Op-ed:

Big Tech, Covid-19, and Truths Kept Hidden 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

 

...Simply, it's Facebook and their fellow platform ilk who still relish in leading the blind following masses down the path to acceptance of deliberately orchestrated and ever so maliciously spewed lies...after all in their minds it's better to control the masses via lies and misinformation than to allow said masses to decide for themselves what is and what is not truth. Take away one's right to decide truth for oneself and the battle for said truth is lost before it even begins...that is except for those of us who can thankfully read between social media's...read mostly Facebook and Twitter here...constantly being forced upon us Democrat initiated lies...

 

Read entire article here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2021/07/op-ed-big-tech-covid-19-and-truths.html

Op-ed:

Big Tech, Covid-19, and Truths Kept Hidden 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

 

“The original idea was that Facebook was a public square where you can come in and say anything you want.” 

- Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at the Fletcher School at Tufts University

Control...for them it has always been about control, especially control of the public discourse for if “they” didn't have absolute control truths could and would then be told. And if a single truth were to triumph over even one of their lies spewed, “they” then would loose not just control of the mindset of the masses but control over the entirety of the specifics of political discourse as well. But with them having ultimate control...remember “they” banned the true president of these United States from major internet platforms...know that “they” cannot only ban you and me but “cancel” us completely if “they” so desire.

And by “they” of course I mean the social media giants who are part of “Big Tech,” as in the likes of Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter, YouTube, etc. But in regards to Facebook... the largest of said social media “Big Tech” companies...a company rightfully now known by many as Fascistbook...it remains Facebook who garners the most control over the mindset of both the public and political conversational discourse, especially conversation pertaining to the “health, safety, and welfare” of “We the American People.”

And to that end Facebook, who I will concentrate on here in this article, not too long ago expanding its list of what would and would not be allowed on its platform...a list of what their anything but independent fact-checkers consider to be false, fake, or misleading information regarding Covid-19...along with their threatening to ban any users, groups, or pages that repeatedly spread such misinformation...misinformation that in reality is now proving to be truths...with one truth being that the Covid virus was either manufactured or re-engineered to be used as a bio-weapon of sorts.

But when Facebook decides that merely “banning” you from its platform isn't enough to silence your voice or the truth you are trying so hard to tell...and when you of course are given no recourse for rebuttal...Facebook then places you in a “time-out” whose duration is of their own choosing. And it's a “time-out” in what we former residents like to call the infamous “no visitors allowed” Facebook jail where even your Messenger privileges are suspended as well. And then if you still try to get out what you know is the truth, Facebook goes even one step further, as in to permanently cancel your account by claiming that you have continuously violated their community standards and rules...community standards and rules which more times than not haven't even been made up yet.

And it's here where the real truth actually becomes reality for what you violated was just some of their fact-checkers anything but truths or quite possibly a liberal's ever so delicate kumbaya feelings along with their misplaced anti-American musings spewed. But when Facebook knows that you have indeed played by what remains their First Amendment, free speech violating community standards and rules, Facebook instead goes the route of “limiting your post reach”...as in allowing only a limited number of folks...folks of their choosing...to see, read, and share what you have tried so hard to get posted and read.

And currently, I myself am once again a victim of just that for I have dared to not only tell the truth about the origins of Covid-19 but to discuss those truths in detail...numerous truths I have been shouting since day one of this politically motivated and hence politically manipulated “China virus” discourse. And if you cannot find the truths of which I speak on Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc...what with their cracking down on what they alone determine to be misinformation about both the virus itself and the now being forced upon us vaccines...you can find said truths...fact based truths not conspiracy theories...in the Covid-19 section of my blog The Patriot Factor.

But while I am just one wee small player being denied my basic First Amendment right to free speech, when you add my name to the millions of others also being denied by Facebook and other social media giants their right to free speech...and here I can safely say that probably 99.9% of us who are being silenced are on the right side of the political aisle...you now have a lobbying force, if you will, powerful enough to not just call social media “Big Tech” giants to task, but to help initiate across the board change. But sadly, like with the Republican cowards in Congress who know well not only the truth about the lies the Democrats, “Big Tech,” and their media cohorts spew, they and some of us still shamelessly continue to let them all slide on key and ever so critical issues.

