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#17923336 at 2022-12-11 15:31:26 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #21967: Worldwide Disinformation Network WATCH OUT Edition

https://www.ibtimes.com/who-adam-mosseri-longtime-facebook-exec-named-head-instagram-2721762
Who Is Adam Mosseri? Longtime Facebook Exec Named The Head Of Instagram
Instagram co-founders Mike Krieger and Kevin Systrom abruptly announced their resignations from Facebook last week, six years after selling their photo-sharing app to Mark Zuckerberg's social-media giant.
On Monday, Instagram announced their replacement: longtime Facebook exec Adam Mosseri.
A New York native, Mosseri ran a design consultancy and worked at the startup TokBox before hopping on the Facebook bandwagon in 2008, according to TechCrunch. The 35-year-old stayed on the Facebook side of things in one capacity or another before taking parental leave earlier this year. During his time at Facebook, he worked in the design and product management departments before being put in charge of News Feed operations.
Mosseri was in charge of News Feed during some of Facebook's most contentious periods. He put his name on official company responses to the "fake news" problem when it blew up during and after the 2016 presidential election. The Russian interference debacle also occurred during his tenure as the head of News Feed.
When he returned from parental leave, his role changed within the Facebook corporate hierarchy. Mosseri switched from the company's namesake social network to Instagram, becoming the photo-sharing app's VP of product. According to TechCrunch, he performed well in that role and there was no notable tension between he and Systrom.
Instagram's announcement said Mosseri will be working with a new executive team. He will be in charge of every aspect of Instagram in his new role. The blog post, written by Krieger and Systrom, expressed confidence in Mosseri's ability to lead Instagram into the future.
"We remain excited for the future of Instagram in the coming years as we transition from being leaders at Instagram to being just two users in a billion," the blog post said. "We're confident that under Adam's leadership, Instagram will evolve and improve and we look forward to the future of the product and community."
When Krieger and Systrom left Facebook, reports indicated there was considerable tension between the duo and Zuckerberg. The two sides reportedly disagreed about where Instagram stood in Facebook's product line.
Mosseri graduated from New York University in 2005 with a degree in information design. This is his sixth different position at Facebook, according to his LinkedIn page.

#15561421 at 2022-02-06 18:03:45 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #19678: Panic In The Air Edition

Instagram whistleblowers accuse the social media giant of putting 'astronomical profits before people' after it was sold to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg for $1 billion

When Silicon Valley product designer Chris Messina became the 19th person to join Instagram in 2010 he was hoping to change the world.

A friend of founders Kevin Systrom, 38, and Mike Krieger, 35, Messina, who invented the #hashtag to create global conversations, was inspired by company mantras such as 'Simplicity Matters', 'Inspire Creativity', and 'Community First'.


Now fast forward 12 years, and Instagram, which has a revenue of $86 billion and more than a billion users globally, has become one of the most influential - and toxic - social media companies in the world.

It was branded 'the worst social media platform for mental health and bullying' in 2017 by Britain's Royal Society for Public Health and its algorithms were blamed for the suicide of 14-year-old Molly Russell, who took her own life that year after looking at graphic self-harm images on Instagram.

'We were certainly plenty naive,' said Messina. 'We had ideas about the world and about how technology could improve the world.

'The people that were building a lot of the social technologies were, I don't want to say similar to me, but they were probably more similar to me than different.

'What I mean by that is that we were, one, interested in technology, two, we were pretty literate and educated, and we thought that by bringing this technology to the world, a lot of things would just sort of sort themselves out.

'I'm sure that there was some vague awareness perhaps about that risk in the early days of social media... I don't want to say we were blinded by ambition but blinded by the desire to get this stuff out there and then we'd sort it out.

'Part of this was a selection bias. We were seeing people having a great time and using these things for good and, I think, that, at least for me, propelled me to continue to believe that bringing more access to more people was a net good as opposed to just saying: "OK, you know what? Humans aren't ready for this. Let's give it up".

'I still love Instagram. And I really hope that it's able to sort of figure out how to navigate this space and get back to what it wanted to be. But I can't say that I'm holding my breath for that to happen.'

