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Congrats to our Samuel Worcester Award recipients Peter Lofting & the late Steve Jobs, whose legacy lives on in his wife Laurene.
The collaboration between @Apple
& our Language Department developed fonts that allow every Apple device in the world to support Cherokee syllabary.
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Chief Junaluska of the Cherokees: A Story from the NOAC Coffeehouse
Church of the Brethren Newsline
September 8, 2015
Photo by Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford
A statue of Chief Junaluska stands outside the Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska Conference Center
This is one of the stories shared at the NOAC Coffeehouse, submitted by Willard âDulyâ Dulabaum:
Chief Junaluska was born around 1775 in North Carolina, near present day Dillard, Ga. A few days after his birth, he was given his original name when the cradle-board holding him fell over. He was called âGu-Ka-Las-Kiâ orâ Gulkalaskiâ in the Cherokee language, meaning âone who falls from a leaning positionâ (1). A couple more revisions to his name followed into adulthood. He married Ni-suh, and had three children, boys Jim-my and Sic-que-yuh, and daughter Na-lih. He became a leader of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians residing in and around western North Carolina. He would go on to fight alongside Andrew Jackson and save his life at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, a so-called âunsung hero of the greatest Indian battle in historyâ (2).
At one point, Chief Junaluska reportedly had sent word to Tecumseh that the Cherokee would not join an Indian confederacy against the whites. So when the Creek Indians in Alabama fought with the British in the War of 1812, the Cherokee raised an army to oppose them. Chief Junaluska personally recruited over 100 men for the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and commanded 500 (2). Further, he assumed strategic leadership to help secure the decisive and famous victory near the end of the war. It was there that he tripped a prisoner of war who was lunging at Jackson with a knife.
When the Battle of Horseshoe Bend was over, Andrew Jackson was reported to have told Chief Junaluska: âAs long as the sun shines and the grass grows, there shall be friendship between us, and the feet of the Cherokee shall be toward the eastâ (1, 2). But in a few years, Jackson was in the White House and set about to remove all the Cherokee to new homes in the West, in what would be called the Great Removal. At that point, Chief Junaluska was said to have second thoughts about having saved Jacksonâs life.
During the infamous âTrail of Tearsâ in 1838, Chief Junaluska and others of the Cherokee Nation were incarcerated for a time, and then were among over 5,000 who were led over 800 miles in bands of 1,000 or more to land in Oklahoma, which was considered much less desirable. Chief Junaluska broke away once, leading a group of 50, but was captured. However, after a short time in what is now Oklahoma, he returned to the mountains of his birth by 1842, walking all the way! In 1847 the state legislature of North Carolina conferred upon him the right of citizenship and granted him a tract of land at what is now Robinsville. He died there in 1858 and was buried with his second wife (1) on a hill above the town where the Daughters of the American Revolution erected a monument to his memory.
A bronze plaque bolted to a great hunk of native stone replaced the earlier, traditional Cherokee pile of stones. It reads, in part: âHere lies the bodies of the Cherokee Chief, Junaluska, and Nic-ie, his wife. Together with his warriors he saved the life of General Jackson at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, and for his bravery and faithfulness North Carolina made him a citizen and gave him land in Graham County.â
He has been memorialized by Lake Junaluska, Junaluska Creek, Junaluska Gap, Junaluska Ridge, the Junaluska Salamander, and Mount Junaluska (now known as North Eaglenest Mountain). And Brethren who attend the National Older Adult Conference gather around his statue before and after each session at the Lake Junaluska Assembly, where he appears regularly in group photographs and may even find a new future in âselfies.â
Sources: (1) Wikipedia, and (2) Georgia Tribe of Eastern Cherokee website.
https://www.brethren.org/news/2015/chief-junaluska-of-the-cherokees/
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Cherokee Nation continues to support schools & students across the reservation!
Last week, CN donated thousands of masks made in our PPE manufacturing facilities
as well as hand sanitizer to several school districts in Adair, Cherokee, Delaware,
Sequoyah & Tulsa counties.
