Big Tech is infested with FBI, CIA agents
The intelligence community seems to make up a rather concerning portion of the employees at big tech companies like Meta, Google, etc.
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"The telescreen received and transmitted simultaneously. Any sound that Winston made, above the level of a very low whisper, would be picked up by it; moreover, so long as he remained within the field of vision which the metal plaque commanded, he could be seen as well as heard. There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment." - George Orwell, 1984
Social media's pervasiveness has been a permanent fixture in the lives of billions for well over a decade by this point. The widespread adoption of the smartphone happened in tandem with the pandemic-level addiction to social media apps through which users get the dopamine fix they once would have gotten from completing difficult and gratifying tasks at work or otherwise.
Those little devices also have some of the most sophisticated spying technology stuffed into them that mankind has ever devised. There are some iterations of such spying that experts insist are the stuff of mere urban legend or lore, such as people getting ads about a subject they haven't looked up on any of their devices, but merely spoken of in the vicinity of their smartphone.
I myself can personally testify to the veracity of this peculiar 'legend' as being rooted in reality, thanks to a couple of women with whom I was waiting to check out at a grocery store. They were talking about shopping for clothing at Kohl's for their kids' school clothes. Kohl's is a store I never shop at, and a store I would certainly never search on my phone or PC. I also do not have children, so it would be strange for me to be shopping for school clothes.
Well imagine my shock⢠when I opened the YouTube app on my phone later that day and the first ad I saw was one for back-to-school sales at Kohl's.
Is it at least somewhat possible that someone in my contacts list was also looking for back-to-school sales and happened to visit the Kohl's website or search them on Google? Sure it is, Facebook got outed for doing this very thing. I must say, though, if those are the lengths to which we must go in order to explain this phenomenon away without admitting that we all carry around little 1984 telescreens everywhere we go that are monitoring our every word and tracking our locations, then that really isn't much better. I should not be targeted by ads based on the online activity of my contacts, either.
We must then ask ourselves - if private companies can invade our lives to this degree, would governments co-opt this power through these private companies to infringe on our rights? All signs point to yes, if the Twitter Files are any example.
The Twitter files have definitely given us a peek behind the curtain in terms of what the government has been doing to try and curb wrongthink on Twitter, though recent drops have also presented evidence that proves these same practices are at work at Meta, Google, and others.
Meta seems to be absolutely crawling with CIA agents, with Mint Press' Alan MacLeod finding that 'ex-CIA' (once a spook, always a spook) agents seemed to occupy many top jobs in nearly every political department at Meta. That would cover both Facebook and Instagram, just to be clear.
We seem to be learning that any time you see "Trust and Safety" listed as a department in a social media company, it means that they're in charge of telling you what to think through policing what content you're allowed to see, and removing anything you yourself post that might run counter to their agenda.
So again, whenever you see "Trust and Safety" think 1984's Ministry of Truth.
Deborah Berman is a 'former' CIA data and intelligence analyst that spent nearly 10 years at her post in the infamous agency before making the leap to the private sector by taking a job with Meta in March of 2022.
We also find that there is also an Aaron Berman who spent almost 17 years with the CIA as a senior analytic manager, which means that he was charged with overseeing intelligence analysis.
Would Aaron Berman have any relation to Deborah Berman? Or is my theory about alphabet agency goons like these being given fake names really true? They always seem to have common-sounding names, so it's a headscratcher. I can only speculate, however.
As I stated previously, Google also has quite a CIA presence in their ranks, here are just a few:
Jacqueline Lopour - 10 years and 3 months at the CIA, now works for Google in the Trust and Safety department. Par for the course.
Jeff Lazarus - 5 years at the CIA, worked for Google for 4 years as a senior policy advisor before joining Apple as the senior Trust and Safety advisor. Again.
Ryan Fugit - 8 years in the CIA, joined Google in 2019 to be a senior manager of Trust and Safety. Is your pattern recognition kicking in yet?
Nick Rossman - 5 years in the CIA, joined Google in January of 2022 as a senior manager of Trust and Safety.
Michelle Toborowski - 12 years in the CIA, now works for YouTube as a lead intelligence analyst in their Trust and Safety department.
This seems like the modern iteration of Operation Mockingbird. For context, Operation Mockingbird was a program that started in the early days of the cold war to manipulate domestic American news outlets by recruiting journalists into their network of lies to make sure only the CIA-approved messaging hit the airwaves and newspaper pages. What started out as propaganda to fool the Soviet Union quickly got weaponized against the American people, and has apparently been adapted to modern technologyâs endless possibilities for infringing on privacy and freedom of speech/expression.
What can we do about this? Well, getting the right people in office to throw out all these unelected bureaucrats trying to undo the Bill of Rights through a convenient loophole allowing them to pose as private citizens working for private companies to drive what content you, the end-user, are allowed to see is a damn good start.
Another could be to vote with your attention and seeking out alternative social media created by trusted individuals, but I'm lukewarm on that idea. If everyone migrates to a given app, the alphabet agency snoops will just get jobs inside those companies and ply their trade of censorship and propaganda without missing a beat.
This is a hard enemy to defeat, and I'm not sure we would be able to truly tell if we were victorious in our efforts, save for maybe a little more freedom being granted to us by not banning anyone who steps out of line and says something that doesn't jive with the official narrative on a given issue.
So we have caught on to this practice, what now? I wish I knew a viable solution. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance, so we must at least be proactive in finding and spotlighting anyone that glows in these companies.
Like dealing with a cockroach infestation, we must find where they're hiding and deal with the problem accordingly.