More
http://www.stationgossip.com/2022/02/instagram-whistleblowers-accuse-social.html

#9323240 at 2020-05-26 21:42:36 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #11932: Due Diligence Pays Off, Work It Edition

"Everything About This Is Insane" - Begging Big Tech To Be Arbiters Of Truth Will Ultimately Backfire

'Be careful what you wish for'. To all those calling for more censorship of "the Other's" voices - urging Big Tech companies to become managers in the ministry of truth to rescue the world from dissent, disagreement, and dissolution - there is a simple message - it will ultimately backfire in ways even Huxley and Orwell could not imagine.

As Evan Greer argues below "we need to address the problem of viral disinformation at its root."

In the United States, progressive groups and lawmakers rightly concerned about the rise of far right online activity, and attempts by state actors to manipulate elections, have increasingly turned to calls for Internet censorship, deplatforming, and more aggressive moderation by companies like Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

These calls are well intentioned but ultimately misguided.

These comments come just hours after controversy was exposed about the sudden and purely coincidental deletion of numerous Hong Kong dissident Twitter accounts after Li Fei-Fei was appointed to Twitter's board.

As Liberty Bltizkrieg's Mike Krieger noted so perfectly, "everything about this is insane."

"The tech giants are out of control, actively laundering national security state talking points via mass media "fact checker" censorship. It's only gonna get worse."

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https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/everything-about-insane-begging-big-tech-be-arbiters-truth-will-ultimately-backfire

#7268873 at 2019-07-31 02:15:42 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #9300: The Godfather III Edition

Just found this on Zero Hedge. Sums up the situation we have been in.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-29/take-deep-breath-Mike-Krieger-explains-it-all-24-words

#6980616 at 2019-07-10 14:41:35 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8931: Bacon wrapped Q Drops Edition

repost from late lb, not in QResear.ch:

Alex Acosta Reportedly Claimed Jeffrey Epstein "Belonged To Intelligence"
by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog
7-10-19

To appreciate the significance of what I'm about to share, you really need to go back and read yesterday's post: "The Jeffrey Epstein Rabbit Hole Goes a Lot Deeper Than You Think."

In that piece, I shared many lesser known, but extremely bizarre facts about Jeffrey Epstein and the people around him. I also noted that it appeared his real job was to run a blackmail operation to ensnare some of the most wealthy and powerful people on earth. I alluded to the possibility that he was collecting this priceless information on behalf of a third party, and then just today we learn the following via the Daily Beast:

"Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)...

For almost two decades, for some nebulous reason, whether to do with ties to foreign intelligence, his billions of dollars, or his social connections, Epstein, whose alleged sexual sickness and horrific assaults on women without means or ability to protect themselves is well-known in his circle, remained untouchable.

It should be noted the reason I attach credibility to the above is based on who wrote it, Vicky Ward. She has an extensive history of digging into Epstein, and wrote one of the earliest profiles on him back in 2003. As she notes in today's article:

I spent many months on his trail in 2002 for Vanity Fair and discovered not only that he was not who he claimed to be professionally, but also that he had allegedly assaulted two young sisters, one of whom had been underage at the time. Very bravely, they were prepared to go on the record. They were afraid he'd use all his influence to discredit them-and their fear turned out to be legitimate.

As the article was being readied for publication, Epstein made a visit to the office of Vanity Fair's then-editor, Graydon Carter, and suddenly the women and their allegations were removed from the article. "He's sensitive about the young women," Carter told me at the time. (Editor's Note: Carter has previously denied this allegation.) He also mentioned he'd finagled a photograph of Epstein in a swimsuit out of the encounter. And there was also some feeble excuse about the article "being stronger as a business story." (Epstein had also leaned heavily on my ex-husband's uncle, Conrad Black, to try to exert his influence on me, which was particularly unwelcome, given that Black happened to be my ex-husband's boss at the time.)