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#ICYMI: Cherokee Nation Health Services deputy executive director Brian Hail joined other health experts & tribal leaders on Native America Calling today to talk about the Delta variant & #COVID19 vaccine efforts in Indian Country. Give it a listen here:
Native America Calling - Your National Electronic Talking Circle
A call-in radio show about contemporary Native American life
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Thursday, September 9, 2021 â The Delta variant, COVID-19 booster vaccines and reinstating safety measures
September 9, 2021 By Art Hughes Leave a Comment
Host: Alyssa YĂĄx Ădi YĂĄdi London
In a state with a vaccination rate of just 44 percent, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma reports a tribal employee rate of more than 70 percent. More than 90 percent of eligible tribal members in Virginia have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. In states with low vaccination rates and high COVID resurgence numbers, many tribes are far outpacing their non-tribal neighbors and adhering to safety guidelines. Weâll hear from health experts and tribal leaders about the messages that are connecting with tribal citizens.
Guests:
Dr. Mary Owen (Tlingit) â director of the Center of American Indian and Minority Health at the University of Minnesota and the current president of the Association of American Indian Physicians
Capt. Matthew Clark â Indian Health Service COVID-19 Vaccine Task Force Safety and Monitoring Team lead
Brian Hail (citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma) â deputy executive director for Cherokee Nation Health Services
Dean Seneca (Seneca) â CEO and founder of Seneca Scientific Solutions+ and an adjunct professor at the University of Buffalo teaching on Indigenous health disparities
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New Evidence of FBI Involvement in the 1/6 Protest -- With Darren Beattie, Who Broke the Story
https://www.bitchute.com/video/Lmm9hvNlVIQR/
First published at 06:54 UTC on September 30th, 2021.
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When former Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie reported in June that there was evidence suggesting FBI foreknowledge
of the January 6 protest at the Capitol, if not active involvement, the corporate media mocked him and others who took it seriously
for being deranged conspiracy theories.
But now, the New York Times just reported that the FBI had at least one informant at the Capitol on that day.
On the latest SYSTEM UPDATE, Glenn Greenwald speaks to Beattie about what do know now about involvement by the FBI
and other law enforcement agencies.
They also discuss whether concept of "right" and "left" are changing radically.
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https://rumble.com/c/GGreenwald 102K subscribers
https://rumble.com/vn50ax-new-evidence-of-fbi-involvement-in-the-16-protest-with-darren-beattie-who-b.html
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New Proof Emerges About the Hunter Biden Laptop: a Definitive Account of the CIA/Media Fraud
https://www.bitchute.com/video/orRDjdzzKsQw/
First published at 10:39 UTC on September 22nd, 2021.
Glenn Greenwald
New evidence on Monday proved what has long been clear:
that documents about Joe Biden from the Hunter Biden laptop were authentic.
Big Tech censorship in the weeks before the 2020 election of these genuine documents
is one of the most severe assaults on free speech and a free election in years.
That the corporate media was their key ally by endorsing and spreading a CIA lie
-- that these documents were "Russian disinformation"
-- makes this episode even more grave.
#YouTube #Vaccine #WorldNews
YouTube cracks down on anti-vaccine videos, bans major accounts | Latest World English news | WION
YouTube announced a total ban Wednesday on vaccine misinformation and the termination
of the accounts of several prominent anti-vaccine influencers
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>total ban Wednesday on vaccine misinformation and the termination
>of the accounts of several prominent anti-vaccine influencers
Youtube Announces Censorship Of ALL Content That Opposes ANY Vaccine, Several Channels Already NUKED
https://www.bitchute.com/video/R2iIlkNwdKQ/ { private vid, embed not allowed }
First published at 18:27 UTC on September 29th, 2021.
https://www.timcast.com/
https://rumble.com/vn4653-youtube-announces-censorship-of-all-content-that-opposes-any-vaccine-severa.html
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The Chinese business tycoon revealing the secrets of Beijing's elite
| 60 Minutes Australia
https://youtu.be/bOtVMFPjNUA
872,300 views Sep 26, 2021
It's no scoop to tell you the Chinese regime is thin-skinned.
