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🗓️ 8 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss shady Facebook "whistleblower" Frances Haugen and how her testimony only helps US spy agencies, justifying further government censorship while demonizing Washington's Official Enemies, from China to Iran, Myanmar to Ethiopia.
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0:00.0 | Hello, everyone. This is Moderate Rebels Live. I'm Ben Norton. I'm my co-host, Max Blumenthal. |
0:11.0 | Today we're going to talk about big tech, a variety of different issues. In the past few weeks, |
0:15.6 | we've seen several scandals related to Facebook, Google, and the publication of the Pandora papers, you might have seen that |
0:24.7 | that people lost their minds this past week because Facebook, which owns Instagram and WhatsApp, |
0:31.2 | went down for several hours. |
0:33.8 | There were also major problems with other platforms, including apparently with Gmail, there were some issues. |
0:41.6 | And now there's this so-called whistleblower from Facebook, which it's quite incredible to see the corporate media embracing a whistleblower. |
0:50.6 | It reminds me of when in the Trump administration, there were these so-called whistleblowers. |
0:55.0 | Well, actively, the most famous whistleblower, actual whistleblower on earth, Julian Assange, |
1:00.5 | is being tortured in a high-security prison alongside so-called terrorists. |
1:06.4 | So it's very suspicious for me whenever we see mainstream corporate media suddenly embrace a whistleblower. |
1:13.1 | It's also reminiscent of a scandal we're going to talk today about, which was, do you all remember Cambridge Analytica? |
1:20.8 | And there was supposedly this whistleblower from Cambridge Analytica. |
1:24.2 | Well, it turns out that much of what he actually said, Christopher Wiley, ended up |
1:29.0 | being totally debunked. And we'll talk about that today. We'll talk about the so-called |
1:34.0 | Facebook whistleblower. And then we're going to talk about the Pandora papers and how it seems |
1:39.3 | more and more that U.S. spy agencies, intelligence agencies, spooks and feds, that throughout the world for so |
1:47.6 | many years have carried out meddling operations and disinformation campaigns. |
1:53.0 | Increasingly, those campaigns are coming back home. |
1:56.0 | And more and more we see information war targeting domestic populations. |
2:00.5 | A major Canadian newspaper just acknowledged |
2:03.2 | that the military has been testing its propaganda campaigns, its information warfare techniques |
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