States and defense contractors. As reported by Reuters:
Facebook began looking for outside help amid criticism for failing to rein in Russian propaganda ahead of the 2016 presidential elections...
With scores of its own cybersecurity professionals and $40 billion in annual revenue in 2017, Facebook might not seem in need of outside help.
It doesn't need outside help, it needs political cover, which is the real driver behind this.
But the lab and Atlantic Council bring geopolitical expertise and allow Facebook to distance itself from sensitive pronouncements. On last week's call with reporters, Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer, said the company should not be expected to identify or blame specific governments for all the campaigns it detects.
"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," said Stamos, who is leaving the company this month for a post at Stanford University. Instead, he said Facebook would stick to amassing digital evidence and turning it over to authorities and researchers.
It would also be awkward for Facebook to accuse a government of wrongdoing when the company is trying to enter or expand in a market under that government's control.
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. The more he succeeds, the fewer complications for Facebook's expansion, the smaller its payroll, and the more plausible its positioning as a neutral platform. Facebook did not respond to a request for comment.
#2479707 at 2018-08-06 15:31:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3127: Looking Forward To The New IG Report Edition
>>2479682
1/23/2018 Anthony NOTO COO Twitter Moving to CEO of SoFi
1/23/2018 Gary Briggs CMO FB Retiring, advising
1/26/2018 Cecile Richards CEO Planned Parenthood
1/26/2018 Ken Murphy CEO Mattress Firm
1/25/2018 Steve Smith CEO, Chairman Equinox
12/21/2017 Eric Schmidt Exec Chairman Alphabet Remains on BOD
1/1/2018 John Schnatter CEO Papa John Remains on BOD
1/24/2018 Lou Anna Simon Pres MSU Resigned
1/26/2018 Mark Hollis Athl Dir MSU Resigned
1/26/2018 Jeremy Desai CEO Apotex
12/31/2017 Forrest Claypool CEO Chicago Public Sch
12/19/2017 Gary Jacobs CEO Synergy Remains as Executive Chairman of BOD
1/5/2018 Suresh Nair Co-CEO Giga-tronics
12/15/2018 Randall Stephenson BOD Boeing, Emerson Remains CEO and Chairman of AT&T
12/18/2017 John Skipper Pres ESPN
1/26/2018 Entire Board of Directors BOD USA Gymnastics Entire board asked to resign by Olympic Committee
1/28/2018 Steve Wynn Chair GOP
1/29/2018 Jess O'Connell CEO DNC
2/7/2018 Steve Wynn CEO, Chairman Wynn Resorts
2/5/2018 John Marzinzik CEO Frisbie Hospital Retiring
1/22/2018 Kenneth Kates CEO Univ Iowa Hospitals Retiring
1/17/2018 Jaime Wesolowski CEO Methodist Healthcare SA Retiring
7/1/2018 Jon D Braband CEO FACHE Retiring
1/4/2018 Chuck Carr CEO Carilion Stonewall Jackson Hospital Retiring
11/8/2017 Robert Hemker CEO Palomar Health Retiring
1/9/2018 David Bailey CEO Nemours Foundation Retiring
1/2/2018 Pat Brady CEO Sutter Roseville Medical Center Retiring
12/20/2017 William "Bill" Richardson CEO Tift Regional Health System Retiring
11/13/2018 Bob Bonar CEO Children's Minnesota Retiring
2/2/2018 Wayne Pacelle CEO Humane Society of US Resigned, sexual harassment
2/6/2018 Paul Raines CEO Game Stop Resigned, brain tumor, resigned BOD JCPenney
2/7/2018 Linda Palczuk CEO Osiris Therapeutics Resigned, new position
2/1/2018 David Meltzer Counsel American Red Cross Resign, mishandled harassment complaints
3/30/2018 Kazuo Hirai CEO Sony Moving to Chairman of BOD Sony
2/8/2018 Kenneth Cole Chairman amfAR Resigned, Weinstein collaboration
12/23/2017 Sam Haskell CEO Miss America Resigned, inappropriate internal communications
12/23/2017 Lynn Weldner Chairman Miss America Resigned, inappropriate internal communications
2/9/2018 Patrick Ward Chairman Providence Democratic City Committee Resigned, inappropriate FB post
1/2/2018 Mark E. Speese CEO Rent-A-Center Resigned
2/20/2018 John Noseworthy CEO Mayo Clinic Resigned effective end of year
2/20/2018 Raj Nair Executive Vice President Ford Motor Company, North America Resigned, inappropriate behavior
2/22/2018 Marjorie Magner Chairman Tenga Resigned