Anyone criticising Beijing does so at their own peril and can expect immediate
â and often, heavy-handed
â payback.
And it's not just foreigners who face the consequences.
Desmond Shum is a Chinese tycoon who used to be feted at the highest levels of the Communist Party.
The businessman could do no wrong until four years ago when he and his equally prominent ex-wife,
inexplicably tumbled out of favour.
Now Desmond is a pariah of the state,
so he's decided to fight back by revealing the many secrets of China's elite leaders.
Revenge of the Tycoon ( 2021 )
https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2021/episode-32
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Candace Owens BRUTALLY Mocks Vaccine Agenda Of New York Gov Kathy Hochul On Tucker [VIDEO]
You know Candace brought the heat...
By Zach Heilman September 30, 2021
Image Credit: Gab TV screenshot
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) spoke out the other day to shame the unvaccinated while appearing before Brooklynâs Christian Cultural Center.
Candace Owens came on Tucker Carlson Tonight and had a few words to say about her COVID Cult-like speech.
WATCH:
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Tucker Carlson:
Candles in the image of Tony Fauci. How ridiculous is the resurrection, would you say?
Candace Owens:
Oh, wait, youâre telling me you werenât converted by Kathy. You werenât converted by Governor Kathy. When you were watching her speak, I was converted. Iâm an apostle now, and let me tell you, everything sheâs saying is true. Itâs very clear, Tucker, in the Bible. For those of you who read, what did Joe Biden call it, Pasalms? Yeah, the book of Pasalms, that our dedicated Catholic president. It tells you right there what that what Jesus Christ wanted was for us to get vaccinated. He also, by the way, wanted medical segregation, open borders, Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election. I know it sounds like itâs just exactly what the democrats want. They pretend that itâs what God wants because thatâs exactly what it is. And itâs so foolish, by the way, weâre talking about the Democratic Party. For her to invoke God, it is just such a joke, right? This is the party at their DNC convention, you will recall. They stripped the words under God from the Pledge of Allegiance because they said that that was too triggering, right? This is that party. This is the party that spent the last four years mocking Vice President Pence because of his Christian faith. This is the party that refers to people in the south as Bible Belt Christians as a pejorative. You know, so itâs just itâs so foolish they think that the American people are going to fall for this obvious scam. But you are correct. I have said this has moved from a public health crisis to a mental health crisis and obsession and a cult with COVID-19.
Tucker Carlson:
And of course, itâs narcissism. Pure narcissism. Itâs just interesting, though. This is the party that lectured us for decades about science, believe the science, and here you have this low IQ shaman telling you that you have to get the shot because God wants you to. That sounds a lot like superstition, No?
Candace Owens:
It does sound superstition, but also if you want to be superstitious, can you explain to me Tucker, can somebody explain to me how right now in New York, weâre being told that just the unvaccinated are in the hospital, but also, they have to let go of 70,000 unvaccinated healthcare employees because apparently the unvaccinated are a risk to the unvaccinated. I mean, I canât figure any of this stuff out, but youâre not supposed to understand a cult. You just do what they say.
Tucker Carlson:
Thatâs exactly right. And somehow, you just if I could, I probably shouldnât even say this. But the last Governor of New York was horrible. Heâs just a bad person, I would say, But you knew they were gonna get someone worse. I mean, Cuomo for all his many manifold faults. You cannot imagine him telling you the God demands you get the Vax. I think he would choke on those words. But maybe he would say it.
Candace Owens:
Honestly, I hate to say this, but I found that sermon to be even creepier than Governor Cuomo was. Itâs incredibly creepy to invoke God and to pretend that youâve had some awakening and that Christ is going through you and telling you to get the vaccine. Yeah, Christ wants you to make Pfizer a few more billion dollars, and then you can be converted.
