Source: CCTV News Client
Recently, there are constant troubles in the US social media " Facebook ". First, its servers have been malfunctioning continuously, causing global downtime of its four major social platforms, causing irreparable property losses. Immediately, the US Congress also came to Facebook for "trouble" because former Facebook employee Haugen accused Facebook of ignoring information that endangers children, creates division and weakens American democracy in order to pursue profits.
In the description of the American media, Haugen hid all the shameful things of his former boss out of justice. However, it is probably obvious that in the eyes of bystanders around the world, Facebook platform is full of content promoting hatred, violence and national divisions. No one is needed to open the window paper at all. In fact, Facebook's Facebook, Instagram and other platforms not only promote violence and advocate divisions but also often selectively "law enforcement" to delete or retain these bad information according to political needs.
Facebook is inseparable from the endorsement of government capital
Facebook's relationship with US government agencies can be traced back to the time when this company was born. Public information shows that CIA has set its sights on this company from the very beginning.
△IN-Q-TEL official website is very straightforward, its task is to enhance the "national security" of the United States and its allies.
The first investors on Facebook included an investment company called IN-Q-TEL, whose funding came from the U.S. government departments. IN-Q-TEL once claimed that it has no affiliation with the CIA, but its executives mostly have backgrounds with the CIA and the Ministry of Defense. Former CIA Director George Tenet said frankly that his decision to establish IN-Q-TEL is to gain leading technical capabilities.
IN-Q-TEL has invested in thousands of IT, bio and energy high-tech companies in the United States, and its tentacles penetrate into various fields of data collection, analysis and application. It can be said that Facebook's ability to become popular around the world has made the escort of these American hard capitals an indelible contribution.
The Internet is an important platform for US diplomacy
In addition, the US diplomatic department has also realized very early that Internet platform companies are important helpers for the United States to expand its global influence. In 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton invited the heads of major IT companies such as Google , Twitter, Microsoft , Cisco , and Cisco to discuss how to use new technologies to achieve diplomatic goals.
△Jason Lieberman was too excited after attending the small dinner of Hillary . In " Huffington Post ", Jason Lieberman, founder of the "Youth Sports Alliance" (the institution is good at stirring up dissatisfaction among young people from all over the world through the Internet), published a signed blog post in the Huffington Post "Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are diplomatic tools". The article records the process of this banquet and makes the State Council's ambition to use social platforms to promote the "color revolution" of other countries to the public.
Facebook's right to speak and law enforcement
Facebook did not disappoint investors' expectations and tried its best to play its role as a data collection and international public opinion manipulator. Many posts on Facebook that objectively state facts and express objective positions have been deleted wantonly, but various fake news and anti-China remarks can be seen everywhere. Many countries and people are deeply suffering from Facebook's selective "law enforcement".
In 2018, the American independent media The Gray Zone reported that Facebook began to delete content or accounts on its platform that are largely containing non-mainstream media that oppose American interference and expose police violence, such as Anti-Media, Cop Block, The Free Thought Project, etc. The excuse is that these accounts violate Facebook’s regulations on “spam and organized fabricated facts.” However, institutions like The Free Thought were once certified by Facebook and are legal media that operate normally.
In addition to "law enforcement" against the news media, the speech videos of Iranian Supreme Spiritual Leader Khamenei that appear on some personal accounts have also been sealed.As for the Iranian general Soleimani who was assassinated by the United States, his name cannot even be mentioned in his Facebook speech. At the same time, Jamie Fur, a famous neoconservative commentator and then director of the Asia project of the Marshall Fund of NATO think tank, publicly claimed in an interview with C-SPAN that Facebook's ban on the accounts of "promoting Russia" and "promoting China" is just the first step for the United States to "counterattack" China, Russian and other foreign governments to influence American politics.
" NGO "
Many "public relations" organizations under the banner of non-government also spread various rumors on Facebook, and Facebook not only does not "enforce the law", but will also happily stand up for it.
△ Venezuela opposition has made a large number of remarks against the Maduro government on its Facebook account strategically operated by CLS ("Chavez Fans"). The account in the picture was later banned by Facebook.
A well-known right-wing "public relations company" in Washington - the "CLS Strategy", has long used Facebook's Facebook and Instagram platforms to create so-called news that is catching up on the wind and shadow, criticizing the left-wing regime in Latin America. For example, against the Maduro government of Venezuela, CLS released a large number of photos, claiming that the Venezuelan military and people are abandoning Maduro and turning to the United States' favored Guaido ; Bolivia The right-wing military supported by the US consortium launched a coup to overthrow the elected left-wing Morales government, the military government signed a "strategic consultant" agreement with CLS on election issues, with CLS responsible for handling public relations matters and supporting the military on Facebook. CLS has also invested a lot of dollars to launch a public opinion war on Venezuela and Bolivia on Facebook.
"Facebook is not afraid of embarrassment" warns the world
Facebook is extremely cautious in domestic politics, for fear of conflict with the ruling parties. After Trump 's supporters attacked Congress, Facebook immediately banned the accounts of relevant personnel. Later, when dealing with Trump supporters, Facebook was extremely vigilant, deleting if possible, and blocking if possible, perfectly responded to the US government's expectations for "cracking down on organized fabricated facts." Facebook also regularly publishes reports to promote its achievements in countering "false information". Facebook used a large amount of review resources to foreign political struggles and domestic political stance, but for commercial interests, it turned out to be deaf ears to those toxic content that endangered the health of teenagers. As a result, it was reported by employees and eventually had to spend a lot of money on the public relations crisis.
△Facebook has launched the "Organized Facts and Filing" Report Center in a serious manner, which is actually serving the interests of the US government.
Facebook case is just a microcosm of American social media giants. Their businesses have strong international public service characteristics. However, on the one hand, they are driven by commercial interests to ignore social morality, and on the other hand, they are swept up by the US global strategy and become a platform for the dissemination of the American world's discourse power. Faced with such Internet platform monopoly giants, countries should not compromise. (CCTV reporter Jing Zhao)
