{"id":331169,"date":"2017-10-19T13:40:12","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/facespook-lewrockwell\/"},"modified":"2017-10-19T13:40:12","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T12:40:12","slug":"facespook-lewrockwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/facespook-lewrockwell\/","title":{"rendered":"Facespook &#8211; LewRockwell"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                            \t<!-- S3 No Cache -->\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, the world\u2019s top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses.<\/p>\n<p>Purportedly with the aim of weeding out \u201cfake news\u201d and \u201cforeign meddling\u201d in elections.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-10-16\/facebook-is-said-to-seek-staff-with-national-security-clearance?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_term=171016&amp;utm_campaign=bop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">plan<\/a>, reported by Bloomberg, sounds sinister, that\u2019s because it is. For what it means is that people who share the same worldview as US intelligence agencies, the agencies who formulate classified information, will have a direct bearing on what millions of consumers on Facebook are permitted to access.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s as close to outright US government censorship on the internet as one can dare to imagine, and this on a nominally independent global communication network. Your fun-loving place\u00a0<em>\u201cwhere friends meet.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Facespook!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmi-gold-silver.com\/blog\/buy-old-us-gold-coins\/?utm_source=LRC_Text_Ad&amp;utm_campaign=buy_old_us_coins\">Time to buy old US gold coins<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As Bloomberg reports:\u00a0<em>\u201cWorkers with such [national security] clearances can access information classified by the US government. Facebook plans to use these people \u2013 and their ability to receive government information about potential threats \u2013 in the company\u2019s attempt to search more proactively for questionable social media campaigns ahead of elections.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Facebook spokesman declined to comment, but the report sounds credible, especially given the context of anti-Russia hysteria.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, since the election of Donald Trump as US president, the political discourse has been dominated by \u201cRussia-gate\u201d \u2013 the notion that somehow Kremlin-controlled hackers and news media meddled in the election. The media angst in the US is comparable to the Red Scare paranoia of the 1950s during the Cold War.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook and other US internet companies have been hauled in front of Congressional committees to declare what they&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/2017\/10\/finian-cunningham\/facespook-social-media-giant-becomes-arm-of-us-intel\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, the world\u2019s top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance licenses. Purportedly with the aim of weeding out \u201cfake news\u201d and \u201cforeign meddling\u201d in elections. If that\u00a0plan, reported by Bloomberg, sounds sinister, that\u2019s because it is. For what it means is that people who share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-331169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}