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US President Barack Obama Criticizes Facebook of Spreading Fake Stories (www.bgr.in)
An anonymous reader writes:Concerned over the spread of fake news on the social networking giant, US President Barack Obama has criticized Facebook, saying fake stories on social networks are spreading lies this election. Speaking at a rally for Hillary Clinton at University of Michigan, Obama said: "The way campaigns have unfolded, we just start accepting crazy stuff as normal and people if they just repeat attacks enough and outright lies over and over again. As long as it's on Facebook, and people can see it, as long as it's on social media, people start believing it, and it creates this dust cloud of nonsense," he told the gathering. A recent BuzzFeed investigation found that 38 percent of posts shared from three large right-wing politics pages on Facebook included "false or misleading information."
"To combat the lies being spread about me; I'd like you to rev up the censorship"
Thank you, Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and so many others, for courageously defending humanity, my freedom and more!
The government is concerned about spreading lies and that it may dupe people into making choices that they wouldn't make if they knew the real facts? Talk about blistering irony...
Not yet, but they're very close to having a monopoly now that Ailes is out at Fox. If you've been following the Wikileaks releases, you would have seen that all of the mainstream media were colluding and working with the Clinton team. All of Hollywood and all of the big networks working overtime for Clinton, controlling the news you hear, massaging, filtering, and shaping the message being delivered to the populace. If not for the internet, Reddit, Wikileaks, and a few others, Clinton would be winning all 50 states and nobody would have a clue.
Of course, you would have all the -others- tossed out even if they are citizens. Xenophobes like you have no place in modern society. Either we learn to get along with each other (and we have been doing better lately even though the news makes you think otherwize), or we will wind up destroying ourselves, or that which makes us human.
Quit using your fear as a driver for your beliefs.
Silence is a state of mime.
Some people are saying that Hillary is a shapeshifting reptoid.
Myself, I wouldn't know.
But that's what they're saying on the Facebooks.
We just provide the lies, you pick which one fits your preconceived bias.
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Simple, because there are NOT FUCKING CITIZENS!!
Geez, how hard is that to get?
They came here illegally....they are disqualified from voting and they have started out their journey on US soil by committing a crime. If you don't like that, change the laws, but you can't change the fact that they are here by breaking immigration laws.
Ok..so, you say anyone here in the US during elections should be able to vote? Ok..are there other countries in the world that are so haphazard with their election laws?
By your logic, you'd be cool with other countries sending floods of folks here to try to sway elections. How about lots of Russians flooding in close swing states...they come here, overstay their visa...and keep doing this with more and more people coming over during the 4 years between elections and then they all get to vote and sway our elections based on what their mother country wants.
Far fetched? It could happen.
Ok, how long do you think you should have if you are in the US illegally before you can vote. 1 year? 5 years? 10 years? If you are here illegally, how can you prove it?
Those documents to prove how long you are here could easily be forged....
Again..there are rules and laws on the books. If you don't like them, vote to get representative that will change them, get involved...promote your cause.
But we can just ignore things we don't like, or it falls into anarchy.
And other external countries to the US do NOT have our best interest in mind, they have their best interest. That's what a countries government is supposed to do.
So, look. I don't think hardly anyone has a problem with immigrants. Legal immigrants.
Yes, come to the US...just sign the fucking guest book on the way in....
And one last hint..if you want to come here, be a citizen and contribute...quit waving other countries' flags when you're on TV protesting. It doesn't help your cause much.
If you wanted things like they were in your home country..stay there.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........