Many people had assumed Epstein was untouchable merely because he had so much dirt on so many powerful people, but it increasingly looks far bigger than that. It appears he may have been untouchable because he was systematically collecting this information on behalf of an intelligence agency. If so, we need to find out precisely who he was working for.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-10/bombshell-alex-acosta-reportedly-claimed-jeffrey-epstein-belonged-intelligence

#6980559 at 2019-07-10 14:32:37 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8930: Covfefe and a Q shaped donut Edition

>>6980526
Zerohedge suggested otherwise:

Bombshell: Alex Acosta Reportedly Claimed Jeffrey Epstein "Belonged To Intelligence"

Authored by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

To appreciate the significance of what I'm about to share, you really need to go back and read yesterday's post: The Jeffrey Epstein Rabbit Hole Goes a Lot Deeper Than You Think.



In that piece, I shared many lesser known, but extremely bizarre facts about Jeffrey Epstein and the people around him. I also noted that it appeared his real job was to run a blackmail operation to ensnare some of the most wealthy and powerful people on earth. I alluded to the possibility that he was collecting this priceless information on behalf of a third party, and then just today we learn the following via the Daily Beast:


Turkey Needs to Regain Credibility Says Teneo Intelligence's Piccoli
"Is the Epstein case going to cause a problem [for confirmation hearings]?" Acosta had been asked. Acosta had explained, breezily, apparently, that back in the day he'd had just one meeting on the Epstein case. He'd cut the non-prosecution deal with one of Epstein's attorneys because he had "been told" to back off, that Epstein was above his pay grade. "I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone," he told his interviewers in the Trump transition, who evidently thought that was a sufficient answer and went ahead and hired Acosta. (The Labor Department had no comment when asked about this.)…

For almost two decades, for some nebulous reason, whether to do with ties to foreign intelligence, his billions of dollars, or his social connections, Epstein, whose alleged sexual sickness and horrific assaults on women without means or ability to protect themselves is well-known in his circle, remained untouchable.

It should be noted the reason I attach credibility to the above is based on who wrote it, Vicky Ward. She has an extensive history of digging into Epstein, and wrote one of the earliest profiles on him back in 2003. As she notes in today's article:

I spent many months on his trail in 2002 for Vanity Fair and discovered not only that he was not who he claimed to be professionally, but also that he had allegedly assaulted two young sisters, one of whom had been underage at the time. Very bravely, they were prepared to go on the record. They were afraid he'd use all his influence to discredit them-and their fear turned out to be legitimate.

As the article was being readied for publication, Epstein made a visit to the office of Vanity Fair's then-editor, Graydon Carter, and suddenly the women and their allegations were removed from the article. "He's sensitive about the young women," Carter told me at the time. (Editor's Note: Carter has previously denied this allegation.) He also mentioned he'd finagled a photograph of Epstein in a swimsuit out of the encounter. And there was also some feeble excuse about the article "being stronger as a business story." (Epstein had also leaned heavily on my ex-husband's uncle, Conrad Black, to try to exert his influence on me, which was particularly unwelcome, given that Black happened to be my ex-husband's boss at the time.)

Many people had assumed Epstein was untouchable merely because he had so much dirt on so many powerful people, but it increasingly looks far bigger than that. It appears he may have been untouchable because he was systematically collecting this information on behalf of an intelligence agency. If so, we need to find out precisely who he was working for.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-07-10/bombshell-alex-acosta-reportedly-claimed-jeffrey-epstein-belonged-intelligence

#6735689 at 2019-06-12 19:59:01 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #8614: Wednesday Flyover Edition

>>6735278
This was a MASSIVE cover-up all facilitated by the CFTC, the eveidence was overwhelming and many people made comments on the CFTC's site asking for public comments, I know I was one of them. They took all the evidence and then swept it under the rug. It was/is one of the largest cover-up of financial tyranny EVER.
This article is from 2010 and thy knew it was going on, had the evidence and then declined to move forward.
The third cap is the day that Bin Laden was "captured". When that was announced the reaction in the chart was was habbened….TO THE SECOND. It was a co-ordinated effort byt the Hussein admin using that event as a cover. William Daley, who was hussein's Chief of staff had his hands all over this.

