(Molly Bruns, Headline USA) Former CIA agent Aaron Berman recently received a promotion from Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg into a new role as the head of “elections policies” at the tech company.
Prior to his tenure at Facebook, Berman served for 17 years in the CIA, according to the Post Millennial.
The description for his new position stated that Berman will head a team in charge of “elections-related content policies worldwide” and “put policies into practice on key elections.”
He also will work closely with “senior executives” and “external stakeholders.”
Berman previously worked at Facebook as a senior product policy manager in the “misinformation department,” helping to decide what was and was not fake news through the 2020 presidential election.
Berman’s LinkedIn reported that one of his primary tasks at Facebook was to fight purported misinformation during “critical events.”
That included the platform’s notorious decision to censor posts about Hunter Biden’s so-called laptop from hell after Berman’s former intellingence colleagues knowingly pushed disinformation claiming that the damning hard drive could be a Russian propaganda campaign.
Other revelations since the 2020 election, including those uncovered via the Twitter Files, have exposed the deep—and largely unconstitutional—levels of collusion between public officials and social-media publishers, including Facebook.
Meta representatives attended the weekly “misinformation” meetings hosted by the Biden administration as they scrambled to shut down voices pointing out inconsistencies in COVID-19 mandates and potential issues with vaccines.
In July 2021, President Joe Biden alleged that Facebook was “killing people” because of the alleged COVID misinformation that was available on the platform.
The company responded by trying to placate the president with a sweeping purge of accounts that the government found disagreeable. The censored information included people rejecting the vaccine, particularly members of the military expressing reluctance to get the jab to stay in the service.
“I wanted to make sure you saw the steps we took just this past week to adjust policies on what we are removing with respect to misinformation, as well as steps taken to further address the ‘disinfo dozen,'” a Meta executive said in a report back to the government, according to the Post Millenial. “We removed 17 additional Pages, Groups, and Instagram accounts tied to the disinfo dozen…”
Berman was in charge of Facebook’s misinformation team at the time of Biden’s statements.