Remember, knowing what's the right thing to do and actually doing what's right has now become two different entities entirely.

And regarding doing what's right...here I'm speaking of not just reigning in social media “Big Tech” giants with Facebook, obviously, being the first on the list...but actually breaking up the monopoly these companies hold over both the public and the political discourse. Remember, whether “they” be publicly or privately held companies, nothing gives them the right to arbitrarily and also selectively censor voices on the internet highway...voices that do not concur with their political agenda...nor do “they” have the right to dictate as fact which information must or must not be gotten out to the masses.

Simply, it's Facebook and their fellow platform ilk who still relish in leading the blind following masses down the path to acceptance of deliberately orchestrated and ever so maliciously spewed lies...after all in their minds it's better to control the masses via lies and misinformation than to allow said masses to decide for themselves what is and what is not truth. Take away one's right to decide truth for oneself and the battle for said truth is lost before it even begins...that is except for those of us who can thankfully read between social media's...read mostly Facebook and Twitter here...constantly being forced upon us Democrat initiated lies.

But again, all seems to originate with “Big Tech's” social media giants censoring of open discussion...especially the overt censorship “they” currently practice regarding discussions about the dangers of catching the “China virus” itself; its now proving to be Wuhan lab's origin; and the rush to get folks to line up for what is truly an experimental vaccine. And this sees both major and minor social media sites not just being the engine by which the left controls the masses mindset, but actually puts people's lives in danger for while telling the truth might hurt some little snowflake's feelings or even anger them a bit, repeatedly telling them lies just might cost them their very lives.

And really, how pathetically sad is that for there exists no good nor honorable reason to allow for the platforming on social media of what “Big Tech” knows is both misinformation and politically generated lies, all of which can, has, and will continue to see some of those in the uninformed and deliberately lied to masses becoming sick and/or dying.

To put it in more direct to the point terms...because of their not allowing for full and robust discussion to take place; for their deliberately withholding valuable need to know information; for their passing around information “they” know well is politically driven and contrary to both medical and proven scientific facts; and for their outright misleading the public in regards to the safety of the “jab;” the “Big Tech” social media giants must share a certain amount of culpability and blame for those who via truths kept hidden have sadly been sickened by Covid-19; succumbed to Covid-19; as well as those now falling victim to an experimental vaccine(s) that is neither FDA approved nor has it been clinically tested long enough to be proven truly effective, especially against the newly morphed variants that now suddenly, but not totally unexpectedly, have been been popping up all around the world.

But if there's even one positive in all this know that now it seems that even social media's “Big Tech” giants have taken a step back...albeit it's a very small step back...as they've been forced by current circumstances and truths finally being revealed to reign in their all-out censoring of opposing Covid-19 voices. And it's not because they now have suddenly seen or accepted the truth regarding what is and will remain the “China virus,” its origin, and its true purpose, but because now with said truth actually being exposed even by some on the left, social media's “Big Tech” giants hope that by doing so that they will not become victims of what could become some of the biggest lawsuit payouts in history. 

After all, with Covid being big business, it is, was, and will always remain for “Big Tech's” social media giants all about their bottom line dollars and cents profits, and not about their protecting "We the People" from harm...I cannot say or stress that enough. And that is one truth you, I, and countless others can take to the proverbial bank. 

Copyright © 2021 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved. 

                                                        

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Op-ed: 
An Open Letter to Those in D.C. Regarding the Actions of Facebook

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

To Whom It May Concern,

I'm writing this on behalf of all my fellow conservatives who are losing their First Amendment right to free speech at the hands of both the Facebook censors and their now infamous algorithm...an algorithm which selectively “targets” those of us who dare speak out against the people and policies of the left. And I personally have been “targeted” 36 times within but the past few years...silenced into becoming a semi-permanent resident of the infamous Facebook jail.

And my personal story is not so different from others being “targeted” for silence by what is a privately owned company that's now being “publicly traded” on the New York Stock Exchange...a company not only in trouble for selling its users private information... remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal of just a few months back...but a company recently removed from the “Standard & Poor’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Index” after receiving a score of but 22 for “social responsibility” and only a 6 for “governance,” out of a possible 100 points, thus scoring “extremely poorly.”...