CFTC Commissioner Bart Chilton Reveals "One Trader" Controls 40% Of Silver Market, As Silver Holdings Of SLV Hit All Time Record

After we reported a week ago that JPMorgan was trying to corner the copper market, many noted this was not surprising, considering the bank's comparable approach in manipulating various other precious metal markets. Naturally, we extrapolated that the main reason why the CFTC continues to refuse to delay implementation of position limits is precisely due to the JP Morgan's need to control commodity pricing precisely due to such manipulative trading practices: "As for the CFTC, we now know why they are so intent on delaying the size limit discussion: after all, any regulation will be forward looking - better let JPM accumulate all commodities it can and distribute these via hidden channels to affiliated subs before the ever so busy Gary Gensler corrupt cronies decide to raise their finger on what is increasingly an ever more blatant market manipulation scheme. At least in this case, JPM will push the price higher unlike what it is doing courtesy of its gold and silver manipulation. However, the PM market (especially Asian accounts) will soon make sure Blythe Masters is looking for a job within 3 months as we predicted a few weeks ago." The only problem with this story is that so far, is that unlike copper, JP Morgan's now legendary paper short in the silver market, long taken for granted by the "less than in mainstream" community, has been persistently ignored by the broader media due to the a lack of concrete evidence. Hopefully that will now change: courtesy of a speech delivered by none other than the CFTC commissioner Bart Chilton, who continues to expose the CFTC and the banker cartel's illegal market manipulation practices, we now have proof that "one trader held over 40 percent of the silver market." As this trader is either JP Morgan directly, or various Blythe Masters proxies, we can only hope that finally the broader outcry against JPM's ongoing attempt to suppress precious metal prices (insert Mike Krieger/Max Keiser "Crush JP Morgan" campaign here) will force the bank to finally unwind its shorts. And if not, perhaps the market speculators will do it for them: as of Friday, the SLV ETF held an absolute record 10,941 tonnes of silver, an increase of 163 tonnes for the week.

What is even more amusing is that the Bart Chilton disclosure came during a speech blasting that other manipulative scourge of the market: High Frequency Trading (it is helpful that over a year after Zero Hedge first recognized HFT as the biggest threat to market stability, subsequently confirmed by the flash crash, now the very CFTC is finally confirming we have been right all along). In an ideal world, there would be an overhaul to both position limit and HFT trading rules. Alas, we live in a world, in which the son of the heretofore biggest known ponzi, Bernie Madoff, has decided to take his own life on the two year anniversary of his father's ignominious collapse. Surely, should the regulators confirm that our own markets are nothing but a massive ponzi, the suicides will be far more pervasive, as all those who "trade the tape" realize they have been following the crowd right over the cliff.

First, here is a snapshot of (alleged) silver holdings in the SLV ETF, which many believe is a direct and indirect attempt by Asian banks to force a massive short covering capitulation by JP Morgan.
https://www.zerohedge.com/article/cftc-commissioner-bart-chilton-reveals-one-trader-controls-40-silver-market-silver-holdings-

JP Morgan: "Operation Silver Slam
http://www.roadtoroota.com/public/592.cfm

there just is not much public information on this so I have to resort to using bix weir's site for moar background. His stuff is solid on this aspect…crypto? not so much.
BTW I knew of much of the stuff he covers at his site but also have learned a few things too.

#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

#5699542 at 2019-03-15 14:27:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7289: Calling Out The Hoax Edition

>>5699345


How Burbn became Instagram!!!!!


Kevin Systrom changed his major at least five times while in college before settling on investment science, so perhaps his post-grad flip-flopping shouldn't come as too much of a surprise.

After working briefly at Twitter and Google, Kevin Systrom opted to launch his own project, Burbn, in 2009. The app was a check-in service similar to Foursquare, and let users leave messages for friends at different locations. Systrom and his co-founder Mike Krieger reportedly raised $500,000, led by Andreessen Horowitz, for the project, but it didn't take off like the founders had hoped.


The following year, Systrom and Krieger applied some of the location and mobile sharing features to a photo app, which they called Instagram. That app attracted 25,000 users in its first day. Instagram was acquired by Facebook for $730 million last year and currently has more than 100 million users.

"It's a hard decision to make," Systrom once said about pivoting. "If it's the right thing, it will happen. You have to be flexible enough to give yourself the opportunity to fall into these other opportunities."