Tucker Carlson:
Exactly. And when they fire his brother from CNN, heâll be replaced by somebody worse. You watch. I see a theme here. Candace Owens, great to see you. Thank you.
Candace Owens: Thank you.
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An army veteran takes it upon himself to rid his property of an alligator, using only a wheelie bin and brute strength.
Read more here Crocodile
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Man removes gator from driveway in wheelie bin
6:40 AM ¡ Sep 30, 2021¡Twitter Media Studio
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Florida man uses wheelie bin to capture alligator in his front yard
The Florida man says he leapt into action after his daughter told him an alligator had hissed at her.
Thursday 30 September 2021 07:22, UK
CIA Plot to Assassinate Julian Assange
The David Knight Show
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Pompeo and the CIA were so angry about Vault 7 that it wanted to kill.
If the USA secretly plotted to assassinate Assange, what does that tell us about extradition, a âfairâ trial,
and the character of Pompeo and Trump?
https://tv.gab.com/channel/starcrest/view/cia-plot-to-assassinate-julian-assange-61525ffb534ad4b6e8e87030
https://gab.com/StarCrest
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>>97002, >>97009 New FONTS for Apple to support Cherokee syllabary.
syllabary sÄlâ˛É-bÄrâłÄ
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A catalogue of the syllables of a language; a list or set of syllables,
or of characters having a syllabic value.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabary
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/syllabary
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>>97024 @CherokeeNation <>Real MEDICAL NEWS is not reaching them on the COVID_Fight!
Military Leaders Saw Pandemic As Unique Opportunity To Test Propaganda On Canadians: Report
by Tyler Durden
Tuesday, Sep 28, 2021 - 08:45 PM
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Authored by David Puliese via NationalPost.com,
https://nationalpost.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pandemic-as-unique-opportunity-to-test-propaganda-techniques-on-canadians-forces-report-says/
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A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghan war...
Canadian military leaders saw the pandemic as a unique opportunity to test out propaganda techniques on an unsuspecting public, a newly released Canadian Forces report concludes.
The federal government never asked for the so-called information operations campaign, nor did cabinet authorize the initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic
by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, then headed by Lt.-Gen. Mike Rouleau.
But military commanders believed they didnât need to get approval from higher authorities to develop and proceed with their plan, retired Maj.-Gen. Daniel Gosselin,
who was brought in to investigate the scheme, concluded in his report.
The propaganda plan was developed and put in place in April 2020 even though the Canadian Forces had already acknowledged that
âinformation operations and targeting policies and doctrines are aimed at adversaries and have a limited application in a domestic concept.â
A copy of the Dec. 2, 2020, Gosselin investigation, as well as other related documents, was obtained by this newspaper using the Access to Information law.
The plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command, also known as CJOC, relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war.
The campaign called for âshapingâ and âexploitingâ information.
CJOC claimed the information operations scheme was needed to head off civil disobedience by Canadians during the coronavirus pandemic and to bolster government messages about the pandemic.
A separate initiative, not linked to the CJOC plan, but overseen by Canadian Forces intelligence officers, culled information from public social media accounts in Ontario.
Data was also compiled on peaceful Black Lives Matter gatherings and BLM leaders.
Senior military officers claimed that information was needed to ensure the success of Operation Laser,
the Canadian Forces mission to help out in long-term care homes hit by COVID-19 and to aid in the distribution of vaccines in some northern communities.
BLM organizers have questioned why military officials gathered information on their initiative, pointing out they followed pandemic rules and did not hold any gatherings outside LTC homes.
Then chief of the defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance shut down the CJOC propaganda initiative after a number of his advisers questioned the legality and ethics behind the plan.
Vance then brought in Gosselin to examine how CJOC was able to develop and launch the propaganda operation without approval.
Gosselinâs investigation discovered the plan wasnât simply the idea of âpassionateâ military propaganda specialists, but support for the use of such information operations was
âclearly a mindset that permeated the thinking at many levels of CJOC.â
Those in the command saw the pandemic as a âunique opportunityâ to test out such techniques on Canadians.
