Meta has promoted a former CIA agent from a senior role on Facebook’s “misinformation” team to “Head of Elections Policies” at the social media giant.
Aaron Berman, a 17-year veteran of the CIA, served as Facebook’s “misinformation” chief during the 2020 election.
In the run-up to the 2020 election Facebook and other Big Tech companies buried information, such as the Hunter Biden laptop story, that was damaging to Democrats.
Those same “misinformation” teams allowed social media to be flooded with false claims that helped Biden and the Democrats, such as the Russia Hoax or the fabricated Jan. 6 “insurrection” narrative.
Nevertheless, Berman, who played a key role in Facebook’s failed censorship efforts, will now lead the company’s “elections policies” in the run-up to the critical 2024 race.
Berman served at the CIA between March 2002 and July 2019.
During that time, he wrote for and edited the President’s Daily Brief, an influential top-secret document prepared by the U.S. intelligence community given to the president each morning, according to Breitbart.
According to Berman’s Linkedin, he enjoyed positions of considerable influence at the agency, including “supervising teams of dozens of analysts and with multi-million-dollar budgets,” and leading briefings for members of Congress and National Security Council members.
In 2019, he left the agency and joined Facebook (now known as Meta), where he became a senior product policy manager for “misinformation.”
According to Berman, he “built the misinformation policy team’s US workforce and put policies into practice during critical events.”
While Berman does not say what these “critical events” were, his time in Facebook’s “misinformation” department coincides with the run-up to the 2020 election.
During that time, Facebook and other social media platforms censored leading Republican voices and conservative news sites with the guidance of deep state-linked entities.
Last month, it appears Berman was promoted to “Head of Elections Policies” at Facebook.
On his LinkedIn profile, Berman describes the role as follows:
Leads a team responsible for elections-related content policies worldwide.
Oversees policy development, advises senior executives, coordinates with teams on implementation via technical and human workflows, and represents Meta with external stakeholders.
Puts policies into practice on key elections.
According to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, it was the U.S. intelligence community, specifically the FBI, that warned the company of an imminent “Russian propaganda dump” shortly before the New York Post published the first of its stories on Hunter Biden’s “laptop from hell.”
Facebook, along with other leading social media platforms, quickly suppressed the story, claimed it was false.
The story was true and very damning.
