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[–] [email protected] 29 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah ima go ahead and slap a

[citation needed]

all over that until a cite is provided

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

His citation is just a picture of Obi-Wan Kenobi saying of course he's got a source.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Apologies, it was DARPA program, and the funding came from the CIA, to Peter Thiel, to Facebook. Got my alphabet soup a bit mixed up.

https://unlimitedhangout.com/2021/04/investigative-reports/the-military-origins-of-facebook/

I assumed this story was common knowledge?

Guess not.

Anyway yeah, when part of your job includes managing cybersecurity policies for a medium sized organization, its behooves oneself to do some research into the most well known data thieves in the world, the US Government.