The views put forth by Rear Adm. Brian Santarpia, then CJOCâs chief of staff, summed up the commandâs attitude, Gosselin noted in his report.
âThis is really a learning opportunity for all of us and a chance to start getting information operations into our (CAF-DND) routine,â the rear admiral stated.
The command saw the militaryâs pandemic response âas an opportunity to monitor and collect public information in order to enhance awareness for better command decision making,â
Gosselin determined.
Gosselin also pointed out CJOC staff had a âpalpable dismissive attitudeâ toward the advice and concerns raised by other military leaders.
The directive for the propaganda plan was issued by CJOC on April 8, 2020, but it took until May 2 of that year before Vanceâs order to shut it down took effect.
Gosselin recommended a comprehensive review of Canadian Forces information operations policies and directives, particularly those that may impact any activities for domestic missions.
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>Authored by David Puliese via NationalPost.com
There is an ongoing debate inside national defence headquarters in Ottawa about the use of information operations techniques.
Some public affairs officers, intelligence specialists and senior planners want to expand the scope of such methods in Canada
to allow them to better control and shape government information that the public receives.
Others inside headquarters worry that such operations could lead to abuses, including having military staff intentionally mislead the Canadian public
or taking measures to target opposition MPs or those who criticize government or military policy.
Military propaganda training and initiatives within Canada over the last year have proved to be controversial.
The Canadian Forces had to launch an investigation after a September 2020 incident when military information operations staff
forged a letter from the Nova Scotia government warning about wolves on the loose in a particular region of the province.
The letter was inadvertently distributed to residents, prompting panicked calls to Nova Scotia officials who were unaware the military was behind the deception.
The investigation determined the reservists conducting the operation lacked formal training and policies governing the use of propaganda techniques were not well understood by the soldiers.
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>>Authored by David Puliese via NationalPost.com
Yet another review centred on the Canadian Forces public affairs branch and its activities.
Last year, the branch launched a controversial plan that would have allowed military public affairs officers to use propaganda to change attitudes and behaviours
of Canadians as well as to collect and analyze information from public social media accounts.
The plan would have seen staff move from traditional government methods of communicating with the public to a more aggressive strategy
of using information warfare and influence tactics on Canadians.
Included among those tactics was the use of friendly defence analysts and retired generals to push military PR messages and to criticize
on social media those who raised questions about military spending and accountability.
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The Canadian Forces also spent more than $1 million to train public affairs officers on behaviour modification techniques of the same sort used by the parent firm of Cambridge Analytica,
the company implicated in a 2016 data-mining scandal to help Donald Trumpâs U.S. presidential election campaign.
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The initiative to change military public affairs strategy was abruptly shut down in November after this newspaper revealed details about the plan.
A military investigation determined what the Canadian Forces public affairs leadership was doing was
âincompatible with Government of Canada Communications Policy (and the) mission and principles of Public Affairs.â
None of the public affairs leadership was disciplined for their actions.
Several months ago, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and DND deputy minister Jody Thomas acknowledged in an internal document that the various propaganda initiatives had gotten out of control. âErrors conducted during domestic operations and training, and sometimes insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution,â noted a June 9, 2021, message signed by Eyre and Thomas. âThis included the conduct of IO (Information Operations) on a domestic operation without explicit CDS/DM direction or authority to do so, as well as the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at monitoring the activities of Canadians.â
Several months ago, Acting Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Wayne Eyre and DND deputy minister Jody Thomas acknowledged in an internal document that the various propaganda initiatives had gotten out of control. âErrors conducted during domestic operations and training, and sometimes insular mindsets at various echelons, have eroded public confidence in the institution,â noted a June 9, 2021, message signed by Eyre and Thomas. âThis included the conduct of IO (Information Operations) on a domestic operation without explicit CDS/DM direction or authority to do so, as well as the unsanctioned production of reports that appeared to be aimed at monitoring the activities of Canadians.â
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Has Mark Zuckerbergâs total control of Facebook turned into a liability?
