BREAKING: Parents pay $50K and have no say?

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So this email brings up parents having to now pay $50K and have no say? Private School Educators Undermine Parents to Push DEI and Radical Ideologies as Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives continue their steady march through every facet of American life, Project Veritas conducted an investigation into the world of private education and the educators who champion DEI – despite the concerns of parents and donors alike.

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PV investigative journalists attended an event where they met teachers employed by exclusive American private schools where annual tuitions range from $31,000 to $73,000 per student.

Despite parents paying a hefty sum to send their children to be educated by these elite institutions, a common theme among the educators we recorded is how little they appear to respect the parent’s role in their child’s life.

“I really don’t care about the parents,” said Stephanie Bramlett, Director of Equity and Inclusion at Phillips Exeter Academy, a New Hampshire residential school housing over 1000 high school students whose parents pay up to $60,000 a year.

Exeter has educated several generations of prominent American politicians, entrepreneurs and business leaders. Notable alumni include US President Franklin Pierce, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, former presidential candidate Andrew Yang, and recently disgraced former Harvard President, Claudine Gay.

Educators also admitted to concealing from parent’s their controversial classroom lessons on sensitive topics such as gender identity and sexual expression, including transgenderism.

“Some of their parents would be outraged if they found out that their kid is doing gender identity stuff. And so, we have to keep confidence and never tell the parents that this is happening,” said Helga Zambrano, Humanities Teacher at The Webb Schools in Claremont, CA.

Rick Westerkamp, Middle School Dean of Students at Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart in Maryland, told our journalist, “It feels like I'm subverting the Catholic church's agenda on homosexuality and that feels great.”

Stone Ridge School is one of 95 Catholic schools under the umbrella of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington DC, which upholds the traditional biblical teaching of sexuality and marriage.

Educators spoke dismissively about parents and their role in their children's lives.

Sam Davis, Equity and Inclusion Coordinator at Catlin Gabel, shared her view that a parents’ role in a child’s life is simply as the “vessel” that brings them into the world.

“I tell people like, you [parents] were just the vessel to bring them [children] into this life, into this world. How they develop and grow, you might have a little bit into the shaping and mapping of it, but they are their own entity… Parents’ feelings… not my problem."

The question remains: Do the boards, trustees, and donors of America’s most exclusive private schools stand behind the secretive musings of these educators, now revealed on Project Veritas undercover video?

Stay tuned for PART TWO.

In Veritas,

Project Veritas Team

Did Facebook Investor Company Pay $5 Billion to FTC as ‘Quid Pro Quo’ to Shield Zuckerberg?

So a recently filed lawsuit against Facebook reveals new details about the Cambridge Analytics data breach scandal, claiming among other allegations that company executives massively overpaid the Federal Trade Commission to shield CEO Mark Zuckerberg from any personal liability. In the lawsuit that was filed in a Delaware state court by the Employees’ Retirement System of Rhode Island (ERSRI), following a battle over whether troves of internal Facebook communications should be publicly disclosed. The pension fund won that case in February, and used those records to file its latest lawsuit in August.ERSRI, an investor in Facebook, claims that the $5 billion settlement harmed the social media company thereby breaching its fiduciary duty to the pension fund.

According to the 200-plus page claim, Zuckerberg, Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, and other Facebook directors agreed to authorize a multibillion-dollar settlement with the FTC as an “express quid pro quo to protect Zuckerberg from being named in the FTC’s complaint, made subject to personal liability, or even required to sit for a deposition.”

The lawsuit suggests that Facebook overpaid the FTC by some $4.9 billion, since the commission’s previous record fine was $168 million and is seeking a declaration that the Facebook executives’ actions were improper, as well as awards for damages. ERSRI may have a difficult time proving harm in this case, as Facebook’s stock has risen from about $198 when the FTC issued its enforcement action in July, to nearly $350 per share today.

The lawsuit doesn’t suggest impropriety by the FTC, whose budget doesn’t benefit from the $5 billion since that money goes to the Treasury Department. But the lawsuit does allege wrongdoing by other parties, including billionaire Facebook investor Peter Thiel and his data analytics firm Palantir. Thus naming them as defendants in the case along with Zuckerberg and other Facebook board members.

ERSRI’s lawsuit corroborates earlier reports that Thiel a Trump donor used his analytics firm to help facilitate the privacy violations committed by Facebook and Cambridge. This is part of why Facebook wants to silence Trump and anyone who associates with him or voted for him. They’re trying to get revenge in a sense on Trump, and his people.

“Palantir employees, including at least one of Palantir’s lead data scientists, regularly worked in person, during normal business hours, at the offices of Cambridge Analytica in London,” the lawsuit says. “It was a Palantir employee, Alfredas Chmieliauskas, who first suggested that Cambridge Analytica create its own app specifically, a mobile-based personality quiz to gain access to Facebook users’ friend networks.”

