Posted by Legatus on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 10:35 | #

This is who the Germans have hired to monitor comments on German facebook. Anette (((Kahane))) was an agent for Stasi for 8 years. She regularly informed on other German citizens for the communist authority. Now she is a professional “anti-racist” activist, pushing mass immigration from the 3rd world to Europe.

http://www.friatider.se/stasiveteran-ska-sk-ta-censuren-t-facebook

Posted by Kumiko Oumae on Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:17 | #

Wow.

That is amazing, Legatus, that is absolutely stunning. They really have no limits whatsoever.

Posted by Jade Helm mapping your mind's intent on Sat, 19 Sep 2015 02:03 | #

Jade helm mapping the mind, enabling the prediction of intent: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/all-nationalist-network/2015/07/14/white-alliance-usa

...outside of the norm identifies a target.

In a state of fear or anger, one does not make good decisions and the system is predicated on that.

Posted by Merkel / Zuckerberg on Facebook protests on Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:10 | #

German Chancellor Angela Merkel was overheard confronting Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over incendiary posts on the social network, Bloomberg reported on Sunday, amid complaints from her government about anti-immigrant posts in the midst of Europe’s refugee crisis.

On the sidelines of a United Nations luncheon on Saturday, Merkel was caught on a hot mic pressing Zuckerberg about social media posts about the wave of Syrian refugees entering Germany, the publication reported.

The Facebook CEO was overheard responding that “we need to do some work” on curtailing anti-immigrant posts about the refugee crisis. “Are you working on this?” Merkel asked in English, to which Zuckerberg replied in the affirmative before the transmission was disrupted.

Posted by William Pierce audio files on Mon, 05 Oct 2015 19:42 | #

William Pierce audio files

https://archive.org/details/TheDr.WilliamL.PierceCollectionaudio

Posted by Cohen thanks Facebook users on Thu, 18 Feb 2016 18:48 | #

Sara Cohen thanks Facebook users for their naivete:

Whitney Avalon, real name Sara Cohen, mocks Facebook users for disclosing personal information to the public on its “time-line” as it facilitates tracing the details of their ways and whereabouts.

       
Just like Zuckerberg, Sara Cohen thinks you are perfect schmucks, dumb fucks.

Related story:
Facebook gets involved in asking users to snitch on one another

Posted by Faceberg: nuclear ICBM of metapoliticl warfare on Mon, 16 May 2016 19:09 | #

Altright, “FACEBOOK IS THE NUCLEAR ICBM OF METAPOLITICAL WARFARE”, 14 May 2016:

by Lawrence Murray

On May 9, 2016, Gizmodo reported that Faceberg’s off-center “trending” stories column involves a bit more human input than the social network implies in its boilerplate description. An apelike rather than algorithmic set of curators allegedly suppress conservative news outlets and points of view from being shown to hundreds of millions of daily viewers, many of whom use Faceberg as their primary news source. Confirming this rumor—at least when it comes to human involvement in content curation—are document leaks from former Faceberg employees to The Guardian, which show that there is indeed a 24-hour rotating team of news editors.

Posted by France: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube being sued for on Tue, 17 May 2016 05:14 | #

Aurutz Sheva, “France: Twitter sued over anti-Semitism, homophobia” 16 May 2016:

Anti-racist and anti-homophobia groups join forces in filing suit against Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for tolerating hateful posts.

Two French groups say they have filed a suit against Twitter, YouTube and Facebook for allegedly failing to uphold requirements to delete content deemed racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic or defending terrorism. 

The lawsuit was filed on Sunday by the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF) and SOS-Racisme, the organizations said in a press release.

Posted by UN plot to stop 'extremism' online on Sat, 21 May 2016 13:26 | #

ZeroHedge, “UN Plots War On Free Speech To Stop “Extremism” Online” 20 May 2016:

Submitted by Alex Newman via The new American (h/t Brandon Smith),

The United Nations Security Council wants a global “framework” for censoring the Internet, as well as for using government propaganda to “counter” what its apparatchiks call “online propaganda,” “hateful ideologies,” and “digital terrorism.” To that end, the UN Security Council this week ordered the UN “Counter-Terrorism Committee” — yes, that is a real bureaucracy — to draw up a plan by next year. From the Obama administration to the brutal Communist Chinese regime, everybody agreed that it was time for a UN-led crackdown on freedom of speech and thought online — all under the guise of fighting the transparently bogus terror war.