2/27/2018 Joel Manby CEO Sea World Entertainment Resigned
2/28/2018 Scott Blackburn Chief Executive US Olympic Committee Resigned, health, Nassar abuse fallout
3/5/2018 Clifton Rutledge CEO Bojangles Restaurant Resigned, personal reasons
3/5/2018 Mike Huckabee Board member Country Music Association Resigned, conservative fall out
3/8/2018 James Tanenbaum Partner Mayer Brown Resigned, Morrison & Forester fired, sexual misconduct
3/9/2018 Lloyd Blankfein CEO Goldman Sachs Resigned, effective end of year
3/9/2018 Sanjay Jha CEO Globalfoundries Resigned
3/9/2018 Paul Jacobs Chairman Qualcomm Resigned as Chairman, remains as board member
3/19/2018 Alex Stamos Chief Security Officer Facebook Resigned, plans to leave by August
3/20/2018 Gary Barber Chairman/CEO MGM, MGM Holdings Resigned
3/22/2018 Musa Tariq VP and Chief Brand Officer Ford Motor Company Resigned
3/22/2018 Raj Rao Head, Ford Smart Mobility Ford Motor Company Resigned
3/22/2018 John Dowd President's Lawyer Resigned from team
3/29/2018 Terry Myerson Executive Vice President Microsoft Windows group Leaving company due to reorg
3/29/2018 Dan Schneider Producer Nickelodeon Departing
4/11/2018 Alexander Tayler CEO Cambridge Analytica Stepping down
4/21/2018 J. Steven Hart Chairman Williams Jensen Resigned over EPA Pruit lobby contact
5/2/2018 Ty Cobb President's Lawyer Resigned from team
5/11/2018 Richard Johnson State Department Office of Iran Nuclear Implementation Resigned
5/14/2018 Deana Bass Deputy Chief of Staff HUD Leaving department
6/8/2018 George Pell Cardinal, Archbishop, Finance Minister Austraulia Catholic Church Resignes, sexual abuse charges
7/2/2018 Brian Ross Media ABC Leaving network
7/2/2018 Brenda Schwartz Media ABC Leaving network
7/3/2018 Demos Parneros CEO Barnes & Noble Fired
7/5/2018 John Schnatter Chairman Papa John Resigns b/c racial slur
7/21/2018 Brian Crutcher CEO Texas Instruments Resigned, violations of code of conduct
7/22/2018 Brian Malone Board member Charter Communications Resigned
7/27/2018 Sam Singal Executive Producer NBC News Resigned
7/28/2018 Theodore McCarrick Cardinal Wash DC Dioscese Resigned, sexual abuse allegations
8/6/2018 Indra Nooya CEO PepsiCo Stepping down
#2412311 at 2018-08-02 16:39:50 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3041: Anonymous Saves The Day Edition
Notables
are not endorsements
GLOBAL
>>2393582 Thank you for your interest in Q and QResearch >>2410101 Please watch this video
>>2355675, >>2351700, >>2349367 BO/BV on nudity/thot policy (incl history)
>>2327065 How to filter gore spam >>2334211 (new: Add into [Options] -> Theme)
>>2251030 , >>2261001 EXPLANATION of bread-archiving situation. Fix habbening
>>2366140 Transcript of speech that got POTUS elected (!!!)
3040
>>2411585 Iran threatens to block Strait or Hormuz (est. 20% of the Oil goes through there). US doesn't expect the small boats to last long.
>>2411596 1:00 PM WH Press briefing with Sarah Sanders, >>2411834 Link to briefing
>>2411599 Anon Helps Thwart Possible Trump Attack, >>2411900
>>2411629 People talking about Q on the Radio Waves (Short Clip)
>>2411697 Common Sense dictates us to investigate the Judges appointed by Bill Clinton
>>2411718 Apple becomes 1st private company worth $1 Trillion
>>2411798 Pic of HRC partying in Cartagena
>>2411824 Not Surprised: Newest member of NYT Editorial Board has History of Racist Tweets
>>2411835 Missile Parts on their way to Iran seized from Heathrow, London, UK
>>2411965 Maxine Waters hit with FEC complaint
>>2412299 #3040
#3039
>>2410810 True News: Americans like their POTUS!
>>2410818 Follow up on Colombian Child Prostitution Ring Arrest. >>2410912, >>2410964 Calling Researchers: Organ Trade fuckery, >>2410870 SS compromised? Not anymore ("Thank you, USSS")
>>2410883 D5 Avalanche brewing in Switzerland
>>2410909 Where's is German's Chancellor, Angela Dorothea Hitler?
>>2410910 BBC covering QAnon
>>2410937 Reminder on how to deal with Newfags
>>2410998 Center for American Progress: Destroying America one idea at the time
>>2411007 "DOJ's New Religious Liberty Arm Set to Investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
>>2411043 Departement of Defense Tweet: On-target!
