US oligarchs unite: Facebook announces new election propaganda partnership with Atlantic Council war lobby to fight fake news at election time. Atlantic Council will spot geographic areas requiring "education" during election season-Facebook Newsroom, 5/17/18...(Atlantic Council is a massive war lobby which exists to extract cash from US taxpayers by inciting Endless Unwinnable Wars especially against Russia)

"Two weeks after the Atlantic Council explained to us that we need to be propagandized for our own good, Facebook announces a new partnership with the Atlantic Council to make sure we're getting the right kinds of information."..."Facebook used to be a social media tool, albeit briefly. Now it is a #DeepState #DeepState Deep State#DeepState tool, allowing it to spy on the people and brainwash them into submission."..."When you look at who bankrolls the Atlantic Council (the military industrial complex), it becomes abundantly clear why this is so sinister." Atlantic Council Donors.
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May 17, 2018, "Announcing New Election Partnership with the Atlantic Council," Facebook Newsroom, by Katie Harbath, Global Politics and Government Outreach Director

"Facebook is investing heavily to prevent our service from being abused during elections. We’re doubling the number of people who work on safety and security and using technology like artificial intelligence to more effectively block fake accounts – the source of many bad ads and a lot of misinformation. In addition, we’re more actively working with outside experts, governments and other companies because we know that we can’t solve these challenges on our own. For example, last month we announced an independent commission to help fund and organize research into the impact of social media on society — starting with elections.

Today, we’re excited to launch a new partnership with the Atlantic Council, which has a stellar reputation looking at innovative solutions to hard problems. Experts from their Digital Forensic Research Lab will 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. This will help increase the number of “eyes and ears” we have working to spot potential abuse on our service — enabling us to more effectively identify gaps in our systems, preempt obstacles, and ensure that Facebook plays a positive role during elections all around the world.

Facebook will also use the Atlantic Council’s Digital Research Unit Monitoring Missions during elections and other highly sensitive moments. This will allow us to focus on a particular geographic area — monitoring for misinformation and foreign interference and also working to help educate citizens as well as civil society.

Finally, we know that tackling these problems effectively also requires the right policies and regulatory structures so that governments and companies can help prevent abuse while also ensuring people have a voice during elections. The Atlantic Council’s network of leaders is uniquely situated to help all of us think through the challenges we will face in the near and long-term.

This effort is part of an broader initiative to help provide credible and independent research about the role of social media in elections, as well as democracy more generally. We look forward to working together to protect free and fair elections across the world."

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Atlantic Council 2016 donors include US taxpayers via NATO, the US State Dept., US Air Force, US Army, US Marine Corps, US Navy....Honorable mention in $10,000-$24,999 group: Law firm Perkins Coie. They hired Fusion GPS which assembled and marketed the Russia-Gate Anti-Trump dossier.

"$1,000,000 and above 

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Abu Dhabi National Oil Company ◊ Airbus Group SE Carnegie Corporation of New York Melanie Chen Cheniere Energy, Inc. Chevron Crescent Petroleum ◊ Dentons Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom Frontera Resources Anis Haggar George Lund Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation MNG Group of Companies NATO OCP Foundation QUALCOMM Incorporated Royal Norwegian Ministry of Defence Saab North America, Inc. SCM Holdings SICPA HOLDING SA Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc. Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Zurich Insurance Group Ltd

$100,000 - $249,000

Anonymous Robert J. Abernethy Thomas L. Blair Asfari Foundation Baker McKenzie Bayat Group The Blackstone Group L.P. Chopivsky Family Foundation Google Inc. C. Boyden Gray Ahmed Hakki Halk Bankası § HSBC Holdings plc Inter-American Development Bank International Petroleum Investment Corporation ◊ Lockheed Martin Corporation Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Foundation, Inc.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan Alexander V. Mirtchev Morganti Group, Inc. Mubadala Development Company ◊ Nevsun Resources Ltd. Ploughshares Fund Raytheon Company Robert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc. Rockefeller Brothers Fund Southern Company Squire Patton Boggs Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the United States The Techint Group Ukrainian World Congress United States Department of State United Technologies Corporation ‡ Victor Pinchuk Foundation

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Microsoft Corporation Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg Moody’s Corporation Virginia A. Mulberger Oliver Wyman Group Open Society Initiative for Europe ‡ Perkins Coie LLP David H. Petraeus Powszechny Zaklad Ubezpieczen na Zycie S.A. ‡ PricewaterhouseCoopers Robert Bosch Stiftung Rockefeller and Co., Inc. The Ronald and Jo Carole Lauder Foundation Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc. ‡ Stephen Shapiro Shearman and Sterling LLP Alan Solomont Southwest Holdings Ltd Stroock and Stroock and Lavan LLP Symantec Corporation Tauron Group ‡ Harlan Ullman Unitas Risk Ltd US Water Partnership United Minds for Progress Rodolphe Vallee The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Jaime Zimmerman

