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Malkin: Facebook in Bed with U.S. Education Department and ‘Not a Peep’ from GOP
breitbart ^ | DR. SUSAN BERRY

Posted on 04/13/2018 9:15:04 AM PDT by davikkm

Republicans may be congratulating each other over their show of outrage at Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s data snatches and repression of free speech during Senate and House hearings, but a leading conservative commentator says they missed the boat in failing to address the tech giant’s intrusive grabs into the private data of America’s schoolchildren. Michelle Malkin – host of Michelle Malkin Investigates on CRTV.com – writes at Creators.com about the cozy relationship between Facebook and other technology titans with the U.S. Education Department. Using comforting-sounding buzz phrases such as “personalized,” “individualized,” and “social and emotional” learning, the federal education behemoth has joined with the tech corporations who are “cashing in on the Big Data boondoggle,” Malkin says.

She continues:

Facebook is just one of the tech giants partnering with the U.S. Department of Education and schools nationwide in pursuit of student data for meddling and profit. Google, Apple, Microsoft, Pearson, Knewton, and many more are cashing in on the Big Data boondoggle. State and federal educational databases provide countless opportunities for private companies exploiting public schoolchildren subjected to annual assessments, which exploded after adoption of the tech-industry-supported Common Core “standards,” tests, and aligned texts and curricula.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: educationdept; facebook; malkin; zuckerberg; zuckerberghearing
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1 posted on 04/13/2018 9:15:04 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

The GOP is sounding more and more like they want to commit suicide.


2 posted on 04/13/2018 9:15:23 AM PDT by davikkm
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To: davikkm

Paging Betsy DeVos.


3 posted on 04/13/2018 9:17:00 AM PDT by FES0844 (SGould the allow it. Hi call the shots. IÂ’m sure Laura would have stayed)
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To: davikkm

Party of stoopid since 1866.


4 posted on 04/13/2018 9:17:42 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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To: davikkm

Congressional hearings have become the farcical, absurd negative of Soviet show-trials.

We’ve preserved the phony political outrage and accusations of the former, but we’ve added a special media-entertainment angle, and instead of someone getting shot in the head afterwards, absolutely nothing happens after our show-trials.


5 posted on 04/13/2018 9:19:25 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: davikkm

I think they already did... their unburied corpse is really ripe by now


6 posted on 04/13/2018 9:19:53 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nearly all men can stand adversity...to test a man's character, give him power." A. Lincoln)
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To: davikkm

This is a good example of Cloward-Piven overwhelming the system.


7 posted on 04/13/2018 9:22:01 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: davikkm

That’s because the GOP and a lot of people are confused about the Constitution that exclusively forbids government officials, not private parties, from bribery. Not to mention the confusion about the unconstitutionality of the Dept of Education itself.

The issue isn’t FB, it’s the mostly unconstitutional feds. Why aren’t those implicated officials up in front of Congress answering questions?

Why aren’t the GOP and We the People outraged, not by private enterprise looking for free handouts (it’s really their job), but by corrupt government officials who forcefully take our money and then commit endless malfeasance?


8 posted on 04/13/2018 9:23:02 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: laplata

I have faith in Ms. DeVos.


9 posted on 04/13/2018 9:23:26 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: FES0844

Paging Betsy DeVos.

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From what I’ve seen, she is fighting a good battle, all things considered.


10 posted on 04/13/2018 9:24:05 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: davikkm

The Con of 1787 is doing exactly what it was intended to do!
The world is not what it seems to be at all...see Wapnick’s Strangers In A Strange World.
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Grok Required!
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TRUMP.45 IF??? We Can Keep Him???
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11 posted on 04/13/2018 9:24:25 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: davikkm

Most of the GOP is still controlled by Bush League Republicans hell bent of making America into North Mexico.

They don’t care if they have to sacrifice a few members to stop Trump from restoring the rule of law and securing the border.

BOTH parties are committed to stealing the country from the citizens by flooding it with foreigners.


12 posted on 04/13/2018 9:24:53 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: davikkm

Thanks W and Bambi.

Great DARPA project run amok.


13 posted on 04/13/2018 9:25:01 AM PDT by petitfour (APPEAL TO HEAVEN)
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To: davikkm

I dare say 99.99% members of congress own shares in FB.
This is how the system works.

The Republican party *IS* the party of crony capitalism and always *HAS* been.


14 posted on 04/13/2018 9:25:06 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: davikkm

Yup.

The DemComs run rings around them.

Planned Parenthood

NPR

La Raza

Licenses for Spanish radio

Queer indoctrination in the schools

Transgender madness in the military

It just keeps going on and on, the only thing the Repugs care about is...did my donor get a fat government contract? Can we run with the cash?


15 posted on 04/13/2018 9:25:16 AM PDT by Regulator (The Evil Party Beats the Stupid Party All the Time)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Me, too. She’s doing a good job considering what she’s up against.


16 posted on 04/13/2018 9:25:28 AM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: laplata

Yeh CP!
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Not to mention Cultural Marxism!
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Don’t Forget To Laugh!
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17 posted on 04/13/2018 9:26:44 AM PDT by gunnyg ("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
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To: davikkm

The GOPe no longer the lesser of two evils.

GOPe, just as evil as those on the other side of the isle.
EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL EVIL

BOTH are in need of annihilation.


18 posted on 04/13/2018 9:54:18 AM PDT by V K Lee (Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken. - Donald J. Trump)
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To: All

Trump & most of the Freedom Caucus are my sole connection to the GOP. And truth be known, if DJT manages to blow up both halves of the Uniparty he will have succeeded beyond my wildest dreams.


19 posted on 04/13/2018 9:58:00 AM PDT by JonPreston (All)
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We learned belatedly that Facebook sent a doctor on a secret mission to ask hospitals to share patients’ confidential health data.
The whitewashed story for public consumption is Facebook asked several major U.S. hospitals to share
anonymized data about their patients (eg. illnesses and prescription info), for a “proposed research project.”
Facebook “said” it intended to match it up with user data it collected, to “help” the hospitals figure out which patients might need special care or treatment.

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Oh please, this is so much BS......language designed to paper over another one of many of Facebook’s nefarious activities.

As we have learned to our dismay, the public Facebook-—all sweetness and light—— “says” one thing for public consumption, but behind the scenes is a different story.

REALITY CHECK-—--coordinating medical data with F/B's data vacuuming, Facebook could get valuable info to P/Parenthood
abortion chambers and baby body parts sales on students’ intimacies...... their sex lives .......and their views on birth control and abortion.

20 posted on 04/13/2018 10:04:13 AM PDT by Liz ((Our side has 8 trillion bullets;the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.))
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