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Cutler joined Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, in 2016 after years of high-level work in the Israeli government. Her resumé includes several years at the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., where she worked in public affairs and as its chief of staff from 2013 to 2016, as well as a stint as a campaign adviser for the right-wing Likud party and nearly five years as an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Upon her hiring in 2016, Gilad Erdan, then minister of public security, strategic affairs and information, celebrated the move, saying it marked “an advance in dialogue between the State of Israel and Facebook.”

In interviews about her job, Cutler has stated explicitly that she acts as a liaison between Meta and the Israeli government, whose perspectives she represents inside the company.

In 2017, Cutler told the Israeli business outlet Calcalist that Facebook works “very closely with the cyber departments of the Ministry of Justice and the police and with other elements in the army and Shin Bet,” Israel’s domestic intelligence agency, on matters of content removal. “We are not the experts, they are in the field, this is their field.”

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[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 79 points 1 month ago

Honestly, the fact that meta has an Israel policy chief is a problem. They’re a private company, why do they have country-specific policy departments?

[-] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 month ago

There's really only one "country" that gets special treatment in usa.

https://www.newarab.com/news/netanyahu-calls-zuckerberg-complain-about-facebook-treatment

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

Because it helps with lobbying

[-] interurbain1er@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

I think they have one per country. Feel free to apply here if you have in-depth knowledge and contact in the french political scene:

https://www.metacareers.com/v2/jobs/526829489804866/

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

That’s honestly worse. They shouldn’t be allowed to lobby actively enough to warrant a public policy department in any country, let alone all of them.

[-] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 48 points 1 month ago

Ohh look a foreign agent operating on the US territory without proper registration just like AIPAC!

And remember folks that the feds cucked General Flynn for a lot less when he was whoring around with the Turks.

Why does Israeli agents are able to operate like this?

Asking for a friend

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

the feds cucked General Flynn for a lot less

Uh

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

Isn’t being an unregistered foreign agent a huge crime?

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 15 points 1 month ago

This is as big a problem as the Tik Tok thing. We have blatant evidence of a foreign country interfering with our biggest social media platform. It needs to be banned, too, or she needs to be fired.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Or - OR, right, we could delete facebook instagram and whatsapp and never use them again.

[-] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I'm down lol. Unfortunately friends still use it. I just found out about a friend's birthday this weekend because I don't use Facebook events. Why don't people just text anymore? 😩

[-] Potatisen@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

She looks like the smiley monsters from FROM.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago
[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 1 points 1 month ago

I guess I'm more worried she's going to kill Batman.

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