>>2411044 HRC's secret visit to Scranton, PA this march? >>2411097 Rendell & Haiti >2411141 Rendell's Wife is a Pennsylvania Judge???, >>2411149
>>2411078 The Social Genome Project: Facebook / Wal-Mart
>>2411114 Beau Biden defending DuPont child rapist
>>2411123 Winterschall in Germany: Iran dealings will implicate a lot of German Politicans
>>2411451 Investigating adoption in Ethiopia: people were afraid their organs would be stolen
>>2411474 Manafort related document
>>2411522 #3039
#3038
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
>>2410077 Meet the Podestas: Alex Podesta, >>2410093 Brian Podesta (POS Scumbag: Works at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), >>2410120, >>2410408
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos ? Stanford prof
>>2410142 Resignation: Karen Fordham, CEO of St. Joseph Hospital
>>2410148 Oz Resignation: Chief Operations Officer at DP World Australia
>>2410155 Regional GOP chair Resignation: Cecily Wright, Spokane Co. WA
>>2410159 Malay Resignation: Shah Hakim CEO of Scomi Group Bhd
--Baker Change--
>>2410180 Investigative Video on the Podesta's
>>2410208 Podesta's Parents have adopted 25 children during their time in Washington
>>2410209 Recent U.S. federal court ruling means companies such as Facebook/Alphabet need to pay more taxes
>>2410244 As per Q's request: White House visitation Logs.
>>2410382 Who is Nicholas Rasmussen?
>>2410407 Buffalo: A Cesspool of Corruption: NXIVM, Talmudist judges in Family Courts, Rampant & Protected Child Molestation, >>2410427, >>2410506 More Crooked Connections (including Comey)
>>2410478 Colombian Woman Arrested for Child Pimping (~250 victims reported)
>>2410486 Manafort-case: Prosecution has 'every intention' of calling Richard Gates as witness
>>2410522 Childmurderer Pope Frances wants to abolish the Death Penalty worldwide "..building forth on the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI", >>2410531
>>2410554 President Trump in Pa. Thursday as manhunt continues for man who threatened him
>>2410657 Steyer & Center for American Progress
>>2410741 Documents show how Podesta Group worked for Ukranian political group "Party of regions"
>>2410736 #3038
Previously Collected Notables
>>2408342 #3035, >>2409196 #3036, >>2409984 #3037
>>2405809 #3032, >>2406722 #3033, >>2407591 #3034
>>2403550 #3029, >>2404349 #3030, >>2405170 #3031
>>2401153 #3026, >>2401950 #3027, >>2402769 #3028
>>2398863 #3023, >>2399569 #3024, >>2400393 #3025
>>2396540 #3020, >>2397342 #3021, >>2398093 #3022
Best Of Bread: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Archives of Notables >>>/comms/225 ; >>>/comms/1536
#2412039 at 2018-08-02 16:20:49 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3040: More Rope For The Pope Edition
Facebook's chief security officer, Alex Stamos, announced today that he will be quitting the company later this month.
The announcement comes just a day after Facebook revealed that it had discovered malicious actors who are using the social media platform to manipulate political discussions and debates in the United States.
Adding more to that, Stamos will not be replaced after he leaves, it means no one will hold the title of "chief security officer" at Facebook after his leaving the job. It is yet to see how the company will deal now with major security concerns arises after Stamos, including the use of fake accounts to manipulate politics, propagating fake news and the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
https://www.techjuice.pk/facebooks-chief-security-officer-resigns/
#2411535 at 2018-08-02 15:36:33 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3040: More Rope For The Pope Edition
Notables
are not endorsements
GLOBAL
>>2393582 Thank you for your interest in Q and QResearch >>2410101 Please watch this video
>>2355675, >>2351700, >>2349367 BO/BV on nudity/thot policy (incl history)
>>2327065 How to filter gore spam >>2334211 (new: Add into [Options] -> Theme)
>>2251030 , >>2261001 EXPLANATION of bread-archiving situation. Fix habbening
>>2366140 Transcript of speech that got POTUS elected (!!!)
#3039
>>2410810 True News: Americans like their POTUS!
>>2410818 Follow up on Colombian Childrape Ring Arrest. >>2410912, >>2410964 Calling Researchers: Organ Trade fuckery, >>2410870 SS compromised? Not anymore ("Thank you, USSS")
>>2410883 D5 Avalanche brewing in Switzerland
>>2410909 Where's is German's Chancellor, Angela Dorothea Hitler?
>>2410910 BBC covering QAnon
>>2410937 Reminder on how to deal with Newfags
>>2410998 Center for American Progress: Destroying America one idea at the time
>>2411007 "DOJ's New Religious Liberty Arm Set to Investigate the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
>>2411043 Departement of Defense Tweet: On-target!
