Breaking: Bannon "plan to infiltrate Facebook's hiring process" & flood FB with right wing candidate

[MelissaB]

Steve Bannon Sought To Infiltrate Facebook Hiring

According to emails obtained by BuzzFeed News, Bannon hoped to spy on Facebook’s job application process.

Posted on September 25, 2017, at 10:15 a.m.

Steve Bannon plotted to plant a mole inside Facebook, according to emails sent days before the Breitbart boss took over Donald Trump’s campaign and obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The email exchange with a conservative Washington operative reveals the importance that the giant tech platform — now reeling from its role in the 2016 election — held for one of the campaign’s central figures. And it also shows the lengths to which the brawling new American right is willing to go to keep tabs on and gain leverage over the Silicon Valley giants they used to help elect Trump — but whose executives they also see as part of the globalist enemy.

The idea to infiltrate Facebook came to Bannon from Chris Gacek, a former congressional staffer who is now an official at the Family Research Council, which lobbies against abortion and many LGBT rights.

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“This seems perfect for Breitbart to flood the zone with candidates of all stripe who will report back to you / Milo with INTEL about the job application process over at FB," he continued.

More: https://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/steve-bannon-sought-to-infiltrate-facebook-hiring?utm_term=.koOpAL1wa#.ilkQj5an2

[ATL Ebony]

1. Just WOW! If they spent as much time and effort on adjusting their policies

to appeal to a larger constituency they wouldn't need to cheat and scheme so vigorously.

[DK504]

6. They don't want to adjust their policies.

They are the party of repression and oppression, this just how they like it.

It's up to the rethugs that vote to adjust their policies.

[Cracklin Charlie]

7. Do you think it's easy to steal an election?

This operation required a huge effort.

It's all they have time for.

[cyclonefence]

2. Can FB as a forum for exchange of ideas

(if that's what it is; I don't know) survive after the revelation that intentionally false information was planted there by enemies of our country? Will it revert to what I understand was its original character, a place to share photos of grandchildren?

[MelissaB]

4. About 1/2 of the country will never hear this news or believe it if they do.

[kcr]

8. Or care. They need it to keep in touch with the fam!

I hear that one all the time. FB is amazing. It seems to have convinced a lot of people that email, telephones and cell phones no longer exist. Or, heaven forbid, snail mail.

[snort]

5. It's original character is this:

Data mining for targeted advertising.

[DetlefK]

3. Declaring Facebook a public utility? What would Ayn Rand say about that?