’The Creepy Line’ Documentary Explores How Google and Facebook Can Undermine Democracy

The new documentary The Creepy Line explores how the Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley can utilize their platforms to suppress speech and undermine democracy — a topic of vital importance for elections in 2018, 2020, and beyond.

The Creepy Line is a new feature-length documentary that explores how Silicon Valley tech companies can use their vast influence to crack down on speech and undermine democracy. The film focuses specifically on Facebook and Google, and analyzes exactly what these companies do once they have unlimited access to user’s data. The film uses first-hand accounts, scientific experiments, and detailed analysis to explore the risks of allowing these two tech giants free reign over the personal information of millions of people. The title of the documentary is lifted directly from the words of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, when during an interview in 2010 he explained Google’s code of conduct: “The Google policy on a lot of things is to get right up to the creepy line and not cross it.”

The new feature-length documentary is directed by M.A. Taylor and features interviews with prominent figures such as Dr. Jordan Peterson, Dr. Robert Epstein of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology and Peter Schweizer, President of the Government Accountability Institute and author of Clinton Cash. Breitbart News has reported extensively on the work of Dr. Robert Epstein and his analysis of large tech firms. One of Epstein’s reports has claimed that by returning negative search suggestions when searching the name of a political candidate, search engines like Google can shift the opinions of undecided voters by up to 43.4 percent. Speaking at a Breitbart News Town Hall, Epstein noted that Google could shift election results without anyone even realizing: “We estimated that if these companies were all working together and supporting the same candidate, and really pulling out all the stops and using all the methods they have to manipulate, they could shift 10 percent of the voting population of America, with no-one knowing that they had done this, and without leaving a paper trail for authorities to track,” he stated. “10 percent could be shifted — that’s a lot of votes, with no-one knowing that they’ve done this. Peter Schweizer, who is also featured in The Creepy Line also stated during a Breitbart News Town Hall that tech firms have a huge influence over the direction of national debate: “They have enormous powers, powers that I would argue that company has ever had in human history over the flow of information,” he said. “They are not just Internet companies. They are media companies, they are opinion companies, and they steer the national debate in ways that are unimaginable.”

In recent months, Breitbart News has received a number of exclusive looks inside Google and their blatant displays of political partisanship. Breitbart News Senior Tech Reporter Allum Bokhari revealed a leaked video from inside a Google TGIF meeting recorded after the election of President Trump in 2016 in which Google staff and executives express their dismay and horror at the election of Trump.

https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/22/the-creepy-line-documentary-highlights-the-influence-of-google-and-facebook/

Wife Fears Missing Interpol Chief Dead: ‘Everybody in China Is at Risk’

Grace Meng, wife of former Interpol President Meng Hongwei, began issuing a series of interviews last week, and most recently spoke to the Associated Press this weekend, urging the Chinese government to provide more information on her husband’s whereabouts and guarantee both of their safeties since Beijing admitted to arrested him early this month.

Meng disappeared on September 29 while on a trip to China from France, where he and his wife live and where Interpol’s headquarters are located. China’s Public Security Ministry announced on October 7 that authorities had arrested Meng, who spent decades in Chinese law enforcement before moving to Interpol, on charges of accepting bribes. Beijing has not confirmed to the outside world that Meng is alive or safe, however, and he has not been seen since the day he was reported missing. Grace Meng told the Associated Press Saturday that Chinese authorities claimed to have a letter Meng had written her as proof of his wellbeing while detained. “They said my husband wrote a letter to me. They said they can only give it to me alone,” she noted. The officials insisted, however, that she meet with them in private to receive it directly. Fearing for her safety, Meng says she has demanded to meet with an attorney and journalists present, or that the Chinese government hand over the letter to French police to give to her. She is reportedly awaiting a response.

