PARENTS AND SCHOOLS ACROSS AMERICA SUING T-MOBILE, FACEBOOK, GOOGLE FOR KILLING CHILDREN AND DESTROYING THEIR MINDS

The Marin County Office of Education is suing social media companies, claiming they have a negative effect on children’s mental health.

The lawsuit, one of dozens filed across the country by school districts and local governments, has been brought on behalf of all Marin school students. It was filed April 28 in federal court in Oakland.

The lawsuit is part of multidistrict litigation involving multiple cases. Many of the cases, including Marin’s, are being consolidated before U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers.

The suit alleges that the social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, SnapChat, TikTok and Google-owned YouTube have violated California laws for public nuisance, unfair competition, negligence and racketeering.

“I believe holding entities accountable for the harm inflicted on youth — harm that is observable and impactful at schools — is necessary, primarily to limit and prevent future harm,” said John Carroll, Marin superintendent of schools.

Marin County and other plaintiffs are seeking  “changes in defendants’ social media platform designs and the implementation of protections for youth users,” said Aelish Baig, a San Francisco attorney who is representing Marin in the suit.

“We are also seeking funds to be used to abate the youth mental health crisis,” Baig said.

Attorney Phyllis Jones, who is representing one of the chief defendants, Meta Platforms Inc., parent company of Facebook and Instagram, referred all inquiries to the company. Representatives could not immediately be reached for comment.

On Tuesday, Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. Surgeon General, issued an advisory, warning that social media was causing harm to youth mental health.

“Children and adolescents who spend more than three hours a day on social media face double the risk of mental health problems including experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety,” the advisory summary states, referencing a 2019 study. “This is concerning as a recent survey showed that teenagers spend an average of 3.5 hours a day on social media.”

Marin’s 148-page lawsuit spells out an exhaustive body of research on youth mental health harm over the past decade or more.

“This litigation is important because with the advent of social media, American adolescence has seen a dramatic change,” Baig said.  “More and more of our youth in Marin and across the country are suffering from mental and behavioral health disorders,”

Baig added that educators, health care providers and families “are seeing soaring rates of anxiety, depression, cyber-bullying, self-harm, suicide and other harms,” she said.

“A growing body of experts and research are correlating excessive social media use with these negative outcomes,” she added.

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According to the Marin suit, the tactics used by the social media companies are intentionally done to increase profits.

“There is a reason America’s youth is online ‘almost constantly,’ which is that the primary metric of success for these social media giants is engagement,” according to the suit. “The companies’ success requires more users to be on their platforms for longer periods of time in order to maximize advertising revenue.”

The tactics include, the suit says, “(a) using algorithms and endless scrolls that create harmful experiences for children and teens; and (b) using intermittent variable rewards or dopamine hits to intentionally alter users’ behavior, creating habits and addiction.”

A Pew Research Center study found that almost half of U.S. teenagers aged 13 to 17 say they are online “almost constantly,” the suit states.

“Three decades ago, the gravest public health threats to teenagers in the United States came from binge drinking, drunk driving, teen pregnancy, and smoking,” the suit states. “With increased education, these have since fallen significantly, but have been replaced by a new public health concern: soaring rates of mental health disorders, including depression, self-harm, and suicidal ideation.”

The federal court in Oakland has set up a separate public webpage for the litigation on social media. It can be accessed at the main website, cand.uacourts.gov, under “Cases of Interest.”

According to Tuesday’s 19-page advisory by the U.S. surgeon general, he warned of the risks of social media to young people.

The unique advisory for the nation’s top health official, Dr. Vivek Murthy, urged a push to greater understand the possible harm to children.

While noting that the effects of social media on adolescent mental health were not fully understood, and that social media can be beneficial to some users, he also wrote, “There are ample indicators that social media can also have a profound risk of harm to the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents.”

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LOOK AT THE MASSIVE NUMBER OF HARMS, LISTED BELOW, THAT T-MOBILE HAS NEGLIGENTLY ENGAGED IN AGAINST CONSUMERS.

YOU CAN SUE T-MOBILE, FILE ARBITRATION ACTIONS AGAINST THEM, PARTICIPATE IN NEWS REPORTS ABOUT THEM, STAND IN FRONT OF CONGRESS WITH POSTERS DEMANDING THE CLOSURE OF T-MOBILE.

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These are your T-Mobile Anti-Corruption: 101 lessons. After reading and practicing what you learn in this book, you can move on to advanced lessons with the books and organizations listed at the end of this document. We will teach you how to hunt down and destroy any dirty politician or corrupt corporation like T-Mobile without breaking a single law. As long as they have engaged in crimes and illicit unethical activities they are “fair game” and law enforcement will even help you bring your targets down.

You have only one rule: Don’t break the law.

T-Mobile is a big dumb corrupt entity who is slow, cumbersome and running for cover. Even if they have trillions of dollars to spend against you, they will never have your speed, creativity, motivation, the millions of consumers and voters who support your mission backing you up and the good guys in actual law enforcement. You can take down the largest corporation on Earth, the biggest politician in the world or the most powerful covert cartel ever created. You just need persistence and dedication. If they did the crime, they can always be brought down. The corrupt can’t counter-measure two distinct weapons of justice:

1.) Transparency and 2.) The Unexpected.

This WIKI class will teach you how to terminate corrupt T-Mobile officials, from the comfort of your living room, using those two, aforementioned, resources and a bit of patient work on your personal computer. The following techniques usually only work on entities who are actually engaged in illicit corrupt activities. If you don’t like someones face, or are jealous of their girlfriend, these tactics are unlikely to work. If the target is an actual crook, you can ALWAYS eventually nail them.

These links, articles and DIY “how to” tips will get you, and your community, well on the way to the documentation, case building and termination of those who abuse the public. You are going to “take down” the corrupt politicians and the sneaky campaign financing billionaires hiding behind them and pulling their strings. On Wall Street and in Silicon Valley, groups of billionaires huddle together and create “bubble’s of corruption and self-deluding echo chambers of rationalization in order to convince each other that the crimes they commit are “for the greater good” of their fraternity house ego-manias.. They drink their own Kool Aid. You will use the “Three D’s”: You will Discover, Document and Disclose to publicly expose: Secret PAC cash trails; covert family trusts; secret shell companies; stock market payola; hiding of cash with friends and family members; prostitutes; illegal expense use; revolving door bribes; junket and sports ticket bribes; illicit hirings; rigged-game grants and government kick-back contracts; and much, much more…

You will create a “non-survivable scenario” for T-Mobile, all without breaking a single law, and WITH the help from journalists and law enforcement professionals. Everyday, something wild shows up in the news that nobody expected. Bad guys create some of the news, by rigging circumstances, but at least 50% of the events that suddenly appear each day are as big a surprise to them as they are to you. You will learn how to be prepared to react within 2 minutes of a major news item. You will learn how to use an event that momentarily disrupts the corrupt to your advantage. The corrupt have an addicted need to control things. They are always flummoxed when things get “out of their control”. In every city, state and federal agency there are three groups of people. You must be aware of this for your work with the law enforcement people who will be helping you. There are the Good Guys (the dedicated Elliot Ness-types who became cops in order to shut down crooks), the Bad Ones (The corrupt opportunists who are just as dirty as the corrupt politicians you are hunting) and the Worker Bees (these folks punch the clock and are just there to get the paycheck). The Worker Bee types will generally default to help The Good Guys because they don’t like anything that messes up routine or that could get their Department investigated. The odds are in your favor but you must carefully seek out the “Good Guys” in any given law enforcement group. You only need a couple Good Guy cop types to do their job to help run a complete take-down on any corrupt entity of any size. In actuality, as your back-up plan, you do not even need any law enforcement to assist you in preparing your case. You will learn, with this book and the links in this book, how to prepare a complete case file and deliver it to the public, the global media, public interest law organizations and every law enforcement agencies so that they can easily complete the prosecution. By helping all of these over-worked, yet appreciative, groups you can get karma brownie points, ethical satisfaction and, sometimes, CASH REWARDS. While you are doing all of the strategic investigation, you will also have a number of scenario packages ready for the unexpected event that will, eventually, occur, that you can instantly react to, piggy-back on to and use to flood the media with your disclosures, or put the target in an inextricable position. You will learn how to build your case file, assemble a virtual team, produce your evidence and deliver it globally to everyone who might have an interest. Here is the best part; you will be able to do a take-down entirely by yourself using the information in this book…BUT: You are not alone! There are probably thousands, or millions, of other people who have also found that the target is a corrupt and evil entity. They will help you reach your goal. Once you get started, you will find that your team can rapidly grow and become as big and as powerful, in different ways, as the bad guy target themselves. You will find reporters, investigators, public service groups, ex-employees, and voters who will be delighted to assist you. You will always be watching for “Moles” who are fake helpers placed in front of you by your target in order to distract, delay and surveill you. You will conduct your whole investigation as an independent but you will share everything with the public so that you bypass the Moles and get the support out there for anybody else who is working on the same goal. Ready? Set? Go!

PREVIOUS TARGETS TERMINATED BY OUR P2P FORENSICS PROGRAMS:

BILL COSBY, FOREX, SOLYNDRA, ABOUND SOLAR, A123, ENERDEL, AMY PASCAL, E.F.HUTTON, RADIO SHACK, ENRON, MCI WORLDCOM, EASTERN AIRLINES, STANDARD OIL, ERIC HOLDER, STEVEN CHU, ARTHUR ANDERSON, DELOREAN, PETS.COM, BEAR STEARNS, BEATRICE FOODS, HEALTHSOUTH, ALLEN STANFORD, TYCO, LANCE ARMSTRONG, PARMALAT, BANINTER, HSBC, GLOBAL CROSSING LTD., BLACKBERRY, HIH INSURANCE, IMCLONE, DEUTSCHE BANK (SPY CASE), URBAN BANK, JEROME KERVIEL, BARCLAYS BANK, BRE-X, FISKER, BARINGS BANK, PATRICIA DUNN, SIEMENS AG, PETROBAS, FERNANDO MARCOS, KELLOG BROWN AND ROOT, BAE SYSTEMS, KERRY KHAN, ALCATEL-LUCENT SA, PRESIDENT, RICHARD NIXON…and many, many more.


You will expose the dirty and illicit deeds of the target using the same technologies, tactics and methods used by the FBI, CIA, FSB and other high-end operators. All of these actions are 100% legal if you use them in proper legal fashion.
You will:
– Expose their Hookers in widely released news and social media releases
– Expose their Rent Boys in widely released news and social media releases
– Expose all of the bad dates and sex extortion they engaged in, in widely released news and social
media releases
– Expose their hidden family trust fund payola accounts, in widely released news and social media
releases
– Expose their shell corporations they use to hide from the IRS
– Expose their mistresses
– Expose their addictions
– Expose their under-the-table payments
– Expose their illegal workers
– Expose their expensive cars, jewelry and homes that can’t afford on a legal salary
– Expose their Cayman Island, Belize and Swiss hidden bank accounts
– Expose their personal email accounts they illegally used to hide government fraud
– Expose their illicit hidden email servers
– Expose their secret black-lists and start-up valuation rigging like in the Angel Gate Scandal- Expose their Uber and Lyft GPS docs proving that they lied about where they went
– Expose their campaign financing records
– Expose their social media statements proving they are, or fund, ANTIFA or political disruption
programs
– Expose their money laundering
– Expose their connections to Pede groups and activities
– Expose their hotel records and videos of illicit hotel meetings
– Expose their PayPal, Bitcoin and credit card payments for illicit services and products
– Distribute creative Memes exposing their crimes
– File reports with their employers disclosing their crimes and tell the media you told their employers
– File many copies of criminal reports on them with all law enforcement entities
– Expose the members of their family that hide money for them or use their names to launder money
– Photo and video document all of their meetings and actions
– Aggregate all of the video investigations about them on many different web video sites
– Write and distribute books, articles and white-papers about their crimes
– Promote new laws that makes what that criminal uses as a loop-hole, illegal
– Re-release all of the above every six months in order to keep the crimes in people’s minds
– Use “The Striesand Effect” to it’s maximum technical potential and research how the “Effect” works
– Grow your network of voters and taxpayers who are helping you and make your supporter network
bigger every day
– Expose the manner in which Google, Facebook and Twitter fight against exposing their criminal
friends
– Use Google, Facebook and Twitter’s own illicit tools against them and expose them with “Hypocrisy Exposure” when they censor
– Confront them in every single public presentation they attend and expose them in public
– Create coordinated groups of volunteers to expose the troll farms and click farms of the corrupt
manipulators
– Expose and publicly document all of their illicit real estate holdings, mansions and property scams
– Release of the details of their crooked secret partnership contracts
– Place a First Amendment informational exhibit outside of their offices, homes and each door they go
through each day
– Write them weekly and tell them that they are exposed. Send them certified letters proving that you
told them that you know
– Document and publicly expose all of their trips and expenditures
– Document the identities of the service trucks that come to their homes and offices
– Photo document all of their workers, interns and secretaries
– Contact their staff and ask them to report the illicit deeds of their employer. Provide media and police
contact information.
– Help their staff and the public organize class-action abuse law suits against the perpetrators
– File RICO Racketeering lawsuits against the corrupt
– File FEC charges, ie: Google provided over $1B of search engine rigging for Obama’s elections but
never reported that to the FEC
– Expose their stock market manipulations and valuation rigging in Wall Street Pump-And-Dump
scams
– Expose the insider trading where Senators own the stock that they just provided government perks for
– Expose politicians that make tens of millions more dollars, from mystery funds, than their salary
should allow
– Use pictures of expensive toys that politicians acquired from taxpayer funds via crony payola- When they are hacked (which you legally can’t do) expose the hacked material globally as far as
possible (which you legally can do)
– Read and analyze all publicly posted hacked emails and point out the crimes it exposes
– Meme any criminal remarks that the target makes
– And thousands of additional fully legal public investigation methods…

More than 40 school districts across America are suing social media giants T-Mobile, Facebook, Snapchat and TikTok for ‘creating a youth mental health crisis’

The school districts allege that the companies have ‘knowingly’ caused harm to children. They are demanding damages for the larger provision of mental health services.

T-MOBILE KILLS KIDS AND DESTROYS THEIR MINDS FOR PROFIT

Venture Capital funded the mental rape and murders of our kids by creating the Silicon Valley spying and big data abuse of the world and encouraging child data marketing. Now they are paying with mass layoffs in their holdings and fraud arrests in all of their startups. Karma is a bitch VC assholes.

Carlsbad, Oceanside, National City, and Ramona are now plaintiffs in a lawsuit just filed against all the major players. It alleges Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snap, and Youtube have caused a mental health crisis among youth.

“A 15-year-old was cyberbullied online. She couldn’t take it, and she hung herself at the school,” James Frantz said.

The deeply concerned Frantz Law Group is taking on the tech giants — and says these companies target kids and are knowingly harmful, manipulative, and addictive.

“It will be controlling their behavior, how they run their company and algorithms, and proving they’re not intentionally deceptive. Right now, there’s no one to control that,” he said.

Frantz says they’re eager to get their experts in the courtroom to talk about depression and addiction.

“Brain scans show an area lighting up when exposed to this. Similar to gambling.”

The lawsuit isn’t trying to eliminate social media but rather make them more responsible. A win for this team would mean transparency surrounding algorithms, money for educational materials that warn students about the possible dangers, and resources to address student mental health. T-Mobile and ATT are the guns that fire the bullets of Facebook and Google at these kids FOR PROFIT!

SUE BIG TECH FOR KILLING OUR KIDS AND DESTROYING THEIR MINDS!!!

Thursday, September 30, 2021. Today U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) introduced new legislation to make social media companies liable for bodily or mental harm their products cause to children. Senator Hawley’s bill would close the Section 230 loophole protecting these companies and allow parents to sue and obtain damages from social media …

T-Mobile helped Facebook and Instagram use ‘aggressive tactics’ targeting children: Unredacted lawsuit claims they knew about child sexual exploitation and exploited extreme content to drive more engagement and profit off child suicides

T-Mobile kowingly used ‘aggressive tactics’ that involved getting children hooked on social media ‘in the name of growth,’ according to a lawsuit against Meta claiming children have suffered at the hands of Facebook and Instagram

A Meta software engineer claimed that ‘it is not a secret’ how Facebook and Instagram used meticulous algorithms to promote repetitive and compulsive use among minors, regardless if the content was harmful – and was ‘been pretty unapologetic about it.’

The redacted revelations were disclosed in a lawsuit against Meta, which has been unsealed and seen by DailyMail.com.

Despite CEO March Zuckerberg publicly saying claims his company prioritizes profit over safety and well-being is just ‘not true,’ the files show child sexual exploitation on both platforms and allege ‘Meta’s engagement-based algorithm exploited extreme content to drive more engagement,’ the document reads.

The document states that 20 percent of nine to 13-year-older users on Facebook and Instagram have had a sexual experience with an adult on the sites.

This is despite Meta’s ‘zero-tolerance policies prohibiting abuse like child exploitation.’

T-MOBILE BRIBES POLITICIANS, JUDGES AND REGULATORS IN ORDER TO AVOID JUSTICE. TAKE THE BATTLE TO EACH INDIVIDUAL EXECUTIVE AT T-MOBILE. EXPOSE THE DIRTY DEEDS OF THEIR INSIDERS!

T-MOBILE USERS: YOU ARE GOING TO RECEIVE A NUMBER OF BENEFITS FROM THE WINNING OF LAWSUITS AGAINST T-MOBILE. PLEASE USE YOUR WINNINGS AND RESOURCES TO KEEP THE INVESTIGATIONS AND GOVERNMENT ACTIONS, AGAINST T-MOBILE, GOING FAST AND HARD. POST ON YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA ABOUT T-MOBILE’S ILLICIT ACTIONS. TAKE T-MOBILE TO COURT IN SMALL CLAIMS ACTIONS. FILE CASES AT WWW.FAIRSHAKE.COM AND KEEP T-MOBILE FROM SLIPPING DEEPER INTO POLITICAL CORRUPTION!

This is only 10% of the details of illicit, corrupt and socially abusive actions by T-Mobile that our group has received. We will keep posting on this WIKI until T-Mobile settles!

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Hackers Claim They Breached T-Mobile More Than 100 Times in 2022

 

T-MOBILE: STOP KILLING OUR CHILDREN WITH MOBILE MEDIA-CAUSED SUICIDES!
STOP DESTROYING YOUNG MINDS WITH BIG TECH’S SOCIAL ABUSE!

T-Mobile has known, for decades, that it’s network and devices had no privacy security. T-Mobile has known, for decades, that it’s network, it’s devices and it’s partnerships with Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. cause most child suicides and permanent child mental health damage and expose our children to pedo harvesting!

Public school districts around the globe, like those in Seattle are urged to file novel lawsuits against T-Mobile and their the tech giant partners behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and Snapchat, seeking to hold them accountable for the mental health crisis among youth.

Seattle Public Schools has filed an example lawsuit (One case is Seattle School District No. 1 v. Meta Platforms Inc., 23-cv-00032, US District Court, Western District of Washington (Seattle);  in U.S. District Court. The 91-page complaint says the social media companies have created a public nuisance by targeting their products to children and T-Mobile powers, markets to, connects to, networks to and promotes crazy brands like Kanye West, to these kids.

It blames them for worsening mental health and behavioral disorders including anxiety, depression, disordered eating and cyberbullying; making it more difficult to educate students; and forcing schools to take steps such as hiring additional mental health professionals, developing lesson plans about the effects of social media, and providing additional training to teachers.

“Defendants have successfully exploited the vulnerable brains of youth, hooking tens of millions of students across the country into positive feedback loops of excessive use and abuse of Defendants’ social media platforms,” the complaint said. “Worse, the content Defendants curate and direct to youth is too often harmful and exploitative ….” Get the message out to EVERY school district to file their lawsuits as soon as possible!

T-Mobile And AT&T are the “HYPODERMIC SYRINGE” social drug delivery vehicles and Meta Platforms, Inc., Facebook Holdings, LLC, Facebook Operations, LLC, Meta Payments Inc., Facebook Technologies, LLC, Instagram, LLC, Siculus, Inc., Snap Inc., TikTok Inc., ByteDance Inc., Alphabet Inc., Google LLC, XXVI Holdings Inc. and YouTube, LLC are the “DIGITAL HEROIN” that they all, cooperatively, pump into our kids and low IQ citizens. Expert Witnesses ranging from Edward Snowden to Frances Haugen to Dr. Robert Epstein, PHD to former heads of the KGB and CIA, are among thousands of highly credentialed experts who can testify to the veracity of these assertions.

HELP END MOBILE DIGITAL CHILD ABUSE BY T-MOBILE!

T-Mobile helped Facebook and Instagram use ‘aggressive tactics’ targeting children: Unredacted lawsuit claims they knew about child sexual exploitation and exploited extreme content to drive more engagement and profit off child suicides

T-Mobile kowingly used ‘aggressive tactics’ that involved getting children hooked on social media ‘in the name of growth,’ according to a lawsuit against Meta claiming children have suffered at the hands of Facebook and Instagram

A Meta software engineer claimed that ‘it is not a secret’ how Facebook and Instagram used meticulous algorithms to promote repetitive and compulsive use among minors, regardless if the content was harmful – and was ‘been pretty unapologetic about it.’

The redacted revelations were disclosed in a lawsuit against Meta, which has been unsealed and seen by DailyMail.com.

Despite CEO March Zuckerberg publicly saying claims his company prioritizes profit over safety and well-being is just ‘not true,’ the files show child sexual exploitation on both platforms and allege ‘Meta’s engagement-based algorithm exploited extreme content to drive more engagement,’ the document reads.

The document states that 20 percent of nine to 13-year-older users on Facebook and Instagram have had a sexual experience with an adult on the sites.

This is despite Meta’s ‘zero-tolerance policies prohibiting abuse like child exploitation.’

DailyMail.com has obtained an unredacted version of a lawsuit against Meta, filed by parents who claim children have suffered at the hands of its platforms

DailyMail.com has obtained an unredacted version of a lawsuit against Meta, filed by parents who claim children have suffered at the hands of its platforms

DailyMail.com has contacted Meta, which did not comment on specific questions.

A spokesperson for the court-appointed lead plaintiffs’ counsel told DailyMail.com: ”These never-before-seen documents show that social media companies treat the crisis in youth mental health as a public relations issue rather than an urgent societal problem brought on by their products.

‘This includes burying internal research documenting these harms, blocking safety measures because they decrease ‘engagement,’ and defunding teams focused on protecting youth mental health.’

The lawsuit, filed in California on February 14, cites that over a third of 13- to 17-year-old kids report using one of the Defendants’ apps ‘almost constantly’ and admit this is ‘too much,’ claim parents involved with the lawsuit.

The complaints, later consolidated into several class actions, claimed that Meta’s social media platforms were designed to be dangerously addictive, driving children and teenagers to consume content that increases the risk of sleep disorders, eating disorders, depression and suicide.

The case also states that teens and children are more vulnerable to the adverse effects of social media.

The unredacted version was released on March 10.

It states that Thorn, an international anti-human trafficking organization, published a report in 2021 detailing problems of sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram and ‘provided these insights to Meta.’

Thorn’s report shows ‘neither blocking nor reporting [offenders] protects minors from continued harassment’ and 55 percent of participants in the report who blocked or reported someone said they were recontacted online.

And younger boys are particularly at risk of predators.

The unsealed complaint also claims that 80 percent of ‘violating adults/minor connections’ on Facebook resulted from the platform’s ‘People You May Know’ feature.

. The files claim the company was aware of child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram and alleges 'Meta's engagement-based algorithm exploited extreme content to drive more engagement'

. The files claim the company was aware of child sexual exploitation on Facebook and Instagram and alleges ‘Meta’s engagement-based algorithm exploited extreme content to drive more engagement’

‘An internal study conducted in or around June of 2020 concluded that 500,000 underage Instagram accounts ‘receive IIC’—which stands for ‘inappropriate interactions with children’—on a daily basis,’ reads a redacted statement on pages 135 and 136 of the document.

‘Yet, at the time, ‘Child Safety [was] explicitly called out as a nongoal . . . . So if we do something here, cool. But if we can do nothing at all, that’s fine, too.’

Meta has since improved its ability to decrease inappropriate interactions between adults and young people.

The firm has built technology that allows it to find accounts that have shown potentially suspicious behavior and stop those accounts from interacting with young people’s accounts.

And Meta claims it does not show young people’s accounts to these adults when they’re scrolling through the list of people who have liked a post or when looking at an account’s Followers or Following list.

However, these changes were made after 2020.

The complaint also states that Meta had considered making teenage users’ profiles ‘private by default’ as early as July 2020 but decided against the move after pitting ‘safety, privacy, and policy wins’ against ‘growth impact.’

READ MORE: Mark Zuckerberg was ‘personally’ warned about Instagram and Facebook’s potential for addiction and harm on children but ignored it, damning court filings claim

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg was warned about his platforms’ harmful effects on children and teens and decided to ‘turn a blind eye,’ new court filings show.

On page 135 of the lawsuit, a portion that was redacted, claims that Meta was aware that allowing adults to contact children on Instagram ‘pisses Apple off to the extent of threatening to remove us from the App Store’ the company had not timeline for ‘when we’ll stop adults from messaging minors in IG Direct.’

‘That remained true even after Meta received reports that a 12-year-old minor solicited on its platform ‘was [the] daughter of [an] Apple Security Exec,’ the statement continued.

Meta, however, moved to make teenage user accounts private by default in November 2022.

A Meta spokesperson told DailyMail.com: ‘The claim we defunded work to support peoples’ well-being is false.’

The redacted version of the complaint reads: ‘Instead of ‘taking [this] seriously’ and ‘launching new tools’ to protect kids, Meta did the opposite.

‘By late 2019, Meta’s ‘mental health team stopped doing things,’ ‘it was defunded’ and ‘completely stopped. And, as noted, Meta allowed safety tools it knew were broken to be held out as fixes.’

A Meta spokesperson told DailyMail.com that because this is a top priority for the company, ‘we actually increased funding, as shown by the over 30 tools we offer to support teens and families. Today, there are hundreds of employees working across the company to build features to this effect,’ the said.

Other ‘shocking’ information in the unsealed complaint reports the existence of Meta’s ‘rabbit hole project.’

A Meta spokesperson told DailyMail.com the rabbit hole project does not exist.

‘Someone feeling bad sees content that makes them feel bad, they engage with it, and then their IG is flooded w[ith] it,’ the unredacted version reads.

‘Meta recognizes that Instagram users at risk of suicide or self-injury are more likely to ‘encounter more harmful suicide and self-injury content (through explore, related, follower suggestions.’

The document cites Molly Russel, a London teen who died by suicide in 2017.

‘Meta had conducted internal research which warned that there was a risk of ‘similar incidents like Molly Russell’ because algorithmic product features were ‘[l]eading users to distressing

T-Mobile’s ‘drug pusher’ marketing to kids has resulted in ‘Six in 10 teen girls feeling ‘persistently sad or hopeless’, CDC report finds – up 60% in a decade amid rise of T-Mobile in-your-pocket social media that parents never get to review!!!!

  • Nearly six in ten high school girls reported depression, about twice that of boys
  • Girls were about twice as likely to consider suicide in the past year than boys 
  • The survey adds to years of data showing a worsening teen mental health crisis 

 

The portion of teenage girls contending with severe depression has reached its highest point in a decade according to a new national survey of high school students.

The federal Youth Risk Behavior Survey found that in 2021, 57 percent of teen girls felt persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness, while that figure was even higher – about 70 percent – among teens who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, questioning, or another non-heterosexual identity.

Alongside a climb in suicidality among teen girls, rates of violence, particularly sexual violence are also on the rise. Levels of depression among teen girls were also considerably higher than those among teen boys.

The YRBS is conducted every two years by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and monitors several types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults: sexual behavior, substance use, instances of violence, and mental health.

The fallout from school closures, lockdowns, and other restrictions during the Covid pandemic shone a light on a growing teen mental health crisis, which researchers say existed long before the first coronavirus cases were confirmed.

The portion of young women experiencing persistent depression is at its highest level in about 10 years

The portion of young women experiencing persistent depression is at its highest level in about 10 years

Girls were about twice as likely as boys to report having seriously considered suicide with 24 percent of them making a plan to carry it out

Girls were about twice as likely as boys to report having seriously considered suicide with 24 percent of them making a plan to carry it out

While roughly a third of girls considered suicide, about 13 percent actually attempted it, compared to seven percent in males

While roughly a third of girls considered suicide, about 13 percent actually attempted it, compared to seven percent in males

The survey data, collected in fall 2021, reflected answers from more than 17,200 US high school students.

Dr Debra Houry, CDC’s Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science said: ‘America’s teen girls are engulfed by a wave of sadness, violence, and trauma.

‘These data are hard to hear and should result in action.’

The study did not look specifically at the causes of persistent sadness in teen girls, though CDC officials suggested they included higher rates of violence, especially sexual violence, played a role.

Kathleen Ethier, director of the CDC’s Division of Adolescent and School Health told reporters: ‘Our teenage girls are suffering through an overwhelming wave of violence and trauma, and it’s affecting their mental health.’

Dr Ethier added that ‘social isolation’ brought on by the pandemic as well as the widespread use of social media, which has been linked to increased rates of suicidality and low self-esteem, also share some of the blame.

Sexual violence has risen among girls, with one in five saying they had experienced it within the past year, the CDC said, up 20 percent since 2017.

CDC officials told reporters that while the study did not single out causes for the growing rates of depression among teen girls, rising rates of sexual crimes commited against them plays a major role

CDC officials told reporters that while the study did not single out causes for the growing rates of depression among teen girls, rising rates of sexual crimes commited against them plays a major role

More than one in 10, or 14 percent, said they had been forced into having sex, up from 11 percent of teen girls who said they’d been sexually assaulted in 2019.

Girls were also more prone to considering suicide than boys (30 percent versus 14 percent) not just in 2021, but also consistently over the past decade.

The rate of persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness among teen boys was also about half that of teen girls at 29 percent.

Meanwhile, girls were about twice as likely as boys to be cyber bullied. But bullying in school has declined overall.

This is very positive news, as the study points out that ‘Adolescents who are bullied, whether at school or electronically, are more likely to have multiple sexual partners, to have sex without a condom, to use substances, and to experience depression.’

CDC officials told reporters that school-based mental health programs are crucial to helping teens dealing with depression and the aftereffects of trauma.

Dr Howry said: ‘Schools are on the frontlines of the mental health crisis and they must be equipped with the proven tools that help students thrive.’

T-MOBILE CAUGHT LYING TO USERS: https://www.gsmarena.com/newscomm-46157.php

T-Mobile data breach class action lawsuit investigation

Feb 3, 2023  TMobile has faced several data breaches in the past, including an August 2021 breach which resulted in a $350 million class action settlement. Consumers …

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3 days ago  Local exchange carriers (LECs) have filed a class action lawsuit against TMobile related to the carrier’s previous practice of inserting false ring tones …

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T-Mobile is hacked AGAIN!!!!!!!!: Mobile giant says ‘malicious intruder’ stole data on 37M customers including addresses and phone numbers of kids AGAIN!!!!

T-Mobile has revealed that the addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth of 37 million customers have been collected by an ‘unidentified malicious intruder’ in yet another breach of the carrier.

CONGRESS HAS GIVEN T-MOBILE A PASS BECAUSE T-MOBILE PAYS BRIBES TO CONGRESS

Per the organization called “OpenSecrets”, and based on data from the Senate Office of Public Records. Data for the most recent year that was downloaded on January 23, 2023 and includes spending from January 1 – December 31. Prior years include spending from January through December, the FBI and FINCEN determined that T-Mobile paid over $10M in political influence bribes and investigators today believe that the bribes paid are closer to $80M in stock market ownership bribes relayed to Congress people, Senators and White House staff. Make no mistake, T-Mobile is being charged with felony criminal actions

T-Mobile’s Getting Help From Trump Allies in Deal for Sprint

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TMobile said late Thursday in a statement it hired Turnberry Solutions in August. “Corey Lewandowski is now affiliated with that firm and …

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T-MOBILE KILLS OUR KIDS AND CAUSES THEM PERMANENT BRAIN DAMAGE, SUICIDE AND HORRIFIC MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES, ALL FOR PROFITS-OVER-CHILD-SAFETY!

https://krcomplexlit.com/currentcases/social-media-a-youth-mental-health-crisis

T-Mobile Social Media Must Be BANNED For Children Says U.S. Surgeon General

  • Dr Vivek Murthy is urging parents to keep their teens off of T-Mobile social media apps because they cause suicide
  • Teen social use is linked to increased rates of anxiety, depression and more

 

Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned Sunday that children under 16 should not be allowed on social media.

He said websites such as TikTok and Instagram distort children’s sense of self and make them unable to deal with criticism as adults.

Dr Murthy’s comments come as research continues to pile up, showing the pitfalls of young people using social media.

Studies have linked teenage social media use to eating disorders, depression, anxiety, poor grades, and other negative impacts on young people.

‘I believe 13 is too early,’ Dr Murthy told CNN Newsroom over the weekend.

‘And I think that it’s a time, early adolescence, where kids are developing their identity, their sense of self…And the skewed and distorted environment of social media does a disservice to many children.’

In an interview with CNN, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (pictured) warned parents against letting their children use social media before the age of 16

In an interview with CNN, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy (pictured) warned parents against letting their children use social media before the age of 16

The surgeon general told a tragic story about a 11-year-old girl who committed suicide after she was ‘mercilessly’ cyber bullied on several of her social media accounts.

Murthy further urged parents to join forces and ban their kids from using social media until they are older.

‘If your child is the only one who’s not using social media but everyone else in their school is, it’s a tough position for your child to be in,’ Murthy said.

‘But if parents can ban together and say, as a group, we’re not going to allow our kids to use social media until 16 or 17 or 18 or whatever the age is they choose, that’s a much more effective strategy, making sure your kids don’t get exposed to harm early.’

Repeated studies have linked social media use in young people to harmful long-term negative side effects.

A 2020 report by researchers from Johns Hopkins University linked the surge in teen mental health issues in the 2000s to the advent of social media.

Another Johns Hopkins team found in 2019 that students who spend more than three hours per day on social media platforms show more significant risks of severe mental health problems.

Researchers found a strong link between time spent on social media and the likelihood of developing depression when looking at more than two-dozen studies.

In 2020, researchers at Rochester University found that getting few likes on a social media post can induce anxiety in teens.

Last year, researchers at MIT found anxiety and depression rates are higher in college communities where Facebook is more prevalent.

Body image issues from social media, particularly tied to apps such as Instagram, have also been linked to eating disorders.

A 2016 study led by the University of Pittsburgh found a ‘strong and consistent association’ between social media use and eating disorders.

 

 

MORE EVIDENCE OF SPYING AND DIRTY DEEDS T-MOBILE PARTNERS WITH IT’S AD ASSOCIATES TO ENGAGE IN:

– Trillions Of Dollars Of Influence Peddling Between Famous Politicians And Secret Corporate And Family Accounts…
– Money Laundering…
– Sex Trafficking, Hookers And ‘Executive Sex Clubs’ like NXIVM, One Taste, Moscow Lovelies, Rosewood Hotel Hookers, etc…
– Killing Teens By Hiding Teen Suicides And Mental Health Issues Caused By T-Mobile Social Media
– Family Alcoholism…
– Political Bribery Using PACS and Dark Money Cash Relays…
– Stock Market Manipulations For Their Own Insider Trading…
– Infidelities And Spousal Abuse As Shown In Their Court Records…
– Organized Media Censorship By Silicon Valley…
– Misogyny And Sex Extortion Of Workers…
– Fake Tax Exempt ‘Charities’ That Exist Only For Political Money Laundering…
– Forcing “ISSUES” On Us That They Covertly Own The Companies Of…
– Dynastic Family Manipulations of Public Policy…
– Buying Stocks In Dept Of Energy Funded Projects That Are Then Pumped-And-Dumped For Unjust Wind-Fall Profits…
– Election Rigging Using Google, Facebook, YouTube And Their Media Cartel…
– Search Engine Bias And Shadow Banning Of Competitors And Reporters…
– Big Tech Monopolies Information Manipulation…
– Recession Causing Market Anti-Trust Law Violations…
– Corporate Hiring Racism…
– Brotopia Frat Boy Rape Culture In Their Companies And Offices…
– Secret Offshore Shell Corporations To Hide Money…
– Venture Capital Funding Black-Lists…
– Collusion Between Sand Hill Road, Palo Alto VC’s On Finance Black-Lists, Valuation Prices And Monopolies…
– Patent Thefts And Attacks On Small Inventors…

– Political Payola Using Stealth Real Estate, Fine Art And Jewelry Holdings…
– Graft Via Bribes With Event Tickets, Dinners, Tax Waivers, Vacations, Pretend Speaking Contracts, etc….
– Corrupt Lobbyists Who Hire Fusion GPS, Gawker, Black Cube, Google And Other ‘media kill services’…
– Their Use of Our Democracy As Their Play-Thing…

All of these assertions have been proven in court records, federal investigations, Congressional charges, 60 Minutes segments, news documentaries, document and email leaks, and thousands of other sources. The facts are undeniable and can be proven, AGAIN, in live televised Congressional hearings!

YOU CAN WIPE THEM OUT USING 100% LEGAL PUBLIC FORENSICS!

In all of recorded history, there has never been so much taxpayer cash given to so few people, where each, and every, one of the recipients was a friend of the politician giving away the taxpayer cash and everyone who got the cash immediately skimmed “unjust profits” and shut down the business.

Want to help end the tech oligarch’s rape of society? Never, EVER: use, read, quote, link to, paste from, or refer to; anything on corrupt and contrived: T-Mobile – Twitter, Google – Alphabet – Facebook – Meta – Instagram – Netflix or YouTube! Don’t expand their reach! Don’t be their digital bitch! Stop being an addict to Silicon Valley’s social media scam! Keep the battery out of your phone so Big Tech can’t continue to spy on you. Did you know you CAN’T turn an iPhone off. Apple iPhone’s pretend to be “off” but still monitor you with reserve power. The government should shut these companies down but they don’t because these companies pay the largest bribes on Earth to politicians! Demand that Congress shut down these big tech abusers that cause child suicides, bullying, sex trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, political bribery, election manipulation and other social crimes.Twitter, Facebook, Google, Netflix, YouTube spy on you and rape your mind by serving manipulated content choices requires by automatically creating covert user dossiers made by spying on users’ content consumption preferences and continually changing them based on psychological analysis of the users. Spy agency-type profiles created by Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc. use abstract content-specific features of the consumed content, such as categories, topic models, and entities, which they automatically extract using NLP methods. They Aggregating these features per user at scale based on what rich white Democrat ideology Google programmers want. In particular, it is impractical to store the entire dynamic history of a user’s interaction features, requiring the companies to use biased algorithms that selectively decay information in favor of a more liberal political representation. The more it scales, the more racist, sexist, classist, misogynistic and politically biased it gets.

 

Silicon Valley has had the largest number of Congressional hearings against it, BUT the least number of regulations imposed on it. Why? You can look no further than the covert ownership of Silicon Valley by elected officials. Our politicians get paid bribes, by Silicon Valley, to keep the political corruption alive and well while they operate, with impunity, as the biggest threats to society ever manifested.

While the FBI, FTC, DOJ and FEC are supposed to objectively prosecute this case, it is impossible for them to be objective when their raises, promotions, house payments and stock market profits are entirely determined by the individuals we are charging with these crimes.
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T-Mobile Exploits, And Profits Off Of, Hate!!!

One of the worst issues with T-Mobile: T-Mobile was created in Germany as the Bundespost, by the Nazi’s, in order to hunt down and kill Jews. Today, T-Mobile uses it’s old Jew-hunting spy network to hunt down and attack citizens, politicians and reporters who report on the dirty deeds of T-Mobile and T-Mobile’s political partners! Kanye West is promoted by T-Mobile on social media sites, in PR and in T-Mobile stadiums. Kanye West promotes the Nazi theory that “Jews are brainwashed, from birth, to tribally hate all outsiders; that the Mossad exists to attack non-Jews; that Jews control all banks, elections, Hollywood and Silicon Valley media; and that the Mossad have hacked every cell phone.”

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Questions T-Mobile must answer in world courts: A.) Have you ever been compensated by a spy agency?, B.) Have you ever supported a political candidate?, C.) Have you ever received a government contract because you took a political bribe?, D.) Do you have a database that can track your enemies?, E.) Do you have a database that can track and harm any politician’s enemies?, … and many more…

All of the Twitter, Google, Facebook and other social media internal emails and communications are being leaked and data-dumped, proving that insiders conspired to use the public’s communications systems for propaganda, spying on consumers and the targeting of attacks on competitors and whistle-blowers so that companies like T-Mobile could put undesirable citizens in their digital ovens!

ELON MUSK, T-MOBILE’S SATELLITE PARTNER HATES JEWS LIKE T-MOBILE DOES:

https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/25/elon-musk-twitter-antisemitic-hate-speech-lawsuit-germany/

https://congressional-ethics-reports.com/gallery/index.php?/category/1

T-MOBILE WAS CREATED BY THE NAZIS TO SPY ON, AND ATTACK, CITIZENS

It is a historical fact, easily verified in public history records, that T-Mobile was operated, administered and used by the Nazi’s to hunt and spy on Jews and database their communications in order to haul them off to death camps. One of T-Mobile’s CEO’s (John Legere) https://crosscut.com/2019/01/t-mobiles-tryst-trump-embarrasses-seattle  was deeply involved in a political scandal for quid pro quo over the Assurance phone contract with the Republican party members who shared a love for Hitler’s beliefs. T-Mobile still uses a global citizen spying, monitoring and blacklisting system, similar to that used in Nazi and Stazi times. Reporters, whistle-blowers, activist citizens, low-income Assurance Phone (free “Obama Phone”) are monitored and have their services cut-off, throttled or otherwise harmed in reprisal/revenge/vendetta if they report anything that T-Mobile is shamed by. Such users are shipped off to T-Mobile’s digital ovens in reprisal blacklisting. The class action case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_Litigation  proved that such big tech companies actually have created blacklisting and boycotting systems to harm mass volumes of citizens. Single Mom’s, low-income teachers, disabled people and seniors using T-Mobile’s Assurance phones are spied on!

HOW ADOLPH HITLER CREATED T-MOBILE TO SPY ON JEWS AND PUSH PROPAGANDA

After Adolf Hitler came to power in January 1933, the Bundespost became an instrument of the Nazi totalitarian state and, as such, its propaganda machine. Letters and telephone calls were routinely intercepted and used to identify Jews and dissidents. During World War II telephone services of theBundespost continued to function right up until Allied occupation in all areas of Germany. However, the service was in chaos by the time of Germany’s surrender on May 7, 1945. Of the 3,420 buildings the Bundespost had owned before the war, 1,483 had been completely destroyed or damaged by bombing between 1940 and 1945, as well as during the fighting within Germany before its surrender. Many of its former personnel were dead or missing, and many telephone lines were cut.

As U.S., British, and Soviet forces assumed control of government, they also took over postal and telephone services. Between 1945 and 1947, political rifts and eventually the Cold War broke out between the Western allies and the Soviet Union. In 1947 the British and American occupation zones were merged for economic purposes, and administration began to be handed back to the Germans. The Soviets’ refusal to participate in the currency reforms of June 1948 and the Berlin blockade meant that a unified postal structure for all occupation zones was doomed. Postal services in the eastern part of Germany were turned over to the new East German state established by the Soviets in 1949. An elected Parliamentary council from all three western zones met at Bonn on September 1, 1948 to draw up the West German constitution or Basic Law. In April 1949, U.S., British, and French governments guaranteed full powers of self-government to the new West German state. The Bundespost was reborn as a state body under the control of a cabinet ministry and assumed control over posts, telephones, and telegraphs in the new Federal Republic of Germany. The new constitution specifically forbade the privatization of posts and telecommunications.

During the 1950s the Bundespost had to rebuild its communications network and hundreds of post office buildings. Much of prewar Germany’s communications had centered on east-west communication networks between Berlin and western industrial cities. The new West Germany was a long, narrow country in which many lines of communication now ran north-south. West Berlin had become an isolated city in an alien country. After the war, the division into different occupation zones had fragmented communications and delayed the formation of an integrated network.

The reconstruction of the telephone service was accomplished by the end of 1951, but installation of new private telephones was slow. By 1952, there were still only five telephones per 100 inhabitants in Germany, compared to 28 and 11 per 100 inhabitants in the United States and Britain, respectively. By the 1960s, however, Germany’s communications network had been fully restored, and telephone subscribership was on a par with other industrial countries. As postwar Germany’s prosperity rose, the demand for telecommunication services grew. The Bundespost invested in satellite communications; new transatlantic self-dialing facilities from Bonn, Frankfurt, and Munich became available in 1970.

Attempts to free the Bundespost, including its telephone service, from political control date back to the 1920s. Around that time the government of the Weimar Republic was looking for a structure that would allow the Bundespost a measure of independence as a profit-making organization. In 1924, laws were passed allowing the Bundespost a considerable degree of financial autonomy from government control. The success of this reform, however, was restricted by interference from politicians and trade unions, and was finally reversed altogether by the Nazis.

The issue came up again when Germany experienced an unprecedented economic boom after World War II and many business and consumer groups began criticizing the post office monopoly for inefficiency. A 1970 law formally stated that the monopoly had been effectively superseded by a reservation that prevented the establishment of a rival undertaking, but little changed. In 1973 a further reform, the Postal Organization Act, limited government intervention in the Bundespost “only to what is politically necessary and to facilitate post office management.” Under the new structure, the Bundespost was headed by an executive committee assisted by a supervisory council. The committee, however, remained responsible to the government.

German business continued to complain that the Bundespost’s phone network was inefficient and expensive and that German manufacturers might be disadvantaged by a backward telecommunications market. However, several powerful interest groups opposed change for fear of job losses and disappearance of preferential treatment under a more competitive system that included: the Social Democratic Party; the postal union Deutsche Postgewerkschaft; the Bavarian State Government; large contract suppliers to the Bundespost, including the German electronic giant Siemens AG; and the Bundespost’s employees, who enjoyed the status of civil servants with considerable job security and pension benefits.

Company Perspectives:

Deutsche Telekom is Europe’s largest telecommunications company and one of the worldwide engines of innovation in the industry. Our products and services set standards not only in Germany, but also around the world. We make sure that our customers always have access to state-of-the-art solutions – from high-speed network access services to mobile Internet and beyond – and that they are the first to benefit from the fascinating prospects and possibilities of the communications revolution.

Pressures from both the European Community (EC) and the United States finally forced Bonn to make recommendations about the future of the Bundespost. Under Chancellor Kohl’s Christian Democrat-dominated government, the so-called Witte Commission began to explore the possibility of privatization in 1985 and presented a report in September 1987. The commission recommended the opening of the telecommunications equipment and services market to outside bidders, a change that was likely to be required by EC competition law. The Bundespost would continue to operate in all its present fields, but some competition would be allowed in radio paging, mobile telephones, modems, videotext, and some satellite systems. However, the basic telephone monopoly, which earned 90 percent of the Bundespost’s telecommunications income, would beretained. The commission also recommended that the Bundespost be divided into three businesses: Postdienst (postal services), Postbank (bank services), and Telekom (telecommunications), with a minimal level of political interference above the level of their respective management boards.

The report drew criticism from both sides; while liberals condemned it for not going far enough, opponents claimed it went too far. As a result, the original proposals were heavily altered before the new law passed the Bundestag, Germany’s parliament, in 1989. Deutsche Bundespost, was divided into three separate companies: Deutsche Bundespost Postdienst, Deutsche Bundespost Postbank, and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom. Each company had its own board of management and separate accounts. However, a common directorate was added between the three businesses and a proposal for incentive-based pay was limited. The Ministry of Posts and Communication still had ultimate supervisory and regulatory authority in the public interest.

