The campaign is backed by FWD.us, an investor group that was created by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help pass the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty. If it had passed, the bill would have shifted much wealth from wage earners to investors by trimming wages and nudging up housing prices.
Facebook Begs Users to Enable iPhone Tracking to Keep Services ‘Free of Charge’
In an attempt to combat Apple’s new App Tracking Transparency privacy feature, Facebook is begging users to continue to allow the Masters of the Universe to track their app usage warning it is the only way to keep services “free of charge.”
MacRumors reports that Facebook and Instagram have begun telling users they must enable tracking in iOS 14.5 if they want to help keep Facebook and Instagram “free of charge.”
Apple recently released its new App Tracking Transparency privacy feature as part of the latest iOS 14.5 update for iPhones and iPads. The new update will now require apps to show users a prompt asking for their consent to track them across other apps and websites.
A large portion of Facebook’s business model relies on selling advertisements across its apps and services. Ad clients can use Facebook’s advertising tools to target specific customers or demographics. However, with the release of iOS 14.5, if users choose to opt-out of tracking, Facebook will have access to less data that could be used to deliver personalized ads to users.
The iOS update was released to the public last week and since its launch, more apps are beginning to display the ATT prompt to users. It was noted by Ashkan Soltani that Facebook had updated its prompt to include a notice stating “Help keep Facebook free of charge.”
And it begins. @Facebook / @Instagram explore additional scare tactics to combat @Apple iOS14 #ATT privacy changes.
“Help keep Facebook free of charge” pic.twitter.com/mOB9WJpz9A
— ashkan soltani (@ashk4n) April 30, 2021
In a recently updated blog post, Facebook calls the prompt an “educational screen” that will “help people make an informed decision about how their information is used.” Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, will also show a similar prompt to users.
The Facebook blog post reads:
As Apple has said that providing additional context is allowed, we will show an educational screen before presenting Apple’s prompt to help people make an informed decision about how their information is used. It provides more details about how we use data for personalized ads, as well as the ways we limit the use of activity other apps and websites send us if people don’t turn on this device setting. Our screen also lets people know that they’re seeing Apple’s prompt due to Apple’s requirements for iOS 14.5.
Facebook plans to roll out the prompt to more users in the coming days and weeks.
Lucas Nolan is a reporter for Breitbart News covering issues of free speech and online censorship. Follow him on Twitter @LucasNolan or contact via secure email at the address lucasnolan@protonmail.com
Land Grab: Mark Zuckerberg Almost Doubles His Hawaii Real Estate Holdings
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have nearly doubled the size of their real estate empire in Hawaii, buying another 595.4 acres on Kauai from Waioli Corporation, a nonprofit established by a local family with roots going back to the era of the Hawaiian kingdom.
Zuckerberg and Chan are now the owners of 1,300 acres of land in Hawaii after closing on a $53 million purchase of three parcels of nearly 600 acres on March 19, according to a report by Pacific Business News.
The purchase, which includes land fronting Larsen’s Beach, does not include the beach access road, which is owned by the county, and remains open to the public.
The Facebook CEO bought the land through an LLC registered in Delaware whose member is San Francisco-based Square Seven Management LLC. Square Seven is managed by wealth manager Iconiq Capital LLC, of which Zuckerberg is a client.
The report added that Zuckerberg began amassing the Kauai estate in 2014 when he bought the 357-acre Kahuaina Plantation from California investment firm Falko Partners. After that, the Facebook CEO bought another 384 acres from the late Hawaii auto dealer James Pflueger, and then added more in 2018 for a total of nearly 750 acres.
Zuckerberg’s entities also acquired titles to dozens of smaller lots within the larger parcels that were known as kuleana lands, the report adds.
The couple has reportedly been building residential and agricultural structures on the properties, which are being used for ranching.
Building permits — which total to more than $83 million — show that the largest permit was the 2018 application for a 57,059-square-foot single-family home, which includes a connected accessory building or dwelling with a total of eight bedrooms, nine full baths, and 16 half baths.
“The decision provides Waioli with the financial ability to be able to continue our critical conservation and historical work and ensure that Kauai’s cultural history continues to be shared in the community for years to come,” said Waioli Corp. president Sam Pratt.
