Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face...
by lern_too_spel on Monday May 08, 2023 @03:11PM
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How can I assume you're intelligent if you've completely ignored that they are no longer employed by the CIA or the FBI? Once again, do you still perform work for your former employer?
These people were hired by Twitter and Facebook because of skills obtained from their previous education and employment. Twitter and Facebook aren't going to pay them to work for the FBI or the CIA any more than your current employer will pay you to work for your previous employer.
Being overrun with misinformation hurts their profits. They hire people who are familiar with state-sponsored misinformation programs in order to design mitigations. Simple as that.
Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF on Monday May 08, 2023 @03:44PM
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One might consider that the FBI and CIA are the kind of organizations to have people on their payroll who are actually told to go to Facebook and lie to a hiring manager, saying, "I used to work for the CIA." Whose record is it that the person no longer works for the CIA? Only if I blindly trust the word of an organization which is opaque by design do I believe it to be as simple as you profess.
Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face...
by lern_too_spel on Monday May 08, 2023 @07:35PM
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To believe that, you must believe that the people who hired them at Facebook and Twitter are stupid. When these people are told to work for drug dealers or terrorists, they don't put the CIA or the FBI on their resume. Here, their former employment is out in the open. If they really wanted to get away with doing work for their former employer at their new employer, they wouldn't put their former employer on their resume.
Re:The Vietnamese military has an actual troll army and Face...
by CapstanRoller on Monday May 08, 2023 @04:17PM
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You think feds & spies openly advertise their allegiances on LinkedIn or something?
At Twitter alone, at least eight former FBI agents work at the company’s so-called “trust” and “security” divisions — including its product policy manager Greg Anderson, who previously worked on “psychological operations” at the National Security Council, The Post has learned. Another is Matthew Williams, the company’s co-lead of its Trust and Safety department who spent more that 15 years in intelligence with the agency.
The discovery of the DC-to-Silicon Valley pipeline comes amid an outcry over revelations that the FBI influenced Twitter to suppress The Post’s account over its reporting on Hunter Biden’s overseas business interests in October 2020 and has regularly demanded specific accounts and tweets be banned.
Multiple releases of internal company documents since Dec. 2 show Twitter developed a close working relationship with the intelligence community, which frequently leaned on them to censor political speech."
Meta’s top policy manager for “misinformation,” Aaron Berman, is a former CIA senior analytics manager.
The migration from the intelligence services is particularly pronounced at Facebook’s parent company, Meta, where at least nine former CIA agents and six former intelligence employees at other federal agencies are or have been employed.
Jim Hanson, president of information warfare analysis and consulting firm WorldStrat, told The Post Meta took a particular interest in bringing G-men and woman on board after the 2016 presidential election.
Meta’s top policy manager for “misinformation,” Aaron Berman, is a former CIA senior analytics manager who spent 15 years with “The Company” — even writing the president’s daily briefings.
Others include Scott Stern, Meta’s senior manager for trust and safety risk intelligence, who spent more than seven years with the FBI leading “high-stakes operational determinations for complex and ambiguous overseas counterterrorism operations,” according to his LinkedIn page.
Stern joined Meta in January 2020 to help develop algorithms to combat “misinformation,” as well as more traditional FBI bailiwicks like child safety and counterterrorism."
[0] https://nypost.com/2022/12/22/facebook-twitter-stocked-with-...
"Zuckerberg tells Rogan FBI warning prompted Biden laptop story censorship" [1]
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-62688532
Maybe it's cognitive dissonance. Maybe it's simply that you support what they are doing, who they are censoring, the propaganda they promote, or you feel this deep-state apparatus is aligned with your interests and your worldview, but it's very obvious what this is.
I'm going to assume you're an intelligent person, just being disingenuous. They explicitly admit they are in these positions to counter "misinformation".