The UN, ridiculed by American critics as the “dictators club,” will reportedly be partnering with some of the world’s largest Internet and technology companies in the plot. Among the firms involved in the scheme is Microsoft, which, in a speech before the Security Council on May 11, called for “public-private partnerships” between Big Business and Big Government to battle online propaganda. As this magazine has documented, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other top tech giants have all publicly embraced the UN and its agenda for humanity. Many of the more than 70 speakers also said it was past time to censor the Internet, with help from the “private sector.”

At the UN meeting this week, the 15 members of the UN Security Council, including some of the most extreme and violent dictatorships on the planet, claimed they wanted to stop extremism and violence from spreading on the Internet. In particular, the governments pretended as if the effort was aimed at Islamist terror groups such as ISIS and al-Qaeda, both of which have received crucial backing from leading members of the UN Security Council itself. Terrorism was not defined. Everybody agreed, though, that terror should not be associated with any particular religion, nationality, ethnicity, and so on, even though at least one delegation fingered the Israeli government.

In its “presidential statement” after the session, the UN Security Council claimed that “terrorism” could be defeated only with “international law” and through collaboration between the UN and emerging regional governments such as the various “unions” being imposed on Europe, Africa, Eurasia, South America, and beyond. “The Security Council stresses that terrorism can only be defeated by a sustained and comprehensive approach involving the active participation and collaboration of all States, international and regional organizations ... consistent with the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy,” it said. Of course, the UN still has no actual definition of terrorism, but it is in the process of usurping vast new powers under the guise of fighting this undefined nemesis.

However, the UN, in its ongoing war against free speech and actual human rights around the world, has offered some strong hints about its agenda. According to UN officials, the plan to regulate speech on the Internet will complement another, related UN plot known formally as the “Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism.” As The New American reported last year, the plan calls for a global war on “ideologies.” That crusade will include, among other components, planetary efforts to stamp out all “anti-Muslim bigotry,” anti-immigrant sentiments, and much more, the UN and Obama explained. So-called “non-violent extremism” is also in the UN’s crosshairs, as is free speech generally.

It was not immediately clear how a UN-led war on “anti-Muslim bigotry” would stop ISIS. The savage terror group, which according to top U.S. officials was created and funded by Obama’s anti-ISIS coalition, served as the crucial justification for the UN plan. However, based on the outlines of the UN extremism scheme released so far, it is clear that there will be no serious efforts to address the growing extremism of the UN or the violent extremism of many of its mostly autocratic member regimes. Instead, the “extremism” plan will serve as a pretext to impose a broad range of truly extremist policies at the national, regional, and international level.

[...]

As this magazine reported last year, the EU’s self-styled police force, Europol, even launched a whole unit aimed at censoring “extremist” content on the Internet. The EU spokesman pointed to, among other schemes, ongoing EU efforts to remove “propaganda materials” from the Internet, as well as EU propaganda efforts to “spread alternative messages.”

Posted by Add Putin to list of Zuckerberg clientelle on Thu, 07 Sep 2017 06:41 | #

Vice, “Facebook’s Russian ad disclosure leaves more questions than answers”, 6 Sept 2017:

By Noah Kulwin and Alex Thompson Sep 6, 2017

Facebook admitted on Wednesday that it discovered evidence suggesting Russian propagandists purchased ads on its platform during the 2016 election. But although Facebook has now affirmatively acknowledged the Russian campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election, we’re not even close to getting the whole story.

After conducting a review, the tech giant found 470 “inauthentic [Russian] accounts and Pages” spent $100,000 to place about 3,000 ads on Facebook between June 2015 and May 2017, the social network’s Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos said in a press release. About a quarter of the ads were “geographically targeted” to Facebook users, and roughly 2,200 of the ads — about $50,000 worth — were “potentially politically related.”

But Facebook isn’t releasing the ads, which means there’s no way to analyze how the disclosure might affect ongoing federal investigations of the matter, whether the ad purchases constituted a violation of election law, and if there are more revelations buried ahead.