Waioli is a nonprofit organization established by members of Kauai’s kamaaina Wilcox family, who are descended from missionary schoolteachers Abner and Lucy Wilcox, from the Kingdom of Hawaii era.
Pratt added that Waioli chose Zuckerberg and Chan after seeing their “dedication over the years to land conservation, protecting native species and working to preserve the natural beauty of Kauai.”
“We know that this land will remain in their trusted hands and that Mark and Priscilla will act as responsible stewards of Lepeuli today and in the future,” he said.
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Before Biden Speech, Amnesty Groups Promise $50 Million Campaign
A coalition of left-wing groups is promising to spend $50 million to push an amnesty through the Senate, via a 60-vote majority or a 51-vote reconciliation maneuver, according to the Associated Press.
“The effort includes a $30 million commitment from a group of advocacy organizations calling themselves We Are Home, in addition to a $20 million commitment from a handful of other immigration groups, including the Mark Zuckerberg-backed FWD.us,” said the AP report.
The report was posted shortly before President Joe Biden will give a speech in Congress urging passage of amnesty bills. The Washington Post reported April 28:
Biden will call on Congress to pass his immigration proposal, which includes a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants and funding for security upgrades at the border and ports of entry, according to an administration official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the address ahead of its public release. The move marks an attempt by Biden to show his seriousness on immigration policy at a time when he is under attack from Republicans over the migrant surge at the border and from Democrats over his handling of how many refugees should be allowed into the country.
The Biden amnesty plan would dramatically increase the inflow of immigrants and effectively remove any limits on the inflow of foreign college graduates who want white-collar jobs. The delivery of these workers, consumers, and renters would shift a massive amount of wealth from working Americans and towards coastal investors and states.
The AP report added:
The coalition of groups, which includes Community Change Action, the Service Employees International Union and the United Farm Workers, among others, is also planning nearly 60 events on May 1 for May Day. And it’s launching a paid field effort aimed at defending Democrats in difficult seats and supporting pro-immigrant “champions” in the House and the Senate to make sure they maintain strong support for a pathway to citizenship.
Praeli said that the groups are investing $2.5 million to $5 million over the next week on their field effort in key states and that part of the focus will be pressuring Democrats to embrace the use of reconciliation — an obscure parliamentary tool that allows lawmakers to pass some policy with 51 votes in the 100-member Senate rather than the 60 votes typically needed — to pass a pathway to citizenship.
“Our people delivered at the ballot box, and now it’s their time to use every tool available to them,” said Lorella Praeli, the president of Community Change Action, which is working with the We Are Home umbrella campaign and with many small, progressive-funded groups. “Reconciliation is one of those tools,” she said.
The campaign is backed by FWD.us, an investor group that was created by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to help pass the 2013 “Gang of Eight” amnesty. If it had passed, the bill would have shifted much wealth from wage earners to investors by trimming wages and nudging up housing prices.
Investors and business groups are spending far more than $50 million to push the 2021 amnesty. For example, the push for amnesty by progressives — including Zuckerberg — is working alongside a pro-amnesty coalition led by the Koch network and by former President George Bush.
The groups are also funding an ad campaign to portray GOP legislators as hypocritical and uncaring. One video ad echoes FWD.us policy of downplaying jobs in favor of spotlighting children at the border and is likely aimed at women voters:
Republicans were silent when children were abused and died in immigration custody under the Trump administration. Instead of working on solutions, they’re joyriding on boats. Republicans don’t care about children at the border, they never have, and they never will. President Biden has a plan to fix the mess Republicans left at the border. So while Republicans are fighting for attention, Joe Biden will keep fighting to get things done.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58wMWdEAG44
https://youtu.be/58wMWdEAG44?t=1
For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.
This opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, intra-Democratic, rational, and recognizes the solidarity that Americans owe to each other.
The voter opposition to elite-backed economic migration coexists with support for legal immigrants and some sympathy for illegal migrants. But only a minority of Americans — mostly Leftists — embrace the many skewed polls and articles pushing the 1950’s corporate “Nation of Immigrants” claim.
The deep public opposition to labor migration is built on the widespread recognition that migration moves money away from most Americans’ pocketbooks and families.
It moves money from employees to employers, from families to investors, from young to old, from children to their parents, from homebuyers to real estate investors, from red states to blue states, and from the central states to the coastal states such as New York.
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