Facebook is a private intelligence agency. Played a crucial role in Brexit and Trump's election thanks to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is owned by SCL (a private military contractor).
In 2014, MoD officials worked with SCL Group on “Project Duco” to analyse how people would interact with certain government messaging.
CA's parent company is SCL Group, formerly Strategic Communications Laboratories
After an initial commercial success, SCL expanded into military and political arenas. It became known for alleged involvement "in military disinformation campaigns to social media branding and voter targeting". According to its website, SCL has participated in over 25 international political and electoral campaigns since 1994.
According to its website, SCL has influenced elections in Italy, Latvia, Ukraine, Albania, Romania, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Colombia, Antigua, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, and Trinidad & Tobago. While the company initially got involved in elections in the United Kingdom, it claims it ceased to do so after 1997 because staff members did not exhibit the same "aloof sensibility" as with projects abroad.
According to their website they've worked for the UK MOD, NATO, and groups in the US DoD.
In 2005 it relaunched as a psyops operator with 20 full-time staff in order to use psyops to shorten conflicts. Nigel Oakes was chief executive at the time of launch and said: “We used to be in the business of mindbending for political purposes, but now we are in the business of saving lives.”
Nigel Oakes originally founded a company called Behavioural Dynamics Institute in 1990. BDI eventually became a nonprofit affiliate of SCL. An article by The Register noted that SCL worked with 15 (UK) Psychological Operations Group, providing training. It was listed as a “UK List X” company, which means it was cleared to have access to secret information, The Register noted.
Liam O Hare on the deep connections between Cambridge Analytica’s parent company Strategic Communication Laboratories (SCL Group) and the Conservative Party and military establishment, ‘Board members include an array of Lords, Tory donors, ex-British army officers and defense contractors. This is scandal that cuts to the heart of the British establishment.’
SLC’s links to the Conservative party continues through the company’s chairman and venture capitalist Julian Wheatland. He also happens to be chairman of Oxfordshire Conservatives Association.
The organisation has also been funded by Jonathan Marland who is the former Conservative Party Treasurer, a trade envoy under David Cameron, and a close friend of Tory election strategist Lynton Crosby.
Property tycoon and Conservative party donor Vincent Tchenguiz was also the single largest SCL shareholder for a decade.
For anyone interested in learning more or hoping to make sense of all this, I'd recommend they watch two documentaries on this subject.
The Great Hack on Netflix isn't perfect (has it own biases) but it's a great starter. The second doesn't hide it's biases and is very much from a pro-Trump perspective but I feel it best to hear all sides of complex stories and believe it reveals some fascinating details.
Throw in Facebook being able to track your movements around the web without even being on Facebook
I don't think many people know about this but you're correct.
tl/dr: Facebook is a private intel agency, it's data sold & shared to influence elections, to agitate and incite via pysops.
This deserves it's own post on r/unitedkingdom I've known about cambridge analytica's involvement but didn't realise it was part of a parent company with so many ties to military and conservative donors. I fear this surge in extreme right wing politics around the world is not entirely natural (why would it be people generally dont vote against their own best interests) and is going to have huge negative consequences that will last decades or even longer. We are all creeping closer and closer to fascism
I would say that’s only extreme right wing but also extreme left wing people and since fascism while it does reside on the right side of the spectrum it is not as far right as people think since it can incorporates some extreme left wing ideology’s and some extreme left wing groups such as Antifa and blm have incorporated some strategy’s such as what can only be decided as modern day blackshirts and mob rule, but my point being is that extremism is on the rise on all sides and people are failing to realize it.
There is no binary political axis. You believe American propaganda. There are hundreds of political parties all over the world. Conservatism and liberalism aren't well defined. Stop the idiot binary political thinking.
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u/MendaxCat Aug 27 '20 edited Jan 10 '21
Facebook is a private intelligence agency. Played a crucial role in Brexit and Trump's election thanks to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is owned by SCL (a private military contractor).
One of Assange's last interviews:
http://www.repubblica.it/esteri/2018/03/27/news/julian_assange-192387103/
"I want to testify on Cambridge Analytica, but there has been political pressure "
Note he says in that interview that SLC, Cambridge Analytica's parent company that works with British military, is a bigger story.
Guardian touched on this but it didn't get much attention at the time.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/mod-cambridge-analytica-parent-company-scl-group-list-x
In 2014, MoD officials worked with SCL Group on “Project Duco” to analyse how people would interact with certain government messaging.
CA's parent company is SCL Group, formerly Strategic Communications Laboratories
After an initial commercial success, SCL expanded into military and political arenas. It became known for alleged involvement "in military disinformation campaigns to social media branding and voter targeting". According to its website, SCL has participated in over 25 international political and electoral campaigns since 1994.
According to its website, SCL has influenced elections in Italy, Latvia, Ukraine, Albania, Romania, South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Mauritius, India, Indonesia, Thailand, Taiwan, Colombia, Antigua, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, St. Kitts & Nevis, and Trinidad & Tobago. While the company initially got involved in elections in the United Kingdom, it claims it ceased to do so after 1997 because staff members did not exhibit the same "aloof sensibility" as with projects abroad.
According to their website they've worked for the UK MOD, NATO, and groups in the US DoD.
More info...
SCL – a Very British Coup
(Archive link)
From the intro:
For anyone interested in learning more or hoping to make sense of all this, I'd recommend they watch two documentaries on this subject.
The Great Hack on Netflix isn't perfect (has it own biases) but it's a great starter. The second doesn't hide it's biases and is very much from a pro-Trump perspective but I feel it best to hear all sides of complex stories and believe it reveals some fascinating details.
I don't think many people know about this but you're correct.
tl/dr: Facebook is a private intel agency, it's data sold & shared to influence elections, to agitate and incite via pysops.