This is not at all comforting: during a week that's witnessed Alex Jones' social media accounts
taken down by Facebook, Apple, Spotify and Google, and what appears to be a growing crackdown against alternative media figures including
several prominent Libertarians, notably the Ron Paul Institute director, and the Scott Horton Show, who found their Twitter accounts suspended - we learn that the Atlantic Council is directly advising Facebook on identifying and removing "foreign interference" on the popular platform.
While the initiative was initially revealed last May through an official Facebook media release, more details of the controversial think tank's role have been revealed.
Supposedly the whole partnership is aimed at bringing more objectivity and neutrality to the process of rooting out fake accounts that pose the threat of being operated by nefarious foreign states.
And yet as a new
Reuters report confirms,
Facebook is now itself a top donor to the Atlantic Council, alongside Western governments, Gulf autocratic regimes, NATO, various branches of the US military, and a number of major defense contractors and corporations.
What's more is that the team of four total individuals running the Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFR Lab) is headed by a former National Security Council advisor for the last four years of the Obama administration, Graham Brookie, who is also its founder.
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