According to the lawsuit, Palantir and Thiel benefited from Trump and the Republicans winning, with the analytics firm becoming “one of the largest recipients of government defense contracts with the United States government since Trump took office.”

Though the lawsuit was filed in August, it has only recently been widely publicized, and according to Digital Content Next CEO Jason Kint, the suit wasn’t initially noticed due to exorbitant fees the Delaware court registry charges for court records.“As to how this suit wasn’t noticed, Delaware Chancery charges a fortune per document limiting public awareness,” Kint said Sept. 21 on Twitter. “Original case to inspect board docs (Rhode Island) was won, derivative suits were amended/filed/consolidated in shell game. I followed the breadcrumbs.”

The now-defunct company Cambridge Analytica used an app called “This Is Your Digital Life” to scrape the data of millions of users, and then allegedly used that data to target people with pro-Republican ads ahead of the 2016 elections. It was never found that Cambridge Analytica affected the results of the 2016 election. Publications such as the National Review which came out in opposition to Donald Trump described it as a “nothing burger.”

However, the scandal did reveal the startling extent to which Facebook and its app developers have access to intimate details about its users, including demographics, internet activity, consumer behavior, and political beliefs thousands of data points on each user, according to numerous sources. The total, Cambridge Analytica collected data on some 70 million people 30 million Americans including those who never used Cambridge Analytica’s “This Is Your Digital Life” app.Facebook still faces lawsuits and regulatory actions over the scandal worldwide, including places such as the Netherlands.

The company also faces an antitrust case brought by the FTC, driven in part by the political backlash from the scandal… So far Facebook and the FTC declined to comment; Palantir didn’t immediately respond to a request for a comment.

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz files a criminal referral against Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg with William Barr

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., on Monday asked Attorney General William Barr to open a criminal investigation into Mark Zuckerberg over allegations that the Facebook CEO lied to Congress.

In a letter to Barr, Gaetz accused the social media executive of making false statements to Congress on two occasions in 2018. He alleged that Zuckerberg “repeatedly and categorically denied any bias against conservative speech, persons, policies or politics” on his platform.

“On both occasions, members of Congress asked Mr. Zuckerberg about allegations that Facebook censored and suppressed content supportive of President Donald Trump and other conservatives,” Gaetz wrote.

“Mr. Zuckerberg also dismissed the suggestion that Facebook exercises any form of editorial manipulation,” he added.

Zuckerberg made the remarks in 2018 under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tex., who accused Facebook of “bias and censorship.” Cruz cited a 2016 Gizmodo revealing allegations that the social media platform had knowingly suppressing conservative news. Zuckerberg responded:

I understand where that concern is coming from, because Facebook and the tech industry are located in Silicon Valley, which is an extremely left-leaning place. And this is actually a concern that I have, and that I try to root out in the company, is making sure that we don’t have any bias in the work that we do. And I think it is a fair concern that people would at least wonder about.

As evidence to support his claims, Gaetz directed Barr to a recent sting by Project Veritas, a right-wing organization known for its efforts to take down liberal organizations, mainstream media outlets and public figures through misinformation and deceptively edited “insider” videos.

Project Veritas published hidden-camera footage of purported Facebook content moderators apparently admitting that they delete conservative posts. Gaetz says the “whistleblowers” in the video offer “ample evidence” of the company’s “bias and manipulation.”

“According to the Veritas report and undercover footage, the adjudicators were outspoken about their political bias against Republicans and actively chose to eliminate otherwise-allowable content from the platform and from public view simply due to its political orientation,” Gaetz wrote.

“At the same time,” Gaetz added, “speech promoting violence against the president and his supporters was labeled as merely ‘political,’ and was thus allowed to stay on the platform.”

The Republican representative also claims, without citing evidence, that Facebook’s artificial intelligence content screening program is itself not politically neutral, which he alleges is a violation of the “good faith” provision of the Communications Decency Act.

Republicans — from internet trolls, up to lawmakers and President Donald Trump himself — regularly accuse Facebook and other social media platforms of anti-conservative bias.

However, Facebook launched its own project in the weeks after the 2016 election — “Project P,” for propaganda — which found dozens of pages peddling fake news ahead of Trump’s victory. Nearly all the pages were based overseas, had financial motives and “displayed a clear rightward bent,” according to the Washington Post.

Another reason why moderators may encounter a higher volume of flagged conservative content is because Facebook’s most popular content has become overwhelmingly conservative over time. “Facebook has become the home of right-wing America, while Twitter and Snap have become the home of the left,” Vanity Fair’s Nick Bilton reported earlier this year.

And while liberals have criticized Facebook for refusing to fact-check political ads — and even threatened to break up the social media platform — a number of leading conservatives have reportedly met in secret with Zuckerberg, including Tucker Carlson, Sen. Lindsey Graham, and on at least one occasion, Trump himself. Zuckerberg has not disclosed the content of those meetings.