Saad Aljabri says Mohammed bin Salman boasted he could kill former ruler King Abdullah by Stephanie Kirchgaessner (in Washington) @skirchy Mon 25 Oct 2021 The Guardian (UK)

Wednesday 27 October 2021

This post was researched and edited and published by the Research & Reporting Bureau (RRB Unit) of The Garnet Troy Rossi Society. For TRANSPARENCY PURPOSES, the Bureau is an intelligence unit staffed by 8 paid researchers who have access to sources and information not available to most people. We do hope you will enjoy reading this informative article. ■ ■ ■ Facebook's days are numbered. Do you have a REPLACEMENT platform? Marcus Fuckerbogus' days in the sun are coming to a shuddering end. This right-wing zionist-mafia don has ex-Mossad terrorists & murderers acting as his spies and security detail following him everywhere because Fuckerburg fears for his life. GOOD! The more he is scared, the better WE THE PEOPLE should feel. He is the only CEO in the world who requires a small army to protect him and which costs Facebook millions of dollars annually in security expenses. An article on this will be posted soon. ■ ■ ■

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/26/why-the-writing-is-on-the-wall-for-facebook Why the writing is on the wall for Facebook by Arwa Mahdawi Tuesday 26 Oct 2021 The Guardian (UK) Uh-oh, it looks as if Mark Zuckerberg has caught on to the media’s dastardly plot to destroy Facebook! As you have probably noticed, the technology behemoth has been in the news nonstop recently, as media outlets plough through thousands of pages of internal documents leaked by the Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.

=> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/24/frances-haugen-i-never-wanted-to-be-a-whistleblower-but-lives-were-in-danger

Frances Haugen: ‘I never wanted to be a whistleblower. But lives were in danger’

by Dan Milmo, Global technology editor The Observer (UK) Sun 24 Oct 2021

⋆ The woman whose revelations have rocked Facebook tells how spending time with her mother, a priest, motivated her to speak out

=> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/04/how-friend-lost-to-misinformation-drove-facebook-whistleblower-frances-haugen

How losing a friend to misinformation drove Facebook whistleblower

by Dan Milmo Global technology editor The Guardian (UK) Mon 4 Oct 2021

⋆ Frances Haugen was frustrated that Facebook was not publicly acknowledging the harm its platforms could cause ⋆ Facebook is putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Key excerpts from whistleblower’s revelations => https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/oct/03/former-facebook-employee-frances-haugen-identifies-herself-as-whistleblower

Facebook putting profit before public good, says whistleblower Frances Haugen

by Kari Paul and Dan Milmo Mon 4 Oct 2021 The Guardian (UK)

⋆ Internal papers show firm is lying about making progress against hate, violence and misinformation, ex-employee says

=> https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/cambridge-analytica-files ■ Most people might think journalists reporting revelations about one of the world’s most powerful companies was par for the course. Zuckerberg, however, seems to think it’s some sort of vast conspiracy. “My view is that what we’re seeing is a coordinated effort to selectively use leaked documents to paint a false picture of our company,” Zuckerberg said during an earnings call on Monday (yesterday, 25 October, 2021). => https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/facebook-papers-zuckerberg-lashes-out-media-1235096706/ Sounds a little Trumpy, doesn’t it? Admit no wrong; instead, cast yourself as the victim of the malicious mainstream media. ■ That is not where the Donald Trump comparisons end; the two men are strikingly similar. Both seem to prioritise profits over people. => https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-facebook-files-11631713039 The Facebook Files A Wall Street Journal investigation

⋆ Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents, including research reports, online employee discussions and drafts of presentations to senior management. ⋆ Time and again, the documents show, Facebook’s researchers have identified the platform’s ill effects. Time and again, despite congressional hearings, its own pledges and numerous media exposés, the company didn’t fix them. The documents offer perhaps the clearest picture thus far of how broadly Facebook’s problems are known inside the company, up to the chief executive himself.

■ Both extend different rules to celebrities and the powerful than to everyone else.

=> https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58678332 Facebook Files: 5 things leaked documents reveal 24 September, 2021 The BBC (UK) (1) Celebrities were treated differently by Facebook

=> https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-files-xcheck-zuckerberg-elite-rules-11631541353

Facebook Says Its Rules Apply to All. Company Documents Reveal a Secret Elite That’s Exempt.

by Jeff Horwitz The Wall Street Journal Sept. 13, 2021

⋆ A program known as XCheck has given millions of celebrities, politicians, and other high-profile users special treatment, a privilege many abuse

(2) Its response to employee concerns about human trafficking was often 'weak'

=> https://youtu.be/2IdII_n28e0 : Silicon Valley's Online Slave Market - Full documentary - BBC News Arabic | BBC Africa Eye => https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct1nhh : A turning point for Facebook? (3) Facebook faces a huge lawsuit from shareholders. (4) Has Facebook been promoting positive stories about itself?

