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When somebody laughes at your Facebook post, but you were being serious (r.nf)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by doctorn@r.nf to c/memes@lemmy.world

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[–] vexikron@lemmy.zip -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Apologies, it was DARPA program, and the funding came from the CIA, to Peter Thiel, to Facebook. Got my alphabet soup a bit mixed up.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/

I assumed this story was common knowledge?

Guess not.

Anyway yeah, when part of your job includes managing cybersecurity policies for a medium sized organization, its behooves oneself to do some research into the most well known data thieves in the world, the US Government.