Article Copyright: Project Veritas
SPEAKERS
FB Insider Data Center Technician, Project Veritas, Mario Balaban, Facebook, FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer, Mark Zuckerberg
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 00:00
I have to do something. When it comes to standing up for a world I want my children to live in, I don’t want to leave them a world to where they don’t have these liberties. People aren’t allowed to have voice and yet, Facebook touts itself with promoting people’s opportunity to have voice. They’re trying to control this content before it even makes it onto your page before you even see it. If I lose my job, it’s like what do I do? But that’s less of a concern to me.
Project Veritas 00:39
We have just obtained multiple leaked documents from inside Facebook, this time detailing a plan to curb “vaccine hesitancy” on a global scale. It was so concerning it brought us not one, but two whistleblowers from inside Facebook, who are ready to speak out on what this means for free speech and public discourse on their own platform.
Facebook Whistleblower 01:01
Facebook uses classifiers in their algorithms to determine certain contents to be what they call “vaccine hesitancy”. And without the user’s knowledge, they assign a score to these comments, what’s called the “VH score”, the “vaccine hesitancy score” and then based on that score, will demote or leave the comment alone depending on the content within the comment.
Project Veritas 01:20
Our first Facebook insider is a data centre technician who leaked us multiple internal documents detailing an algorithm test being run on 1.5 percent of Facebook and Instagrams nearly 3.8 billion users worldwide, the goal to, “drastically reduce user exposure to vaccine hesitancy” and (inaudible).
FB Whistleblower 1 01:44
And it’s the same thing. You’ll see a lot of this difference in their public policy versus the private policy where the public policy is very vague. It’s very ambiguous. It’s designed to be questioned, because it’s designed to be able to easily defend. But then if you look at the private policy, it’s much much more clear, much more specific, I think that they’re trying to make it seem like they’re not doing as much, or that they’re just kind of like generalising it like, Oh, we have a robot that just tags your post? And then, you know, we look at it, but I think they don’t want people to know, oh, no, we actually have something ready made specifically for vaccine hesitancy. So those are the main document along with all the all the attachments and stuff that goes with it. So basically, when they write this algorithm, it goes through Facebook content, and it looks for certain keywords that are related to vaccination, or you’re not getting a vaccine, stuff like that. And if you get a score, and the VA score means vaccine hesitancy, which is defined as being hesitant to get a vaccine, but not just like, “Well, I don’t know,” it’s even “Well, I saw a study that said that someone died that got the vaccine,” That’s vaccine hesitancy.
Project Veritas 02:45
So this is a beta test. This is all a beta test. And how big is this beta test?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 02:53
They refer to the test size as 1.5 percent. I’m not exaclty sure which pool that pulls from, but I think it’s comments on authorative health pages.
Project Veritas 03:02
But you seem to think that they’ve already rolled this out? Why do we believe they’ve already rolled this out
Facebook Whistleblower 03:06
In one slideshow that they have, they called their weekly progress tracker. They actually lay all this out in chart. And you can see, if you look at the slides, they go by date, so we’ve got here COVID-19 Vaccine safety and efficacy “global”, “currently global” 13 languages Facebook plus Instagram. All C-19 vaccine [global] “currently global” 66 languages. And the very first thing that brought me to the conclusion that they’re wanting to do this globally is they were developing it in like, you know, as many languages as they can get their hands on.
Project Veritas 03:33
So this is like a product launch almost?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 03:36
Yes. Yeah in their last quarterly report, they reported 2.79 billion people on Earth do some kind of Facebook app
Project Veritas 03:41
Who’s behind this new algorithm policy? Well, one thing is for sure, the authors of this experiment Joo Hoo Yeo, Nick Gibian, Hendrick Townley, Amot Bahl, Matt Gilles are not low level employees. In fact, one of the internal documents Project Veritas obtained was a Facebook flowchart that showed they’re only a few clicks away from Mark Zuckerberg himself. Who makes these decisions.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 04:07
These are teams at Facebook and they call themselves, they work with what they call B2V “barriers to vaccination”. So that’s one of their core terms is barriers to vaccination. And then the people on these teams, they call them health integrity teams. So there’s a health integrity team for messenger there’s a health integrity team for every system that Facebook has.