>>2411044 HRC's secret visit to Scranton, PA this march? >>2411097 Rendell & Haiti >2411141 Rendell's Wife is a Pennsylvania Judge???, >>2411149
>>2411078 The Social Genome Project: Facebook / Wal-Mart
>>2411114 Beau Biden defending DuPont child rapist
>>2411123 Winterschall in Germany: Iran dealings will implicate a lot of German Politicans
>>2411451 Investigating adoption in Ethiopia: people were afraid their organs would be stolen
>>2411474 Manafort related document
>>2411522 #3039
#3038
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
>>2410077 Meet the Podestas: Alex Podesta, >>2410093 Brian Podesta (POS Scumbag: Works at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), >>2410120, >>2410408
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos ? Stanford prof
>>2410142 Resignation: Karen Fordham, CEO of St. Joseph Hospital
>>2410148 Oz Resignation: Chief Operations Officer at DP World Australia
>>2410155 Regional GOP chair Resignation: Cecily Wright, Spokane Co. WA
>>2410159 Malay Resignation: Shah Hakim CEO of Scomi Group Bhd
--Baker Change--
>>2410180 Investigative Video on the Podesta's
>>2410208 Podesta's Parents have adopted 25 children during their time in Washington
>>2410209 Recent U.S. federal court ruling means companies such as Facebook/Alphabet need to pay more taxes
>>2410244 As per Q's request: White House visitation Logs.
>>2410382 Who is Nicholas Rasmussen?
>>2410407 Buffalo: A Cesspool of Corruption: NXIVM, Talmudist judges in Family Courts, Rampant & Protected Child Molestation, >>2410427, >>2410506 More Crooked Connections (including Comey)
>>2410478 Colombian Woman Arrested for Child Pimping (~250 victims reported)
>>2410486 Manafort-case: Prosecution has 'every intention' of calling Richard Gates as witness
>>2410522 Childmurderer Pope Frances wants to abolish the Death Penalty worldwide "..building forth on the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI", >>2410531
>>2410554 President Trump in Pa. Thursday as manhunt continues for man who threatened him
>>2410657 Steyer & Center for American Progress
>>2410741 Documents show how Podesta Group worked for Ukranian political group "Party of regions"
>>2410736 #3038
#3037
>>2409911 If diet low in keks, watch this: CNN's Cuomo disses QAnon & 17
>>2409893 Freedom WW: Colombian Child Sex Exloitation ring brought down
>>2409659 Good morning from @DJT
>>2409664 Anon reviews inconsistencies in the Bakersfield shooter incident
>>2409735 UK: 2nd time Heathrow Airport finds missile parts bound for Iran
>>2409719 Almonds Activated! 17 letters before "c" in @DJT smocking gun
>>2409458 Surprise! China jacking our IP again! GE data, aviation use?
>>2409456 NZ: Trump's new visa law & their 'Mother of all Dragons' PM
>>2409411 Catholic Church now opposed death penalty (to save their hides?)
>>2409396 Cohen trial digg, Status of the Stay doc
>>2409393 Digg on NY Atty General's Race: Ex-Clinton Aide, Abolish-ICE'ers
>>2409342, >>2409358 Anon reviews discernment specs for clown/not-a-clown
>>2409340 CIA pub unclass'd, digging Vaughn Bishop, incl Clapper, Manning
>>2409245 Why lurking and careful study pay off: "normie" take on Q & MSM
>>2409984 #3037
Previously Collected Notables
>>2408342 #3035, >>2409196 #3036
>>2405809 #3032, >>2406722 #3033, >>2407591 #3034
>>2403550 #3029, >>2404349 #3030, >>2405170 #3031
>>2401153 #3026, >>2401950 #3027, >>2402769 #3028
>>2398863 #3023, >>2399569 #3024, >>2400393 #3025
>>2396540 #3020, >>2397342 #3021, >>2398093 #3022
Best Of Bread: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Archives of Notables >>>/comms/225 ; >>>/comms/1536
#2410762 at 2018-08-02 14:24:51 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3039: Beacon Of Truth Edition
Notables
are not endorsements
GLOBAL
>>2393582 Thank you for your interest in Q and QResearch >>2410101 Please watch this video
>>2355675, >>2351700, >>2349367 BO/BV on nudity/thot policy (incl history)
>>2327065 How to filter gore spam >>2334211 (new: Add into [Options] -> Theme)
>>2251030 , >>2261001 EXPLANATION of bread-archiving situation. Fix habbening
>>2366140 Transcript of speech that got POTUS elected (!!!)
#3038
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
>>2410077 Meet the Podestas: Alex Podesta, >>2410093 Brian Podesta (POS Scumbag: Works at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), >>2410120, >>2410408
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos ? Stanford prof
>>2410142 Resignation: Karen Fordham, CEO of St. Joseph Hospital
>>2410148 Oz Resignation: Chief Operations Officer at DP World Australia
>>2410155 Regional GOP chair Resignation: Cecily Wright, Spokane Co. WA
>>2410159 Malay Resignation: Shah Hakim CEO of Scomi Group Bhd
--Baker Change--
>>2410180 Investigative Video on the Podesta's
>>2410208 Podesta's Parents have adopted 25 children during their time in Washington
>>2410209 Recent U.S. federal court ruling means companies such as Facebook/Alphabet need to pay more taxes
>>2410244 As per Q's request: White House visitation Logs.
