Conflicts of interest with Facebook censorship, the Atlantic Council, Burisma & politics: perspective – The Sociable
While receiving nearly half a million dollars from Burisma, the Atlantic Council partnered with Facebook to monitor election misinformation.
Then, last week Facebook suppressed negative press about Burisma under the watch of Facebooks election integrity leader, who is also a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council who used to work for the former VP of the United States, Joe Biden.
Conflicts of interest abound between Facebooks censorship, the Atlantic Council, Burisma, and politics.
OAN journalist Jack Posobiec connected several of the dots succinctly in a Tweet on Thursday:
The Atlantic Council signed a deal to accept hundreds of thousands in funding from Burisma Holdings
Then the Atlantic Council partnered with Facebook to monitor election misinformation
Then Facebook censored the Burisma story
Pay attention
Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 22, 2020
Starting in 2016, Burisma would give the Atlantic Council $100,000 per year, Yahoo News reported in November, 2019.
The Atlantic Council told Yahoo News at the time that in addition to the $100,000 given annually by Burisma, the company also reimbursed speaker travel and event costs, which amounted to around [$50,000 to $70,000] per year,' which would put the total at around $450,000 as of the end of 2019.
On its own website the Atlantic Council lists Burisma on its list of contributors who doled out between $100,000 and $249,999 to the think tank in 2019 alone.
The Atlantic Council has a stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems Facebook
While that was going on, Facebook announced a new election partnership with the Atlantic Council,on May 17, 2018.
The social media giant said that it was using the Atlantic Councils Digital Research Unit Monitoring Missions during elections and other highly sensitive moments, and that experts from theirDigital Forensic Research Labwill work closely with our security, policy and product teams to get Facebook real-time insights and updates on emerging threats and disinformation campaigns from around the world.
Facebook said the partnership would allow it to focus on monitoring for misinformation and foreign interference and also working to help educate citizens as well as civil society.
So, Facebook partnered with the Atlantic Council to monitor for misinformation during elections while the think tank was being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by Ukrainian energy company Burisma a company that had the son of the former United States VP on its board.
Then last week, Facebook censored the New York Post article that was critical of Burisma, to say the very least.
And the person leading Facebooks election integrity efforts, Anna Makanju, is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council whoused to be the special policy adviser for Europe and Eurasia (including Ukraine)to the former vice president of the United States.
When the New York Post published its smoking gun story on October 14, Facebooks communications director Andy Stone announced that the social media giant was already suppressing the story evidently before the article was even reviewed by Facebooks third party fact checkers.
While I will intentionally not link to the New York Post, I want be clear that this story is eligible to be fact checked by Facebooks third-party fact checking partners. In the meantime, we are reducing its distribution on our platform.
Andy Stone (@andymstone) October 14, 2020
To recap:
Do you see a pattern of conflict of interests?
And there it is.
The leaders of the Atlantic Council shoulder-to-shoulder with the Ukrainian oligarchs of the Burisma Group
Including Hunters boss Vadym Pozharskyi, who we now know met with Joe Biden while he was VP
This is what we call receipts. pic.twitter.com/i6DiPMR1vt
Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) October 22, 2020
The list of contributors to the Atlantic Council is extensive, with most of the big tech companies (Twitter, Google, Facebook, Microsoft), foreign and domestic organizations, banks, telecoms, governments, the US Marine Corps, and even Henry Kissinger all giving money to the DC think tank.
Facebook praised the Atlantic Council at the time of their partnership, saying that the DC think has a stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems.
Facebooks partnership with the Atlantic Council to monitor election misinformation, the money the Atlantic Council received from Burisma, and the person in charge of election integrity having worked for Facebook, the Atlantic Council, and the former vice president, might be factors contributing to Facebooks suppression of the smoking gun story.
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