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Zuckerberg, Mark

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The political power of Facebook

by Thierry Meyssan

Paris (France) | 12 October 2021

In the global imagination, Facebook would be a responsible social network that allows everyone to connect confidentially while censoring messages contrary to local laws. In practice, it is quite different. Facebook collects information about you for the NSA, censors your opinions and mints its (…)

Mark Zuckerberg censors governments

20 January 2021

Mark Zuckerberg’s company Facebook is already used to censoring governments. After closing French Army accounts in the Central African Republic and Mali in December 2020, plus those of the incumbent President of the United States in January 2021, Facebook has also just closed those of Ugandan (…)

How Facebook’s Secret Unit Created India’s Troll Armies For Digital Propaganda To Influence Elections

by Shelley Kasli

Bangalore (India) | 23 December 2017

What Alternative für Deutschland, Rodrigo Duterte, Mauricio Macri, Narendra Modi, Barack Obama, the Scottish National Party and Donald Trump have in common? They relied on their election campaigns on the advice of Mark Zuckerberg. Taking the case of the falsification of Indian elections, Shelley (…)

Mark Zuckerberg: a US President in the making?

4 August 2017

The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg (33 years old), could become the Vice-President, then the President of the United States, should President Donald Trump be removed.
Zuckerberg has already employed in succession David Plouffe (campaign adviser to Barack Obama in 2008) and then Ken (…)

Facebook, imperialist tool 2.0

6 July 2012

Promoted as the instrument of the "revolution" by Western regimes, the reality of the social media site Facebook is quite different for those on the wrong side of "democracy".
Indeed, the platform has relayed, for several weeks, pages calling for the lynching and murder of citizens and Syrian (…)

Facebook bans pages calling for Palestinian uprising

2 April 2011

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (photo) shut down pages on his social network that were calling for an uprising in Palestine to begin on May 15, the date marked by Palestinians as the Nakba.
Since the 6th of March, several Facebook pages have called for a third intifada. They garnered up to half (…)