Read entire article here: https://thepatriotfactor.blogspot.com/2019/07/op-ed-open-letter-to-those-in-d.html

Op-ed: 
An Open Letter to Those in D.C. Regarding the Actions of Facebook

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

To Whom It May Concern,

I'm writing this on behalf of all my fellow conservatives who are losing their First Amendment right to free speech at the hands of both the Facebook censors and their now infamous algorithm...an algorithm which selectively “targets” those of us who dare speak out against the people and policies of the left. And I personally have been “targeted” 36 times within but the past few years...silenced into becoming a semi-permanent resident of the infamous Facebook jail.

And my personal story is not so different from others being “targeted” for silence by what is a privately owned company that's now being “publicly traded” on the New York Stock Exchange...a company not only in trouble for selling its users private information... remember the Cambridge Analytica scandal of just a few months back...but a company recently removed from the “Standard & Poor’s Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Index” after receiving a score of but 22 for “social responsibility” and only a 6 for “governance,” out of a possible 100 points, thus scoring “extremely poorly.” And with Facebook being the largest “tech firm” and the fourth-largest company in the S&P 500 (behind Microsoft, Apple and Amazon), this removal is more than mere egg on their face for it shows the world that Facebook not only lacks the fundamentals in regards to privacy protection, but fails in how effective it is regarding critical “risk management processes” as well as how it enforces said processes. 
 

And not to be overlooked is that now D.C. politicians have gotten involved in the Facebook fray but shamefully for celebrities alone. More on that in a bit.

My story starts a bit over eight years ago when I joined Facebook to talk politics with like-minded conservative folks. I joined at the time when the media was shoving down our throats the man they alone anointed as America's next president...a man whose “number” I had on the very day he sashayed onto the national scene when giving Billy-Boy Clinton's nominating speech at his second nominating convention. I was now heavily involved in national politics after leaving behind my years in local politics...which included running for a city commission seat...as I feared this man becoming president.

When I first joined Facebook there were no Community Standards that I knew of as it did seem to me through my Facebook perusing that we were free to discuss our own political views without censorship or so-called spying. However, I now know that truly was not the case as nothing I or anyone else posted back then or posts now, even if we delete it, was and still is ever deleted by Facebook.

Here I must note that during my eight years on Facebook I have became a professional blogger at The Patriot Factor, a co-host with my friend Craig Andresen of a conservative internet radio talk show called Right Side Patriots as well as having my op-eds being carried by some of the larger internet newspapers. And all this I do for love of country...to get the conservative message out...to do the “grunt work” as well as the investigative work needed to disseminate the truth the mainstream leftist media dare not tell us...and I did it then and gladly do it now without pay. Truth-telling was and is my 24/7-365 job...a job I take very seriously...as eight+ years ago I saw my beloved America and my children's future heading in the wrong direction under what became the presidency of one Barack HUSSEIN Obama.

And so my Facebook posting days began and I gained a large following who liked my op-eds as I always had facts to back-up my writings...facts the media ignored. And around this same time islam was starting to make inroads into our country...how quickly 9/11 became but a side note in history... what with Obama allowing the Muslim Brotherhood and other islamic groups to infiltrate our government, as well as sharia law starting its incursion into American jurisprudence. And so we bloggers jumped into action by not only writing the truth about both Obama and islam but by broadcasting that truth over the airwaves and on social media sites as well. And one venue I used to get the truth out...used solely because of its unmatchable reach...was Facebook but never did I think it would morph into an anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-Semitic, islamic-condoning, conservative-hating, site.

And my personal Facebook nightmare began when I posted the prize winning photo of a dead American soldier being dragged through the dirty streets of Mogadishu...a photo showing his body being kicked and spat upon by the gathering crowd along with this comment, “This is what’s happening to our troops in the muslim world.” This was my first Facebook “jailing”...a 30-day sentence due to what the Facebook censors claimed was my posting pornography...pornography no matter this exact photo was printed in nearly every American major newspaper and on the internet... pornography because the dead soldier's clothes had been torn to sheds while he was being dragged, and that if one now looked at the image close enough they would see that a bit of our soldier's “privates” were showing. And that as per Facebook made me a pornographer...they actually labeled me that.