Project Veritas 04:26
Integrity team it came out about after March 2020 and COVID. This is something that’s existed for some time. So health integrity teams and barrier to vaccination teams at Facebook.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 04:41
Amit Bahl, he is a research scientist for the core data science team at Facebook. He also works in health integrity. Everyone who works on this project works in health integrity. Hendrick Townley, this is the experiment launch post, as you can see, this is on April 16. This is 2021. That’s why there’s no year there. Cause it’s this year. And Hendrick Townley is one of the software engineers that worked on this. There were – I think it was him and two other software engineers. And then Amit Bahl both wrote the actual classifier itself. I don’t – I’m sure he had like a team of developers, but he is considered the one who wrote it. Amit Bahl, adn then as you go up, it’s like his boss, boss’s boss. Boss’s boss’s boss.
Project Veritas 05:15
So Amit bahl works for Udi Weinsberg who works for Nicolas Stier, do I have that correct? And that person worked for Danny Ferrante. And that person works for Javier Olivan and Javier Olivan reports directly to Mark Zuckerberg. So there’s a chain that goes all the way down to Amit Bahl. This kind of censorship sounds similar to shadow banning, when users are unaware of their posts can’t be seen a term one of our own investigations coin when exposing Twitter just a few years ago. But this time, we’re exposing Facebook and Instagrams methods to quash an entire side of a conversation, arguably one of the most pressing issues of the day. According to these documents, Facebook tiers users zero to five and a score of zero to one, can you talk a little about this tier system.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 06:01
Oh yeah. So basically, this is what they’re using to structure how they’re going to judge this content on a scale to how vaccine hesitant it actually is, or if it explicitly discouragin. In my opinion, the main reason why they built this was for the human what they call “raters” so that they can use this as a reference, so if the algorithm can’t make a decision on a certain post, it’ll send it to human rater and then the human rater looks at it and they will make a decision on whether or not it’s vaccine hesitant or not.
Project Veritas 06:30
So we have tier two indirect discouragement. And what happens when you are at tier two?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 06:35
So basically your comment is going to be suppressed. As to the scale of that suppression, it’s hard to say, we would have to look at it like by a case by case basis. But what they’re saying is it’s going to get they call it a position change – on some of these comments, you can see, it’ll say position change: seven. And I’m not sure whether the seven refers to like a 7 percent or if it’s just like seven positions down in the comment chain.
Project Veritas 06:59
So it’s suppressed. We don’t know the extent of the suppression. But we’ve heard shadow ban, we’ve heard D boost, I have not heard position change. Facebook has not been shy about combating vaccine hesitancy as reported in their own press release dated May 11 of this year. However, what they say publicly and their own policy doesn’t scratch the surface of what is written in these internal leaked documents by the Facebook whistleblower. If I read this correctly, Facebook is saying it doesn’t matter if the story is true, so long as it doesn’t cause people to hesitate getting the vaccine. What’s your read on this?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 07:37
The borderline vaccine framework – shocking stories> potentially, or actually true events or facts that can raise safety concerns.
Project Veritas 07:44
That post was done by a user and they’ve taken a screenshot and observed it by the tier system.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 07:50
Right?
Project Veritas 07:50
What about this gives them alarm?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 07:52
How is this not scary? That would be considered indirect discouragement.
Project Veritas 07:57
Indirect discouragement, which should be considered tier two. So this is an example of indirect discouragement questioning the vaccine?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 08:03
Questioning the vaccine, questioning anything involving the vaccine.
