Reflecting on The Atlantic Council's Partnering With Facebook in 2018, In Light of New Documents / CTIFiles

@Dbrozenews would expand on the development of the era of Fact-checking, contextualizing how in 2018 #Facebook partnered with the #Atlantic council for fact checking. The Atlantic council which has close ties with the US government, intelligence community, and #NATO:

"In January 2018, #PropOrNot would be exposed for their connections to The Atlantic Council, a think tank with connections to the western Military-Industrial Complex. Coincidentally, in May 2018, Facebook announced a partnership with the Atlantic Council, which officially claims to provide a forum for international political, business, and intellectual leaders.

The social media giant said the partnership was aimed at preventing Facebook from “being abused during elections.”

The press release promoted Facebook’s efforts to fight fake news by using artificial intelligence, as well as working with outside experts and governments…

The Atlantic Council receives funding from the Brookings Institution, Carnegie Endowment, Cato Institute, Council on Foreign Relations, and the Rand Corporation, to name a few. In addition, various members of the Military-Industrial Complex are benefactors of the Atlantic Council, including Huntington Ingalls, the United States’ sole maker of aircraft carriers; Airbus, the plane manufacturer; Lockheed Martin, the shipbuilder and aviation company; and Raytheon, which makes missile systems.

All of the companies have contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and offer financial support to the Atlantic Council. The Council also receives support from Chevron and the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Finally, the Atlantic Council receives direct financial support from the U.S. Departments of the Air Force, Army, Navy and Energy and from the U.S. Mission to NATO.

By October 2018 – only five months after the Atlantic Council partnership with Facebook – the social media giant announced they were unpublishing, or purging, over 500 pages and 200 accounts who are accused of spreading political spam. Several of these pages and writers were also removed from Twitter on the same day."

https://thelastamericanvagabond.com/this-is-why-you-cant-trust-the-fact-checkers/

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Apple and Google confirm governments spy on users through push notifications

#Push #notifications can reveal private information and governments can essentially access this data if they want.

A US senator has asked the Department of Justice to let #Apple and #Google disclose how governments surveil users through push notifications.
Apple says the federal government stopped it from being transparent about the practice.
Google has also acknowledged the senator’s plea and said it is committed to keeping users informed about government requests for push notification data.

Government agencies have been spying on smartphone users through push notifications sent out by apps, a US senator wrote in a letter to the Department of Justice on December 6.

Oregon Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Department of Justice to lift any existing restrictions around discussions of push notification surveillance.

“I write to urge the Department of Justice (DOJ) to permit Apple and Google to inform their customers and the general public about demands for smartphone app notification records,” Wyden writes in the letter.

He explains that push notifications pass through a kind of digital post office run by the phone’s operating system providers. “Because Apple and Google deliver push notification data, they can be secretly compelled by governments to hand over this information,” the letter says. This could tell governments how users interact with certain apps, give them access to a notification’s complete text, and disclose some unencrypted content.

Wyden moved the DOJ to allow Apple and Google to be transparent about the demands they receive from governments regarding push notification #surveillance.

Meanwhile, the two companies welcomed Wyden’s letter and acknowledged that push notification surveillance has been happening for a while. Apple even said it was not allowed to disclose government requests for push notification data but will start informing users about it now.

“In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information,” Apple said in a statement published by Reuters. “Now that this method has become public, we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests.”

Google also acknowledged the issue and said it shared Wyden’s “commitment to keeping users informed about these requests.” Google’s transparency report already documents governmental requests for users’ push notification data.

https://www.androidauthority.com/apple-google-push-notification-surveillance-3392252/

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Tech workers protested at #Google offices in SanFrancisco to call for an end to their $1.2 billion contract with israel.

The #AI based “Project #Nimbus” assists #israel in the #surveillance and expansion of settlements.

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British youth faces 100,000-euro bill for bomb threat joke that prompted Spain to scramble a fighter plane to escort easyJet flight

The accused was checking in for a flight at London Gatwick airport when he sent a message to friends via Snapchat. It was picked up by the UK security services when the plane was flying over French airspace


Source: https://www.surinenglish.com/spain/british-youth-faces-100000euro-bill-for-bomb-20240122151721-nt.html

>send a meme on snapchat
>get fined 120k

Would he have been saved by using any chat service with end-to-end encryption? Even Whatsapp? How can one avoid this happening to them?

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#NSA finally admits to spying on Americans by purchasing sensitive data

This news follows Wyden's push last year that forced the FBI to admit that it was also buying Americans' sensitive data. Now, the senator is calling on all intelligence agencies to "stop buying personal data from Americans that has been obtained illegally by data brokers."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/01/nsa-finally-admits-to-spying-on-americans-by-purchasing-sensitive-data/

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#gov #censorship #fb #Facebook #meta #why

#Google engineer confronts google director for using project #nimbus tech to conduct surveillance, apartheid and genocide against Palestinians

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#Google fires employee who protested israel tech event as internal dissent mounts

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/08/google-fires-employee-who-protested-israel-tech-event-shuts-forum.html

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