Facebook,
the world’s top social media platform, is reportedly seeking to
hire hundreds of employees with US national security clearance
licenses.
Purportedly
with the aim of weeding out “fake news” and “foreign meddling”
in elections.
If that
plan, reported by Bloomberg, sounds sinister, that’s because it is.
For what it means is that people who share the same worldview as US
intelligence agencies, the agencies who formulate classified
information, will have a direct bearing on what millions of consumers
on Facebook are permitted to access.
It’s
as close to outright US government censorship on the internet as one
can dare to imagine, and this on a nominally independent global
communication network. Your fun-loving place “where friends meet.”
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