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Facebook, Twitter and Other Social Media Sites are an Elaborate CIA Spying Scheme!

by mosesman

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  • Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites are an elaborate CIA spying  scheme! 
    by Ethan A. Huff, http://www.naturalnews.com/
    (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.
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    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.
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    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.
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    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)
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    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.
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    “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.” (http://youtu.be/gAPcG29Mf70)
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