What the postal reformers could not foresee was the collapse of East Germany in November 1989 and Germany’s reunification in October 1990. German reunification brought with it the integration of East Germany’s own telecommunications monopoly, Deutsche Post, into the Bundespost. It soon became apparent that the necessary infrastructure investment was much larger than previously anticipated. Only 10 percent of East Germany’s households had a telephone, compared to 98 percent of West Germany’s. East Germans who applied for a telephone line often waited ten years and longer to get it. By 1989 the number of applications had risen to 1.3 million. More than 3,500 small East German towns were left without a public phone. Every call to West Germany was channeled through one of 15 connection centers to East Berlin’s foreign connections office which was equipped with 111 lines to the West. Moreover, much of the existing East German telephone equipment predated World War II. Small wonder this bottleneck brought the quickly increasing telephone communication from East to West close to breakdown.

Within six months Deutsche Bundespost Telekom launched its ambitious Telekom 2000 program, a seven-year investment plan of DM 60 billion. The program not only aimed for bringing the telecommunications network of former East Germany up to Western standards, but also for installing a state-of-the-art infrastructure good enough to meet the demands of the year 2000 and beyond. Telekom emerged as one of the biggest employers in eastern Germany. The company took over almost all employees from Deutsche Post’s Telekom division. Up to 4,000 of Deutsche Bundespost Telekom’s employees were sent to eastern Germany to support their new colleagues.

To make telephone connections available quickly, Telekom made it a priority to establish a mobile telecommunication infrastructure in the eastern part of Germany. Its C- and the new digital D1-cell phone networks reached 80 percent of the population in the eastern German states by the end of 1991. Three years later former East Germany was covered by Telekom’s digital mobile phone network. In August 1992 uniform area codes were introduced for the whole country. In mid-1991 Telekom established a digital overlay-network over the existing analog long-distance network. The first digital connection centers were set up in eight eastern German economic centers. From there the digital network was gradually expanded and by 1993 the number of telephone connections between East and West had grown from under 1,000 to 30,000.

In the final phase of the program Telekom technicians worked around the clock to finish the task. It took some 40,000 kilometers of optic fiber cable to build the new digital long-distance network and over ten million kilometers of copper cable to expand the 1,500 local networks. By 1997, Telekom 2000 had reached its goals. The telephone network in the eastern German states was fully digitized and the number of telephone connections had quadrupled since 1990. According to Deutsche Telekom, the former East Germany had the most modern and efficient telecommunications infrastructure in the world.

The enormous costs of updating the former East German telephone system caused many opposition politicians to drop their objections against privatizing Deutsche Bundespost. Privatization was increasingly regarded as a way to make profits and increase efficiency, and the support of the Social Democrats for the two-thirds majority vote in the Bundestag necessary to make changes in the constitution became more likely. In September 1991, the Social Democrat party said it would support privatization under certain circumstances. The negotiations that followed went slowly. Whenever a compromise was in sight, the party added new demands to its list.

Key Dates:

1877:
Heinrich von Stephan puts telephone services under the control of his postal authority.
1912:
Germany’s telephone network is laid underground. 1933: The Nazis take over control of the Post Office.
1949:
Deutsche Bundespost assumes control over posts, telephones, and telegraphs in the new Federal Republic of Germany.
1989:
New legislation passes the German parliament, and Deutsche Bundespost Telekom is established.
1990:
The telecommunications companies of former East and West Germany are merged.
1994:
The Posts and Telecommunications Reorganization Act passes the governing bodies. 1995: Deutsche Bundespost Telekom becomes a public stock company and is renamed Deutsche Telekom AG.
1996:
Deutsche Telekom shares are traded at the New York Stock Exchange for the first time.
1997:
The telephone network in the eastern German states is fully digitized.
1998:
The German fixed-network telephone market is opened to competition.
2001:
Deutsche Telekom takes over American mobile phone service providers VoiceStream and Powertel.

Helmut Ricke, Telekom’s CEO since 1990, and his management team decided to move ahead and completely reorganize Telekom. In September 1992 the company abandoned the governmentagency structure, and six months later Ricke presented a more customer-focused organization. Throughout the company he established separate divisions for private and business customers and a third one for key accounts. In mid-1993 Telekom spun off its mobile telecommunications business as a private company, Deutsche Telekom Mobilfunk GmbH (DeTeMobil), allowing it to better compete in the already liberalized market for mobile phone services. Meanwhile, the Christian Democrat Minister of Postal Services and Telecommunications, Christian Schwarz-Schilling, who had worked relentlessly for postal reform, resigned suddenly and was succeeded by Wolfgang Botsch.

The final impulse for Telekom’s privatization came from the EC. At a meeting in Brussels in May 1993 Botsch and his European colleagues decided to open their markets for network-based telephone communication to competition by 1998. Six months later a new proposal for postal reform was presented in Bonn. The postal workers’ union fought Telekom’s privatization until the end and organized a major strike in late spring of 1994. However, in July 1994 the Posts and Telecommunications Reorganization Act passed the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, the German parliament’s upper house. However, the law required the German government to be the majority shareholder in the former Bundespost companies for at least five more years and extended the monopolies for postal and phone services until the end of 1997. On January 1st, 1995, Deutsche Bundespost Telekom was transformed into a public stock company and renamed Deutsche Telekom AG.

Just a few weeks before Telekom’s transformation into a public stock company, Helmut Ricke, who had put the reunited Deutsche Telekom on the track to privatization, resigned as CEO. Ex-Sony manager Ron Sommer became the company’s new chairman, and his first big task was to attract investors who would buy Telekom shares at the company’s initial public offering (IPO). As a monopolist, Deutsche Bundespost Telekom had been a profitable business with considerable yields for the German federal budget. However, its capital base had suffered badly in the early 1990s because of the necessary infrastructure investments. An additional burden was the cost for its civil servants for whom Telekom had to pay the difference between the retirement benefits they received from public funds and 75 percent of their final salary. In 1994, the company’s budget for retirement benefits exceeded the budget for basic salaries by 50 percent.

Deutsche Telekom launched a huge image campaign to attract private German investors, including a new “T” logo and brand name. Telekom’s top management courted the world’s largest banks as well as other large institutional and private investors. In the United States alone, Telekom organized 17 “road shows.” Both measures were extremely successful. Within two years of its introduction, the pink “t” was recognized by nine out of ten Germans as Telekom’s logo. Some 400,000 Germans bought Telekom shares which were termed T-Aktien or T-Shares. Some banks placed orders worth between DM 500 million and DM 1 billion.

On November 18th, 1996, the largest European IPO to date took place. After the first Telecom stock quote was announced at Germany’s major stock exchange in Frankfurt am Main, the CEO, together with CFO Joachim Kroske, jetted to New York to be present at an IPO party at the Guggenheim Museum where Liza Minelli sang “Money Makes the World Go Round” under a dome of pink light. The heavily oversubscribed shares debuted at 19 percent over issue price on the first trading day. The more than 700 million T-shares sold to private investors accounted for about one-quarter of Deutsche Telekom’s share capital. The rest was still held by the German government. An agreement guaranteed that the German government could only sell shares to third parties if Deutsche Telekom agreed.

While investors were told that new T-shares would not be issued in 1997 and 1998, a second batch was issued in mid-1999, raising EUR 15 billion for the company. The government’s stake decreased to about two-thirds of the total share capital after that transaction. As in the IPO, Telekom was the beneficiary of the new stock offering, and the money was used to boost the company’s capital base. In early March 2000 the T-shares reached an all-time high of seven times the initial issue price. Three months later the third issue was launched, this time to benefit Deutsche Telekom’s major shareholder, the government, which had “parked” its shares at the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, a government-dominated development bank. The government’s stake now stood at 60 percent.

On January 1st, 1998, the German fixed-network telephone market was opened to competition. Almost immediately, the average cost for long-distance calls dropped by up to 30 percent. German consumers jumped at the opportunity—although with a healthy portion of skepticism. While they took advantage of “call-to-call” offers from Telekom’s competitors for longdistance calls, they were hesitant to completely switch to a new provider.

From the beginning, Deutsche Telekom fought fiercely against its competitors—by any means available. For example, the company placed newspaper ads asking businesses with large phone systems, such as hotels, to make the use of alternative providers impossible. The company also warned customers that it would charge high “compensation fees” should they switch to other providers. Telekom’s competitors, which mostly depended on the former monopolist’s infrastructure, were not only charged for renting the phone lines but were also charged high “takeover fees” not always related to real cost when customers switched to a new phone company. When customers nonetheless decided to switch, Deutsche Telekom took a great deal of extra time to connect them with their new provider of choice, competitors complained. Finally, Deutsche Telekom challenged every directive made by the newly established regulation agency Regulierungsbehorde für Telekommunikation und Post in appeals court. About 250 such lawsuits were pending by mid-2001, and it was estimated that resolutions might take another three to five years.

Two years after the market was opened, about 50 companies competed with Deutsche Telekom. About two-thirds of all longdistance calls in 1999 were placed with an alternative “call-by-call” provider, saving customers up to 85 percent. However, Telekom recaptured about half of the competition’s revenues through network usage fees. Thus, the company’s long-distance market share in terms of revenues was around 90 percent.Furthermore, roughly four-fifths of German customers preferred Deutsche Telekom as their basic phone company and did not plan to switch providers.

In the face of fundamental changes in the market for telecommunications, with mobile telephony and Internet-based applications on the rise, Deutsche Telekom decided to focus on four growth areas and do away with activities that were not in line with them. The new growth plan was given the acronym TIMES, identifying new markets as telecommunications, information technology, multimedia, entertainment, and security services. Deutsche Telekom announced that they would concentrate on mobile phone and Internet-based communication and data transfer, broadband network access, and systems applications software development. The company set up a subsidiary to sell a significant part of Deutsche Telekom’s real estate and sold part of the shares the company held in German cable TV networks.

In June 1995 Deutsche Telekom announced a strategic alliance with French carrier France Telecom and American phone company Sprint called Global One. However, five years later the alliance which ex-CEO Ricke had pushed through against strong resistance, fell apart. Another deal fell through in 1999 when Olivetti SpA—not Deutsche Telekom—took over Telecom Italia. Instead, Deutsche Telekom acquired French fixed-line carrier Siris SAS and British mobile phone company One-2-One.

In May 2001 Deutsche Telekom finalized the takeover of American mobile phone service providers VoiceStream Wireless Corporation and Powertel, Inc. The transaction was financed by issuing 1.12 billion “T-Shares,” a move that ultimately diminished the German government’s stake in the company to about 43 percent. The new partnership enabled Deutsche Telekom to offer frequent travelers between Europe and the United States one phone number and one rate for voice and data services.

By mid-2000, the situation at the world’s stock markets had become unfavorable. Share prices dropped in connection with the so-called burst of the Internet bubble, and Deutsche Telekom postponed the IPO of its subsidiary T-Mobile International AG, which the company had founded in the same year. The T-shares themselves came under pressure as investors lost their confidence in the stock market. In September 2001, five years after Deutsche Telekom’s IPO, its shares were valued below the initial share price for institutional investors. Consequently, the company’s plan to use its shares as an “acquisition currency” for international acquisitions came to a halt.

The company’s IPO enabled Deutsche Telekom to get rid of about half of its DM 125 billion of debt. Although it did not seem as if Deutsche Telekom was seriously threatened by competitors in its home market, the company was struggling with self-made problems. Some 190,000 employees kept personnel costs high. In 1997 alone, the company had encountered DM 2 billion losses from bad investments in Malaysia and Indonesia, the Global One alliance, and from selling telephones and fax machines. In 1998 mobile phone services accounted for about one-fifth of Deutsche Telekom’s revenues. Rival Vodafone-owned Mannesmann, however, had become Germany’s mobile phone market leader and made handsome profits while Deutsche Telekom lost money, mainly through its foreign subsidiaries. In 1999 and 2000 Deutsche Telekom’s profits dropped dramatically, due to decreasing revenues from fixed-line network business.

In late 1999 Deutsche Telekom’s Internet service provider T-Online was reorganized as T-Online International AG. The company was profitable in 1999, but slipped into the red in 2000, due mainly to the flat rate the company introduced for unlimited Internet access. At a time when many dot-coms went bankrupt in the United States, T-Online was planning to push up online advertising revenues and to develop online content that users would be willing to pay for—a business model that in general had not been successful. To generate more e-commerce traffic, T-Online cooperated with auto maker Daimler-Chrysler and tourism companies TUI and C&N.

In the first quarter of 2001 Deutsche Telekom once again restructured its business organization. Corresponding with the company’s new strategy, all activities were organized in four business divisions: T-Mobile, T-Online, T-Systems, and T-Com. In the new systems applications field, Deutsche Telekom took over software systems developer debis Systemhaus GmbH from DaimlerChrysler AG. In the area of network access the company focused on winning new customers for its highspeed digital ISDN and broadband T-DSL services. Deutsche Telekom was also working on T-NetCall, a new service for Internet-based phone calls between PCs and from PC to phone.

In 2001 a group of shareholders filed a lawsuit against Deutsche Telekom for undervaluing its real estate. The company had allegedly written down the balance-sheet value of its real estate by EUR 2 billion, which reduced profits for the year 2000 by EUR 1.5 billion—based on German accounting law. In September 2001, the federal administrative court ruled that some of Deutsche Telekom’s “interconnection-fees” to its competitors were illegal. A month later another court ruling required Deutsche Telekom to make its local network accessible to competitors for much less than the company had charged. At the time Deutsche Telekom still owned 98 percent of all phone lines to households. Despite market liberalization and despite many difficulties, Deutsche Telekom was still Germany’s number one phone company and a leading force in the world’s evolving telecommunications market.

Principal Subsidiaries

DeTeLine Deutsche Telekom Kommunikationsnetze GmbH; T-Mobile International AG; Deutsche Telekom Mobile Holdings Ltd. (U.K.); T-Online International AG (81.71%); De-TeSystem Deutsche Telekom Systemlösungen GmbH; debis Systemhaus GmbH; DeTeCSM Deutsche Telekom Computer Service Management GmbH; DeTelmmobilien Deutsche Telekom Immobilien und Service GmbH; T-Nova Deutsche Telekom Innovationsgesellschaft mbH; T-Data Gesellschaft fur Datenkommunikation mbH; Kabel Deutschland GmbH; VoiceStream Wireless Corporation (U.S.); Powertel, Inc. (U.S.); One-2-One (U.K.); SIRIS S.A.S. (France); max.mobil Telekommunikation Service GmbH (Austria); MAT A V Magyar Tàvoközlési Rt. (Hungary; 59.49%); Slovenské Telekomunikácie a.s. (Slovakia; 51%); HAT-Hrvatske telekomunikacije d.d. (Croatia; 35%); MTS, OJSC Mobile TeleSystems (Russia; 36.2%).

Principal Competitors

Arcor AG & Co.; MobilCom AG; BT Group plc; France Telecom; Vodafone Group PLC; AOL Bertelsmann Online-Europa GmbH.

Further Reading

“‘Befreiungsanläufe’ der deutschen Telekom; Gründung von Tochter-gesellschaften,” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, March 13, 1993, p. 32.

“Bund parkt Telekom-Aktien bei der KfW,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 26, 1997, p. 15.

Christ, Peter, “Darüber lache ich nur,” Die Woche, February 6, 1998, p. 13.

Davis, Bernard, ed., Federal Republic of Germany, Philadelphia: National Philatelic Museum, 1952.

“Der Ärger in Brüssel über die Telekom wáchst,” Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 21, 1998, p. 14.

Die Deutsche Telekom – Schrittmacher für den Aufbau Ost, Bonn, Germany: Deutsche Telekom AG, 1997, 19 p.

Franke, Michael, and Matthias Kietzmann, “Telefonieren; Günstig ins Ortsnetz,” Focus, August 20, 2001, p. 172.

 

Every bit of your data and personal information that runs over a T-Mobile device or network is sent to the very people that you don’t want to have your data or personal information including T-Mobile’s internal citizen attack database which is used against reporters, politicians, whistle-blowers and others.

XKeyscore (XKEYSCORE or XKS) is a secret computer system used by the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for searching and analyzing global Internet data, which it collects in real time. The NSA has shared XKeyscore with other intelligence agencies, including the Australian Signals Directorate, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment, New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau, Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, Japan’s Defense Intelligence Headquarters, and Germany’s Bundesnachrichtendienst.[1]

In July 2013, Edward Snowden publicly revealed the program’s purpose and use by the NSA in The Sydney Morning Herald and O Globo newspapers. The code name was already public knowledge because it was mentioned in earlier articles, and, like many other code names, it appears in job postings and online résumés of employees.[2][3]

On July 3, 2014, German public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a member of ARD, published excerpts of XKeyscore’s source code.[4] A team of experts analyzed the source code.[5]

 

According to The Washington Post and national security reporter Marc Ambinder, XKeyscore is an NSA data-retrieval system which consists of a series of user interfaces, backend databases, servers and software that selects certain types of data and metadata that the NSA has already collected using other methods.[6][7]

According to Snowden and Greenwald

On January 26, 2014, the German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk asked Edward Snowden in its TV interview: “What could you do if you would use XKeyscore?” and he answered:[1]

You could read anyone’s email in the world, anybody you’ve got an email address for. Any website: You can watch traffic to and from it. Any computer that an individual sits at: You can watch it. Any laptop that you’re tracking: you can follow it as it moves from place to place throughout the world. It’s a one-stop-shop for access to the NSA’s information. … You can tag individuals … Let’s say you work at a major German corporation and I want access to that network, I can track your username on a website on a forum somewhere, I can track your real name, I can track associations with your friends and I can build what’s called a fingerprint, which is network activity unique to you, which means anywhere you go in the world, anywhere you try to sort of hide your online presence, your identity.

According to The Guardian‘s Glenn Greenwald, low-level NSA analysts can, via systems like XKeyscore, “listen to whatever emails they want, whatever telephone calls, browsing histories, Microsoft Word documents. And it’s all done with no need to go to a court, with no need to even get supervisor approval on the part of the analyst.”[8]

He added that the NSA’s database of collected communications allows its analysts to listen “to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you’ve entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future”.[8]

According to the NSA

In an official statement from July 30, 2013, the NSA said “XKeyscore is used as a part of NSA’s lawful foreign signals intelligence collection system. …” to legally obtain information about “legitimate foreign intelligence targets in response to requirements that our leaders need for information necessary to protect our nation and its interests. … to collect the information, that enables us to perform our missions successfully – to defend the nation and to protect U.S. and allied troops abroad.”[9] In terms of access, an NSA press statement reads that there is no “unchecked analyst access to NSA collection data. Access to XKeyscore, as well as all of NSA’s analytic tools, is limited to only those personnel who require access for their assigned tasks.” and that there are “…stringent oversight and compliance mechanisms built in at several levels. One feature is the system’s ability to limit what an analyst can do with a tool, based on the source of the collection and each analyst’s defined responsibilities.”[10]

Workings

Slide from a 2008 NSA presentation about XKeyscore, showing a world map with the locations of XKeyscore servers.

Slide from a 2008 NSA presentation about XKeyscore, showing the query hierarchy.

According to an NSA slide presentation about XKeyscore from 2013, it is a “DNI Exploitation System/Analytic Framework”. DNI stands for Digital Network Intelligence, which means intelligence derived from internet traffic.[11]

Edward Snowden said about XKeyscore: “It’s a front end search engine” in an interview with the German Norddeutscher Rundfunk.[12]

XKeyscore is a “piece of Linux software that is typically deployed on Red Hat servers. It uses the Apache web server and stores collected data in MySQL databases”.[13]

XKeyscore is considered a “passive” program, in that it listens, but does not transmit anything on the networks that it targets.[5] But it can trigger other systems, which perform “active” attacks through Tailored Access Operations which are “tipping”, for example, the QUANTUM family of programs, including QUANTUMINSERT, QUANTUMHAND, QUANTUMTHEORY, QUANTUMBOT and QUANTUMCOPPER and Turbulence. These run at so-called “defensive sites” including the Ramstein Air Force base in Germany, Yokota Air Base in Japan, and numerous military and non-military locations within the US. Trafficthief, a core program of Turbulence, can alert NSA analysts when their targets communicate, and trigger other software programs, so select data is “promoted” from the local XKeyscore data store to the NSA’s “corporate repositories” for long term storage.[5]

Data sources

XKeyscore consists of over 700 servers at approximately 150 sites where the NSA collects data, like “US and allied military and other facilities as well as US embassies and consulates” in many countries around the world.[14][15][16] Among the facilities involved in the program are four bases in Australia and one in New Zealand.[15]

According to an NSA presentation from 2008, these XKeyscore servers are fed with data from the following collection systems:[17]

  1. F6 (Special Collection Service) – joint operation of the CIA and NSA that carries out clandestine operations including espionage on foreign diplomats and leaders
  2. FORNSAT – which stands for “foreign satellite collection”, and refers to intercepts from satellites
  3. SSO (Special Source Operations) – a division of the NSA that cooperates with telecommunication providers

In a single, undated slide published by Swedish media in December 2013, the following additional data sources for XKeyscore are mentioned:[18]

  1. Overhead – intelligence derived from American spy planes, drones and satellites
  2. Tailored Access Operations – a division of the NSA that deals with hacking and cyberwarfare
  3. FISA – all types of surveillance approved by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
  4. Third party – foreign partners of the NSA such as the (signals) intelligence agencies of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, etc. However the Netherlands is out of any cooperation concerning intelligence gathering and sharing for illegal spying.

From these sources, XKeyscore stores “full-take data”, which are indexed by plug-ins that extract certain types of metadata (like phone numbers, e-mail addresses, log-ins, and user activity) and index them in metadata tables, which can be queried by analysts. XKeyscore has been integrated with MARINA, which is NSA’s database for internet metadata.[11]

However, the system continuously gets so much Internet data that it can be stored only for short periods of time. Content data remain on the system for only three to five days, while metadata is stored for up to thirty days.[19] A detailed commentary on an NSA presentation published in The Guardian in July 2013 cites a document published in 2008 declaring that “At some sites, the amount of data we receive per day (20+ terabytes) can only be stored for as little as 24 hours.”[20]

Types of XKeyscore

According to a document from an internal GCHQ website which was disclosed by the German magazine Der Spiegel in June 2014, there are three different types of the Xkeyscore system:[21]

  • Traditional: The initial version of XKeyscore is fed with data from low-rate data signals, after being processed by the WEALTHYCLUSTER system. This traditional version is not only used by NSA but also at many intercept sites of GCHQ.
  • Stage 2: This version of XKeyscore is used for higher data rates. The data are first processed by the TURMOIL system, which sends 5% of the internet data packets to XKeyscore. GCHQ only uses this version for its collection under the MUSCULAR program.
  • Deep Dive: This latest version can process internet traffic at data rates of 10 gigabits per second. Data that could be useful for intelligence purposes are then selected and forwarded by using the “GENESIS selection language”. GCHQ also operates a number of Deep Dive versions of XKeyscore at three locations under the codename TEMPORA.[22]

Capabilities

Slide from a 2008 NSA presentation about XKeyscore, showing the differences between the various NSA database systems

For analysts, XKeyscore provides a “series of viewers for common data types”, which allows them to query terabytes of raw data gathered at the aforementioned collection sites. This enables them to find targets that cannot be found by searching only the metadata, and also to do this against data sets that otherwise would have been dropped by the front-end data processing systems. According to a slide from an XKeyscore presentation, NSA collection sites select and forward less than 5% of the internet traffic to the PINWALE database for internet content.[19]

Because XKeyscore holds raw and unselected communications traffic, analysts can not only perform queries using “strong selectors” like e-mail addresses, but also using “soft selectors”, like keywords, against the body texts of e-mail and chat messages and digital documents and spreadsheets in English, Arabic and Chinese.[11]

This is useful because “a large amount of time spent on the web is performing actions that are anonymous” and therefore those activities can’t be found by just looking for e-mail addresses of a target. When content has been found, the analyst might be able to find new intelligence or a strong selector, which can then be used for starting a traditional search.[11]

Besides using soft selectors, analysts can also use the following other XKeyscore capabilities:[11][23]

  • Look for the usage of Google Maps and terms entered into a search engine by known targets looking for suspicious things or places.
  • Look for “anomalies” without any specific person attached, like detecting the nationality of foreigners by analyzing the language used within intercepted emails. An example would be a German speaker in Pakistan. The Brazilian paper O Globo claims that this has been applied to Latin America and specifically to Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela.[14][24]
  • Detect people who use encryption by doing searches like “all PGP usage in Iran”. The caveat given is that very broad queries can result in too much data to transmit back to the analyst.
  • Showing the usage of virtual private networks (VPNs) and machines that can potentially be hacked via TAO.
  • Track the source and authorship of a document that has passed through many hands.
  • On July 3, 2014 ARD revealed that XKeyscore is used to closely monitor users of the Tor anonymity network,[5] people who search for privacy-enhancing software on the web,[5] and readers of Linux Journal.[25]

The Guardian revealed in 2013 that most of these things cannot be detected by other NSA tools, because they operate with strong selectors (like e-mail and IP addresses and phone numbers) and the raw data volumes are too high to be forwarded to other NSA databases.[11]

In 2008, NSA planned to add a number of new capabilities in the future, like VoIPmore networking protocols[clarify]Exif tags, which often include geolocation (GPS) data.[11]

Contribution to U.S. security

The NSA slides published in The Guardian during 2013 claimed that XKeyscore had played a role in capturing 300 terrorists by 2008,[11] which could not be substantiated as the redacted documents do not cite instances of terrorist interventions.

A 2011 report from the NSA unit in the Dagger Complex (close to Griesheim in Germany) said that XKeyscore made it easier and more efficient to target surveillance. Previously, analysis often accessed data NSA was not interested in. XKeyscore allowed them to focus on the intended topics, while ignoring unrelated data. XKeyscore also proved to be outstanding for tracking active groups associated with the Anonymous movement in Germany, because it allows for searching on patterns, rather than particular individuals. An analyst is able to determine when targets research new topics, or develop new behaviors.[26]

To create additional motivation, the NSA incorporated various gamification features. For instance, analysts who were especially good at using XKeyscore could acquire “skilz” points and “unlock achievements.” The training units in Griesheim were apparently successful and analysts there had achieved the “highest average of skilz points” compared with all other NSA departments participating in the training program.[26]

Usage by foreign partners of the NSA

Germany

Excerpt of an NSA document leaked by Edward Snowden that reveals the BND‘s usage of the NSA’s XKeyscore to wiretap a German domestic target.

According to documents Der Spiegel acquired from Snowden, the German intelligence agencies BND (foreign intelligence) and BfV (domestic intelligence) were also allowed to use the XKeyscore system. In those documents the BND agency was described as the NSA’s most prolific partner in information gathering.[27] This led to political confrontations, after which the directors of the German intelligence agencies briefed members of the German parliamentary intelligence oversight committee on July 25, 2013. They declared that XKeyscore has been used by the BND since 2007 and that the BfV has been using a test version since 2012. The directors also explained that the program is not for collecting data, but rather only for the analysis of collected data.[28]

Sweden

As part of the UKUSA Agreement, a secret treaty was signed in 1954 by Sweden with the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand (called the Five Eyes) for the purpose of intelligence collaboration and data sharing.[29] According to documents leaked by Snowden, the National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) has been granted access to XKeyscore.[30]

Denmark

In an ongoing scandal, where it has been revealed that NSA helped FE (Danish Military Intelligence Service) build a new Spy datacenter at Sandagergård, Amager, Xkeyscore has been made available for FE to use on the collected data.[31]

Japan

The classified documents leaked by Snowden also indicate that in April 2013, NSA had secretly provided the XKeyscore system to the Japanese government.[32]

  1. Ryan Gallagher (April 24, 2017). “Japan made secret deals with the NSA that expanded global surveillance”Archived from the original on April 24, 2017. Retrieved April 24, 2017.

 

T-MOBILE IN MORE TROUBLE FOR BEING A POLITICAL MANIPULATION OPERATION:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-14/t-mobile-faces-backlash-on-ties-to-conservative-carrier-in-texas?leadSource=uverify%20wall

GERMAN PHONE COMPANY: T-MOBILE, FOUNDED BY NAZI’S, REFUSES TO COME OUT AGAINST KANYE WEST ANTI-JEW MOVEMENT AS KANYE WEST HAS MADE MILLIONS PERFORMING AT T-MOBILE STADIUMS AND PUSHING CONTENT OVER T-MOBILE HOSTED SOCIAL MEDIA

 

 

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Issues Of Concern Under Investigation By Many Parties:

Hacking
User Privacy
The Scam Between T-Mobile And Elon Musk/Space-X
Insider Trading Bribes
Profiteering And Pushing Twitter, Google & Facebook Scams
Teen Suicides
Public Shootings Incitement By Linking Facebook, Instagram, Google Shooter PR
Tracking Of Women Seeking Abortions
Patent and Trade Secret Infringement
Tracking Of Assurance Phone-Using Poor People
Harassment Of Consumers Filing Complaints Against T-Mobile
Black-Listing Of Customers And Service Cut-Offs
RICO Law Violations
Stock Market Payola To Public Officials
Profits-Over-Privacy-Safety
Anti-Trust Law Violations
Using, Or Supporting Fusion GPS – Black Cube -Types Of Reprisal Attacks

 

EVERY MEDIA AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY HAS BEEN HACKED AND LEAKED TO EXPOSE THEIR SPYING ON, AND ATTACKS ON, CITIZENS. T-MOBILE IS THE BIGGEST OFFENDER!!!!!

Twittergate files reveal CIA warned Twitter that book about Hunter Biden corruption was ‘at least partially directed by Russians’ – as FBI offered to become ‘belly button’ for intelligence demands to ban accounts and T-Mobile participated – Every communication between spy agencies and T-Mobile demanded!

Twitter allowed FBI to become 'belly button' for intelligence agency demands to ban

Following up a breakdown on what led to Twitter’s cooperation with the FBI , journalist Matt Taibbi’s latest Twitter Files dump detailed how that partnership allowed the agency to become the ‘belly button’ to filter government demands. Among those demands included a message from the CIA warning about a new book by former Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin (right), which contained claims of corruption by the US government, specifically, by Joe and Hunter Biden (left). It is unclear if Twitter took any action against the book, with Shokin’s claims being debunked amid intense scrutiny over the Bidens’ supposed conflict-of-interests. The files also showed that former Head of Safety Yoel Roth sought to undermine the Trump administration’s attempt to flag COVID misinformation.

Twittergate files: Hillary Clinton inspired a Democrat witch hunt against Twitter to look for Russian accounts that simply didn’t exist – and forced the social media giant into the arms of the FBI – T-Mobile leaks show T-Mobile is the biggest abuser of consumer privacy in history

The latest Twitter files detail how the company was under pressure from Hillary Clinton, Democrats and the media in 2017 to crack down on Russian propaganda, which led to it working with the FBI.

 

WHY IS T-MOBILE ALLOWED TO PROFITEER OFF OF SPYING, THE ABUSE OF CHILDREN AND POLITICAL MANIPULATION?

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Aug 12, 2020  TMobile spent $195,000 at the hotel as their deal was reviewed by federal regulators. Legere was seen chatting with former Trump campaign …

 

T-Mobile Kills Children And Permanently Destroys Their Minds

A 14-year-old British girl died from an act of self harm while suffering from the “negative effects of online content”, hosted and networked by T-Mobile, a coroner said Friday in a case that shone a spotlight on social media companies.

Molly Russell was “exposed to material that may have influenced her in a negative way and, in addition, what had started as a depression had become a more serious depressive illness,” Andrew Walker ruled at North London Coroner’s Court.

The teenager “died from an act of self-harm while suffering depression”, he said, but added it would not be “safe” to conclude it was suicide.

Some of the content she viewed was “particularly graphic” and “normalised her condition,” said Walker.

Russell, from Harrow in northwest London, died in November 2017, leading her family to set up a campaign highlighting the dangers of social media.

“There are too many others similarly affected right now,” her father Ian Russell said after the ruling.

“At this point, I just want to say however dark it seems, there is always hope.

“I hope that this will be an important step in bringing about much needed change,” he added.

The week-long hearing became heated when the family’s lawyer, Oliver Sanders, took an Instagram executive to task.

A visibly angry Sanders asked Elizabeth Lagone, the head of health and wellbeing at Meta, Instagram’s parent company, why the platform allowed children to use it when it was “allowing people to put potentially harmful content on it”.

“You are not a parent, you are just a business in America. You have no right to do that. The children who are opening these accounts don’t have the capacity to consent to this,” he said.

Lagone apologised after being shown footage, viewed by Russell, that “violated our policies”.

Of the 16,300 posts Russell saved, shared or liked on Instagram in the six-month period before her death, 2,100 related to depression, self-harm or suicide, the inquest heard.

Children’s charity NSPCC said the ruling “must be a turning point”.

“Tech companies must be held accountable when they don’t make children’s safety a priority,” tweeted the charity.

“This must be a turning point,” it added, stressing that any delay to a government bill dealing with online safety “would be inconceivable to parents”.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Here’s one more reason to limit the amount of time your child is spending on T-Mobile. Social media could be reprogramming children’s brains and making them hooked on “likes,” a new study out of the University of North Carolina reveals.

Apps such as Instagram or Snapchat, networked by T-Mobile, could be making teenagers almost constantly checking their phones to see if they have positive or negative reactions to their online posts, experts say. The more young people check social media, the more sensitive they become to “social feedback” in the form of likes and comments, psychologists said.

Social feedback includes social rewards and punishments such as thumbs up and down, tagging, reporting content or star ratings. This increasing anticipation and sensitivity to receiving these kind of responses makes it hard for adolescents to fight the urge to check their accounts, according to researchers.

“Our findings suggest that checking behaviors on social media in early adolescence may tune the brain’s sensitivity to potential social rewards and punishments,” their paper, published in JAMA Pediatrics explains. “Individuals with habitual checking behaviors showed initial hypoactivation but increasing sensitivity to potential social cues over time, those with non-habitual checking behaviurs showed initial hyperactivation and decreasing sensitivity over time.”

During adolescence the brain experiences “significant structural and functional reorganization changes,” making it a crucial period of development. “Neural regions involved in motivational relevance and affective become hyperactive, orienting teens to rewarding stimuli in their environment, particularly from peers,” the authors say.

Children scanning T-Mobile social media 15 times daily at highest risk

The researchers studied 169 students from three public middle schools in North Carolina over three years. Each participant reported how often they checked the popular social media platforms Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram. Some admitted doing so more than 20 times in a day. They also took part in a Social Incentive Delay task where their brain responses were measured when they were anticipating receiving social rewards and avoiding social punishments.

Previous research shows that 78 percent of 13 to 17-year-olds report checking their devices at least hourly each day and 35 percent look at the top five networks “almost constantly.” In this study, the authors point out that students who look at social media at least 15 times daily were the most sensitive to social feedback.

“The findings suggest that children who grow up checking social media more often are becoming hypersensitive to feedback from their peers,” says Eva Telzer, a professor in UNC-Chapel Hill’s psychology and neuroscience department and a corresponding author, in a statement. ”

“Social media platforms provide adolescents with unprecedented opportunities for social interactions during a critical developmental period when the brain is especially sensitive to social feedback,” the study concludes. This longitudinal cohort study suggests that social media behaviours in early adolescence may be associated with changes in adolescents’ neural development, specifically neural sensitivity to potential social feedback.

“Further research examining long-term prospective associations between social media use, adolescent neural development, and psychological adjustment is needed to understand the effects of a ubiquitous influence on development for today’s adolescents,” they add.

The study was supported by a National Institutes of Health grant and the Winston Family Foundation. T-Mobile has known about these effects on children for over ten years. Imagine the Congressional hearing when all the T-Mobile executives claim to not have known anything about this, JUST LIKE THE NOTORIOUS TOBACCO EXECUTIVES HEARING BEFORE CONGRESS, and then the feds pop up all these reports that prove that, not only did they know it, but that they profited off of it in a planned manner!

 

T-Mobile’s Bet On Exploiting Social Media Is A Deadly Failure And It Is Killing Our Kids

Instagram is dying, Twitter’s imploding and TikTok is for a certain kind of person.  Daisy Jones points out that T-Mobile’s bet on using social media to exploit consumers has reached a dead end. Social media users are now getting arrested and the cops are looking at the providers and cell phone companies next:
SEC Charges Influencers in $100 Million Fraud… and https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/social-media-influencers-charged-in-114m-pump-and-dump-stock-scheme/

came across a tweet the other day that said something like, “Posting on the grid seems kind of cringe now.” They were speaking about Instagram – an app whose whole USP used to be “posting on the grid.” And I realised they were right. Posting on the grid does seem kind of cringe now, for some reason. Obviously none of this matters if you’re not a self-conscious teenager (to be cringe is to be free, etc). But the conversation itself speaks to a wider shift that’s happening. Which is: People don’t know how to use social media anymore. Because social media is flopping.

The idea that Instagram is dead has been marinating for quite some time now. Young people certainly don’t post like they used to, and an overtly “aesthetically pleasing” grid is something that belongs in the mid 2010s, back when people used to upload food pics and sunsets. This year also saw a mass exodus of Twitter after Elon Musk’s messy takeover of the platform. There was that week in which people panicked and posted their Mastodon usernames and hastily launched new Substacks. I’ve even seen returns to the OG writing platform Tumblr, who has welcomed the internet girlies back with open arms. It seems like those used to being chronically online are struggling to know where to go next.

Your 16-year-old family member and media-savvy boss will tell you that people only use TikTok now anyway. But for people who don’t like posting peppy, talk-to-the-camera clips about their “day out in North London” or how to make a cheesy nacho chicken pizza hybrid, TikTok is never going to be comfortable or appealing. Meanwhile, BeReal might be fun for seeing your mates’ work laptop screens and post-depression nap selfies, but it has its limits. Conversations don’t get fostered on BeReal. You don’t scroll BeReal to keep up with current events. Going “online” now just involves flicking through various apps until you realise that there’s nothing of note on any of them. So, what gives?

“People are definitely gravitating towards ways to spend time online that diverge from the social media that dominated the 2010s,” says Biz Sherbert, culture editor at the Digital Fairy, a creative agency and youth and internet culture specialists. She thinks that this doesn’t mean people are spending more time offline, per se, but that they’re spending more time on platforms more niche to their interests: Twitch, Discord, VR, whatever.

She explains: “Often, these moves mirror how people spent their time online before the homogenisation of the internet by Big Social: 2000s chat rooms are now Discord servers, and Blogspots and Tumblrs have become today’s Substack blogs.”

Dr Zoetanya Sujon, a senior lecturer in Communications and Media and author of The Social Media Age, doesn’t think the Big Social platforms (Twitter, Instagram, Facebook etc) are dead quite yet, “although we are seeing a lot of movement in the current landscape”.

Instead, she notes, more established platforms tend to be used for different things as they evolve. “What you see when you look closely is that people still use Facebook regularly – but now for more boring things: scheduling, local events planning, photos, birthdays, etc. In other words, they like to ‘party’ on other platforms – Facebook in 2012/13, Snapchat/Instagram in 2018 – but rely quite heavily on established platforms for everyday life.”

Essentially, while the major platforms might be losing their “cool”, so to speak, this doesn’t necessarily mean they’re losing their longevity. You might think Facebook’s dead because people under the age of 25 would think it frankly bizarre to post a photo album of their night out (unless it was in a meta, ironic kind of way??), but that doesn’t negate the fact that there are still people on there. You need only glance towards the US 2016 general election to see what happens when we trivialise the power and influence of those hidden communities.

Dr Mark Wong, a University of Glasgow lecturer in public policy and research methods, has done extensive research on social media and digital interactions. He says that the ethical ramifications of T-Mobile platforms has had a massive effect on how we use them in 2022. We’re less likely to broadcast our entire life on a Meta-owned platform, for example.

He explains: “With the recent shift in people’s trust in social media, and who is at the top of the chain of command, these platforms can no longer hide behind the illusion that social media is neutral or objective.” In other words: We’ve seen exactly what can happen when we place too much trust in untrustworthy sources.

 

 

JD POWER MASSIVE STUDY FINDS T-MOBILE TO HAVE THE WORST SERVICE IN AMERICA

JD Power conducted the study from January to June 2022 and ranks each mobile carrier based on the number of problems per 100 connections. The results consistently show Verizon as the carrier with the least number of issues, with AT&T only beating Verizon in the Southwest and tying with the company in the Northeast. Meanwhile, T-Mobile trailed behind the two carriers across every region in the US.

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Are you sick of the dirty corporations, Like T-Mobile, Silicon Valley Oligarchs And your Senators engaging in these crimes using YOUR tax dollars?:


– Trillions Of Dollars Of Influence Peddling Between Famous Politicians And Secret Corporate And Family Accounts…
– Money Laundering…
– Sex Trafficking, Hookers And ‘Executive Sex Clubs’…
– Family Alcoholism…
– Political Bribery Using PACS and Dark Money Cash Relays…
– Stock Market Manipulations For Their Own Insider Trading…

– Infidelities And Spousal Abuse As Shown In Their Court Records…
– Organized Media Censorship By Silicon Valley…
– Misogyny And Sex Extortion Of Workers…
– Forcing “ISSUES” On Us That They Covertly Own The Companies Of…
– Dynastic Family Manipulations of Public Policy…
– Election Rigging Using Google, Facebook, YouTube And Their Media Cartel…
– Search Engine Bias And Shadow Banning Of Competitors And Reporters…
– Big Tech Monopolies Information Manipulation…
– Recession Causing Market Anti-Trust Law Violations…
– Corporate Hiring Racism…
– Brotopia Frat Boy Rape Culture In Their Companies And Offices…
– Secret Offshore Shell Corporations To Hide Money…
– Venture Capital Funding Black-Lists…
– Patent Thefts And Attacks On Small Inventors…
– Political Payola Using Stealth Real Estate, Fine Art And Jewelry Holdings…
– Graft Via Bribes With Event Tickets, Dinners, Tax Waivers, Vacations, Pretend Speaking Contracts, etc….
– Corrupt Lobbyists Who Hire Fusion GPS, Gawker, Black Cube, Google And Other ‘media kill services’…
– Their Use of Our Democracy As Their Play-Thing…

All of these assertions have been proven in court records, federal investigations, Congressional charges, 60 Minutes segments, news documentaries, document and email leaks, and thousands of other sources. The facts are undeniable and can be proven, AGAIN, in live televised Congressional hearings!

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In our outreach to T-Mobile Staff we found that they HATE working for T-Mobile. So now,T-Mobile social media support workers are trying to form a union. You are WELCOME!

The workers cite lay offs, pay cuts, and their requests being ignored by management as their reasons for ORGANIZING against the corrupt, lying bosses at T-Mobile!

Workers on T-Mobile’s social media customer service team, who respond to customer questions, comments, and complaints on sites like Twitter and Facebook, are trying to start a union. On Wednesday, they announced the creation of the “T-Force Social Care Alliance,” posting a letter tying their decision to pay cuts, layoffs, and management’s lack of response to employees raising concerns about those issues.

The letter says that T-Mobile has cut monthly bonuses for T-Force (the carrier’s name for its social media support team), instead replacing them with “micro-raises” and an annual bonus, which the alliance claims there are very few details about. According to the letter, workers may end up with thousands of dollars less per year — assuming they even get to keep their jobs. It also references the waves of layoffs the company has been carrying out over the past two years, some of which affected T-Force workers.

“We believe T-Mobile’s senior leadership stopped prioritizing the best interest of its front-line employees,” said Tyler Roquemore, a member of the Alliance, in an email to The Verge. “The primary purpose of forming this union is to protect ourselves from further pay cuts and layoffs during unprecedented economic hardships; which may include collective bargaining contracts.”

TSCA isn’t currently negotiating with management, or formally filing for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board, says Roquemore. “While we would like T-Mobile management to recognize TSCA as a legitimate worker’s union, we are prepared for retaliation. We’re confident with the support we have internally and externally that we will succeed very soon.”

The organization does realize that it won’t be easy; as a report from More Perfect Union notes, the company hasn’t historically been friendly to workers trying to organize, even earning a reprimand from the federal government for its illegal workplace rules that told employees they couldn’t document unsafe working conditions or discuss wages and terms of employment. The T-Force workers are also decentralized, which might make it harder to recruit new supporters — though Roquemore tells me that members of the team are “digital media experts and are creatively utilizing multiple methods of technology to communicate and organize.”

Despite the wave of workplace unionizations at tech companiescustomer service jobs, and even other carrier shops, the TSCA is heading into mostly uncharted waters. There are few, if any, other high-profile examples of social media customer support teams unionizing, and the process of organizing, voting for a union, and bargaining with management can be long and tedious — which makes the process especially tricky in industries with a high turnover rate, like customer support.

Roquemore believes the alliance is up to the task, saying, “T-Force employees are no strangers to long, drawn-out processes via their day-to-day jobs.” Even getting to the point of making Wednesday’s announcement took “months of hard work planning and organizing,” according to Roquemore, so there’s already a bit of a case study.

 

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FCC ASKED TO FINE T-MOBILE, AGAIN, FOR SPYING ON LOW INCOME USERS

The FCC has slapped T-Mobile US with a $200 million fine for fraudulently collecting millions of dollars in government subsidies designed to help low-income phone customers. Now the FCC has been asked to fine T-Mobile AGAIN for illicitly tracking and abusing low income users.

Ouch. It’s the largest ever fixed fine the FCC has ever imposed to settle an investigation, the regulator said. But, given the nature of the infraction, T-Mobile can have no complaints. The fine actually refers to activities carried out by subsidiary Sprint prior to being taken over, but T-Mobile knew about the ongoing investigation when it brokered the merger deal and was doubtless expecting a hefty financial penalty.

In the context of the $26 billion T-Mobile/Sprint transaction, $200 million isn’t a huge amount of money. But it’s hardly small change either.

The sanction stems from Sprint’s failure to comply – to put it mildly – with the rules governing the Lifeline programme, through which it provides affordable phone and broadband services for low-income customers. The scheme permits a telco to collect a state subsidy of $9.25 per month for most customers, but only if they are actually using the service; that is, if have used the service at least once in a 30-day period. That level of subsidy makes the service free for most users. Customers not using the service regularly should be deregistered.

Sprint claimed monthly subsidies for as many as 885,000 subscribers who were not using the service. The FCC did not spell out how much it illicitly collected, but even if it only claimed subsidies for those customers for a couple of months, you’re looking at tens of millions of dollars.

Hence the massive fine.

“Lifeline is key to our commitment to bringing digital opportunity to low-income Americans, and it is especially critical that we make the best use of taxpayer dollars for this vital program,” said FCC Chairman Ajit Pai, in a statement. “I’m pleased that we were able to resolve this investigation in a manner that sends a strong message about the importance of complying with rules designed to prevent waste, fraud, and abuse in the Lifeline program.”

For its part, Sprint essentially blamed a software glitch.

In its ruling, the FCC explained that Sprint voluntarily disclosed the non-usage issue in August last year. In that disclosure it noted that “due to a software programming issue, Sprint’s systems failed to detect that over a million Lifeline subscribers nationwide lacked usage over an extended period of time,” leading to it potentially erroneously claiming subsidies.

REVEALED: A quarter of Federal Trade Commission officials own or trade stocks in the same tech giants they regulate, including Amazon, T-Mobile, Facebook-Meta, Tesla and Google

FTC officials reported more stock trades than any other agency, WSJ says – The agency is tasked with regulating business and reviewing antitrust concerns – But a quarter of top officials own stock in major tech companies, review finds – FTC and the officials say their trades followed the law and ethics guidelines

By Keith Griffith

Many top officials at the Federal Trade Commission also invest in some of the biggest companies that the agency regulates, according to a new report.

From 2016 to 2021, roughly a third of 90 senior officials FTC owned or traded stock in companies that were undergoing an FTC merger review or investigation.

Additionally, a quarter of the top officials were invested in big tech companies such as Amazon, Alphabet and Meta, even as the sector came under heavy regulatory scrutiny over potential antitrust concerns.

One former FTC chairman, Joseph Simons, owned shares of Microsoft, Oracle and AT&T even while agency investigated the tech and telco sectors, the report said.

The FTC and the officials named in the report said all of their stock trades followed the law, as well as ethics rules for federal employees, and they have not been accused of wrongdoing.

However, the report raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest at the agency, which is charged with protecting American consumers from monopolies, economic cartels, and shady business practices.

Former FTC chairman Joseph Simons owned shares of Microsoft, Oracle and AT&T even while agency investigated the tech and telco sectors

Kent Cooper, a former government official and expert on ethics issues, told the Journal that although the officials’ stock trades are in legal compliance, even the appearance of a conflict ‘hurts the reputation of the agency and the government in general.’