She used her conversation with the AP to argue that, if the Chinese government can so swiftly apprehend the head of an international institution like Interpol, “everybody in China is at risk. Everyone should be concerned that something like this could happen to them.” “The term anti-corruption in China has become a synonym for crimes that are unjustifiable,” she continued. In a conversation with the BBC last week, she said she would begin speaking out publicly against the Chinese government in the hopes that public awareness could prevent them from arbitrarily arresting more people like they did her husband. “I don’t want any other wives and children like me,” she told the broadcast outlet. Meng also spoke to CNN, reiterating her message from the BBC interview: “I do these things … for all of China’s children. For all of China’s wives.” She added in her BBC interview that, in addition to official communications from the Chinese government, she had begun receiving threatening phone calls, including one that told her not to speak, only to listen that “two teams [are] target[ing] you in France.” “I think it is political persecution. I’m not sure he’s alive. They are cruel. They are dirty. This thing shows it means they can do anything, I can’t imagine,” she lamented.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry, addressing early reports that Beijing had begun threatening Meng into silence, accused her of “slandering” Xi Jinping, the head of the Chinese Communist Party. “If Meng Hongwei’s wife is a Chinese citizen, it’s natural for Chinese diplomatic missions to contact her. Every government does so,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang added. Grace Meng’s attorney, speaking to French journalists, said that she may seek political asylum in France to do away with her Chinese citizenship, which she believes may make her more vulnerable to kidnapping or threats. When Meng Hongwei first disappeared, Grace Meng told reporters, supplying images of the communications, that the last she heard from her husband was a message stating “wait for my call” followed by a knife emoji, which she interpreted as a sign he was in danger. There is no public confirmation of any existing communication from Meng since the emoji text was sent from his phone.

Interpol did reveal following China’s announcement of his arrest that the organization had received his resignation “with immediate effect, naming Senior Vice-President Kim Jong Yang as his acting replacement.” The statement did not specify via what medium that resignation came or if conclusive evidence existed that Meng was alive and safe in Chinese police custody. Kim, who succeeded Meng, called his disappearance “regrettable,” adding, “we still don’t have sufficient information about what’s happening [with Meng] or whether it has anything to do with Chinese domestic politics.”

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2018/10/22/wife-fears-missing-interpol-chief-dead-everybody-china-risk/

Keith Ellison Again Misleads On Louis Farrakhan Ties

Rep. Keith Ellison portrayed his ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as limited to the early 1990s. Ellison’s ties to Farrakhan actually continued for years after Ellison entered Congress in 2006. Ellison’s misleading Farrakhan answer came during Sunday night’s Minnesota attorney general debate against Republican candidate Doug Wardlow.

Democratic Minnesota Rep. Keith Ellison misled the public during the Minnesota attorney general debate Sunday about his ties to Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, a notorious racist and anti-Semite. Ellison, the deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) denounced Farrakhan’s views and portrayed his ties to the minister as a relic of decades past, even though he continued to associate with Farrakhan years after entering Congress in 2006. Ellison explained that he thought Farrakhan had “something to offer” in the “early 1990s” because Farrakhan “was a person speaking to issues of African American civil rights.” (Farrakhan praised Hitler as a “very great man” in 1984.) “He made it very clear in the early 1990s that his views and mine were absolutely incompatible and I’ve been saying that ever since,” Ellison said, in response to an attack from Republican candidate Doug Wardlow.

Ellison’s answer was misleading on multiple counts. First, depicting his ties to Farrakhan as limited to the “early 1990s” clashes with what his own past statements. Ellison in 2006 admitted to The Washington Post that he worked with the Nation of Islam for approximately 18 months ahead of Farrakhan’s October 1995 Million Man March. Ellison wrote an op-ed defending Farrakhan in November 1995, one month after the march. Second, Ellison’s ties to Farrakhan continued for decades beyond the 1990s. Ellison attended three meetings where Farrakhan was present while he was serving in Congress. One of those meetings was a private hotel meeting in 2015 between Ellison, Farrakhan and Democratic Indiana Rep. Andre Carson. Two of the three attendees — Carson and Farrakhan — have admitted that the meeting took place, while Ellison has repeatedly denied that it did. Ellison also in 2013 attended a private dinner for American Muslim leaders hosted by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Farrakhan was among the attendees.

Johari Abdul-Malik, then director at Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Virginia, uploaded a YouTube video in 2013 that shows Ellison casually chatting among a crowd of men, including Farrakhan. The video is short — just 28 seconds —- but what it shows is indisputable: Ellison comfortably socializing in the same group as Farrakhan, decades after Ellison supposedly cut ties with him. The exact date of the video is unclear, but Abdul-Malik’s caption indicates it took place no earlier than 2010. In the video, Farrakhan is seen hugging Muslim American activist Mahdi Bray. “Min Farrakhan gives thanks for Mahdi Bray’s recovery from stroke,” Abdul-Malik wrote. Bray suffered a stroke in 2010, according to PBS. The Washington Post’s fact-checker in March awarded Ellison “four Pinocchios” — its worst possible rating — for claiming his ties to Farrakhan ended in the 1990s. The Post’s fact-check cited The Daily Caller’s reporting. Ellison’s campaign did not return a request for comment for this article.

https://www.dailycaller.com/2018/10/22/keith-ellison-louis-farrakhan-ties/

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I think we are really overlooking this just like MSM is, but the question here is Why?