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It’s not just bombs.
BREAKING: TIES BETWEEN WHATSAPP AND LAVENDER - META ASSISTING ISRAEL BY LEAKING DATA?
Accusations suggest Meta, via WhatsApp, may share user group metadata, potentially aiding Israeli military targeting in Gaza.
Despite WhatsApp's end-to-end encryption claim, concerns about privacy and complicity in conflict situations persist, heightened by Meta leadership's ties to Israel. Source:
Read more: https://t.co/4nfsQ7NGNX
A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2]. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?
Lavender is Israel's system of "pre-crime" [3] - they use AI to guess who to kill in Gaza, and then bomb them when they're at home, along with their entire family. (Obscenely, they call this program "Where's Daddy").
One input to the AI is whether you're in a WhatsApp group with a suspected member of Hamas. There's a lot wrong with this - I'm in plenty of WhatsApp groups with strangers, neighbours, and in the carnage in Gaza you bet people are making groups to connect.
But the part I want to focus on is whether they get this information from Meta. Meta has been promoting WhatsApp as a "private" social network, including "end-to-end" encryption of messages.
Providing this data as input for Lavender undermines their claim that WhatsApp is a private messaging app. It is beyond obscene and makes Meta complicit in Israel's killings of "pre-crime" targets and their families, in violation of International Humanitarian Law and Meta's publicly stated commitment to human rights. No social network should be providing this sort of information about its users to countries engaging in "pre-crime".
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Let's look at their leadership, in particular the three most senior leaders who have close ties to Israel.
Their Chief Information Security Officer, Guy Rosen, is their most senior policy decision maker. He is Israeli, lives in Tel Aviv [5], and was in the Israeli military in Unit 8200. Unit 8200 is the Israeli NSA and is the department that built and runs Lavender. Insiders tell me that Rosen is the person most associated with the anti-"anti-zionism" [4] policies, and is also responsible for the suppression of Palestinian content.
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta founder and CEO has also been a significant supporter of Israel's propaganda. Zuckerberg gave $125k to Zaka, one of the groups that created and continues to spread much of the original Oct 7 false atrocity propaganda, including the discredited "Oct 7 mass rape" hoax [6].
Meanwhile former COO and current Meta board member, Sheryl Sandberg, has been on tour spreading the same discredited propaganda [6]. Claiming her advocacy is for victims of sexual violence, she somehow ignores the long history of Israeli rape of Palestinians, especially in Israeli jails, where thousands of prisoners are held on "administrative detention" for months without trial or legal representation. Combined, these demonstrate that Sandberg's tour is about spreading Israeli propaganda which has been used to kill over 33,000 Palestinians, and is not about protecting women [7].
This allyship with Israel from the most senior parts of Meta's governance – CISO, CEO, and board member – sheds light on why Israel's military is able to get this information from WhatsApp, a supposedly "private" app.
Lots more at the link. Questions: Who does this surprise? Who thinks the Deep State hasn’t approved this? Mandated it?
Caveats?
Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand
Important caveat: "if true" . We need to bear in mind that there's no smoking gun in this story that proves Meta did send this data. But it is private Meta data that somehow ends up in the hands of the IDF so it's a fair speculation 
https://twitter.com/WaelNawara/status/1780820380577362164?t=wcDLfdDdzLGpQJg_tWYrOQ&s=19…
And if it is true, and Meta quite literally participates in the killing of its users, they absolutely should be sued to oblivion and probably dismantled. A company shouldn't normally be able to survive something like this, it's completely crazy.
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Wael Nawara @WaelNawara
Replying to @RnaudBertrand
If true, this implicates WhatsApp/Facebook in genocide and killing of USERS and opens the door for $billions in damages. I can see a HUGE CLASS ACTION coming. All the assets of Facebook will not be enough to settle the damages.
"Just imagine this huge missile falling in the middle of a city like Jerusalem, look how populated it is. Just think about it hitting neighbourhoods & people & children" wonders Israeli Ambassador to the UK
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-> Picture: A visual help to imagine from Gaza!
Boris Johnson: “Because IF Ukraine falls it will be a CATASTROPHE for the West—it will be the end of Western hegemony and we will have no one to blame but ourselves.”
Questions for Extra Credit: How would the end of Western Hegemony affect the Zionist project? How does that tie in with the fanatical Neocon support for the Ukro-Nazi proxy war against Russia?
More complicit?
The Spectator Index @spectatorinde
BREAKING: Iran's oil exports hit a six-year high amid increased sales to China
Olga Bazova @OlgaBazova
France in February became the main buyer of Russian gas among EU countries, displacing Hungary from this position. -- RIA
France purchased liquefied natural gas from Russia for 322.3 million euros, which is ten percent more than in January.
Hungary was dropped to the 2nd place. Spain closed top 3 with LNG imports worth 118.3 million euros.
Greece increased its gas purchases from Russia the most in February - 7.8 times, to 110.4 million euros. Finland and Sweden follow , having doubled their purchases to 6.6 and 4.7 million euros, respectively.
In total, the EU purchased 1.1 billion euros worth of gas from Russia at the end of winter, of which 619.4 million were LNG supplies and 493.3 million were pipeline gas.
Despite sanctions, the EU keeps sponsoring "Putin's war machine."
Take that, Putin!
Ryan Heuser / @heuser.bsky
@quadrismegistus
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This is far worse than whatever people think China may be doing with Tik Tok data. Meta is likely sharing WhatsApp group membership data with the IDF, which their 'Lavender' AI targeting system then uses to assassinate its members (and their families via its "Where's Daddy?" AI).
Mega Geopolitics
@MegaGeopolitics
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BREAKING:  Russia calls for sanctions against Israel at a UN session