John Naughton Sat 25 Sep 2021 11.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 Sep 2021 13.54 EDT
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Congressional anger at damaging new revelations and a legal action resulting from the Cambridge Analytica affair have put the social media giantâs founder under renewed pressure
Senator Josh Hawley during the recent congressional hearing on social media companies. Photograph: Getty Images
For devotees of C-Span, the public-service media network that covers the US Congress, Tuesday was an interesting day. The Senate judiciary subcommittee on competition policy, antitrust and consumer rights held a hearing on the social media companies, which for most purposes meant Google and Facebook. It was intriguing in several ways. For one thing, the senators were exercised, sceptical and sometimes angered by the evasive cant served up by the corporate executives whom they had summoned. More importantly, the perceptible anger was bipartisan (a rare thing in the current Congress).
And lastly, some of the most aggressive questioning of the hapless Facebook representative came from Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri,
who is believed to be PayPal co-founder Peter Thielâs preferred candidate for president in 2024.
And Thiel is a member of Facebookâs board of directors!
This congressional ire was triggered by a terrific scoop in the Wall Street Journal, which had got its hands on a trove of internal Facebook documents. These exposed the yawning chasm between Facebookâs public versions of its stance on various contentious issues and its internal discussions of them. Specifically, the trove showed that: at least 5.8 million high-profile users had been allowed to avoid the companyâs normal enforcement processes; research by Instagram (owned by Facebook) had revealed the risk the platform poses to teenagersâ mental health (âWe make body image issues worse for one in three teen girlsâ was one striking phrase); the company knew that its algorithms rewarded outrage; and it had been slow to stop drug cartels and human traffickers from using its platform.
These revelations were so stark that they even moved Facebookâs preposterous oversight board to publish a blog post on the matter. âIn light of recent developments,â it bleated, âwe are looking into the degree to which Facebook has been fully forthcoming in its responses in relation to cross-check, including the practice of whitelisting. The board has reached out to Facebook to request they provide further clarity about the information previously shared with us. We expect to receive a briefing from Facebook in the coming daysâŚâ Note the words ârequestâ, âexpectâ and âfurther clarityâ, which provide a neat illustration of the mendicant status of this ludicrous, virtue-signalling outfit.
Facebook is one of the most toxic corporations on the planet. Its toxicity has two roots. The first is its business model: intrusive and comprehensive surveillance of its users in order to compile profiles that enable advertisers to target messages at them. This business model is powered by the machine-learning algorithms that construct those profiles and determine what appears in the news feeds of the companyâs 2.85 billion users. In large measure, it is the output of these algorithms that constitutes the focus of congressional anger and inquiry.
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>Has Mark Zuckerbergâs total control of Facebook turned into a liability?
>John Naughton Sat 25 Sep 2021 11.00 EDT Last modified on Wed 29 Sep 2021 13.54 EDT
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The other source of the companyâs toxicity is its governance. Essentially, Facebook is a dictatorship entirely controlled by its founder, Mark Zuckerberg. This total control is ensured by a two-tier share ownership structure that gives him untrammelled power. The companyâs regular regulatory filings describe it thus: âMark Zuckerberg, our founder, chairman and CEO, is able to exercise voting rights with respect to a majority of the voting power of our outstanding capital stock and therefore has the ability to control the outcome of matters submitted to our stockholders for approval, including the election of directors and any merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets. This concentrated control could delay, defer, or prevent a change of control, merger, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of our assets that our other stockholders support, or conversely this concentrated control could result in the consummation of such a transaction that our other stockholders do not support.â
Of course Facebook does have a board of directors, but they have as much agency as the ethics committee of an arms manufacturer. They are all appointed by Zuckerberg and serve at his pleasure and are thus, ultimately, his creatures. The significance of this subservience has been under-appreciated to date, but has just been dramatically highlighted by a lawsuit, filed in Delaware by the State of Rhode Islandâs pension fund, which names all the members of the board as defendants.
