Big Tech and Big Law dominate Biden transition teams, tempering progressive hopes
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"Along with Obama (LAWYER) Biden (LAWYER), Pelosi and Schumer (LAWYER) are responsible for incalculable damage done to this country over the eight years of that administration." PATRICIA McCARTHY
Add the Banksters’ rent boy Eric Holder (LAWYER) and the up and coming Swamp Empress Kamala Harris (LAWYER, SO IS HER SHADY HUSBAND)…but keep counting….(LAWYER) Brian Deese, Obama-Biden’s loot-for-Wall Street guy.
Hauser also didn’t like the prevalence of Big Law talent on the Department of Justice team, which signaled to him that the Biden administration could go soft on corporate malefactors.
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BIDEN’S WALL STREET CABINET: EXPECT BOTTOMLESS BAILOUTS NEXT!
Biden administration will be committed to austerity and back-to-work campaign aimed at forcing workers to pay for the corporate bailout no matter how many lives are needlessly lost to the pandemic.
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The selection of Deese and Adeyemo—who both previously served in the Obama administration—exemplifies the revolving door between Wall Street and Washington, DC, which operates constantly, regardless of which party controls the White House.
It is a further signal to the financial oligarchy that a Biden administration will dispense with its rhetoric about raising taxes on the wealthy and continue funneling trillions into the stock markets. “By picking folks with deep ties to large asset managers,” Tyler Gellasch, executive director of investor trade group Healthy Markets Association, told the Journal, “the administration can help assuage financial executives’ concerns. It sends a clear signal to the industry to breathe easier: They can plan for stability without likely facing massive new regulatory or tax risks.”
Cybersecurity Expert Brian Krebs Explains What Is Known About Catastrophic Facebook Outage
Cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs says Facebook, as well as its Instagram and WhatsApp platforms, are all suffering from ongoing global outages due to someone from inside Facebook updating the company’s Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) records, which took away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its online properties. According to a New York Times reporter, employees cannot even open doors with their security cards due to the catastrophic outage.
While it remains unclear why this happened, Krebs says how it happened is clear: On Monday morning, something inside Facebook caused the company to rescind key digital records that tell computers and other devices how to find the destinations online.
MENLO PARK, CA – APRIL 04: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during an event at Facebook headquarters on April 4, 2013 in Menlo Park, California. Zuckerberg announced a new product for Android called Facebook Home. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Doug Madory, director of internet analysis at the network monitoring company Kentik, said someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the company’s BGP records, which resulted in the company’s system taking away the map telling the world’s computers how to find its various online properties.
Now, when someone types Facebook.com into a web browser, the browser has no idea where to find the website, and therefore displays an error page.
In addition to preventing its billions of users from utilizing the social media platform, the Facebook outage has also prohibited the company’s employees from communicating with each another using their internal tools, as Facebook’s email and tools are all managed in house, via the same domains that are now offline.
Moreover, company employees are also stranded outside of the building, according to New York Times reporter Sheera Frenkel, who said employees’ badges, which allow them access to their offices, are not working.
The mass Facebook outage comes shortly after CBS’ 60 Minutes aired an interview with Frances Haugen, a Facebook whistleblower who recently provided many of the documents that made up the publication’s Facebook Files series.
Breitbart News has reported extensively on the “Facebook Files” series from the Wall Street Journal which made a number of damning claims about the tech giant based on a series of internal company documents.
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It remains unclear whether the changes from within Facebook were made maliciously or by accident, Krebs says.
Madory said someone at Facebook could have just screwed up, noting, “In the past year or so, we’ve seen a lot of these big outages where they had some sort of update to their global network configuration that went awry.”
“We obviously can’t rule out someone hacking them, but they also could have done this to themselves,” Madory added.
Meanwhile, several different domain registration companies have listed Facebook.com as up for sale, although it is unlikely the domain will be actually be sold.
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Facebook Fail: Massive Outage Hits All of Mark Zuckerberg’s Platforms Including Instagram, WhatsApp
Facebook’s entire network is down as well as social media applications owned by the company including Instagram and WhatsApp.
Ironically, Facebook had to resort to Twitter in order to notify users of issues with their products. “We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products,” Facebook tweeted. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.”
Instagram’s communications account also notified users that the company was having issues via Twitter. “Instagram and friends are having a little bit of a hard time right now, and you may be having issues using them.” Instagram Comms tweeted. “Bear with us, we’re on it! #instagramdown.” The message was retweeted from Instagram’s primary account.
“We’re aware that some people are experiencing issues with WhatsApp at the moment,” WhatsApp tweeted. “We’re working to get things back to normal and will send an update here as soon as possible. Thanks for your patience!”
The far-reaching Facebook failure comes on the heels of the Wall Street Journal’s public identification of a Facebook whistleblower who played a critical role in the Journal’s “Facebook Files” series.
The Journal identified the whistleblower as Frances Haugen, a project manager for the company who was hired to help combat election interference. Haugen provided the Journal with internal documents from Facebook that were essential to the outlet’s series.
Breitbart News will continue to report on this developing story.
Report: Instagram Continues to Promote Eating Disorders and Diet Pills to Teens
According to a recent report from VICE News, despite recent backlash over the effect of Instagram on the mental health of teen users, the Facebook-owned platform continues to promote eating disorders and diet pills to its users.
VICE News reports that as Facebook faces increased scrutiny following the release of a number of internal documents showing that the company is aware its products can have a negative effect on the mental health of younger users, new research shows that the company is continuing to promote products and content that could be damaging to the mental health of teens.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives for the 8th annual Breakthrough Prize awards ceremony at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California on November 3, 2019. (Photo by JOSH EDELSON / AFP)
In a report titled “Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show,” the WSJ claimed that Facebook was aware that its photo-sharing app Instagram can have a negative effect on the body image of young women.
The WSJ wrote:
“Thirty-two percent of teen girls said that when they felt bad about their bodies, Instagram made them feel worse,” the researchers said in a March 2020 slide presentation posted to Facebook’s internal message board, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “Comparisons on Instagram can change how young women view and describe themselves.”
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“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls,” said one slide from 2019, summarizing research about teen girls who experience the issues.
“Teens blame Instagram for increases in the rate of anxiety and depression,” said another slide. “This reaction was unprompted and consistent across all groups.”
Now new research by the activist group SumOfUs appears to show that Instagram still displays posts promoting eating disorders, diet pills, and skin whitening products to teenagers. Instagram has banned some hashtags relating to eating disorders but researchers found that users can get around these restrictions by using creative hashtags that have racked up over tens of millions of posts.
Researchers examined 240 sample posts linked to eating disorder hashtags and discovered that over half of them promoted eating disorders while 90 percent of them promoted unproven appetite suppressants. The report authors wrote: “The posts demonstrate how Instagram enables and encourages users to engage in negative talk, self-harm, and extreme dieting.”
“This research confirms that, despite Facebook’s promises to curb such content, Instagram remains flooded with toxic content that poses an immediate danger to the lives of its users, and particularly to teenagers and young people,” the report’s authors wrote.
“The platform tracks and targets some of the most vulnerable in society—young teens and people of color—with content that heavily promotes unrealistic and unattainable Western beauty standards, and offers false solutions like plastic surgery, skin whitening, and extreme dieting to trigger body image issues and lower self-esteem.”
Read more at VICE News here.
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
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