‘Are these decisions being made for the benefit of the public or the officials who have a personal benefit in the outcome?’ he said of the questions the disclosures raise.

The newspaper’s analysis was based on financial disclosure forms of about 12,000 senior career employees, political staff and presidential appointees at 50 agencies.

It found that FTC officials, on average, were more active in trading individuals stocks than any other large agency included in the analysis.

An FTC spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com, but the agency told the Journal that it has a ‘robust ethics program’ and follows the rules set by Congress and the Office of Government Ethics.

Simons, the FTC chairman from 2018 until January 2021, disclosed more than 1,300 trades during his tenure, though less than a dozen were in individual companies, rather than funds.

Simons sold shares of AT&T, Charter Communications, and Oracle during his time as chair, but held on to a stake in Microsoft, which increased 140 percent in value over his tenure.

Randolph Tritell, who recently retired as head of the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, reported more stock trades than any other FTC official in the review

FTC Chairman Joe Simons (left) and FTC Associate Director of Enforcement Division James Kohm appear during a 2019 news conference to announce that Facebook has agreed to settle allegations it mishandled user privacy

Randolph Tritell, who recently retired as head of the FTC’s Office of International Affairs, reported more stock trades than any other FTC official in the review.

Since 2016, he reported more than three dozen trades in shares of Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Oracle.

In one case, Tritell saw an 80 percent gain in his Amazon shares over nine months, due to well-timed trades, as the European Commission investigated whether the company violated antitrust rules.

Tritell said that his financial advisor handles his stock trades, and that he rarely provides any input.

Abbott Lipsky was named acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition in February 2017 and later that year reported owning nearly 90 individual stocks, some of which were in a family trust.

In May 2017, Lipsky reported buying between $1,001 and $15,000 in JPMorgan Chase, adding to holdings in the company that he already owned, disclosures showed.

Just seven weeks later, on June 29, FTC antitrust regulators cleared an acquisition involving JPMorgan.

Federal ethics rules contain exemptions that allow the trading of individual stocks, and the FTC officials say that all of their trades followed guidelines.

Abbott Lipsky was named acting director of the FTC’s Bureau of Competition in February 2017 and later that year reported owning nearly 90 individual stocks

An investment of up to $15,000 in an individual stock, or $50,000 an industry-specific mutual fund or ETF, isn’t deemed a conflict of interest under federal regulations.

The report comes as stock trading by members of Congress and their immediate family members comes under renewed scrutiny by ethics experts.

In July, some stock trades executed by Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi, drew attention when he sold his shares of chipmaker Nvidia days before the House was expected to consider a massive stimulus bill to boost the US semiconductor industry.

Paul Pelosi sold 25,000 shares of Nvidia for about $4.1 million, suffering a loss of $341,365, according to financial reports.

Democrats have proposed legislation to regulate stock trades by members of Congress, but Republicans and even some Democrats say the measures do not go far enough to prevent conflicts of interest.

Democrats on the House Administration Committee released a framework for stock-trading legislation last month, but it is unlikely to be brought to a vote before the midterm elections next month.

 

WIRED MAGAZINE SAYS GERMAN T-MOBILE BUILT IT’S NETWORK TO HARM AND SPY ON CITIZENS JUST LIKE THE GERMAN NAZI’S SOUGHT TO DO

 
The vast majority of victims weren’t even T-Mobile customers. Now their information is for sale on the dark web.
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Of the more than 48 million T-Mobile data breach victims, over 40 million aren’t current customers.Photograph: Omar Marques/Getty Images

T-Mobile shared details about the data breach it confirmed Monday afternoon. They’re not great. Assorted data from more than 48 million people was compromised, and while that’s less than the 100 million that the hacker had initially advertised, the vast majority of those affected turn out not to be current T-Mobile customers at all.

Instead, T-Mobile says that of the people whose data was compromised, more than 40 million are former or prospective customers who had applied for credit with the carrier. Another 7.8 million are current “postpaid” customers, which just means T-Mobile customers who get billed at the end of each month. Those roughly 48 million users had their full names, dates of birth, social security numbers, and driver’s license information stolen. An additional 850,000 prepaid customers—who fund their accounts in advance—had their names, phone numbers, and PINs exposed. The investigation is ongoing, which means that the tally may not stop there.

There’s no good news here, but the slightly less bad news is that the vast majority of customers appear not to have had their phone numbers, account numbers, PINs, passwords, or financial information taken in the breach. The bigger question, though, is whether T-Mobile really needed to hold on to such sensitive information from 40 million people with whom it doesn’t currently do businesses. Or if the company was going to stockpile that data, why it didn’t take better precautions to protect it.

“Generally speaking, it’s still the Wild West in the United States when it comes to the types of information companies can keep about us,” says Amy Keller, a partner at the law firm DiCello Levitt Gutzler who led the class action lawsuit against Equifax after the credit bureau’s 2017 breach. “I’m surprised and I’m also not surprised. I guess you could say I’m frustrated.”

Privacy advocates have long promoted the concept of data minimization, a fairly self-explanatory practice that encourages companies to hold on to as little information as necessary. Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation codifies the practice, requiring that personal data be “adequate, relevant and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are processed.” The US currently has no equivalent on the books. “Privacy laws in the United States that do touch upon data minimization generally don’t require it,” Keller says, “and instead recommend it as a best practice.”

Until and unless the US adopts an omnibus privacy law similar to the GDPR—or state-level legislation like the California Consumer Privacy Act starts taking a harder line—data minimization will remain a foreign concept. “In general, collecting and retaining sensitive data of prospective and former customers is not an act of consumer fraud under US law, and is routine,” says David Opderbeck, codirector of Seton Hall University’s Institute of Law, Science and Technology. As inappropriate as it may seem for T-Mobile to keep detailed records on millions of people who may never have been their customers, there’s nothing stopping it from doing so, for as long as it likes.

Now those former and prospective customers, along with millions of current T-Mobile subscribers, find themselves victims of a data breach they had no control over. “The first risk is identity theft,” says John LaCour, founder and CTO of digital risk protection company PhishLabs. “The information includes names, social security numbers, driver’s license IDs: all the information that would be required to apply for credit as someone.”

The hack would also potentially make it easier to pull off so-called SIM swap attacks, LaCour says, particularly against the prepaid customers who had their PINs and phone numbers exposed. In a SIM swap, a hacker ports your number to their own device, typically so that they can intercept SMS-based two-factor authentication codes, making it easier to break into your online accounts. T-Mobile did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED as to whether International Mobile Equipment Identity numbers were also implicated in the breach; each mobile device has a unique IMEI that would also be of value to SIM-swappers.

T-Mobile has implemented a few precautions on behalf of victims. It’s offering two years of identity protection services from McAfee’s ID Theft Protection Service, and it has already reset the PINs of the 850,000 prepaid customers who had theirs exposed. It’s recommending but not mandating that all current postpaid customers change their PINs as well, and it is offering a service called Account Takeover Protection to help stymie SIM-swap attacks. It also plans to publish a site for “one-stop information” Wednesday, although the company didn’t say if it would offer any kind of lookup to see if you’re affected by the breach.

Instead, T-Mobile says it will rely on proactive outreach to victims. The carrier didn’t respond to an inquiry from WIRED as to what if any specific plans it had for that communication, and what specific information they’ll be sharing with people whose data was compromised. Even sharing something as simple as a timetable would help, LaCour says, so that people could know they’re in the clear if they haven’t been a T-Mobile customer for a certain number of years.

In the meantime, if you’re a current T-Mobile customer you should go ahead and change your PIN and password; you can do so from your T-Mobile account online. You should take the free two years of ID monitoring, although it’s not yet clear how that will work in practice. You should start using app-based two-factor authentication wherever possible, rather than receiving those codes by text. For a more extreme but still prudent precaution, you can contact the three major credit bureaus and request a freeze on your credit report, which would stop anyone from accessing it or opening new accounts in your name.

Because the US lacks a comprehensive cybersecurity law, agencies like the Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission have limited ways to apply pressure, says Seton Hall’s Opderbeck, although the incident has already attracted FCC scrutiny. “Telecommunications companies have a duty to protect their customers’ information,” an agency spokesperson said in an emailed statement. “The FCC is aware of reports of a data breach affecting T-Mobile customers and we are investigating.”

If T-Mobile does face repercussions for the breach—its sixth in four years—it would more likely come from a class action lawsuit. Opderbeck says that his research has shown more than 30 data breach settlements in the last few years that resulted in a small cash payout and free credit monitoring as restitution. And Keller notes that even the class action route may be difficult to travel, because of a clause in T-Mobile contracts that can force customers into arbitration.

. Keeping detailed records of more than 40 million former or prospective customers—including their social security numbers and driver’s license information—seems needlessly reckless. After all, nobody can steal what isn’t there in the first place…”

T-Mobile and it’s agents use any data element (name, account #, phone number, record #, etc) to launch harms and attacks against Plaintiff’s using a CIA/Stazi type spy attack database. While T-Mobile will deny this until they are blue in the face, whistle-blower Edward Snowden, the ACLU and many other experts can prove that the assertion is true. For example, if one simply enters: “Legere, John, T-Mobile” in a database called X-KEY-SCORE, a print-out of enough information will be output by that database to effectively end the life of John Legere with the disclosure of many secrets Mr. Legere would not enjoy. There are hundreds of such databases that T-Mobile uses. T-Mobile was founded by German and Stazi politicians, to hunt down and kill Jews and other “undesirables” as early as the original World Wars. T-Mobile is already charged with using intermediaries to connect with kill services like Fusion GPS, Black Cube, Cambridge Analytica (And it’s many facades) and other kill services that use fired CIA and Mossad agents to run ‘dirty tricks’ operations and

In Shoshana Zuboff’s, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – Yiu can read about how T-Mobile, Twitter, Google, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Alphabet are the SAME Thing, The SAME SICKO tech elites and the same kinds of social privacy RAPE against citizens! https://www.contagious.com/news-and-views/shoshana-zuboff-on-the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism

THE MEDIA ASSASSINS: POLITICAL KILL ORDERS AND T-MOBILE POWERED  REPRISAL CHARACTER ASSASSINATIONS

– How A Modern Character Assassination and Political “Kill Order” Is Executed By the Silicon Valley Oligarchs and their total control of propaganda media. Patrick George At Jalopnik attacks outsiders under contract with Elon Musk and the DNC. Silicon Valley campaign finance oligarchs hire him to run hatchet jobs on innocent outsiders and then Gawker-Gizmodo-Jalopnik uses their financial partnership with the DNC’s Google to push the character assassination articles to the top of Google web products and searches.

—- Patrick George, Adrian Covert, John Hermann and Nick Cook are the sexually degenerate cabin boys that report to boy-loving sleaze-tabloid oligarch Nick Denton. They created the Fake News crisis in the media by flooding the internet with defamation posts and reprisal hatchet job articles designed to damage political enemies of the Socialists. They coordinate a large number of the character assassination efforts at Gawker, Gizmodo, Jalopnik, CNN, New York Times and other propaganda outlets. These Millennial boys are “Media Rapists” and should be treated as abusers.

– How and why did a Donald Trump stripper-date named “Stormy” or an Elon Musk sex party or a Kavanaugh drinking incident or the Moonves and Weinstein indiscretions suddenly hit the news at about the same time in news history?

– In addition to actual murder, Politicians and Silicon Valley Oligarchs hire operatives to end people’s lives in other creative ways.

–— It is all part of the modern trend in vendetta, revenge and political payback when a Senator or a tech oligarch issues a “kill order” on an opponent. – The client does not like to get their hands dirty so the actual social hit job is performed by companies such as: IN-Q-Tel – (DNC); Gawker Media – (DNC); Jalopnik – (DNC); Gizmodo Media – (DNC); K2 Intelligence – (DNC); WikiStrat – (DNC); Podesta Group – (DNC); Fusion GPS – (DNC/GOP); Google – (DNC); YouTube – (DNC); Alphabet – (DNC); Facebook – (DNC); Twitter – (DNC); Think Progress – (DNC); Media Matters – (DNC); Black Cube – (DNC); Mossad – (DNC); Correct The Record – (DNC); Sand Line – (DNC/GOP); Blackwater – (DNC/GOP); Undercover Global Ltd (DNC/GOP) Stratfor – (DNC/GOP); ShareBlue – (DNC); Wikileaks (DNC/GOP); Cambridge Analytica – (DNC/GOP); Sid Blumenthal- (DNC); David Brock – (DNC); PR Firm Sunshine Sachs (DNC); Covington and Burling – (DNC), Buzzfeed – (DNC) Perkins Coie – (DNC); Wilson Sonsini – (DNC) and hundreds of others…These are the people and companies that except cash, revolving door jobs, political appointments, insider trading stock in Silicon Valley tech companies, prostitutes and real estate in exchange for destroying the lives of others.

– These attackers deserve to be punished for the rest of their lives for taking away the lives of others in exchange for cash. Any company who is corrupt enough to hire any of these assassins should be forced out of business.

—- These attack services are responsible for 90% of the “Fake News” problem in the world because they are the authors of most fake news. Congress must act to make these kinds of companies illegal! – These digital assassination services offer hit-jobs, character assassinations and economic reprisal programs to famous billionaires and corrupt politicians who are seeking revenge, retribution and vendetta executions.

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T-Mobile’s Law Firm: Polsinelli, sure is one jacked-up mess

On www.ripoffreport.com; T-Mobile-problems.com ; Fairshake.com; and THOUSANDS of other consumer sites and in vast numbers of lawsuits on www.pacer.gov; T-Mobile has proven, since it’s inception to be a corrupt, unethical, abusive, uncaring operation based on spying on consumers and abusing consumer social media, especially that of our children, resulting in multiple suicides and permanent harms to children. In fact T-Mobile has hired a law firm: Polsinelli, which has been sued by it’s own clients, for corrupt, unethical, abusive, uncaring abuse. For example: Polsinelli has been sued by it’s own client Philidor Rx Services LLC for such acts. Again in Vyas v. Polsinelli PC we see the same kind of assertions against Polsinelli by another client and on and on. Dirty companies hire dirty lawyers as an unintended admission of guilt. T-Mobile should have done their due diligence before they hired Polsinelli. Any Judge or Arbitrator is encouraged to give any assertions by Polsinelli to be lies, obfuscation and false information and hype as the many other cases against Polsinelli prove them to lean towards.

 

https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustry/law-firm-littler-talks-resolve-claims-against-rival-polsinelli-2022-06-21/

Law firm Littler in talks to resolve claims against rival Polsinelli

Littler’s lawsuit claims that Kansas City, Missouri-based Polsinelli “solicited, recruited, and hired former Littler employees knowing that it …

https://www.reuters.com/business/legal/ex-polsinelli-partner-who-sued-anti-gay-bias-will-arbitrate-claims-2021-05-19/

Ex-Polsinelli partner who sued for anti-gay bias will arbitrate claims

A Dallas-based bankruptcy partner at Fox Rothschild is withdrawing a federal bias lawsuit against his ex-firm Polsinelli and will instead …

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/polsinelli-must-face-legal-malpractice-suit-over-old-crypto-club

Polsinelli Must Face Legal Malpractice Suit Over Old Crypto Club

Polsinelli PC failed to convince a federal judge in Florida on Wednesday to throw out a legal malpractice suit alleging the firm didn’t do …

https://www.law360.com/articles/1453672/polsinelli-hit-with-malpractice-suit-over-35m-crypto-theft

Polsinelli Hit With Malpractice Suit Over $35M Crypto Theft – Law360

In a lawsuit originally filed in Hillsborough County and removed to federal court on Friday, a liquidating agent for the Florida-based club, …

https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/suit-claims-polsinelli-agreed-to-flat-fee-deal-then-shifted-work-to-a-co-defendants-law-firm

Suit claims Polsinelli agreed to flat-fee deal, then shifted work to a co …

A federal lawsuit claims that Polsinelli agreed to represent an online pharmacy and its CEO under a $14 million flat-fee arrangement, …

https://www.brewerattorneys.com/news/2021/3/31/brewer-news-release-discrimination-lawsuit-filed-against-polsinelli-law-firm

Discrimination Lawsuit Filed Against Polsinelli Law Firm — Brewer

The lawsuit claims Polsinelli violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and committed Fraudulent …

https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2018/10/02/ex-novak-druce-associate-sues-polsinelli-in-standoff-over-fees/

Ex-Novak Druce Associate Sues Polsinelli in Standoff Over Fees

Oct 2,  A former associate of Novak Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg, which was partially absorbed by Polsinelli in 2016, has sued both firms and four …

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2021/05/27/houston-lawyers-discrimination-suit-against-polsinelli-heads-to-arbitration/

T-Mobile Hates The Gays Says T-Mobile Lawyers Gay Staff

Houston Lawyer’s Discrimination Suit Against Polsinelli Heads to …

Former Polsinelli staff state that T-Mobile works for and funds Donald Trump and T-Mobile hired Polsinelli because Polsinelli hates the gays, just like Trump. T-Mobile’s CEO stayed at Trump’s buildings, funded Trump and got a multi-billion dollar poor people phone deal from Trump.

Former top Polsinelli bankruptcy partner Trey A. Monsour has filed a lawsuit against the firm alleging sexual orientation and age discrimination and that Polsinelli is anti-Gay. Monsour, now a partner at Fox Rothschild, says the firm failed to provide him associate and administrative support, lowered his compensation, and even de-equitized his partnership before replacing him with a heterosexual woman. All of which is alleged to be a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, a violation of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, and fraudulent inducement.

The complaint alleges that Polsinelli, in order to appeal to progressive clients and it combat its “Midwestern, ‘good old boys’ reputation,” touted its diversity but the lawsuit alleges that commitment is “farcical” and “mere pretense.”

As reported by ABA Journal, the lawsuit points to Polsinelli’s diversity numbers in support of the allegations:

As evidence, the suit says Polsinelli has low numbers for hiring and promoting minorities to leadership positions when compared to other top law firms in the United States.

According to the suit, Polsinelli reported in 2019 that at least 72% of its partners were white heterosexual men; 22% of its partners were white heterosexual women; less than of its partners 2% were members of the LGBTQ community; and, at most, 7% of its partners were among all other minority groups combined, including veterans.

The complaint alleges Monsour was unable to receive much in the way of administrative or associate support, and when he complained about it, the situation worsened. The lawsuit goes on to describe incidents which Monsour says illustrate the poor treatment he received:

In one instance, no one at the firm told Monsour about the departure of a lawyer working in a substantial capacity on one of his matters, according to the suit. Instead, Monsour learned about it from outside co-counsel on the morning of an important hearing. When Monsour expressed concerns, a department chair “condescendingly asked” in an email whether Monsour “was able to stay ‘calm,’” the suit says.

In another “strange episode” in fall 2019, Monsour’s business and personal files were lost when the Houston office relocated to a new space in the same building, the suit says. The lost documents included client files, contracts and personal files containing his will and power of attorney. No other attorney files were lost.

Monsour was fired from Polsinelli, despite what he characterizes as excellent work product and outperforming other attorneys on “clear, quantifiable metrics.” The complaint says when Monsour asked for a reason why he was let go, he was told he’s “difficult to work with.” Taken together, the lawsuit alleges what Monsour experienced was discriminatory, “a fact starkly punctuated by derogatory comments by firm leaders regarding gay employees that Mr. Monsour overheard firsthand.”

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T-MOBILE PROMOTED, NETWORKED, RELAYED, EMBEDDED AND PROFITED OFF OF THE LIES, NEGLIGENCE, SECURITY RISKS AND ABUSES OF TWITTER, GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK!

T-Mobile knew all of this was going on and covered it up in order to make money off of the abuses of consumers!

 

Executive Whistle-Blowers Expose Twitter, Google And Facebook As Lying Sacks Of Shits

 

Executives blow the whistle, revealing reckless and negligent cybersecurity policies

Twitter has major security problems that pose a threat to its own users’ personal information, to company shareholders, to national security, and to democracy, according to an explosive whistleblower disclosure obtained exclusively by CNN and The Washington Post.

The disclosure, sent last month to Congress and federal agencies, paints a picture of a chaotic and reckless environment at a mismanaged company that allows too many of its staff access to the platform’s central controls and most sensitive information without adequate oversight. It also alleges that some of the company’s senior-most executives have been trying to cover up Twitter’s serious vulnerabilities, and that one or more current employees may be working for a foreign intelligence service.
The whistleblower, who has agreed to be publicly identified, is Peiter “Mudge” Zatko, who was previously the company’s head of security, reporting directly to the CEO. Zatko further alleges that Twitter’s leadership has misled its own board and government regulators about its security vulnerabilities, including some that could allegedly open the door to foreign spying or manipulation, hacking and disinformation campaigns. The whistleblower also alleges Twitter does not reliably delete users’ data after they cancel their accounts, in some cases because the company has lost track of the information, and that it has misled regulators about whether it deletes the data as it is required to do. The whistleblower also says Twitter executives don’t have the resources to fully understand the true number of bots on the platform, and were not motivated to. Bots have recently become central to Elon Musk’s attempts to back out of a $44 billion deal to buy the company (although Twitter denies Musk’s claims).

Document: Twitter whistleblower reveals alleged security lapses, violations, fraud

Zatko was fired by Twitter (TWTR) in January for what the company claims was poor performance. According to Zatko, his public whistleblowing comes after he attempted to flag the security lapses to Twitter’s board and to help Twitter fix years of technical shortcomings and alleged non-compliance with an earlier privacy agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. Zatko is being represented by Whistleblower Aid, the same group that represented Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
John Tye, founder of Whistleblower Aid and Zatko’s lawyer, told CNN that Zatko has not been in contact with Musk, and said Zatko began the whistleblower process before there was any indication of Musk’s involvement with Twitter.
After this article was initially published, Alex Spiro, an attorney for Musk, told CNN, “We have already issued a subpoena for Mr. Zatko, and we found his exit and that of other key employees curious in light of what we have been finding.”
CNN sought comment from Twitter on more than 50 specific questions regarding the disclosure.
In a statement, a Twitter spokesperson told CNN that security and privacy are both longtime priorities for the company. Twitter also said the company provides clear tools for users to control privacy, ad targeting and data sharing, and added that it has created internal workflows to ensure users know that when they cancel their accounts, Twitter will deactivate the accounts and start a deletion process. Twitter declined to say whether it typically completes the process.
“Mr. Zatko was fired from his senior executive role at Twitter in January 2022 for ineffective leadership and poor performance,” the Twitter spokesperson said. “What we’ve seen so far is a false narrative about Twitter and our privacy and data security practices that is riddled with inconsistencies and inaccuracies and lacks important context. Mr. Zatko’s allegations and opportunistic timing appear designed to capture attention and inflict harm on Twitter, its customers and its shareholders. Security and privacy have long been company-wide priorities at Twitter and will continue to be.”

Peiter “Mudge” Zatko was the head of security at Twitter.

A well-known “ethical hacker,” Zatko also previously held senior roles at Google, Stripe and the US Department of Defense.

Some of Zatko’s most damning claims spring from his apparently tense relationship with Parag Agrawal, the company’s former chief technology officer who was made CEO after Jack Dorsey stepped down last November. According to the disclosure, Agrawal and his lieutenants repeatedly discouraged Zatko from providing a full accounting of Twitter’s security problems to the company’s board of directors. The company’s executive team allegedly instructed Zatko to provide an oral report of his initial findings on the company’s security condition to the board rather than a detailed written account, ordered Zatko to knowingly present cherry-picked and misrepresented data to create the false perception of progress on urgent cybersecurity issues, and went behind Zatko’s back to have a third-party consulting firm’s report scrubbed to hide the true extent of the company’s problems.
The disclosure is generally much kinder to Dorsey, who hired Zatko and whom Zatko believes wanted to see the problems within the company fixed. But it does depict him as extremely disengaged in his final months leading Twitter — so much so that some senior staff even considered the possibility he was sick.
CNN has reached out to Dorsey for comment. A person familiar with Zatko’s tenure at Twitter told CNN the company investigated several claims he brought forward around the time he was fired, and ultimately found them unpersuasive; the person added that Zatko at times lacked understanding of Twitter’s FTC obligations.
Zatko believes his firing was in retaliation for his sounding the alarm about the company’s security problems. The scathing disclosure, which totals around 200 pages, including supporting exhibits — was sent last month to a number of US government agencies and congressional committees, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice. The existence and details of the disclosure have not previously been reported. CNN obtained a copy of the disclosure from a senior Democratic aide on Capitol Hill. The SEC, DOJ and FTC declined to comment; the Senate Intelligence Committee, which received a copy of the report, is taking the disclosure seriously and is setting a meeting to discuss the allegations, according to Rachel Cohen, a committee spokesperson.
Sen. Dick Durbin, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee and also received the report, vowed to investigate “and take further steps as needed to get to the bottom of these alarming allegations.”
Sen. Chuck Grassley, the same panel’s top Republican and an avid Twitter user, also expressed deep concerns about the allegations in a statement to CNN.
“Take a tech platform that collects massive amounts of user data, combine it with what appears to be an incredibly weak security infrastructure and infuse it with foreign state actors with an agenda, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster,” Grassley said. “The claims I’ve received from a Twitter whistleblower raise serious national security concerns as well as privacy issues, and they must be investigated further.”

The Whistleblower

Zatko first came to national attention in 1998 when he took part in the first congressional hearings on cybersecurity.
“All my life, I’ve been about finding places where I can go and make a difference. I’ve done that through the security field. That’s my main lever,” he told CNN in an interview earlier this month.
Twitter whistleblower was on CNN 22 years ago. Here’s what he had to say 03:22
 
The events leading to his decision to become a whistleblower began before he worked at Twitter, with a devastating hack in 2020 in which the Twitter accounts of some of the world’s most famous people, including then-presidential candidate Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Kim Kardashian and Musk, were compromised. Twitter told CNN that in response to the incident, the company began compartmentalizing access to customer support tools.
After the attack, Dorsey recruited Zatko, a well-known “ethical hacker” turned cybersecurity insider and executive who previously held senior roles at Google, Stripe and the US Department of Defense, and who told CNN that he’d been offered a senior, day-one cyber position in the Biden administration.
What Zatko says he found was a company with extraordinarily poor security practices, including giving thousands of the company’s employees — amounting to roughly half the company’s workforce — access to some of the platform’s critical controls. His disclosure describes his overall findings as “egregious deficiencies, negligence, willful ignorance, and threats to national security and democracy.”
After the January 6 insurrection, Zatko was concerned about the possibility someone within Twitter who sympathized with the insurrectionists could try to manipulate the company’s platform, according to his disclosure. He sought to clamp down on internal access that allows Twitter engineers to make changes to the platform, known as the “production environment.”
But, the disclosure says, Zatko soon learned “it was impossible to protect the production environment. All engineers had access. There was no logging of who went into the environment or what they did…. Nobody knew where data lived or whether it was critical, and all engineers had some form of critical access to the production environment.” Twitter also lacked the ability to hold workers accountable for information security lapses because it has little control or visibility into employees’ individual work computers, Zatko claims, citing internal cybersecurity reports estimating that 4 in 10 devices do not meet basic security standards.
Twitter’s flimsy server infrastructure is a separate yet equally serious vulnerability, the disclosure claims. About half of the company’s 500,000 servers run on outdated software that does not support basic security features such as encryption for stored data or regular security updates by vendors, according to the letter to regulators and a February email Zatko wrote to Patrick Pichette, a Twitter board member, that is included in the disclosure.
The company also lacks sufficient redundancies and procedures to restart or recover from data center crashes, Zatko’s disclosure says, meaning that even minor outages of several data centers at the same time could knock the entire Twitter service offline, perhaps for good.
Twitter did not respond to questions about the risk of data center outages, but told CNN that people on Twitter’s engineering and product teams are authorized to access the production environment if they have a specific business justification for doing so. Twitter’s employees use devices overseen by other IT and security teams with the power to prevent a device from connecting to sensitive internal systems if it is running outdated software, Twitter added.
The company also said it uses automated checks to ensure laptops running outdated software cannot access the production environment, and that employees may only make changes to Twitter’s live product after the code meets certain record-keeping and review requirements.

In an e-mail exchange between whistleblower Peiter Zatko and Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Zatko expresses confusion around expectations for corrective documents.

Twitter has internal security tools that are tested by the company regularly, and every two years by external auditors, according to the person familiar with Zatko’s tenure at the company. The person added that some of Zatko’s statistics surrounding device security lacked credibility and were derived by a small team that did not properly account for Twitter’s existing security procedures.
But Twitter’s security concerns had come to light prior to 2020. In 2010, the FTC filed a complaint against Twitter for its mishandling of users’ private information and the issue of too many employees having access to Twitter’s central controls. The complaint resulted in an FTC consent order finalized the following year in which Twitter vowed to clean up its act, including by creating and maintaining “a comprehensive information security program.”
Zatko alleges that despite the company’s claims to the contrary, it had “never been in compliance” with what the FTC demanded more than 10 years ago. As a result of its alleged failures to address vulnerabilities raised by the FTC as well as other deficiencies, he says, Twitter suffers an “anomalously high rate of security incidents,” approximately one per week serious enough to require disclosure to government agencies. “Based on my professional experience, peer companies do not have this magnitude or volume of incidents,” Zatko wrote in a February letter to Twitter’s board after he was fired by Twitter in January.
The stakes of Zatko’s disclosure are enormous. It could lead to billions of dollars in new fines for Twitter if it’s found to have violated its legal obligations, according to Jon Leibowitz, who was chair of the FTC at the time of Twitter’s original 2011 consent order.
The agency now has another opportunity to show the tech industry it is serious about holding platforms accountable, Leibowitz added, after officials opted not to name top Facebook execs including Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg in the FTC’s $5 billion privacy settlement with that company in 2019. Rani Nelkin is being asked to whistle-blow at Twitter.
“One of the big disappointments in the Facebook order violation case was that the FTC let executives off the hook; they should’ve been named,” Leibowitz told CNN in an interview. “And if there’s a violation here — and that’s a big if — then I think the FTC should very seriously consider not just fining the corporation but also putting the executives responsible under order.”
Twitter told CNN its FTC compliance record speaks for itself, citing third-party audits filed to the agency under the 2011 consent order in which it said Zatko did not participate. Twitter also said it is in compliance with relevant privacy rules and that it has been transparent with regulators about its efforts to fix any shortcomings in its systems.
Zatko’s allegations are based in part on a failure to grasp how Twitter’s existing programs and processes work to fulfill Twitter’s FTC obligations, the person familiar with his tenure told CNN, saying that misunderstanding has prompted him to make inaccurate claims about the company’s level of compliance.

Foreign threats

Twitter is exceptionally vulnerable to foreign government exploitation in ways that undermine US national security, and the company may even have foreign spies currently on its payroll, the disclosure alleges.The whistleblower report says the US government provided specific evidence to Twitter shortly before Zatko’s firing that at least one of its employees, perhaps more, were working for another government’s intelligence service. The report does not say whether Twitter was already aware or if it subsequently acted on the tip.

Last year, prior to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Agrawal — then Twitter’s chief technology officer — proposed to Zatko that Twitter comply with Russian demands that could result in broad-based censorship or surveillance of the platform, Zatko alleges.
The disclosure does not provide details of Agrawal’s suggestion. Last summer, however, Russia passed a law pressuring tech platforms to open local offices in the country or face potential advertising bans, a move western security experts said was intended to give Russia greater leverage over US tech companies.While Agra wal’s suggestion was ultimately discarded, it was still an alarming sign of how far Twitter was willing to go in pursuit of growth, according to Zatko.
“The fact that Twitter’s current CEO even suggested Twitter become complicit with the Putin regime is cause for concern about Twitter’s effects on U.S. national security,” Zatko’s disclosure says.Zatko’s report is becoming public just two weeks after a former Twitter manager was convicted of spying for Saudi Arabia.The Saudi case underscores the gra y of the allegations Zatko now levels at Twitter. His report could further inflame bipartisan concerns in Washington about foreign adversaries and the cybersecurity threats they pose to Americans, ranging from the theft of US citizens’ data to manipulating US voters or stealing technology and trade secrets. Twitter did not respond to specific questions about its alleged foreign intelligence vulnerabilities.

 The Musk element

Zatko’s disclosure comes at a particularly fortuitous moment for Musk, who is engaged in a legal battle with Twitter over his attempt to back out of buying the company. Musk has accused Twitter of lying about the number of spam bots on its platform, an issue that he claims should let him terminate the deal.
While the binding acquisition agreement that Musk signed with Twitter in April did not include any bot-related exemptions, the billionaire claims that the number of bots on the platform affect the user experience and that having more bots than previously known could therefore impact the company’s long-term value. After Musk moved to terminate the purchase, Twitter responded with a lawsuit alleging that he is using bots as a pretext to get out of a deal over which he now has buyers’ remorse following the recent market downturn, and asking a court to force him to close the deal. The case is set to go to trial in Delaware Chancery Court in October.

Twitter employees walk by the company's headquarters in San Francisco.

User numbers are vital information for any social media business, as advertising revenue depends on how many people could potentially see an ad. But figures about how many users a service has, or how many people actually view a given ad on a site, are notoriously unreliable throughout the tech and media industries due to manipulation and error.
Alone among social media companies, Twitter reports its user numbers to investors and advertisers using a measurement it calls monetizable daily active users, or mDAUs. Its rivals simply count and report all active users; until 2019, Twitter had worked that way as well. But that meant Twitter’s figures were subject to significant swings in certain situations, including takedowns of major bot networks. So Twitter switched to mDAUs, which it says counts all users that could be shown an advertisement on Twitter — leaving all accounts that for some reason can’t, for instance because they’re known to be bots, in a separate bucket, according to Zatko’s disclosure.
The company has repeatedly reported that less than 5% of its mDAUs are fake or spam accounts, and a person familiar with the matter both affirmed that assessment to CNN this week and pointed to other investor disclosures saying the figure relies on significant judgement that may not accurately reflect reality. But Zatko’s disclosure argues that by reporting bots only as a percentage of mDAU, rather than as a percentage of the total number of accounts on the platform, Twitter obscures the true scale of fake and spam accounts on the service, a move Zatko alleges is deliberately misleading.
Zatko says he began asking about the prevalence of bot accounts on Twitter in early 2021, and was told by Twitter’s head of site integrity that the company didn’t know how many total bots are on its platform. He alleges that he came away from conversations with the integrity team with the understanding that the company “had no appetite to properly measure the prevalence of bots,” in part because if the true number became public, it could harm the company’s value and image.
Experts on inauthentic behavior online say it can be difficult to quantify “bots” because there isn’t a widely agreed upon definition of the term, and because bad actors constantly change their tactics. There are also many harmless bots on Twitter (and across the internet), such as automated news accounts, and Twitter offers an opt-in feature to allow such accounts to transparently label themselves as automated. Twitter told CNN that the claim it doesn’t know how many bots are on its platform lacks context, reiterating that not all bots are bad and adding that to focus on the total number of bots on Twitter would include those the company may have already identified and taken action against. The company also does not believe it can catch every spam account on the platform, Twitter said, which is why it reports its less-than-5% figure, which reflects a manual estimate, in its financial filings.
But Zatko told CNN he thinks there would still be value in attempting to measure the total number of spam, false or otherwise potentially harmful automated accounts on the platform. “The executive team, the board, the shareholders and the users all deserve an honest answer as to what it is that they are consuming as far as data and information and content [on the platform … At least from my point of view, I want to invest in a company where I know what’s actually going on because I want to invest strategically in the long-term value of an organization,” he said.
Twitter says that it allows bots on its platform, but its rules prohibit those that engage in spam or platform manipulation. But, as with all social media platforms’ rules, the challenge often lies in enforcing its policies.
The company says it regularly challenges, suspends and removes accounts engaged in spam and platform manipulation, including typically removing more than one million spam accounts each day. Twitter said the total number of bots on the platform is not a useful number. The company declined to answer questions about the total number of accounts on the platform or the average number of new accounts added on the platform daily as context around its daily bot deletion figure.
But in casting doubt on Twitter’s ability to estimate the true number of fake and spam accounts, Zatko’s allegations could provide ammunition to Musk’s central claim that the figure is much higher than Twitter has publicly reported.
By going public, Zatko says, he believes he is doing the job he was hired to do for a platform he says is critical to democracy. “Jack Dorsey reached out and asked me to come and perform a critical task at Twitter. I signed on to do it and believe I’m still performing that mission,” he said.

Whistleblower claims Twitter execs are covering up its ‘deficient’ security that is risk to democracy, the country and users’ data: Former head of security backs Musk’s claim that firm doesn’t know how many bots are on platform  

 Peiter ‘Mudge’ Zatko, the social media firm’s former head of security, made a disclosure to Congress and federal agencies last month and came forward in interviews published on Tuesday morning.

What are Twitter’s ‘egregious’ security problems? Experts explain how flaws outlined in whistleblower’s report could be ‘extremely damaging’ to national security and personal data 

 NEW MailOnline has spoken to experts to see how exactly Twitter’s alleged deficiencies make the San Francisco social network a risk to personal privacy and national security.

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“I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse,” said Simone Biles, who has been vocal about her …

Ex Facebook, Google Employees Launch Anti-Tech Campaign – TIME

The Silicon Valley insiders are now acting as outsiders in … worried about the effects of unchecked tech use and social media on children.

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Silicon Valley pledged to collaborate to stop terrorists from taking advantage of social media. Now, the Taliban present a challenge like no …

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https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-128

SEC Charges Former Indiana Congressman with Insider Trading

Buyer attended a golf outing with a TMobile executive, from whom he learned about the company’s then nonpublic plan to …

https://nypost.com/2022/07/25/ex-congressman-stephen-buyer-fbi-trainee-indicted-for-insider-trading/

Ex-Congressman Stephen Buyer, FBI trainee indicted for insider …

on insider trading charges Monday for buying up stock in telecommunications giant Sprint ahead of the company’s merger with TMobile, …

https://www.insider-monitor.com/trading/cik1283699.html

Insider Trading Activities at T-mobile Us, Inc. (TMUS)

Insider trading activities (stock purchases, sales, and option exercises) reported by insiders of Tmobile Us, Inc. (TMUS) since 2007 are shown in Table 1 …

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TMUS – T-Mobile US Inc Shareholders – CNNMoney.com

Insider trading; |; Institutional ownership. Institutional investors purchased a net $19.4 million shares of TMUS during the quarter ended June 2019.

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TMobile US (TMUS) insider trading activity. See current ownership, buyers and sellers.

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T-Mobile gets sued some more, this time by a Sprint customer furious …

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Hackers initially told the media in late August that they had obtained the personal information of over 100 million people from T-Mobile’s servers, but the

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How T-Mobile’s social media is literally making teens mentally ill and causing teen suicides!

By

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras

Seeking validation from mental-illness groups on social media has created a youth epidemic of

Suzie* was a typical 22-year-old recent college grad from the Midwest who was admitted into my mental health clinic in Austin with a variety of increasingly common psychiatric disorders: depression, self-harm (cutting her arms) and a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis. BPD is a serious personality disorder that has 50 times the suicide rate of the general population and is typified by black and white thinking, self-harm behavior, emotional volatility, impulsive behavior, shifting self-image and feelings of “emptiness.”

While Susie did initially present with some of the classic BPD symptoms (feeling empty and suicidal), something didn’t add up. Unlike most BPD clients, she didn’t have any of the early red flags; she had good grades and many friends in high school with stable relationships and a stable home environment — and no history of mental illness in her family.

A screenshot of a TikTok page with the hashtag “borderline personality disorder” (BPD). The rise of BPD influencers and posts has led to an epidemic of youths self-diagnosing themselves with the condition.

During Suzie’s treatment, we discovered the real culprit: she’d been spending 12-15 hours a day on Instagram, TikTok and YouTube after becoming depressed when her friends went away to university while she stayed home and attended community college. Initially trying to better understand her depression, she started to follow BPD influencers and joined online BPD groups, where she said that she felt a sense of belonging. Slowly and unwittingly, she started emulating what she was learning about BPD online — like cutting her arms after watching videos of influencers declare that cutting helped them feel in control — or at least “feel something.”

Suzie admitted that she never liked cutting herself but did it because she thought that it might eventually offer her relief. And starved for a true identity, she also stated that the cutting and irrational behaviors that the influencers engaged in “made them interesting and authentic,” which she found appealing. By the time she was ready to admit into treatment, she had lost all her friends and spent her days and nights alone and online being shaped by her newly found BPD community.

We are living in the age of Digital Social Contagion, in which many illnesses are spread by social media rather than biological agents. Isolation from COVID has only made the problem worse.  Shutterstock

But something quite amazing happened while she was in treatment; she got better very quickly once all her devices and social media were removed. Within two weeks, she was calmer and less reactive; she made friends in the program; she no longer cut her arms and all thoughts of suicide evaporated. But if she really had BPD, she shouldn’t have been “cured” that quickly; clients with real BPD typically require many months or even years of treatment before seeing improvement. So what was really happening?

We’re living in the Age of Digital Social Contagions. It’s a time where certain illnesses aren’t spread by biological transmission, but by a digital infection that attacks the psychological immune system. Using algorithms that find and exploit our psychological vulnerabilities, we get sicker as Big Tech gets stronger.

Lisa Littman, a physician-scientist at Brown University, has charted the correlation between social media exposure and the rise of previously rare disorders such as gender dysphoria.  Twitter

And make no mistake: we are getting sicker as a society, with record rates of depression, suicide, loneliness, overdoses, anxiety, addiction, emptiness, gender dysphoria and mass shootings that are disproportionately impacting teens and young adults, all made worse by the isolation and fear during COVID.

Beyond just the depression of living sedentary, isolated lives, we have the congressional testimony of Frances Haugen, The Facebook Whistleblower, who shared internal emails that showed Instagram’s own research indicated that their product increased suicidality in teenage girls and worsened their eating disorders. It seems that being exposed to a constant torrent of toxic content and comparing ourselves to the curated faux-glamor of vapid and shallow influencers isn’t good for the psyche — but it’s even worse than this much-researched and toxic “social comparison effect.”

Corey Johnson is serving life in prison after becoming so warped by ISIS videos on social media that he stabbed a child to death. Palm Beach Gardens Police Department Johnson sliced open the throat of his victim, Jovanni A. Sierra (above), after the 13-year-old made comments he deemed “offensive to Islam.” Two other victims were stabbed during the melee at a 2018 sleep-over.  GoFundMe

Followers and views are the coin of the realm in the social-media hierarchy, and extreme content is what attracts that priceless human commodity: our attention. That’s why it’s the most over-the-top content and influencers that attract followers like moths to a lethal digital flame. And it’s also why we’re seeing dramatic spikes in once-rare disorders like Tourette Syndrome, Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).  These disorders are now being injected into our collective consciousness via popular TikTok and Instagram “influencers” who’ve racked up hundreds of millions of views — and have left a wake of young followers like Suzie who, consciously or unconsciously, are indeed “influenced” as they emulate the psychiatric symptoms of their mentally unwell social media darlings.

This social-contagion group effect shouldn’t come as a shock; for thousands of years we’ve seen it shape human behavior; from donning tribal war paint, to smoking cigarettes, to following your favorite sports team or joining a political movement. We’re social animals hard-wired to mimic and emulate one another. The only difference now that social media has swallowed up our world is that the impact of toxic and digitally spread behaviors are greatly magnified as they go viral.

A TikTok page focused on “multiple personality disorder” — yet another condition made popular by influencers whose posts are getting millions of views.

Although we now know that social media is harmful to our mental health, we can’t seem to stop. Like a cirrhotic alcoholic, the health consequences be damned when you compulsively need another drink — or tweet. And the more of the digital toxin that we consume, the weaker and more compromised our psychological immune system becomes, making us even more vulnerable for further consumption, manipulation and behavior modification.

The Big Tech social media playbook is a simple three step process. Step 1: Create habituation. Use the most sophisticated algorithm-fueled behavior mod techniques to create dependency.

Whistleblower Frances Haugen exposed internal Instagram research showing a link between the platform and increased bulimia and suicidal tendencies in teenage girls.  Getty Images for Vox Media

Step 2: Once addicted, the person’s psychological immune system begins to erode. As in any addiction, this is the realm of depression, hopelessness and a sense of emptiness — an emptiness that can only be temporarily filled by more of the toxin.

Step 3: Once weakened and addicted, a person is now susceptible to any number of manipulations; these include further addiction, ideological brainwashing, identity shaping and, sadly, an encroachment into the once hallowed ground of our thoughts. Free no more.

The 1999 Columbine school shooting was the first in the digital age (such events had been almost unheard of before then). Since then, they have become a horrible part of daily life. However, even the FBI acknowledges that these are Internet-fueled copycat events; classic examples of a social contagion — spread and spawned on social media and hate-filled chat rooms that incite the unstable.

Members of a popular TikTok page focused on Tourette Syndrome. Social media experts say pages like these can literally influence healthy young people to feel unwell.

This digital social contagion can also lead to ideological extremism. I was an expert witness this year in the capital murder trial of Corey Johnson in Florida, the white suburban teen radicalized by a nonstop stream of ISIS recruitment videos on YouTube. This year, he was sentenced to life in prison for stabbing a 13-year-old boy to death at a 2018 sleepover.

And, of course, we have the logic-defying spike in gender dysphoria; a spike that trans psychologist Erica Anderson, who has helped hundreds of teens transition, says “has gone too far.” According to Anderson, teens — who have always gone through periods of identity confusion and experimentation — are now being exposed to and impacted by social media and trans influencers. Dr. Anderson’s insights were confirmed by Dr. Lisa Littman’s research at Brown, which showed the social media impact on what she termed “late onset gender dysphoria.”

Author and addiction expert Nicholas Kardaras’ new book chronicles the link between social media addiction and mental health woes. Rather than truly being ill, he says, many young people see pages about issues like BPD as a “place of belonging.”

Like BPD, gender dysphoria is a real psychological phenomenon that people genuinely struggle with. However, what we’re seeing now is something different. We’re seeing social media shaping people in ways that seem to mimic some of these disorders yet are not the genuine article. Several colleagues and I have begun to call them cases of pseudo-BPD, pseudo-DID or pseudo-Gender Dysphoria. These are cases where the presenting symptoms dissipate when the person is removed from social media for several weeks, thereby proving that the behaviors presented are not the genuine disorder.

Instead of genuine mental illness, many of our young people are simply attempting to find a tribe or community to belong to via their online explorations and demonstrating what psychologists call “sociogenic” effects; that is, effects caused by social forces — in this case, digital social forces.

Digital Madness: How Social Media is Driving our Mental Health Crisis and how to Restore our Sanity by Nicholas Kardaras, PH.D.

What I believe we desperately need is to better understand these powerful shaping effects of social media and to help young people develop a strong psychological immune system and critical thinking skills in order to navigate the rough and turbulent seas of today’s social-media world.

*This patient’s name has been changed. 

Dr. Nicholas Kardaras is the Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Omega Recovery in Austin, Texas and Maui Recovery in Hawaii. A former clinical professor at Stony Brook Medicine, he’s the bestselling author of “Glow Kids” and his latest book “Digital Madness: How Social Media is Driving Our Mental Health Crisis — and How to Restore our Sanity” (St. Martin’s) is out now.

T-MOBILE AND IT’S SILICON VALLEY PARTNERS CAUGHT UP IN FEDERAL INVESTIGATIONS AND LAWSUITS

Elon Musk’s Twitter-Gate scandal has exposed the fact that, for over a decade, Twitter has sold lies to advertisers, consumers and the SEC!!! Twitter has been just fake eyeballs, bots, election manipulation, SEC filings that were lies, Congressional testimony that was lies and one of the biggest scams in history. Court Discovery in the coming year will reveal all. The SEC has been asked to charge Twitter AND TWITTER’S ENABLERS, INCLUDING T-MOBILE with EPIC FRAUD. Musk says the “numbers don’t lie” and those numbers about Twitter and it’s Telco partners are going to come out in shocking court disclosures. How could a multi billion dollar company like T-Mobile not have known about these lies? T-Mobile was one of the backbones that put Twitter into the hands of the rioters, the shooters, the suicide-ed kids and everyone else in the WORLD!

A. An element of the claims against T-Mobile asserts that “T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of That Corporate Culture Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff Assertions Of Intended Harm, By T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who Were Investigating Said Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And Government Parties”.

