In a political sense, trust, safety and misinformation are the most sensitive parts of Meta’s operation. Facebook, in short, is utterly swarming with spooks. But the sheer scale of infiltration of Facebook blows these away. In previous investigations, this author has detailed how TikTok is flooded with NATO officials, how former FBI agents abound at Twitter, and how Reddit is led by a former war planner for the NATO think tank, the Atlantic Council. national security state ends and Facebook begins.

These hires are primarily in highly politically sensitive sectors such as trust, security and content moderation, to the point where some might feel it becomes difficult to see where the U.S. Studying Meta’s reports, as well as employment websites and databases, MintPress has found that Facebook has recruited dozens of individuals from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), as well as many more from other agencies like the FBI and Department of Defense (DoD).

None of this is mentioned in the Facebook video.īerman’s case is far from unique, however. officials to make decisions on the most critical national security issues,” especially on “the impact of influence operations on social movements, security, and democracy,” his LinkedIn profile reads. For years, he prepared and edited the president of the United States’ daily brief, “wr and overs intelligence analysis to enable the President and senior U.S. In his 15-year career, Aaron Berman rose to become a highly influential part of the CIA.

Or at least he was until July 2019, when he left his job as a senior analytic manager at the agency to become senior product policy manager for misinformation at Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. “Transparency is incredibly important in the work that I do,” he says.Īaron is CIA. It is not an easy job, of course, but someone has to make those calls. He comes across as a very likable, smiley person. He is wearing a purple sweater and blue jeans. In this official Facebook video, Aaron identifies himself as the manager of “the team that writes the rules for Facebook”, determining “what is acceptable and what is not.” Thus, he and his team effectively decide what content the platform’s 2.9 billion active users see and what they don’t see.Īaron is being interviewed in a bright warehouse-turned-studio. It is an uncomfortable job for anyone trying to draw the line between “harmful content and protecting freedom of speech.

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