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Leaked Docs: Facebook ‘Bot’ Adviser Secretly in Pay of US Regime Change Agency

U.K. intelligence-linked communication firm Valent has been advising Facebook on which accounts to ban for inauthentic behavior and on suspicions for being foreign-backed disinformation operations. But documents show that Valent itself is secretly funded by U.S. regime change organization USAID. This connection might explain the recent mass purgings from Sudanese and Ethiopian social media.

As US Refuses to Act, Suspected Alex Odeh Assassins Enjoy Influential Role in Israeli Politics

Palestinian-American activist Alex Odeh was murdered outside his California office in October 1985. For decades, law enforcement officials have openly speculated that the perpetrators were members of the Jewish Defense League (JDL) – a terrorist group led at the time by the notorious militant Irv Rubin. It is widely alleged that three individuals – Robert […]

Meet the Ex-CIA Agents Deciding Facebook’s Content Policy

In this new MintPress investigation, journalist Alan MacLeod finds that Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the CIA, as well as many more from the FBI and Department of Defense (DoD). These hires are primarily in highly politically sensitive sectors such as trust, security and content moderation, to the point where some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. national security state ends and Facebook begins.