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Meta Platforms, Inc.

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Meta Platforms, Inc. is a Statesian imperialist surveillance and propaganda network distributed across almost all countries worldwide. Its primary product is Facebook, a bourgeois social media service which acts serves as censor and propagandist for imperialist NATO powers, through NATO's Atlantic Council think tank.[1][2] It was established in 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg who is currently the 5th richest person in the world.[a] Facebook has had documented ties to the CIA and the NSA.[3]

Controversies

Fake whistleblower incident

In 2021, an ex-employee of Facebook was brought before US congress to testify about the company. Her testimony was basically a demand for increased censorship and government control over the social network. This so-called "whistleblower" was hailed by the US corporate media, unlike the treatment of Julian Assange and Edward Snowden who actually risked their lives to expose truth.[4]

Promotion of violence

Meta's social media Facebook is "temporarily" allowing users to voice support for violence against Russians during the ongoing 2022 Russo-Ukraine conflict, which would've otherwise been against the platform's terms of service.[5] As a result, Meta is under a criminal investigation in the Russian Federation for the promotion of extremism.[6]

References

  1. Dina Srinivasan (2018). The antitrust case against Facebook: a monopolist’s journey towards pervasive surveillance in spite of consumers’ preference for privacy. Berkeley Business Law Journal. (PDF link)
  2. https://www.projectcensored.org/atlantic-council-partners-with-facebook-to-censor-social-media/
  3. The Guardian (2013). NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others
  4. Facebook ‘whistleblower’ Frances Haugen represented by US intelligence insiders by Alexander Rubinstein on The Grayzone
  5. Munsif Vengattil and Elizabeth Culliford (2022-03-10). "EXCLUSIVE Facebook temporarily allows posts on Ukraine war calling for violence against invading Russians or Putin's death" Reuters.
  6. "Russia opens criminal investigation of Meta over death calls on Facebook" (2022-03-11). Reuters. Retrieved 2022-03-11.

Notes

  1. As of 2021. "World's billionaires list". Forbes.