>>2410382 Who is Nicholas Rasmussen?
>>2410407 Buffalo: A Cesspool of Corruption: NXIVM, Talmudist judges in Family Courts, Rampant & Protected Child Molestation, >>2410427, >>2410506 More Crooked Connections (including Comey)
>>2410478 Colombian Woman Arrested for Child Pimping (~250 victims reported)
>>2410486 Manafort-case: Prosecution has 'every intention' of calling Richard Gates as witness
>>2410522 Childmurderer Pope Frances wants to abolish the Death Penalty worldwide "..building forth on the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI", >>2410531
>>2410554 President Trump in Pa. Thursday as manhunt continues for man who threatened him
>>2410657 Steyer & Center for American Progress
>>2410741 Documents shown how Podesta Group worked for Ukranian political group "Party of regions"
>>2410736 #3038
#3037
>>2409911 If diet low in keks, watch this: CNN's Cuomo disses QAnon & 17
>>2409893 Freedom WW: Colombian Child Sex Exloitation ring brought down
>>2409659 Good morning from @DJT
>>2409664 Anon reviews inconsistencies in the Bakersfield shooter incident
>>2409735 UK: 2nd time Heathrow Airport finds missile parts bound for Iran
>>2409719 Almonds Activated! 17 letters before "c" in @DJT smocking gun
>>2409458 Surprise! China jacking our IP again! GE data, aviation use?
>>2409456 NZ: Trump's new visa law & their 'Mother of all Dragons' PM
>>2409411 Catholic Church now opposed death penalty (to save their hides?)
>>2409396 Cohen trial digg, Status of the Stay doc
>>2409393 Digg on NY Atty General's Race: Ex-Clinton Aide, Abolish-ICE'ers
>>2409342, >>2409358 Anon reviews discernment specs for clown/not-a-clown
>>2409340 CIA pub unclass'd, digging Vaughn Bishop, incl Clapper, Manning
>>2409245 Why lurking and careful study pay off: "normie" take on Q & MSM
>>2409984 #3037
#3036 >>2408367 Baker change
>>2408605 Diggable? Gov. Ed Rendell, fren to Sandusky/Jarrett, Haiti?
>>2408529 Freedom needed WW, especially in S. Africa: Expropriating Farms
>>2408476, >>2408842 Anon's take on Italy's 5 Star Movement's handling of MSM
>>2408499 All aboard the Spin Train: Rolling Stone/Sydney Morn Hrld on QAnon
>>2408446 Anon breaks down history of double-standards btwn MSM & Q narratives
>>2408438 Mil choppers training over Pittsburgh, raises eyebrows
>>2408432, >>2408439 What matters is it's what THEY believe: Satanic Holidays
>>2409196 #3036
#3035
>>2407898 MSM Projection Narrative
>>2407788 Get Ready: New Fake News Strategy to Discredit Q
>>2407739 US No Longer the World's Piggy Bank. Pompeo: "No Rationale For US Tax Dollars" For Pakistan's IMF Rescue
>>2408228, >>2408265 Killary Teaming Up With Spielberg to Produce TV Drama
>>2408342 #3035
#3034
>>2406938, >>2407117 Anon Highlights 2014 Document Outlining What FISA Can & Can't Do: need graphicfags eyes on this
>>2407496 NATO: Time To Re-Examine An Alliance
>>2407390, >>2407410 Widespread 404s Reported on Articles About Q: These People Are Stupid
>>2407591 #3034
Previously Collected Notables
>>2405809 #3032, >>2406722 #3033
>>2403550 #3029, >>2404349 #3030, >>2405170 #3031
>>2401153 #3026, >>2401950 #3027, >>2402769 #3028
>>2398863 #3023, >>2399569 #3024, >>2400393 #3025
>>2396540 #3020, >>2397342 #3021, >>2398093 #3022
Best Of Bread: https://8ch.net/qresearch/notables.html
Archives of Notables >>>/comms/225 ; >>>/comms/1536
#2410736 at 2018-08-02 14:22:20 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3038: The Matrix is Coming Down Edition
#3038
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
>>2410077 Meet the Podestas: Alex Podesta, >>2410093 Brian Podesta (POS Scumbag: Works at National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), >>2410120, >>2410408
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos ? Stanford prof
>>2410142 Resignation: Karen Fordham, CEO of St. Joseph Hospital
>>2410148 Oz Resignation: Chief Operations Officer at DP World Australia
>>2410155 Regional GOP chair Resignation: Cecily Wright, Spokane Co. WA
>>2410159 Malay Resignation: Shah Hakim CEO of Scomi Group Bhd
–Baker Change–
>>2410180 Investigative Video on the Podesta's
>>2410208 Podesta's Parents have adopted 25 children during their time in Washington
>>2410209 Recent U.S. federal court ruling means companies such as Facebook/Alphabet need to pay more taxes
>>2410244 As per Q's request: White House visitation Logs.
