Facebook and Pfizer: executives with a conflict of interest?
Facebook certainly makes no secret of its censorship of dissenting opinions. The true nature of the social network founded by Mark Zuckerberg came to light in particular during the health emergency when, for example, the hypothesis of a possible leak from the laboratory of Sars-Cov-2 was labeled as disinformation. Not to mention the behavior adopted by Facebook towards skepticism regarding anti-Covid vaccines, in particular those with mRNA technology and even more specifically those produced by the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. Someone asked the reason for such goodness and trust on the part of Facebook towards Big Pharma and the answer does not even seem that difficult.
According to the investigation site The National Pulse, the management of the so-called disinformation on the Silicon Valley social network is surrounded by a series of conflicts of interest. In fact, there are not a few cases of employees who, after years of working for Pfizer, have decided to switch to Facebook. These are multiple marketing and finance experts who, before carrying out a similar job for social media, collaborated with the vaccine manufacturer. For example, Facebook's current internal audit director, Tiffany Stokes, was previously the general manager at Pfizer. After five years of experience, Stokes then joined Facebook in 2020.
Stokes, at Pfizer, was involved in financial and legal operations for five years. From 2005 to 2008 she served as Pfizer's US capital market assistant treasury. In that period, she boasts of having managed the company's investment portfolio, which would have amounted to approximately eight billion dollars.
And this is not an isolated case. One of Facebook's Vice Presidents for Global Customers and Categories, Brian Groves, was previously Pfizer’s Executive Director of Marketing for US Consumer Health Care. Groves worked for Pfizer for a total of fourteen years, later joining Facebook as director of global accounting. Likewise, in 2018 former Pfizer director of digital marketing and innovation, Erin Eichenstein, joined Facebook as an international marketing solutions partner.
In short, after the fact-checkers that are anything but independent of the social network, they are now discussing the positions held by subjects whose actions could easily be conditioned by previous work experience. Certainly there is no need for a ministry of Truth, especially when disinformation is passed off as information, only in defense of interests that come from above.
References:
https://thenationalpulse.com/2022/06/21/facebook-hiring-pfizer-alumni-to-run-comms-audit-teams/
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