The popular site with 70 million users is funded with venture capital of the Central Intelligence Agency to spy on all members and recruits its agents through the portal Although presented as a harmless social networking website, which aims to facilitate interpersonal relationships.
The portal brings together more than 70 million users worldwide is actually an experiment in global manipulation. The popular Facebook is a sophisticated tool funded by the Central Intelligence Agency, CIA not only used for the recruitment of agents and the collection of information across the planet, but also to mount covert operations. The most recent and successful was the international mobilization against the FARC, launched from Facebook earlier this year. (See sidebar) In theory, Facebook is a communication tool social and archive that allows contact addresses and other information from friends and relatives know. But also a mine of information for the intelligence services that exploit these data, and thanks to Facebook, they know all about their users.
The online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has a Facebook as a social networking website. Users can participate in one or more networks in relation to their academic status, place of work or geographic region. Millions of users voluntarily provide identifying information, photographs and lists of their favorite consumer items. You usually receive e-mail a message like up here, on behalf of a friend with good intentions, and without knowing what that means, "invites you to register and participate in Facebook. What I do not know is that these data go directly to the hard drives of computers at the Central Intelligence Agency of the U.S.. The controversial system that uses Facebook Beacon tracks the activities of all users and their partners, including those that never registered on Facebook or those who deactivated their accounts with this website.
participate in Facebook's 16 intelligence agencies of the United States, beginning with the CIA, the Pentagon and the Department of Defense. Collect everything and everything keep it. Nothing escapes them: photos, emails, conversations, pictures, music and any other relevant information. With that established psychopolitical profiles and pictures of contacts for each user. Facebook's population grows by two million people per week with which the CIA is accessing a phenomenal database containing the relationships between 70 million people since elementary school and throughout his life. "Facebook, as PayPal is a neocon profile social experiment," says journalist Tom Hodgkinson, the British newspaper The Guardian. The real face behind Facebook is Peter Thiel, a venture capital investor and cofounder and chairman of online payment system PayPal. Thiel says that PayPal has shown that not only can you find value in objects, but also in relations between human beings. In fact, PayPal is a way to move money around the globe without restrictions, bypassing all foreign exchange controls. "Another character behind Facebook and Thiel is René Girard, a guru of Stanford, who argues that human behavior works by mimetic desire, a concept increasingly used in intelligence operations. Girard argues that people move as a herd and copied one another without much reflection. For Thiel, the object of desire is irrelevant. All that is needed know is that Humans tend to move in packs.
SPY WANTED
Since December 2006, the CIA used Facebook to recruit new agents. Like other companies or nonprofit organizations, the incursion of the spy agency on Facebook is part of a new strategy. In other government there are strict federal regulations that guide the recruitment and hiring, but the CIA is a free agent, meaning it has its own hiring authority and is not audited. "It is not necessary to obtain any permission for inclusion in the network," says the CIA.
DOLLARS MARKED
The portal is worth hundreds of millions of dollars and was created with money from Greylock Venture Capital, an investment fund that has a strong link with the CIA. The latest injection of capital to Facebook -27.5 million dollars, was led by Greylock Venture Capital. One of Greylock Partners is Howard Cox, which, according to The Guardian-owned nothing less than the wing of venture capital investment in the CIA. Created in 1999, its mission is "to identify and partner with companies that are developing new technologies to help provide solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency." Colombia: A test case WG A thorough investigation by the journalist Pascual Serrano Rebellion digital diary reveals how Facebook was used to build an international campaign against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on 4 February was held around the world mobilization against the FARC. The media highlighted the spontaneity of action, purportedly originating from Facebook when they showed as a network for students. The media insisted that everything was based on "a civil engineer for 33 years turned into a computer and living in the Colombian city of Barranquilla. The left Colombian human rights organizations and relatives of detainees strongly criticized by the FARC this mobilization to which they described as belligerent and partisan because it denied the possibility of a solution to the conflict, ignoring the crimes committed by paramilitaries and the army and argued for a purely military solution to suit the government of Alvaro Uribe , military sectors, the armaments industry and the U.S. government. Among the users of Facebook groups are eloquent title: "A Million Voices Against FARC" (130,000 enrollees), "A thousand people who hate Hugo Chavez" (1,300 subscribers) and "I want to see dead to the FARC "(8,200 users), which gives an idea of \u200b\u200byour line ideological regarding Colombia. Facebook reminiscent of a John Le Carre novel where puppets are behind the puppeteers.
South Perspectives Journal 08-JUN-2008
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