Did it matter to Facebook the atrocities committed upon our American soldier...did it matter to Facebook the savage actions of those gathering around his body...did it matter to Facebook the inhumane killing act itself? No...all that mattered to Facebook was that it you looked real close at the very bottom center of the photograph you'd see a bit of the soldier's “privates”...“privates” one might not even recognize as such due to the desecrated nature of his body.

My next 30-day “jailing” was for opposing sharia law, for saying female genital mutilation was wrong and for asking the question why weren't the women in the muslim world fighting back...for saying this was not an act of sane people for what woman in her right mind would allow this atrocity to be committed upon their daughters while at times even taking part in the act itself. For daring to post said question I again received a 30-day Facebook “jailing” with no specific reason as to why and with no chance to appeal.

And so it went throughout the years if I dared criticize islam or if I dared call Obama a "traitor"...as I did when he told the enemy our dates of departure from the theaters of war and when he “aided and abetted” the enemy with the Taliban “5-for-1” trade. And why I kept getting these 30-day “jailings” was puzzling as others were saying similar things using vulgarities, something I never did, yet they were still posting freely while I languished in “solitary confinement.” Finally I knew why...because I used the word “muzzie” instead of “muslim” in my posts and thus upset the sensibilities of those whose very actions do prove they're out to kill us all.

I tried to explain to Facebook that I used the word “muzzie” instead of “muslim” because the “double zz”...at that time...was not recognized by muslim computers overseas thus allowing my posts to remain up for users to see. And besides, at the time I used said word it was not part of their now known list of words not to be used on Facebook...words they alone deem insulting and derogatory “hate speech” towards muslims in general. And once I found this out I never used the word  “muzzie” again...but know this list of verboten words was only released a few short years ago.

So what does Facebook keep doing to me now because of a word I dared use BEFORE it was added to their no-no list...they keep digging through now publicly unseen years old posts of mine in order to throw me back into Facebook jail retroactively within mere hours of each time I'm “paroled.” And because I've not broken any of their rules since said word was added to said list, the Facebook censors have now locked their infamous algorithm onto me and onto posts I long ago deleted. And this is extremely critical...there obviously is no deleting anything on Facebook for once I realized it was the word “muzzie” getting me in trouble I went through my eight years on Facebook as best I could and removed every post, comment, and note containing said word, and with all the uses being BEFORE “muzzie” was not allowed. In other words, Facebook keeps ALL our posts, comments, and notes forever even if we delete them, and then lied to we users about doing so. Facebook is not the “Cloud” where basically things stay forever...we post to a private site where delete we were led to believe actually meant “it's gone.”

More lies from Facebook as my newest “jailing” is again for using the word “muzzie” in a comment made over seven years ago where I said, “BREAKING ON FOX...muzzies now acting up in Jerusalem...NOT a smart move as Israel will NOT tolerate this.” And the site, to my knowledge, that I posted it on no longer even exists on Facebook. And why is this grievous...because when handed this newest 30-day “jailing” just a few short days ago, Facebook had the audacity to tell me that while my comment did not go against their Community Standards on “hate speech” back then they're punishing me for it now because now it indeed does meet said standards. And so I continue to be punished for a word used BEFORE it became unacceptable as Facebook keeps resurrecting items I deleted or forgot about long ago...“selective enforcement” thy name is Diane Sori...if that's not a violation of my right to free speech...if that's not “Big Brother” in action...then I don't know what is.

And briefly but two other times I was thrown in Facebook jail included when I was an admin on a site that I didn’t even know someone had made me an admin of, with Facebook telling me that since I didn’t immediately take down a post that I as one of 15 admin knew well broke Community Standards, that again I was being jailed for 30-days, while the poster himself got only one week and the other admins got 48 hours.