“Without seeing the ads, it’s impossible to know,” Ian Vandewalker, an election law expert at the NYU Brennan Center for Justice, told VICE News.
A blockbuster announcement

Stamos and Facebook said that while they don’t have exact proof that Russians purchased the ads, they believe the ad buys originated from the Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” set up by the Russian government to disperse fake content and propaganda on social media.

Facebook’s disclosure is a stunning admission, and possibly indicates a violation of election laws that stipulate foreigners cannot spend money to influence U.S. elections. But without releasing the ads themselves — which Facebook tells VICE News it is declining to do — the public must rely on Alex Stamos’ description of what the ads purportedly showed.

“The vast majority of ads run by these accounts didn’t specifically reference the US presidential election, voting or a particular candidate,” Stamos said in the statement. “Rather, the ads and accounts appeared to focus on amplifying divisive social and political messages across the ideological spectrum — touching on topics from LGBT matters to race issues to immigration to gun rights.”

UC Irvine election law scholar Rick Hasen noted in a blog post that if the ads did not expressly support one candidate or another, but “are intended to influence the outcome of the election,” the legal implications are mixed.

“If the Facebook ads just riled up people on guns but did not mention Trump for example, but were intended to help Trump get elected, can those be illegal? That’s the harder question,” Hasen wrote.

Federal Election Commissioner Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic appointee who formerly chaired the agency, pointed out to VICE News, without commenting on the specifics of the situation, that “the law says that foreigners are not allowed to spend directly or indirectly on a U.S. election.”
Not a lot of specifics

Facebook also declined to say whether Russian operatives purchased ads directly or through an intermediary like a digital agency to hide their tracks. A company official declined to elaborate on the possibility to VICE News.

Until Wednesday, Facebook had declined to outline any specifics about Russian government-directed influence operations on its platform during the 2016 election in support of Donald Trump’s campaign. In an April report, the company asserted that content pushed by “false amplifiers,” like the “inauthentic” accounts described in the Wednesday release, accounted for less than a tenth of a percent of normal “civic” content shared on the social network.

Another looming question is whether the Russian operatives were given direction on where to geographically target ads by associates of Trump’s presidential campaign. Congressional investigators and reportedly Special Counsel Bob Mueller are examining this possibility, and the Trump campaign digital director, Brad Parscale, is set to testify before the House Intel Committee on this matter sometime in the coming weeks. He has denied any wrongdoing.
Sen. Warner hits back

Facebook issued the Wednesday release as a number of outlets published stories about Facebook meeting with Congressional investigators to discuss the findings on Wednesday. For months, lawmakers have been making a stink about a possible Russian influence campaign run on Facebook last year; the Senate Intelligence Committee’s ranking Democrat, Mark Warner, has repeatedly called on the company to disclose any relevant information.

Bemoaning the lack of regulations on internet political advertising, Sen. Warner told reporters gathered at the Capitol Building on Wednesday evening that that he wants to bring social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter “in for public hearings.”

“[Social media companies] need to follow the law, and if the law needs to change to meet 21st century standards, let’s have at it,” Warner said. “I’ve got a lot more questions for Facebook, and a lot more for Twitter.”

When asked if the newly disclosed spending meant that Warner would continue pressing Facebook, Warner said “I think there’s a lot more to be discovered, and there’s a lot more transparency that’s need from Facebook, Twitter on other firms.”

He added that he plans to continue speaking with Facebook, and that while using a subpoena to compel information is not “off the table,” he believes social media companies “are going to want to continue to cooperate.”

Posted by Lawrence Burns on Fri, 08 Sep 2017 15:54 | #

        Prosecuted for Facebook posts
       
He was also prosecuted for making a racist speech at a memorial demonstration for American white separatist leader David Lane.

Western Spring, “How To Feel Good”, 7 Sept 2017:

Jez Turner writes,

Below are the words of a recent letter from twenty-four year old Lawrence Burns, who is currently serving a four year sentence in an English prison.

For what, you may ask?