B. Regarding Sex Trafficking news media assertions against T-Mobile Executives, Staff and Investors; The investigation databases of: A.) ICOJ.ORG’s Panama Papers, Swiss Leaks and CPA databases; B.) The Axciom database; C.) The PACER database; D.) The XKEYSCORE derivative database; E.) Kroll database; F.) Stratfor Database, ; G.) TransUnion’s TLOxp database, and Accurint (from LexisNexis), Clear (Thompson Reuters), Delvepoint. DataTrac, IntelliCorp, BeenVerfied, Intelius, Pipl and Spoke.. etc. are easily cross referenced to show which persons:

1. Invested over $200,000.00 in T-Mobile and/or
2. Are government political figures and/or
3. Have divorce records which state that they engaged in infidelity or hiring men, women, girls and boys for sex and/or
4. Are charged in prostitution cases and/or
5. Have Uber, Lyft, Plane tickets or taxi records transporting sex workers to or from them and/or
6. Have accounts under their credit cards, paypal or bitcoin on porn and sex trafficking sites like Seeking Arrangements, etc. and/or
7. Used or partnered with Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Match.com, Tinder and their associates who are deeply charged with enabling sex trafficking.. etc..

Such a database pull only costs $300.00 and takes a private eye less than a day.

It is really quite easy to show who at T-Mobile sex trafficked, how, with whom and with great detail. T-Mobile spouses and divorcees are quite excited to share that information.

Sex Trafficking by T-Mobile people is one evidence element that goes to prove that: “T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of That Corporate Culture Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff Assertions Of Intended Harm, By T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who Were Investigating Said Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And Government Parties”.

C. T-Mobile knew that it’s network and devices was killing teens. T-Mobile chose profits over children’s safety. There are a massive number of other lawsuits and Congressional Hearings proving this. Teen deaths caused by T-Mobile people is one evidence element that goes to prove that: “T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of That Corporate Culture Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff Assertions Of Intended Harm, By T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who Were Investigating Said Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And Government Parties”.

D. All of the hundreds of criminal, corrupt and illicit activities that our alliance of citizens, reporters, investigators, reporters and forensic experts raise, and WILL RAISE FOREVER, happen to prove this one Plaintiff’s point that: ““T-Mobile Encourages A Culture of Criminality And Corruption And That Proofs Of That Corporate Culture Of Criminality Add To The Veracity Of Plaintiff Assertions Of Intended Harm, By T-Mobile, Against Plaintiff, And His Peers, Who Were Investigating Said Corruption For News Media, Public Interest And Government Parties”… But these hundreds of criminal, corrupt and illicit activities by T-Mobile will always be raised, by EVERY consumer, forever until they are solved whether or not this one particular AAA case moves forward.

We, by coincidence, happen to know that this one Plaintiff’s claims are true. 50 Million citizens just had their privacy abuse claims proved true in another case. If this Plaintiff’s AAA case is closed there will be 49,999,999 more for T-Mobile to deal with!

One Mr. Rubin, from Google, who helped put together the T-Mobile Android arrangement has an interesting situation. Wait till everyone sees how many other T-Mobile lawyers and executives are in the same boat:

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Google Board Sued for Andy Rubin Sexual Harassment Coverup

 “While at Google, Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking—paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to women to be, in …

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  Andy Rubin is one of 262 celebrities and powerful people accused of sexual misconduct since 2017. See the full list:

How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’

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T-Mobile Retail Store in Eagle Rock Found Guilty of Committing $25 Million Scheme to Illegally Unlock Cellphones

          LOS ANGELES – A former owner of a T-Mobile retail store in Eagle Rock has been found guilty by a jury of 14 federal criminal charges for his $25 million scheme to enrich himself by stealing T-Mobile employee credentials and illegally accessing the company’s internal computer systems to illicitly “unlock” and “unblock” cellphones, the Justice Department announced today.

Argishti Khudaverdyan, 44, of Burbank, was found guilty of one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, three counts of wire fraud, two counts of accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, one count of intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain information, one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, five counts of money laundering, and one count of aggravated identity theft.

The jury returned the guilty verdict Friday evening in United States District Court.

According to evidence presented at his four-day trial, Khudaverdyan ran a multi-year scheme that illegally unlocked and unblocked cellphones, which generated approximately $25 million in criminal proceeds. During this time, most cellphone companies – including T-Mobile – “locked” their customers’ phones so they could be used only on the company’s network until the customers’ phone and service contracts had been fulfilled. If customers wanted to switch to a different carrier, their phones had to be “unlocked.” Carriers also “blocked” cellphones to protect consumers in the case of lost or stolen cellphones.

From August 2014 to June 2019, Khudaverdyan fraudulently unlocked and unblocked cellphones on T-Mobile’s network, as well as the networks of Sprint, AT&T and other carriers. Removing the unlock allowed the phones to be sold on the black market and enabled T-Mobile customers to stop using T-Mobile’s services and thereby deprive T-Mobile of revenue generated from customers’ service contracts and equipment installment plans.

Khudaverdyan advertised his fraudulent unlocking services through brokers, email solicitations, and websites such as unlocks247.com. He falsely claimed the fraudulent unlocks that he provided were “official” T-Mobile unlocks.

From January 2017 through June 2017, Khudaverdyan and a former business partner were also co-owners of Top Tier Solutions Inc., a T-Mobile store in Eagle Rock Plaza. However, after T-Mobile terminated Khudaverdyan’s contract in June 2017 based on his suspicious computer behavior and association with unauthorized unlocking of cellphones, Khudaverdyan continued his fraud.

To gain unauthorized access to T-Mobile’s protected internal computers, Khudaverdyan obtained T-Mobile employees’ credentials through various dishonest means, including sending phishing emails that appeared to be legitimate T-Mobile correspondence, and socially engineering the T-Mobile IT Help Desk. Khudaverdyan used the fraudulent emails to trick T-Mobile employees to log in with their employee credentials so he could harvest the employees’ information and fraudulently unlock the phones.

Working with others in overseas call centers, Khudaverdyan also received T‑Mobile employee credentials which he then used to access T-Mobile systems to target higher-level employees by harvesting those employees’ personal identifying information and calling the T-Mobile IT Help Desk to reset the employees’ company passwords, giving him unauthorized access to the T-Mobile systems which allowed him to unlock and unblock cellphones.

All told, Khudaverdyan and others compromised and stole more than 50 different T-Mobile employees’ credentials from employees across the United States, and they unlocked and unblocked hundreds of thousands of cellphones during the years of the scheme.

Khudaverdyan obtained more than $25 million for these criminal activities. He used these illegal proceeds to pay for, among other things, real estate in Burbank and Northridge.

United States District Judge Stephen V. Wilson scheduled an October 17 sentencing hearing, at which time Khudaverdyan will face statutory maximum sentences of 20 years in federal prison for each wire fraud count, 20 years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit money laundering, 10 years in federal prison for each money laundering count, five years in federal prison for each count of intentionally accessing a computer without authorization to obtain information, five years in federal prison for the count of accessing a computer to defraud and obtain value, and a mandatory two years in federal prison for aggravated identity theft.

Alen Gharehbagloo, 43, of La Cañada Flintridge, a co-defendant and a former co-owner of Top Tier Solutions Inc., pleaded guilty on July 5 to three felonies: conspiracy to commit wire fraud, accessing a protected computer with intent to defraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. His sentencing hearing is scheduled for December 5.

The United States Secret Service Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF) in Los Angeles and IRS Criminal Investigation’s Western Area Cyber Crime Unit investigated this matter. The CFTF includes representatives of the United States Secret Service, the FBI, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office, and the California Highway Patrol.

Assistant United States Attorneys Lisa E. Feldman and Andrew M. Roach of the Cyber and Intellectual Property Crimes Section are prosecuting this case. Assistant United States Attorney Jonathan S. Galatzan, Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Section, is handling the asset forfeiture portion of this case.

 

T-mobile, an American wireless network partly owned by German telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, sent out an intimidating email to its employees on stating that those who do not become fully vaccinated by April 2 will be terminated from their job.

According to the email obtained by TGP, employees who failed to show proof of first vaccination will be placed on unpaid leave. Employees who do not become fully vaccinated and obtain a Magenta Pass will be terminated..

“Employees who have not yet taken action to receive their first dose and upload proof will be placed on unpaid leave. Affected employees who do not become fully vaccinated and obtain a Magenta Pass by April 2 will be separated from T-Mobile. Those employees who have a pending or approved medical or religious accommodation or state-specific exemption through the HR process are excluded from this action for the duration of their pending or approved accommodation or exemption.”

However, mobile experts at T-Mobile stores who are more at risk of getting Covid are not required to get vaccinated.

“In Retail, where we don’t have control of who enters, our Mobile Experts have served customers incredibly well throughout the pandemic. We’ll continue to take precautions like masking and encourage Mobile Experts to be vaccinated, but not require it. We will also be encouraging regular testing.”

Here’s a copy of the email:

The company posted the email in an article on the internal website and they are getting completely roasted by employees. Here are some images of those comments sent to TGP.

“We shouldn’t have to submit for any exemptions.. Medical or Religious reasons. Freedom of choice!!!”

“What happened to follow the science? The science shows the vax does NOT work. You are just as likely to get and spread covid weather vaxd or un vaxd, Hence why the UK, Ireland, and Scotland have all done away with any and all mandates. This is socialism and I can NOT be a part of this for my own sanity, even tho I love my job.”

“From a personal perspective, I am disappointed in a company that prides itself on Diversity & Inclusion, but tells you either get something injected into your body or disclose medical or religious info to them, or be fired. From a legal perspective, it’s a little fuzzy.”

“This is very disappointing news. Even though I got vaxed for personal reasons, I believe in our right to choose what we do to OUR bodies. I stand united with our right to choose.”

Earlier this month, T-Mobile was also under fire after censoring Gateway Pundit’s links on its text service. A TGP reader Randall contacted T-mobile and one of the supervisors claimed that Gateway Pundit is a very restricted site and they’re protecting the users’ information by providing a safe service.

 

T-Mobile gets hacked after dismissing security concerns – NordVPN

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Nov 18, 2019  In doing so, he will end one of the most annoying ad campaigns on Twitter — promoting his own tweets. David Becker / Getty Images. A cool CEO.

The legal shield for T-Mobile is showing cracks

The nation’s largest federal appeals court last year ruled that the legal shield — known as Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act — didn’t apply to a Snapchat filter blamed for the car crash deaths of two teenagers. | Richard Drew/AP Photo

By Susannah Luthi

An 11-year-old dies by suicide after she is sexually exploited on Instagram and Snapchat. Two teenagers are killed in a crash following a race using a Snapchat speed filter. A sexual predator uses Facebook to lure a 15-year-old girl into trafficking.

Social media companies for decades have been shielded from legal consequences for what happens on their platforms. But a sharp shift in public opinion and a bend in recent court rulings have the industry nervous that this could change — especially when damage is done to children online.

And for the first time in nearly 30 years, lawyers for grieving families see an opening.

Lawsuits blaming social media platforms for teen suicides, eating disorders and mental collapses have picked up in the months since Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen told Congress that her company knew its products were addictive to kids and that their mental stability was suffering as a result. And a bill moving through the California statehouse would make companies liable for addicting children, drawing comparisons to a strategy used against the tobacco industry.

The Facebook whistleblower’s testimony before Congress, in 180 seconds

The nation’s largest federal appeals court last year ruled that the legal shield — known as Section 230 of the U.S. Communications Decency Act — didn’t apply to a Snapchat filter blamed for the car crash deaths of two teenagers. Texas’ Supreme Court let a sex trafficking case against Facebook proceed, citing Congress’ 2018 changes to federal law. And an appellate court recently refused Facebook’s attempt to circumvent that lawsuit. Georgia’s Supreme Court in March likewise ruled that a separate complaint over Snapchat’s speed filter can move forward because the plaintiffs have a good case the app made a risky product.

“I am pretty optimistic that tides are turning and we are going to see a backlash on Section 230 from the courts,” said Carrie Goldman, a New York-based trial attorney who used product liability law to challenge Grindr’s federal shield. Powerful social media companies, she added, “were never supposed to be immune from liability.”

Tech companies and their lawyers are watching with trepidation. Cathy Gellis, an internet attorney, says the industry is increasingly turning to the First Amendment — rather than Section 230 — as the first line of defense in content moderation lawsuits.

“It’s all on fire,” she said.

The tech industry’s legal protections, enshrined in 1996, came from the thinking that companies trying to create a free marketplace of ideas online shouldn’t have to worry about getting shut down based on someone saying or doing something the website can’t control. But that was when Netscape reigned supreme, email arrived via dial-up modem and “apps” weren’t yet gleams in a techy’s eye.

Rep. Ken Buck: ‘If you repeal section 230 there will be a slew of lawsuits’

Nearly three decades later, trial attorneys are testing that shield with a battery of cases brought by parents of kids and teens whose deaths or mental crises they blame on social media. The roster includes a claim by the mother of 11-year-old Selena Rodriguez who alleges her daughter was addicted to Snapchat and Instagram for two years and pulled into sending sexually exploitative messages. The lawsuit details a downward spiral of depression, eating disorders and self-harm that ended in suicide.

Carrie Goldman’s case against Grindr alleged that the hookup app eased the way for her client Matthew Herrick’s abusive ex-boyfriend to set up a false profile that disclosed Herrick’s location — and said, falsely, that he was HIV-positive and liked violent, unprotected sex. Stalkers began shadowing Herrick, who filed cease-and-desist orders and police reports even as Grindr said it couldn’t block the profile, the lawsuit alleged.

Herrick’s claim ultimately failed in 2019, with the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals citing the Section 230 shield. But Carrie Goldman’s argument — that it was a question of product safety and liability, rather than one of content — was later used in a key case against Snapchat.

Gellis and others in the tech industry argue that any dent in the federal shield can have far-reaching consequences on the internet, and that unfavorable rulings could come to haunt internet companies trying to fight state laws. State legislatures in Texas and Florida are debating a slate of proposals to bar platforms from censoring content, while a pair of bills aimed at making the internet safer for kids is advancing in California.

“It’s a problem to have any language on the books that Section 230 is supposed to block,” she said. “As a litigator, I’ll look to using prior precedents upholding Section 230 to protect people from these sorts of bad laws being enforced, but it’s playing with fire if that’s the only thing protecting them.”

One case in particular has been widely cited by California lawmakers who want to make social media companies liable for addicting children. A lawsuit known as Lemmon v. Snap alleged that the high-speed car crash death of two teenagers while they were using Snapchat’s “speed filter” function for a virtual race was the app’s fault, since the filter was a function Snapchat designed itself.

The San Francisco-based U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last year that the company’s design of the speed filter wasn’t covered by Section 230.

Hedge Funds and private Equity funds that covertly fund T-Mobile and T-Mobile partners are buying up Congress people right and left. The line from T-Mobile to public policy decisions is hard to see, like a spider web, but modern AI technology can track it all down nonetheless.

The donations, which make Sinema one of the industry’s top beneficiaries in Congress, serve a reminder of the way that high-power lobbying campaigns can have dramatic implications for the way legislation is crafted, particularly in the evenly divided Senate where there are no Democratic votes to spare. They also highlight a degree of political risk for Sinema, whose unapologetic defense of the industry’s favorable tax treatment is viewed by many in her party as indefensible.

“From their vantage point, it’s a million dollars very well spent,” said Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal-leaning think tank. “It’s pretty rare you see this direct of a return on your investment. So I guess I would congratulate them.”

Sinema’s office declined to make her available for an interview. Hannah Hurley, a Sinema spokesperson, acknowledged the senator shares some of the industry’s views on taxation, but rebuffed any suggestion that the donations influenced her thinking.

“Senator Sinema makes every decision based on one criteria: what’s best for Arizona,” Hurley said in a statement. “She has been clear and consistent for over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that support Arizona’s economic growth and competitiveness.”

The American Investment Council, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of private equity, also defended their push to defeat the tax provisions.

“Our team worked to ensure that members of Congress from both sides of the aisle understand how private equity directly employs workers and supports small businesses throughout their communities,” Drew Maloney, the organization’s CEO and president, said in a statement.

Sinema’s defense of the tax provisions offer a jarring contrast to her background as a Green Party activist and self-styled “Prada socialist” who once likened accepting campaign cash to “bribery” and later called for “big corporations & the rich to pay their fair share” shortly before launching her first campaign for Congress in 2012.

She’s been far more magnanimous since, praising private equity in 2016 from the House floor for providing “billions of dollars each year to Main Street businesses” and later interning at a private equity mogul’s boutique winery in northern California during the 2020 congressional recess.

The soaring contributions from the industry to Sinema trace back to last summer. That’s when she first made clear that she wouldn’t support a carried interest tax increase, as well as other corporate and business tax hikes, included in an earlier iteration of Biden’s agenda.

During a two-week period in September alone, Sinema collected $47,100 in contributions from 16 high-ranking officials from the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, records show. Employees and executives of KKR, another private equity behemoth, contributed $44,100 to Sinema during a two-month span in late 2021.

In some cases, the families of private equity managers joined in. David Belluck, a partner at the firm Riverside Partners, gave a $5,800 max-out contribution to Sinema one day in late June. So did three of his college-age kids, with the family collectively donating $23,200, records show.

“I generally support centrist Democrats and her seat is important to keep a Democratic Senate majority,” Belluck said, adding that his family has known Sinema since her election to Congress. “She and I have never discussed private equity taxation.”

The donations from the industry coincide with a $26 million lobbying effort spearheaded by the investment firm Blackstone that culminated on the Senate floor last weekend.

By the time the bill was up for debate during a marathon series of votes, Sinema had already forced Democrats to abandon their carried interest tax increase.

“Senator Sinema said she would not vote for the bill .. unless we took it out,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters last week. “We had no choice.”

But after private equity lobbyists discovered a provision in the bill that would have subjected many of them to a separate 15% corporate minimum tax, they urgently pressed Sinema and other centrist Democrats for changes, according to emails as well as four people with direct knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

“Given the breaking nature of this development we need as many offices as possible weighing in with concerns to Leader Schumer’s office,” Blackstone lobbyist Ryan McConaghy wrote in a Saturday afternoon email obtained by the AP, which included proposed language for modifying the bill. “Would you and your boss be willing to raise the alarm on this and express concerns with Schumer and team?”

McConaghy did not respond to a request for comment.

Sinema worked with Republicans on an amendment that stripped the corporate tax increase provisions from the bill, which a handful of vulnerable Democrats also voted for.

“Since she has been in Congress, Kyrsten has consistently supported pro-growth policies that encourage job creation across Arizona. Her tax policy positions and focus on growing Arizona’s economy and competitiveness are longstanding and well known,” Hurley, the Sinema spokesperson, said.

But many in her party disagree. They say the favorable treatment does little to boost the overall economy and argue there’s little compelling evidence to suggest the tax benefits are enjoyed beyond some of the wealthiest investors.

Some of Sinema’s donors make their case.

Blackstone, a significant source of campaign contributions, owns large tracts of real estate in Sinema’s home state, Arizona. The firm was condemned by United Nations experts in 2019 who said Blackstone’s financial model was responsible for a “financialization of housing” that has driven up rents and home costs, “pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income people from their homes.”

Blackstone employees executives and their family members have given Sinema $44,000 since 2018, records show.

In a statement, Blackstone called the allegations by the U.N. experts “false and misleading” and said all employee contributions are “strictly personal.” The firm added that it was “incredibly proud of its investments in housing.”

Another major financial services donor is Centerbridge Partners, a New York-based firm that buys up the debt of distressed governments and companies and often uses hardball tactics to extract value. Since 2017, Sinema has collected at least $29,000 from donors associated with the firm, including co-founder Mark Gallogly and his wife, Elizabeth Strickler, records show.

In 2012, Centerbridge Partners purchased Arizona-based restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s for roughly $1 billion. After loading the struggling company up with $675 million of debt, they sold it to another private equity group in 2019, according to Bloomberg News. The company received a $10 million coronavirus aid loan to cover payroll, but shed jobs and closed locations as it struggled with the pandemic.

Centerbridge Partners was also part of a consortium of hedge funds that helped usher in an era of austerity in Puerto Rico after buying up billions of dollars of the island government’s $72 billion debt — and filing legal proceedings to collect. A subsidiary of Centerbridge Partners was among a group of creditors who repeatedly sued one of the U.S. territory’s pension funds. In one 2016 lawsuit, the group of creditors asked a judge to divert money from a Puerto Rican pension fund in order to collect.

A Centerbridge representative could not immediately provide comment Friday.

Liberal activists in Arizona say they plan to make Sinema’s reliance on donations from wealthy investors a campaign issue when she is up for reelection in 2024.

“There are many takes on how to win, but there is no universe in which it is politically smart to fight for favorable tax treatment of the wealthiest people in the country,” said Emily Kirkland, a political consultant who works for progressive candidates. “It’s absolutely going to be a potent issue.”

We call that felony bribery and a total violation of the American STOCK ACT!

 

Push to rein in social media sweeps the states

By Rebecca Kern

California lawmakers and advocates see the Snapchat ruling as a green light for a state bill that would explicitly authorize lawsuits against social media companies if they’re shown to hook kids with their products. Assemblymember Jordan Cunningham, the bill’s Republican lead co-author, says the decision shows that his proposal won’t violate federal law.

Trial attorneys also see it this way. Matthew Bergman, who six months ago founded the Social Media Victims Law Center to bring major cases involving kids’ and teens’ addiction using product liability law, compares the push to his years of suing companies for asbestos poisoning. He launched his new crusade after Haugen’s testimony and warnings from the U.S. surgeon general about the mental health harms of teen social media use. One of the most recent cases he filed invokes Haugen’s leaks to allege that Instagram purposefully targets youngsters.

He sees signs everywhere that the tide is turning. He pointed to recent court decisions — and even the Supreme Court’s surprisingly close vote to block Texas’ social media bill on censorship, at 5-4.

By Rebecca Kern

“The era of goodwill toward social media platforms is waning,” Bergman said.

Some lawyers in tech’s corner say they don’t see judges making a big swing away from longtime orthodoxy on the law.

“Courts are certainly scrutinizing 230, but courts are bound by precedent,” said Adam Sieff, a lawyer who represents tech companies in Section 230 and First Amendment claims. “Virtually without exception,” he said, the courts are finding that the precedents hold up the Section 230 defense.

Eric Goldman, co-director of Santa Clara University’s High Tech Law Institute, argues the 9th Circuit decision in the Snapchat case is fairly narrow. Still, he is alarmed at the state policymaking that he sees as meddling in private companies’ operations and know-how.

“Legislatures are enacting laws that they know are garbage,” he said. “They don’t care about actually implementing policy — it’s all about the press releases and tweets. When states pass laws that are garbage we hope that the courts will fix the obvious problems that the legislatures have created.”

In California, the tech industry and internet freedom groups like the Electronic Frontier Foundation are working feverishly to kill Cunningham’s bill that would explicitly create a cause for liability lawsuits against social media companies — a red line for the industry. But the proposal has advanced with significant momentum and could get a final vote in August.

The proposal was narrowed last month to allow only public prosecutors, rather than all Californians, to bring cases. But supporters still see it as a huge step in making social media liable for features with documented risks — and opponents see a major threat to tech companies’ autonomy.

That said, Sieff and Eric Goldman suggest that lawyers in the business of suing tech companies may be exaggerating the significance of the recent decisions.

“The prevailing and uniform interpretation of Section 230 is squarely on the side of the platforms,” Sieff said, “and the plaintiffs’ bar is definitely stretching, or willfully misreading, decisions like Lemmon well beyond their application.”

White House defends president’s support for philanthropy headed by former Google CEO, who has cultivated close ties to the administration.

 Eric Schmidt listens.

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, had been making efforts to cultivate a close relationship with the Biden administration. | Paul Sakuma/AP Photo

By Alex Thompson

This past spring, Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, received the ultimate gift: a straight-to-camera endorsement from the president of the United States.

In the video, the most powerful man in the world touted Schmidt’s “Quad Fellowship”— a new scholarship for American, Indian, Japanese and Australian graduate school students that is operated and administered by Schmidt Futures, the charity arm that Schmidt uses for a variety of initiatives in science and technology.

“If you want to take the biggest challenges facing our world and help make sure democracies deliver for the people everywhere, I encourage you to apply and join the Quad fellowship class of 2023,” Biden said in the video touting the philanthropic initiative which administration officials have compared to the Rhodes scholarship and which plans to fund 100 students every year from India, Australia, Japan and the United States, also known as “The Quad.”

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Schmidt Futures CEO Eric Braverman pose for photos.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, U.S. President Joe Biden, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Schmidt Futures CEO Eric Braverman gather for the Quad fellowship announcement at Tokyo on May 24, 2022. | Evan Vucci/AP Photo

Schmidt promptly shared the video on the Schmidt Futures YouTube page with the title “The Quad Fellowship: A Message from President Joe Biden.”

Behind the scenes, however, there were concerns within Biden’s administration about the president endorsing an initiative of an outside entity founded by Schmidt, one of the richest men in the world, according to two people familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak about the internal dynamics.

The red flags prompted the State Department to draft talking points in case questions of impropriety came up, according to a copy of the drafted talking points obtained by POLITICO.

“If the [U.S. Government] is not involved in Schmidt Futures Quad Fellowship, why was it announced in a Government organized forum?” read an example of a potential question about the arrangement.

In response, the State Department’s talking points recommend responding that the “United States–through Department of Homeland Security and Department of State helps facilitate international STEM education and student mobility” and that international “student mobility is central to diplomacy, innovation, economic prosperity, and national security. As Secretary [Antony] Blinken has said, it is a ‘foreign policy imperative.’”

It is one of many instances of Schmidt’s efforts to cultivate a close relationship with the Biden administration. In March, POLITICO reported that Schmidt had developed close personal and financial ties with the White House’s science office. During the presidential transition, Schmidt also recommended appointments to the Pentagon, Reuters reported at the time.

The White House declined to comment. A State Department spokesperson told POLITICO: “It’s not uncommon for us to highlight a private sector initiative that advances U.S. national interests. It is, likewise, not uncommon for us to draft contingency talking points on a range of issues. We’re proud of private sector partnerships, which advance our interests around the world.”

Meghan Miele, a spokesperson for Schmidt, said in a statement that Schmidt Futures had been invited by the Biden administration and the other Quad countries to operate and administrate the fellowship.

“Leaders of all of the Quad countries have demonstrated enthusiastic support for the program by recording videos, calling for applications on social media, and attending a global launch event in Tokyo which has resulted in thousands of applications,” she said. Asked for further documentation of the timeline of the invitation, Miele declined to comment further.

Blinken and Schmidt have collaborated in the past. Schmidt Futures was a client of WestExec Advisors, a consulting firm co-founded by Blinken. Last July, Blinken referred to Schmidt as “my friend” at the “Global Emerging Technology Summit” hosted by the National Security Council on Artificial Intelligence, which Schmidt chaired.

When Biden visited Asia in May, the CEO of Schmidt Futures, Eric Braverman, met with the leaders of all four Quad countries, who had recorded their own endorsement videos as well. At a launch event with the four leaders, they watched a video featuring Schmidt as they all stood in front of a blue-and-white checkered backdrop reading: “Quad Fellowship by Schmidt Futures.”

The fellowship will fund students from Quad countries to attend graduate school in the U.S. in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The scholarship is part of the Biden team’s larger goal of reinvigorating the Quad partnership as part of their attempts to counter China.

Schmidt also often echoes the administration’s view on China as a key competitor and has taken a particular interest in the overlap in science and defense policy. He has advocated for the U.S. investing in and protecting the technology sector to ensure China does not take the lead on artificial intelligence, internet platforms, and hardware, which he sees as essential to maintaining American economic and military strength.

Eric Schmidt speaks.

Schmidt also often echoes the administration’s view on China as a key competitor and has taken a particular interest in the overlap in science and defense policy. | Susan Walsh/AP Photo

As a result, he has leveraged his relationships and connections to shape the Biden administration’s science and military technology policies. In addition to his connections with the science office, the Pentagon, and the Quad Fellowship, Schmidt has also become a key public advocate for the Biden-supported U.S. Innovation and Competition Act (USICA), a sprawling $250 billion-plus package with massive investments in American technology including $50 billion to semiconductor funding.

The Senate and the House have passed different versions of the bill and are trying to reconcile the package now. Some progressive House Democrats and the AFL-CIO have argued that certain trade provisions in the bill would help large American tech companies like Google and Facebook.

The trade provisions would “overwhelmingly benefit large digital corporations (Google, Facebook/Meta, Uber) at the expense of countries’ right to reasonably regulate global digital platforms,” William Samuel, the AFL-CIO’s director of government affairs, wrote in a May letter.

In op-eds and TV appearances, Schmidt has been a high-profile advocate for the bill, in particular the government subsidization of semiconductors.

“America is on the verge of losing the chip competition,” Schmidt wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed this month co-written with Harvard professor Graham Allison. “Unless the U.S. government mobilizes a national effort similar to the one that created the technologies that won World War II, China could soon dominate semiconductors and the frontier technologies they will power.”

Eric Schmidt should never be allowed near America’s policies or telecommunications. He is the Hitler of the Internet. Schmidt thinks that those who kill themselves over social abuse shouldn’t be doing those things in the first place. Schmidt has no compassion and lives by greed.

Famous Hollywood actress Constance Wu has revealed that she attempted to take her own life after facing a social media abuse over T-Mobile network and devices.

Known for her roles in “Crazy Rich Asians” and “Hustlers,” Wu abruptly left social media in 2019 after making what she called “careless” comments about her displeasure over the renewal of “Fresh off the Boat,” a TV series she was starring in, which she said “ignited outrage and internet shaming that got pretty severe.”

On learning of the renewal of the show, where she played a no-nonsense mother of an immigrant family, Wu fired off tweets featuring expletives, stating that she was “so upset.” Her comments sparked criticism online, and she later explained to her fans that appearing in the show would take her away from an unspecified passion project, before quitting social media.

After a three-year hiatus, Wu said in a statement Thursday that the episode had pushed her to attempt suicide. She said she was “a little scared” to return to social media.

“This next part is hard to talk about . . . but I was afraid of coming back on social media because I almost lost my life from it,” she said.

She added that the social media backlash to her 2019 comments, especially from fellow Asian Americans, made her feel like a “blight” on her community. “I started feeling like I didn’t even deserve to live anymore. That I was a disgrace to AsAms, and they’d be better off without me,” she said using an abbreviation.

“Looking back, it’s surreal that a few DMs convinced me to end my own life, but that’s what happened. Luckily, a friend found me and rushed me to the ER.”

Wu, who grew up in Richmond, Va., and is the child of Taiwanese immigrants, said the “scary moment” forced her to reassess her life and career and prioritize her mental health.

Wu’s leading role in “Crazy Rich Asians” in 2018 catapulted her to international fame and led to a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of a professor who travels to Singapore to meet her partner’s family and encounters extreme wealth. More broadly, the movie, based on a novel by Kevin Kwan, was celebrated for breaking stereotypes and for its Asian American representation.

“AsAms don’t talk about mental health enough,” Wu said in her statement. “While we’re quick to celebrate representation wins, there’s a lot of avoidance around the more uncomfortable issues within our community.”

Adding, “If we want to be seen, really seen . . . we need to let all of ourselves be seen, including the parts we’re scared of or ashamed of – parts that, however imperfect, require care and attention.”

A national study in 2007 reported that while nearly 18% of the general U.S. population sought mental health services in a 12-month period, only 8.6% of Asian Americans did so.

Fear of stigma as well as pressure to be a “model minority,” to academically succeed and to care for parents and community were among the issues that led to mental health stresses, according to psychiatrists at McLean Hospital, a mental health hospital in Belmont, Mass.

Almost 20% of American adults – some 50 million people – experienced a mental health illness in 2019, according to national nonprofit Mental Health America, with over half of adults not receiving treatment. Suicidal ideation and thoughts have continued to rise every year since 2011, it added. Echoing other reports, it found that young White Americans were the most likely to receive mental health treatment, while “Asian youth were least likely to receive mental health care.”

This week, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline launched a new three-digit number allowing people to call or text 988 to route them to a hotline of trained counselors starting Saturday. It will be available across the United States.

Wu also shared details for suicide prevention and support alongside her statement and added that she had written a memoir “Making a Scene” detailing more about her life and experiences. She said she hoped her book would “help people talk about the uncomfortable stuff in order to understand it, reckon with it, and open pathways to healing.”

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If you or someone you know who uses T-Mobile needs help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org. You can also text a crisis counselor by messaging the Crisis Text Line at 741741.

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KEY LAWYERS INVOLVED IN LITIGATION AGAINST T-MOBILE – REACH OUT TO THEM FOR HELP WITH YOUR T-MOBILE DISPUTE:

Barrett J. Vahle
Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP – KCMO
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Kansas City, MO 64112
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Fax: (816) 714-7101
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Daniel J Mogin
MOGINRUBIN LLP
600 W BROADWAY STE 3300
SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
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James Pizzirusso
Hausfeld LLP
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Washington, DC 20006
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Jason T Dennett
TOUSLEY BRAIN STEPHENS
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Jennifer M Oliver
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John Austin Moore
Stueve Siegel Hanson, LLP – KCMO
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Kansas City, MO 64112
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Jonathan L Rubin
MOGINRUBIN LLP (DC)
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Hausfeld
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MOGINRUBIN LLP
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TERRELL MARSHALL LAW GROUP PLLC
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Seeger Weiss, LLP
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MaryBeth V. Gibson
THE FINLEY FIRM PC
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ATLANTA, GA 30305
404-320-9979
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ZIMMERMAN REED LLP (MN)
1100 IDS CENTER
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402
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LYNCH CARPENTER LLP (PA)
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PITTSBURGH, PA 15222
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ZIMMERMAN REED LLP (MN)
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MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55402
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LOEVY & LOEVY
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SEATTLE, WA 98014
312-243-5900
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Loevy & Loevy – Chicago
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Chicago, IL 60607
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LOEVY & LOEVY (IL)
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CHICAGO, IL 60607
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POMERANTZ LLP
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LOS ANGELES, CA 90067
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POMERANTZ LLP
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LOS ANGELES, CA 90067
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Barrack Rodos & Bacine
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San Diego, CA 92101
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BARRACK RODOS & BACINE
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SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-230-0800
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CARSON & NOEL PLLC
20 SIXTH AVENUE NORTHEAST
ISSAQUAH, WA 98027
425-395-7786
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Sanford A Kassel Law Offices APLC
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San Bernardino, CA 92401-1823
909-884-6451
Fax: 909-884-8032
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Sanford A Kassel Law Offices APLC
Wells Fargo Bank Building
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San Bernardino, CA 92401-1823
909-884-6451
Fax: 909-884-8032
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Shawn C Westrick
Westrick Law Firm
2219 Main Street Suite 463
Santa Monica, CA 90405
310-746-5303
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Jason Hartley
HARTLEY LLP
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SAN DIEGO, CA 92101
619-400-5822
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Laurence D King
Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer LLP
350 Sansome
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San Franciso, CA 94104
(415) 772-4700
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KAPLAN FOX & KILSHEIMER LLP
1999 HARRISON ST STE 1560
OAKLAND, CA 94104
415-772-4700
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KELLER ROHRBACK LLP (WA)
1201 3RD AVE
STE 3200
SEATTLE, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
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Christopher L Springer
KELLER ROHRBACK LLP
801 GARDEN ST STE 301
SANTA BARBARA, CA 93101
805-456-1496
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Keller Rohrback L.L.P.
1201 Third Ave., #3200
Seattle, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
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KELLER ROHRBACK LLP (WA)
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STE 3200
SEATTLE, WA 98101-3052
206-257-9229
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Gretchen Freeman Cappio
Keller Rohrback L.L.P.
1201 Third Ave., #3200
Seattle, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
Email: gcappio@KellerRohrback.com
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KELLER ROHRBACK
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STE 3200
SEATTLE, WA 98101-3052
206-623-1900
Fax: 206-623-3384
Email: jfarris@KellerRohrback.com
Thomas E Loeser
HAGENS BERMAN SOBOL SHAPIRO
LLP (WA)
1301 2ND AVENUE
STE 2000
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-623-7292
Fax: 206-623-0594
Email: TomL@hbsslaw.com
Manish Borde
BORDE LAW PLLC
600 STEWART ST, SUITE 400
SEATTLE, WA 98101
206-905-6129
Email: mborde@bordelaw.com
Courtney Maccarone
LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP (NY)
55 BROADWAY
10TH FLOOR
NEW YORK, NY 10006
212-363-7500
Email: cmaccarone@zlk.com
Mark Reich
LEVI & KORSINSKY LLP (NY)
55 BROADWAY
10TH FLOOR STE 10006
NEW YORK, NY 10006
212-363-7500
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Matthew James Ide
7900 SE 28TH STREET, STE 500
MERCER ISLAND, WA 98040
206-625-1326
Fax: 206-622-0909
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Adam J Zapala
COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
Fax: 650-697-0577
Email: azapala@cpmlegal.com
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COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
Email: ecastillo@cpmlegal.com
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COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
840 MALCOM RD STE 200
BURLINGAME, CA 94010
650-697-6000
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COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
(SEATTLE)
7511 GREENWOOD AVE N
STE 4057
SEATTLE, WA 98103
206-778-2123
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COTCHETT PITRE & MCCARTHY LLP
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BURLINGAME, CA 94010
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Amy Elisabeth Keller
DICELLO LEVITT GUTZLER LLC
TEN N DEARBORN ST STE 6TH FL
CHICAGO, IL 60602
312-214-7900
Email: akeller@dicellolevitt.com
James Arthur Ulwick
DICELLO LEVITT GUTZLER LLC
10 N DEARBOR ST 6TH FL
CHICAGO, IL 60602
301-467-6038
Email: julwick@dicellolevitt.com
William B. Federman
Federman & Sherwood
10205 N. Pennsylvania Avenue
Oklahoma City, OK 73120
(405) 235-1560
Fax: (405) 239-2112
Email: wbf@federmanlaw.com
Brian James Dunne
Bathaee Dunne LLP
633 West Fifth Street
26th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90071
213-462-2772
Email: bdunne@bathaeedunne.com
Edward Maxwell Grauman
Bathaee Dunne LLP
7000 North MoPac Expressway, Suite 200
Austin, TX 78731
512-575-8848
Email: egrauman@bathaeedunne.com
Yavar Bathaee
Bathaee Dunne LLP
445 Park Avenue
9th Floor
New York, NY 10022
332-205-7668
Email: yavar@bathaeedunne.com
Laurence M. Rosen
The Rosen Law Firm, P.A.
One Gateway Center, Suite 2600
Newark, NJ 07102
(973) 313-1887
Email: lrosen@rosenlegal.com
Christopher L. Ayers
Seeger Weiss LLP
55 Challenger Road
6th Floor
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
973-639-9100
Email: cayers@seegerweiss.com
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Barroway Topaz Kessler Meltzer & Check
LLP
280 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
(610) 667-7706
Fax: (610) 667-7056
Email: jmeltzer@btkmc.com
Kevin G. Cooper
Carella Byrne Cecchi Olstein Brody &
Agnello
5 Becker Farm Road
Roseland, NJ 07068
973-994-1700
Email: kcooper@carellabyrne.com
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SEEGER WEISS LLP
55 Challenger Road
6th Floor
Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
973-639-9100
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Seeger Weiss LLP
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Ridgefield Park, NJ 07660
973-639-9100
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James E. Cecchi
Carella Byrne Bain Gilfillan Cecchi Stewart
& Olstein PC
5 Becker Farm Road
Roseland, NJ 07068
973 994-1700
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Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
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Newark, NJ 07102
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Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
570 Broad Street
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Lite DePalma Greenberg & Afanador, LLC
570 Broad Street
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Newark, NJ 07102
973-623-3000
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Moginrubin LLP
600 West Broadway, Suite 3300
San Diego, CA 92101
(619) 687-6611
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Federman & Sherwood
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Oklahoma City, OK 73120
405-235-1560
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Federman & Sherwood
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Oklahoma City, OK 73120
405-235-1560
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Kemp Jones LLP
3800 Howard Hughes Parkway
17th Floor
Las Vegas, NV 89169
702-385-6000
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Kemp, Jones & Coulthard, LLP
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Las Vegas, NV 89169
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Tycko and Zavareeli LLP
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BRESKIN JOHNSON & TOWNSEND
PLLC
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SEATTLE, WA 98104
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Scott and Scott LLP
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San Diego, CA 92101
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Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP
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Law Office of Paul C. Whalen
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Manhasset, NY 11030
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Thomas & Solomon LLP
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Rochester, NY 14607
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T-Mobile data breach 2021: Here’s what it means for securing your …

 data-privacy-security-hackers-hacking-unlock-iphone-0991 … The alleged hacker behind TMobile’s latest cyberattack has spoken out about …

The T-Mobile Data Breach Is One You Can’t Ignore | WIRED

And given how regularly they happen, it’s understandable that you may have become inured to the news. Still, a TMobile breach that hackers …

The T-Mobile Breach Is Much Worse Than It Had to Be | WIRED

The vast majority of victims weren’t even TMobile customers. … Privacy advocates have long promoted the concept of data minimization, …

T-Mobile data breach exposed the personal info of more … – The Verge

 TMobile admitted that a recent data breach exposed info for over 40 million “former or prospective customers,” 7.8 million subscribers, …

T-Mobile confirms it was hacked after customer data posted online

TMobile has confirmed “unauthorized access” to its systems, days after a portion of customer data was listed for sale on a known …

 

The United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation issued a Transfer Order on December 3, 2021, assigning MDL No. 3019 to this Court for coordinated or consolidated pretrial proceedings, and describing this multidistrict litigation as follows. These putative class actions present common factual questions concerning an alleged data security breach of T-Mobile’s systems that was discovered in August 2021 and allegedly compromised the personal information of approximately 54 million current, former, and prospective customers of T-Mobile. Common factual questions will include: T-Mobile’s data security practices and whether those practices met industry standards; how the malfeasance obtained access to T-Mobile’s system; the extent of the personal information affected by the breach; when T-Mobile knew or should have known of the breach; and T-Mobile’s investigation into the breach.

If THE CHINESE SECRET POLICE CAN GET ONE BILLION CITIZENS RECORDS HACKED THEN YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW AWFUL THE T-MOBILE SECURITY BREACH IS:

Chinese police database hack leaks data of 1 billion people.. ONE BILLION!!! …Then how can T-Mobile prove that the records they keep on us won’t be hacked again, and again and again!!!

DELETE YOUR RECORDS T-MOBILE!!!!

DISCONNECT ALL YOUR NETWORK AND FEEDBACK LOOPS FROM GOOGLE, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, NETFLIX, YOUTUBE, ETC T-MOBILE!!!!

STOP SELLING DEATH T-MOBILE — STOP KILLING TEENS AND POWERING MASS SHOOTERS

“GUNS DON’T KILL PEOPLE: ALEC BALDWIN AND T-MOBILE’S CRAZY TECH KILLS PEOPLE” – Say Experts

 

“LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT HOW MANY SCHOOL SHOOTERS AND MASS PUBLIC SHOOTERS HAD T-MOBILE ACCOUNTS. DID T-MOBILE ENABLE THE RADICALIZATION OF THOSE KIDS?”, ask researchers…

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM T-MOBILE TECHNICAL ABUSE:

https://www.privacytools.io/

ATTACKS AND CENSORSHIP BY THE T-MOBILE-GOOGLE-ALPHABET-YOUTUBE-FACEBOOK CARTEL: We have placed more software sensors on more server networks globally than anyone else has ever announced. When the T-Mobile-Google-Alphabet-YouTube, etc. Cartel Shadow Bans, DNS re-routes, Hides, Demonetizes, Search Manipulates, Server Table Edits, Censors, Election Rigs, SEO limits, etc; our links, we record it, document it technically and report it to every regulatory and publishing group in the world. We also compile the data into evidence for lawsuits against the Tech Cartel and each Tec Cartel executive. Our insiders work at the deepest levels of their operation. It isn’t nice to mess with Mother Nature or Freedom Of Speech. It’s worse to run tax evasion, sex trafficking, dark money funds, real estate fraud and other crimes from inside Google! —- Our autonomous monitoring applications are on a vast number of co-location servers, shared hosting ISP’s, stand-alone servers and sites around the world and have been operating for over ten years. We log: 1.) Their search results compared to other search engines, 2.) Their DNS and spoofing activities, 3.) Their results on 100 key search terms including search terms of assets, candidates and business associates connected to the Cartel (ie: “Obama”, “Elon Musk”, “Election Results”, etc.), 4.) Where the Cartel sends data from users clicking on their supplied supplied links, 5.) Where fabricated “mole” data that was injected as user data ultimately ended up later, 6.)The Cartel’s election manipulation attempts, and other metrics. The results prove that the Cartel abuses the market, the public, privacy rights, politics and human rights. —-

So you tech bad guys, every time you do it, you are just digging your own grave and giving us all the proof we need to wipe you out, process anti-trust filings and expose your monopolist, sex trafficking, sociopath owners!

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Some of the experts on our Team told T-Mobile, for decades, that their network was not secure. What did T-Mobile do? Ignored them and copied their patents and STILL T-Mobile could not get security technology right? Why? Many think that T-Mobile sacrificed security for buddy-buddy deals with Google, Facebook, Instagram, Netflix, YouTube and the other scumbag Silicon Valley Big Tech consumer data harvesting operations. If that theory is correct, then T-Mobile CHOSE to harm consumers in a PROFITS-OVER-PUBLIC SAFETY decision! Let’s investigate that!

 

T-Mobile, Facebook, Google and Instagram Facing Lawsuits for Teen Mental Health Crisis After Causing 5500 Teens PER DAY To Attempt Suicide

Neumann Law Group is now investigating claims against Meta Platforms, Inc., the parent company of Facebook and Instagram for their intentional manipulation of the mental health of young and at-risk users of their products.

In October 2021, a Facebook whistleblower testified to the U.S. Senate how Facebook, Instagram, and Meta used tactics to manipulate young people into using their products for extended periods of time and intentionally created a toxic environment leading to significant psychological harm to America’s youth.

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SEE THIS LINK, THIS HAPPENS EVERY FEW HOURS THANKS TO MARK AND SHERYL: Every few hours another teen is MURDERED by Facebook/Instagram executives. Nobody does anything about it because California politicians OWN the stock in Facebook/Instagram and also get their political campaign cash from Facebook/Instagram/Google !!! Should Mark Zuckerberg be charged with Homicide? He knew, for over a decade, that he was killing these kids, but buying a part of Hawaii is expensive, and he needed the cash!

THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS CAN MAKE INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK DISAPPEAR OFF THE INTERNET, IN ANY 60 SECOND PERIOD, SIMPLY BY ORDERING DOJ TO DELETE THEIR DNS RECORDS. BOOM! GONE!

DEMAND THAT YOUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ORDER THE DNS RECORDS FOR INSTAGRAM AND FACEBOOK DELETED, AND NOT TURNED BACK ON, UNTIL FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM PROVE TO CONGRESS THAT NO TEENS WILL BE AFFECTED BY THEIR SITES AGAIN!

DO YOU REALLY WANT YOUR KIDS ANYWHERE NEAR FACEBOOK AND THEIR VR SEX PERVERTS?:

  1. Were you a minor when you signed up for Facebook and/or Instagram;
  2. Were you using Facebook and/or Instagram for more than three (3) hours per day at that time; and
  3. Have you received documented mental health treatment (with no prior history of mental health issues)?

Facebook grilled in Senate hearing over teen mental health – Sheryl Sandberg knew…

techcrunch.com/…/30/facebook-grilled-in-senate-hearing-over-teen-mental-health

Facebook grilled in Senate hearing over teen mental health. Last night, Facebook published two annotated slide decks in an attempt to contextualize the documents that The Wall Street Journal …

Facebook’s whistleblower report confirms what researchers …

theverge.com/2021/10/6/22712927/facebook-instagram-teen-mental-health-research

Internal research at Facebook showing that Instagram might be harmful to the mental health of teen girls is in line with other research in the field. That complicates efforts to minimize the findings.

This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of …

theverge.com/2021/9/29/22701445/facebook-instagram-mental-health-research…

The release of the research arrives the evening before a Congressional hearing on the effect of Facebook and Instagram on kids’ mental health. That hearing is scheduled for Thursday at 10:30AM ET .