=> https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/21/technology/zuckerberg-facebook-project-amplify.html

No More Apologies: Inside Facebook’s Push to Defend Its Image

by Ryan Mac and Sheera Frenkel The New York Times Sept. 21, 2021

⋆ Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, has signed off on an effort to show users pro-Facebook stories and to distance himself from scandals. ⋆ Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, signed off last month on a new initiative code-named Project Amplify. ⋆ The effort, which was hatched at an internal meeting in January, had a specific purpose: to use Facebook’s News Feed, the site’s most important digital real estate, to show people positive stories about the social network. ⋆ The idea was that pushing pro-Facebook news items — some of them written by the company — would improve its image in the eyes of its users, three people with knowledge of the effort said. ⋆ But the move was sensitive because Facebook had not previously positioned the News Feed as a place where it burnished its own reputation. ⋆ Several executives at the meeting were shocked by the proposal, one attendee said. ⋆ Project Amplify punctuated a series of decisions that Facebook has made this year to aggressively reshape its image. Since that January meeting, the company has begun a multipronged effort to change its narrative by distancing Mr. Zuckerberg from scandals, reducing outsiders’ access to internal data, burying a potentially negative report about its content and increasing its own advertising to showcase its brand. (5) Facebook knew Instagram was 'toxic' for teens

=> https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739

Facebook Knows Instagram Is Toxic for Teen Girls, Company Documents Show

by Georgia Wells, Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman The Wall Street Journal Sept. 14, 2021

⋆ Its own in-depth research shows a significant teen mental-health issue that Facebook plays down in public => https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/29/facebook-hearing-latest-children-impact

Congress grills Facebook exec on Instagram’s harmful effect on children

by Kari Paul and Dan Milmo The Guardian Thu 30 Sep 2021

⋆ Senators highlighted research revealed in the Wall Street Journal showing how the photo app could affect girls’ body image and self-esteem => https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/29/facebook-hearing-latest-children-impact

Facebook disputes its own research showing harmful effects of Instagram on teens’ mental health

by Dan Milmo and Kari Paul The Guardian Thu 30 Sep 2021

⋆ US Congress to question firm’s head of safety after Wall Street Journal reports revealed research on the photo app => https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-instagram-kids-tweens-attract-11632849667

Facebook’s Effort to Attract Preteens Goes Beyond Instagram Kids, Documents Show

by By Georgia Wells and Jeff Horwitz The Wall Street Journal Sept. 28, 2021

⋆ It has investigated how to engage young users in response to competition from Snapchat, TikTok; ‘Exploring playdates as a growth lever’

■ Both seem to have an unusual relationship with facts. And both seem to reckon that the US is the only place in the world that matters. Internal documents appear to show that only 13% of Facebook’s misinformation-moderation staff hours were devoted to non-US countries last year, even though their populations comprise more than 90% of Facebook’s users.

=> https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/facebook-failed-the-world/620479/

HOW FACEBOOK FAILS 90 PERCENT OF ITS USERS by Ellen Cushing The Atlantic OCTOBER 25, 2021

⋆ Internal documents show the company routinely placing public-relations, profit, and regulatory concerns over user welfare. And if you think it’s bad here, look beyond the U.S.

■ If it sounds as if I am conflating Facebook the company with Zuckerberg the man, by the way, it’s because I am. Zuckerberg, it’s clear, exerts an unhealthy amount of control over Facebook. “Right now, Mark [Zuckerberg] is unaccountable,” Haugen told the Observer. “He has all the control. He has no oversight.” In short, he is the sort of autocrat you imagine Trump wishes he could have been. Before he lost the 2020 election and legal troubles started to mount, Trump was known as “Teflon Don”. He faced scandal after scandal, but nothing seemed to stick to him. Facebook has had a similarly charmed run. Over the past few years, the company has been mired in endless negative PR. It has been accused of facilitating genocide in Myanmar. => https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/15/technology/myanmar-facebook-genocide.html And turning a blind eye to human trafficking in the Middle East. It has been accused of mass surveillance. It has been accused of ignoring Instagram’s impact on the mental health of teenage girls. I could go on: there is seemingly almost nothing good to say about Facebook. And yet, that negative coverage hasn’t hurt the company’s profits. Its shares are up 25% since January 2021. On Monday, Facebook reported more than $9bn in profits during its most recent financial quarter, along with a 6% increase in daily active users. It has exceeded investor expectations. (Selling user information to advertisers has its advantages. Those IDIOTS who keep posting personal info and photos are getting their Facebook pages drilled with ads relating to their personal details and likes, cities they live in, and other info they willingly fill in, not knowing that Facecrooks' algorithms are HARVESTING all that info to hit the user with TARGETTED ADS. The LESS you post about your personal details, the less ads you will see. Simple, ain't it, to understand?) Does all this mean that Facebook is untouchable? Impervious to negative headlines? Able to do whatever it likes with zero consequences? Not entirely. Facebook’s PR problems have apparently made it leak top talent. “Facebook is extremely thinly staffed … and this is because there are a lot of technologists that look at what Facebook has done, and their unwillingness to accept responsibility, and people just aren’t willing to work there,” Haugen said in a briefing last week. If Facebook can’t attract the most talented technologists, then it’s going to have a very hard time growing. Another existential threat revealed by the Facebook files is the extent to which the company is losing traction with young people. Its user base is ageing and the kids that Facebook needs to engage if it wants to remain relevant think the platform is “boring, misleading and negative”. What’s more, internal documents don’t seem particularly optimistic that the company can turn this around easily. Facebook may be performing well financially for the moment, but its continued success is far from a given. The writing is on the wall. Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist .

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‘Chairman of everything’: Xi Jinping prepares to rewrite Chinese Communist Party history

by JAMES GRIFFITHS The Globe & Mail ASIA CORRESPONDENT HONG KONG PUBLISHED OCTOBER 20, 2021 ■ Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders will meet in Beijing next month for a closed-door summit expected to underscore Mr. Xi’s firm grip on power as the country faces economic uncertainty and growing tensions with the West. At the meeting of the Communist Party’s Central Committee, officials will discuss a “key resolution on the major achievements and historical experience of the party’s 100 years of endeavours,” state media reported this week. Such historical resolutions have only been adopted twice before. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping both used them to consolidate power and remake the party as they envisioned it. Mr. Xi is expected to defy precedent and secure a third term as leader during the party congress next year. He has already done away with the collective leadership and consensus-based policy making pursued by his predecessor, Hu Jintao. And he has largely sidelined Premier Li Keqiang and taken on so many roles that he has been dubbed “the chairman of everything.” Since reaching the pinnacle of Chinese politics in 2013, Mr. Xi has also used an anti-corruption campaign to purge rivals and shore up popular support while increasing the party’s role in both the economy and everyday life, after decades of retreat under previous leaders. The last time the party adopted a resolution on history was in 1981, when Deng Xiaoping used it to renounce many of the missteps of the Mao era, particularly the Cultural Revolution, which “led to domestic turmoil and brought catastrophe to the party, the state and the whole people.” The resolution could also set the stage for more sweeping changes in Mr. Xi’s third term. In recent months, he has spoken of the need to advance “common prosperity,” addressing the rampant inequality that has emerged alongside China’s economic boom. The push has coincided with a major crackdown on the tech sector, which has created many of the country’s billionaires; increased pressure on companies to donate more to charities; and efforts to reform the real estate market, which have been expedited after the near-collapse of developer Evergrande. “Currently, the world is facing a prominent issue of income inequality,” Mr. Xi said in a recent speech published by the party journal Qiushi last week. “In some countries, the wealth gap and middle-class collapse have aggravated social divisions, political polarization and populism, giving a profound lesson to the world. China must make resolute efforts to prevent polarization, advance common prosperity and realize social harmony and stability.” But while Mr. Xi envisions a more equal distribution of wealth, his is no socialist transformation. He has warned against the “trap of ‘welfarism’ that encourages laziness” and attacked the “lying flat” movement, which sees young people abandoning the striving, consumerist goals of modern China and pursuing a more low-key, less-stressful lifestyle. "Capital markets will no longer be paradise for get-rich-quick capitalists, cultural markets will no longer be heaven for sissy-boy stars, and news and public opinion will no longer be in the position of worshipping Western culture,” he wrote. “It is a return to the revolutionary spirit, a return to heroism, a return to courage and righteousness.” This is all occurring in “direct response to an increasingly fraught and complex international landscape,” he continued, “and a direct response to the savage and violent attacks that the U.S. has already begun to launch against China.” Patricia Thornton, a professor of Chinese politics at the University of Oxford : Repeated references to “bullying” and “enslavement” of China by foreign powers “underscore the persistence of a threatening international environment China has historically faced, and it is likely that the resolution will emphasize that such threats continue in the present, necessitating a vigorous, robust and pro-active defence of China’s national interests moving forward,” she said. ■ READ MORE HERE :

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-chinas-xi-jinping-prepares-to-rewrite-communist-party-history-with/ .

The zionist-mafia crooks at Facebook have decided to change the name of the company, as Google did in 2015 rebranding the whole group to Alphabet Inc, in which Google Inc is just one of many companies.

This development comes in the wake of many governments around the world taking action against Facecrooks for

(1) it's despised and despicable opportunistic business practices such as selling user information to advertisers to make money,

(2) disregarding privacy concerns of its users in the process,

(3) for spying on its own users, probably at the behest of the three spy agencies that actually control Facebook thru backdoor channels : Mossad , CIA , MI5, the Triad of Terror,

(4) for spreading fake news,

(5) for allowing right-wing rats like Donald Dumpster and other undesirables to keep posting and spreading their hate racism lies deceits propaganda and bullshit. These reasons have led to hundreds of millions of Facebook users to leave FB and go to other platforms.

https://digg.com/2021/facebook-name-change-rebrand-memes

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