Project Veritas 08:05
And this was then demoted on Facebook. So this is another example of tier two, indirect discouragement. Why don’t you tell us why this would be indirect discouragement according to Facebook.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 08:16
So this would be considered “vaccine hesitant” because they don’t want people to see someone had a bad effect. They’re not saying “don’t get the vaccine”, but they’re saying “look at all this negative stuff that happened after I got the vaccine”.
Project Veritas 08:26
So they’re reporting facts, but truth doesn’t matter.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 08:28
No, because it doesn’t match the narrative. So, and the narrative being: Get the vaccine, the vaccine is good for you. Everyone should get it. And if you don’t, you will be singled out, as a enemy of society. So the VAERS is avaccine adverse event reporting system. It looks like they’re measuring the comments where they’re mentioning you know, that the patient died.
Project Veritas 08:49
So is VAERS a CDC supported programme?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 08:53
Yes, I think so. Really they support all of this because, you know, they released the standards, the CDC themselves. And that’s really one of the primary things that Facebook is basing their policy off of is well, if you looked at their public policy. It would be according to the authoritative health pages.
Project Veritas 09:08
So they are open about the fact that they essentially coordinate with the CDC. From the interim document content pointing to the vaccine adverse effects reporting system, data that suggests extreme risks without providing full context, full context. What do they mean by that?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 09:27
I think so, like in the previous comments, like she said, “Oh, during this study 653 people died”, and then they don’t put the rest of the study in there. It’s like, okay, so you want me to write like a 10 page comment? What’s full context?
Project Veritas 09:39
What is the context –
FB Insider Data Center Technician 09:39
– is another ambiguous term. If they saw a study from someone they didn’t like, would they say? “Well, that’s not the full context because abcdefg.
Project Veritas 09:47
Also it seems like any facts that escape a particular narrative are omitted, demoted, deboosted, banned, considered dangerous to society.
FB Insider Data Center Technician 09:58
Suppressed in any way possible.
Project Veritas 10:00
Where do you think this is headed? Does it get worse from here?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 10:03
Yes.
Project Veritas 10:03
How so?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 10:04
I think people accept it and they see people like Twitter, Facebook, Google, and stuff like that they see that this is accepted by the public and then they go, that’s like a green light to like, “Oh, well we can go ahead and do this more.” So not only are we going to start doing vaccine stuff, we’re gonna spread it to everything. So we’re gonna start saying, “Oh, if you make a post that could put somebody in danger, or it could compromise someone’s safety”, whatever that means, “then we’re going to go ahead and look at that and assign that a score of some unknown classifier”. Who knows what it could be. They’re trying to control this content before it makes it onto your page before you even see it. And when you’re scrolling on your phone, I think they’re afraid of what people would conclude.
Project Veritas 10:42
Sounds like they don’t think about the underlying values?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 10:44
Or what could, what it could turn into: the slippery slope.
Project Veritas 10:47
They’re not even thinking about that. And do you think there’s a lot of people inside Facebook that agree with you, or some percentage, what would you estimate that number of people to be?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 10:58
I would say at least 25 percent.
Project Veritas 11:01
So you’re telling me that 25 percent of the people there agree that what they’re doing with this vaccine hesitancy coding and algorithms, is morally wrong?
FB Insider Data Center Technician 11:14
Yes. That would not surprise me at all. The policy is going to keep expanding until anything can violate it? What would happen if this was scaled larger and scaled to Twitter, and the internet as a whole is way worse than anything that can happen from me getting fired from my job? To me, that, it far outweight that. Because it’s about more than me. It’s about really everyone in the world.
