From this story:
"Facebook had been caught designing algorithms to identify stressed, overwhelmed, and anxious teenagers on its network, presumably to assist advertisers who might want to target them"
"But it wasn’t the looming disaster at Facebook that angered Ms. Sandberg. It was the social network’s security chief, Alex Stamos, who had informed company board members the day before that Facebook had yet to contain the Russian infestation……….She appeared to regard the admission as a betrayal.....“You threw us under the bus!” she yelled at Mr. Stamos………………Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic"
But USA never helped Saudi to treat its people inhumanly.
The US didn’t help or remained silent when Saudi violeted human rights.
The US never EVER helped Saudi to spy on a journalist then advised its murderers on how to weather the storm, like Kushner did.
Even Lindsey Graham couldn’t tolerate this atrocity but it was fine with Kushner and Israeli PM Netanyahu https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-netanyahu-on-kh...
Can you please discuss the issue? because an Israeli company was involved we have the right to criticize it.
And you have no right to accuse us of not liking Israel or inventing stories.
If people with your reasoning are the only ones left to defend Israel, I worry about Israel...
Thank you!
It’s widely accepted and known in Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries that NSO is used by their dictators. Not sure why israel gov, the only democracy in that part of the world, is helping dictators by approving NSO to be sold to counties like Saudi Arabia, UAE and Mexico!!
It’s just shocking to see some people not only reject that its NSO but go beyond and above their ways to defend NSO, like the commentator we are relying to..
So many comments here are again insisting it’s the brother who leaked it when this article was SPECIFICALLY written by Gavin de Becker to say it’s the Saudis and not the brother...
please when you make a statement or reject an accusation cite a reputable source.
Check out this psygroup proposal to blackmail people name/shame by Psy-group.
It says in the proposal that these methods of blackmailing often work to silence target.
Worth mentioning that the smear campaign against Bezos on twitter is identical to what proposed to trumps son in his meeting at trump tower with George Nader
Here is psy group proposal
Yes there is. It’s been reported by many reporters. Citizen labs did an amazing job investigating NSO hacked phones.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/report-israel-authorized...
Then an ex mossad tried to get citizen labs to say antiemetic statement.
I had to edit my comment to add these two very important links from CNN and khashoggi twitter.
khashoggi funded a Saudi group (they called themselves the Bees) who were working to counterattack Saudi bots and trend manipulation. His conversation and planning with them was all intercepted by the Saudi using NSO software.
The group with khashoggi were able to push their hashtag and had it trending just 12 days before his murder
QUOTING GAVIN DE BECKER
“Bezos to sign would have required that I make a public statement, composed by them and then widely disseminated, saying that my investigation had concluded they hadn’t relied upon “any form of electronic eavesdropping or hacking in their news-gathering process.”
Note here that I’d never publicly said anything about electronic eavesdropping or hacking—and they wanted to be sure I couldn’t”
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Looks like NSO doesn’t want us to know think it’s their software..
Bezos asked his security consultant Gavin De Becker, to conduct the investigation he did and published his oped in a month.
The brother bla bla bla is just a distraction deployed by those who want you to believe NSO wasn’t used on to hack the phone of an American citizen.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/jeff-bezos-investigation-finds...
We discussed it here as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532185