Here is a video of Burbn now Instagram:


Posted 18th June 2013 by Mateo Fowler
Labels: Andreessen Horowitz Burbn business Google Instagram Kevin Systrom Mike Krieger startup technology Twitter


http://mateotech.blogspot.com/2013/06/how-burbn-became-instagram.html



Notice this same Horowitz name in this article in the Facebook article

#5699345 at 2019-03-15 14:13:47 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7289: Calling Out The Hoax Edition

A red flag in a Facebook exec's goodbye letter shows there's bad blood over Mark Zuckerberg's radical privacy plan
Jake Kanter
2h

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-the-red-flag-in-chris-cox-goodbye-letter-to-staff-2019-3

Facebook on Thursday announced that its chief product officer, Chris Cox, and Chris Daniels, the head of WhatsApp, were leaving the company.
A telling line in Cox's goodbye letter suggests there were significant disagreements over Mark Zuckerberg's plan to pivot Facebook to privacy.
This was backed up by a report in The New York Times, which said there were frustrations over Zuckerberg's vision for the company.

Facebook sprang a surprise Thursday when CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that another of his key lieutenants was leaving the company.

Following the departure of senior executives such as the Instagram founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, Zuckerberg said the company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, was headed for the door after 13 years. Chris Daniels, the head of WhatsApp, is also leaving.

Soon after everything was official, Cox published his goodbye letter to staff on his Facebook page. On first read, it's an ode to his good times at the company, in which he praises the senior management team and calls Zuckerberg a "dear friend."

In the comments below, there are glowing tributes from Zuckerberg ("It's been an honor and I'm deeply grateful"), Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg ("We are a better company for what you have given"), and the company's chief technology officer, Mike Schroepfer ("I'll deeply miss seeing you").

Read more: Mark Zuckerberg says his vision to divide Facebook's products in 2 could put its $56 billion business model at risk

But there's a telling line in Cox's letter signaling disagreements over the direction Zuckerberg is taking Facebook- namely, its pivot to privacy and encryption, which the CEO set out in a manifesto last week.

Here's the key part of Cox's note:

"As Mark has outlined, we are turning a new page in our product direction, focused on an encrypted, interoperable, messaging network.

"It's a product vision attuned to the subject matter of today: a modern communications platform that balances expression, safety, security, and privacy.

"This will be a big project and we will need leaders who are excited to see the new direction through."

This final sentence is revealing. Saying that Zuckerberg's vision will need people who believe in the direction of travel implies that Cox is not among them.

Indeed, The New York Times reports that there were "disagreements" over Zuckerberg's plan, which in essence will combine the back ends of WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram messaging to create an interoperable messaging service, protected by end-to-end encryption.

Citing six sources, The Times reported that Cox "disagreed with some of Mr. Zuckerberg's product ideas and changes, including the 'unified messaging' project intended to connect the apps."

This was echoed by Ben Horowitz, the cofounder of the influential Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Horowitz's partner, Marc Andreessen, is a Facebook board member.

Horowitz tweeted that the departures of Cox and Daniels showed there was "extremely strong dissent" over Zuckerberg's vision for Facebook. He added that it's a huge change of direction and that it "is quite clear that the decision was massively controversial."
SEE ALSO: Chris Cox, a key Facebook exec and lieutenant of Mark Zuckerberg, is leaving the company amid a huge reshuffle

#5662134 at 2019-03-13 18:26:32 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #7241: Ebake Edition

Germany Refuses To Take Black Boxes As FAA Rejects Canada's Boeing 737 Ban As "Inconclusive"

Update (1:25 pm ET): Having already noted that the US has quietly pushed to be the nation that analyzes the black boxes from the Ethiopian Airlines crash, an Ethiopian Airlines spokesman said flight recorders from the jet will be sent to a European country for analysis because Ethiopia lacks the technology to examine them.

However, AP reports that a spokesman for Germany's Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation is telling The Associated Press that the agency was asked by Ethiopian authorities to analyze the black boxes from Sunday's plane crash but declined because it lacked the necessary software.

Spokesman Germout Freitag said Wednesday that he doesn't know where the black boxes will be sent next.