He wouldn’t be sentenced to as much as four years if he had committed fraud, robbery, burglary, rape or stabbed someone – or even if he had committed all of these at the same time! But he didn’t do any of those things — he did something worse, far, far worse in the eyes of our enemies — he shared politically incorrect thoughts on his facebook page. He laughed at the regime. Yes, he’s a ‘thought criminal’, and he is one of many.

Liberals pour scorn on the historical period of European culture known as ‘The Middle Ages’ by writing it off as a time when ‘life was nasty, brutish and short’ and saying that the best philosophy it could offer was ‘Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die!’.  And yet, what does liberalism offer?  ‘Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we go to the gulag!’ perhaps? For what have liberalism, Marxism and materialism ever given us of any lasting value?

Those who adhere to such things have never understood the importance of community, of tradition, of culture, of custom, of religion, of chivalry, of nobility and honour, of identity, of belonging and becoming, which is why they are not averse to destroying such things. And yet those Jews who sometimes brag about directing such destruction, understand completely.  And we White Nationalists, call us what you will, also understand, perfectly!

Both sides understand the importance of such things, which is why one side wants to destroy such things, while the other side wants to preserve and enhance them.  The mass of people in the middle do not understand – at least consciously, but the best of them are beginning to.  And when they do they will find the reason to truly live again, not just exist as they do now – shopping and consuming and drinking and watching television – but to live, really live, to be really alive.  For then, they will have a reason to live and a cause to fight for, and if necessary die for!

“Hello Jez,

I thought I’d write to say ‘hello’ to you and all the others, and to say that almost seven months into my sentence, I can still say that taking up the nationalist cnationalist causeause was the best choice of my life!

Being an active nationalist is like living in a different world to the decadent and empty one around us. One has a circle of loyal friends and associates of a diverse range of backgrounds and occupations, yet who share a bond based on their higher values and love of nation.

Being part of this community allows one to live by such noble values as honour, love, duty, loyalty, brotherhood and courage, and through their adherence to these values, to find meaning and a higher purpose in life, which this selfish, individualistic, materialistic, ‘zombified’ modern world cannot provide.

Those of this corrupt world will twist what I’m saying around, and say instead ‘You have been brainwashed’, ‘These extremists are not your friends – they are just using you’, ‘You should be watching TV, getting drunk, spending money and having fun instead’.

How little they know! These people could never grasp the fact that others do not share their enthusiasm for their way of life.  Blinded by the illusions sent by hell, driven by greed, lust and the pursuit of a mirage they have turned their backs on reality.

The idea that there could be anything in the world more important than themselves seems unthinkable to them.  Their mantras of ‘humanity’, ‘equality’ and ‘individual liberty’ only serve to make them feel better and righteous in their lack of culture and values. They can’t even understand love anymore, all that is left if the perverse animal drive, which they have ennobled in its place.

Family to them is an inconvenience, a burden.  Instead of raising a healthy family in the traditions of their people, they spend their time partying, getting drunk, taking drugs, and indulging in perverse, loveless sex, and to excuse themselves they have declared the family ‘an outdated social construct’.  Women should not marry and raise children they say.  They should instead pursue meaningless careers, and enjoy themselves with different men every weekend, and if they get pregnant, they can save themselves the hassle of raising children by having abortions.  Family life is slavery, they will be much happier serving the needs of mass commerce.

They scoff at tradition.  They think they know more than all of their ancestors put together. Fools!  Take away all the technology they inherited and see how long they will last!

They laugh at the thought of a creator of the universe, whose ever-present laws apply to us all. The integrated community, perfect symmetry and innate beauty of the universe and of all creations in it, not to mention consciousness itself, is all an accident of nature, all this just happened to create itself out of a chance mixture of matter, without any intelligent plan or design.  There is no divine plan for mankind, other than to serve the economy and be a slave to their own petty passions.

They denounce Europeans who feel an affinity for their own kind. We are just ‘hate-filled racists’, and ‘race is just a social construct’.  There are no races and different cultures in their world, only rootless individuals and their profitable ignorance and selfishness. To them, it is right and just to pursue riches at the expense of others, but its wrong to care about those with whom we share ethnic and cultural bonds - -if you’re of European descent that is.

