{"id":177348,"date":"2019-10-14T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/14\/dont-worry-about-the-russians-messing-with-the-elections\/"},"modified":"2019-10-14T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T23:13:00","slug":"dont-worry-about-the-russians-messing-with-the-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2019\/10\/14\/dont-worry-about-the-russians-messing-with-the-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Worry About the Russians Messing with the Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"
Worry about Mark Zuckerberg messing with the elections<\/a>:<\/div>\n

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists, commentators and at least one Republican lawmaker in recent months to talk about issues like free speech and discuss partnerships. <\/p>\n

The dinners, which began in July, are part of Zuckerberg\u2019s broader effort to cultivate friends on the right amid outrage by President Donald Trump and his allies over alleged \u201cbias\u201d against conservatives at Facebook and other major social media companies. “I\u2019m under no illusions that he\u2019s a conservative but I think he does care about some of our concerns,\u201d said one person familiar with the gatherings, which multiple sources have confirmed. <\/p>\n

News of the outreach is likely to further fuel suspicions on the left that Zuckerberg is trying to appease the White House and stay out of Trump\u2019s crosshairs. The president threatened to sue<\/a> Facebook and Google in June and has in the past<\/a> pressured the Justice Department to take action<\/a> against his perceived foes. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussion in Silicon Valley is that Zuckerberg is very concerned about the Justice Department, under Bill Barr, bringing an enforcement action to break up the company,\u201d said one cybersecurity researcher and former government official based in Silicon Valley. \u201cSo the fear is that Zuckerberg is trying to appease the Trump administration by not cracking down on right-wing propaganda.\u201d <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/span>If you aren’t worried about Mark Zuckerberg rat-f%$#ing the elections to cover his own ass, and his own fortune, you are either terminally stupid, comatose, or a liar.<\/p>\n

This is, after all, the business that promulgated genocide and ethnic violence in Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kenya, South Sudan, etc. for a few bucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Worry about Mark Zuckerberg messing with the elections: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hosting informal talks and small, off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists, commentators and at least one Republican lawmaker in recent months to talk about issues like free speech and discuss partnerships. The dinners, which began in July, are part of Zuckerberg\u2019s broader …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[365,368,364,367,374,405],"class_list":["post-177348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-corruption","tag-evil","tag-internet","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}