But most grievous of all was my 30-day “jailing” of three years ago on the very day and time that I was burying my mother. Facebook notified me that within the hour I posted something that didn’t meet their Community Standards. I was never told what said post was or what standard I violated, and besides I wasn't even on Facebook that day or the days before because I was arranging a funeral and burying my mother. Days later I wrote Facebook a letter saying this wasn’t me posting as this couldn’t be as I was at my mothers funeral and had over 50 witnesses to just that. Did Facebook care...no...they didn't even bother to answer me leaving me to rot in Facebook jail for something I didn't do.

Yet there are two bottom lines in my particular story, first, my “jailings” keep happening for a word used years BEFORE it wasn't allowed to be used and second, not only are some of my “jailings” being recycled numerous times, including sometimes in groups that no longer exist, but more importantly is the fact that when you think you've deleted something on Facebook it's not deleted but kept by Facebook to use against you if you happen to be a conservative truth-teller. “Big Brother” doesn't hold a candle to Facebook it seems.
 

Simply, in Facebook land nothing you post or comment on is ever deleted, a sure violation of its users privacy rights, proving that Facebook does keep records on all who use it, and that now includes on Messenger as well. And when one is thrown into Facebook jail they're now also being denied the use of Messenger no matter that one can’t really post anything from Messenger.

Now as for my earlier stated “more on that in a bit”...we know that the feds are looking into the privacy issues regarding Facebook, and we know that certain members of Congress have formed something of a committee to look into not only Facebook's privacy violations but also issues regarding its censorship of conservative voices. Here is where my story comes into play for while I've tried to contact a specific senator who is on said committee to ask for his help, I can't reach him or any of the others involved because I'm not a resident of their states nor am I a “celebrity,” I'm just one of the “grunt workers” helping to set our country right again not someone looking for fame or fortune who has come into the world of political discourse just a short time ago. I'm an everyday American citizen asking for our leaders help in reigning in a company doing conservative Americans wrong...a company that needs to be broken up with its monopoly being disassembled for Facebook is a company maliciously infringing upon conservatives right to free speech.

So I ask those of our leaders on the Facebook committee to please not just listen to me, but to please listen to all we conservatives who are continuously being censored by Facebook. Call us, talk to us, let us testify before Congress as to the truth about Facebook. And while we might not add to your resume of those celebrities you now get to call friends, we everyday Americans should actually be more important because we are the ones who sent you to D.C. in the first place. It's time for celebrity stars to dim as they only care about themselves and the monies lost by being off Facebook...it's time to let we “grunt workers” shine the light of truth on a company truly run amok.

Senators and Representatives, the ball is now in your court...do you really want to know the truth about Facebook or just relish in your celebrity's additional 15 minutes of fame...we can help set the Facebook wrong right if only you'll let us help...the question is, will you?

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,                                                                                                                            Diane Sori                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Diane Sori at: dianesori@gmail.com

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Author's Note: Photos of me in FB jail were done by Craig Andresen  

Copyright @ 2019 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.

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Investigative Report
Facebook: The Truth Exposed...Part 1 of 2
By: Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots on American Political Radio

Authors Note: The information we are about to disclose is based upon our research and reflects our opinions and beliefs alone. 

What we about to tell you might surprise some while affirming what others have suspected for quite some time but either way it needs to be told. And why...because 'Big Brother' is indeed watching us, but in a far more devious and sinister way than those two words usually imply for the simple fact is that he who controls the media, social networks, and the internet controls not just the flow of information but controls exactly what information is disseminated.

'Fake news' has become a buzz word for conservatives since the early days of the Trump campaign, but 'fake news' doesn’t really even begin to explain the depth and breadth of the situation we now face. It is becoming harder and harder to believe anything you see or hear from Twitter, newspapers, magazines, the mainstream media or on the internet, and it is becoming increasingly difficult for conservatives to express or share their ideas, thoughts, support, or concerns on Facebook.

There is a reason for all of this, and by the time you’re finished reading this investigative report, you will have a much better understanding of the dire situation we are all facing. You won’t feel any better about it, but you will see the big picture.

And in the big picture Facebook is the lynch pin for in a relatively short period of time Facebook became the fastest and easiest way to connect both people and the flow of information from all over the world. And while we all know that Facebook is the world's largest social media network, few know beyond the name Mark Zuckerberg who controls and pulls the strings at Facebook, with even fewer knowing who or what entities finance its operation, and even more importantly where they and their money come from.