They deny us the right to our inheritance and our own homelands.  They impose ‘multiculturalism’ onto our communities, subvert and slander all traditional institutions, and spread, like a disease, their perverse, corrupt way of life, devoid of all that makes life worth living, and they isolate, slander and persecute those of us who still value identity, culture, tradition and community.  And they still believe that their ‘Prevent Strategy’ will persuade ‘the extremists’, i.e. those who believe in something greater than their profane values, to simply give up their healthy values, their identities, and to betray their friends and families and to conform to their meaningless, empty, sick world.

Their efforts are in vain! In their ignorance, they will never understand people like us, or even the very idea that there is much more to life than money and hedonism. They cannot grasp the notion of culture and identity, as they have none, and this is why they will never be able to defeat us.

Their world offers us nothing, for it has negated all that we hold sacred: love, honour, identity, friendship, loyalty, tradition and order. Their world is in chaos, while our world is one of the last bastions of sanity. In our struggle, one will find meaning, purpose, true friendship, support and a world in which he can live by noble values, develop his character and be around other virtuous people, and find fulfilment in life knowing that all he holds sacred will live on long after he is gone.  It is in discovering his roots, and taking up the struggle for his people that one becomes a man.  Expensive clothes, partying, money and social capital gained through conformity to the current fashions do not make a man.  True manhood is measured by fighting for a noble cause with honour and courage, and through one’s capacity and willingness to endure hardship, persecution and public condemnation, while all the time remaining above the decadence of the world.  And what could be a more worthy and righteous cause than the moral regeneration, freedom and prosperity of one’s nation in line with divine law?

Our enemies can never take this away from us.  If they put a man in prison for defending his family, he is not going to regret defending his family and ‘change his ways’. Likewise as I sit writing this from my prison cell, I am not going to cease defending what I hold sacred.  This sounds as ridiculous to their ignorant minds, as their expectation that I might even consider doing otherwise sounds to me.

Doing the right and honourable thing in this corrupt world is worth all the persecution and hardships it brings. The condemnation of traitors and lowlifes does not bother me, for I stand before a higher judge, who has a much different view to theirs. I would not swap this life for anything in the world, for nothing beats it and nothing will beat me either. I would choose a hard life where honour, love, kinship, community and tradition still have meaning, over ‘an easy life’ of conformity to this empty, meaningless, sterile society any day!

They cannot extinguish this most beautiful and holy flame of tradition. Despite all their efforts, it will only endure throughout the ages guiding all generations of our people, and it will burn ever brighter the more they put us to the test.  And this is why, in the end, we will win, even if the world around us goes under, we will remain strong, standing among the ruins, for God is with us and as long as we are with him, our victory is as assured as the sunrise in the morning.”

Lawrence Burns (Preston Prison,  6th July 2017)

Let us read what Lawrence Burns has to say.

It is nominally addressed to me, but through it Lawrence wishes to address you all. - Jez

I’m not certain of the details of Burns case. In cursory inspection, I see that he’s accused of promoting Hitler and announcing genocidal intent - which is not a good idea; not that he should get anything like four years hard time; hopefully he will settle on a different advocacy strategy and be freed of this sentence. DanielS

Posted by Rutgers prof in trouble for posts on Faceberg on Mon, 11 Dec 2017 05:00 | #

JTA, “Rutgers isolates but does not fire professor for anti-Semitic social media posts,” 10 Dec 2017:

An image posted on the Facebook page of Rutgers University professor Michael Chikindas.
(Screenshot from Facebook)

(JTA) — Rutgers University took steps to ensure that students and faculty do not have work with a professor it investigated for anti-Semitic and racist social media posts, but did not fire him.

In a letter sent to faculty Friday morning, University President Robert Barchi and Chancellor Debasish Dutta announced that professor Michael Chikindas, who is a tenured, will be removed from teaching required courses so that students will not have to study with him.

Chikindas will also be ousted as director of the Center for Digestive Health at the Institute for Food, Nutrition, and Health, to allow employees to avoid working for him, Barchi and Dutta wrote, and he will be required to go through a cultural sensitivity program.

The university is seeking further disciplinary action under its collective bargaining agreement with the faculty union, and if and when Chikindas returns to the classroom, he will be monitored, according to the letter.

