are certainly repeated the assessment of the number three policy official in the department of defence in the united states, which was a come again, quite an astonishing admission that within 6-18 astonishing admission that within 6 18 months, what have you, elements of the islamic state could actually pose a threat that would be outside afghanistan. indeed, the islamic state has actually gained additional strength because of the release from detention of all the individuals in the jails around afghanistan as the taliban made their way to kabul in their offensive resulting in the ultimate collapse of the government and they have been conducting attacks, as you know, on a much more than a weekly basis, often targeting shia and almost trying to stoke a civil war between shia and sunni. it
americans and black-led movements in a very negative way. the second facebook whistleblower told the washington post last week that a top policy official once defended a white list exempting breitbart from rules prohibiting false news reports saying, quote, do you want to start a fight with steve bannon? the official denied the existence of the list. all of this is confirming what we already knew. facebook can be great, but it has also become a cesspool of conspiracy theories, anti-vax information, qanon. mark zuckerberg slammed the documents as trying to paint a false picture of the company. zuckerberg routinely chose growth over safety, personally agreeing to comply with vietnam s demand to censor dissident posts to remain active in its market. this week he said the platform plans to retool and focus on a younger audience going forward.
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place, you know, obviously notes are taken and then what are called read outs are then sent to other agencies and departments. and it wasn t milley alone who was reaching out to the chinese. it was also the secretary of defense mark esper at the time. as i mentioned, there was this perception here in the pentagon that the chinese were unusually concerned about what they were seeing in terms of the rhetoric leading up to the election in november. and so esper ordered his top defense official, sorry, his top policy official to send a back channel message to the chinese as well to also reassure them. a senior, former senior defense official told our colleague katy bo williams this was part of what he called a two-step process. both the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs. it is standard practice when someone like milley, the chairman, would reach out to his counterpart, that the secretary of defense would be kept abreast of these conversations. and, in fact, what mil