Liberty Blitzkrieg's Mike Krieger summed up this fiasco best:

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-13/faa-alone-world-canada-orders-grounding-boeing-737-max-8s

#3530594 at 2018-10-19 13:23:08 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4478 Continous blessings of the NPC Meme

Facebook has hired the former UK deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg, as its head of global affairs and communications, as the company faces increased pressure over the handling of data and fake news on its platform.

Clegg, who has spent much of his post-parliamentary career campaigning against Brexit, will now move to Silicon Valley, California, replacing Elliot Schrage, who in June announced that he was leaving the company.

The former MP had reportedly spent months trying to woo Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg. In November last year, Clegg issued a passionate defense of the company from "unfair criticism" by news organizations with "ulterior motives."

The tech giant has recently been reacting to governmental pressure over 'fake news' published on its platform, banning a multitude of accounts and pages in response.

The move came as a shock to much of the British political commentariat.

My timeline is intriguingly divided between people disappointed with Nick Clegg for going to work for Facebook and people disappointed with Facebook for hiring Nick Clegg.
- Hugo Rifkind (@hugorifkind) October 19, 2018

Well thank God for that. Facebook really is finished now. https://t.co/lYUEZavkDK
- GeorgeMonbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) October 19, 2018

From November last year: "Nick Clegg attacks news brands for 'unfair' criticism of Facebook." https://t.co/PJwxx2RLBN
- Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) October 19, 2018

Calamity Clegg left the Lib Dems close to deletion so his Facebook big bucks job will be cheered by Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat… https://t.co/Hm2htnknkW
- Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) October 19, 2018

Clegg was a divisive figure while in coalition government with David Cameron's Tories, reneging on a host of Liberal Democrat manifesto pledges while in office.

The tech giant was possibly attracted to Clegg less for his time in UK office and more for his tenure as European Trade Commissioner. The Financial Times speculated that Facebook could seek to use his Brussels connections to navigate potential legal troubles brought about by the EU's General Data Protection Regulation.
The company has been riven with financial uncertainty. Its share price has dropped 27 percent since July, and the company has been rocked by the departure of senior executives since then. Instagram co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger jumped ship in September over a dispute with Zuckerberg about the future of the platform. WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum left Facebook in April, clashing with Zuckerberg over data privacy, advertising and encryption. Facebook owns both Instagram and WhatsApp.
https://www.rt.com/uk/441729-facebook-nick-clegg-fake-news/

#3180483 at 2018-09-25 17:55:21 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4026: A Fine Speech Edition

Instagram founders Systrom and Krieger resign from social media giant after eight years

Instagram is Facebook's fastest-growing product in terms of revenues

The two men who founded social media giant Instagram eight years ago have announced they will step down from the company.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger did not specify a reason for resigning from the firm, which was bought by Facebook six years ago for $1bn.

The company issued a statement late on Monday confirming Mr Systrom and Mr Krieger, it's chief executive officer and chief technical officer, had declared their decision to leave.

Mr Systrom wrote in a blog post that they plan to take some time off and explore "our curiosity and creativity again".

Instagram is Facebook's fastest-growing product in terms of revenues, though it has some four million fewer advertisers worldwide than the parent site.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/instagram-founders-resign-quit-kevin-systrom-Mike-Krieger-facebook-a8553446.html

#3177279 at 2018-09-25 12:16:43 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4022: Drained Swamp Best Swamp Edition

BAKER

Resignations

Instagram co-founders resign after alleged row with Zuckerberg in latest blow to Facebook

Instagram's co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, have resigned.

https://www.rt.com/news/439286-instagram-founders-resign-facebook/

#3174999 at 2018-09-25 05:21:46 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4019: Thank You /CM/ Edition

>>3174979
>https://qz.com/1401014/instagrams-cofounders-Mike-Krieger-and-kevin-systrom-are-leaving-facebook/amp/


NOTABLE

#3174979 at 2018-09-25 05:19:12 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4019: Thank You /CM/ Edition

Instagram founders leave Facebook

https://qz.com/1401014/instagrams-cofounders-Mike-Krieger-and-kevin-systrom-are-leaving-facebook/amp/

#3174871 at 2018-09-25 05:07:48 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4018: Levels Of TDS Never Seen Before Edition

Noteable - Instagram co-founders suddenly resign

AP -SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The co-founders of Instagram are resigning their positions with the social media company without explanation.

