Posted on 03/02/2019 4:08:03 PM PST by blueplum
Facebook has targeted politicians around the world including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebooks behalf against data privacy legislation, an explosive new leak of internal Facebook documents has revealed.
The documents, which have been seen by the Observer and Computer Weekly, reveal a secretive global lobbying operation targeting hundreds of legislators and regulators in an attempt to procure influence across the world, including in the UK, US, Canada, India, Vietnam, Argentina, Brazil, Malaysia and all 28 states of the EU. The documents include details of how Facebook:
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Facebook a global totalitarian thug?
Who knew?
“Facebook has targeted politicians around the world including the former UK chancellor, George Osborne promising investments and incentives while seeking to pressure them into lobbying on Facebooks behalf against data privacy legislation, an explosive new leak of internal Facebook documents has revealed.”
Bribing politicians to strip away citizens’ rights should be met with immediate summary execution, of both the politician and the head of the company that made the bribe.
Kills their business plan.
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