Let's start with Mark Zuckerberg who, together with his Harvard roommate Eduardo Saverin, founded what we know as Facebook. And while the history of Facebook's founding and its birth pains...including a 2012 case brought by Yahoo against Facebook for copyright infringement...can easily be found by doing a simple google search, know that from its inception Mark Zuckerberg was a deviously clever manipulator out for money, power, and above all else control.

Incorporated in the summer of 2004, Facebook now has over two billion users with 1.37 billion “active users” visiting Facebook on a daily basis, and with a net worth of over one trillion dollars...talk about money and power. But power needs money to feed it and the first to jump on Facebook's bandwagon was back in 2004 when venture capitalist Peter Thiel (who surprisingly now is a Trump supporter) made a $500,000 'so-called' angel investment for 10.2% of the company (now down to 3%) and also became part of Facebook's board of directors.

From this point on...and know this is before Facebook started trading on the NYSE where it drew other investors and shareholders...other big companies and individuals jumped on the Facebook bandwagon. Those investing in Facebook included Accel Partners...to a tune of a $12.7 million venture capital investment...to Greylock Partners and Meritech Capital, plus additional personal investments from Peter Thiel and Accel Partners.

Then there's Jim Breyer who, while working for Accel, put in $1 million of his own money not through Accel but through a company he owns called Breyer Capital who bills itself as a “premier global venture capital and private equity investor” focused on “catalyzing high-impact entrepreneurs” in the United States and China. Interesting that of all the world's entrepreneurs the company Jim Breyer personally buys into Facebook with is a company connected to and doing business with China.

In October 2007, Hong Kong real estate billionaire Li Ka-shing became a Facebook angel investor investing $120 million total on two separate occasions for a 0.8% stake in Facebook. And around this same time Microsoft paid $240 million for 1.6% of Facebook.

Then in May 2009, Russian...yes Russian...internet holding company, Digital Sky Technologies...a company headquartered in Moscow...with its chief financial backer being Alisher Usmanov...paid $200 million for 1.96% of Facebook stock. Digital Sky Technologies is but one of Usmanov’s many interests and acquisitions which include precious metals (as in uranium), iron ore, steel, natural gas and media companies, including owning shares of gaming giant Zynga and the e-commerce marketplace known as Groupon.

So exactly who owns Digital Sky Technologies...which some say is actually part of either the Russian mob or funded in part by the Kremlin...besides Alisher Usmanov (who owns 32% of it through another of his companies called New Media Technologies), along with South Africa-based media company Naspers (28.7%), and Chinese Internet company Tencent (10%)...notice all three major owners are media companies...Russian investment banking firm Renaissance Capital (5%) of Uranium One infamy, Goldman Sachs (more on them in a bit), and New York private equity firm Tiger Global. Other lesser owners, but owners nevertheless, are Yuri Milner, Gregory Finger, Igor Matsanyuk and Sergey Orlovskiy.

And under the direction of Digital Sky Technologies Managing Partner Yuri Milner, DST is still interested in buying into Twitter no matter that Twitter already sees Saudi Prince Alwaleed's Kingdom Holding company owning about 5% and 34.9 million shares of Twitter’s common stock. Interesting isn't it that a Russian capitalist and an Arab muslim prince would be teaming up.

And in 2011, another venture capital investor, this time Andreessen Horowitz, also invested in Facebook, holding .18% of Facebook, but of interesting note is that he too also holds stock in three other of the most well known social-media sites as in Twitter, Groupon, and Zynga. Now add in that venture capitalist firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers, with a .073% stake in Facebook, also have investments in Google, Groupo, Twitter, and Zynga.

Are you starting to see some commonalities here.

And with Facebook now also owning photo sharing service Instagram, Oculus VR (specializing in virtual reality hardware and software products), Onavo (an Israeli mobile apps analytics company), plus many other photo sharing, analytic, software and verification companies including Confirm (a U.S. government issued ID verification platform) and Face.com (a face recognition company)...as well as acquiring smartphone instant messaging giant WhatsApp, real-time news “aggregator” FriendFeed, Malaysian contact-importing start up company Octazen Solutions, photo-sharing Divvyshot, plus many more...a disturbing pattern of corruption veiled in what seems to be legitimate and legal acquisitions is emerging...let us explain.