Barchi and Dutta wrote that Chikindas had been informed of the university’s decisions. They expressed condemned the material he posted, saying it “perpetuated toxic stereotypes,” and expressed solidarity with “Jewish students, faculty and staff” who found it “deeply upsetting.”

“The fears and concerns they have expressed to us and many university leaders are both justified and understandable,” the letter read.

Chikindas was found earlier this fall to have posted to social media caricatures of hook-nosed Jews; canards that the Jews control Hollywood, the Federal Reserve and the government, and accusations that Israel is committing genocide and is a “terrorist country.” He blamed the Armenian genocide on Jewish Turks and republished claims that American Jews and Israel were responsible for the 9/11 attacks, among other anti-Semitic claims.

In an interview with the Algemeiner at the time, Chikindas rejected accusations of anti-Semitism, saying he was previously married to a Jewish woman and is one-quarter Jewish. He also said he does not believe any of his postings violate Facebook policies.

In an email to the New Jersey 101.5 radio station, Chikindas had said that his page had been hacked and that his personal information was exposed. His Facebook account was later deleted.

Some 3,200 students signed a petition calling for Chikindas’ suspension from the university, the student newspaper The Daily Targum reported.

“This has been a sad and deeply troubling situation for our students and our staff, and for our faculty, who stand for much nobler values than those expressed by this particular professor. While the university is and should always be a place that challenges students to grapple with complex and even controversial ideas, this situation has threatened the trust between professors and students that is a prerequisite to learning,” the administrators’ letter said.

Rutgers, the biggest state university in New Jersey, has among the largest Jewish student populations of any U.S. university.

Posted by Dr. Aleksandr Kogan on Sun, 18 Mar 2018 00:32 | #

Kogan (Russian: Ко́ган) is a Russian version of the Jewish surname Cohen, which denotes the descendants of the high priests of ancient Israel.

Varsity, 17 Mar 2018:

“Who is Dr Aleksandr Kogan, the Cambridge academic accused of misusing Facebook data?”

Everything we know about the neuroscientist who has been banned by the social media giant for passing on millions of users’ data.

A photo of Kogan from the University’s website
University of Cambridge

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Dr Aleksandr “Alex” Kogan, a University lecturer at the Department of Psychology, has been thrust into the limelight after he was banned from Facebook for improper use of data.

A multi-organisation investigation lead by revelations from a whistleblower who assisted Kogan at the data-analysis and influence firm Cambridge Analytica has alleged that the Cambridge academic developed tools to analyse and influence the behaviour of Facebook users. The whistleblower, Christopher Wylie, has suggested that Kogan’s tolls may have helped Cambridge Analytica influence the outcome of the 2016 US election.

Kogan was born in Moldova, and moved the United States at the age of seven. He studied at the University of California, Berkeley, and in Hong Kong before joining the University of Cambridge as a lecturer in psychology and psychometrics.

His listed interests are behavioural analysis, cross-sectional and cohort studies, and electrophysiological recording techniques. The most recent publication on his University profile is “The role of positive self-evaluation on cross-cultural differences in well-being”, from 2015.

After getting married in Singapore, Kogan was temporarily known as Aleksandr Spectre, as he is called on an outdated profile on the University’s website.

German periodical Das Magazin reported that, in 2014, Kogan approached another Cambridge academic, Dr Michael Kosinski, who had been developing behavioural models based on users’ social media interests. Kogan allegedly expressed an interest in accessing information from ‘MyPersonality’, an app Kosinski had helped develop.

Kosinski, who is part of the Psychometrics Centre, based at Judge Business School, grew uncomfortable with Kogan’s connection to the firm SLC, which controls Cambridge Analytica, and distanced himself from Kogan. Das Magazin claims the University feared reputational damage through its association to the organisation.

Kogan is also an associate professor at the St Petersburg University – a fact his Cambridge colleagues, aside from the head of the Department of Psychology, were not told, according to The Guardian/Observer. In this position, he received funding from the Russian government to study ‘Stress, health and psychological wellbeing in social networks’.

Kogan’s company, Global Science Research (GSR), was behind the app, ‘thisisyourdigitallife’, which harvested the data of tens of millions of Facebook users which was then passed on to Cambridge Analytica. According to Wylie, hundreds of thousands of Facebook users took personality tests with the app. In doing so, users consented to their data being collected for academic use.