>>2410382 Who is Nicholas Rasmussen?
>>2410407 Buffalo: A Cesspool of Corruption: NXIVM, Talmudist judges in Family Courts, Rampant & Protected Child Molestation, >>2410427, >>2410506 More Crooked Connections (including Comey)
>>2410478 Colombian Woman Arrested for Child Pimping (~250 victims reported)
>>2410486 Manafort-case: Prosecution has 'every intention' of calling Richard Gates as witness
>>2410522 Childmurderer Pope Frances wants to abolish the Death Penalty worldwide "..building forth on the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI", >>2410531
>>2410554 President Trump in Pa. Thursday as manhunt continues for man who threatened him
>>2410657 Steyer & Center for American Progress
#2410344 at 2018-08-02 13:46:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3038: The Matrix is Coming Down Edition
>>2410142
Anon can you tell baker where this hospital is? Local news never says town/state, they just assume locals know, kek.
>>2410286
Acknowledged
Ty for taking care of our dough
and anons, baker
Have a great day.
#3038
>>2410142 Resignation: Karen Fordham, CEO of St. Joseph Hospital
>>2410148 Oz Resignation: Chief Operations Officer at DP World Australia
>>2410155 Regional GOP chair Resignation: Cecily Wright, Spokane Co. WA
>>2410159 Malay Resignation: Shah Hakim CEO of Scomi Group Bhd
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos → Stanford prof
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
#2410271 at 2018-08-02 13:36:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3038: The Matrix is Coming Down Edition
>>2410257
Oh TY BV.
>>2410181
Confirming Handoff, baker?
#3038
>>2410155 Regional GOP chair Resignation: Cecily Wright, Spokane Co. WA
>>2410159 Malay Resignation: Shah Hakim CEO of Scomi Group Bhd
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos → Stanford prof
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
#2410182 at 2018-08-02 13:23:38 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3038: The Matrix is Coming Down Edition
>>2410033
No handoff for baker yet?
But muh dubs…
Any Lurking Bakers Available?
Have some notes going already for ya:
#3038
>>2410114 Resignation? FB chief sec ofcr Alex Stamos → Stanford prof
>>2410049 Nine-point redpiller on HRC, DNC, Dirty Dossier, & FISA warrants
#2403276 at 2018-08-02 02:34:29 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3029: Eric Trump: ""WWG1WGA" Edition
Notable Resignation: Alex Stamos - Facebook CSO (Chief of Security Officer)
https://wccftech.com/facebook-losing-security-chief/
#2398420 at 2018-08-01 22:19:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3023 Fishing with Q is Fun Edition!!
Facebook Chief Security Officer Abruptly Quits One Day After He Announced Facebook & FBI Busted Supposed New Political Influence Campaigns
"Facebook's Chief Security Officer @AlexStamos, who presented yesterday on political influence campaigns from bad actors on the platform, officially has a new job and is leaving Facebook."
That was fast.
But, but, but what about those "bad actors" the FBI and Facebook just caught trying to influence the 2018 midterm elections?
Supposedly caught. Exactly.
Time for Alex Stamos to get out while he still can.
https://truepundit.com/facebook-chief-security-officer-abruptly-quits-one-day-after-he-announced-facebook-fbi-busted-supposed-new-political-influence-campaigns/
#2298004 at 2018-07-26 18:09:04 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #2895 Think for yourself. Trust Yourself Edition
Departing Facebook Security Officer's Memo: "We Need To Be Willing To Pick Sides"
Snippet:
In a brutally honest note about his departure, Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos calls on his colleagues "to intentionally not collect data where possible" and listen to people when they say a feature is "creepy."
In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored his colleagues to take responsibility for the social network's failings amid the fallout of the most notable privacy scandal in the company's 14-year history.
Advocating for dramatic shifts in Facebook's culture, Alex Stamos, the company's outgoing chief security officer, sent a reflective, brutally honest note to employees on March 23 attributing the social network's problems to "tens of thousands of small decisions made over the last decade." The memo, which has not previously been circulated outside Facebook, is a rare look at some of the internal debate currently taking place over the company's future direction and the growth-at-any-cost attitude that has driven it for years.
More here:
https:// www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/facebook-Alex-Stamos-memo-cambridge-analytica-pick-sides
#747934 at 2018-03-21 22:05:07 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #926: Check out the new War Room OP, Edition
>>747551
>>747588
from the article:
News of Coates' departure comes on the same day that Michael Zelewski, director of information security engineering at Google, announced his departure from that company after 11 years. And it comes two days after reports that Alex Stamos, Facebook's chief security officer, plans to leave the company in August.
#725967 at 2018-03-19 23:15:00 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #898: Tech Bubble Go Bust Edition
>>725538
https:// boingboing.net/2017/01/23/facebook-cso-Alex-Stamos-is-a.html
Jan 2017
#725671 at 2018-03-19 22:41:19 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #898: Tech Bubble Go Bust Edition
Posted in tail of last bread.
