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20 Apr 2020
Annette Kahane was an unofficial Stasi informant but is not a current Facebook employee.

When she was a college student, for a time, she was an unofficial informant for the Stasi. I can't really defend that, except to say that I see no indication that she's been dishonest about that part of her past. And since around 1982, when she stopped being an informant, her career of advocacy kind of speaks for itself. In September 2015, Paul Joseph Watson wrote a really misleading article about this task force, tending to imply that it is a body within Facebook, as opposed to a German entity studying the issue and aiming to advise Facebook. I'll give Paul credit that in the body of his article, he does say that Kahane was an informant. But I'm going to take that credit right back because of the headline, quote, ex-Stasi agent hired to censor xenophobic Facebook posts. That does take away from the informant recognition and turns it into a... One step forward, one step back. She was... Personally hired by... Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anyway, this is where Alex's Facebook is hiring the Stasi narrative comes from. It was one person who doesn't work for Facebook, which has now been exaggerated into Facebook being run by 10,000 Stasi members they've hired.