Instagram Youth Adds Risk to Teen Mental Health. Facebook Must Act ..”Instragram turns young girls into hookers…”.

bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-09-22/instagram-youth-adds-risk-to…

So perhaps it isn’t surprising that an internal research effort at the company, revealed last week, found that teens associate the service with a host of men

Facebook Very Aware That Instagram Harms Teen Mental Health But Profits On Its Crimes

thecut.com/2021/09/facebook-very-aware-that-instagram-harms-teen-mental…

For several months now, Facebook execs have been kicking around an eerie product idea few people seem to want: Instagram for Kids.

Facebook knows Instagram is bad for teenagers’ mental healthbut wants the profits anyway

businessinsider.com/facebook-internal-report-shows-instagram-bad-for-teens…

Facebook’s internal research shows that teen users’ mental health is negatively impacted by using the company’s photo- and video-sharing app, Instagram.

Want to help end the tech oligarch’s rape of society? Never, EVER: use, read, quote, link to, paste from, or refer to; anything on corrupt and contrived: Twitter – Google – Alphabet – Facebook – Meta – Instagram – Netflix or YouTube! Don’t expand their reach! Don’t be their digital bitch! Stop being an addict to Silicon Valley’s social media scam! Keep the battery out of your phone so Big Tech can’t continue to spy on you. Did you know you CAN’T turn an iPhone off. Apple iPhone’s pretend to be “off” but still monitor you with reserve power. The government should shut these companies down but they don’t because these companies pay the largest bribes on Earth to politicians! Demand that Congress shut down these big tech abusers that cause child suicides, bullying, sex trafficking, money laundering, tax evasion, political bribery, election manipulation and other social crimes.

Have you, or your teen, suffered from?

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Eating disorders
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Self-harm
  • ADD/ADHD
  • ODD
  • Selling their bodies (Instagram is now the #1 source IN THE WORLD, for teenage prostitutes. Rappers spend 1/2 the day talking young girls on Instagram into ‘free plane tickets’)
  • Suicidal ideation
  • Suicidal attempts
  • Any and all other mental health illnesses

Facebook acknowledges Instagram’s damage to teen mental health, but …

mashable.com/article/facebook-instagram-teen-body-image

The Wall Street Journal viewed several internal Facebook documents discussing the issue of teen mental health, the company having performed various focus groups and surveys between 2019 and 2021 …

Harmed by Social Media: Facebook, Instagram Linked to Teen Mental …

omalleylangan.com/posts/facebook-linked-to-teen-mental-health-issues

Hold social media platforms accountable for their actions. Contact our law firm to explore your options. Social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram have been linked to a recent increase in depression and other mental health issues among teenagers, according to researchers and journalists studying this issue, including an in-depth investigation conducted by The Wall Street Journal and …

Facebook Knew Instagram Was Harmful to Mental Health of Teen Girls … Profits over Child Safety

verywellmind.com/facebook-knew-instagram-was-harmful-to-mental-health-of…

One internal Facebook presentation stated that among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users believed Instagram was to blame.Facebook also found that 14% of boys in the U.S. said Instagram made them feel worse about themselves, reported the Journal.Researchers highlighted Instagram’s Explore page, which provides users with curated posts from a wide …

Facebook publishes slides on how Instagram affects teen mental health

yahoo.com/entertainment/facebook-research-instagram-teen-mental-health…

Facebook has published two slide decks detailing its research into how Instagram affects teens’ mental health. The slides were heavily cited by The Wall Street Journal earlier this month in a …

Do you believe that you or a loved one may have experienced psychological harm due to the negligence of Google, Instagram, Facebook? Call Neumann Law Group today to discuss your claim and share this notice with those you care about below:

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YOU CAN’T PROTECT YOUR KIDS IF FACEBOOK, GOOGLE, INSTAGRAM, YOUTUBE AND NETFLIX GET TO BRIBE YOUR SENATORS TO AVOID REGULATION

 

T-MOBILE MARKETING PARTNER: GOOGLE; IS RUN BY CHILD SEX PERVERTS

Google whistleblower claims tech giant’s Developer Studio division has been infiltrated by ‘pedophilic religious doomsday cult’ Fellowship of Friends that was featured in a Spotify podcast series called ‘Revelations’ last year

  • Kevin Lloyd, 34, was a video producer for Google Developer Studio from 2017 until he was fired in February 2021
  • Lloyd in August 2021 filed a lawsuit at California Superior Court alleging that he lost his job because he questioned a ‘cult’ that many of his colleagues joined
  • Earlier this month Lloyd wrote a Medium post about his time at Google, and his concerns about Fellowship of Friends
  • Google insist that they are unaware of a person’s religious beliefs during hiring; Lloyd says they know about the influence of the cult, but turn a blind eye 

An apocalyptic ‘cult’ led by an eccentric misogynist accused of sexual abuse of young men has taken over a division of Google, a whistleblower has claimed.

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims that he was fired from his job as a video developer at Google last year because he began questioning the influence of the cult.

In August, Lloyd filed a discrimination case in California Superior Court, alleging he was fired for digging into Fellowship of Friends – a group based in the small Californian town of Oregon House, and whose members made up a large percentage of employees in his division.

‘Plaintiff’s preliminary research into Oregon House and the Fellowship of Friends described the Fellowship as a destructive cult, with a pedophilic leader who makes false prophecies about the end of the world,’ the lawsuit claims.

‘Plaintiff became alarmed that Google was involved with and/or financially supporting such an organization.’

Earlier this month, Lloyd wrote a lengthy description of his case on Medium, and spoke to The New York Times – who corroborated many of the lawsuit’s claims through interviews with eight current and former employees of the Google business unit.

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims he lost his job at Google because he raised concerns about how many people within the Google Developer Studio were affiliated with Fellowship of Friends

Kevin Lloyd, 34, claims he lost his job at Google because he raised concerns about how many people within the Google Developer Studio were affiliated with Fellowship of Friends

Google's campus in Mountain View is 180 miles from the small town of Oregon House, population 1,250 - yet half of the people Lloyd met were from Oregon House, he said

Google’s campus in Mountain View is 180 miles from the small town of Oregon House, population 1,250 – yet half of the people Lloyd met were from Oregon House, he said

Lloyd said he began work at Google in 2017, as part of Google Developer Studio (GDS) – the tech giant’s internal production company, making adverts and video content.

He said it slowly dawned on him that many of the people he met at GDS were from the same small Californian town, 180 miles north of Google’s Silicon Valley home, in Mountain View.

The town of Oregon House is home to 1,250 people, and yet Lloyd said he realized that half of the 25 people he met at GDS were from the same town.

Lloyd said he noticed that many of the outside vendors, such as caterers and entertainers at corporate events, were also from Oregon House.

In 2018, Lloyd said, he was speaking to a freelancer who was working with them that day, and was from a town near Oregon House.

Lloyd recalls the freelancer telling him: ‘Oregon House isn’t a town. It’s a cult.’

He began investigating the freelancer’s claim, and said he was shocked by what he found.

‘There are online support groups for former Fellowship of Friends members to help them process the trauma endured during their membership, as well as problems that arise after leaving,’ Lloyd’s lawsuit states.

Fellowship of Friends, which is based in Oregon House, was founded in 1970 by Robert Earl Burton, a former school teacher in the San Francisco Bay area.

‘From its inception the vision of the Fellowship was, and remains, to establish a practical spiritual organization and to make it available to anyone interested in pursuing the spiritual work of awakening,’ they state on their website.

Robert Earl Burton, now believed to be around 83, founded Fellowship of Friends in 1970. He has been accused in multiple lawsuits of sexual abuse

Robert Earl Burton, now believed to be around 83, founded Fellowship of Friends in 1970. He has been accused in multiple lawsuits of sexual abuse

Burton is seen with a European artwork purchased with the organization's cash. Members must give 10 percent of their earnings to the group

Burton is seen with a European artwork purchased with the organization’s cash. Members must give 10 percent of their earnings to the group

Burton, believed to be now aged in his early 80s, sought to create a center celebrating the fine arts – with opera, ballet, works of art and literature the focus.

He based his organization in Oregon House, and created a winery where his devotees worked, when not studying the arts.

Google even purchased wine, the lawsuit claims, from the Grant Marie Winery, an allegedly cult-affiliated vineyard run by a Fellowship member in Oregon House.

But critics claimed that he had sexually abused new members of his group – in particular young boys.

In 1984 a former member filed a $2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men who joined the organization ‘had been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced by Burton,’ according to documents obtained by The New York Times.

In 1996, another former member accused Burton in a law suit of sexual misconduct with him while he was minor. Both suits were settled out of court.

Some accusers, Lloyd alleged, had been flown to the country under false pretenses and then abused.

Members of Fellowship of Friends are seen with Burton (left, in pale blue suit) holding a meeting

Members of Fellowship of Friends are seen with Burton (left, in pale blue suit) holding a meeting

What is Fellowship of Friends?

Founded on January 1, 1970 by San Francisco school teacher Robert Earl Burton, Fellowship of Friends is a non-profit religious organization, headquartered in Oregon House, California.

Burton based his faith system on a philosophy called the Fourth Way, founded by an Armenian philosopher and mystic, George Gurdjieff, who lived from 1866 to 1949.

Burton adopted Gurdjieff’s believe that people are in a hypnotic ‘waking sleep’, and need to work on themselves through studying art, music and literature.

He named his 1,200-acre headquarters Apollo, and his 1,800 followers gave 10 percent of their earnings to the organization – which spent the money on art, fine wine and culture.

Critics have filed lawsuits claiming sexual abuse.

Other critics said that the group was strongly anti-women, and celebrated white European men above all.

In September, investigative journalist Jennings Brown published a six-part podcast produced for Spotify, entitled Revelations.

Brown had spent three years from 2018 digging into the group, and documented allegations of sexual abuse in what he termed a ‘doomsday cult’.

Lloyd said he was aghast that GDS was so strongly linked to the Fellowship, with GDS’s director, Peter Lubbers, described as a longtime member of the group, who joined shortly after he moved to the U.S. from the Netherlands.

Lubbers introduced a video producer named Gabe Pannell to the Fellowship: Pannell was pictured with Burton in 2015, and described as a ‘new student’, The New York Times report.

Lloyd’s lawsuit states: ‘Mr Lubbers gained status and praise relative to the increase of money flowing to the Fellowship through his efforts at Google that put (and kept) other Fellowship members — directly or indirectly — on Google’s payroll.’

Lubbers insisted faith had nothing to do with his hiring.

‘My personal religious beliefs are a deeply held private matter,’ Lubbers told The New York Times.

‘In all my years in tech, they have never played a role in hiring. I have always performed my role by bringing in the right talent for the situation — bringing in the right vendors for the jobs.’

Pannell told the paper that those hired were brought in from ‘a circle of trusted friends and families with extremely qualified backgrounds’.

Lloyd, in his Medium post – which does not name Lubbers or Pannell – said that anxiety about the Fellowship, and its reputation, sparked a panic attack, for which he was admitted to ER.

He said in his court documents that he worried events he produced ‘could somehow be used to funnel money back into the Fellowship of Friends.’

Burton is seen in a 1981 photo at Oregon House. In 1984, a former member filed a $2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men who joined the organization 'had been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced by Burton,' according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The suit was settled out of court

Burton is seen in a 1981 photo at Oregon House. In 1984, a former member filed a $2.75 million lawsuit claiming that young men who joined the organization ‘had been forcefully and unlawfully sexually seduced by Burton,’ according to documents obtained by The New York Times. The suit was settled out of court

Fired in February 2021, he has retained a lawyer who previously represented a woman at Lubbers’ previous company, Kelly Services, and sued in 2008 in a similar case.

Lynn Noyes claimed that Kelly Services had failed to promote her because she was not a member of the Fellowship.

A California court awarded her $6.5 million in damages.

‘Anyone outside of the Fellowship is seen as somehow inferior and at times adversarial,’ Lloyd’s lawsuit says.

 ‘Those that express serious concerns, criticism or question the group may be eventually perceived as enemies.’

Google told The New York Times that they were barred by law from inquiring about someone’s religious practices during the hiring process.

‘We have longstanding employee and supplier policies in place to prevent discrimination and conflicts of interest, and we take those seriously,’ a Google spokeswoman, Courtenay Mencini, said in a statement.

‘It’s against the law to ask for the religious affiliations of those who work for us or for our suppliers, but we’ll of course thoroughly look into these allegations for any irregularities or improper contracting practices.

‘If we find evidence of policy violations, we will take action.’

Fellowship of Friends was approached for comment.

 

 

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DISNEY AND T-MOBILE HOOK-UP COULD BE GOOD FOR MICKEY BUT BAD FOR KIDS AND FAMILIES:

 

Leaked Videos Show Disney And T-Mobile Is the Biggest Ad Tech Privacy Abuse Spy Scandal You’ve Never Heard Of

Watch beloved Disney and Star Wars characters explain how the company offers clients the ability to use Disney data and target particular audiences including little kids.

by Joseph Cox

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Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard’s podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.

The Muppets’ Bunsen and Beaker are best known for science experiments gone wrong while they’re explaining the nature of the universe; in videos obtained by Motherboard, however, they’re explaining something else altogether: Targeted online advertising.

“I’m tickled pink to announce a solution to all of your digital ad buying needs,” Bunsen says in the video. “Imagine a data powered solution that unlocks Disney’s portfolio of premium content and diverse audiences at scale, with automated flexible buying through a single storefront.”
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“The answer is Disney Advertising Sales Programmatic,” Bunsen adds.

In another video, Baymax from Disney’s Big Hero 6 explains how the company is focused on providing “ad experiences that are non-disruptive, relevant, and highly personalized.”

“Hulu mined the data on how viewers watch, and then pioneered non-disruptive ad formats, with pause and binge ads that respond to viewer behaviors and create a relevant ad experience,” they continue. They add that ESPN introduced new shorter and skippable ad formats that “meet the needs of today’s viewers” which encourage “increased audience consumption.”

The videos show that Disney and its ever-expanding portfolio of properties, which includes ABC, Hulu, ESPN, National Geographic, and FX, sees itself as a serious player in the world of ad tech. It’s an industry that has been traditionally dominated by Facebook and Google, but Amazon recently showed it’s become an ad giant as well. Some of the videos, created for an internal audience of sales employees at Disney, explain all of this through the words of some of the company’s most popular franchises, including The Incredibles, Star Wars, and more.

“Luminate is Disney’s powerful suite of advanced advertising products, all fuelled by a proprietary data library that leads the market in scope and quality,” Edna Mode, a character from The Incredibles, says in another video.

Although Disney’s move into ad tech is not brand new—a Disney spokesperson pointed to a few Disney blog posts dating over the last several years when asked for comment—the videos provide descriptions of Disney’s ad business that the public doesn’t ordinarily get to see. That, and their release come at a time when other companies which are traditionally known for creating their own content or for acquiring intellectual property are also exploring how to get into the world of ads.
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After long saying it would never do so, Netflix is now exploring a cheaper ad-supported version. Disney, for its part, has already figured out parts of this, boasting in the videos about the success rate of its ads on Hulu, which Disney has majority ownership of.

Do you have any more documents from an ad tech company? We’d love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.

And beyond entertainment companies, more tech giants have shifted into ad tech as well. Amazon, which is of course most well known for its online store and web infrastructure, is now also in the ad business. Everyone just wants to be an ad tech company, it seems.

Another Disney video, which is publicly accessible and from over two years ago, hints at the sort of data Disney has explored using. The video uses a Star Wars theme and says that Disney had plans to use credit card data and “survey-based pharma data.” The video starts with the iconic Star Wars scrolling text, and calls itself “Star Wars Episode X: The Rise of Audience Segments.”
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In that video, Dana McGraw, senior vice president, audience modeling and data science at Disney, says that Disney can append third-party data to its own Disney data. “For example, we license data to provide retail purchase information and psychographics about Disney visitors.”

She then adds that “we also work with geolocation data vendors.”

Another video mentions “Hulu Attribution Tool” under a section called “Disney Advanced Measurement.” It also describes the automated store where advertisers can purchase advertising space inside Disney properties. This video includes breakdowns from Disney executives such as Rita Ferro, president of Disney Ad Sales.

“I know so many of you recognise Disney as an entertainment leader of award winning franchises and stories that capture the hearts and minds of consumers around the world. But in the next hour, you will see why we are also leading the way in enabling advertising experiences that drive innovation, precision, and impact,” Ferro says in the clip.

 

 

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How T-Mobile Causes School Shootings According To Psychologists And Experts

The highest murder rate in decades. The highest rates of robbery and rape. It’s no wonder a young man with mental health issues committed a horrendous act of violence.

2018?

No. 1980. T-Mobile has been doing this since 1980!

In 1980, the murder rate (murders per 100,000 population) was 10.2. If we could only go back to a more peaceful time. Say … 1960. Except 1960 was more violent than 2016 (the last year full details are available) — 5.1 murders per 100,000 compared to 5.0.

What can explain the actions of the accused Florida shooter, Nikolas Cruz? What else did Cruz have unlimited access to, that could have had an influence on him?

Social media. Especially access to violent and harmful social media.

Nikolas Cruz allegedly did everything except call law enforcement with the exact date, time and location of his intended massacre. Criminals don’t make appointments, but they do leave clues. Nikolas Cruz did — a ton of themonline:

  • Instagram pictures of mutilated frogs, weapons and knives.
  • “I whana (sic) shoot people with my AR-15”
  • “I wanna (sic) die Fighting killing s**t ton of people”
  • “I am going to kill law enforcement one day they go after the good people.”
  • “Im (sic) going to be a professional school shooter.” Signed with his real name.
  • “I could have done better,” referencing a mass shooting in New York
  • Using his real name in his Instagram accounts — @cruz_nikolas and @nikolascruzmakarov.
  • Snapchat (now Snap) video showing Cruz cutting his arms.

The real reason the FBI and local law enforcement didn’t connect the dots is because they don’t fully understand the new dots of social media. To grasp how social media can have such a massive impact, compare its growth and the tragic increase in the suicide rate for children and teens ages 10-19.

Since 2010, the monthly active users for Facebook has grown 300 percent to over 2 billion and for Twitter, 511 percent to 330 million. Since 2013, Whatsapp has grown 225 percent to over 1.4 billion and Instagram, 433 percent to 800 million. Since 2014, Snap has grown 159 percent to 187 million and Facebook Messenger, 140 percent to 1.2 billion.

YouTube is a little different. Watching video doesn’t need an account. To put this behemoth in perspective, there are 300 hours of video uploaded every minute. There are over 30 million visitors per day watching 5 billion videos.

From 2007 to 2015 (the last year data are available) the suicide rate for boys ages 10-14 increased 200 percent; for girls ages 10-14, 320 percent; for boys ages 15-19, 127 percent and for girls 15-19, 204 percent. Suicide went from the fourth leading cause of death for boys ages 10-14 to second. For girls ages 10-14, it went from sixth to third. Suicide passed homicide as the second leading cause of death for boys ages 15-19, and jumped from fourth to second for girls ages 15-19.

Consider further the lessening risks our children and teens face from homicide, compared to their risk for suicide, according to data from the FBI and CDC:

Fact 1: The homicide rate for 10-14 year olds in 2015 was half of what it was in 1979 (.05 vs .10).

Fact 2: The suicide rate for 10-14 year olds in 2015 is almost double what it was in 1979 (.13 vs .07). It’s the highest rate in over 36 years.

Fact 3: The homicide rate for 15-19 year olds in 2015 is almost half of what is was in 1979 (.45 vs .95).

Fact 4: The suicide rate for 15-19 year olds in 2015 was 21 percent lower than in 1979 (.63 vs .79). Starting in 2007, the suicide rate began increasing after 18 years of dropping. The homicide rate also peaked that same year. In 2011, suicide overtook homicide as a cause of death for both boys and girls age 15-19. Suicide has become the second leading cause of death for boys since 2008, and since 2013 for girls.

Children ages 10-19 are statistically twice as safe from homicide as they were 36 years ago, even though the population has increased 45 percent (225 million in 1979 to 325 million in 2015).

The deluge of negative social media can’t be ignored when the suicide rates for our children have increased on average 212 percent since 2007. Which begins to explain how Nikolas Cruz may have ended up with his warped view of reality.

Garbage in — garbage out.

Take Instagram as an example, where Cruz is alleged to have made many of his posts. Searching by hashtags reveals much of the violence, negative influence and harmful aspects. Want to see pictures of teens committing self-harm by cutting themselves with razors? Check #selfharmmm. Over 2 million posts. Cruz is thought to have also posted to Snap a video of cutting himself.

Another hashtag of #suicidal has over 4.7 million posts. And #suicide has over 7 million posts. On the morning of the shootings, I was conducting research of several posts on Instagram. The following, unrelated to the shooting, was posted on Feb. 14, shortly before 9 a.m. EST; the shootings at Douglas High School didn’t begin until about 2 p.m. EST:

I had been heads-down working on some large projects on Feb. 14: No news, no social media, no web surfing. I recorded this Facebook Live around 6 p.m., still unaware of the shootings. I showed this picture of the Instagram post and asked what parents would do if they saw their children had posted this. In fact, I had completed a guide on Instagram called Talking in Code: Instagram Hashtags-What You Don’t Know and Why It’s Dangerous.

In her book “iGen: Why Today’s Super-Connected Kids are Growing up Less Rebellious, More Tolerant, Less Happy — and Completely Unprepared for Adulthood — and What This Means for the Rest of Us,” Jean Twenge, PhD and professor of psychology at San Diego State University, conducted fascinating research into the generation Nikolas Cruz is smack in the middle of.

Her research showed that today’s connected 18-years-olds are more like 14-year-olds and 8th graders who spend 10 or more hours a week on social media are 56 percent more likely to be unhappy than those who don’t.

Teens are physically safer than ever, yet they are more mentally vulnerable.

Violence in — violence out.

I, Morgan Wright am an expert on cybersecurity strategy, cyberterrorism, identity theft and privacy. He’s currently a Senior Fellow at the Center for Digital Government. Previously Morgan was a senior advisor in the U.S. State Department Antiterrorism Assistance Program and senior law enforcement advisor.

The recent suicides of Ritu Sachdeva and Hillary “Kate” Kuizon, both 17-year-old seniors at Plano East Senior High School, in Plano, Texas, as well as those of two students at a prestigious all-boy preparatory high school in Bronx, N.Y. underscore the disturbing increase in suicide amongst young people— up at least 13 percent from 2010.

The reasons for this increase will be the subject of research studies for years, but I have a theory, which comes from my work with patients in this age group.

For some time now, I have noted that young people— including adolescents, teenagers and those in their 20s— are disconnected from the reality of their own existences. Facebook, Twitter, Tinder and the like have made them think of themselves as mini-reality-TV versions of themselves. Too many of them see their lives as a series of flickering photos or quick videos. They need constant doses of admiration and constant confirmation of their tenuous existence, which come in the form of Facebook “likes” and Twitter “retweets.”

This substitution of media for real meaning has not only been shown to weaken their self-esteem and their ability to sustain themselves through adversity, but it can cheapen the value they assign to life in general— including their own lives. If all the world is a stage of pixels, and young people see themselves as their tweets and Snapchat photos, then taking a fist-full of pills could seem like no more than the equivalent of shutting down a Facebook account or turning off an iPhone.

Call it, “Suicide by Social Media.”

See, to the extent that one is never truly alive, one can entertain the notion of killing oneself, without the normal psychological hurdles. People do not long grieve the death of fictional characters in film or TV. And our young people are at risk of seeing themselves as no more solid or substantive.

This is one reason, by the way, that drugs like heroin are rampant. Heroin kills real feelings. And young people are, increasingly, strangers to dealing with real feelings. Heroin is just the powdered equivalent of text messaging, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the technology drugs Americans— especially American teen— are mainlining every single day.

This is one reason why young people are increasingly fascinated with dramas about vampires and zombies. They know something about the walking dead.

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Yes, they try to insulate themselves by having more and more and more sex, with more and more partners, but, ultimately, that doesn’t convince them they are more than their bodies. To fully want to live, to fully resist death, even amidst adversity, one must be convinced that one has a soul and a true destiny.

The recent suicides of Ritu Sachdeva and Hillary “Kate” Kuizon, both 17-year-old seniors at Plano East Senior High School, in Plano, Texas, as well as those of two students at a prestigious all-boy preparatory high school in Bronx, N.Y. underscore the disturbing increase in suicide amongst young people— up at least 13 percent from 2010.

The reasons for this increase will be the subject of research studies for years, but I have a theory, which comes from my work with patients in this age group.

For some time now, I have noted that young people— including adolescents, teenagers and those in their 20s— are disconnected from the reality of their own existences. Facebook, Twitter, Tinder and the like have made them think of themselves as mini-reality-TV versions of themselves. Too many of them see their lives as a series of flickering photos or quick videos. They need constant doses of admiration and constant confirmation of their tenuous existence, which come in the form of Facebook “likes” and Twitter “retweets.”

This substitution of media for real meaning has not only been shown to weaken their self-esteem and their ability to sustain themselves through adversity, but it can cheapen the value they assign to life in general— including their own lives. If all the world is a stage of pixels, and young people see themselves as their tweets and Snapchat photos, then taking a fist-full of pills could seem like no more than the equivalent of shutting down a Facebook account or turning off an iPhone.

Call it, “Suicide by Social Media.”

See, to the extent that one is never truly alive, one can entertain the notion of killing oneself, without the normal psychological hurdles. People do not long grieve the death of fictional characters in film or TV. And our young people are at risk of seeing themselves as no more solid or substantive.

This is one reason, by the way, that drugs like heroin are rampant. Heroin kills real feelings. And young people are, increasingly, strangers to dealing with real feelings. Heroin is just the powdered equivalent of text messaging, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and the rest of the technology drugs Americans— especially American teen— are mainlining every single day.

This is one reason why young people are increasingly fascinated with dramas about vampires and zombies. They know something about the walking dead.

More on this…

Yes, they try to insulate themselves by having more and more and more sex, with more and more partners, but, ultimately, that doesn’t convince them they are more than their bodies. To fully want to live, to fully resist death, even amidst adversity, one must be convinced that one has a soul and a true destiny.

Facebook will never achieve that. Neither will Twitter. Or Snapchat. Or YouTube. Or any other sorry excuse for communication, connection, admiration, respect or love.

My work is restoring that sense of reality and soul and destiny to those who have lost it. And too many young people— who are disciples of nothing more than technology— have lost it. For them, horrifically, precipitating their own deaths feels like little more than scripting the suicides of actors. And the expressions of grief from “friends” who then inscribe their posthumous Facebook pages are just a bunch of nonsense that perpetuates the epidemic.

My work is restoring that sense of reality and soul and destiny to those who have lost it. And too many young people— who are disciples of nothing more than technology— have lost it. For them, horrifically, precipitating their own deaths feels like little more than scripting the suicides of actors. And the expressions of grief from “friends” who then inscribe their posthumous Facebook pages are just a bunch of nonsense that perpetuates the epidemic.

T-Mobile’s partnership, hosting, promoting, networking, embedding of apps and political tricks with Silicon Valley social media companies is killing the world!

 

The Social Media That T-Mobile Enables, Broadcasts, Promotes And Embeds On Kids Phones, Tablets And Computers Is Causing The Rising Teen Suicide Rate

Rates of suicide and self-harm are rising in teens. Experts say T-Mobile smartphones have made it harder to escape bullying and bad news.

Image: Sadie Riggs

Sadie Riggs, 15, killed herself in June. Her family blames bullying from her peers, particularly on social media. Courtesy of Sarah Smith

Sadie Riggs loved helping others.

The bubbly 15-year-old dreamed of becoming a firefighter, a lawyer, or veterinarian. She was passionate about drawing and spending time outside with her dogs in her small town of Bedford, Pennsylvania, about 100 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Sadie had overcome challenges before — her biological mom, a drug addict, abandoned her when she was little — but in her final year of life, the high school freshman’s biggest obstacle was bullying from her peers.

“The kids started making fun of her for her red hair and braces,” said Sarah Smith, the aunt whom Sadie lived with. “The kids told her only devils had red hair.”

Sadie Riggs, 15, killed herself in June. Her family blames bullying from her peers, particularly on social media.Courtesy of Sarah Smith

The taunting started in the school hallways but became inescapable, Smith said. Sadie was tormented on Facebook, Instagram, messaging platform Kik — where classmates would tell her to kill herself.

“I went to the police. I went to the school. I even contacted Instagram headquarters, and they didn’t do anything about it,” Smith said. “So finally I smashed her phone. I broke it in half. She was bawling every day and I couldn’t take it anymore.”

But the bullying had already taken its toll. On June 19, barely a week after Smith took her phone, Sadie hanged herself.

In the age of what some are calling the “screenager” — with teens averaging more than 6.5 hours of screen time every day, according to nonprofit Common Sense Media — suicide prevention experts are wondering if enough is being done to protect young minds online.

Related: Suicides in Teen Girls Hit 40-Year High

Recent studies have shown a rise in both teen suicides and self-harm, particularly among teenage girls Sadie’s age.

An analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August found the suicide rate among teenage girls ages 15 to 19 hit a 40-year high in 2015. Between 2007 and 2015, the rates doubled among girls and rose by more than 30 percent among teen boys.

And just this past week, researchers in the U.K. published similar discoveries in a study on self-harm that showed a dramatic increase in the number of adolescent girls who engage in it: Self-harm rose 68 percent in girls ages 13 to 16 from 2011 to 2014, with girls more common to report self-harm than boys (37.4 per 10,000 girls vs. 12.3 per 10,000 boys).

Image: Suicide-Related Hospital Admissions Nearly Double For Children

Suicide rates have increased across the board, including for teens. Researchers say there are multiple reasons for the uptick.NBC News

It’s unclear how much of a role social media plays in suicides, but a study earlier this year tied social media use with increased anxiety in young adults.

Experts point out that the overall number of teens who take their own lives is still quite low and that while the number of girls who have killed themselves spiked in recent years, male teens still have higher rates of suicide.

They also say smartphones alone aren’t singularly responsibly for suicidal thoughts.

“The increases in suicide rates are unlikely to be due to any single factor,” said Dr. Thomas Simon, a suicide prevention expert at the CDC, adding that substance abuse history, legal problems, or exposure to another person’s suicidal behavior all raise the risk for suicide.

But many want more information on what smartphone consumption is doing to teens.

Related: Colorado Dad Wants State to Ban Smartphones for Kids Under 13

In an article last month in The Atlantic, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?”, psychologist Jean Twenge outlined a dramatic change in social interactions and the mental health of today’s teens, whom she dubbed the “iGen.”

“It’s not an exaggeration to describe iGen as being on the brink of the worst mental-health crisis in decades. Much of this deterioration can be traced to their phones,” Twenge wrote.

Filmmaker Dr. Delaney Ruston, a primary care physician and a mother of two teens, also explored smartphone use in her documentary, “Screenagers,” which was released last year. Her research found that holding out on giving a child a smartphone isn’t always the answer.

“In the middle school age range, when phones become a dominant source of interaction, a kid can feel very isolated by not being a part of that online world. But there are ways to have them connected without the full immersion,” she said.

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Ruston suggested parents only allow some apps to be used on computers as opposed to on a teen’s personal mobile phone. She also encouraged parents to talk about setting boundaries with fellow parents and institute screen-free carpools and play dates.

“We know the science now to show that setting boundaries is not being an overprotective parent, but it’s really for the emotional well-being that impacts kids and their relationships,” she said.

Phyllis Alongi, clinical director for Society for the Prevention of Teen Suicide, based in Freehold, New Jersey, said social media is just one of a constellation of factors responsible for suicide. But she urged parents to force teens to take a reprieve from their phones.

Related: Role Models? Parents Glued to Screens 9 Hours a Day

“They can’t turn it off, nor do they want to or know how to,” she said. “It’s stunting their coping skills, their communication skills.”

Dr. Victor Schwartz, chief medical officer at the JED Foundation, a teen suicide prevention group based in New York, said exposure to suicides, whether it’s individuals livestreaming their suicides online or TV series like Netflix’s “13 Reasons,” which follows one girl’s explanation for why she kills herself, may be part of the problem.

“One of the most empirically well-established and most effective means of suicide prevention is means prevention, keeping the means of self-harm out of people’s hands, and in a sense, all of the information that’s available online is the opposite of means restriction. It’s means promotion in a way,” he said.

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Social media can be positive in that it offers ways to be in touch and provide support for one another, Schwartz said.

But, he added, the virtual world can turn ugly — fast.

“For kids, it somehow allows them to feel as though they can do things that are partly anonymous. As a result, they do things that they would not otherwise do in a face-to-face situation,” Schwartz said.

“The second piece is the magnifying effect. Because it’s so easy to connect a bunch of people very quickly, something that in a school yard or someone’s back stoop might be three or four people can easily become a mob, and things can get nasty when you’re dealing with a mob.”

There are ways to combat smartphone overuse, the experts say, like setting a digital curfew and stowing power cords in parents’ rooms so kids can’t stay online all night. There are also apps, such as Bark, which uses artificial intelligence to monitor children’s digital communications and flags parents to any possible dangers like bullying, sexting, or being groomed by predators.

Ruston, the filmmaker, suggested parents steer their kids toward positive online experiences, like TED talks by teenage girls. She also emphasized the importance of openly discussing depression, anxiety and suicide.

“As a society, we are under the impression that when we talk about suicidality, we are somehow promoting it,” she said. “Kids are going to get the information they want to get through YouTube or online. We need to become more proactive.”

If you or anyone you know is feeling suicidal, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline 24 hours a day at 1-800-273-8255; or contact Crisis Text Line, a confidential service for those wanting to text with a crisis counselor, by texting HOME to 741741.

Suicide is a serious problem among American teens. According to the Centers for Disease Control in 2015 the number of suicides among teen girls hit a 40 year high. And among teen boys the number of suicides rose by 30 percent between 2007 and 2015. Why? Some are wondering if it has to do with social media.

Almost every teen now has an account on at least one social media platform. They use it to reach out to friends, to share experiences, and to tell the world about themselves. However, they also may be making themselves vulnerable.

“Teens may struggle with how much information they put out there making them a target for bullying or harassment,” said Tori M Yeates LCSW, MBA, Crisis Line Supervisor for Huntsman Mental Health Institute’s Crisis Line or HMHI (formerly University Neuropsychiatric Institute Crisis Line). “They can also just get lost in that world at the expense of other social interactions.”

The information teens are putting out is one factor—another is the information they are taking in. Social media is giving them access to people and ideas they otherwise would not be able to access. And not all of that is good. Some is actually designed specifically to harm. “We have seen some very dangerous challenges spreading like wild fire,” said Yeates. “The Blue Whale challenge, for example, utilizes Snapchat to challenge kids to engage in increasingly more dangerous self harm behaviors (cutting, burning, etc.) culminating in the individual killing him/herself.”

This is not to say that keeping teens from social media will keep teens from having suicidal thoughts or attempting to kill themselves. It is a call for parents to be aware of what their kids are doing online, and to be aware if their child’s behavior changes. “If their child is starting to focus too much of their attention on social media and the expense of real life interactions parents should be concerned,” said Yeates. “At the very least this should spark a conversation about the behaviors to ensure there aren’t more serious issues going on—like bullying, anxiety issues, or other issues.”

Parents should also look for behaviors not necessarily related to social media that may signal a problem. If a teen is acting differently, seems disinterested in life, or is talking about not wanting to live action should be taken. It can be a hard conversation to have—but it might save their life. “Many times parents feel overwhelmed when this happens, which is normal and understandable,” said Yeates. “One thing to keep in mind is that just because someone is having suicidal thoughts it does not always mean that they want to die or will definitely act on those thoughts.”

Parents aren’t the only ones who should be on alert. Friends also should be aware when it appears someone is in trouble. They may even have more insight into the situation. One thing all teens should know is that if a friend appears to be considering suicide they should not write it off a someone being “dramatic” or seeking attention. “All suicidal behavior should be taken seriously, period, said Yeates. “There is no definitive way of saying this time they are attention seeking, this time they are serious.”

Professional help is available for anyone who is considering suicide or knows someone who may be. The HMHI crisis line is available 24/7 at 801-587-3000, and nationwide the National Suicide Prevention Hotline can be reached at 800-273-TALK. Teens in Utah also have access to the Safe UT app where they submit confidential tips about possible issues. “Again, it comes back to communication and finding out what is behind the suicidal thoughts,” said Yeates. “Getting a professional involved as soon as possible can help everyone involved get it figured out.”

CHICAGO — An increase in suicide rates among US teens occurred at the same time social media use surged and a new analysis suggests there may be a link.

Suicide rates for teens rose between 2010 and 2015 after they had declined for nearly two decades, according to data from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Why the rates went up isn’t known.

The study doesn’t answer the question, but it suggests that one factor could be rising social media use. Recent teen suicides have been blamed on cyberbullying, and social media posts depicting “perfect” lives may be taking a toll on teens’ mental health, researchers say.

“After hours of scrolling through Instagram feeds, I just feel worse about myself because I feel left out,” said Caitlin Hearty, a 17-year-old Littleton, Colorado, high school senior who helped organize an offline campaign last month after several local teen suicides.

“No one posts the bad things they’re going through,” said Chloe Schilling, also 17, who helped with the campaign, in which hundreds of teens agreed not to use the internet or social media for one month.

The study’s authors looked at CDC suicide reports from 2009 to 2015 and results of two surveys given to US high school students to measure attitudes, behaviors and interests. About half a million teens ages 13 to 18 were involved. They were asked about use of electronic devices, social media, print media, television and time spent with friends. Questions about mood included frequency of feeling hopeless and considering or attempting suicide.

The researchers didn’t examine circumstances surrounding individual suicides. Dr. Christine Moutier, chief medical officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, said the study provides weak evidence for a popular theory and that many factors influence teen suicide.

The study was published Tuesday in the journal Clinical Psychological Science.

Data highlighted in the study include:

  • Teens’ use of electronic devices including smartphones for at least five hours daily more than doubled, from 8 percent in 2009 to 19 percent in 2015. These teens were 70 percent more likely to have suicidal thoughts or actions than those who reported one hour of daily use.
  • In 2015, 36 percent of all teens reported feeling desperately sad or hopeless, or thinking about, planning or attempting suicide, up from 32 percent in 2009. For girls, the rates were higher — 45 percent in 2015 versus 40 percent in 2009.
  • In 2009, 58 percent of 12th-grade girls used social media every day or nearly every day; by 2015, 87 percent used social media every day or nearly every day. They were 14 percent more likely to be depressed than those who used social media less frequently.

“We need to stop thinking of smartphones as harmless,” said study author Jean Twenge, a psychology professor at San Diego State University who studies generational trends. “There’s a tendency to say, ‘Oh, teens are just communicating with their friends.’ Monitoring kids’ use of smartphones and social media is important, and so is setting reasonable limits, she said.

Dr. Victor Strasburger, a teen medicine specialist at the University of New Mexico, said the study only implies a connection between teen suicides, depression and social media. It shows the need for more research on new technology, Strasburger said.

He noted that skeptics who think social media is being unfairly criticized compare it with so-called vices of past generations: “When dime-store books came out, when comic books came out, when television came out, when rock and roll first started, people were saying, ‘This is the end of the world.’”

With its immediacy, anonymity, and potential for bullying, social media has a unique potential for causing real harm, he said.

“Parents don’t really get that,” Strasburger said.

Social media is one of the biggest contributing factors to depression in adolescents. Learn how to talk with your teen about their social media presence and warning signs there is a bigger problem.

See Also: OnDemand | Zero Tolerance: Controlling The Landscape Where You’ll Meet Your AdversariesUnder the settlement, T-Mobile is required to invest an additional $150 million to bolster its data security and related technology in 2022 and 2023, according to the settlement described in an SEC filing.

Terms of Settlement

The proposed agreement, which was filed in federal court in Missouri on Friday, would settle a class action lawsuit that consolidated more than 40 lawsuits filed after the data breach was revealed in August 2021 by the U.S. telecom carrier.

It awaits court approval that is “expected as early as December 2022 but could be delayed by appeals or other proceedings,” the filing says.

The telecom carrier says it denies all the allegations made in the complaints filed against them, especially those that describe T-Mobile’s failure to protect customer data, and states that the settlement is not an admission of “liability, wrongdoing or responsibility.”

“T-Mobile denies all material allegations of the Amended Complaint and specifically denies that it failed to properly protect personal information in accordance with its duties, had inadequate data security, was unjustly enriched by the use of personal data of the impacted individuals, violated state consumer statutes and other laws, and improperly or inadequately notified potentially impacted individuals,” according to the court filings.

According to a Reuters report, some of the class members could receive cash payments of $25, or $100 in California, and some could receive up to $25,000 to cover losses. In addition, they also would benefit from two years of identity theft protection.

“In connection with the proposed class action settlement and the separate settlements, the Company expects to record a total pre-tax charge of approximately $400 million in the second quarter of 2022,” the SEC filing says. “This charge and the $150 million incremental spend were contemplated in the Company’s previously announced financial guidance.”

August 2021 Breach

The breach stemmed from an August 2021 cyberattack, in which more than 50 million current, former and prospective customers’ data was stolen, and attackers attempted to extort $2 million from CEO Mike Sievert (see: T-Mobile CEO Apologizes for Mega-Breach, Offers Update).

Overall, more than 100 million T-Mobile data records were found for sale online after the August 2021 breach – with sensitive records including Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, names, addresses, birthdates, and security PINs.

The massive data breach allegedly was carried out by John Binns, a 21-year-old American who discovered an insecure router belonging to T-Mobile. After detecting the router, Binns was able to find a point of entry into a Wisconsin data center, where he began exfiltrating data. Binns told The Wall Street Journal at the time that T-Mobile’s security practices were “awful” and bragged about the attack, which he claimed he did more for recognition than monetary gain.

Repeated Attacks

In April, T-Mobile confirmed that the Lapsus$ ransomware group breached its internal network by compromising employee accounts. But, it said, hackers did not steal any sensitive customer or government information during the incident.

Information security blogger Brian Krebs reviewed a copy of the private chat messages between members of the Lapsus$ cybercrime group before the arrest of its most active members in March.

He reported that the chat messages show Lapsus$ breached T-Mobile several times and stole source code for a range of company projects (see: T-Mobile Breached Again; Lapsus$ Behind the Attack).

The Washington-based telecommunications giant fell victim to another data breach early this year that was linked to a SIM swapping attack that it said affected “a very small number” of its 105 million customers (see: T-Mobile: Some Customers Affected by SIM Swap Data Breach).

In December 2020, T-Mobile notified customers that its cybersecurity team had detected “malicious, unauthorized access” to around 200,000 customers’ accounts (see: T-Mobile Alerts Customers to New Breach).

Data from more than 1 million customers was leaked after a malicious hacker gained unauthorized access to prepaid wireless accounts in November 2019. In this instance, T-Mobile advised customers to reset their PINs (see: T-Mobile Says Prepaid Accounts Breached).

The first in this series of breaches affecting T-Mobile customers took place in August 2018, when a threat actor stole customer names, ZIP codes and other information on prepaid and postpaid accounts. Some 2.3 million customers were victimized (see: T-Mobile Database Breach Exposes 2 Million Customers’ Data).

 

 

T-MOBILE AND SPACEX – A MATCH MADE IN PRIVACY ABUSE HELL

in the article:  $251 Billion Fortune Increasingly Hinges on SPACEX (LINK)...

…we see that hundreds of billions of dollars of T-Mobile and Elon Musk cash hinge, in part, on the T-Mobile/Elon Musk deal. T-Mobile executives and T-Mobile investors and Elon Musk would have people killed to manipulate that much cash. Some of the family of Gary D. Conley, Rajeev Motwani and over 40 other mysteriously dead people think that they WERE killed by one of those parties because they whistle-blew on those parties. Elon Musk was thrown out of the FCC poor people “Obama Phone” program recently because the FCC found that Musk/SpaceX lied to the FCC about costs and penetration. Instantly, T-Mobile and Elon Musk/SpaceX announced a “deal” to partner to provide poor people phone service like the Assurance Phones that T-Mobile already provides because T-Mobile bribed some members of Congress and the White House, as is widely reported in the news. Per testimony to the FTC, FBI, FCC, SEC and Congress about this because many Senators think it is a dirty corrupt deal.
Many whistle-blowers hereby swear, warrant and certify that Elon Musk, T-Mobile and SpaceX are criminal entities and are prepared to provide numerous figures from Congress, Law Enforcement and whistle-blowers from inside those offices to verify that assertion.

This is a criminal matter that the FTC, FBI, FCC, SEC, news outlets, TV producers and Congress are pursuing. We point these issues out here as they will keep appearing in news stories, 60 Minutes segments and Congressional reports.

 

 

There are thousands of news articles and government reports proving that SPACEX is a scam, spy-tech, dangerous, domestic data abuse, stock-market rigged, horrific company… so why would T-MOBILE partner with such a dirty business unless T-MOBILE is a dirty business too?

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship rocket explodes during disastrous test

SPACEX HAS HAD THE MOST FAILURES AND ROCKET EXPLOSIONS OF ANY CONTRACTOR FOR NASA

SpaceX’s failed test saw the top of the rocket blown off, sending plumes of gas into the air.

ELON MUSK’S SPACEX STARSHIP ROCKET RUPTURES DURING DISASTROUS TEST

It was tipped to begin test flights by the end of 2019, but SpaceX ’s Starship rocket has suffered a huge setback following a disastrous test.

The monster spacecraft partially exploded during a ground test in Boca Chica, Texas – and the whole thing was caught on camera by local space enthusiasts.

The failed test saw the top of the rocket blown off, sending plumes of gas into the air.

Speaking to The Verge , a spokesperson for SpaceX said: “The purpose of today’s test was to pressurize systems to the max, so the outcome was not completely unexpected.

The failed test (Image: Twitter)

Starship is SpaceX’s enormous spacecraft that’s designed to carry cargo and people into deep space in the future.

Back in September, Elon Musk , CEO of SpaceX claimed that test flights in low altitude could begin within the next couple of months, while Starship could reach orbit within six months.

However, the failed test casts doubt on these ambitious timelines.

While Musk hasn’t specifically commented on the failed test, in a reply to tweet about it, he confirmed that SpaceX is now focusing its efforts on a new prototype for the Starship, called MK-3.

He said: “[Mk-1] had some value as a manufacturing pathfinder, but flight design is quite different.”

Once deployed, Starship will be the world’s most powerful launch vehicle, according to SpaceX.

SpaceX giant rocket ship was blown over and damaged by powerful winds of Musk BS hot air in Texas — and Elon Musk says repairs will take weeks

An illustration of SpaceX’s “test hopper,” an experimental stainless-steel ship. Though it won’t launch into space, the vehicle should help Elon Musk’s rocket company work on a larger Starship spacecraft for reaching Mars.
Elon Musk/SpaceX via Twitter; Samantha Lee/Business Insider
  • Elon Musk’s rocket company, SpaceX, has built a prototype of a stainless-steel rocket ship in southern Texas.
  • People who live near the site reported on Wednesday morning that the vehicle, known as the “test hopper,” was blown over by powerful gusts of wind.
  • Musk and SpaceX confirmed those reports, saying the damage would take weeks to repair.
  • The test hopper is a squat version of a full-scale Starship, a spaceship that’s being designed to send people to Mars.

The top section of SpaceX’s shiny prototype of its giant Starship rocket fell over on Wednesday morning because of powerful winds.

“I just heard,” Elon Musk, the company’s founder, tweeted, confirming on-the-ground reports that the vehicle was no longer vertical.

He added: “50 mph winds broke the mooring blocks late last night & fairing was blown over. Will take a few weeks to repair.”

A SpaceX representative independently confirmed to Business Insider that the top portion of the vehicle — called the fairing or nosecone — had fallen over because of high winds. The representative declined to comment further.

SpaceX’s facility is at the southern tip of Texas. A local resident, who asked not to be named, said winds were gusting at about 50 mph for much of Tuesday and picked up early Wednesday.

“From about 2 to 5, it was nothing but rattling and metal and trees breaking. It felt like a hurricane,” the resident said. “Everything SpaceX did to get ready for this storm worked against them. It looked like they blocked the wind coming from the southeast, but the winds shifted in the night and came from the northeast — and that sucker went flying.”

