ANOHNI: I WILL SURVIVE

_____________________________________________________________________________________________ In June, Facebook offered to license an old live version (2001) of me singing “I Will Survive” for an advertisement that represented Facebook as an advocate for small businesses. Although I really could have used the money, I said no because I didn’t want to be complicit in Facebook’s hosting of fake news which might enable the re-election of Donald Trump. They wrote back saying that they were placating other participants’ concerns by making donations to their charities of choice, in addition to paying them. I woke up the next morning and realized this isn’t even advertising; this is politics, and i don’t even know how deep this water is. I had to walk away. A month later I saw the ad. Facebook had hired another singer to emulate my version of the song. It was a nauseating feeling. We all know that Facebook, Google, Twitter, Amazon and others now seem to be destroying our liv