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https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/josephbernstein/steve-bannon-sought-to-infiltrate-facebook-hiring

Steve Bannon plotted to plant a mole inside Facebook, according to emails sent days before the Breitbart boss took over Donald Trump’s campaign and obtained by BuzzFeed News.

The email exchange with a conservative Washington operative reveals the importance that the giant tech platform — now reeling from its role in the 2016 election — held for one of the campaign’s central figures. And it also shows the lengths to which the brawling new American right is willing to go to keep tabs on and gain leverage over the Silicon Valley giants they used to help elect Trump — but whose executives they also see as part of the globalist enemy.

The idea to infiltrate Facebook came to Bannon from Chris Gacek, a former congressional staffer who is now an official at the Family Research Council, which lobbies against abortion and many LGBT rights.

“There is one for a DC-based ‘Public Policy Manager’ at Facebook’s What’s APP [sic] division,” Gacek, the Senior Fellow for Regulatory Affairs at the group, wrote on August 1, 2016. “LinkedIn sent me a notice about some job openings.”

“This seems perfect for Breitbart to flood the zone with candidates of all stripe who will report back to you / Milo with INTEL about the job application process over at FB," he continued.

“Milo” is former Breitbart News Tech Editor Milo Yiannopoulos, to whom Bannon forwarded Gacek’s email the same day.

“Can u get on this,” Bannon instructed his staffer.

Looks like they have all sorts of ambitions to promote their views.

 

[PantherLotus]

weird!

 

[ClosingADoor]

Yet Zuckerberg doesn't think the problems are very large...

 

[Snaku]

This guy furiously masturbates to Winter Soldier.

 

[Lightning_Roller]

And that man continues to reveal himself as a bloated scumbag...

 

[tokkun]

Yet Zuckerberg doesn't think the problems are very large...

I mean, doesn't the fact that they need to plant someone to gain information about hiring indicate they have little to no friendly sources inside the company? I can't imagine that a progressive activism group would need to go to such trouble.

 

[Monocle]

This guy furiously masturbates to Winter Soldier.

Who doesn't love a hunk with a metal arm?

Wait, what?

 

[Wilsongt]

But his emails?

 

[Brazil]

I'm having fun imagining Steve Bannon sitting through group dynamics trying to be hired.

 

[teiresias]

I mean, doesn't the fact that they need to plant someone to gain information about hiring indicate they have little to no friendly sources inside the company? I can't imagine that a progressive activism group would need to go to such trouble.

They don't really need anyone friendly inside the company, when the company's focus on ad focus at the expense of the country is a thing promoted by it's CEO and founder and works for the alt-right's ends already. This seems like the alt-right just wanting even further direct access and influence.

 

[hypernima]

He doesn't need a mole in FB. FB seems to be doing the support fake news angle fine.