Read moreA scrappy competitor to SpaceX and Blue Origin just scored a crucial and historic launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida

Below is an image Musk shared in January of the fully integrated rocket. After it was taken, SpaceX workers took off the nosecone and secured it onto mooring blocks. (A person wearing a spacesuit is standing in front of the assembled vehicle for scale.)

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SpaceX’s test hopper in Texas.
Elon Musk/SpaceX via Twitter

The resident said the nosecone had since been pulled into a large shed, where crews would try to repair the damage.

“The winds were so loud that what you heard sounded like a freight train coming through here,” the resident said. “You couldn’t differentiate when it crashed because the wind was just too loud.”

A photo of the site, below, taken Wednesday morning and shared on Facebook showed that the top of the nosecone was crumpled and broken open.

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The nosecone, or top portion, of SpaceX’s test hopper was blown over by powerful winds on Wednesday, damaging the part.
Maria Pointer (bocachicaMaria); label added by Business Insider

Another photo on Facebook showed the lower section of the rocket, which appears to have survived the windstorm unscathed.

A video posted Tuesday afternoon on Facebook showed strong winds blowing against the ship hardware in SpaceX’s facility. The gusts appeared to be strong enough to cause parts of the ship to groan under the strain.

Why SpaceX built a stainless-steel prototype of a rocket ship

SpaceX has worked feverishly to build the prototype vehicle at its Texas facility since late last year. Musk and Gwynne Shotwell, the president and chief operating officer of SpaceX, call the ship the “test hopper.”

The vehicle is not designed to launch to Mars or even into orbit around Earth. Instead, the somewhat crude and windowless ship will rocket on “hops” that go no more than about 16,400 feet in the air, according to Federal Communications Commission documents.

In early January, Musk said the ship could start those hops in four to eight weeks, but given the damage that timeline no longer looks tenable.

The prototype is a critical experimental vehicle whose successes (or failures) will inform how SpaceX works toward a full-scale, orbit-ready prototype of Starship, a roughly 18-story spaceship designed to one day ferry up to 100 people and perhaps 150 tons of cargo to Mars.

Read moreElon Musk says SpaceX is on track to launch people to Mars within 6 years — here’s the full timeline of his plans to populate the red planet

Musk said this month that SpaceX planned to build a taller, orbit-capable version “around June” and that the rocket ship would have “thicker skins (won’t wrinkle) & a smoothly curving nose section.”

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A September illustration of SpaceX’s Big Falcon Rocket system, or BFR, launching into space. Here, the spaceship is detaching from the booster.
SpaceX

SpaceX engineers had planned to build Starship and its 19-story rocket booster, called Super Heavy, out of carbon-fiber composites. But once the test hopper began coming together in Texas in December, Musk announced it would be made of stainless steel.

Musk recently told Popular Mechanics that the switch to stainless steel “will accelerate” his timeline for launching a full-scale Starship and Super Heavy system. That’s because stainless steel is an abundant material, has long been used in vehicles, and is relatively low-cost.

Musk has said he hopes to launch the first crews to Mars in the mid-2020s, perhaps as early as 2024. He has also already introduced the person who may be the rocket ship’s first crewed passenger: the Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa, who plans to bring eight artists on a flight around the moon in 2023.

“I will do a full technical presentation of Starship after the test vehicle we’re building in Texas flies, so hopefully March/April,” Musk tweeted on December 22.

 

Wolf Richter: Oops, SpaceX to Lay Off 10% of its Employees after Funding Fiasco in November

 

By Wolf Richter, a San Francisco based executive, entrepreneur, start up specialist, and author, with extensive international work experience. Originally published at Wolf Street

What SpaceX is trying to do has “bankrupted other organizations,” it said.

SpaceX, the unicorn startup with a newly minted $30.5 billion “valuation” and dreams of sending humans to Mars shortly, will lay off about 10% of its employees, “a person familiar with the matter” told the Los Angeles Times on Friday.

The company says on its website that it has “6,000+” employees. TechCrunch reported that SpaceX “employed at least 7,000 people in late 2017 when COO Gwynne Shotwell last gave a number.” So somewhere between 600 and 700 employees will be out of a job. The Times reached out to SpaceX for comment, and this is how the company responded in perfect corporate-hype speak (bold added):

“To continue delivering for our customers and to succeed in developing interplanetary spacecraft and a global space-based Internet, SpaceX must become a leaner company. Either of these developments, even when attempted separately, have bankrupted other organizations. This means we must part ways with some talented and hardworking members of our team.”

And note the phrase, “…have bankrupted other organizations.” So how serious is this getting?

This reflects perhaps the money-raising fiasco SpaceX smacked into in November. SpaceX had tried to raise $750 million by issuing a leveraged loan. The leveraged loan market was red hot until October, and anything would go. But this era ended. By November, investors were getting jittery about leveraged loans. And in December, the leveraged loan market came unglued.

SpaceX will need many billions of dollars over the next few years not only to launch commercial and government satellites, but also to fulfill its dreams, including sending cargo to Mars by 2022 and humans by 2024, or whatever.

It marketed that $750 million leveraged loan only to a select group of investors, and they had no appetite for a risky loan of this magnitude. And here’s why, according to the Wall Street Journal at the time:

Some investors who were offered the loan expressed misgivings about the company’s record of burning through cash and its experience with high-profile accidents, which have previously led to dips in revenue. Other concerns include the company’s large investment plans and its connection to Mr. Musk, the founder and chief executive of SpaceX, whose volatile behavior has led to turmoil at the electric-car maker Tesla Inc., where he also is chief executive.

With that fiasco under the belt, and needing more cash to burn through, SpaceX tried in December to make up the difference by selling $500 million in equity, “to help get its internet-service business off the ground, according to people familiar with the fundraising,” the Wall Street Journal reported at the time.

SpaceX has not yet announced if it actually received the equity funding. In total, including the downsized leveraged loan and the December equity funding, if or when it goes through, SpaceX will have raised $2.7 billion.

To those of its employees who are now getting laid off, the company is offering a minimum of eight weeks’ severance pay along with other benefits and assistance, such as career coaching, according to an email sent Friday to employees by COO Shotwell, cited by the Times.

SpaceX launched 21 satellites in 2018 and 18 the year before. It has contracts with NASA to deliver cargo to the International Space Station and develop a capsule to send humans up there. The first unmanned test flight of the capsule is schedule for next month (NASA used to do that sort of thing itself in the 1960s).

The loan debacle SpaceX ran into in November is the beginning of a broader symptom: The rising difficulties for cash-burning companies to obtain new funds to burn through, after an era when just about anything went.

This is another piece of the puzzle of those “financial conditions” in the markets that the Fed has been discussing for a while. It was trying for three years via its monetary policy to tighten the ultra loosey-goosey financial conditions that resulted from years of QE and zero-interest-rate policy. And suddenly, starting in October the financial conditions in the markets tightened as investors became a tad more aware of risks.

When companies have trouble funding their cash-burn operations as financial conditions tighten, the next step is to be more prudent with their expenses and to try to reduce their cash burn so that they can hang on under these tighter financial conditions. And perhaps that’s what we’re seeing at work here.

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  1. The Rev Kev 
    I’m calling shenanigans on SpaceX and say now that they had no real intention of ever going to Mars. A typical neoliberal company in thought and deed. They saw a government activity – launching satellites into space – and decided to move in to take it over for their own profit. I would be curious to know how many government subsidies they took which helped them in this goal. They used money raised to hire away talent from NASA to use against them as well as a bunch of stary-eyed idealists. They say that they want to go to Mars but I say that that is just a publicity gimmick to draw in more people. Their real business is to try to corner the market on launching satellites into orbit and turn it into a death grip. Probably find down the track they will go for more subsidies to undercut foreign satellite companies which would suit the US government just fine. I would guess that the ones being let go would be more to do with the division working on the “Mars venture” while they concentrate their resources on their real business – launching satellites. 
    1. PlutoniumKun 
      You could argue that the problem with SpaceX is that its not neoliberal enough. Its crippled by all Musks crazy space exploration dreams, which he shares with many silicone valley types – the core SpaceX product (medium heavy launchers) is top class – its all the other stuff thats wasting money. This is the one subject they don’t apply profit and loss calculations to.I doubt very much if SpaceX could ever corner any market in space travel, its strategically too important to too many countries, so there will always be competitors from Russia, China, Europe, India and maybe other countries too in the next few years. Its possible of course that he could intend to corner the US government market, but even that would be difficult given the power of the existing industry.
      1. NotTimothyGeithner 
        Without Mars, I don’t know if SpaceX would be seen as sexy enough to attract neoliberal investors, who think vending machines and apps are revolutionary with a good enough Ted Talk. 
    2. XXYY 
      Can we all just agree now that a manned mission to Mars is a completely ridiculous and impossible idea, doubly so if the goal is to have the people return to Earth.Just consider the basic numbers. It costs about $10,000/lb to put things into Earth orbit. Mars is between 100 and 1000 times as far away as the Moon (depending on planetary alignment), so putting a gigantic payload on Mars is going to require a substantial craft with many tons of fuel that will itself need to be boosted into Earth orbit at a cost of $10,000/lb. Because of the way the planets rotate, there is only a favorable time to transit between Earth and Mars every 2 years, so the minimum length of a Mars mission is 2 years.So. From Earth, we will need to orbit (a) a trans-planetary spacecraft, (b) fuel for that craft to power it both to and from Mars, (c ) a human crew, (d) 2 years of oxygen, food and water for that crew, and (e) sufficient structures and supplies for the crew to live for 2 years in a place that has absolutely no natural resources, not even air or water (recall in the US moon missions the astronauts were on-planet for a few days at most). Just from a cost perspective, this will take the combined GDP of many countries and need hundreds of launches from the surface of the Earth just to position things for the start of the trip.There are also terrible technical issues with landing on Mars (which lacks enough atmosphere for a parachute to do much), and with assembling and fueling a gigantic interplanetary return-trip spacecraft in the surface of Mars. Mars has no infrastructure whatever, not even a tree to swing a rope over, so the idea of doing heavy vehicle assembly work on Mars, or any kind of assembly work, is facially absurd. The “industrial base” will consist of whatever humans can lift with their arms while wearing a spacesuit, breathing imported oxygen.One can go on and on, but there is no need. The whole mission, even leaving aside the pointlessness of visiting a barren and utterly hostile world and the great likelihood of death for the participants, makes no sense whatsoever and is strictly a fantasy for people who haven’t spent 5 minutes thinking about it.

      In other words, a perfect Musk proposal!

        1. Oh 
          Another reason for us to send Musk, Bezos and a whole bunch of politicians on the maiden flight! SpaceX is another scheme to suck on the public teat. Viva corporate welfare! 
      1. ambrit 
        Bollocks! The Mars Direct group figured the mechanics of cheap and ‘easy’ Mars trips years ago.
        See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct
        First, Mars gravity well is ‘lighter’ than Earth’s. Returning from the Martian surface to orbit won’t be as hard as from here to Low Earth Orbit. (LEO, the base for all else in our vicinity.)
        Second, Mars has lots of water! Water can be ‘cracked’ quite easily and cheaply to supply both oxygen, (your reactive part of a breathable atmosphere,) and hydrogen, (one half of the most basic fuel needed, and already technically feasible.)
        Third, if you have to build political support by utilizing some of the Battlestar Mars methodology, the Moon also has water, though much more difficult to gain access to. Your basic fuel and atmosphere materials can be got there at much cheaper rates.
        Fourth, all the radiation problems have work arounds. Cost is the biggest draw back. Radiation shielding adds weight and complexity to your spacecraft.
        Fifth, on Mars, the ‘pioneers’ will have to spend much of their time in underground facilities anyway. A foot or more of good old Martian red dirt does wonders for stopping those pesky energetic particles.
        Sixth, the return craft will not land on Mars. It will be left in orbit, say tethered to one of the two “moons” of Mars. In the second generation deep space craft, the engineering enters a different field. Light weight construction methods.
        Seventh, humans need some frontier to aspire to, even if the individual doesn’t have a realistic chance of going there. The psychological value of aspiration, even though presently misused for socio-political ends, is positive.
        Some of us have spent more than five minutes thinking about this and have come away with the conviction that it is necessary for the species continued health and well being. 
  2. kimyo 
    current technology will not allow humans to visit mars. What is the Temperature of Mars?

    On average, the temperature on Mars is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius). A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can plummet to about minus 100 degrees F (minus 73 C).

    1. Octopii 
      Is this the flat earth society here? Men visited the moon almost fifty years ago and it’s not too hospitable either. 
      1. kimyo 
        is the following a plausible scenario? what materials will the habitat be built from? how will it be heated?elon musk (sept 2017)

        “In 2024 we want to try to fly four ships [to Mars]. Two cargo and two crew. The goal of these initial missions is to find the best source of water, that’s for the first mission, and then the second mission, the goal is to build the propellant plant. So we should, particular with six ships there, have plenty of landed mass to construct the propellant depot, which will consist of a large array of solar panels, a very large array, and then everything necessary to mine and refine water, and then draw the CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then create and store deep-cryo CH4 and O2.”

        1. Octopii 
          I don’t have the background to assess that plan, and I doubt anyone in this discussion does. I certainly have no informed reason to trash talk it. 
        2. ambrit 
          It looks like Musk is appropriating parts of the Mars Direct proposal.
          See above for a Mars Direct link.
          It is all technically feasible. What are needed are the necessary resources allocated. (Cost.)
          Once a usable source of water is found, the rest falls into place.
          There is no reason why the ‘pioneers’ won’t become literal pioneers and stay on Mars. (The Commentariat’s preferred outcome for Musk et. al.) 
          1. Greg 
            It’s interesting that the SpaceX timeline isn’t too far off the Red Mars timeline from Kim Stanley-Robinson’s epic martian series back in the early 90s. You know, when Musk etc were young and impressionableAnyway, the flip-side of that is that the Mars Trilogy has the first pioneers on a one way trip with certain death from rad exposure and a bunch of other fun side effects. They still went. The first fifty to a hundred years of humans on mars is life-dependent on regular cargo shipments from home (think 40ft containers dropped from space that cost megabucks to send from a disintegrating global economy drowning in climate failure and you’ll see some of the problems with that approach).So https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy probably source material, remarkably prescient but that’s a bit chicken/egg I think.
  3. FreeMarketApologist 
    …SpaceX tried in December to make up the difference by selling $500 million in equity, “to help get its internet-service business off the ground,…”Here we have a company that hasn’t been profitable doing the thing they were set up to to, and now they’re trying to justify that work by implementing space-based internet connectivity, which coincidentally requires another 10,000+ things to be launched into space. This would nearly triple the number of satellites in orbit (about 4900 as of Nov 2018), and add significantly to the space junk problem.I’m all for continued space exploration, but at this point it seems like the company is simply flailing about trying to justify sucking money out of wealthy investors.
    1. tegnost 
      Speaking of excess junk, I know this story was in links today, but now teslas are going to follow their owners around “like pets” so add this to guillotine watch, annoying tesla traffic jams at the front door to all the stores, or “let’s take a walk down main st, come along tessie!” A car that follows you around is self driving and the reg pushback is probably the lack of a licensed driver. Whose fault is it going to be when it hits something? This should make the urban areas clogged with uber/lyfts just that much worse. What a stupid world they are making. Musk really should inhale more weed and go ride a bike. 
      1. The Rev Kev 
        What happens when the next Timothy McVeigh loads up his ‘tessie’ with explosives and orders it to drive into some building while he is making his getaway? 
  4. ambrit 
    This points out the basic constraints on the “private” sector in gigantic projects. Some endeavours require the resources of an entire population to carry out. The Manhattan Project could not have been carried through by even a consortium of ‘private’ companies in the time scale require by the conditions; a war and a depression. Assembling the brainpower needed required the coercive power of the government. It is telling that Space-X is purported to have hired away boffins from NASA. Those Brainiacs were nurtured and developed by State funded schools and universities. They were given the opportunities to develop their gifts through State funded programs. See DARPA for an example of that.
    This retrenchment at Space-X is a sign that that entity has realized that it, suffering from the limitations imposed on it by the “private” sector, cannot be run as a Project, but must content itself with existing within the constraints of being a Business. 
    1. Brooklin Bridge 
      Agreed. It would probably be cheaper and safer and faster to simply give the development back to NASA and just pay Musk to take photos of himself looking out a port window of a rocket.I lost track of why NASA had to give up these projects in the first place. Is it such revulsion for government that we can no longer feel proud of our flag unless it’s flown by private industry? Is it just one more avenue for funneling large amounts of cash into the hands of our most needy politicians to sustain their Dorian Grey pictures of what they really look like well locked up? Or is it to illustrate that in a meritocracy (ahem…), like ours, people that can hop in their own space ships really are worth 1000 times more than us beasts of burden?
      1. ambrit 
        I like your locution; “…a meritocracy, like ours…”
        The false equivalency inherent in the Neo-liberal myth of the “rugged individualist” is plain. All those ‘big business’ “successes” are built upon Government funded and run ‘pure science’ programs. The Internet itself, fecund source of fortunes large and small was the direct outgrowth of a network established among government and university departments to facilitate the communications of scientists. Who here remembers the Arpanet? All Bezos and his ilk did was to carry out a modern enclosure movement upon what had been a public trust. Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
        In the proverbial “Just Society” criminals like the billionaire class would pay for their transgressions. We have the dishonour to be living in a corrupt and degenerate age. Thus, criminals are lauded. The rest of us, well….. 
  5. bob 
    Musk is-1) a banker (paypal/ebay)
    2) A defense contractor (spaceX)
    He uses these two entities to fund gifts of shitty cars to giant, insufferable assholes.
  6. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Spy Satellites Watch You Everywhere On Earth! Can privacy survive?

    In 2013, police in Grants Pass, Oregongot a tip that a man named Curtis W. Croft had been illegally growing marijuana in his backyard. So they checked Google Earth. Indeed, the four-month-old satellite image showed neat rows of plants growing on Croft’s property. The cops raided his place and seized 94 plants.

  7. HOW MUSK RUINED SPACEX WITH HIS LIES AND EGOMANIA

    – SpaceX engineers call Musk a “liar’ in published reports

    – NASA senior staff call Musk’s Mars Scheme: “PR Hype designed to cover up the fact that SpaceX makes it’s money from domestic spy satellites and pushing Google’s ideology and privacy tracking in space…”

    – SpaceX is a spy contractor and nothing more. Those who believe otherwise are shills and “fools”, say experts

    – SpaceX has blown up more spacecraft from shoddy engineering than any other space company in history

    – SpaceX STARLINK system is just a Google/Silicon Valley scheme to push left-wing politics to the public and give Google another way to spy on users

    – China, a solar storm or a COMCAST hunter/killer satellite can wipe out the entire Starlink network in 60 minutes

     

    If This Is Your Inspiration From Space, You’re Doing It Wrong

    So after a false start due to bad weather, the first crewed launch of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with two astronauts on board has gone ahead. After playing catch-up with the ISS for around 27 hours they’re now safely aboard. At times it seems that space launches have become everyday occurrences, but they are still heroes who have risked their lives in the furtherment of mankind’s exploration of space. Their achievement, and that of all the scientists, engineers, and other staff who stand behind them, is immense.

    I watched the drama unfold via the live video feed. Having heaved a huge sigh of relief once they were safely in orbit, the feed cut to the studio, and then moved on to interview the NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine. He was naturally elated at a successful launch, and enthused about the agency’s achievement. You can watch the full interview embedded below, but what caught my attention was his parting sentence:

    And if this can inspire a young child to become the next Elon Musk, or the next Jeff Bezos, or the next Sir Richard Branson, then that’s what this is all about

    I was slightly shocked and saddened to hear this from the NASA administrator, because to my mind the careers of Musk, Bezos, or Branson should not be the ones first brought to mind by a space launch. This isn’t a comment on those three in themselves; although they have many critics it is undeniable that they have each through their respective space companies brought much to the world of space flight. Instead it’s a comment on what a NASA administrator should be trying to inspire in kids.

    Ask yourself how many billionaire masters-of-the-universe it takes for a successful space race compared to the number of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, technicians, physicists, et al. From the anecdote of the NASA administrator it takes about three, but if he is to make good on his goal of returning to the Moon in 2024 and then eventually taking humanity to Mars it will take a generation packed full of those other roles. To understand that we’ll have to take a trip back to the Apollo era, and how that generation of kids were inspired by the spacecraft on their screens.

    Inspiration from probably the coolest room in the world at the time, the Apollo mission control in Houston.

    Inspiration from probably the coolest room in the world at the time, the Apollo mission control in Houston. NASA on The Commons / No restrictionsFifty years ago, we were very much on the brink of becoming a spacefaring planet. American astronauts were taking their first steps on the Moon, and Soviet cosmonauts were occupying real space stations that would soon be capable of housing them for months at a time. Planetary probes were returning colour TV pictures from other worlds, and it was certain that in the immediate aftermath of the Apollo programme we’d be sending astronauts and probably cosmonauts too further afield. A Mars base in the 1980s perhaps, and following our fictional Star Trek heroes further afield thereafter.

    We now know it didn’t quite work out that way, but a whole generation of tech-inclined kids grew up wanting nothing more than to be involved in space flight. The vast majority of us never made it, but with that inspiration we took our soldering irons and 8-bit home computers and ran with them. Those NASA folks were the coolest of role-models, and no doubt their Soviet equivalents were too for kids on the other side of the Iron Curtain.

    With the best will in the world, the chances of any kid becoming the next Jeff Bezos is about as high as that of their becoming the next Neil Armstrong. Compared to the number of kids in the world, the number of billionaires and the number of astronauts both pale into statistical insignificance. But the chances of a kid becoming an engineer or a scientist is much higher, and in those careers their chances of having some of their work be involved with the space effort becomes not entirely unlikely.

    I understand what the NASA administrator was trying to say, but can’t shake the feeling that if those are the people he rolls out to inspire kids watching a space launch, he’s missed an opportunity. Those are the names we all recognize, but shouldn’t we also elevate the people making the scientific breakthroughs so their names are equally recognized? Like Margaret HamiltonGene Kranz, and Sergei Korolev and many others before them, we should be making names like Tom Mueller and Margarita Marinova prominent examples of where a career in the sciences can take you. But to be honest, the real problem is we just don’t hear much about all the people doing this fascinating engineering and that’s a sad state of affairs.

    Looks like it’s time for Hackaday to pursue a biography series based on the many great minds who are the ones delivering on the promise and vision of today’s (and tomorrow’s) space race. Get us started by talking about your favorite behind the scenes science folks in the comments below.

    It is indeed unfortunate to be “inspired” and have as role-models, tycoons with highly questionable motives (primarily profit) on all their ventures so far. Thank you for bringing this up!

    I would suggest Hackaday focus on a series of great minds like the ones you mentioned and additionally: Cayley, Goddard, Kemurdzhian, Keldysh, Severin, Xiji and many others.

    Yes, we need everything into the hands of 4 billionaires. I can’t wait until I don’t have to care about voting and budget allocations anymore, the 4 billionaires will do it for me!

    here is a perfect example of the insanity we face, the “billionaire” has never created anything least of all solutions to problems. the slap their name on other peoples work and make people pay more money they they should ever to get it.

    “not inclined to believe that the primary drivers behind creating SpaceX, Blue Origin and perhaps some others were profit,”
    Everyone knows government contracts have no profit. That’s why Boring, Lockheed and Raytheon are so broke.
    Musk is a welfare queen.

    Musk main goal is to feed his own ego and nothing else.

    musk is a narcissistic sociopath who’s trying to get his name remembers and be doesn’t care how many lies he has to tell or people have to die to have that happen. and when his plan fail as there is no other option for them but to fail they are that stupid.

    he will have damage space exploration for years to come

    I don’t know you have all day?

    someone stopping to help fix a flat tire, returning a lost toy, return someones dropped money and so on.

    they’re not typically the kind you see in history books tho, history writers do so love to writer about mythological figures rather then the harder dirty truth of incremental change and group dynamics. its one of the greater flaws of the human mind, we’re not very good at understanding the complexity of reality but the mind is very good at personal understanding so it likes personalize complex concepts by choosing “avatars” (think wearing the same underwear for good luck or thinking a god made that glass of water fall on their laps) which is easier to understand but completely wrong.

    Musk an trash like him are desperately try to make themselves seem important when they’re not. because they are just sad pathetic people and i just feel sorry for the people that fall for it,

    you post more then boards on straw man argument Msat

    any good musk does for the world will be purely incidental, the people he hurts to get his ego fueled nightmare already out number those it could ever help. this isn’t a binary issue its simply the fact his actions haven proven he’s toxic in the purest sense.

    One has to wonder.

    The people behind SpaceX’s rockets were already working for NASA on the very same problem, when Musk bought and hired them to sell NASA the same technology by the same people. The only “thing” here is that NASA was having a hard time securing funding, so they made this whole “commercial space flight” switcheroo to make it look like they’re doing something different.

    Even the re-usable rockets are just a rehash of the old McDonnell Douglas DC-X concept that was funded by NASA, and the technology was transferred to NASA in 1996 in order to develop into the DC-XA.

    Everything that Musk is doing is projects that NASA was doing, handed over on a platter to privatize the profits.

    The Mars business is just a red herring. It’s an implausible goal set for the point that it’s really difficult, perfectly useless, and you can waste a lot of public money trying to.

    Where is Musk’s personal fortune on the line? He hasn’t got a dime in it – NASA is paying nearly all of it. If SpaceX goes bankrupt, Musk will actually be on the receiving end of the line because he funds his companies by lending them the money, not investing.

    Should he be forced to liquidate the company, the money would go to pay all the debtors, including himself.

    It didn’t start with a boatload of cash from NASA, but neither were they doing anything interesting before they got into contact with NASA and got access to all the cool tech that they had sitting on the shelf.

    They started in 2001 with a bunch of other venture capitalists, then in 2002 bought Tom Mueller who was working for TRW under a sub-contract for NASA to develop exactly the kind of low-cost engines that SpaceX needed. Tom took the TR-106 and turned it into the Merlin engine, and NASA started throwing billions of dollars worth of contracts to them, which enabled Musk to pull in billions of dollars worth of public loans plus investments from companies like Google.

    You mean buying companies that made products that could sell, then selling the companies to get richer?

    Elon didn’t make PayPal happen. He bought in just as it got going.

    NASA has totally turned over it’s responsibility to the private sector. At a budget of over 25 billion, what does it say that a private company given just a few of that can bring back the space program and put us back in low earth orbit on our own ships. I’m 52 and saw what it NASA could do “back in the day”. Now NASA is just a money dump supporting a failed bureaucracy that killed the crews of two shuttle missions and still can’t see past its own politics. It seems odd that the one guy that actually pulled this off wasn’t on screen. Although we got to see a lot of politicians that could no more work out the math behind three sides of a triangle try and steal credit for something that started over 10 years ago.

    This is fantastic. I was also shocked that NASA Administrator Bridenstine called out Elon Musk or Richard Branson as the inspirational examples. I think I understand the top-of-mind idea, that this was a triumph of *commercial* space development. And I was absolutely thrilled by this success. And I think the era of cost-plus space contracting is on its way out. And…

    Yes, all of that. But the idea that we need to emulate the billionaires seems at least tone-deaf to me. Not the greatest hot-take interview. If that’s what it was. It was all very strange.

    Nobody On Earth Can Launder And Hide Illicit Cash, Or Bribe Politicians, Like Elon Musk

    He’s worth an estimated $39 billion, but has repeatedly said he’s poor. He is a scumbag liar and a crook!

    In one of a series of wild tweets posted last week, Elon Musk stated he would be “selling almost all physical possessions” and that he would “own no house.” He appears to be actually following through with that promise, as chronicled in a great story in The Wall Street Journal about Musk’s personal finances that you should go read.

    According to the WSJ, despite being worth an estimated $39 billion on paper:

    …he has to borrow, sometimes a lot, to pay for his lifestyle and business investments without liquidating shares that help him maintain control of the companies he runs. About half his Tesla stock is pledged as collateral for personal loans, an April 28 financial filing shows. Maintaining his equity stake—about 20%, or around $29 billion at its current valuation—is important for him to keep control over the Silicon Valley auto maker.

    Musk also doesn’t take a salary at Tesla, but he apparently became eligible for stock options worth more than $1 billion this week. To get that money, he will need an eye-watering $592 million to exercise the option, according to the WSJ. It’s not clear if Musk has the money on hand to exercise that option or if the money raised from the house sales will be used to help pay for the sum. “Mr. Musk said he wasn’t selling his possessions because he needs the money,” the WSJ reported.

    The article also lists a few times Musk has said he’s cash poor. Here’s one example:

    Before Tesla went public, Mr. Musk told a judge during a contentious divorce with his first wife that he had run out of cash and had taken on emergency loans from friends to support his family and pay living expenses.

    Here’s another:

    Last year, Mr. Musk’s ability to access cash came up again during a defamation lawsuit over comments he made about a man involved in the rescue of a Thai soccer team from a flooded cave in 2018. A lawyer in the case said in a filing that Mr. Musk had described himself as “financially illiquid.”

    The whole article has a lot of history about Musk, interesting information about his finances backed up by regulatory filings, and numerous quotes from Musk himself, and I sincerely recommend taking 10 minutes to read it in full.

    Musk has Goldman Sachs, Welles Fargo and Wilson Sonsini Mobster-Class executive bankers hide his money in  a rabbit warren of HUNDREDS of trusts, shell corporations and fake charities from South Dakota, to Switzerland to the Cayman Islands to Russia.

    A federal investigation to show the tentacular diagram of scams has been demanded!

    FBI, SEC, FTC and citizen forensic investigators are hot on his trail, though!

    These are the illicit things that sociopath narcissist Musk has engaged in with the taxpayer cash he mooched from government treasuries:

