Mark Zuckerberg’s Fake Apology

His Zuckerbucks destroyed the election process in key battleground states. His cover-your-ass apology is not just too late, it’s meaningless.

39 Times Facebook Has Interfered in US Elections

Mark Zuckerberg’s False Apology

Zuckerberg’s actions over the years speak far louder than his words

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By: Jeff Carlson & Hans Mahncke, Aug 28, 2024

Mark Zuckerberg made some startling admissions in his recent “mea culpa” letter to Congress. He admitted that the Biden-Harris Administration “pressured” Facebook to censor stories on the origin of Covid. He admitted that the FBI pressured Facebook to censor the Hunter Laptop story. And he admitted that Facebook did what the government asked him to – censor American citizens.

Zuckerberg also (sort of) addressed his personal financial contributions during the 2020 election. His letter gave the appearance of a public apology – he appeared almost contrite for his actions in the 2020 election and the Covid Pandemic, but is Zuckerberg really sorry? Or is he simply worried because he got caught? A closer look at the involvement of Zuckerberg & Facebook with the DNC over the years may answer that question.

A pattern of close collaboration between Zuckerberg/Facebook and the DNC goes back to at least 2012 — when Facebook shared their user data with the Obama campaign.

Obama’s Election Team was given full access to Facebook’s data in 2012. Access that was not – and would not have been granted to Conservatives.

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As a result, any time people used Facebook’s log-in button to sign on to the campaign’s website, Obama’s data scientists were able to access their profile as well as their friends’ information. That allowed them to chart the closeness of people’s relationships and make estimates about which people would be most likely to influence other people in their network to vote.

Carol Davidsen, who was director of data integration and media analytics for the Obama Campaign, was surprisingly clear about what happened. “We ingested the entire U.S. social graph,” Davidsen said in an interview. “We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all.”

Davidson also highlighted the favoritism Facebook gave to Obama’s campaign, noting that Facebook “came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.”

Which raises an important question. If Facebook gave the Obama Campaign access to valuable data worth millions of dollars to bolster Obama’s chances of winning the election, why wasn’t this access counted as in-kind political contributions by the Obama Campaign?

We’ve all heard how Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg infamously privatized elements of the 2020 presidential election when he sent nearly half-a-billion dollars to local election boards in key states to turn out likely Democratic voters.

To put that amount into perspective, Zuckerberg alone spent almost as much money funding government election offices as the entire federal government spent on the 2020 election.

Zuckerberg’s payments were supposedly made to fill so-called funding gaps from the federal government but the reality is that the Zuckerbucks – as they have come to be known – were distributed on a highly partisan basis with the aim of electing Biden and other Democrats.
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