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos is leaving pic related.
#725652 at 2018-03-19 22:39:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research #897: [@Comey] Edition
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos leaving the company.
#725595 at 2018-03-19 22:35:13 (UTC+1)
Q Research #897: [@Comey] Edition
>>725538
add FB CSO Alex Stamos to the list of stepping down
8kun Midnight Riders Posts (1)
#44329 at 2021-01-18 18:30:54 (UTC+1)
QR Midnight Riders #205: When Does A Bird Sing? Edition
Former Facebook Exec: Some 'Conservative Influencers' Are Bigger than CNN, 'Turn Down' Their Reach
CNN has opened a new front in its efforts to blacklist its competitors. After former Facebook exec Alex Stamos told Brian Stelter that YouTube and other platforms have to "turn down the capability" of Conservatives to reach "huge audiences," CNN's Oliver Darcy took it one step further, calling on cable companies to stop delivering the right-leaning channels One America News Network (OANN) and Newsmax to paying customers.
CNN continues to give a platform to people calling for tech companies to escalate their censorship of conservatives, even after the tech platforms purged President Donald Trump, the most visible symbol of opposition to the ruling regime.
The network recently featured Alex Stamos, a former Facebook executive, who suggested that tech platforms should intervene to protect corporate news networks from independent competitors.
"We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences..." said Stamos. "There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN."
Former Facebook insider Alex Stamos tells @brianstelter: "We have to turn down the capability of these Conservative influencers to reach these huge audiences... There are people on YouTube for example that have a larger audience than daytime CNN." pic.twitter.com/gP0XtnjhCQ
- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 17, 2021
Journalist Glenn Greenwald compared the campaign against conservative media to attempts to eliminate Islamic extremism from the internet.
"Here's a former Facebook executive on CNN *explicitly urging that the same tactics that were used in cooperation with the US security state to remove ISIS from the internet now be used against "conservative influencers," to deprogram everyone to believe the CNN/liberal consensus," said Greenwald.
But CNN does not seem content with just Silicon Valley censoring conservatives. Oliver Darcy, a CNN reporter who previously helped pressure Twitter to ban President Trump, revealed that he is asking cable companies to justify carrying the two conservative networks, which have surged in popularity since the election.
"Just a reminder that neither [Verizon], [ATT], nor [comcast] have answered any questions about why they beam channels like OAN & Newsmax into millions of homes," said Darcy on Twitter. "Do they have any second thoughts about distributing these channels given their election denialism content? They won't say."
Just a reminder that neither @Verizon, @ATT, nor @comcast have answered any questions about why they beam channels like OAN & Newsmax into millions of homes. Do they have any second thoughts about distributing these channels given their election denialism content? They won't say.
- Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 17, 2021
Darcy did not acknowledge his question to the cable companies, which have never in recent memory been asked to justify carrying news channels, as unusual.
Nor did he acknowledge that CNN is in direct competition with Newsmax and OANN, and would be strengthened if the latter two networks were removed from cable.
The attempt to pressure cable providers into blacklisting CNN's competitors is a sign that the far-left news network is looking beyond Big Tech censorship as a means of suppressing the competition and protecting the corporate media's agenda-setting power from heterodox points of view.
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/01/18/former-facebook-exec-some-conservative-influencers-are-bigger-than-cnn-turn-down-their-reach/
8chan/8kun QResearch GERMANY Posts (1)
#3918292 at 2018-11-15 22:59:53 (UTC+1)
Q Research Germany #7 Herbst Ausgabe
https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Soros-Stiftung-kritisiert-Facebook-nach-Bericht-ueber-Negativkampagne-4222591.html
Facebook droht der nächste Skandal. Diesmal geht es darum, dass das Online-Netzwerk eine PR-Firma beschäftigt hat, um Kritiker in Misskredit zu bringen.
Facebook hat in den USA eine PR-Firma dafür bezahlt, Kritiker in ein schlechtes Licht zu rücken. Dabei wurde auch die Aufmerksamkeit auf Finanzier und Mäzen George Soros gelenkt, der ein häufiges Angriffsziel für Konservative wie US-Präsident Donald Trump - aber auch für antisemitische Verschwörungstheorien - ist. Das geht aus einem Bericht der New York Times hervor. Demnach sollte Soros als geheimer Verantwortlicher für wachsende Facebook-Kritik dargestellt werden.
Mit unlauteren Methoden gegen Kritiker?
Soros' Stiftung Open Society Foundations verurteilte das Vorgehen des weltgrößten Online-Netzwerks scharf. "Ihre Methoden bedrohen die Werte, auf denen unsere Demokratie beruht", schrieb ihr Präsident Patrick Gaspard in einem offenen Brief an Facebook-Geschäftsführerin Sheryl Sandberg. Er verwies darauf, dass Soros zu den prominenten Trump-Kritikern gehörte, denen vor einigen Wochen Rohrbomben geschickt wurden und schrieb außerdem, dass jede Menge antisemitischer Inhalte über Facebook verbreitet würden.
