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2020-06-25 Cyber
Project Veritas #ExposeFacebook: Hidden Cameras Show Facebook Contractors Bragging About Removing Pro-Trump Content From Platform

[PJMedia] James O’Keefe has an insider at Facebook, Zach McElroy, who says he’s prepared to testify that Cognizant contractors employed by Facebook are actively trying to sway the 2020 election through deletion of pro-Trump sentiment all over the platform. McElroy wrote an oped on Medium in advance of the video release.


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Training for the job lasted about a month and covered their entire internal policy in detail. I came into this job as a conservative, and immediately I took notice of highly objectionable biases in Facebook’s guidelines, from ideologically-based policies and definitions to allowing things to be posted that could get people killed. But what was I going to do about it? Leak documents on 4chan? Go to the media? No one cares. I was just some nobody in a sea of nobodies. Indeed, Facebook famously seems to want to ignore their content moderators’ existence, which is most likely the reason this work is subcontracted in the first place — "it’s not their problem". Their response to criticism of this has even been so astonishingly tone-deaf as to put signs around their campus which read "Contractors Are People Too", as reported by Bloomberg in May 2019.

Hidden cameras show Facebook contractors bragging about deleting MAGA accounts or pro-Trump sentiment because of political bias. "It’s a very progressive company who’s very anti-MAGA," says Steve Grimmett, team lead for content review, on hidden camera.

"I think they’re very biased with who they protect," adds Daniel Will, content moderator. "Facebook shadowbans and they say they don’t but it’s clear that people’s content don’t come up because it’s been de-filtered off the queue. They’re doing something but trying to pretend like they’re not," he said in what he thought was a private conversation.

"To me censorship online is one of the biggest issues facing us in the lead up to the 2020 election," said whistleblower McElroy. The video follows McElroy around Facebook as he asks employees on content moderation teams about the bias. He asks Robert Miller, "You know that civic harassment queue that we’ve been in lately? Is it just me or is it all Republicans in there?" Miller replies, "Yeah, it’s all Republicans. But a lot of it comes of Trump’s page specifically."

Other hidden video shows other social media content moderators admitting to deleting anything pro-Trump. "If a Trump post was to come up and it was promoting Trump, then I can take that down," said Lara Kontakos. "Then I feel that would be really impactful." In a later clip, Kontakos was heard saying she deletes "all Republicans." "If someone is wearing a MAGA hat I am going to delete them for terrorism."

McElroy also showed an internal memo allowing a drawing of Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
 being beheaded to stay on the platform while a cartoon of Elmer Fudd shooting Beto O’Rourke;
...Kennedyeque businessman, musician, skateboard artiste, and politician who represented Texas' 16th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2013 to 2019. Beto is a Latino nickname for people whose names end in "erto," like "Roberto" or "Alberto." He is seeking the Dem nomination for President in 2020 because he has nice hair and lots of teeth. He was born into a local political family in El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of a prep school and Columbia University, which is not in Texas. In 2005, he was elected to the El Paso City Council. He was elected to Congress in 2012 after defeating eight-term incumbent Silvestre Reyes in the Democratic primary. He declined to seek re-election in 2018, instead running for the Senate against Republican Ted Cruz, running a campaign that drew national attention because of his skateboarding skills. A few months after he lost, he announced his campaign for President...
 was deemed incitement to violence.

McElroy has started a GoFundMe for himself in the aftermath of this story to help with the difficulty he will surely face in legal battles after breaking the nondisclosure agreement he had to sign at Facebook.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ]  Top

#1 Lara:
Posted by 3dc 2020-06-25 01:26||   2020-06-25 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Wikipedia on Cognizant
Posted by 3dc 2020-06-25 01:33||   2020-06-25 01:33|| Front Page Top

#3 H-1B visa violations

Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States. The company has been steadily increasing its U.S. work force. In January 2011, the company announced plans to expand its U.S. delivery centers, including a new 1,000-person (0.4% of worldwide workforce) facility in Phoenix, Arizona.[126] In February 2011, Cognizant said it had 60 full-time recruiters actively hiring in the U.S.[127]

In 2009, an investigation by the US Department of Labor (DoL) found Cognizant in violation of the H-1B provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Administrative Act. 67 of its workers underpaid due to unintentional administrative errors, according to Cognizant. The DoL investigation revealed that Cognizant had achieved 99.7% compliance in its management of H-1B visa-related issues.[128] The company paid US$509,607 in back wages to the 67 employees. No fines or visa restrictions were imposed, since DoL did not discover any willful violations. Joseph Petrecca, the director of the Wage and Hour Division's Northern New Jersey District Office, praised the company for taking immediate steps to correct the violations: "This level of cooperation sets a standard for others in the industry."[129]

In 2016, the company was the subject of a lawsuit by workers for Walt Disney World who said workers from India were brought into the United States on H-1B visas in order to replace them.[130] However, in October 2016, federal Judge Gregory A. Presnel of the United States District Court in Orlando dismissed the lawsuits, stating "none of the allegedly false statements put at issue in the complaint are adequate."[131]
Posted by 3dc 2020-06-25 01:36||   2020-06-25 01:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Cognizant leads the ranks of companies receiving H-1B visas from the United States.

Displacing Americans is big business.
Number of employees: 291,700 (2020)
Revenue: US$16.8 billion (2019)
Posted by Ebberens Glimp4613 2020-06-25 02:38||   2020-06-25 02:38|| Front Page Top

#5 That comes out to $57,600 revenue per employee. You can hire a grocery store cashier for that kind of money once benefits and taxes are included. Yet supposedly, these H1B visa high tech workers are being paid "competitive" wages.
Posted by Ebberens Glimp4613 2020-06-25 02:44||   2020-06-25 02:44|| Front Page Top

#6 How will Cognizant handle suddenly being cut off from H-1B staffers — or at least additional staffers, I’m not sure how to understand President Trump’s executive order — through the end of the year?
Posted by trailing wife 2020-06-25 02:49||   2020-06-25 02:49|| Front Page Top

#7 I have worked with a tech team that was 100% American citizens before H1B1 people became popular. Creativity was through the roof. Also, it was a fun, company loyal team to work with also.

When companies started using H1B1 people, there were very good tech people coming in but they had to be told exactly what to do, there was no creativity, but that benefit was offset by lower pay per corporate.

One evening I was working very, very late and after midnight I noticed computers coming coming back to life by themselves, then cursors moving around on the screens. The H1B1 foreigners had given back door access to the systems to people back in their countries were going behind the fire walls at night and downloading the new code written the previous day.

THAT is how H1B1 workers were making up for the lower pay, they were selling access to their daily work to people and entities back home.
Posted by Crins Throlusing3119 2020-06-25 03:11||   2020-06-25 03:11|| Front Page Top

#8 >there were very good tech people coming in but they had to be told exactly what to do

an oxymoron if you ask me...

If you cannot understand the problem yourself, you will never produce a useful, let alone optimal solution.
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-06-25 06:22||   2020-06-25 06:22|| Front Page Top

#9 With Americans put out of work by the Donk governors, they've handed Trump the lock on H1Bs. Hello Big Tech. As they say in NYC, its nothing personal, its business.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-25 06:31||   2020-06-25 06:31|| Front Page Top

#10 Isn't H1Bs censoring the pre-election political discourse in the US a clear case of foreign meddling?
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2020-06-25 07:15||   2020-06-25 07:15|| Front Page Top

#11 Cancelling and censoring free speech expression? No surprise, that what fascists practicing tyranny over others do.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-25 10:18||   2020-06-25 10:18|| Front Page Top

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