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Pierre Omidyar's Influence Empire

MintPress 18 Feb –

by Alexander Rubinstein and Max Blumenthal

Part I: How One of America’s Premier Data Monarchs is Funding a Global Information War and Shaping the Media Landscape (18 February 2019)

Through his purchase of influence over the daily flow of information to American media consumers, a dizzying array of connections to the national security state, and a media empire that shields him from critical scrutiny, Pierre Omidyar has become one of the world’s most politically sophisticated data monarchs.

Omidyar’s interest in the weaponization of news and data extends to a murky international initiative operating on the frontiers of a rapidly escalating information war.

Parts II and III below the fold.

Part II: Pierre Omidyar’s Funding of Pro-Regime-Change Networks and Partnerships with CIA Cutouts (20 February 2019)

To [Omidyar] it’s … about … integrating things together to give technocrats, business executives and government officials a God’s-eye view of the world — to manage and control society more efficiently.” — Yasha Levine, author of “Surveillance Valley: The Military History of the Internet”

Developed with psychologists and sociologists, the mood meter is based on research that shows up to 80% of how people make decisions in their lives is not about what they think but how they feel.

Part III: Pierre Omidyar: A Billionaire Prone to Reclusiveness and his Trove of State Surveillance Secrets (25 February 2019)

With strategically placed donations, Omidyar has placed himself in the rare position of being able to support both the national security state and at least part of its self-proclaimed opposition. In the eyes of the former element, that might be precisely what makes him so valuable.

Yet a noticeable difference between the WikiLeaks and Intercept models was immediately apparent: the newest transparency initiative had no plans to allow public access to the Snowden files, as WikiLeaks had done with the documents it acquired. The Intercept’s Greenwald pledged in 2014 to build a secure “reading room” where outside journalists could review files at the publication’s New York City office. That room has not materialized.

Apparently, not all Snowden leaks are created equal. While some have exposed the totalitarian designs of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, others are being used to further its agenda by homing in on national adversaries like China. Today, all of these files remain in the hands of a single publication owned by a billionaire with a clear affinity for the national security state.