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I was working on the connection between the CIA and social media last week this is what I dug up:

https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/
THE INVESTMENT ARMS of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online “momentum” for any given event.
“The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases,” says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science. Which naturally makes the 16-person Cambridge, Massachusetts, firm attractive to Google Ventures, the search giant’s investment division, and to In-Q-Tel, which handles similar duties for the CIA and the wider intelligence community.

Google is definitely connected to the CIA through ES and he is also definitely connected to State Dept thru google ideas
http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447 - It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.
Later that year two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,”

The connections between the CIA and social media:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/social-media-is-a-tool-of-the-cia-seriously/ - You don’t need to wear a tinfoil hat to believe that the CIA is using Facebook, Twitter, Google (GOOG) and other social media to spy on people. That’s because the CIA publishes a helpful list of press releases on all the social media ventures it sponsors, via its technology investment arm In-Q-Tel.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/in-q-tel-a-glimpse-inside-the-cias-venture-capital-arm
Founded in 1999 as a way for the U.S. to keep up with the rapid innovation in science and technology, In-Q-Tel has been an early backer of start-ups later acquired by Google, Oracle, IBM and Lockheed Martin.
“If you want to keep up with Silicon Valley, you need to become part of Silicon Valley. The best way to do that is have a budget because when you have a checkbook, everyone comes to you,” said Jim Rickards, an adviser to the U.S. intelligence community who is familiar with the activities of Arlington, Va.-based IQT.

“In-Q-Tel: A New Partnership
Between the CIA and the Private Sector”
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/intelligence-history/in-q-tel - The origins of the concept that has become In-Q-Tel are traceable to Dr. Ruth David, a former CIA Deputy Director for Science and Technology. She and her Deputy, Joanne Isham, were the first senior Agency officials to understand that the information revolution required the CIA to forge new partnerships with the private sector and design a proposal for radical change. The timing of the proposal was fortuitous. The Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), George Tenet, had just launched his Strategic Direction initiative that included technology as one of its areas for review. The study made a direct link between the Agency’s future technology investments and improving its information gathering and analysis capabilities.
By the summer of 1998, the Agency had assembled a few senior Agency staff employees with an entrepreneurial bent and empowered them to take Dr. David’s original concept and flesh it out. Aided by a consulting group and a law firm, they devoted the next four months to making the rounds in Silicon Valley and elsewhere, putting the concept through the wringer. Much of the time was spent listening. Many they met with were often critical of one aspect or another of the concept. But, whether they were venture capitalists, Chief Executive Officers (CEO), Chief Technical Officers (CTO) or congressmen and staffers, they all eagerly immersed themselves in spirited debates that enriched the Agency team and drove the concept in new directions.

You will also find the In-Q-Tel website and their portfolio https://www.iqt.org/portfolio/of over 200 companies focused on Biology, Chemical Detection, Collaboration, Communications, Cyber & Mobile Security, Data Analytics, Data Management, Detection & Analysis, Digital Imagery, Materials & Power, Mission Tools And Optical Technology, Sensor Technology And Video Imaging

@Jack, MZ, ES, JB, EM, SH, MSM, etc.
Do you know that we know?
Do you know that we see all?
Do you know that we hear all?
FEAR the STORM.
NOBODY PLAYING THE GAME GETS A FREE PASS.
NOBODY.
Q

Consensus is @Jack = Jack Dorsey, MZ = Mark Zuckerberg, ES = Eric Schmidt, JB = Jeff Bezos, EM = Elon Musk, SH = Steve Huffman (Reddit) and of Course MSM = Main Stram Media
As far as the known connections Of Schmidt and Dorsey there are several.