Facebook räumte am Donnerstag ein, dass das Online-Netzwerk mit der PR-Firma Definers zusammengearbeitet habe, die tatsächlich Journalisten ermutigt habe, sich die Finanzierung der Organisation "Freedom from Facebook" (Freiheit von Facebook) genauer anzusehen - die hatte öffentlichkeitswirksam gegen das Portal protestiert. "Die Absicht war, zu demonstrieren, dass es nicht einfach nur eine spontane Basiskampagne war, wie von ihr behauptet, sondern sie von einem bekannten Kritiker unseres Unternehmens unterstützt wurde."
Dies als antisemitische Attacke darzustellen, sei aber "verwerflich und falsch", erklärte Facebook. Die Geschäftsbeziehung zu Definers sei "vergangene Nacht" beendet worden, hieß es ohne eine Begründung. Ein Sprecher von Open Society Foundations sagte der New York Times, die Stiftung habe zwar zwei Mitglieder-Organisationen von "Freedom from Facebook" unterstützt, aber nicht die Kampagne selbst.
Facebook wehrt sich
Andere Informationen aus dem Artikel der New York Times wies Facebook unterdessen zurück. So bestritt das Online-Netzwerk unter anderem, dass der damalige IT-Sicherheitschef Alex Stamos bei seinen Untersuchungen zu russischen Propaganda-Kampagnen im Umfeld der US-Präsidentenwahl 2016 gebremst worden sei. Auch die Darstellung, dass Geschäftsführerin Sheryl Sandberg ein vielkritisiertes Gesetz gegen Online-Werbung für Prostitution unterstützt habe, um Punkte bei konservativen Abgeordneten zu sammeln, sei falsch, hieß es. (dpa) / (mho)
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QR Bunker Edition #412: Rememberance Day Edition
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Restricting Rogue-State Revenue: Strengthening Energy Sanctions on Russia, Iran, and Venezuela
House Financial Services Committee
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WITNESSES:
The Honorable Marshall Billingslea, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute
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Dr. Anna Mikulska, Senior Fellow, Kleiman Center for Energy Policy at University of Pennsylvania
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Dr. Ryan Berg, Director, Americas Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
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Ms. Claire Jungman, Chief of Staff, Against Nuclear Iran
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Mr. Adam Smith, Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116636
https://financialservices.house.gov/calendar/eventsingle.aspx?EventID=409068
https://www.youtube.com/@GOPFinancialServices/streams
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Cleaning Up the C-Suite: Ensuring Accountability for Corporate Criminals
Senate Judiciary Committee
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WITNESSES:
PANEL I
The Honorable Matthew G. Olsen
Assistant Attorney General for National Security
Department of Justice
Washington, DC
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Nicole M. Argentieri
Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division
Department of Justice
Washington, DC
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PANEL II
The Honorable Andrew Lelling
Former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
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Ryan Hampton
Person in Recovery & Addiction Recovery Advocate
Las Vegas, NV
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Brandon L. Garrett
L. Neil Williams Professor of Law
Duke University School of Law
Durham, NC
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/335229
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-activity/hearings/cleaning-up-the-c-suite-ensuring-accountability-for-corporate-criminals
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Communities in Crisis: What Happens When Disaster Recovery Funds are Delayed
Senate Appropriations Committee
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WITNESSES:
The Honorable Shaun Donovan
CEO and President
Enterprise Community Partners
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Jennifer Gray Thompson
Founder and CEO
After the Fire USA
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Ran Reinhard
Director of Operations
South Carolina Office of Resilience
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https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/communities-in-crisis-what-happens-when-disaster-recovery-funds-are-delayed
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A Year in Review: The State of Small Business in America
House Small Business Committee
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WITNESSES:
Mr. James (Randy) Thompson
President, Board of Directors, Pal-Con, Ltd.
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Mr. Daniel Grech
Founder and CEO, BizHack Academy
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Mr. Nicholas Boyle
CEO, Northern Keystone Towing and Recovery
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Dr. Tammira Lucas
CEO/ Assistant Professor, The Cube Cowork / Coppin State University
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116665
https://smallbusiness.house.gov/
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Considering DHS' and CISA's Role in Securing Artificial Intelligence
House Homeland Security Committee
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Ian Swanson
Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Protect AI
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Debbie Taylor Moore
Senior Partner and Vice President, Global Cybersecurity, IBM Consulting
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Timothy O'Neill
Vice President, Chief Information Security Officer and Product Security, Hitachi Vantara
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Alex Stamos
Chief Trust Officer, SentinelOne
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https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/house-event/116662
https://homeland.house.gov/hearing/considering-dhs-and-cisas-role-in-securing-artificial-intelligence/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng-7QXa3luI
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