But the app also collected the personal information of test-takers’ Facebook friends, thus racking up data on tens of millions of users, which was accessible to Cambridge Analytica. This contravened the social network’s ‘platform policy’ which banned the collection of friends’ data for any reasons aside from improving user experience.

In May 2014, Kogan set up GSR along with former University of Cambridge postdoctoral researcher, Joseph Chancellor. The pair initially registered the company’s address at Cory House, postgraduate accomodation at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Alexander Slinger, a graduate of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, was appointed as a director of GSR in August 2014, alongside Kogan and Chancellor. Chancellor resigned from GSR in September 2015, and Slinger in May 2016. The company was formally dissolved on 31 October 2017.

Chancellor now works on Facebook’s User Experience Research team. In 2017, Facebook told the investigative news outlet The Intercept that Chancellor’s work at GSR “has no bearing on the work that he does at Facebook”.

Kogan and Slinger were also both listed as directors of Euler Group Limited, a company which existed from February to October 2016. According to Slinger’s LinkedIn, he now works for finance company Arrow Global.

In early 2015, Kogan spoke at the Cambridge Science Festival, under the title: “What your Facebook says about you”. Video of the event is not available, but in an interview with the festival’s organisers, which has been removed from the University’s website, Kogan answered the question “What does your Facebook say about you?”.

“Trick question!” he said, “It probably doesn’t say much about you personally, but it can shine a great deal of light on human nature and social processes in general. But to find out more, you’ll have to come to the talk”.

Posted by Cambridge Analytica on Tue, 20 Mar 2018 15:58 | #

Best Documentary yet on the Cambridge Analytica scandal:

Cambridge Analytica Uncovered: Secret filming reveals election tricks

So there you have it, democracy, data and dirty tricks: the self proclaimed digital masterminds (Cambridge Analytica) who may have swayed an American election….

Posted by Novice in charge of Faceberg data security on Thu, 22 Mar 2018 00:23 | #

Posted by Zuckerburg dumped his Facebook stocks on Sat, 24 Mar 2018 13:22 | #

Alt-News: “BIGGEST INSIDER TRADING EVER? ZUCKERBURG DUMPS FACEBOOK STOCK BEFORE SCANDAL”, 22 Mar 2018:

Things are going from bad to worse for Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Following heavy criticism that Zuckerburg allowed the personal data of 50 million Facebook users to be misused by data-mining company Cambridge Analytica, it has now been revealed that he has dumped vast amounts of his Facebook stock in the weeks leading up to this scandal.

With inside knowledge that the Cambridge Analytica scandal was going to break, Zuckerberg may have used his inside knowledge to directly profit by selling shares that he knew would fall sharply in price. 

In the two weeks before the scandal broke, Zuckerberg reportedly sold 1.14 million shares, the most insider selling for any public company in the last three months, according to Argus Research’s Vickers Weekly Insider report.

       

Zuckerberg is claiming that the share sale was pre-planned to fund “philanthropic efforts,” namely to provide a massive cash injection for his so-called charitable foundation, which many financial experts believe is a way for him to keep control of his money while avoiding tax.

The truth is that Zuckerberg has known about problems over Facebook’s unethical use of user data for years, with the Cambridge Analytica case just being the latest in a long line.

All his transactions in recent years, from setting up his Foundation in 2015 to the most recent share dumping, can be plausibly interpreted as getting his money out of Facebook to avoid taxes and the inevitable sharp drop in Facebook’s share price when scrutiny of his flawed business model started to bite.

   
                 
                  Zucker bird: “They just trust me. I don’t know why. Dumb fucks.”

Posted by Facebook users/data still not deleted on Thu, 29 Mar 2018 10:17 | #

Posted by German cleaning woman fined 4criticizing migrants on Sun, 29 Jul 2018 00:07 | #

Facebook, “German woman receives large fine for criticising refugees on Facebook”,

Heiko Barth / shutterstock.com

A German cleaning lady received a fine of 1,650 euros for criticising refugees and the country’s asylum policy, news outlet Wochenblick reports.