http://fortune.com/2014/12/03/how-to-get-eric-schmidt-and-jack-dorsey-to-invest-in-your-company/ - Lee is the founder of investing firm Cowboy Ventures, as well as a strategic advisor for Kleiner Perkins. Bashir’s company boasts Google’s (GOOG, +1.66%) Eric Schmidt and Jack Dorsey of Square among its investors.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/11/24/art-sy-1-25-million-schmidt-murdoch-dorsey/ - The investors include Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch (wife of News Corp. founder Rupert Murdoch), Jack Dorsey (Twitter, Square), VC Jim Breyer, art “czarina” Dasha Zhukova, Founder Collective, Keith Rabois (Square, Slide, PayPal), David Tisch, Charlie Cheever (Quora, Facebook), Dave Morin (Path, Facebook), and David Kidder (Clickable).

https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/en-it/about-us/philanthropy/code-org - In addition to BlackRock, other supporters of the Open Letter included technology luminaries such as Bill Gates, Microsoft founder; Eric Schmidt, Alphabet executive chairman; Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO; Jack Dorsey, CEO of Twitter and Square, and Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn chairman.

https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/08/22/joshua-kushners-thrive-capital-raises-40-million/ - The fund-raising round included Google’s then-chief executive, Eric E. Schmidt; the venture capitalist Jim Breyer; and Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter, who also serves as an official adviser to Thrive Capital.

http://www.adweek.com/digital/time100-gala-most-influential-people/ - there were a handful of tech celebrities that attended the Gala last night, including Mashable’s Pete Cashmore, Google’s Eric Schmidt, Craig’s List, Craig Newmark, Reddit’s Erik Martin, Dennis Crowley, Foursquare co-founder and Twitter’s own Jack Dorsey

And this is what wikileaks has revealed about google:
http://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-279447 - It was Cohen who, while he was still at the Department of State, was said to have emailed Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to delay scheduled maintenance in order to assist the aborted 2009 uprising in Iran. His documented love affair with Google began the same year when he befriended Eric Schmidt as they together surveyed the post-occupation wreckage of Baghdad. Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen’s natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a “think/do tank” based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head. Google Ideas was born.
Later that year two co-wrote a policy piece for the Council on Foreign Relations’ journal Foreign Affairs, praising the reformative potential of Silicon Valley technologies as an instrument of U.S. foreign policy. Describing what they called “coalitions of the connected,”

Google ideas became Jigsaw https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/google-ideas-jared-cohen-diplomacy-digital-age/
The discussion, titled “Breaking Borders in the Digital Age,” explored Cohen’s observations about how technology plays a role in international diplomacy and geopolitics. He spoke of his on-the-ground experiences traveling in Iran.
Cohen, a Rhodes Scholar who names Condoleezza Rice as one of his mentors, managed to get a visa to travel to Iran while he was in graduate school. While there, he researched the impact of technology on politics, interviewing Hezbollah fighters and traveling to Syria and other parts of the Middle East. Following his stint abroad, he took his skills set to the US State Department.
Below, Cohen speaks about the “huge blind spot” the US government faced in the mid-to-late 2000s, back when words such as “Google” and “Facebook” were not taken seriously in diplomatic settings: (Videos At link)

https://www.fastcompany.com/40474738/can-alphabets-jigsaw-solve-the-internets-most-dangerous-puzzles
Can Alphabet’s Jigsaw Solve Google’s Most Vexing Problems?
Jared Cohen, CEO of Google offshoot Jigsaw, is taking on ISIS, fake news, and toxic trolls

http://bigthink.com/collective-intelligence/google-ideas-the-future-according-to-eric-schmidt-and-jared-cohen
“If I were an evil person,” Schmidt argued, “I would be terrified of this new world because of the information that is being assembled.” It will be very difficult for an evil-doer to go about their dirty work “without being found, prosecuted and put in jail for their evil activities,” said Schmidt.
In other words, if evil-doers want to achieve their goals, they will have to do it in a way that will ultimately leave some sort of digital trail. This creates more room for error. So consider the example of a naive 25 year-old terrorist who throws caution to the wind and calls his friend in Pakistan. He gets caught. But capturing this one individual also “makes it easier to unravel an entire network.”