Following weeks of reading and writing about the German foreign intelligence service BND (Bundesnachrichtendienst), we figured a minimal research effort would be nice of us and put the K-Landnews Random Research team on the job.
We found the sppooks have their very own page on Wikipedia, unsurprisingly. On this grey day, the valiant, bored team then performed a few searches for items from the Wikipedia page, and yeah - we saw a Facebook "pages" page for the "cover" agency Bundesvermögensverwaltung Abteilung Sondervermögen at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bundesverm%C3%B6gensverwaltung-Abteilung-Sonderverm%C3%B6gen/122258861184086
The FB page includes other local business listings, so it is fair to say that irrelevant questions like "where to BND spooks go when they want to have a pizza for lunch?" are surprisingly easy to resolve.
We would love to be able to tell you that the Facebook presence is a sign of greater government transparency but, jaded as we are, there is no sign of such a move to regain the trust of the population.
"I'm surprised you ever trusted the government in the first place", a friend said.
This seems to be the true root cause of the problem many of us have been having in the past eight weeks.
We found the sppooks have their very own page on Wikipedia, unsurprisingly. On this grey day, the valiant, bored team then performed a few searches for items from the Wikipedia page, and yeah - we saw a Facebook "pages" page for the "cover" agency Bundesvermögensverwaltung Abteilung Sondervermögen at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bundesverm%C3%B6gensverwaltung-Abteilung-Sonderverm%C3%B6gen/122258861184086
The FB page includes other local business listings, so it is fair to say that irrelevant questions like "where to BND spooks go when they want to have a pizza for lunch?" are surprisingly easy to resolve.
We would love to be able to tell you that the Facebook presence is a sign of greater government transparency but, jaded as we are, there is no sign of such a move to regain the trust of the population.
"I'm surprised you ever trusted the government in the first place", a friend said.
This seems to be the true root cause of the problem many of us have been having in the past eight weeks.
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