The woman commit her ‘Orwellian thought crime’ on Facebook, as she said this about refugees:

“Sh*t on the state, steal from people, rape, swirling the eggs, demand money from us and sue the state. That’s what they can. They’re more valuable than gold, our super-skilled people.”

The cleaning lady’s plea for help to the German judiciary was not heard. On the contrary, the district court of Dachau fined the cleaning woman because of “sedition” (§ 130 StGB).

She was given a 1,650 euro fine, as the court’s opinion was that her comment against refugees “scared people”.

Germany’s ‘thought police’ uncovered the case after receiving a message from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) of North Rhine-Westphalia.

Posted by (((Noam Chomsky))) on Wed, 03 Oct 2018 08:44 | #

Truthdig.org, “Noam Chomsky: Facebook and Google Pose a Manifest Danger”, 1 Oct 2018:

In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988), authors Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky identified what they called the “five filters of editorial bias”: Size, Ownership and Profit Orientation; the Advertising License to Do Business; Sourcing Mass Media News; Flak and the Enforcers; and Anti-Communism.

While the Soviet Union has since been relegated to the dustbin of history, Herman and Chomsky’s text has proved indispensable, with multinationals like Google, Amazon and Facebook tightening their stranglehold on the news industry and the economy at large. As Chomsky warns, these corporations’ eagerness to appease their advertisers and manipulate their users’ behavior has “very serious distorting effects” on the stories we consume. “I don’t think that’s a healthy development, but it is happening,” he says. “And that means essentially dividing much of the population … into cocoons [or] bubbles, into which they receive the information conducive [only] to their own interests and commitments.”

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(((Sympathetic profile))) of Zuckerberg

50 million Facebook accounts compromised

Posted by The Facebook Dilemma on Sat, 03 Nov 2018 21:23 | #

PBS Frontline, The Facebook Dilemma Part 1, 29 Oct 2018.

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WhatsApp Exposed as Israeli Spyware Platform

New Observer 14 May 2019:

The popular instant messaging system WhatsApp—owned by Facebook—has been revealed as an Israeli spyware platform using malicious code from the Jews-only state’s infamous NSO Group, according to a report in the Financial Times.

According to the FT, the security breach in WhatsApp—which is used by 1.5 billion people worldwide—was discovered in May this year. Hackers install surveillance software on iPhones and Android phones by ringing up targets using the app’s phone call function.

“The malicious code, developed by the secretive Israeli company NSO Group, could be transmitted even if users did not answer their phones, and the calls often disappeared from call logs,” the FT reported.

NSO’s flagship product is Pegasus, a program that can turn on a phone’s microphone and camera, trawl through emails and messages and collect location data. NSO advertises its products to Middle Eastern and western intelligence agencies, and says Pegasus is intended for governments to fight terrorism and crime.

In the past, human rights campaigners in the Middle East have received text messages over WhatsApp that contained links that would download Pegasus to their phones.

WhatsApp said teams of engineers had worked around the clock in San Francisco and London to close the vulnerability. It began rolling out a fix to its servers on Friday last week, WhatsApp said, and issued a patch for customers on Monday.

“This attack has all the hallmarks of a private company known to work with governments to deliver spyware that reportedly takes over the functions of mobile phone operating systems,” the company said.

WhatsApp disclosed the issue to the US Department of Justice last week, the report continued.

Amnesty International, which identified an attempt to hack into the phone of one its researchers, is backing a group of Israeli citizens and civil rights group in a filing in Tel Aviv asking the defence ministry to cancel NSO’s export licence.

“NSO Group sells its products to governments who are known for outrageous human rights abuses, giving them the tools to track activists and critics. The attack on Amnesty International was the final straw,” said Danna Ingleton, deputy director of Amnesty Tech.

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The WhatsApp vulnerability is a buffer overflow weakness, enabling malicious code to be inserted into data packets sent during the process of starting a voice call. When the data is received, WhatsApp’s internal buffer is forced to overflow, overwriting other parts of the app’s memory, and control is given over to the application.

Posted by Facebook maybe more dangerous than WallStreet on Thu, 27 Jun 2019 04:02 | #

Facebook May Pose a Greater Danger Than Wall Street