Facebook was also an official sponsor of the US State Departments training program preparing political subversion across North Africa and the Middle East years before the so-called Arab Spring unfolded. The very activists audiences around the world were told spontaneously sprung up across North Africa and the Middle East were in fact trained, funded, and equipped by the US State Department and various corporations including tech giants Google and Facebook years beforehand. Turning a Network of Information into a One-Way Propaganda Pipeline The implications of an Internet commandeered by a conglomerate of Wall Street and Washington special interests is the mitigation of user-driven content and the retrenchment of information consumerism. Television programming could be perceived as both the process of programming what will appear on TV, but also could be perceived as programming the minds of those consuming television. TV, being a one-way process, effectively eliminates competing ideas and limits the scope of information down to only what those who control television networks want audiences to see and hear. It is clear that Facebook is part of a process to turn the Internet into a similar one-way experience.
Posted on: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:27:59 +0000
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