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Christian Lawless Radu G. Magdin Wendy W. Makins Prakash H. Mehta Judith Miller P. Stephen Minor Mitsui and Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. Movado Group, Inc. Hilda Ochoa-Brillembourg Daniel Poneman The Related Companies, L.P. Royal DSM N.V. Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association Security First Corp. Theodore Sedgwick James Seng T and R Chemicals Inc Toyota Motor North America, Inc. Clyde C. Tuggle Unilever US-Angola Chamber of Commerce Charles F. Wald Dov S. Zakheim

$1,000 - $4,999

Timothy D. Adams Beverly Allen Jawhar al-Sourchi American Israel Public Affairs Committee American University Devon Archer The Asan Institute for Policy Studies Elizabeth F. Bagley Esfandyar Batmanghelidj Peter Behr Margaret Bennett Dennis Blair Blue Star Strategies, LLC Harold Brown R. Nicholas Burns Kenneth Cooper Peter Cunniffe Ivo H. Daalder Carl de Stefanis Kirk Elliott Frank Finelli Andrew Frank Gabriel Galvan Global Media Partners Patrick Gross Richard Grove Carter Ham Steven Hefter Frederic Hof Robert D. Hormats William J. Hybl International Republican Institute Kosmos Energy Ltd

John Kreider Geraldine Kunstadter Philip Lader Richard L. Lawson Linden Blue Jane Lute Lynx Investment Advisory, Llc Mattos Filho, Veiga Filho, Marrey Jr. E Quiroga Advogados Eric D.K. Melby Franklin C. Miller James Miller Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea Fay Moghtader Michael J. Morell Joseph S. Nye Sean O’Keefe Norman Pearlstine Joshua Peterson J. Peter Pham Thomas R. Pickering Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Thomas J. Ridge Walter B. Slocombe Paula Stern John Tanner ThyssenKrupp AG ‡ Frances M. Townsend Scott van Buskirk Melanne Verveer Renate von Boyens Damon Wilson Jeffrey Wright Mary C. Yates

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Florence Akinyemi Nohemi Lira Albarran Nadia Alkam Michael Allen Michael A. Almond Anna Andersson Stuart Archer Robert Beecroft Jerald Belofsky Eric Bibby James Bindenagel Neil Brown David Buffaloe Andrew Buher Keith Bulter Lawrence Carew Irwin Chapman Jon Chicky Albert Cho Urrutia Christian Angela Cockerham Frances Cook Morgan David James De Francia Rob de Wijk Christopher J. Dodd Aaron Dowd Richard Downie Ana Dukic Arnold C. Dupuy Timothy Fairbank Virginia Campo Garcia Glenn Gerstell Steven Glickman Mark Goff Faruk Baturalp Günay Behrooz Hadavi Natasha Hadijski Tom Henteleff John Herbst Adam Hitchcock Jeffrey Hoffman Robert Homans, Jr. Shieh Hsieh Thomas Huf Adwoa Jones Walter Juraszek Peter Kalotai Zalmay M. Khalilzad Jonathan Kirschner Carrie Kolasky Dávid Korányi Maxim Kryvoruchko-Eristavi Maciej Kuziemski Kamila Lepkowska Liis Lipre-Järma Gerhard Mally

Jason Marczak Foad Mardukhi Daniel L. Martinez Margarita Mathiopoulos Samuel M. McDonald Jelena Milic Sean Misko Dan Morrison James Morrison Manuel Muniz Terence Murphy Eugene L. Nardelli Ann Nicocelli-Bailey Christian Paasch Walter Parchomenko Mira Patel Raul Perea-Henze Yannis Perlepes Charles Alan Peyser Simone Pflaum Philip Pilevsky Alan Platt Jelena Putre Christina Rocca Jason Rockett Bianca-Martina Rohner Sandia National Laboratories Mayecor Sar Lily Sarafan Peter Schechter Mark Schwendler Anand Shah Adam Louis Shrier Jonathan Silverthorne Mark Simakovsky Pamela Smith Daniel Speckhard Karen St. John Steven Steiner Andris Strazds Frank Tapparo Samuel Taylor William Theuer Alex Tiersky Julien Touati Marten van Heuven Julie Varghese Samantha Vinograd Don Wallace Krzysztof Walski Leigh Warner E. Allan Wendt J. Marc Wheat Neal Wolin John Woodworth Samuel Zega Jonathan Zittrai

This list reflects cash contributions recorded January 1, 2016 – December 31, 2016. We regret any inaccuracies, errors, or omissions."


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