EXPOSED: Meta’s $36 Billion Plot to Reengineer Society and Mark Zuckerberg’s Dangerous Future Plans for Tech Addiction
14 Nov 2023
Out today, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life, blows the lid off of Meta’s pattern of intentionally using harmful and aggressive tactics to get users addicted to social media apps like Facebook and Instagram and documents a shocking rise in depression and suicide that some scientists have linked to social media use.
This comes just weeks after dozens of state attorneys general (AGs) filed suit against Facebook’s and Instagram’s parent company, Meta Platforms Inc. (Meta), and three of its subsidiaries, for harming children by addicting them to the social media platforms. Forty-two states, including California and New York, allege that billionaire creator Mark Zuckerberg’s company “knowingly designed and deployed harmful features on Instagram and Facebook to purposefully addict children and teens.”
Previously, Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen claimed that Meta targeted children and teens for monetary reasons and a leaked document showed that the youth demographic was “a valuable but untapped audience.”
Just weeks after Haugen blew the whistle on Facebook’s tactics, Zuckerberg unveiled his plan to release what may prove to be Meta’s most addictive product yet: Facebook Horizon. Zuckerberg’s October 2021 virtual tour of the new product, which was panned as “super weird,” was his coming-out party for what has become known as “the metaverse”—a digital world that users can essentially live in and access via a virtual reality (VR) headset such as Facebook’s Oculus Quest.
Zuckerberg’s metaverse launch was a conveniently timed and thinly veiled rebranding effort to distract from whistleblower documents and allegations that, according to the Associated Press, show that “Facebook ignored or downplayed internal warnings of the negative and often harmful consequences its algorithms wreaked across the world.”
In October 2021, Zuckerberg changed the name of the Facebook Inc. family of companies to Meta Platforms Inc. to signal the direction his social media empire would be heading. And Zuckerberg has pumped more than $36 billion into making his metaverse ambitions a reality.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces their new name, Meta, during a virtual event on Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Controligarchs reveals that Zuckerberg’s $36 billion (and growing) metaverse efforts are only just the beginning. The book documents Zuckerberg’s ongoing efforts to make the most addictive product in history: the metaverse.
One of the first virtual shops in the metaverse was a cannabis store. But it is not the tangible drugs that are the most dangerous of Meta’s offerings. The metaverse brings new consumer product offerings—including physical and biotechnological upgrades for the human body.
Meta has already filed a patent for bionic eyeballs so that users can bring their virtual reality with them everywhere and never have to leave. Zuckerberg is tinkering with other brand-new technologies, including a synthetic skin prototype called ReSkin and pneumatic “haptic gloves,” so that users could literally feel and grasp the metaverse.
Mark Zuckerberg demonstrates an Oculus Rift virtual reality (VR) headset and Oculus Touch controllers as the gives a demonstration in San Jose, California, on Oct. 6, 2016. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Innovators are even developing scent blasters that shoot chemical mist at a user’s nose to allow them to “smell” the metaverse. In addition to basic scents like chocolate and strawberry (and even “beach”), there are more nuanced fragrances such as “fascinate,” “annihilate,” and “carouse.”
And while Meta’s VR aspirations appear to be failing with consumers, Zuckerberg’s obsession with the metaverse shows no signs of ceasing, as evidenced by its ongoing partnership with the popular Ray-Ban sunglasses franchise. Last Thursday, Meta announced a new strategic partnership China’s Tencent to make headsets cheaper and more accessible.
As Controligarchs documents, Meta’s losses are short term while its metaverse determinations are here to stay. More than five hundred major corporations are also helping to build the metaverse. Coca-Cola has released a new “pixel-flavored soda” that was “born in the metaverse.” Another company called Taste the TV has devised a method for users to literally lick their screens to “taste” the metaverse.
Critics believe that Meta’s losses mean that the metaverse is doomed to fail, but not so fast. iPhone’s manufacturer is set to release its own set of augmented reality glasses called Apple Vision Pro and the metaverse has big support from the World Economic Forum (WEF).
The WEF website has thousands of pages about the metaverse and a new initiative titled “Defining and Building the Metaverse.” It runs positive headlines such as “71% of Executives Say the Metaverse Will Be Good for Business. Here’s Why,” “Younger Generations Expect to Spend a Lot More Time in the Metaverse,” and “Who Will Govern the Metaverse.” The WEF has positioned itself as the arbiter of “best practices” for this new digital world.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 30, 2009. (Adam Berry/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The book shows that Zuckerberg has had a general disdain for the users of his products since before Facebook (in its current form) was even founded. When asked why people share personal data with him, the Facebook founder said: “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb fucks.” In fairness, Zuckerberg made the comment while in college at Harvard and has since distanced himself from it stating that he “absolutely” regretted the comment and thinks he has “grown and learned a lot.”
According to Controligarchs, Facebook has always exploited its users by making its features addictive, as admitted by Facebook’s founding president Sean Parker who called it a “social-validation feedback loop.” Every time a Facebook (or Instagram) user hears the notification chime, the brain emits “little dopamine hit,” Parker said, and the user gets a rush.
Controligarchs has also uncovered that the architect of the metaverse, Vishal Shah, previously served as an Instagram developer and was involved with the effort to launch “Instagram for kids.” A 2019 study found that depression and suicidal tendencies are rising among teens, and they pointed to social media use as a possible culprit.
