Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are an elaborate CIA spying scheme

Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are an elaborate CIA spying scheme


(NaturalNews) They are convenient, relatively easy to use, and help
millions of people around the world stay connected with family and
friends, at least digitally. But social media portals like Facebook and
Twitter are increasingly being exposed as what appear to be
bait-and-switch spying networks funded, and potentially even run
covertly, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other
government agencies. And this is all apparently being done for the
purpose of gathering real-time data on the private lives of individuals
willing to freely post such information for the world to see.

It
is something that serious investigative journalists and skeptics alike
have suspected for years, especially as sites like Facebook have
gradually and quietly eliminated users' access to the privacy controls
that once kept their information "classified" by default. Today,
Facebook is literally an open book of information that is freely
available not only to the rest of the internet, but also to numerous
government agencies that many years ago invested millions of dollars to
make social networking sites like Facebook what they are today.


Venture capital firm that ensured Facebook's success linked to CIA front group

When
Facebook was first getting off its feet, it turns out, the company
received a huge cash injection from a venture capital firm known as Accel Partners. According to reports, Accel's head, James Breyer, was a former chairman at National Venture Capital Association, where he served on the board with Gilman Louie, the CEO of another venture capital group known as In-Q-Tel.

According to In-Q-Tel's
"Mission" page, the group, which invested nearly $13 million during
Facebook's early days, was first launched in 1999 as a catalyst for
keeping the CIA up-to-date with the latest information-gathering technologies. Not surprisingly, the primary purpose of In-Q-Tel
is to "build relationships with technology startups outside the reach
of the Intelligence Community," and partner with private sector groups
who are willing to "co-invest in [its] portfolio companies." (http://www.iqt.org/about/mission.html)

If
you connect the dots here, it becomes clear that Breyer's expertise is
in connecting the CIA with private enterprises like Facebook and Twitter
that focus on gathering information, whether it be for marketing or
some other purpose. And it appears as though the CIA front group In-Q-Tel saw a unique opportunity to use newfangled social media to gather intelligence in a completely new way, without actually having to gather it at all, at least in the traditional sense.

"We have to look at where the seed money came for these social networks," explained investigative journalist Wayne Madsen to RT back in 2011 about the CIA connection to social media. "We do know that the Central Intelligence Agency
through In-Q-Tel, its venture capital firm, provided a lot of seed
money for many of these companies that developed these social networking
operations and programs. So people have to be aware that when they put
personal information online, they're basically doing the CIA's job for
them." (https://youtu.be/gAPcG29Mf70)

If you use social media, Big Brother may be watching you

The
moral of the story here is that nothing on the internet is private or
sacred, especially when it is posted on social media. You can be sure
that Big Brother is actively monitoring the activities of social media
users continuously, and compiling this data for total control purposes.
The good news; however, is that you always have the option to completely
delete, not just deactivate, your Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/help/delete_account

Be
sure to also check out this fascinating diagram called "The Evolution
of Privacy on Facebook," keeping in mind that things have only gotten
worse since 2010 when the image was last updated. (http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/)


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http://www.naturalnews.com/038491_social_media_CIA_spying.html