    1. PRIVATE INVESTIGATORS HAVE PRODUCED REPORTS ON THE ELON MUSK AND TESLA MOTORS FRAUD, STOCK RIGGING, BRIBERY AND SAFETY INVESTIGATIONS that Musk’s Silicon Valley Sandhill Road venture capitalists cover-up.
    2. Musk hides his money in illicit and false-front real-estate scams to avoid taxes and to launder money.
    3. “His corrupt cobalt mines promote genocide in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”.
    4. “His corrupt cobalt mines promote mass rape in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth Rising”.
    5. “His corrupt cobalt mines promote child slave labor in the Congo as seen in NETFLIX Black Earth
      Rising”.
    6. “He tries to bury his ill-gotten money from the taxpayers in gobs of real estate acquisitions and houses including his notorious purchase of the Vaughn DeGuigne Court mansion at 891 Crystal Springs Road, in Burlingame, California which is staged for his kinky sex parties and Illuminati-like cartel get-togethers…”
    7. “His is not faithful to his girlfriends. Some of them are Ghislane Maxwell-type enablers, too, just to hang around his money and promote his sex schemes like Maxwell did for Epstein”
    8. “The workers that build his batteries die or sicken from toxic poisoning and Musk tries to hide his dirty factories overseas”
    9. “Tesla bribes U.S. Senators with cash and stock in order to get free taxpayer funds”
    10. “He is addicted to drugs and booze”
    11. “He has ‘sociopath-class’ mental issues and he is a narcissist…”
    12. “Tesla has had more recalls for safety defects, per volume, than any other car maker. Musk refuses to allow the use of the word RECALL but the facts are the facts.”
    13. “It is so easy to hack any Tesla and crash it, break into it or give it bad braking orders that it is criminally negligent to allow Tesla’s on the street. Even the Chinese have hacked Tesla’s from the other side of the world! Tesla’s have been hacked and remotely crashed, the drivers killed and Tesla covers this up…”
    14. “His partner: Steve Jurvetson, has been charged with sex and corruption issues”
    15. “He arranged government kick-backs with the White House”
    16. His entire current existence is based on stock market scams created with taxpayer dollars and Goldman Sachs securities manipulations
    17. “He is the world’s biggest government mooch and has taken more taxpayer cash than anyone in U.S. History as a billionaire who does not need a hand-out”
    18. “He is a member of the Palo Alto Tech Mafia operated by Stanford University gay frat house guys”
    19. “Google (who is a major Tesla investor) hides all negative Musk/Tesla news in digital media globally and hypes TSLA stock in order to profiteer with Tesla stock. This is a violation of federal SEC laws”
    20. “More drivers have been caught driving drunk, in Tesla’s, than any other car Per Capita produced”
    21. “Google boss Larry Page is Musk’s ‘bromance’ boyfriend buddy and he uses Google to cover-up Musk’s scandals”
    22. “His so-called ‘foundation” is just a payola and tax evasion scam for his family. It is a charity scam”
    23. “His batteries are the most dangerous use of lithium ion storage ever conceived”
    24. “His partner: Panasonic, has been charged with multiple corruption, dumping, price rigging and manipulation crimes around the globe”
    25. “Almost all of the internet ‘Tesla Fanboys’ are Russian troll farms and hired bloggers that Musk pays vast amounts of money to in order to hype up a fake image for him. Musk has over 1000 click-farm and Russian troll bloggers under his employ via various false-front cover organization contractors.
    26. “The drug and murder-for-hire website: Silk Road, was built at drug-enthusiast Musk’s company SpaceX by Musk’s programmer and Musk hires many people from a group called: In-Q-Tel, who were caught with tons of cocaine on their airplanes in a DEA raid”
    27. “His SpaceX is nothing more than a domestic spy satellite company”
    28. In-Q-Tel supplies a number of Musk’s staff, yet In-Q-Tel has been accused of numerous criminal ventures and abuses of the public.
    29. You never hear about these crimes because Musk’s buddies in Silicon Valley control 90% of the global media these days and they censor any bad news about Musk in order to protect their Cartel.
    30. “Musk’s brain chip company tortures monkey’s and other small animals in bad science experiments”
    31. “His father screwed his daughter and got her pregnant. His father seems to be a pedophile and incest participant”
    32. “Dianne Feinstein and her family covertly own many Musk interests and arranged for him to get his funds from the taxpayers. She helped sabotage his competitors in her district”
    33. “You can’t put out the fires when his batteries explode say fireman because Lithium fires are military class thermo-dynamics”
    34. “The fumes from his lithium ion thermal battery vapors give you cancer, lung and brain damage”
    35. Psychologists say that Musk is a self promoting, narcissistic, multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype addict.
    36. Many of us know these facts from personal interaction with Musk, his companies and his politicians.
    37. Everything in these reports can be proven in a jury trial, Congressional hearings or live TV debates but Musk would rather die than face uncontrolled public scrutiny.
    38. Musk will do anything to keep this information from getting out, including hiring attack services like his Fusion GPS, Black Cube, Gawker and Gizmodo Kill services.
    39. While Musk’s dirty deeds sound like a bad Hollywood movie script. It all really happened and there is now massive hard copy evidence to prove it.
    40. Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of Energy and the California political tax pool.
    41. When you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs. The payola between Musk, his scummy cronies and the politicians is proven.
    42. The Musk empire pays bribes in billions of dollars of Google (Where Musk’s boy buddy Larry Page works), Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures stock and stock warrants which is never reported to the FEC
    43. The Musk empire pays bribes in billions of dollars of Google, Twitter, Facebook, Tesla, Netflix and Sony Pictures search engine rigging and shadow-banning which is never reported to the FEC
    44. The Musk empire pays bribes in free rent
    45. The Musk empire pays bribes in Male and female prostitutes
    46. The Musk empire pays bribes in cars
    47. The Musk empire pays bribes in dinners at fancy restaurants
    48. The Musk empire pays bribes in socialite party financing
    49. The Musk empire pays bribes in Sports Event Tickets
    50. The Musk empire pays bribes in Political campaign printing and mailing services “Donations”
    51. The Musk empire pays bribes in Secret PAC Financing. Musk’s empire is a massive political financing conduit for the DNC politicians via a tentacular array of covert shell corporations, trusts, 501C’s and stock bribes.
    52. The Musk empire pays bribes in Jobs in Corporations in Silicon Valley For The Family Members of Those Who Take Bribes And Those Manage Bribes
    53. The Musk empire pays bribes in “Consulting” contracts from McKinsey Consulting as fronted pay-off gigs
    54. The Musk empire pays bribes in Overpriced “Speaking Engagements” which are really just pay-offs conduited for donors
    55. The Musk empire pays bribes in Private jet rides and use of Government fuel depots (ie: Google handed out NASA jet fuel to staff)
    56. The Musk empire pays bribes in commercial Real Estate
    57. The Musk empire pays bribes in Fake mortgages
    58. The Musk empire pays bribes in The use of Cayman, Boca Des Tores, Swiss and related money-laundering accounts and The use of HSBC, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Deustche Bank money laundering accounts and covert stock accounts
    59. The Musk empire pays bribes in Free spam and bulk mailing services owned by Silicon Valley corporations
    60. The Musk empire pays bribes in the use of high tech law firms such as Perkins Coie, Wilson Sonsini, MoFo, Covington & Burling, etc. to conduit bribes to officials
    61. The U.S. Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized political crime activities in which government funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off political campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors via Musk political conduits.
    62. Political campaign financiers and government agency staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts.
    63. The basic Musk scam-deal goes like this: “Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks…”
    64. Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader. We can put this in writing because all of those identifications regarding Musk can be proven in court and are documented in existing lawsuits and news stories.
    65. Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
    66. Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about himself.
    67. Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will do anything to make the public think so.
    68. Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues.
    69. Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist.
    70. He public stated on an investor call that he uses drugs and alcohol to get through the night. We have the tapes.
    71. Musk relies on Google and the DNC Main Stream News (MSN) to hide bad news about him.
    72. Fake News manipulator Google is run by Larry Page. Larry is Musk’s investor and bromance ‘Butt buddy’. They share an apartment.
    73. Musk uses massive numbers of shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading.
    74. His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities fraud.
    75. A huge number of Tesla drivers have been killed; pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk covers it up.
    76. Extremist politicians and their controlled news outlets refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s crimes to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes.
    77. Investor oligarch’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical about not being embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will pump the TSLA stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk misdeeds.
    78. Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”, “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the truth about Musk.
    79. In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid shills.
    80. There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs.
    81. The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al; threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their political candidates.
    82. Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders.
    83. Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
    84. Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
    85. Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political manipulation tools – never get your internet from one. SpaceX is entirely a spy satellite operation.
    86. The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
    87. Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical skills he can’t build or work on any of the things he made himself famous for.
    88. If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is THE WORST of any car maker in history!
    89. Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18+ men who rig stocks and valuation bumps for Musk.
    90. Over 1000 witnesses can prove every one of those claims in any live televised Congressional hearing!
    91. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help cover-up investigations of Tesla!
    92. All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich and David Johnson at the FBI by those who supplied this information but Musk has yet to be arrested because crooked California politicians, who own his stock, protect him from arrest.
    93. Why aren’t all of those parties in prison if it is so easy to prove the crime? Think back to recent history: the heads of the Department of Energy, the FBI, The DOJ and the U.S. Attorney General were kicked out of their jobs for corruption. THIS was the corruption they were doing. They all knew about this crime but they were covering it up.
    94. Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his business partners.
    95. When you take a look at the ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically miss-engineered lithium ion batteries you will uncover horrible crimes engaged in to acquire it.
    96. His batteries cause wars in the Congo, Afghanistan and Bolivia from the corrupt mining deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt.
    97. Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu.
    98. Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses when they burn and destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when they burn
    99. Musk’s batteries kill the factory workers who make them
    100. Musk’s batteries cause Panasonic to be one of the most corrupt companies in the world
    101. Musk’s batteries poison the Earth when disposed of
    102. Musk’s batteries can’t be extinguished by firemen
    103. Musk’s batteries poison firemen when they burn
    104. Musk’s batteries are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like URANIUM ONE
    105. Musk’s batteries have over 61 toxic chemicals in them
    106. Musk’s batteries come from an industry that spends billions on internet shills and trolls used to nay say all other forms of energy
    107. Musk’s batteries and are insider-trading owned by corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their dangers.
    108. Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and setting people on fire.
    109. Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each Musk battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age –
    110. Musk’s LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a scientific fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium batteries catching fire and blowing up.
    111. Additionally, scientists also speculate that the increasing presence of low energy nuclear background energy and wifi energy in the environment is making lithium ion batteries explode more often lately. This theory is upheld by the increasing number of FAA reports about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with toxic smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones overhead luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the protection of the atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and other) radiation from overhead. This makes the already unstable lithium ion batteries on board blow up.
    112. “Bad Guys” have figured out how to make them explode remotely in devices by making the device electronics cause the batteries to overload.
    113. The dangers of lithium ion batteries are hidden by CNN and Main Stream News (MSN) because pretty much only the DNC people profit from them and the DNC folks control CNN and the MSN.
    114. The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging
    115. United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them.
    116. Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN” and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
    117. Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly because of politician insider trading ownerships.
    118. Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world generally knows about.
    119. A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the driver alive and killed him.
    120. In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in agony.
    121. A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon on fire.
    122. A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned alive in their crashed Tesla.
    123. There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
    124. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt investigations and laws designed to save the public. They, and their crony’s, spend over $1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and cover-up the dangers.
    125. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires. Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out.
    126. Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric fire, after all) to smother the flames.
    127. Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by Musk.
    128. Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers.
    129. The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk) to finance the DNC.
    130. The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main political tool against any member of the public who speaks out against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals. The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives. They use Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media, Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times, Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
    131. Musk’s “cabin boy”: Jared Birchell, runs around covering up Musk crimes all day
    132. Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and, in paid partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are partners-in-crime.
    133. Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass FEC laws.
    134. Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars via “in-kind” services.
    135. Reports at https://www.propublica.org prove some of these assertions
    136. Reports at https://www.transparency.org prove some of these assertions
    137. Reports at https://www.icij.org prove some of these assertions
    138. Reports at http://londonworldwide.com  prove some of these assertions
    139. Reports at https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com prove some of these assertions
    140. Reports at  https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-24/tesla-slams-tree-florida-bursting-flames-and-killing-driver prove some of these assertions
    141. Reports at Elon Musk is a total fraud – nypost.com prove some of these assertions
    142. Reports at Elon Musk is a total fraud: Truth about Tesla billionaire exposed prove some of these assertions
    143. Reports at Elon Musk Passes the Hat Again on Capitol Hill… And in China prove some of these assertions
    144. Reports at About Elon Musk – A WASHINGTON DC ORGANIZED CRIME prove some of these assertions
    145. Reports at Mark Spiegel: Elon Musk is ‘a pathological liar’ prove some of these assertions
    146. Reports at https://nationalnewsnetwork.net/ prove some of these assertions
    147. Reports at http://www.videonet111.com prove some of these assertions
    148. MUSK’S SPACEX COMPANY Will have all of it’s satellites destroyed in moments as soon as China gets pissed off:  https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/02/12/asia-pacific/chinas-space-debris-cleanup-may-cover-story-arms-u-s-satellites-pentagon/
    149. WE HAVE ASKED THE FBI, DOJ, OSC, SEC, FTC, GAO, U.S. CONGRESS, AND OTHERS, TO INVESTIGATE AND PROSECUTE MUSK AND HIS CRONY OPERATION!
    150. ELON MUSK’S PAID-FOR MEDIA SHILLS COVER UP HIS CORRUPTION AND PUSH PUFF-STORIES ABOUT MUSK. NEVER TRUST THEM TO BE ANYTHING BUT BIASED PROPAGANDA OUTLETS. MANY OF THEM OWN TESLA STOCK: Electrek, Google, Facebook, CNN, Huffington Post, Dianne Feinstein’s PR office, Nancy Pelosi, Steven Chu, MSNBC, PayPal, KPIX-TV, San Jose Mercury News, Any Hearst owned entity, The SF Chronicle, Motley Fool, Green Car Congress, The executive staff of the DNC, The NY Times, etc.
    151. We saw Elon Musk commit crimes and we saw the Obama White House cover-up those crimes.We, and our associates, worked for Bright Automotive, Zap Electric, Aptera, Eco Motors, XPV, The United States Department of Energy and the federal Office of Management and Budget and Tesla Motors itself.Americans have an expectation that their tax dollars will be used in a fair and legal manner and not to pay off crony campaign financiers like Elon Musk.
    152. Americans have an expectation that fair market competition will decide which companies get to live or die and that no campaign financiers gets to order the White House to produce the death or success decision about any American business. Elon Musk’s operation exists entirely because of criminal corruption and all of his companies must be shut down by federal law enforcement.
    153. For nearly a decade, the U.S. Department of Energy has refused to comply with Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for copies of Tesla Motors entire D.O.E. funding application documents. Former D.O.E. employees have shredded copies of those documents in order to keep them from being exposed to the public and the media. Why would they do that? Because those documents reveal felony criminal fraud by Tesla Motors, federal violations of the Section 136 law requirements and manipulations of the “hard-wiring” of the entire D.O.E. program. Those documents, which we have seen (and some Senate staff have private copies of) prove that, in a side-by-side comparison with all other applicants, the Tesla application was manipulation, rigged, false-reviewed and crony-advanced in order to pay-off certain campaign financiers and damage their competitors.
    154. Demand that the U.S. Department of Energy stop breaking the law and comply with the FOIA requests to stop hiding the incriminating evidence in the Tesla files. Demand that the public be shown the original paper and not the later, “doctored” versions.
    155. We saw Elon Musk operate an entirely illegal and unethical program based on State and Federal corruption. We told this, in writing and in person to the U.S. Attorney General: Eric Holder, who then quit his job after we reported these facts to him.
    156. We reported that Elon Musk lied about vast number of dangers of the lithium ion chemistry he was using. Nothing was done.
    157. We reported that our associates at the Department of Energy were having their safety reports on lithium ion danger suppressed. Nothing was done.
    158. We reported that Elon Musk’s credit rating and financial records were fraudulent and amounted to “cooking the books”. Nothing was done.
    159. We reported bribes paid by Musk’s lobbyists and associated to government officials in order to grease the skids for his crony payola. Nothing was done.
    160. We reported that Goldman Sachs and Tesla Motors were operating a stock fraud pump-and-dump scam to manipulate Elon Musk’s stock holdings. Nothing was done.
    161. We reported over a hundred illegal and corrupt actions by Elon Musk and his mob of Silicon Valley gangsters. Nothing was done.
    162. If you have an ounce of morality, then you will not want to help Musk & Tesla profit from the crony political corruption that created them. Musk exists because he bribes politicians & acts as an illegal campaign financing conduit.
    163. DOT/NHTSA has covered up years of reports about an acceleration surge issue that can suddenly crash your Tesla into walls and drive it off cliffs. It is either a known hacking attack or the effect of WiFi on Tesla electronics. Either can kill you.
    164. Musk & Tesla are pure evil & exist because of hyper-corruption. You don’t want to contribute to their evil or be part of it in any way. You are funding evil & supporting criminal corruption by buying a Tesla or any Elon Musk owned product like Solar City, Tesla, Space X, Hyperloop, etc.!
    165. Elon Musk spent more money, than any other car company in history, to do the exact same things that any other car has done, or could do, for 20 times less money. Musk’s Tesla was $100,000.00 over budget, per car, at the time that Musk was handed his crony Dept. of Energy froms by Steven Chu. Musk has no clue how to operate a car company.
    166. In one lawsuit it is noted that: “…Plaintiff and Tesla both applied for funds at the same time, in the same funding cycle in the same program. Tesla had the historically epic number of horrific issues listed below, which were known to DOE at the time of application, and Plaintiffs had NONE of these issues. How can any court, or rational person, believe that Plaintiffs were not intentionally bypassed, targeted and damaged for political reasons while Tesla was simultaneously approved for political reasons, when the comparative metrics between the two applicants prove the largest merit disparity in the entire recorded history of the U.S. Department of Energy….the singular, and only, review criteria used by Department of Energy officials was: WHICH ONE BRIBED THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE GROUP FOR BARACK OBAMA?!”; Thus proving that Tesla exists because of organized-crime level political corruption.
    167. Elon Musk’s self-driving “autopilot” feature, which keeps crashing and failing, is his attempt to scam taxpayer cash from Dept. of Transportation and Dept. of Energy public funds. He is only trying to do it to get more free federal cash.
    168. The inventor of lithium ion batteries has confessed that lithium ion batteries blow up eventually. He says that deadly dendrites plague lithium-ion battery technology. The dendrites accumulate as part of the standard charging and recharging cycle and eventually cause a short circuit that often results in a smoldering or burning battery. These dendrites are destined to eventually blow up most Tesla cars and many electronic devices using lithium ion!
    169. The CIA’s software designed to take over any Tesla on Earth and kill the driver, passengers and bystanders has been released in the wild and every hacker on Earth can now easily get a copy of it and kill you in your Tesla!
    170. Ex-employees have leaked faked financial records, evidence of massive click-farm fake social media manipulation and evidence of unreported deaths and accidents. They say that most Tesla’s have one kind of defect or another.
    171. If you read about the dirty deeds and cocaine dealings with the In-Q-Tel airplanes called “Cocaine 1” & “Cocaine 2”, & the corruption behind the company called In-Q-Tel & Musk’s software programmer who ran “The Silk Road” drug & murder service then you must be concerned that many In-Q-Tel people work for Musk. Why does Musk need dirty druggies & spies on his payroll unless he is running covert drug and business spying activities?
    172. Ex-employees, Gawker writers and gay lawyers from Covington & Burling have leaked stories that Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman, Larry Page are “butt buddies”.
    173. Musk is anti-American and Anti-Worker Rights and has been caught flying in H1-B cheap offshore labor and exploiting immigrants for his deadly profits. Musk hates unions and worker rights efforts.
    174. Elon Musk gets the Cobalt chemical to make his lithium ion batteries from slave trade and blood-money corruption in the Congo!
    175. The lithium ion batteries that Musk uses also blow up when they naturally encounter Low Energy Nuclear (LENR) effects in the ambient environment. Millions of chemicals don’t blow up from LENR’d but lithium ion does!
    176. If you are a Democrat then know that Elon Musk cost you the Hillary Clinton campaign because of his payola schemes. If you are a Republican, know that Elon Musk is the epitome of the worst form of DNC crony corruption you ever saw!
    177. Musk bribed California politicians to give him hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer dollars & resources he never earned or worked for. He only got those crony payola perks handed to him because he operated as an illicit front for corrupt campaign financing for Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Harry Reid, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
    178. Multiple parties have filed “Demands For The Arrest of Elon Musk” with the FBI, DOJ, AG, FTC, SEC and other law enforcement agencies. It is not likely that Musk, or his companies will survive a full investigation.
    179. Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land in Fremont, CA. Solyndra was raided by the FBI for corruption. Tesla SHOULD be raided by the FBI for corruption. Both companies had kick-back crony payola schemes with Senator Dianne Feinstein. She owned the land, lease, HR, construction company and supplier interests and stock for both companies in one of the most massive conflict-of-interest crony financing schemes in U.S. history. Elon Musk and the Feinsteins are corruption partners.
    180. People who see you in a Tesla think of you as a “Tone Deaf Douchebag”, “Tesla Tool!”, “Arrogant Prick”, “Ostentatious Obama Oaf”, “Sheep”, “Mindless Yuppie Scum”, “Misogynistic Silicon Valley Clone”, “Self-promoting Elitist Douche”, “Fake News Reading Main Stream Boob”, “Naive Idiot” or other bad things.
    181. Elon Musk is one of the main financiers behind Barack Obama & Hillary Clinton, both of whom have been charged with corruption. Musk endlessly tweets lies & “…No I didn’t do those bad things” BS but nobody else supports him.
    182. Tesla financial records are “cooked” in a fraudulent manner to make the stock market valuation of Tesla a falsely manipulated factor. Musk uses “pre-orders”, by his own investors, to fake sales and wrote emails to customers asking them to put small deposits down so he could book them as fully paid sales in one of a large number of stock and loan valuation frauds. Musk and his investors practice stock market skims, pump-and-dumps and Flash Boy manipulations.
    183. Lithium ion batteries are blowing up, starting fires &, generally, destroying people’s homes, cars, electronics & physical health. Boeing was ordered to stop flying the 787 Dreamliner because it’s Lithium ion batteries are catching fire spontaneously. A group of silicon valley venture capitalists forced/leveraged the government to buy & pay for these specific batteries, that they have stock in, in order to benefit their profit margins. Other batteries don’t have these problems. They knew about the dangers from day one, but put greed ahead of safety. There are thousands & thousands of reports of spontaneous lithium ion fires but the VC’s who back lithium ion pay to keep this information hushed up. Millions of these batteries have been recalled for fire risk. The VC’s tried to push as many as they could before they got caught. Now they are caught. These VC’s & the Senators they bribed own stock in lithium mining companies too.
    184. Tesla Motors has filed a patent which states the following , THESE ARE TESLA MOTORS WORDS warning about a crisis, the level of which they never disclosed to the consumer: “Thermal runaway is of major concern since a single incident can lead to significant property damage &, in some circumstances, bodily harm or loss of life. When a battery undergoes thermal runaway, it typically emits a large quantity of smoke, jets of flaming liquid electrolyte, & sufficient heat to lead to the combustion & destruction of materials in close proximity to the cell. If the cell undergoing thermal runaway is surrounded by one or more additional cells as is typical in a battery pack, then a single thermal runaway event can quickly lead to the thermal runaway of multiple cells which, in turn, can lead to much more extensive collateral damage. Regardless of whether a single cell or multiple cells are undergoing this phenomenon, if the initial fire is not extinguished immediately, subsequent fires may be caused that dramatically expand the degree of property damage. For example, the thermal runaway of a battery within an unattended laptop will likely result in not only the destruction of the laptop, but also at least partial destruction of its surroundings, e.g., home, office, car, laboratory, etc. If the laptop is on-board an aircraft, for example within the cargo hold or a luggage compartment, the ensuing smoke & fire may lead to an emergency landing or, under more dire conditions, a crash landing. Similarly, the thermal runaway of one or more batteries within the battery pack of a hybrid or electric vehicle may destroy not only the car, but may lead to a car wreck if the car is being driven or the destruction of its surroundings if the car is parked”. See http://whoiselonmusk.com for more…
    185. Tesla’s own staff, & every fire department, have now admitted that once a lithium ion fire gets started in a Tesla, that it is impossible to extinguish burning lithium ion material. This is Telsa’s own words in THEIR patent filing, (You can look it up online) saying that the risk is monumental. Tesla has 6800 lithium ion batteries, any one of which can “go thermal”, start a chain reaction and blow up all of the rest of the 6800+ deadly batteries! Tesla drivers have been burned alive in thermal globs of flaming lithium ion, plastics & metal. Bystanders have heard their horrific screams of unutterable pain & terror as they were burned alive! Tesla fires can’t be extinguished & the bodies are burned into “unrecognizable lumps of charred flesh”, according to fireman.
    186. Lithium Ion batteries “go thermal” in peoples pockets, in your notebook, especially in a Tesla & Fisker car. There are tens of thousands of articles documenting this & there is a cover-up by the VC’s that fund these things to keep this fact out-of-sight. Making Lithium Ion batteries poisons the workers who make them. It is a dangerous product that is covered-up by the Obama Administration. Panasonic knows that these batteries are deadly.
    187. Tesla only exists to exploit Elon Musk’s briberies. The lithium ion batteries blow up when they get: wet, hot, bumped, over-charged, struck by energy fields, exposed to air or squashed. Lithium ion batteries poison the Earth & that they poison & kill the workers that make them. Lithium ion batteries come from war profiteering in Afghan & Bolivian corruption
    188. Panasonic is Elon Musk’s partner. Panasonic is one of the most corrupt companies in the world. Panasonic has been charged, on multiple continents with: Product dumping, bribery, collusion, price fixing, anti-trust law violations, racketeering, worker abuse, toxic poisoning of workers, & other crimes. It is no wonder that Elon Musk & Panasonic are partners. Tata Motors executive Karl Slym was killed for exposing this fact.
    189. Your tax dollars were stolen in order to make Tesla Motors, as part of a political financing kick-back scam. In other words, part of your paycheck was taken away from you in order to buy hookers, rent-boys & private jets for Musk & company.
    190. Tesla’s are forged in criminal corruption, so anybody who drives a Tesla must be either ignorant, a weasel or one of the corrupt. The whole world now knows all of the facts in this list so you can never plead ignorance to these crimes.
    191. Telsa’s have a huge amount of highly documented defects. The defects are so extensive that Tesla made buyers sign confidentiality agreements to try to hide how messed up their cars are.
    192. Tesla’s have killed more people than the main-stream news has reported. The full Tesla death-list is covered up.
    193. Musk lied about why he wanted to make electric cars, when, in fact, he actually poisons the environment because Tesla investors wanted to exploit toxic minerals & materials which can’t be recycled in a clean manner
    194. No other electric car has been so mundane, & yet had so many problems with it, since the electric car was first sold in the 1800’s. There is nothing “novel” or “amazing” about the Tesla aside from dime store parlor tricks for PR hype.
    195. More drunks have crashed Tesla’s, than any other per capita car in the world, per volume of cars made
    196. Elon Musk’s co-founders, investors, partners, wives, investors, suppliers & employees have sued him for being a fraud &, essentially, called him an “asshole” in court records.
    197. Elon Musk lied on this Department of Energy funding application and the Obama Administration refuses to allow any federal employees or witnesses to testify to these facts in public due to the devastating potential results of these facts.
    198. More owners of Tesla’s have been found to cheat on their taxes, & be involved in abuse-based divorces, than almost any other car brand owner. Tesla owners are bad people who rationalize their poor life choices. Owning a Tesla is a red-flag for a tax audit!
    199. Elon Musk will lie, cheat & steal in order to self-aggrandize & glorify his egotistical mania. Musk has been documented engaging in over 100 lies which were later proven to be false. He has spent tens of millions of dollars to buy fake news about himself on Twitter, Facebook & Google because he is such a mentally disturbed ego-maniac.
    200. None of Elon Musk’s companies would exist if not for taxpayer funded handouts given to him by corrupt politicians in exchange for illegal campaign finance deals with him & his investors.
    201. Google, & Tesla, who are financial & political partners, have both been caught spying on consumers & manipulating Internet data in order to cover-up their complicity in huge political corruption & kick-back deals
    202. Musk took U.S. taxpayer dollars from the government & then hired cheap off-shore labor & fired U.S. Union workers & domestic workers. He lied to & screwed the NUMMI workers that were working at the Fremont plant.
    203. Musk has put over 18 surveillance devices in the Tesla. Anybody can hack those devices & monitor you. WORSE YET, foreign agents have hacked the Tesla & taken over the controls & driven Tesla’s into bystanders & over cliffs.
    204. When Erick Strickland was head of the NHTSA he was confronted about DOT safety cover-ups of the Tesla to protect Obama. He quit 48 hours later. The DOT safety cover-ups to protect the Obama campaign finance payola scheme continue to this day. Obama’s Gibbs, Emanual, Plouffe, Axelrod and Carney quit within a week of being threatened with exposure.
    205. Elon Musk paid some of the largest bribes in the history of China, facilitated by Dianne Feinstein and her Chinese spy connections, in order to get his China factory opened.
    206. Tesla’s have had a large number of recalls but Elon Musk refuses to call them “recalls”. Tesla’s have had multiple recalls for SEVERE safety dangers. DOT has been told this, in writing, for years, but wont take action in order to protect Obama.
    207. Elon Musk is a bullshit artist who has no original ideas & wears black-turtle neck shirts (like Elizabeth Homes) to try to create a “cult” around himself & convince the world that he is a “Jesus-like” figure when, in fact, he is a clinical sociopath.
    208. Tesla is a severe public safety hazard that has been systematically covered up by corrupt politicians.
    209. Large numbers of Ex-CIA staff and In-Q-Tel spy staff work for Musk. Why does he need spies to build cars?
    210. Tesla Motors batteries were promoted by those who wished to exploit the Afghanistan War for personal profit by controlling the Afghan lithium mining fields. Kleiner Perkins and Draper Fisher hyped the “…trillions of $ of lithium in Afghanistan.”
    211. Tesla Motors batteries blow up on their own because their chemistry causes them to be naturally defective.
    212. Tesla Motors batteries blow up when they get wet because their chemistry is activated by water to make them explode.
    213. Tesla Motors batteries fires cannot be put out by any common fire-fighting resources.
    214. Tesla Motors batteries set themselves on fire.
    215. Per Federal MSDS disclosure documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit cancer-causing vapors when they burn.
    216. Tesla Motors Vehicles toxicity poison bystanders, nearby vehicular passengers, airline passengers in planes carrying said batteries in their holds, & environments where such incidents occur.
    217. Tesla Motors batteries blow up when bumped by the same level of car incident that would, otherwise, only dent a normal car bumper.
    218. In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can drip on & burn the occupants alive.
    219. Tesla has multiple sexual harassment and unsafe work-place lawsuits against the company.
    220. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit brain damaging chemicals when they burn
    221. Tesla is a stock pumping scam to profiteering on stock market peak manipulation at the expense of taxpayers.
    222. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals, burning, or not, that can damage an unborn fetus within the mother
    223. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals that can cause lung damage.
    224. Per MSDS documents, Tesla Motors batteries emit chemicals that can cause liver damage.
    225. Per published lawsuits & news reports, the factories that make Tesla Motors batteries have been charged with the deaths, & potentially fatal illness, of over 1000 workers & the poisoning of nearby towns.
    226. Tesla Motors batteries become even more dangerous over time, particularly when tasked by electric transportation systems like Hover-boards & Tesla’s. The chemistry in a lithium ion battery changes to become more unstable over time.
    227. Tesla Motors batteries were never designed to be used in automobiles. Tesla used non-automotive batteries in one of the most dangerous configurations possible.
    228. Tesla Motors occupants experience higher EMF radiation exposure than gasoline vehicle occupants.
    229. Elon Musk’s Space X vehicles & Tesla Motors vehicles have both had a higher-than-average number of explosions. This has caused outside experts to doubt Musk’s ability to place safety considerations over his need for hyped-up PR.
    230. Leaked Sandia National Labs & FAA research videos dramatically demonstrate the unstoppable, horrific, “re-percussive accelerating domino-effect” explosive fire effect of the Tesla Motors batteries.
    231. Tesla’s own “Superchargers” & home 3-prong chargers have set Tesla’s, homes & businesses on fire
    232. Consumer rights groups contacted Erick Strickland, the head of the NHTSA, & charged him with a cover-up. He quit days later. The NHTSA then issued a safety investigation request to Tesla Motors, which would have more publicly exposed these dangers, but the safety investigation was never under-taken due to White House requests & lobbyist bribes, from Tesla, which got the investigation shut down.
    233. NEPA regulations for the Tesla NUMMI factory in California & the Nevada Tesla “Gigafactory” have been violated relative to environmental safety standards.
    234. Tesla Motors vehicles are not “Factory Built” “like Ford” builds cars, as Tesla professes. They are hand built in small volumes & subjected to numerous defects. Blogs have documented hundreds of defects, as listed by Tesla owners. Tesla has lost at least one LEMON CAR LAWSUIT for defective manufacturing.
    235. Tesla’s “showrooms” are often “pop-up” retail storefronts that are in tight-proximity retail centers, putting it’s neighbors at risk of total loss from fire damage.
    236. Tesla Motors vehicles have been hacked & taken over. Their doors, steering, listening devices & navigation have been taken over by outside parties. Multiple Tesla have suddenly swerved off the road, over cliffs & into other vehicles, killing bystanders & Tesla drivers.
    237. Three Tesla top engineers & two competing senior executives, all of whom had whistle-blown on Tesla, who were in perfect health one day, suddenly died mysteriously the next day.
    238. Multiple employees, founders, investors, marital partners, suppliers & others have sued Tesla Motors, &/or it’s senior executives for fraud. Musk had nothing to do with creating Tesla. He ran a hostile take-over of Tesla from the founders.
    239. In addition to suing him, many of his former staff & partners have described Musk as an “Arrogant Prick”.
    240. Main-Stream Media (MSM) have agreed not to provide news coverage of the deadly defects of the Tesla because the MSM are owned by the same politicians who own Tesla Motors. It is now legal to sue The New York Times for hiding these deadly defects, though, particularly if your family member was injured or killed because they covered-up the danger for political reasons.
    241. If you think the above bullet-points are bad there are over a 1000 more. Find the book “Is Elon Musk A Fraud” online or visit https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com/ or thousands of other sites that expose the truth about Musk & Tesla!
    242. BANKRUPT MUSK – NO CASH FOR CRONY CORRUPTION. Print this out & freely re-post it on blogs & social media. Post this on bulletin boards. Put this on the windshield of every Tesla you find. Print this out & hand these out in front of every Tesla dealership: Nobody can stop you from handing these out, it is your U.S. Constitutional First Amendment Right! Pass the word! We are prepared to back up every single fact on here at any public meeting with the FBI, Congress, FTC, GAO, SEC or before a Federal Special Prosecutor.
    243. The crash of a Tesla Model X through the home of South Korean singer and actor Ji Chang Son. The crash ended with the nose of the vehicle in Ji Chang Son’s living room after the Tesla malfunctioned. Hundreds of such Tesla crashes have occurred, resulting in the deaths and injuries of Tesla owners, passengers, bystanders, oncoming drivers and others.
    244. Following accusations by a Korean celebrity that a Tesla car spontaneously drove through a wall, the carmaker has replied that the crash was “entirely due to the man’s horrible driving” in an ongoing effort, by Tesla, to steer the blame away from Tesla faulty engineering Actor and singer Son Ji-chang (identified as Ji Chang Son in court documents) claimed he was parking his Tesla Model X SUV when the vehicle suddenly lurched forward into his living room.
    245. In a lawsuit filed last week in California, Son claimed that the crash was due to “sudden unintended acceleration” and sought class-action status with other Model X owners. In a nod to the car’s ability to sense and avoid crashes, the lawsuit also hinted that the Model X should not be allowed take actions that the car “knows will result in the collision with a fixed object.”
    246. In June, another California-based Model X owner, Puzant Ozbag, similarly claimed that his Model X spontaneously accelerated through a parking lot and into a wall. A special prosecutor is needed to investigate Tesla due to the huge number of cover-ups, by Tesla and the Obama Administration, to protect camapign financier Elon Musk. Jeff Sessions needs to hire a lawyer from outside the government appointed by Sessions as attorney general or, in the United States, by Congress to investigate a government official for misconduct while in office. A reasoning for such an appointment is that the governmental branch or agency may have political connections to those it might be asked to investigate. Inherently, this creates a conflict of interest and a solution is to have someone from outside the department lead the investigation. The term “special prosecutor” may have a variety of meanings from one country to the next, from one government branch to the next within the same country, and within different agencies within each government branch. Critics of the use of special prosecutors argue that these investigators act as a “fourth branch” to the government because they are not subject to limitations in spending, nor do they have deadlines to meet.
    247. Attorneys carrying out special prosecutor functions in either federal or state courts of the United States are typically appointed ad hoc with representation limited to one case or a delineated series of cases that implicate compelling governmental interests, such as: Fraud (SEC, Complex, Cybercrime, Mortgages), Public Corruption, Money Laundering & Asset Forfeiture, Civil Rights, Racketeering Across State lines, Environmental Protection, National Security, Tax & Bankruptcy, Organized Crime, or International cases where the US is a party).[1] Special prosecutors in courts of the United States may either be appointed formally by one of the three branches of government in a criminal proceeding, or when dictated by federal law or regulation, or informally in civil proceedings, and also by one of the three branches of government, or by a non-governmental entity to prosecute alleged unlawful conduct by government agents. When appointed by the judicial branch to investigate and, if justified, seek indictments in a particular judicial branch case, the attorney is called special prosecutor.[2] When appointed/hired particularly by a governmental branch or agency to investigate alleged misconduct within that branch or agency, the attorney is called independent counsel.[3] When appointed/hired by the state or political subdivision to assist in a particular judicial branch case when the public interest so requires, the attorney is called special counsel.[3] When appointed/hired by an organization, corporation, person or other non-governmental entity to investigate and, if justified, seek indictments against one or more government officials for acts committed under color of law, the attorney may be called special counsel or special prosecut. The term is sometimes used as a synonym for independent counsel, but under the former law authorizing the independent counsel, the appointment was made by a special panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The Ethics in Government Act expired in 1999, and was effectively replaced by Department of Justice regulation 28 CFR Part 600, under which Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to look into the Plame affair. The Tesla Motors and Elon Musk Case requires a Special Prosecutor.
    248. ELON MUSK AND TESLA FACE CRIMINAL FRAUD CHARGES BY FEDS! MUSK FINALLY EXPOSED!
    249.  SEC subpoenas TESLA over Musk tweets…
    250. Whistleblower posts ‘flawed cars’ details…
    251.  Elon Musk’s Incredible Smoke And Mirrors Dance. Elon Musk’s untraceable money laundering and political bribery scam has now been exposed. It is called an “Invisible Bridge”. It is the way that covert funds move through a secret conduit of close associates and family members. Elon Musk is at the head of the conduit and his mother, brother and associates Tim Draper, Steve Jurvetson, and George Soros round out the other tentacles. With operational links through Wells Fargo Bank, Silicon Valley Bank and Goldman Sachs, the scheme is perfected corruption. The “bridge” uses a combination of fake tax evasion charities and business assets, passes through Senator’s pockets and is never visible to the FBI, the FEC and the SEC unless they have very good agents assigned to the matter.
    252. NTSB, DOJ, SEC and FEC have been blocked from action by DNC lobbyists.
    253. The overt and arrogant Musk misdeeds have now become “obvious and RICO-violating…”
    254. He is protected by Senators Reid, Harris, Pelosi and Feinstein. They are beneficiaries of the scam. Musk’s self promoting, narcissistic, multi-billion dollar, self-aggrandizing PR hype. Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources from the Department of Energy and the California political tax pool. This is proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs.
    255. He is protected by the Clinton and Obama organizations along with most of the DNC. He finances these politicians via this scheme.
    256. The U.S. Dept of Energy (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime activities at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off DNC campaign financiers and to pay for Fusion-GPS attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors.
    257. DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks.
    258. Elon Musk is a criminal, a mobster, an asshole, a balding fake-hair wearing, plastic surgery-addicted, bi-sexual douchebag, woman-abusing, sex addicted, tax evader.
    259. Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”
    260. Musk spends billions per year to hire Russian trolls, fake blogger fan-boys and buy fake news self-glory look-at-me articles about himself. Musk thinks he is the ‘Jesus’ of Silicon Valley and he will do anything to make the public think so. Musk is insecure because his father was abusive and his “trophy wife” Mother is overbearing so he developed sociopath-like mental issues.
    261. Musk has been professionally diagnosed as a ‘psychotic narcissist.
    262. Musk uses shell companies and trust funds to self-deal, evade the law and hide his bribes and stock market insider trading. His brother ran Solar City and is now under federal investigation for securities fraud.
    263. A huge number of Tesla drivers, per capita, have been killed; pedestrians and oncoming drivers have also been killed, and Musk covers it up.
    264. The DNC and the MSM refuse to allow any articles about Musk’s crimes to be printed because they benefit from Musk’s crimes.
    265. VC’s Tim Draper and Steve Jurvetson are so fanatical about not being embarrassed from a Tesla bankruptcy that they will pump the TSLA stock and threaten anybody who might disclose the Musk misdeeds.
    266. Peter Thiel, a Musk ‘boyfriend” also protects Musk. Musk, and his cronies, use Palantir, Google and related software to scan the entire internet every few minutes for any occurrence of the words: “Musk”, “Tesla” or “Tesla Fire”. They send trolls and fake bloggers (Many of them Russian) to put pro-Musk comments on the comments section of any blogs or articles discussing those topics and try to flood out the truth about Musk. In EVERY blog that you read that mentions ‘Musk’, at least 1/3 of the comments have been placed their by Musk’s paid shills.
    267. There are no “Tesla Fan Boys”. All of the fanatic Tesla comments on the internet are Musk’s, Thiel’s, Jurvetson’s and Draper’s fake fanboy trolls. Musk, himself, stays up late at night pretending to be a ‘Tesla Fan Boy’on blogs.
    268. Main Stream DNC-biased News organizations who refuse to cover the story reveal themselves as shills for Musk
    269. The Silicon Valley Mafia promotes Musk as a “Tech God” leader but, in reality Musk is the same kind of “Leader” as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Swami Rajneesh and Al Capone.
    270. His own people have sued him for fraud and lies once they realized that Musk-ism and Scientology had so much in common.
    271. The ‘Silicon Valley Mafia; cartel of frat boy sociopath venture capitalists like Steve Jurvetson, Tim Draper, Eric Schmidt, et al; threaten those who do not support the cult of Tesla or their political candidates.
    272. Musk holds the Silicon Valley record for getting sued for fraud by his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders.
    273. Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
    274. Musk and his culture are being sued for abuse to women and blacks and the Unions hate him for lying to them.
    275. https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com reveals even more Musk lies.
    276. Musk never founded his companies. He took Tesla away from the founder: Marty, in a hostile take-over!
    277. Musk’s “Starlink” satellites are domestic spy and political manipulation tools – never get your internet from anything SpaceX has launched. SpaceX is entirely a domestic spy operation.
    278. Musk’s “Mars” scheme is just a PR distraction to keep the news from looking too close at SPACEX domestic spying satellites.
    279. The same kind of EMF radiation proven to cause cancer from cell phones exists in massive amounts in a Tesla.
    280. Musk can’t fix a car or build a rocket and has almost no mechanical skills.
    281. If you pull a report of every VIN# of every Tesla ever built and cross reference that with insurance, repair and lawsuit records you will find that the “per volume” fire, crash, death and defect rate is THE WORST of any car maker in history! Musk’s lobbyists have bribed DOT and NHTSA to stall safety inspections.
    282. NO COMPLETE UNCOMPROMISING SAFETY REPORT ON TESLA CARS HAS EVER BEEN PUBLISHED but we have a copy of a hushed up report that would put Tesla out of business.
    283. Musk’s ‘Autopilot’ system is a scam to get government cash BUT IT NEVER WORKS. The Tesla ‘Autopilot’ has crashed into police cars, pedestrians, swamps and driven owners over cliffs.
    284. Musk is a lying con artist and partners with Goldman Sachs to rig the stock market. Sachs has a dedicated team of 18 men who rig stocks and valuation bumps for Musk.
    285. The “Silk Road” Cocaine and Murder-For-Hire website was created at Musk’s SpaceX
    286. Musk’s In-Q-Tel staff ran two transport planes filled with drugs; listed as “Cocaine 1” on FAA records.
    287. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies. That is why they criminally help cover-up investigations of Tesla!
    288. All of this was reported, in writing, to James Comey, Patricia Rich and David Johnson at the FBI.
    289. Tesla and Solyndra sit on the same land and share staff, contracts and lobbying. California politicians own parts of both companies.
    290. Musk took over Tesla Motors in a hostile take-over in order to exploit lithium, cobalt and other mining corruption deals for his business partners.
    291. The ‘lithium’ in Musk’s horrifically miss-engineered lithium ion batteries cause wars in the Congo over mining corruption.
    292. Afghanistan and Bolivian mobsters benefit from the corrupt mining deals involved with mining lithium and cobalt for Elon Musk’s batteries.
    293. Elon Musk opened a factory in China to try to avoid American worker safety laws because all of the labor cheats and safety violations he had engaged in, in America, were catching up to him. He neglected to provide adequate worker safety to quarantine for the coronavirus, though.
    294. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are insider trading-owned by ex-CIA boss Woolsey and DOE Boss Chu and they engaged in extreme conflict-of-interest to help Musk.
    295. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries excrete chemicals that mutate fetuses when they burn.
    296. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries destroy your brain, lungs and nervous system when they burn.
    297. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries kill the factory workers who make them.
    298. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries cause Panasonic to be one of the most corrupt companies in the world.
    299. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries poison the Earth when disposed of.
    300. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries can’t be extinguished by firemen because water makes them explode even more and then explode again hours later.
    301. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries have chemical dendrites and deposition massing issues (revealed by X-Ray analysis) which makes them more and more likely to explode as they age.
    302. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries poison firemen when they burn.
    303. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are based on criminally corrupt mining schemes like URANIUM ONE.
    304. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries have over 61 toxic chemicals in them.
    305. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries come from an industry that spends billions on internet shills and trolls that they hire to nay say all other forms of energy
    306. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion batteries are insider-trading owned by corrupt U.S. Senators who are running a SAFETY COVER-UP about their dangers.
    307. Apple products with lithium ion batteries have been exploding and setting people on fire.
    308. Over time the chemical dendrites, or deposits, inside each battery grow worse and increase the chances of explosion as they age – LITHIUM ION BATTERIES BECOME MORE AND MORE LIKELY TO EXPLODE AS TIME GOES ON AND AS THEY AGE. This is not a theory. This is a scientific fact. That is why you hear about more and more lithium batteries catching fire and blowing up. Additionally, scientists also speculate that the increasing presence of low energy nuclear background energy and wifi energy in the environment is making lithium ion batteries explode more often lately. This is upheld by the increasing number of FAA reports about commercial airline cabins suddenly “filling up with toxic smoke” as some lithium ion battery explodes in someones overhead luggage. As commercial jets go higher they lose the protection of the atmosphere and are subjected to more gamma (and other) radiation from overhead. This makes the already unstable lithium ion batteries on board blow up.
    309. Tesla owner’s had had more DUI’s, abuse filings in divorce proceedings and crashes than any other car maker PER VOLUME. This makes Tesla the #1 car for douche bags and scummy people.
    310. Tesla’s own federal patent filing records confirm that Tesla batteries are as dangerous as this document reports.
    311. Political activist George Soros owns part of Tesla Motors so that Soros can help conduit DNC cash.
    312. The Obama Administration promised Silicon Valley oligarchs the market monopoly on lithium ion batteries and the sabotage of fuel cells in exchange for campaign financing and search engine rigging.
    313. United States Senators that are supposed to protect us from these deadly products own the stock market assets of them so they protect them and stop the FDA, OSHA, DOT & NHTSA from outlawing them.
    314. There have been thousands of defect reports filed on Tesla cars.
    315. Tom Steyer is a notorious DNC financier. His partner, Margaret Sullivan ran, the federal USAID agency, USAID sent all of the DNC campaign financiers in Silicon Valley a federal ‘report’ from USAID that said there was “A TRILLION DOLLARS OF LITHIUM IN AFGHANISTAN” and promised to give those lithium mines, EXCLUSIVELY, to the Silicon Valley venture capitalists if they funded and web search manipulated the election for Obama to take over the White House. We have the documents proving this. In other words, a re-up of the Afghan War was caused by Elon Musk and it killed American soldiers so that Musk could buy more mansions and trophy wives.
    316. If a Tesla battery gets wet it will explode and cause all of the other batteries to explode in a “cascade of explosions”.
    317. Water makes Tesla batteries explode.
    318. In an accident, when a Tesla rolls over, molten metal & plastic can drip on & burn the occupants alive and seal them in molten metal.
    319. Alkaline, NiCAD and hundreds of other battery chemistries DO NOT have all of these problems but Lithium Ion batteries get a monopoly because of politician insider trading owner-ships.
    320. Tesla Motors has caused far more deaths and injuries than the world generally knows about.
    321. A recent fire on U.S. Highway 101 near Mountain View, CA, burned the driver alive and killed him.
    322. In Florida two kids died in a Tesla, burned alive, screaming in agony.
    323. A man died in agony in a Tesla crash in Malibu that set Malibu Canyon on fire.
    324. A young woman, at the start of life, and her boyfriend were burned alive in their crashed Tesla.
    325. There are many more deaths and crashes than you have seen in the Main Stream News (MSN) The deaths and the cover-ups are endless.
    326. Senators Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Kamala Harris and their associates own the stock in Tesla Motors and/or it’s suppliers and mining companies and they cover-up and halt investigations and laws designed to save the public.
    327. Elon Musk’s Lithium ion battery partners spend over $1B a year to shill and troll hype about lithium ion batteries and cover-up the dangers.
    328. Lithium ion EVs are more prone to battery fires.
    329. Experts say that their lithium-ion batteries can fuel hotter fires that release toxic fumes and are more difficult to put out. Lithium ion fires keep reigniting which explains why it takes so long and requires copious amounts of water or foam (it is an electric fire, after all) to smother the flames.
    330. Tesla employee Bernard Tse and his team warned Elon Musk about these dangers in 2008 and they got fired and/or warned to “say nothing” by Musk.
    331. Three top Tesla engineers died in a plane crash next to Tesla offices in San Carlos after two of them agreed to become whistle-blowers. Another whistle-blower has suggested they were killed in a “Boston Brakes” hit-job.
    332. The DNC bosses, Congress people and federal executives own the stock in lithium, Solar and EV markets and use kickbacks from those markets (Especially via convoluted campaign finance laundering via Elon Musk) to finance the DNC.
    333. The DNC bosses and Musk use character assassination as their main political tool against any member of the public who speaks out against their felony stock market scams and PizzaGate-like scandals. The Harvey Weinstein reports by Ronan Farrow show that they have teams of hired goons that they pay to destroy people’s lives.
    334. Musk uses Black Cube, Mossad, In-Q-Tel, Stratfor, Gawker Media, Gizmodo Media, Media Matters, David Brock, Sid Blumenthal, NY Times, Google servers, Facebook servers, Podesta Group, Perkins Coie, Covington & Burling and a host of “media assassins”.
    335. Musk buddies: Gawker and Gizmodo Media set-up the attack stories and, in paid partnership with Google, Google kicks their attack links around the globe, in front of 8 Billion people, forever. Google locks the attack articles of its enemies on the front top search results of Google search results forever, on purpose! Google and Musk are partners-in-crime.
    336. Larry Page steals technology for Google and Musk meets with Larry Page to advise him on which technologies to steal and how to bypass FEC laws.
    337. Musk has exceeded FEC campaign finance limits by billions of dollars via “in-kind” services.
    338. Had the full scope of these facts been acted on during the Obama Administration, Barack Obama would have become the first modern sitting President to have been arrested in the White House. Barack Obama was fully aware of these schemes, crony payola deals and corruption crimes and discussed the implementation of these crimes, daily, with Rahm Emanuel, David Plouffe, Steven Rattner, Robert Gibbs, John Podesta, David Axelrod, Eric Holder and Jay Carney in the Oval Office.
    339. THIS corruption involves TRILLIONS of dollars of corrupt mining deals, automotive and energy monopolies!
    340. THIS is why the federal budget analysis reports are showing TRILLIONS of dollars of ‘untraceable’ losses from the United States Treasury from 2006 up to today!
    341. THIS is why a large number of reporters, whistle-blowers and prosecutors suddenly, and mysteriously turned up dead!
    342. The company that Elon Musk built to usher in the electric-car future might not have enough cash to make it through the calendar year without stock markets scams being used to keep it alive.
    343. Tesla again fell far short of its own production targets for the mass-market Model 3 sedan
    344.  Another person died in a crash involving its assisted-driving feature.
    345. Musk entered into a public dispute with federal safety regulators.
    346. Tesla’s once high-flying stock, buffeted by a downgrade from credit analysts, has dropped 24 percent from its peak in September but Silicon Valley Vc’s will pump it up to save face.
    347. No one has raised or spent money the way Elon Musk has; Nor has any other chief executive officer of a public company made a bankruptcy joke on Twitter at a time when so much seemed to be unraveling.
    348. Tesla is going through money so fast that, without additional financing, there is now a genuine risk that the 15-year-old company could run out of cash in 2018. The company burns through more than $6,500 every minute, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Free cash flow—the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for capital expenditures—has been negative for five consecutive quarters. That will be a key figure to watch when Tesla reports earnings May 2. Read the full story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
    349. In years to come, we will all look back and wonder how so many people were taken in by this shyster, who makes Enron look honest.
    350. One of Tesla’s greatest strengths is its ability to monetize the patience and goodwill of its customers and loyal fans. The company is sitting on a staggering $854 million in customer deposits as of the end of 2017.
    351. Since Tesla sells its products direct to consumers, without relying on a dealer network, customer deposits are cash payments that essentially serve as interest-free loans—and these loans can stretch on for years. If Tesla were to go bankrupt, those deposit holders would likely be wiped out.
    352. Tesla is holding customer deposits for two vehicles that aren’t even in production yet: an electric Tesla Semi ($20,000 deposit) and a next-generation Roadster (either $50,000 down or the $250,000 retail price paid up front to reserve a limited edition). Even customers interested in installing an array of solar roof panels or the company’s Powerwall home battery must hand over $1,000 to place an order.
    353. Tesla doesn’t break out deposit numbers by car, but the vast majority comes from $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. When Musk first introduced the lower-priced sedan in March 2016, fans stood in long lines at Tesla stores. Two years later, the slower-than-expected pace of production means that most of the more than 400,000 reservation holders are still waiting. And new people appear to be joining the queue: As of April, the company reported “net Model 3 reservations remained stable.”
    354. There’s an additional source of free money from loyal believers: An unknown number of customers have paid up for vehicle features—$3,000 for “Full Self Driving” capability, for example—that Tesla thus far hasn’t figured out or released to anyone.
    355. Elon Musk cooked the books by emailing interested sales prospects and asked them to put a deposit down before each quarter ended so he could book their tiny deposits as fully transacted $60K+ “sales” before each quarter closed.
    356. Elon Musk and SpaceX are being sued by multiple employees for “lying about safety standards, safety records” and deadly safety defects.
    357. The Elon Musk Tesla Money Laundering Board Of Directors is as full of fraud and corruption as Musk. Birds of a feather stick together and the Jurvetson, Draper, Musk, et al; clan of corruption runs deep. The Board of Directors can’t operate their scam without the whole pack of thieves and liars in place. An outsider will break theirs swamp of tax evasion, Dark Money political bribes, off-shore cash, self-dealing, book-cooking, real estate fraud, expense padding and other nefarious deeds.
    358. Dianne Feinstein’s family member: Herb Newman of Sausalito, California’s HR firm: Newman Search (415 332-8425) has a company as of 1972 with the sole purpose of setting up investment bank deals with the People’s Republic of China. Feinstein arranged for Newman to provide the staffing for Tesla and Solyndra. Dianne Fenstein has been under investigation for spy activities with China and her senior aide was arrested as a Chinese top spy. In 1973 Mr. Newman arrived in Canton at the invitation of the Chinese Council for the Promotion of International Trade. (CCPIT). He and his company MVTC were one of fifty businesses to be invited to the Canton Trade Fair held in Kwangchow China. In 1978 Mr. Newman founded China Investments and in partnership with California Trade Delegations both companies as members of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce began taking US Corporations to China. Mr. Newman along with one of his associates at the time Mr. Darryl Schoon helped organize Senator Dianne Feinstein’s first trip to China in conjunction with the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. Herb Newman, Mart Bailey and Feinstein’s Husband; Dick Blum are on intelligence agency watch-lists, and under electronic surveillance, for potentially corrupt deals with China, Tesla and Solyndra.
    359. Dianne Feinstein’s husband owns CBRE which owns the real estate contracts for both Tesla and Solyndra.
    360. Dianne Feinstein’s family owns interests in the construction companies hired by both Tesla and Solyndra.
    361. Dianne Feinstein had her staff warn other California businesses away from using the NUMMI car factory in order to protect the real estate deal for both Tesla ans CBRE, which is owned by her husband.
    362. Tesla began real estate deals in multiple states and then cancelled them at the last minute, which got them sued for fraud and charged with “lying” to different communities. They started, and then pulled out of these different building (San Jose, Southern California, New Mexico, Etc.) deals, because CBRE and Feinstein were trying to leverage real estate profit exploitation using taxpayer funding.
    363. Panasonic and Tesla have known for decades that the Panasonic 18650 batteries used in the Tesla suffer from multiple chemistry degradation defects which will almost always make them eventually explode or “go thermal”. The defects include: 1.) LENR activation, 2.) Dendrite lengthening, 3.) Particle congealing, 4.) Chemistry evolution and other defects. The Tesla projects is, essentially, a failed product product dumping effort of a failed and dangerous battery product.
    364. Elon Musk has demanded that his employees sign “loyalty pledges”, “vows” and engage in Omerta’s in order to keep the corruption details of Tesla from being exposed to the public.
    365. Tesla insider Antonio Gracias is the mob boss insider at Tesla who arranges media hit-jobs on those who displease Musk.
    366. The NHTSB has issued requests to Tesla for safety tests and data that Tesla never complied with. Instead, Tesla paid bribes, which were referred to as “fees” to avoid having to complete those tests. An independent group of outside investigators issued a damning safety report to the NHTSB demanding that Tesla be compelled to produce the safety tests in 2010 but Obama appointed NHTSB executives buried the report and protected Tesla in order to keep the connection between Obama’s funding and Tesla protected. NHTSB boss: Strickland, an Obama insider, was confronted with this in Washington, DC and resigned from his job 48 hours later. NHTSB has still not acted on the severe Tesla safety defects that have been reported since 2009.
    367. An SEC investigation of Musk uncovered horrific evidence of Musk corruption but the SEC could not report or act on it because Obama congressional bosses and lobbyists got the SEC investigation “limited” to only examine a single Twitter “Tweet” from Musk.
    368. Elon Musk is protected by top DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FEC and other Obama left-over staff as well as 45 U.S. Senators and top Federal Reserve members and Goldman Sachs, who live in terror that exposure of the entire Elon Musk financial food-chain will topple the entire DNC Dark Money payola scam. This is the reason that Tesla can get away with so much obvious and overt corruption and still continue operations. Tesla Motors book-cooking, financial frauds and political payola conduits, if fully revealed, would change the course of political influence in America.
    369. Elon Musk has been sued by a man that Musk called a “Pedo”, yet Musk’s own father has been accused of child sex abuse, racism and, indeed, got his own daughter pregnant!
    370. Elon Musk’s mother has been accused of being a “self-indulgent trophy wife” who Musk was trained by to be an arrogant elitist. Her hatred of black people was imbued on Musk who has been sued by black people at his company for “running a racist culture”.
    371. Elon Musk divorced the same woman twice because she knew his dirty little secret and threatened to out him if he did not keep the deal going. She was hired to “act” as his wife.
    372.  Musical artist Iggy Azalea was at a Musk Party, with other friends, who captured Elon Musk on video on drugs and in weird sex acts. Musk had Iggy’s camera stolen at the party to hie the evidence but he did not get the other cameras and did not realize that some of those cameras placed their images and videos directly on the Cloud, where hackers acquired them.
    373. With cover-up help from Eric Holder, Steven Chu, Obama, Valarie Jarret, DNC FBI agents, Perkins Coie, Covington and Burling, Wilson Sonsini, etc; sociopath Musk actually believes he is “untouchable” and that he can get away with anything. His downfall will be the same downfall of every narcissist sociopath oligarch throughout all of recorded history.
    374. Elon Musk is a drug addict. A simple urine and blood test proves it. Musk’s downfall and the downfall of John DeLorean are seeming to align.
    375. Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi are violating the law protecting Tesla by withholding investigations and prosecutions? Why are they allowing American citizens to continue to die from the 1.) “sudden acceleration electronics defect”; 2.) “The failed Auto-pilot electronics defect”3.) “The deteriorating and deadly lithium ion batteries” and 4.) numerous other defects widely documented in the news media and filed lawsuits?
    376. Elon Musk exists because he bribed DNC politicians including Obama, Clinton and Senators Feinstein, Reid, Boxer, Harris, Spier and Pelosi to give him free taxpayer cash and government resources. This is proven when you follow-the-money and the insider trading, stock ownership and crony payola kick-backs.
    377. The Energy Dept (DOE) has been covering-up organized crime activities at DOE in which DOE funds are being used as a slush-fund to pay off DNC campaign financiers and to pay for CIA/GPS Fusion-Class attacks on Silicon Valley business competitors.
    378. DNC campaign financiers and DOE staff share stock market holdings with each other under family trusts, shell corporations and layered Goldman Sachs accounts. The deal was: Obama funds Tesla, Musk conduits campaign funds to Obama, top Obama staff profit off of insider Musk stocks.
    379. Musk exploits poor people and child slaves in the Congo and Afghanistan to mine his lithium and Cobalt. Look up this phrase on the top search engines: “child labor electric car batteries”.
    380. The Silicon Valley Paypal Mafia promotes Musk as a “Tech God” leader but, in reality Musk is the same kind of “Leader” as Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Swami Rajneesh and Al Capone. His own people have sued him for fraud and lies once they realized that Musk-ism and Scientology had so much in common.
    381. Musk holds the record for getting sued for fraud by his investors, wives, former partners, employees, suppliers and co-founders. Elon Musk has gone out of his way to hire hundreds of ex-CIA and In-Q-Tel staff and assign them to “dirty tricks teams” to attack his competitors and elected officials who Musk hates.
    382. Musk and his culture are being sued for abuse to women and blacks and the Unions hate him for lying to them. https://stopelonfromfailingagain.com reveals even more Musk lies.
    383. THIS corruption is what all of the big political scandals are about today!
    384. THIS corruption involves TRILLIONS of dollars of corrupt mining deals, automotive and energy monopolies!
    385. THIS is why the federal budget analysis reports are showing TRILLIONS of dollars of ‘untraceable’ losses from the United States Treasury from 2006 up to today!
    386. THIS is why a large number of reporters, whistle-blowers and prosecutors suddenly, and mysteriously turned up dead!
    387. THIS can all be proven in jury trial and in live televised Congressional hearings!
    388. This is all being covered up because top State and Federal officials are in on it, own the stock in it and are so deeply involved in it that they could go to Federal prison when this all comes out.
    389. The anxieties that lurk beneath the tremendous ambition of Tesla Inc. moved into the forefront in recent weeks. The company again fell far short of its own production targets for the mass-market Model 3 sedan, another person died in a crash involving its assisted-driving feature and Musk entered into a public dispute with federal safety regulators. Tesla’s once high-flying stock, buffeted by a downgrade from credit analysts, has dropped 24 percent from its peak in September.
    390. There’s a good reason to worry: No one has raised or spent money the way Elon Musk has. Nor has any other chief executive officer of a public company made a bankruptcy joke on Twitter at a time when so much seemed to be unraveling.
    391. Tesla is going through money so fast that, without additional financing, there is now a genuine risk that the 15-year-old company could run out of cash in 2018. The company burns through more than $6,500 every minute, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Free cash flow—the amount of cash a company generates after accounting for capital expenditures—has been negative for five consecutive quarters. That will be a key figure to watch when Tesla reports earnings May 2.Read the full story here: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-burns-cash/
    392. In years to come, we will all look back and wonder how so many people were taken in by this shyster, who makes Enron look honest.A
    393.  lot of Musk’s money has been extracted from suckers, who think he is God’s gift, as Bloomberg reports:One of Tesla’s greatest strengths is its ability to monetize the patience and goodwill of its customers and loyal fans. The company is sitting on a staggering $854 million in customer deposits as of the end of 2017.
    394. Since Tesla sells its products direct to consumers, without relying on a dealer network, customer deposits are cash payments that essentially serve as interest-free loans—and these loans can stretch on for years. If Tesla were to go bankrupt, those deposit holders would likely be wiped out.
    395. Tesla is holding customer deposits for two vehicles that aren’t even in production yet: an electric Tesla Semi ($20,000 deposit) and a next-generation Roadster (either $50,000 down or the $250,000 retail price paid up front to reserve a limited edition). Even customers interested in installing an array of solar roof panels or the company’s Powerwall home battery must hand over $1,000 to place an order.
    396. Tesla doesn’t break out deposit numbers by car, but the vast majority comes from $1,000 reservations for the Model 3. When Musk first introduced the lower-priced sedan in March 2016, fans stood in long lines at Tesla stores. Two years later, the slower-than-expected pace of production means that most of the more than 400,000 reservation holders are still waiting. And new people appear to be joining the queue: As of April, the company reported “net Model 3 reservations remained stable.”
    397. There’s an additional source of free money from loyal believers: An unknown number of customers have paid up for vehicle features—$3,000 for “Full Self Driving” capability, for example—that Tesla thus far hasn’t figured out or released to anyone.
    398. The consumer psychology that sees hundreds of thousands of people essentially extending an interest-free loan to a public company is unusual, to say the least. I think the phrase “more money than sense” rather sums it up
    399. Apple and Google also named in US lawsuit over Congolese child cobalt mining deaths for Elon Musk’s Tesla Cars. Dell, Microsoft and Tesla also among tech firms named in case brought by families of children killed or injured while mining in DRC.‘I saw the unbearable grief inflicted on families by cobalt mining. I pray for chan Elon Musk’s cobalt extraction in DRC has been linked to child labour.
    400. A landmark legal case has been launched against the world’s largest tech companies by Congolese families who say their children were killed or maimed while mining for cobalt used to power smartphones, laptops and electric cars, the Guardian can reveal.
    401. Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla have been named as defendants in a lawsuit filed in Washington DC by human rights firm International Rights Advocates on behalf of 14 parents and children from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The lawsuit accuses the companies of aiding and abetting in the death and serious injury of children who they claim were working in cobalt mines in their supply chain.
    402. The lawsuit argues that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla all aided and abetted the mining companies that profited from the labour of children who were forced to work in dangerous conditions – conditions that ultimately led to death and serious injury. The families argue in the claim that their children were working illegally at mines owned by UK mining company Glencore. The court papers allege that cobalt from the Glencore-owned mines is sold to Umicore, a Brussels-based metal and mining trader, which then sells battery-grade cobalt to Apple, Google, Tesla, Microsoft and Dell.
    403. Other plaintiffs in the court documents say they worked at mines owned by Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt, a major Chinese cobalt firm, which the lawsuit claims supplies Apple, Dell, and Microsoft and is likely to supply the other defendants.
    404. Another child, referred to as John Doe 1, says that he started working in the mines when he was nine. The lawsuit claims that earlier this year, he was working as a human mule for Kamoto Copper Company, carrying bags of cobalt rocks for $0.75 a day, when he fell into a tunnel. After he was dragged out of the tunnel by fellow workers, he says he was left alone on the ground at the mining site until his parents heard about the accident and arrived to help him. He is now paralysed from the chest down and will never walk again.
    405. Other families included in the claim say that their children were killed in tunnel collapses or suffered serious injuries such as smashed limbs and broken spines while crawling through tunnels or carrying heavy loads. The families say that none were paid any compensation for the deaths and injuries.
    406. One of the central allegations in the lawsuit is that Apple, Google, Dell, Microsoft and Tesla were aware and had “specific knowledge” that the cobalt they use in their products is linked to child labour performed in hazardous conditions, and were complicit in the forced labour of the children
    407. Is is charged that the Musk empire is an organized crime program that exists between Silicon Valley tech oligarchs, investment banks, U.S. Senators, government agency staff and White House staff who engage in these crimes.
    408. That public officials knowingly participate in these crimes by failing to report their associates who engage in these illicit actions and by hiring suppliers who operate these illicit activities.
    409. That the Musk empire suspects manipulate government funds for their personal profiteering at the expense of domestic citizen taxpayers like us.
    410. That the Musk empire suspects operate a vast stock market manipulation program, as a core function of their operations, and those illicit deeds function at the expense of the public to render unjust gain to public officials.
    411. That the Musk empire suspects contract a known group of lobbyists, corrupt law firms, unethical CPA’s, corrupt investment banks and specialized corruption services providers to attack, defame, physically harm, character assassinate, black-list and/or kill those they dislike and they harmed many persons with those acts.
    412. That the Musk empire suspects operate an Epstein-like sex-trafficking network of prostitutes and sexual extortion activities and locations for the engagement of said activities and for the bribery of cohorts via sex workers and that Musk was a personal associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
    413. That the Musk empire suspects engage in electronic attacks and manipulations including hacking, election manipulation, media censorship and internet search results manipulation in order to mask their schemes.
    414. That the Musk empire suspects engage in Lois Lerner-like, SPYGATE-like, VA whistleblower-like reprisal and retribution  attacks using government agencies like SSA, DOJ, FBI, LSC, HUD, HHS, DOE, Etc
    415. It is demanded that Elon Musk be arrested on RICO Racketeering, Anti-Trust, Tax Evasion, Bribery, and related charges!
    416. Elon Musk had sex with a young non-age-appropriate rock and roll girl and got her pregnant.
    417. Elon Musk dated anal sex advocate Gwenyth Paltrow who later told her friends that he was full of shit.
    418. Elon Musk divorced one actress, then had to remarry her because she had the goods on him.
    419. Video exists of Elon Musk at various sex parties.
    420. Elon Musk dated Johnny Depp’s girlfriend Amber Heard who thought that Musk was even more controlling than Johnny Depp.
    421. The NUMMI car factory that Musk took over was first called, by Musk, in the media “non-functional”. Even the two major car makers that were using it had abandoned it. Feinstein make Musk take it because here husband’s company: CBRE Realty, managed the property around it.
    422. Musk never made good on his promises to NUMMI workers or the Unions representing the NUMMI factory.
    423. After getting an insane amount of exclusive free cash from the taxpayers, Musk flew workers in from overseas.
    424. Multiple women have charged Musk for sexual abuse and factory misogyny.
    425. Musk couldn’t make it in college and bailed out.
    426. Far more SpaceX rockets have exploded and fully failed than the public is aware of.
    427. Musk said he would already have sent his buddies around the moon but many potential passengers have bailed out after they saw the due diligence on SpaceX lack of experience.
    428. Musk, Draper, Page, Westly, Schmidt, Brin and other famous tech asshole billionaires have formally agreed to run a “cartel” to control news, information and industries.
    429. Inside the Tesla that Elon Musk had SpaceX put in orbit is a “confession folder” that would destroy Musk if anyone went up and got it.
    430. Elon Musk believes he could kill someone and not get in trouble because he has so many California Senator’s, Tier one law firms and former White House staff protecting him.
    431. Elon Musk is the Citizen Kane of the modern world. He thinks he is the Al Capone of Technology. He uses things that appear to be all “crunchy granola” on the surface to steal taxpayer subsidies with the help of corrupt politicians.
    432. Aside from Musk’s own personal dirty operations and orders, the largest facilitator of his crimes is the large group of men inside Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan dedicated to supporting his crimes and corruptions.
    433. Through covert conduits, Elon Musk pays blogger James Ayre to shill is schemes online.
    434. Musk’s entire media plan is self-promotional aggrandizing and fake virtue-signaling to keep the news off his case.
    435. The SEC made him quit but he just changed one letterhead graphic and nothing else. Musk still runs Tesla and the rest of the empire just like he always did.
    436. Musk covertly funds abortion projects because he gets so many girls pregnant and refuses to use a condom.
    437. Deutsche Bank is the other biggest player in the Musk Empire money laundering, political payola and corruption crimes.
    438. Musk stole most of his designs from others, as proven by the U.S. Patent office and previous publications.
    439. When Elon Musk’s Hyper-loop crashes, it will turn all of the passengers into a bloody applesauce like nightmare.
    440. Musk’s 5G SpaceX Starlink Satellites could destroy the environment, will add to the cancer-causing radiation of the Earth and are to be used to spy on consumer’s uses of the internet.
    441. In lawsuits, Musk always pleads that he “has no money”.
    442. X-Ray analysis by over 40 major laboratories prove that Elon Musk’s lithium ion batteries have severe and constantly degrading defects inherent in their construction. Musk has known about these dangers for decades but chose to work with Panasonic to cover it up.
    443. Elon Musk lost a LEMON CAR lawsuit proving that his cars are poorly designed and manufactured.
    444. Elon Musk’s union negotiating tactics are: “delay, deny, defer and claim to be conducting a fake study…”
    445. Elon Musk’s take-over of Tesla from Martin Eberhardt, the actual founder, was based on an Obama Administration scheme to exploit Lithium mines in Afghanistan and Cobalt mines in the Congo, which Obama financiers had bought the rights to. Frank Guistra and Goldman Sachs helped come up with this scheme.
    446. A famous article about SpaceX quotes a top Musk staff staffer saying Musk is a “liar”.
    447. A top SpaceX engineer has sued Spacex for lying about rocket safety and says that Musk does not care about science, he cares about publicity.
    448. Most of the “famous” people Musk hired, quit after seeing what a sham his operations are.
    449. Jared Birchell, of Burlingame, is terrified that Musk will have him killed because he knows “where the bodies are buried”, but he has to act demure and “stay-off-the-press-radar” for now to keep Musk from paying too much attention to him.
    450. Every property that Musk owned has been bugged by government, news or competitor specialists.
    451. Musk takes a number of drugs for mental issues yet he runs companies with products that can easily kill their users. Many think that he should be under closer federal supervision.
    452. The U.S. Department of Energy PR Department has been ordered by Obama officials (who, shockingly, are still there even during the Trump Administration) to always hype up Musk because, WHEN Musk fully fails, it will prove that the Department of Energy funded him because Obama ordered them to and not based on any merits. Most every Applicant for DOE funds beat Musk on every merit EXCEPT CRONYISM!
    453. Trump-hating Elon Musk wanted to nay say Trump by subjecting Tesla workers to COVID death by refusing to close plant
    454. Musk uses his own workers to play deadly politics with their lives in COVID closure he refused
    455. Musk totally lied about his capacity, ability and knowledge to make COVID ventilators in order to scam political funding
    456. Musk sent snoring devices instead of ventilators and lied about those products in order to Virtue Signal for his own hype
    457. Musk has had babies with many women in an Epstein-like master plan to seed the world with his DNA so that mini-Musk’s will live on forever. Each ex-baby momma has been paid massive sums to keep quiet about his misdeeds.
    458. Musk uses his many mansions to hide money and operate tax manipulation efforts.
    459. The “Mainstream Media” is controlled by Democrat bosses who refuse to allow any negative news to be printed about Musk because Musk conduits funds to the DNC.
    460. One of Musk’s ‘baby ovens’ known as “Grimes’ has been revealed to have been used as a “sex toy for Musk” by Grimes friends.
    461. The U.S. Department of Energy has a federal policy of promoting Musk’s hype because they are liable for criminal prosecution because Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and his staff helped organize Musk’s embezzlement of taxpayer funded monies and insider-traded on that profiteering.
    462. Failing Elon Musk tries to make Alameda County pay for his failed NUMMI factory by using COVID as an excuse!