In 2011, Goldman Sachs...one of the world's leading investment banks...seemed to have the inside track underwriting a future Facebook IPO (IPO stands for Initial Public Offering meaning the very first sale of a stock issued by a private company to the public...known as “going public”...as opposed to public companies which have sold at least a portion of their shares to the public to be traded on a stock exchange). Finalized in January of 2011, with its participation in a $1.5 billion capital raise, the transaction included a $450 million investment from Goldman Sachs, another $50 million from Digital Sky Technologies, and $1 billion from “unnamed foreign investors”...which we would guarantee you means some shady Middle East characters and/or countries. This deal afforded Facebook a value of $50 billion which is extremely high and overinflated for a company not even traded yet.

And this financing "oddity" did indeed raise 'red flags' at the time for it appeared to many to be a way for Facebook to “sidestep U.S. securities laws” forcing other privately-held companies to make SEC filings once they reached a 500 shareholder threshold. Yet even with said raised 'red flags' Facebook went public on the NYSE on Friday, May 18, 2012. The night before, Facebook set its final IPO price at $38 per share, but when its stock began trading at 11:30 a.m. ET, the first trade came in at $42.05 per share, a gain of nearly 11%. More than 80 million shares of Facebook stock changed hands in the first 30 seconds of trading, and by the end of its first day of trading Facebook's trading volume had reached a staggering 567 million shares...amazing to say the least.

Not bad for a company started in a dorm room...not bad for a company whose 'red flags' were never really addressed...not bad for a man who craved money, power, and above all else control...control coupled with domination that is.

And while greed was indeed a strong driving force in the beginning, it was control...complete, all-consuming control...that overtook both the man and the company know as Facebook for one only has to look at the types of companies that invested in Facebook ownership and the types of companies Facebook previously purchased; what other companies Facebook and its partners own part of in common; and who and what countries said companies are connected to coupled with the specific social media, news, and software companies that Facebook continues to buy up. And when one does all this it should become obvious that Facebook wants not only to own and control all of the relevant social media sites but that Facebook...that Mark Zuckerberg...also is determined to control all the information disseminated on said sites as well as what its users can and cannot see.

And most susceptible to this manipulation...the next in line voters...the millennials...for the millennials will blindly believe what they are force-fed and indoctrinated into believing as millennials rely on Facebook far more than any other source for their political news.

Hence the bottom line...control the information superhighway and you control not only the news but you can manipulate all future election results by delivering to the masses only the news you, your agenda, and candidate of choice want them to see.

Are you starting to see Facebook's end game...are you starting to see Mark Zuckerberg's agenda...we hope so for herein lies the reason why not only are we conservatives the only ones being locked up in Facebook jail, but why Facebook aided in hiding the truth about the Steele dossier and the fact that it was Facebook who composed Hillary Clinton's actually used template on how to win elections.

So, what does Facebook's buying up competing social media, analytical software, identification and photo sites, along with sites where people disseminate the news mean besides the above stated need for control...it means that Facebook has become or is bordering on becoming a monopoly, and monopolies are truly frowned upon by the government for what is a monopoly but a given company's goal of possessing and/or controlling the supply or trade of a commodity or service. And Facebook is a commodity and offers a service, as in connecting people worldwide through their now monopolized company.

Remember, monopolies translate into inequality, power, and control as bottom line profits place more monies into the hands of the few, with 'mom-and-pop' companies being forced out of business by those companies bigger and more monetarily successful than they are.

And this is exactly what Facebook has done by buying out their smaller but still viable competition...competition that sometimes holds political views that are in direct contrast to Facebook and Zuckerberg's own. And once said competition is bought out and absorbed into Facebook any and all opposing views they might have had goes with them, turning Facebook into the sole arbitrator of what is and is not newsworthy... of what or what not is 'fake news'...and of what topics will be open to back-and-forth discussion on either Facebook and on any other companies they own...whether said news is based upon a lie or is itself an actual lie.

