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Only tangentially related to Liz Fong-Jones, but I want to make sure this is all in the thread in case of future developments.
Katherine Maher drama (thanks to @Markass the Worst for being on top of this stuff):
LFJ being so active on Wikipedia stinks to high heaven. Despite an open & obvious Conflict-of-Interest, he has been able to influence how the Kiwi farm wiki article is edited. He is also directly responsible for the creation/maintaining of his own vanity article and the Honeycomb article.
Meredith Whittaker is likely a crucial link here, since LFJ and Whittaker were both high-ranking Google employees who helped organize the Google Walkouts. LFJ and Whittaker definitely worked together in some capacity.
Meredith Whittaker is currently the president of the Signal Foundation (which controls Signal, the encrypted messaging app). Not too long ago, Whittaker brought Katherine Maher into the foundation as the new chairman of the board.
Liz Fong-Jones, Meredith Whittaker, and Katherine Maher are connected. And I suspect we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Side-note:
https://bsky.app/profile/evacide.bsky.social/post/3krymnttsz625

https://bsky.app/profile/jillian.bsky.social/post/3kqk7qi37kk2p

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been thoroughly compromised. No wonder they refuse to do anything about the Internet being dismantled to take down Kiwi Farms!
This guy wasn't just an outlier.

Katherine Maher drama (thanks to @Markass the Worst for being on top of this stuff):
- https://www.npr.org/2024/04/17/1245283076/npr-editor-uri-berliner-resigns-ceo-katherine-maher [Archive]
- https://www.city-journal.org/article/quotations-from-chairman-maher [Archive]
- https://christopherrufo.com/p/signals-katherine-maher-problem [A&N thread]
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...pp-and-signal-warning-for-iphone-and-android/ [A&N thread]
LFJ being so active on Wikipedia stinks to high heaven. Despite an open & obvious Conflict-of-Interest, he has been able to influence how the Kiwi farm wiki article is edited. He is also directly responsible for the creation/maintaining of his own vanity article and the Honeycomb article.
https://xtools.wmcloud.org/topedits/en.wikipedia.org/Lizthegrey/0/Talk:Kiwi_Farms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Liz_Fong-Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lizthegrey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lizthegrey

"Sure, I'm getting paid by Honeycomb while I'm editing the Honeycomb wiki article, but that doesn't mean I'm being specifically paid to edit the article."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Liz_Fong-Jones

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lizthegrey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lizthegrey

"Sure, I'm getting paid by Honeycomb while I'm editing the Honeycomb wiki article, but that doesn't mean I'm being specifically paid to edit the article."

Meredith Whittaker is likely a crucial link here, since LFJ and Whittaker were both high-ranking Google employees who helped organize the Google Walkouts. LFJ and Whittaker definitely worked together in some capacity.
https://web.archive.org/web/20220903123831/https://twitter.com/lizthegrey/status/1150960547803860993 [Archive]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20450340 [Archive] (Ctrl+F "Whittaker" and "Liz")
https://fortune.com/longform/inside-googles-civil-war/ [Archive] (Ctrl+F "Whittaker" and "Liz")
https://ainowinstitute.org/news/the-great-google-revolt [Archive]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20450340 [Archive] (Ctrl+F "Whittaker" and "Liz")
https://fortune.com/longform/inside-googles-civil-war/ [Archive] (Ctrl+F "Whittaker" and "Liz")
https://ainowinstitute.org/news/the-great-google-revolt [Archive]
The other potential problem is the Signal Foundation’s current chairman of the board, Katherine Maher, who started her career as a U.S.-backed agent of regime change. During the Arab Spring period, for instance, Maher ran digital-communications initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa for the National Democratic Institute, a largely government-funded organization that works in concert with American foreign policy campaigns. Maher cultivated relationships with online dissidents and used American technologies to advance the interests of U.S.-supported Color Revolutions abroad.
Maher then became CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation in 2016, and, earlier this year, was named CEO of National Public Radio. At Wikipedia, Maher became a campaigner against “disinformation” and admitted to coordinating online censorship “through conversations with government.” She openly endorsed removing alleged “fascists,” including President Trump, from digital platforms, and described the First Amendment as “the number one challenge” to eliminating “bad information.”
According to the insider, a woman named Meredith Whittaker, who became president of the Signal Foundation in 2022, recruited Maher to become board chair because of their mutual connections to OTF, where Maher also serves as an advisor, and to nonprofits such as Access Now, which “defends and extends the digital rights of users at risk around the world,” including in the Middle East and North Africa. Whittaker, like Maher, is highly ideological. She previously worked in a high position at Google and organized left-wing campaigns within the company, culminating in the 2018 “Google Walkout,” which demanded MeToo-style sexual harassment policies and the hiring of a chief diversity officer.
Liz Fong-Jones, Meredith Whittaker, and Katherine Maher are connected. And I suspect we're just seeing the tip of the iceberg.
Side-note:
https://bsky.app/profile/evacide.bsky.social/post/3krymnttsz625


https://bsky.app/profile/jillian.bsky.social/post/3kqk7qi37kk2p


The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has been thoroughly compromised. No wonder they refuse to do anything about the Internet being dismantled to take down Kiwi Farms!
This guy wasn't just an outlier.

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