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Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

11/7/22 Alan MacLeod on the Former Israeli Spies in Top Social Media Jobs

Scott Horton Show - Just the Interviews

Scott Horton

News, Politics

4.8 • 989 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Alan MacLeod of Mintpress News is back to talk more about the alarming number of former spies working for the largest internet and social media companies. This time MacLeod dug up evidence of numerous former Israeli military intelligence officials with jobs at Google, Microsoft and Facebook. Scott and MacLeod reflect on how powerful these companies have grown and how much influence they have over what’s considered true. They also talk about how Russiagate was a huge turning point in the history of the internet.  Discussed on the show: “Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working In Top Jobs At Google, Facebook And Microsoft” (Mintpress News) Scott’s interview with MacLeod back in July Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News. After completing his PhD in 2017 he published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. Follow him on Twitter @AlanRMacLeod. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; and Thc Hemp Spot. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right to you guys on the line again I've got Alan McCloud from Mint Press

1:16.9

news and boy is this a hell of a thing as Mr Burns might say revealed the former Israeli spies working in top jobs at Google

1:26.9

Facebook and Microsoft. Oh man you know I already knew we had to deal with a bunch of so-called former FBI agents and CIA officers, but the Israelis too, huh?

1:40.0

Yeah, that's right. A lot of my work in the past year or so has been focused on exposing the links between the US national security state and big tech companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter. But in doing a little bit more research in this, it shows that it's not only just the alphabet soup of three letter agencies around Washington, D.C. like the FBI, the CIA, the NSA, who have got all sorts of workers

2:08.1

or former staff planted into these social media companies. But it's also allies like Israel as well.

2:15.2

And so what I found in a very sort of unscientific way of just going on employment databases

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was that there are literally hundreds of former Israeli spies intelligence officers

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from this notorious Unit 8200 that now have influential and important jobs in some of the biggest tech companies in America.

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It's funny because, you know, like if you just got here from government school where they teach you about

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the democracy and this and that.

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