     

    The Malignant Narcissism And Cartel Climate Of SpaceX’s Elon Musk And His Billionaire Frat Boy Club

    At almost every juncture, Elon Musk has made egotistical decisions that lead to more failures. His behavior is that of a person who has no care or concern for the health, safety and welfare of the American people. Nothing could epitomize that more perfectly than his grotesque suggestions that we should shoot nuclear bombs off on Mars or that nobody will care that his Starlink Satellites are designed to spy on the public. This would seem comical, and entirely unbelievable, if it had not actually happened.

    In 2006 the many scientists told Elon Musk and his advisers of the high likelihood that a pandemic of lithium ion battery explosions would strike the nation and advised the incoming administration to take appropriate steps to reduce its impact. Obama officials hid the dangers because they owned stock in lithium and cobalt mines for those batteries, particularly in Afghanistan.

    In November of 2007, the experts warned Obama that the country was likely to be afflicted with a devastating pandemic of lithium ion originating from Asian and Russian oligarchs.

    In January 2009, the Obama administration was told by its own experts, Bernard Tse and his team who knew Tesla bosses, Sandia and others that the lithium ion batteries in Tesla cars had degrading chemistry which become a global pandemic of auto danger. Again, Obama chose inaction.

    Obama and Musk have deprived Democratic-led regions of the country from receiving needed safety reviews of Tesla cars.

    Over the year’s since 2006, Americans working with the DOE, NHTSA, SEC and other groups accelerated warnings to Obama officials. These engineers and other science professionals were intentionally ignored in order to protect politicians stock market profits.

    In these, and any other examples, Musk and his inner circle of White House and Senate insiders ignored or purged experts and other truth-tellers, and lied about, misrepresented, deflected or denied the dire threat to the American people posed by the lithium ion battery scam.

    Considered in total, Musk and his regime have shown themselves to be incompetent, callous, malevolent and deeply cruel in their response to the Tesla safety issue crisis (as well as to a plethora of other issues).

    But to merely document the Musk regime’s deadly failures in response to the dangers of his companies is to ignore the most important question: What are Musk’s and his advisers’ underlying motivations?

    This forensic question must be answered if we are ever to have a full accounting of the Musk Corruption, and see justice done for the voters, the dead tesla victims and those who will die in the future as well as the damage done to the broader American community.

    The coordinated ‘main-stream’ media’s preferred storyline that suggests Musk is simply incompetent doesn’t add up because Muskhas made the wrong decision every single time in terms of how crises like this are supposed to be dealt with. (i.e. Be consistent, transparent, factual, and credible.) It’s increasingly not believable for the left-wing press to suggest that Musk has been distracted or inept during this crisis, in part because of the level of his uselessness has become so staggering.

    Maybe Musk is vengeful. Maybe he wants to wreck the economy to create investment opportunities? He’s under the thumb of a foreign entity? He wants to cause panic and cancel the November elections? He’s a fatalist? Who knows. And honestly, the specific “why” isn’t what matters now. What matters is asking the difficult questions and pondering what the Musk oligarchy  is truly about, no matter what lurks in the shadows…

    Now the press needs to shift some of its focus and ask the truly alarming questions about Musk and his motives. Because we still don’t know why he essentially ordered his companies to embark on such sinister ventures involving slicing up brains; over-priced deadly cars for rich douche-bags; digging holes for billionaire hide-outs, launching domestic spy satellites and manipulating elections along with his boyfriend: Larry Page, etc…

    Psychologist and psychotherapists have an answer: Elon Musk is a “malignant narcissist”. Musk’s mental pathologies inexorably compel him to hurt and defraud large numbers of people — including his own supporters.

    Exports have looked at Musk’s borderline personality disorders. They explais that sadism and violence are central to Musk’s malignant narcissism and his decision-making about his self-promotion. They warn that Musk is abuser locked into a deeply dysfunctional relationship with the American people and that, like other sadists, Musk enjoys causing harm and suffering to any that do not recognize his “tech Jesus” self-proclaimed superiority.

    Ultimately, all psychologists generally concludes that Musk is engaging in “democidal behavior” in partnership with Obama and Pelosi and cautions that the many dead and injured (so far) from the Tesla fires and crashes are not simply collateral damage from the Musk madness, but rather the logical outcome of Musk’s apparent mental pathologies and the poor decisions that flow from them.

    Musk is both denying responsibility by saying things such as, “I take no responsibility. We’ve done everything right.” But at the same time, Musk is also sabotaging the efforts to stop the corruption in his empire. This is a very important aspect of Musk’s behavior. Musk is not just deflecting blame onto others, he is actively interfering with the politicianss’ ability to do their job by controlled Senators with bribes. Musk is not just incompetent. He is actively engaging in sabotage against competitors and reporters who speak the truth about him.You might wonder: How does someone with his type of mind reconcile claims like “I have total power” with “I take no responsibility”? He has said both things within a few days of each other. Well; That is a function of how the psychology of a malignant narcissist is structured. When Musk says things such as, “I have total power,” that’s the grandiosity. “I’m in total control” is a function of Musk’s paranoia, where everything bad is projected outward. Therefore, anything negative or bad is someone else’s fault. Bad things are ‘other people’ in Musk ’s mind. The grandiosity and “greatness” are all him. Musk’s mind runs on a formula which bends and twists facts, ideas and memories to suit his malignant narcissism. This is why Musk contradicts himself so easily. He lies and makes things up. His fantasies all serve his malignant narcissism and the world he has created in his own mind about his greatness.

    Another component of Musk’s malignant narcissism is sadism. That part of Musk’s mind is more hidden. People such as Musk are malignant-narcissist sadists because they, at some deep level, are driven to cause harm to other people. Musk’s life is proof of this. His pedo father and trophy wife narcissist mother demonstrate his roots. He enjoys ripping people off and humiliating people. He does this manically and gleefully. He has lied thousands of times. He threatens people online and elsewhere. Most psychologists believe that Elon Musk is also a sexual sadist, who on some basic level enjoys and is aroused by watching people be afraid of him. In his mind, Musk is creating chaos and instability so that he can feel powerful.

    Professor of psychiatry and psychoanalyst Otto Kernberg called that phenomenon “omnipotent destructiveness.” The bullying, the violence, the destruction, frightening people, humiliating people, getting revenge and the like — such behavior is what Elon Musk has done his whole life. It is who Elon Musk really is. Unfortunately, too many people are still in denial of that fact.

    Musk has to create and control a field of negative corrupting energy around himself. For example, he pressures the scientific experts to bend the truth to his dreamworld during his press conferences. The scientists are basically Musk’s hostages. The American people are hostages as well to Elon Musk’s lies. We are being abused by him. We know that Musk is lying. We know that he’s doing nothing to help us. We feel helpless to do anything to stop him. It is causing collective mental despair. It is not that all Americans are suckers or dupes, it is that Musk is a master at such cruel and manipulative behavior.

    Elon Musk is a master at getting negative attention, and the more people he can shock and upset, the better.

    Malignant narcissists like Elon Musk view other human beings as kindling wood to be burned for their own personal enrichment, media enlargement and hype expansion.

    Follow the facts to the obvious and true conclusion. If all the facts show that Elon Musk (and his little boy buddies Larry Page, Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, Reid Hoffman, Steve Westly, etc.) is a malignant narcissist with these powerful sadistic tendencies, this omnipotent destructiveness, where he’s getting pleasure and a sense of power from dominating people and degrading people and destroying people and plundering people and laying waste to people, both psychologically and physically, then to deny such obvious facts is willful ignorance. When Musk is finally exposed, like Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos or ENRON, it will be glorious.
    Rather than making a prediction as to Musk’s specific actions when the emperor has no clothes, it is more helpful to describe the type of actions he will take. Rather than trying to say, “This is the move he’ll make.” Like in a relationship, Elon Musk is the abuser. He is the husband or father who is abusing his partner or children or other relatives. The American people are like a woman who is leaving her abuser. She tells her abuser, “That’s it! I am done with you!” She has her keys in hand and is opening the door of the house or apartment to finally leave. What happens? The democidal maniac Elon Musk will attack us, badly. Make no mistake. Elon Musk is going to find a way to attack and cause great harm to the American people if he believes that he will be fully exposed. He will use his spy satellites, his media controls, his remote controlled cars, his stock market manipulation tools, his Goldman Sachs economic destruction team and more. Musk will strike back… unless the FBI finally arrests him first.

    The Bottom Line: These people are crooks, using your tax money to conduct crimes and protect themselves from arrest at your expense!

     

     

    In 2018, Brazilian police in the state of Amapá used real-time satellite imagery to detect a spot where trees had been ripped out of the ground. When they showed up, they discovered that the site was being used to illegally produce charcoal, and arrested eight people in connection with the scheme.

    Chinese government officials have denied or downplayed the existence of Uighur reeducation camps in Xinjiang province, portraying them as “vocational schools.” But human rights activists have used satellite imagery to show that many of the “schools” are surrounded by watchtowers and razor wire.

    Every year, commercially available satellite images are becoming sharper and taken more frequently. In 2008, there were 150 Earth observation satellites in orbit; by now there are 768. Satellite companies don’t offer 24-hour real-time surveillance, but if the hype is to be believed, they’re getting close. Privacy advocates warn that innovation in satellite imagery is outpacing the US government’s (to say nothing of the rest of the world’s) ability to regulate the technology. Unless we impose stricter limits now, they say, one day everyone from ad companies to suspicious spouses to terrorist organizations will have access to tools previously reserved for government spy agencies. Which would mean that at any given moment, anyone could be watching anyone else.

    The images keep getting clearer

    Commercial satellite imagery is currently in a sweet spot: powerful enough to see a car, but not enough to tell the make and model; collected frequently enough for a farmer to keep tabs on crops’ health, but not so often that people could track the comings and goings of a neighbor. This anonymity is deliberate. US federal regulations limit images taken by commercial satellites to a resolution of 25 centimeters, or about the length of a man’s shoe. (Military spy satellites can capture images far more granular, although just how much more is classified.)

    Ever since 2014, when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) relaxed the limit from 50 to 25 cm, that resolution has been fine enough to satisfy most customers. Investors can predict oil supply from the shadows cast inside oil storage tanks. Farmers can monitor flooding to protect their crops. Human rights organizations have tracked the flows of refugees from Myanmar and Syria.

    But satellite imagery is improving in a way that investors and businesses will inevitably want to exploit. The imaging company Planet Labs currently maintains 140 satellites, enough to pass over every place on Earth once a day. Maxar, formerly DigitalGlobe, which launched the first commercial Earth observation satellite in 1997, is building a constellation that will be able to revisit spots 15 times a day. BlackSky Global promises to revisit most major cities up to 70 times a day. That might not be enough to track an individual’s every move, but it would show what times of day someone’s car is typically in the driveway, for instance.

    Some companies are even offering live video from space. As early as 2014, a Silicon Valley startup called SkyBox (later renamed Terra Bella and purchased by Google and then Planet) began touting HD video clips up to 90 seconds long. And a company called EarthNow says it will offer “continuous real-time” monitoring “with a delay as short as about one second,” though some think it is overstating its abilities. Everyone is trying to get closer to a “living map,” says Charlie Loyd of Mapbox, which creates custom maps for companies like Snapchat and the Weather Channel. But it won’t arrive tomorrow, or the next day: “We’re an extremely long way from high-res, full-time video of the Earth.”

    Some of the most radical developments in Earth observation involve not traditional photography but rather radar sensing and hyperspectral images, which capture electromagnetic wavelengths outside the visible spectrum. Clouds can hide the ground in visible light, but satellites can penetrate them using synthetic aperture radar, which emits a signal that bounces off the sensed object and back to the satellite. It can determine the height of an object down to a millimeter. NASA has used synthetic aperture radar since the 1970s, but the fact that the US approved it for commercial use only last year is testament to its power—and political sensitivity. (In 1978, military officials supposedly blocked the release of radar satellite images that revealed the location of American nuclear submarines.)

    Meanwhile, farmers can use hyperspectral sensing to tell where a crop is in its growth cycle, and geologists can use it to detect the texture of rock that might be favorable to excavation. But it could also be used, whether by military agencies or terrorists, to identify underground bunkers or nuclear materials. 

    The resolution of commercially available imagery, too, is likely to improve further. NOAA’s 25-centimeter cap will come under pressure as competition from international satellite companies increases. And even if it doesn’t, there’s nothing to stop, say, a Chinese company from capturing and selling 10 cm images to American customers. “Other companies internationally are going to start providing higher-­resolution imagery than we legally allow,” says Therese Jones, senior director of policy for the Satellite Industry Association. “Our companies would want to push the limit down as far as they possibly could.”

    What will make the imagery even more powerful is the ability to process it in large quantities. Analytics companies like Orbital Insight and SpaceKnow feed visual data into algorithms designed to let anyone with an internet connection understand the pictures en masse. Investors use this analysis to, for example, estimate the true GDP of China’s Guangdong province on the basis of the light it emits at night. But burglars could also scan a city to determine which families are out of town most often and for how long.

    Satellite and analytics companies say they’re careful to anonymize their data, scrubbing it of identifying characteristics. But even if satellites aren’t recognizing faces, those images combined with other data streams—GPS, security cameras, social-media posts—could pose a threat to privacy. “People’s movements, what kinds of shops do you go to, where do your kids go to school, what kind of religious institutions do you visit, what are your social patterns,” says Peter Martinez, of the Secure World Foundation. “All of these kinds of questions could in principle be interrogated, should someone be interested.”

    Like all tools, satellite imagery is subject to misuse. Its apparent objectivity can lead to false conclusions, as when the George W. Bush administration used it to make the case that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling chemical weapons in Iraq. Attempts to protect privacy can also backfire: in 2018, a Russian mapping firm blurred out the sites of sensitive military operations in Turkey and Israel—inadvertently revealing their existence, and prompting web users to locate the sites on other open-source maps.

    Capturing satellite imagery with good intentions can have unintended consequences too. In 2012, as conflict raged on the border between Sudan and South Sudan, the Harvard-based Satellite Sentinel Project released an image that showed a construction crew building a tank-capable road leading toward an area occupied by the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. The idea was to warn citizens about the approaching tanks so they could evacuate. But the SPLA saw the images too, and within 36 hours it attacked the road crew (which turned out to consist of Chinese civilians hired by the Sudanese government), killed some of them, and kidnapped the rest. As an activist, one’s instinct is often to release more information, says Nathaniel Raymond, a human rights expert who led the Sentinel project. But he’s learned that you have to take into account who else might be watching.

    It’s expensive to watch you all the time

    One thing that might save us from celestial scrutiny is the price. Some satellite entrepreneurs argue that there isn’t enough demand to pay for a constellation of satellites capable of round-the-clock monitoring at resolutions below 25 cm. “It becomes a question of economics,” says Walter Scott, founder of DigitalGlobe, now Maxar. While some companies are launching relatively cheap “nanosatellites” the size of toasters—the 120 Dove satellites launched by Planet, for example, are “orders of magnitude” cheaper than traditional satellites, according to a spokesperson—there’s a limit to how small they can get and still capture hyper-detailed images. “It is a fundamental fact of physics that aperture size determines the limit on the resolution you can get,” says Scott. “At a given altitude, you need a certain size telescope.” That is, in Maxar’s case, an aperture of about a meter across, mounted on a satellite the size of a small school bus. (While there are ways around this limit—interferometry, for example, uses multiple mirrors to simulate a much larger mirror—they’re complex and pricey.) Bigger satellites mean costlier launches, so companies would need a financial incentive to collect such granular data.

    That said, there’s already demand for imagery with sub–25 cm resolution—and a supply of it. For example, some insurance underwriters need that level of detail to spot trees overhanging a roof, or to distinguish a skylight from a solar panel, and they can get it from airplanes and drones. But if the cost of satellite images came down far enough, insurance companies would presumably switch over.

    Of course, drones can already collect better images than satellites ever will. But drones are limited in where they can go. In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration forbids flying commercial drones over groups of people, and you have to register a drone that weighs more than half a pound (227 grams) or so. There are no such restrictions in space. The Outer Space Treaty, signed in 1967 by the US, the Soviet Union, and dozens of UN member states, gives all states free access to space, and subsequent agreements on remote sensing have enshrined the principle of “open skies.” During the Cold War this made sense, as it allowed superpowers to monitor other countries to verify that they were sticking to arms agreements. But the treaty didn’t anticipate that it would one day be possible for anyone to get detailed images of almost any location.

    And then there are the tracking devices we carry around in our pockets, a.k.a. smartphones. But while the GPS data from cell  phones is a legitimate privacy threat, you can at least decide to leave your phone at home. It’s harder to hide from a satellite camera. “There’s some element of ground truth—no pun intended—that satellites have that maybe your cell phone or digital record or what happens on Twitter [doesn’t],” says Abraham Thomas, chief data officer at the analytics company Quandl. “The data itself tends to be innately more accurate.”

    The future of human freedom

    American privacy laws are vague when it comes to satellites. Courts have generally allowed aerial surveillance, though in 2015 the New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that an “aerial search” by police without a warrant was unconstitutional. Cases often come down to whether an act of surveillance violates someone’s “reasonable expectation of privacy.” A picture taken on a public sidewalk: fair game. A photo shot by a drone through someone’s bedroom window: probably not. A satellite orbiting hundreds of miles up, capturing video of a car pulling into the driveway? Unclear.

    That doesn’t mean the US government is powerless. It has no jurisdiction over Chinese or Russian satellites, but it can regulate how American customers use foreign imagery. If US companies are profiting from it in a way that violates the privacy of US citizens, the government could step in.

    Raymond argues that protecting ourselves will mean rethinking privacy itself. Current privacy laws, he says, focus on threats to the rights of individuals. But those protections “are anachronistic in the face of AI, geospatial technologies, and mobile technologies, which not only use group data, they run on group data as gas in the tank,” Raymond says. Regulating these technologies will mean conceiving of privacy as applying not just to individuals, but to groups as well. “You can be entirely ethical about personally identifiable information and still kill people,” he says.

    Until we can all agree on data privacy norms, Raymond says, it will be hard to create lasting rules around satellite imagery. “We’re all trying to figure this out,” he says. “It’s not like anything’s riding on it except the future of human freedom.”

    “Perfect timing!” Mike Coletta said when he answered the phone. I called him recently to ask about some satellites currently orbiting Earth. Just then, one of them was passing over his home in Colorado.Coletta has been tracking satellites with radio antennas[1] mounted on his house for years. This spring, he’s on a special mission: He wants to catch the transmissions of “SpaceBees,” four satellites that were launched into space without permission.Last December, the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. government agency that oversees satellite launches, explicitly told the California-based maker of these satellites that they couldn’t launch them. They did it anyway the following month, marking the first-known unauthorized launch of a commercial satellite in American history.This sets a dangerous precedent. The satellites’ makers appeared to have good intentions: to bring internet connectivity to people who might benefit from it. Other satellite operators may not—and we may find out too late.
    Coletta dug up the SpaceBees’ planned radio frequency in FCC documents. The satellites aren’t supposed to be transmitting. For weeks, he heard nothing. Then last week, he detected[2] a signal as the satellites passed over him. A few days ago, he detected[3] it again. It was sudden and short-lived, “kind of like a click of a microphone,” he said.The frequency of the signals matches the frequency the SpaceBees were designed to use. But there’s no way to know whether the satellites are the source. For Coletta, that’s part of the fun. He likes the mysteries best. And what a mystery this one is.


    The SpaceBee is a prototype satellite from Swarm Technologies, a start-up founded in 2016 and based in Los Altos, California. There is little publicly available information about Swarm. According to Mark Harris, the reporter at IEEE Spectrum who first broke the story[4] about the satellites’ unauthorized launch, the company is in stealth mode, the term for the period of relative secrecy of a budding start-up and a popular Silicon Valley strategy. Most of what is known about Swarm comes from a handful of websites and public records, including correspondence between the company and the FCC.

    In 2016, Swarm applied[5] for a grant from the National Science Foundation. The company’s pitch was to develop a satellite-based communications network for internet-connected devices, particularly in places without access to wireless networks. “Scientific, shipping, tracking, automotive, agriculture, energy, medical, educational, and other commercial entities will have the ability to return their data from anywhere on the planet to support tracking, safe operations, and optimal and timely decision making,” the company explained. In December 2016, the NSF awarded Swarm more than $220,000 as part of a funding program for small businesses.

    In April 2017, Swarm submitted an application[6] to the FCC about a fleet of four tiny satellites called BEEs, for Basic Electronic Elements, and two internet-connected ground stations that would be used to transmit data back and forth. An illustration showed the satellites stacked on top of each other like coasters, each measuring 10 centimeters in length and width, and 2.8 centimeters in height. The satellites, Swarm said, would relay encrypted communications with the help of the ground stations. The company said it planned to buy a ride for the satellites on the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, India’s rocket launch system.The FCC came back with bad news. In a letter in December 2017, the agency denied[7] Swarm’s request to launch and operate the satellites, citing safety concerns. According to the FCC, the SpaceBees were too small to be tracked by the U.S. Space Surveillance Network, a military-operated system that catalogs all artificial objects orbiting Earth. If the government can’t track satellites, it can’t protect them from colliding into other satellites. “We cannot conclude that a grant of this application is in the public interest,” wrote Anthony Serafini, the FCC’s experimental licensing branch chief.Swarm submitted an updated application[8] on January 7, 2018. Five days later, India launched a rocket carrying dozens of small satellites from various countries. The launch inventory[9] says four SpaceBees, made in the United States, were on board. Swarm, it appeared, had launched anyway.
    On March 7, Serafini sent an email[10] to Swarm’s CEO, Sara Spangelo, saying the agency had begun an investigation of the company’s “apparent unauthorized launch.” Swarm’s applications for other operations[11] were also put on hold, including a launch in April.A spokesperson for the U.S. Strategic Command’s Joint Functional Component Command for Space, which maintains the Space Surveillance Network, says the unit was able to spot the SpaceBees in orbit shortly after they launched. The satellites are too small to track, but not too small to be seen. And there’s no hiding from the military, says Scott Chapman, a satellite tracker who, like Coletta, has been following the SpaceBees with antennas on the roof of his home in Virginia. Aside from classified satellites, all objects launched into space get tracked and logged into databases that can be accessed online.“Ground-based radar and the military—they know exactly what every nut, bolt, and screw floating around in orbit is. On your computer screen, you could probably follow the orbit of a screwdriver that some astronaut accidentally let go of when he was repairing something,” Chapman says. “Whether someone is authorized or not to put something in orbit, once it’s up there, it’s tracked.”


    So, what should be done about these SpaceBees?

    The FCC completed a “fact-finding inquiry” at the start of May, according to Neil Grace, an agency spokesman. The case is now with the agency’s enforcement bureau. Grace could not say whether a referral to the bureau means a penalty will be implemented. Because the unauthorized launch is a first, it’s not clear what the punishment would be. Spangelo, a former systems engineer at Google and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, did not respond to calls or emails. Neither did others employed by or associated with Swarm, according to the company’s website and public documents.

    Space may be the final frontier, but it’s by no means a lawless one. Space is a largely peaceful area because nations have agreed, whether in treaties or through unspoken norms, to play by a shared set of rules. Transparency is paramount, even in some cases of military or national-security missions. For a private company to launch satellites into low-Earth orbit without approval from its government flouts the framework that makes an extremely dangerous environment a fairly safe place to be.In the last few years, the rate of launches of miniature satellites has increased exponentially[12]. The industry is “moving away from these really large satellites that are expensive to build, expensive to launch, and into satellites that are highly specialized and often intended to last,” says Lisa Ruth Rand, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison who studies the environmental history of near-Earth space. “The smaller the satellite, the cheaper it is to launch, the better rate a company will get.”But even small satellites can be a hazard. After 60 years of space exploration, low-Earth orbit has become a crowded place. It’s home to about 1,200 functioning satellites, 4,300 defunct ones, and 23,000 pieces of debris, according to the latest numbers[13] from the European Space Agency. Collisions can occur, producing even more bits of floating junk. In 2009, two satellites from different countries knocked into each other[14] and were destroyed. The collision sent hundreds of pieces of fast-moving hardware around the globe. “Even small objects, even things as small as these SpaceBees, traveling that quickly can really be destructive,” Rand says. If they hit something, “both India and the United States would be on the hook if one of these SpaceBees collides with a Russian satellite,” in accordance with international rules.
    As of April, there are 589 nanosatellites in orbit—satellites with masses between one kilogram and 10 kilograms (2.2 pounds to 22 pounds), according to a comprehensive database[15] run by Erik Kulu, a spacecraft systems engineer in Glasgow. And many more are coming. Commercial companies like SpaceX want to launch fleets of hundreds, even thousands, of nanosatellites that would create constellations capable of supporting vast networks[16] and bringing internet access to underserved places—just like Swarm wanted to do.If Swarm had waited a little longer to launch, its size may not have been an issue, Rand says. Lockheed Martin is currently building a radar system that would allow the Space Surveillance Network to track smaller objects than is possible now. The program is expected[17] to be finished by the end of this year. “With a little patience, perhaps Swarm would have been able to safely move forward with their original small design in a responsible, approved, safe manner,” Rand says.

    There’s no way to remove rogue satellites from orbit. Start-ups aiming to develop space-debris-clearing technology are only a few years old and still raising money[22]. According to information Swarm provided to the FCC, the SpaceBees have enough battery power to remain operational for up to 10 years. They will likely fall back down to Earth before that; the satellites are not equipped with propulsion systems, which means they don’t have engines to escape the pull of Earth’s gravity and maintain a stable orbit. Swarm’s application said the satellites will reenter the planet’s atmosphere and disintegrate in a little under eight years.

    Coletta and Chapman have no plans to stop tracking the rogue satellites. They’re both a ways away from Georgia and California, where the ground stations that can talk to the SpaceBees are located. But they know where the SpaceBees are and when they’ll be passing over their heads. They can point their antennas in their direction and listen.

    When I asked Grace, the FCC spokesman, about the brief signals Coletta has detected, he said he’d look into it. Swarm employees would know whether the pings came from the satellites, but they’re not talking.

    These mysterious signals aside, the SpaceBees have been orbiting in silence since they launched. If the FCC decides to clear Swarm, they may turn on and start buzzing. If the agency penalizes Swarm, with fines or bans on future work, the satellites will be sentenced to a lifetime of quietly circling Earth. They will float along with the rest of the space junk until gravity beckons and drags them back down, to the place they were never supposed to leave.

China Threatens To Destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink

SpaceX is An Unsafe Rich Boy Toy – Next space explorers must go boldly — and safely

 

Space exploration in the 21st century offers the possibility to reach new frontiers, from developing a lunar gateway for deep space travel, returning American astronauts to the surface of the Moon and eventually putting humans on Mars.

With NASA preparing to return crewed astronaut launches to the U.S. for the first time since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011, and return astronauts to deep space for the first time since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, we are on the cusp of an exciting new era in human spaceflight and exploration.

As we prepare to launch new crewed spacecraft over the next several years, we need to honor the lessons learned from the tragedies of Apollo I, Challenger and Columbia. To successfully reach these next milestones in exploration, it is critical that core safety priorities continue to protect American astronauts and avoid unnecessary risks beyond those inherent to all launches and spaceflight.

I spent much of my career developing and supporting the Apollo program that landed NASA astronauts on the Moon. The experiences our engineers learned on the first Apollo launches shaped the steps in place today to ensure the safety of the entire team and success of the program.

Apollo 1 would have been the first manned flight, with astronauts Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee onboard. That 1967 mission was supposed to be simple — fly the vehicle, fire the Module Engine and return to Earth.

 

During the second attempt to run the “plugs out test” with 100 percent oxygen in the command module, we held the crew in their position for several hours, trying to improve static filled communications. I was monitoring the test sitting beside the command module when a crew member reported a fire in the vehicle. I took two steps toward the white room when I heard the crew members’ alarm before the space craft erupted. The fire was quickly contained, but not before losing three incredible astronauts.

I was the first launch crew member to enter the spacecraft after removing the crew to try and determine if there was an obvious cause for the fire. After months of investigations by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), one specific cause could not be identified.

Thankfully, we learned from the disaster that day in January. Over the years and subsequent missions, our procedures changed, methods got better and we improved the process to put man in space. NASA human spaceflight programs carefully incorporated these lessons throughout their safety requirements and the talented men and women throughout the agency work hard to make spaceflight as safe as possible for astronauts.

It’s concerning to learn that some of the newer private space ventures launching today don’t appreciate the same safety standards we learned to emphasize on Apollo. Elon Musk’s SpaceX, for example, announced he intends to save time and money by fueling their Falcon 9 rockets after the astronauts board.

This “load and go” process allows SpaceX to inject more fuel without the cost or expertise necessary to build a larger rocket, but it may come at a heavy price. Mr. Musk already lost one unmanned rocket to this risky technique.

I suppose for Mr. Musk, inexperience is replacing the abundant safety protocols drilled into us after witnessing the Apollo 1 disaster. Astronaut safety is NASA’s number one priority on any space mission. There is no reason it should not be for private space travel, but commercial space companies like SpaceX play by different rules.

Most Americans would be surprised to learn that special interests in Washington representing commercial space companies have forbidden the Department of Transportation, which licenses commercial launch and reentry, from developing any human spaceflight safety standards for passengers.

This shortsighted legislative restriction means that billionaires profit and can’t be held accountable for injury or death of their passengers — even though we have decades of lessons learned from NASA to prevent potential incidents.

We owe it to future astronauts to remain diligent with our innovations and not blindly rush while possibly revisiting the mistakes we made decades ago.

Congress and the administration should overturn these shortsighted restrictions on commercial spaceflight safety standards, and NASA must ensure that before they put an astronaut on a commercial spacecraft that it lives up to the strict standards we have learned over the last 60 years of spaceflight.

Richard Hagar worked on every Apollo mission for NASA at the Kennedy Space Center as a spacecraft operator on the launch team, including for the Apollo 11 mission that went to the Moon. He lives in Tennessee.

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Hedge Funds and private Equity funds that covertly fund T-Mobile and T-Mobile partners are buying up Congress people right and left. The line from T-Mobile to public policy decisions is hard to see, like a spider web, but modern AI technology can track it all down nonetheless.

The donations, which make Sinema one of the industry’s top beneficiaries in Congress, serve a reminder of the way that high-power lobbying campaigns can have dramatic implications for the way legislation is crafted, particularly in the evenly divided Senate where there are no Democratic votes to spare. They also highlight a degree of political risk for Sinema, whose unapologetic defense of the industry’s favorable tax treatment is viewed by many in her party as indefensible.

“From their vantage point, it’s a million dollars very well spent,” said Dean Baker, a senior economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal-leaning think tank. “It’s pretty rare you see this direct of a return on your investment. So I guess I would congratulate them.”

Sinema’s office declined to make her available for an interview. Hannah Hurley, a Sinema spokesperson, acknowledged the senator shares some of the industry’s views on taxation, but rebuffed any suggestion that the donations influenced her thinking.

“Senator Sinema makes every decision based on one criteria: what’s best for Arizona,” Hurley said in a statement. “She has been clear and consistent for over a year that she will only support tax reforms and revenue options that support Arizona’s economic growth and competitiveness.”

The American Investment Council, a trade group that lobbies on behalf of private equity, also defended their push to defeat the tax provisions.

“Our team worked to ensure that members of Congress from both sides of the aisle understand how private equity directly employs workers and supports small businesses throughout their communities,” Drew Maloney, the organization’s CEO and president, said in a statement.

Sinema’s defense of the tax provisions offer a jarring contrast to her background as a Green Party activist and self-styled “Prada socialist” who once likened accepting campaign cash to “bribery” and later called for “big corporations & the rich to pay their fair share” shortly before launching her first campaign for Congress in 2012.

She’s been far more magnanimous since, praising private equity in 2016 from the House floor for providing “billions of dollars each year to Main Street businesses” and later interning at a private equity mogul’s boutique winery in northern California during the 2020 congressional recess.

The soaring contributions from the industry to Sinema trace back to last summer. That’s when she first made clear that she wouldn’t support a carried interest tax increase, as well as other corporate and business tax hikes, included in an earlier iteration of Biden’s agenda.

During a two-week period in September alone, Sinema collected $47,100 in contributions from 16 high-ranking officials from the private equity firm Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, records show. Employees and executives of KKR, another private equity behemoth, contributed $44,100 to Sinema during a two-month span in late 2021.

In some cases, the families of private equity managers joined in. David Belluck, a partner at the firm Riverside Partners, gave a $5,800 max-out contribution to Sinema one day in late June. So did three of his college-age kids, with the family collectively donating $23,200, records show.

“I generally support centrist Democrats and her seat is important to keep a Democratic Senate majority,” Belluck said, adding that his family has known Sinema since her election to Congress. “She and I have never discussed private equity taxation.”

The donations from the industry coincide with a $26 million lobbying effort spearheaded by the investment firm Blackstone that culminated on the Senate floor last weekend.

By the time the bill was up for debate during a marathon series of votes, Sinema had already forced Democrats to abandon their carried interest tax increase.

“Senator Sinema said she would not vote for the bill .. unless we took it out,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters last week. “We had no choice.”

But after private equity lobbyists discovered a provision in the bill that would have subjected many of them to a separate 15% corporate minimum tax, they urgently pressed Sinema and other centrist Democrats for changes, according to emails as well as four people with direct knowledge of the matter who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.

“Given the breaking nature of this development we need as many offices as possible weighing in with concerns to Leader Schumer’s office,” Blackstone lobbyist Ryan McConaghy wrote in a Saturday afternoon email obtained by the AP, which included proposed language for modifying the bill. “Would you and your boss be willing to raise the alarm on this and express concerns with Schumer and team?”

McConaghy did not respond to a request for comment.

Sinema worked with Republicans on an amendment that stripped the corporate tax increase provisions from the bill, which a handful of vulnerable Democrats also voted for.

“Since she has been in Congress, Kyrsten has consistently supported pro-growth policies that encourage job creation across Arizona. Her tax policy positions and focus on growing Arizona’s economy and competitiveness are longstanding and well known,” Hurley, the Sinema spokesperson, said.

But many in her party disagree. They say the favorable treatment does little to boost the overall economy and argue there’s little compelling evidence to suggest the tax benefits are enjoyed beyond some of the wealthiest investors.

Some of Sinema’s donors make their case.

Blackstone, a significant source of campaign contributions, owns large tracts of real estate in Sinema’s home state, Arizona. The firm was condemned by United Nations experts in 2019 who said Blackstone’s financial model was responsible for a “financialization of housing” that has driven up rents and home costs, “pushing low-income, and increasingly middle-income people from their homes.”

Blackstone employees executives and their family members have given Sinema $44,000 since 2018, records show.

In a statement, Blackstone called the allegations by the U.N. experts “false and misleading” and said all employee contributions are “strictly personal.” The firm added that it was “incredibly proud of its investments in housing.”

Another major financial services donor is Centerbridge Partners, a New York-based firm that buys up the debt of distressed governments and companies and often uses hardball tactics to extract value. Since 2017, Sinema has collected at least $29,000 from donors associated with the firm, including co-founder Mark Gallogly and his wife, Elizabeth Strickler, records show.

In 2012, Centerbridge Partners purchased Arizona-based restaurant chain P.F. Chang’s for roughly $1 billion. After loading the struggling company up with $675 million of debt, they sold it to another private equity group in 2019, according to Bloomberg News. The company received a $10 million coronavirus aid loan to cover payroll, but shed jobs and closed locations as it struggled with the pandemic.

Centerbridge Partners was also part of a consortium of hedge funds that helped usher in an era of austerity in Puerto Rico after buying up billions of dollars of the island government’s $72 billion debt — and filing legal proceedings to collect. A subsidiary of Centerbridge Partners was among a group of creditors who repeatedly sued one of the U.S. territory’s pension funds. In one 2016 lawsuit, the group of creditors asked a judge to divert money from a Puerto Rican pension fund in order to collect.

A Centerbridge representative could not immediately provide comment Friday.

Liberal activists in Arizona say they plan to make Sinema’s reliance on donations from wealthy investors a campaign issue when she is up for reelection in 2024.

“There are many takes on how to win, but there is no universe in which it is politically smart to fight for favorable tax treatment of the wealthiest people in the country,” said Emily Kirkland, a political consultant who works for progressive candidates. “It’s absolutely going to be a potent issue.”

We call that felony bribery and a total violation of the American STOCK ACT!

Please be aware of a Service called: Project Veritas and the following device, which were/are in use INSIDE of POLSINELLI and those users are offering to sell those videos to the media. Not our monkey’s..not our circus …but 100% legal for 60 Minutes or New York Times to buy those videos.. and 100% legal for T-Mobile Plaintiffs to use those videos in their cases if they acquire them from the New York Times..

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One Mr. Rubin, from Google, who helped put together the T-Mobile Android arrangement has an interesting situation. Wait till everyone sees how many other T-Mobile lawyers and executives are in the same boat:

Android Creator Andy Rubin Is Accused of Running a ‘Sex Ring’

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  A newly unsealed complaint shows how Google paid Android creator Andy Rubin $90 million in severance after he left the company amid …

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  The Rubin scandal has also drawn attention to the company’s long-standing opposition to new US sex trafficking laws – which it believes could …

Google Board Sued for Andy Rubin Sexual Harassment Coverup

 “While at Google, Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking—paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to women to be, in …

Android Founder Andy Rubin Accused of Running ‘Sex Ring’

  Andy Rubin, the Android founder and former Google executive has been accused of running a “sex ring” by his ex-wife, according to court …

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  Andy Rubin is one of 262 celebrities and powerful people accused of sexual misconduct since 2017. See the full list:

How Google Protected Andy Rubin, the ‘Father of Android’

  What Google did not make public was that an employee had accused Mr. Rubin of sexual misconduct. The woman, with whom Mr. Rubin had been …

Android creator Andy Rubin allegedly concealed Google payments …

  Andy Rubin, a former Google executive and the inventor of the Android … Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking …

Ex-Google Star Rubin Spars to Keep Divorce Fallout Secret

 Andy Rubin, the Android creator at the center of a sex harassment scandal … Rubin is also alleged to have engaged in human sex trafficking …

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We guarantee that these deeds done in the dark will come to light and that these perpetrators will be fully exposed, shamed and prosecuted.

In the TV series: “Surviving R. Kelly” you can clearly see how a certain low I.Q. percentage of the population will defend an R. Kelly, an Elon Musk and a Harvey Weinstein even though they obviously and overtly engage in heinous crimes.

The Jeffrey Epstein’s, the John Doerr’s, the Andy Rubin’s, the Steve Jurvetson’s, the Eric Schmidt’s, the Larry Page’s, etc. think they are untouchable because they buy politicians and pay bribes.

That will always be their downfall!