Posted on 03/18/2018 12:24:34 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden ripped Facebook in a tweet Saturday after the social media giant suspended Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm which worked worked for President Trump’s campaign.
Facebook accused the firm on Friday of not deleting data it had improperly harvested from Facebook users, which number in the tens of millions, but Snowden pinned the blame squarely on Facebook and lumped in other social media companies for being just as reckless.
"Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as 'surveillance companies,'" Snowden said. "Their rebranding as 'social media' is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense."
"Facebook makes their money by exploiting and selling intimate details about the private lives of millions, far beyond the scant details you voluntarily post," Snowden said earlier in the day. "They are not victims. They are accomplices."
Cambridge Analytica on Saturday denied any wrongdoing, issuing a statement that said the firm "fully complies" with Facebook's terms of service,
The ensuing uproar has prompted at least one lawmaker, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., to call on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, reportedly asked Cambridge Analytica last fall to surrender emails from any of its employees who worked for the Trump campaign. The firm complied to the request.
Facebook has already taken heat for spreading "fake news" during the election and promised changes.
Last year Facebook handed Mueller its findings regarding Russian Facebook ads, revealed when the company announced $100,000 was purchased for ads from June 2015 to May 2017 by a Russian "troll farm" called the Internet Research Agency, which has promoted pro-Russian propaganda. The money was connected to approximately 3,000 ads and 470 "inauthentic accounts and pages."
Mueller later indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for meddling in the 2016 presidential election, those who were part of the Internet Research Agency.
Snowden was granted asylum in Russia back in 2013 after he leaked secret information from the National Security Agency's surveillance programs and has been there ever since.
As it has been said by analysts, both Google and Facebook make much more money than their business model would permit.
They are taking home money from governments who want the information on citizens in nice packets. All ready to use.
Figures - thanks
I remember VJ said they were gonna pay back all who weren’t kind to Obama.
She really needs to be in prison as well.
According to Snopes, this is false.
And people wonder why I don’t have a Facebook account.
Snopes is PART of the leftist - deep state- propaganda machine, and should not be believed for anything even remotely political.
Precisely!
Not if you don’t use social media and pay cash.
That’s why they’ve been floating test stories about doing away with cash.
Correct
Very wise on your part.
Exactly!
forgot about that
More accurately, Facebook is the equivalent of a government wanting to know as much as possible about all citizens, while at the same time deliberately providing a format for them to fight amongst themselves constantly.
All for the purpose of increasing government power and distracting citizens’ anger away from government.
Ok if you say so!
Yeah. :)
“right down to your grocery store super-savings card.”
I get the card and never fill out the form.
Bookmarked for later study
;^)
I was warning friends of the possible threat of social platforms on BBSs (and beyond) back in the late 80s...
Thankfully, by the time the ‘net’ was released to the public, I knew to avoid putting any personal info out (pics/address/business/friends/etc).
Every once in awhile I check through search engines just to make sure... I had no idea how many people shared the same name ;^) [and NONE of them (pics, or other information) are me] :D
people that post their pics, the pics of their children and grandchildren, etc...are nuts...then they tell the intimate details of their lives....
Yeah, and I bet according to the NY TIMES it is false too.
And according to Adam Schiff, Wolf Blitzer, Nancy Pelosi and George Soros.
I’ve found pics on the web that I took but did NOT put them on the web.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.