Introduction
Facebook whistleblower Morgan Kahmann has come forward publicly after he exposed the mega-corporation for manipulating news feeds about COVID-19 vaccination. Internal documents describe algorithms and procedures to prevent people from seeing posts marked as “vaccine hesitancy.” Yes, that is as Orwellian as it sounds, and it is only the tip of the iceberg. A handful of technocrat czars in Silicon Valley are acting as a de facto government, swaying economic, social, and even military policies across the world to achieve their ideological ends and amass even more power.
Kahmann and other Facebook insiders leaked internal documents to Project Veritas, which were published May 24. Later on the week, Facebook fired him for exposing their conspiracy.
“To me… it far outweighs that because it’s about more than me. It’s about really everyone in the world,” Kahmann said. He has a wife who’s seven months pregnant and a two-year-old son. See his full interview with Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe.
The Privatization of Political Power
Sadly, this is hardly the first time Project Veritas caught Facebook manipulating information to mislead the public. This also isn’t the first time giant corporations have lashed out at private individuals for exposing their agenda. In February, Project Veritas caught a senior Facebook executive boasting that the platform shadow-bans comment threads containing “hate speech.” Twitter, in an act that might be retaliation on Facebook’s behalf, banned Project Veritas and James O’Keefe for supposed terms of use violations. According to O’Keefe, the Twitter ban could also stem from his damning expose on CNN., and in his opinion most likely what happened.
O’Keefe, as influential as he is, is one of the smaller fish caught in the globalist digital net. Former head of state Donald Trump and Alex Jones are also banned from most of the major social media networks.
There are almost too many scandals to list and there’s a clear pattern to it. After the “wrong” candidate won the 2016 US presidential race, unelected corporate executives vowed to make sure that never happens again. Unsurprisingly, information came to light that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook famous for stealing Native Hawaiian land, spent millions of dollars to manipulate the staffing at ballot centers across the nation, helping to shift the 2020 presidential election in Joe Biden’s favor. In the aftermath of the disputed election results, a cabal of the world’s most powerful CEOs came together to discuss “what to do if Trump’s refusal to concede to Biden becomes a threat to democracy.” Apparently, no one at this meeting saw the irony of billionaires meeting to discuss how they can manipulate democracy in their favor.
A few corporations hold absolute monopolies over the flow of information throughout the Western world. They have almost all the same powers of a government except they’re unelected, answer to no one, and above the law. All attempts to hold these companies accountable for their actions, inquiries into Facebook’s activities and anti-trust lawsuits against Google, have been unsuccessful. This week, Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida signed a bill that will fine social media giants for blocking candidates for public office. DeSantis and Florida Republicans have good reason to take action. Corporations have unprecedented power to decide who can win an election and who can’t. They can literally cut off a candidate so the rest of the world’s population is unaware he even exists, let alone that they should vote for him. As good idea as it is to finally take a stand against corporate overreach into the democratic process, Florida’s new law will almost certainly be challenged in court.
Perhaps the most astonishing display of sheer corporate power in the past year was Facebook’s feud with Australia. In retaliation for a proposed bill requiring Facebook to compensate news outlets for sharing their content, Zuckerberg banned the entire continent. No one could share any third-party news to Facebook at all. Within days, the government surrendered and accepted his demands. Fair or not, this episode was a wake-up call. Humanity has become so dependent on privately-owned web platforms, we’re helpless without them.
Suddenly deprived of the ability to link websites through their Facebook pages, public institutions, government agencies, and even fire departments and law enforcement struggled to share urgent information with Australian citizens. Some of these notices could be the difference between life or death, like alerting residents about an upcoming brush fire or a criminal predator on the loose. Facebook is an excellent tool that our ancestors would have loved, but it is also a threat to our safety. Zuckerberg can blackmail hundreds of millions of people whenever he feels like it and is confident there will never any consequences for his actions.
Power and Profit in the Pandemic
America’s response to the COVID crisis is no different than every other major event in recent history; it’s another opportunity for a handful of individuals and companies to get rich. The USA and its allies refused to waive vaccine patents, arguing that it is impossible to help people in developing nations unless corporations are allowed to have a monopoly on the profits. Biden finally relented in the first week of May and waived the patents. Interestingly, his decision coincides with Russia’s successes in shipping variants of its Sputnik V abroad. Corporations love profit above all else, but not at the expense of losing an arms race, even an imaginary one, to the “Red Menace.” The Russians’ vaccine tourism strategy was too effective to ignore. Our government has even adopted it themselves.
In a related story that some might find amusing, Newsy Veterans Today, praised Sputnik V as more effective than the Pfizer. Corporate media outlets responded by howling that the website must be a “Russian asset.” The Pfizer vaccine does have severe problems, which is awkward because, as I wrote previously, Democrats want to require people take it, by force if necessary.
Conclusion: We’re Racing Toward a Precipice
Following the 2020 American presidential election last November, the corporate elites, particularly Silicon Valley technocrats, are flush with victory. However, they’re also making mistakes. It isn’t clear if our elites are even competent. Writer Brant von Goble argues that American elites are actually ignorant and overly confident, and their policies may cause the collapse of the whole country. According to him:
Elite overproduction/overproduction of the elites—when a society produces more candidates for positions of power and prestige than it can employ. Peter Turchin, the developer of this theory, has argued that this has the potential to lead to political instability as competition for elite status grows fierce…
They are unable and unwilling to learn from their mistakes. They are overconfident regarding their expertise, their virtuousness, and the universality of their values. They are profoundly ignorant. They are provincial. And despite their alleged differences in ideology, national elites on the left and right have more in common with each other than fellow political travelers outside their class. They are raised in nearly identical environments (although in different cities). Most importantly, they all share a capacity for self-worship and overestimation of their worth to society. At least some of them are well-intentioned, but they will not take kindly to losing their prestige and power, and they will feel entirely justified in using any means at their disposal to protect their interests. After all, they are the best and brightest the world has ever seen, and the best suited to lead, so by protecting their position of authority, they are doing the entire world a favor (or so their reasoning goes).
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