A Former Venezuelan Government Operative Works for Facebook
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One of the key narratives from the Democrats and corporate media after the 2016 election was that “Russian interference,” in particular through the seeding of misinformation and propaganda on Facebook, had been a critical factor in President Trump’s victory. But what about Facebook’s own foreign employees, who have far more influence on the company than any outside force? The media has paid scant attention to them. In an interview for #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal the Election, a Facebook source told me that many foreign workers at Facebook see an opportunity to influence U.S. elections. QUOTE FROM FACEBOOK INSIDER: In the integrity kickoff meeting shortly after the election, employees fantasized about how they could improve elections here and abroad. Many noncitizen tech workers were upset that they could not vote in the U.S. election when they saw the results. Some saw Facebook’s election efforts as a gateway to [influence] the vote without needing a vote. Facebook is fighting foreign influence with its own foreign influence. Had the corporate media paid more attention to this problem, they might have discovered that Martin Sanchez, who spent seven years working as an official for the government of Venezuela, and also co-founded a website to promote the ideals of its socialist former leader, Hugo Chavez, is currently employed at the company. As a consul-general of Venezuela in Chicago and San Francisco, Sanchez spent years working to advance the ideals of “Boliviarian socialism,” an ideology that has been wholly at odds with the United States for decades. Now Sanchez is working at Facebook, a company that has the power to influence elections all around the world. After working at Microsoft-owned LinkedIn for over three years, Sanchez took a job at Facebook in 2018, which he has held for over two years. His LinkedIn profile describes his role as follows: Leading UI [User Interface] at the Feed and Stories Content Classification team.
I work with Data Scientists to build cutting edge Machine Learning and visualization tools to improve Facebook’s content classification. In other words, Sanchez — a Venezuelan socialist — is training the algorithms that help automatically “classify” your content when you post it to Facebook.
Details on Sanchez’s history with the international communist movement and the Venezuelan regime was provided to Breitbart News by Ariel Sheen, a doctoral student at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin, Colombia, whose research into Venezuela’s impact on American democracy and elections is funded by the Social Science Research Council. “I began investigating Martin Sanchez following research into the Venezuelan government’s plan to radicalize the Western Hemisphere and the detection of two patterns: Venezuelan state enterprises employing members of militant anarchist, communist and secessionist organizations – such as the Party for Socialism and Liberation – and Venezuelan ambassadors being present at strategic conferences held by these groups,” said Sheen. “Sanchez’s position at Facebook is worrisome considering his avowal of Trotskyist politics, indicating a “by any means necessary” approach to achieving revolutionary political change,” he continued. “Considering his prior role in Venezuela’s irregular warfare efforts at undermining America and Facebook’s commitment to transparency on issues related to political influence, it’s alarming that Facebook would not be forthcoming about his activities there.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/27/a-former-venezuelan-government-operative-is-working-at-facebook/