In fact, a perfect example of just this is when Mark Zuckerberg himself stated that, "Personally, I think the idea that fake news on Facebook — it's a very small amount of the content — influenced the election in any way is a pretty crazy idea," yet right after the 2016 election he stated on Facebook that Facebook "helped more than 2 million people register to vote, and based on our estimates we got a similar number of people to vote who might have stayed home otherwise."

So which statement is the lie and which one is the truth... guess we will never know for we have no major opposing site(s) to counter Zuckerberg's words. And while a few small scale opposing sites to Facebook do remain... alternate venues as we call them...and know they do try hard but unfortunately their numbers in both revenue generated and readership reach remain dismal at best making them no real threat or competition to the Facebook juggernaut. And if a conservative user of Facebook dared to question Zuckerberg's conflicting statements, into Facebook jail they went for a timeout whose length of stay was of Facebook's choosing...with no chance to appeal or time out for good behavior. More on this in a bit.

And with Facebook, like we said above, either bordering on if not already being an actual monopoly and holding power over those who dare challenge their modes-operendi if you will, the question that must be asked is just when will the Facebook media monopoly be broken up. Remember, monopolies are in violation of anti-trust laws, with history showing the government breaking up numerous business conglomerates that have over-stepped their company buying bounds...conglomerates like U.S. Steel, AT&T, big tobacco, and to a lesser degree Microsoft for example, who only now sees rival operating systems gaining ground as well as rival “open source software” threatening their bundle business model upon which Microsoft was built...meaning Microsoft might not be broken up. But with Facebook basically owning all that is social media the same cannot be said for them...so it's only the when and no longer the why.

So just when will Facebook be divided and conquered...the answer is only when it is regulated and taxed to such a degree that their sure to come not complying would allow the government to move in and break Facebook up into smaller competing companies, which in turn would decrease its profits making it less desirable for Zuckerberg and crew to hold onto.

But until then, it is no secret that Facebook has its eyes on mainstream media news outlets...entities like ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and MSNBC...who are sliding towards a ratings abyss and Facebook doesn’t need to read tea leaves to see the future. Facebook, the bane of the existence of the mainstream media, is in the process of adding a new label to their consumer monopoly...that of becoming a go-to major news source on top of their social media mountain.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, "There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today.” Never mind that Facebook itself through their arbitrary control and banning practices is the social media leader in the field of polarization...never mind that Facebook is now ranking news outlets as to which are or are not trustworthy. It’s a bit like having a fox decide which chickens are or are not in danger.

This new 'news rating' system is only rolling out in the U.S. to begin with, however, Facebook does have plans to eventually expand it globally, and while that is not very surprising there is something that should be a giant 'red flag' here, that being that while Facebook decides what news will or will not appear in your newsfeeds, they will not be making their mainstream media trustworthiness scores public. It’s their little secret of course.

This is yet another way to expand and strengthen their monopoly. In other words, never mind “Caveat Emptor,” just let Facebook be aware for you and don’t worry about it.

According to Digital Trends, Facebook is in the process of launching, “local news section, dubbed ‘Today In,’ and it is currently being tested in six cities. The section lists local news from publishers that have been vetted by Facebook in an attempt to weed out fake news,” but you and we know it won’t stop with local news. Eventually, Facebook will be in the business of national and then international news, thus becoming a millennial preferred alternative to the dying mainstream news media, and all while Facebook hired guns will decide what news you get to see.

Allowing Facebook and their far left liberal executives to decide what’s good for you is no better than allowing the government to decide what’s good for you. And as the Facebook monopoly continues to expand, we predict that within the next five to ten years the latest generation of voters and future generations of American voters, will get their marching orders spoon fed to them via social media giant Facebook.

Facebook knows well that they cannot adequately indoctrinate the masses with the liberal/socialist ideology unless they have the previously stated monopoly on the information and content that gets shared, and they are rapidly moving in that direction.

Tomorrow we will conclude our two part Special Report, 'Facebook...The Truth Exposed.'

Copyright © 2018 Diane Sori and Craig Andresen / Right Side Patriots / Investigative Reports / All rights reserved.

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