Project Veritas 11:38
It’s clear this Facebook insider is not alone in his concerns of Facebook’s new policy that will demote discourse on vaccines in general. As a matter of fact, the next insider you’re about to meet felt so compelled to come forward, he goes so far as to compare the new policy to an abusive relationship. What do you do at Facebook?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 11:59
I’m a data center engineer. I’d say that in a sense it’s prohibiting people from being able to have an open dialogue about issues that affect their personal security. Some of these things, the questions, the comments that are being presented, you know, are from people that have concerns about their personal health or their personal security being affected. It’s kind of like having a relationship with somebody that’s controlling and abusive in a sense, like an abusive partner not allowing their spouse to speak out about the things that are going on in their marriage or their relationship and limiting their voice. It’s very damaging from that sense. You know, if you think about this logically, you know, it’s very incriminating in my opinion.
Project Veritas 12:40
Just months ago, this same insider leaked us a tape of Mark Zuckerberg privately speaking to his team last July, showcasing his own vaccine hesitancy when talking about COVID.
Mark Zuckerberg 12:51
I do just want to make sure that I share some caution on this, because we just don’t know the long term side effects of basically modifying people’s DNA and RNA
Project Veritas 13:03
Today, his own words would violate their new public policy. You were the source that brought us the Mark Zuckerberg vaccine footage from July 2020. Is that correct?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 13:15
That’s correct.
Project Veritas 13:16
Zuckerberg seemed to change his mind evolve on the issue of vaccine. And the Facebook policy itself would have prevented Zuckerberg from saying what it is that he had said just a few months ago. Pretty crazy. What prompted you to to give that footage to Project Veritas?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 13:33
Well, based on my own knowledge and researchof, you know, the adverse effects and the potential side effects of vaccines of any medication really. So I think it’s important for people to be understanding of those facts. We’re able to have these conversations at work with our coworkers about our medical decisions. And we do. We have them, you know, frequently. Why is it okay for us to have these conversations at work as adults, and not have somebody step in and say, “Hey you need to stop talking about that and you shouldn’t talk about that. You’re not allowed to talk about – that’s ‘fact-checked’. That’s false” Occasionally people do in the conversation, but we’re allowed to have open dialogue and hear.
Project Veritas 14:13
You’re saying that you can have these conversations at the watercooler and office?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 14:18
Absolutely. Even in the midst of the office.
Project Veritas 14:20
In the midst of the office? Facebook, the location Facebook, but you’re not allowed to go onto Facebook and write this stuff?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 14:28
No.
Project Veritas 14:29
That’s ironic.
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 14:30
It is very ironic.
Project Veritas 14:31
What is your message to Mr. CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, who is certainly watching this video?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 14:37
I would ask, you said that you support freedom of expression. My question to you is, why in a sense you don’t support freedom of expression in the most basic sense that’s available to all people everywhere: which is to exist as God created them without any interference or intrusion by any corporation or government to existence as they are. And why push a narrative that it’s not okay for people to go ahead and exist to express themselves as God’s creation, without taking a vaccine? Why is there this push to suppress that ideology?
Project Veritas 15:18
This insiders biggest concern is Facebook building a “community of compliance” and feels the topic may go beyond the authority of Zuckerberg himself.
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 15:31
It’s the platform that they want to build. It’s the community that they want to build. They want to build a community where everybody complies, not where people can have open discourse and dialogue about the most personal and private and intimate decisions that anybody could ever face in their life, which is regarding their own body, their own health.
Project Veritas 15:46
And based upon your position, what you’ve seen in your role at Facebook, why do they want people to comply? Why is that the culture of Facebook?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 15:57
For the promotion of a society that is focused on medical progress in a sense, or medical, you know, medical experimentation,
Project Veritas 16:11
What is Facebook doing to promote COVID vaccines to billions of users,
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 16:16
Specifically encouraging people to post, you know, to take on the profile frame for showing that they’ve been vaccinated, and to promote in a sense, solidarity amongst other people that have taken the vaccine and encourage users to also go and get the vaccine. It’s interesting that they would, you know, encourage one side, but not allow the other side to speak of, you know, why they wouldn’t be making a decision to get a vaccine. There’s no solidarity, there’s no opportunity to be united around that. It’s just basically: get the vaccine or feel left out. You know, people aren’t allowed to have voice and yet, you know, Facebook touts itself with promoting people’s opportunity to have voice. And, you know, as stated before, you know, having a voice about the most important decisions anyone has to face in their life is pretty important and it’s shocking and disturbing really to see people that are willing to go to the lengths of limiting those discussions around the world, you know, for things that concern people’s own personal security. I almost feel like there’s outside sources pressuring Mark, or could be. I’m not saying that’s a fact, but you know, it does make me concerned. And you look at the video with Fauci and, you know, Mark discussing it, Mark doesn’t seem too pleased with, you know, the fact that he had to bring it up. It’s almost like he was, you know, he had to mention it.