The background is that in 2020 the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that Facebook had violated a âconsent decreeâ about protecting usersâ privacy that it had entered into in 2012 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The envisaged fine â $5bn â was huge and the commission held Zuckerberg as the guilty party, on account of his total control of the company. But the Facebook board of directors resisted, arguing that it was a company responsibility, not Zuckerbergâs, and accepted the fine as a corporate liability, thus saving the boss $5bn. As stockholders, the pension fund is not amused by this piece of chicanery and the casual appropriation of shareholdersâ funds; hopefully, one the day the court will not be either. Stay tuned.
This article was amended on 29 September 2021 because an earlier version said that a lawsuit filed by the State of Rhode Islandâs pension fund named all the members of Facebookâs board as âplaintiffsâ. In fact they were named as defendants.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/sep/25/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-senate-hawley-thiel-cambridge-analytica
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>Has Mark Zuckerbergâs total control of Facebook turned into a liability?
Facebook âoverpaid in data settlement to avoid naming Zuckerbergâ
Dan Milmo Global technology editor Fri 24 Sep 2021 11.12 EDT Last modified on Fri 24 Sep 2021 11.39 EDT
Lawsuit alleges settlement in Cambridge Analytica case driven by desire to protect founder Mark Zuckerberg
If Mark Zuckerberg had been personally named he would have suffered âextensive reputational harmâ, the suit claims.
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Facebook paid $4.9bn more than necessary to the US Federal Trade Commission in a settlement
<>over the Cambridge Analytica scandal in order to protect Mark Zuckerberg, a lawsuit has claimed.
The lawsuit alleges that the size of the $5bn settlement was driven by a desire to protect Facebookâs founder and chief executive from being named in the FTC complaint.
Facebook was fined by the FTC in 2019 for âdeceivingâ users about its ability to keep personal information private, after a year-long investigation into the Cambridge Analytica data breach, where a UK analysis firm harvested millions of Facebook profiles of US voters.
âZuckerberg, [chief operating officer Sheryl] Sandberg, and other Facebook directors agreed to authorise a multibillion settlement with the FTC as an express quid pro quo to protect Zuckerberg from being named in the FTCâs complaint, made subject to personal liability, or even required to sit for a deposition,â said the shareholder lawsuit filed in Delaware last month but made public this week.
The suit quotes a commissioner on the FTC, Rohit Chopra, who said the government âessentially traded getting more money, so that an individual did not have to submit to sworn testimony and I just think thatâs fundamentally wrongâ.
The lawsuit claims that the settlement was approximately $4.9bn more than Facebookâs âmaximum exposure under the applicable statuteâ.
If Zuckerberg had been personally named in the complaint he could have faced substantial fines for future violations and would have suffered âextensive reputational harmâ, the suit claims. It adds: âThe risk would have been highly material to Zuckerberg, who is extraordinarily sensitive about his public image and has been reported to have political ambitions.â
The suit also accuses Facebook of a lax approach to corporate governance, particularly regarding its founder. âThe board has never provided a serious check on Zuckerbergâs unfettered authority. Instead, it has enabled him, defended him, and paid billions of dollars from Facebookâs corporate coffers to make his problems go away.â
In a post on his own Facebook page after the fine was announced, Zuckerberg said the company had transformed the way it handled usersâ information.
âWeâve agreed to pay a historic fine, but even more important, weâre going to make some major structural changes to how we build products and run this company,â he wrote.
Facebook declined to comment on the new lawsuit but referred the Guardian to a recent tweet from Andy Stone, a spokesperson who wrote: âPortraying this as some kind of new allegation is wrong. The suggestion that we overpaid or underpaid on this settlement isnât new and is something we will address during the litigation.â
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/24/facebook-overpaid-in-data-settlement-to-avoid-naming-zuckerberg
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Bharat Sharma Updated on Sep 25, 2021, 14:42 IST
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