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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!
"Obama criticizes Facebook of...
Perhaps you mean criticizes FB for spreading fake stories
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...
"My position hasn’t changed" on using executive authority to address immigration issues. ... Donald Trump is a small business."
Says his comment about extremists being a JV team "wasn’t specifically referring to" Islamic State.
"Most young Americans right now, they’re not covered" by health insurance.
"We’ve got close to 7 million Americans who have access to health care for the first time because of Medicaid expansion."
The "most realistic estimates" for jobs created by Keystone XL are "maybe 2,000 jobs during the construction of the pipeline."
"We have doubled the distance our cars will go on a gallon of gas."
"Under Gov. Romney's definition
Because of Obamacare, "over the last two years, health care premiums have gone up -- it's true -- but they've gone up slower than any time in the last 50 years." Obamacare hadn't been implemented yet.
"Fast and Furious" began under the Bush administration.
Says Mitt Romney would deny gay people the right to adopt children.
If the Supreme Court throws out the federal health care law, it "would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress."
"Thirty million Americans, including a lot of people in Florida, are going to be able to get healthcare next year because of that law."
Under President Barack Obama, the United States has "doubled our exports."
"I didn't raise taxes once."
"The vast majority of the money I got was from small donors all across the country.''
"We've excluded lobbyists from policy making jobs."
Insurers delayed an Illinois man's treatment, "and he died because of it."
Health reform will "give every American the same opportunity" to buy health insurance the way members of Congress do.
Preventive care "saves money."
"I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter."
Shovel-ready jobs
Keep your doctor
Foreign money in campaigns
The list goes on and on...
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
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.
I dunno.
BUT....everyone please remember, with the expected high voter turnouts this year, in order to endure everyone can cast their votes, THS year, we are having the Republicans vote today, and tomorrow is reserved for the Democrats to cast their ballots.
This is the best way to keep things fair, and ensure everyone gets to vote and have their vote counted.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
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.
Female host:
"Many of the millennials, dreamers, undocumented -- undocumented citizens, I call them citizens because they contribute to this country. Are fearful of voting, so if I vote will immigration know where I live, will they come for my family and deport us?"
Obama:
Not true. And the reason is, first of all ... when you vote, you are a citizen yourself and there is not a situation where the voting rules are somehow transferred over and people start investigating, and etc. The sanctity of the vote, is strictly confidential in terms of who you voted for. If you have a family member who is undocumented, you have an even greater reason to vote."
Seriously, fuck you. You can try and cut that anyway you want, but it doesn't get much clearer than that.
Om, nomnomnom...
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
he specifically said "If you are a Latino Citizen with undocumented family members... you have more reason to vote" He never encouraged illegals to vote.
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.........