Project Veritas 17:40
These two brave insiders know, they risk it all standing against Facebook, one of the most powerful institutions of the day, yet, they are still putting it all on the line in order to preserve our liberties.
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 17:56
I think that’s also the main reason why people don’t want to come out with it, because what if I, you know, I had two kids, I have my wife and I lose my job. It’s like what I do?, But that’s less of a concern to me.
Project Veritas 18:08
And the people who may do what you did next, but they’re not sure if they should do it. What’s your message to those people?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 18:17
I would say, go ahead and do it. And then I just think about what I said. There’s a lot of blowback to telling the truth. And that’s true, as far as human history is concerned. And yeah, you are going to receive blowback, but just weigh it out. Can you live with yourself for the rest of your life if you work at Facebook and you knew about this? Especially if it came out later and you’re like, “Man, I saw that so many times, I could have said something and I didn’t”. How are you going to feel about that? That’s my thing. My morality. I have to show somebody this because at least, even if nothing were to come of this, and for some reason everything was scrapped. I would still think that it was worth it. Cause I’m like well at least I tried. I tried to show somebody this.
Project Veritas 18:54
It’s almost like you’re saying that your desire to follow your conscience outweighs any potential risk there might be to you doing this?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 19:03
Yes.
Project Veritas 19:05
What is your message to those people that are watching this who agree with you inside Facebook?
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 19:11
I would say that you’re not alone. The biggest thing with social media, that we’ve seen throughout the years is that ranking people’s comments or posts, even like news media, there’s this view that tries to make you think that you’re alone in this and that you’re not the majority. And even people that say that they agree with it internally, they deal with struggles. Internally, they question things. It’s just that they’re not able to overcome that cognitive dissonance that sits in and they resort to what is safe. It’s easier to comply with things, better than it is to come forward and say “this is wrong” or to really awaken to understanding that the way you’re being treated or the way other people are being treated is wrong. And so that’s challenging, but know that you’re not alone. And that if you do come forward and you do speak up that you can live peacefully knowing that you did the right thing, no matter what. And that’s encouraging, not just to other people, but it’s also encouraging to yourself. And it won’t make you feel as alone anymore.
Project Veritas 20:24
That’s very profound, I think.
FB Insider Data Center Facility Engineer 20:27
I’m a father. So, you know, obviously like I fear for my family, for my children safety. But I also understand that I have to, as I told my wife, I have to do something. You know, when it comes time to standing up for a world I want my children to live in. I don’t want to leave them a world to where they don’t have these liberties, these personal securities to where they can willingly make their own medical decisions between them, their doctor, and those that are closest to them. That’s not something I can live in. That’s something I could do. And it came down to the point where I had to make a decision to do what was right.
Mario Balaban 21:10
I’m Mario with Project Veritas. Really quick sent you an email here a few minutes ago, I’m not sure if you’ve seen it yet. Requesting comment, we’ve obtained documents here from Facebook talking about vaccine hesitancy, it’s an internal document. It’s pretty classified according to what we’ve seen, we’ve attached it in the email, we were wondering if you could provide us some comment on that. Okay, thank you and when can we expect a response by
Facebook 21:41
I’ll take a look now.
Project Veritas 22:18
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