Chief Executive Kevin Systrom said in a statement late Monday that he and Mike Krieger, Instagram's chief technical officer, plan to leave the company in the next few weeks and take time off "to explore our curiosity and creativity again."

"Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team," Systrom said. "We've grown from 13 people to over a thousand with offices around the world, all while building products used and loved by a community of over one billion. We're now ready for our next chapter."

"Building new things requires that we step back, understand what inspires us and match that with what the world needs; that's what we plan to do," Systrom said. "We remain excited for the future of Instagram and Facebook in the coming years as we transition from leaders to two users in a billion."

No explanation was given for their sudden departure from the photo-sharing network they founded in 2010.

Facebook bought Instagram in 2012, just before going public, at a price that seemed inconceivable at the time - $1 billion - especially for a little-known startup with no profit. At the time Instagram was ad-free, with a loyal following of 31 million users who were all on mobile devices - still a somewhat elusive bunch for the web-born Facebook back then. Since then, the service has grown to more than 1 billion users and has of course added plenty of advertisements.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Systrom and Krieger "extraordinary product leaders" and said he was looking forward "to seeing what they build next."

The departures are a challenge for Facebook. Instagram has been a bright spot for company not just because it's seen as a more uplifting place than Facebook itself, but because it is popular with teens and young people - a group Facebook has had trouble keeping around.

Instagram has largely escaped Facebook's high-profile problems over user privacy, foreign elections interference and fake news, even though it is not immune to any of these things (Facebook recently disclosed it has deleted hundreds of pages on its namesake site as well as Instagram that were linked to global misinformation campaigns intended to disrupt elections).

Though Systrom, in the early days of Instagram ads, famously checked each one personally to ensure it aligned with the app's aesthetics, he was not as loudly anti-ads as the founder of another popular Facebook-acquired mobile app, WhatsApp.

WhatsApp's CEO Jan Koum resigned in April.

Koum had signaled years earlier that he would take a stand against Facebook if the company's push to increase profits demanded radical changes in the way WhatsApp operates. In a blog post written when Facebook announced the biggest acquisition in its history, Koum wrote that the deal wouldn't have happened if WhatsApp "had to compromise on the core principles that will always define our company, our vision and our product."

#3174096 at 2018-09-25 03:21:15 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4017: The Greatest Weapon Edition

Instagram Co-Founders to Step Down From Facebook
Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger sold the photo-sharing app to Facebook for about $1 billion

https://www.wsj.com/articles/instagram-co-founders-to-step-down-from-facebook-1537843179

#3173285 at 2018-09-25 02:16:28 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #4016: Cabalists In Limbo: How Low Can They Go? Edition

NYT: Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger said to step down from company

#3141919 at 2018-09-22 20:36:39 (UTC+1)
Q Research General #3976 Deadline Schmedline Edition

Kanye West wants Twitter to hide 'likes' and compares it to 'having to write the size of your d**k on your T-shirt'
He boasts over 28million followers on Twitter alone.

But if Kanye West had his way, no one would ever know that, according to the rapper's tweets on Saturday.

'I personally want to participate in social media with the option of not having to show my followers or likes,' wrote the 41-year-old, in a tweet liked by nearly 10,000 people.
The Gold Digger hitmaker also wrote: 'Having your amount of likes on display for the world to see and judge is like showing how much money you have in the bank or having to write the size of your d**k on your t shirt'.
'There are people who are committing suicide due to not getting enough likes. Seeking validation in the simulation.'
We need a live-streamed meeting with Jack Dorsey Kevin Systrom Mike Krieger Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Spiegal,' pleaded the husband of Kim Kardashian.

With the text he included a screen grab of an article from tech blog Select All with the headline, 'Kanye West Is Finally Right About Something: Twitter Should Lose Its Metrics'.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-6197017/Kanye-West-wants-social-media-companies-hide-likes-follower-numbers-Twitter-rant.html