A metaverse avatar of Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the virtual Meta Connect event in New York on Oct. 11, 2022. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
“Facebook is going back to its old tricks, offering another product designed to get kids hooked when they are the most vulnerable,” said the head of an organization called Common Sense. The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood cited several studies to conclude that “excessive use of digital devices and social media is linked to a number of risks for children and adolescents, including obesity, lower psychological wellbeing, increased risk of depression, and increases in suicide-related outcomes.”
Zuckerberg’s Meta rebrand was criticized as a “tactic” or potential “distraction” from the fact that his companies rely on addiction as a business model. But the reality is that Meta’s new VR products may have even greater potential to addict users.
Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the Oculus Connect 5 product launch event in San Jose, California, on Sept. 26, 2018. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The recent lawsuits by state AGs across the United States must get to the bottom of the addictive efforts—tantamount to mind control—and hold Zuckerberg and his companies accountable.
Seamus Bruner is the author of the pathbreaking new book, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life, which hits bookshelves everywhere on November 14. Bruner is Peter Schweizer’s Director of Research at the Government Accountability Institute. Schweizer says Controligarchs is “Haunting” and “MASSIVE.
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Exclusive—Seamus Bruner Blows the Lid Off the Agenda of Billionaire ‘Controligarchs’
14 Nov 2023
Members of the billionaire class have an agenda to control the masses and grow their own profits, Seamus Bruner reveals in his new book, Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life.
Bruner, the director of research at Peter Schweizer’s Government Accountability Institute, spoke with SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily about Controligarchs, which hits bookstands Tuesday.
He began by reading the following quotation from billionaire David Rockefeller’s 2002 memoir, which Bruner used to open the first chapter of Controligarchs:
Some even believe we are part of a secret [club] working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as “internationalists” and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure–one world, if you will. If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.
Bruner said he was “stunned” to discover that this quote is authentic.
“That’s the charge — conspiring against the United States. He stands guilty and is not just guilty. He’s proud of it,” Bruner said.
He also noted that the word “club” in brackets was his word choice. The word Rockefeller used was “cabal.”
“The word ‘club’ there in brackets is actually ‘cabal,’” Bruner said, explaining that he toned it down so as not to sound “too crazy.” But indeed, the original word is “cabal” rather than club.
Bruner explained that this supposedly good “club” of billionaires is the “most exclusive club in the world” with about 15 members. He recounted how in May of 2009, following President Barack Obama’s presidential victory, a dozen or so billionaires–including Bill Gates, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Ted Turner, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, and the heads of major corporations like Cisco, Blackstone Group, and Tiger Management– had a meeting at Rockefeller University in Manhattan “to figure out how they can pool their resources to spend on priorities that are important to them.”
At the time, they identified “overpopulation” as one of the major cause they could pour their resources into under the guise of green initiatives. This fear of “overpopulation,” Bruner explained, is what the green movement is really all about to them.
“They’re all very concerned that there’s too many of us around breathing their air. And out of that really grows a lot of this climate change hysteria, which is a central theme in the book,” he said, noting that climate change hysteria is also great way for them to get rich and also gain control of the masses.
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“The book proves, I think in great detail, is that climate change is a method of getting very rich and also gathering more and more control over the masses,” he said, explaining that with control comes profit.
“These guys have a god complex on steroids,” he said. “They’ve got more economic power than the U.S. and China, which are the two obviously wealthiest countries in the world. And it’s really more than just money that they control. You see this with tech influence in elections. They can steer all of society.”
He noted, for example, Bill Gates’ interest in gaining control of the public’s diet by buying up farmland and investing in alternate proteins.
“On the farm stuff, it’s not just the diversification of his holdings. He’s been investing in all of these alternative proteins and alternative fertilizers. And these companies hold the new patents, new monopolies over proteins and over food and over the fertilizers, and then he uses his influence to ban traditional forms of farming,” he explained.
Bill Gates speaks at a news conference during the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, 0n May 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
“When you hear Alexandria Ocasio Cortes say that the earth is going to end in 12 years because of cow flatulence, she didn’t just think that up or dream that up. That comes from a white paper funded by a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation or a World Economic Forum group,” Bruner continued.
Bruner also highlighted very revealing comments that hedge fund billionaire George Soros wrote about how he “fancied” himself “as some kind of god… If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they might get me in trouble.” When Soros was asked about this quote by an interviewer in 2004, he said, “It is a sort of disease when you consider yourself some kind of god, the creator of everything, but I feel comfortable about it now since I began to live it out.”
“George Soros does not want an open society,” Bruner said. “He’s the kingpin of one of the largest dark money networks in politics, and nobody elected George Soros.”
Bruner also highlighted the technocracy movement, which he describes as an “inherently anti-democratic movement that says that the engineers and the scientists need to run society.”
“The peasants and the unwashed masses are not quite smart enough to make decisions for themselves,” he said of the movement, briefly touching on the dangers of Elon Musk’s neuralink and Microsoft’s 060606 patent, which he described as an “esoteric type technology … [a] blockchain, but it is effectively a chip in your body so that it’s a way of generating currency while you do certain activities.”
According to Bruner, these “Controligarchs” want to control people’s lives while expanding their own profits. Bruner said that this is why it is so important for people to “jealously guard your wallet,” “jealously guard your personal data, especially that of your kids,” and “talk to your legislators and Congressmen and tell them to ban your taxpayer money from funding these initiatives.”
Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life is available now is hardcover, e-book, and audiobook.