{"id":28,"date":"2007-05-04T12:25:48","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kim.thewei.com\/20070504\/is-facebook-funded-by-the-cia\/"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:15:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:15:34","slug":"is-facebook-funded-by-the-cia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/is-facebook-funded-by-the-cia\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Facebook funded by the CIA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that the CIA has a venture capital branch. And guess what? One of the guys who runs it helped start Facebook. I particularly loved learning this little tidbit of information: when you become a Facebook member you authorize Facebook to gather information about you from Facebook and &#8220;other sources&#8221; and to share this information with &#8220;responsible corporations&#8221; Facebook has a relationship with.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think about this practice? I think it&#8217;s intrusive and immoral. Leave your comment, let me know. <\/p>\n<p>To learn more, watch the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albumoftheday.com\/facebook\/\">flash presentation<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commongroundcommonsense.org\/forums\/lofiversion\/index.php\/t34949.html\">read an article<\/a> with an extensive bibliography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that the CIA has a venture capital branch. And guess what? One of the guys who runs it helped start Facebook. I particularly loved learning this little tidbit of information: when you become a Facebook member you authorize Facebook to gather information about you from Facebook and &#8220;other sources&#8221; and to share &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/is-facebook-funded-by-the-cia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Facebook funded by the CIA?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-trade","category-privacy-rights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}