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Facebook Targets 30,000 Fake France Accounts Before Election (go.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ABC News: Facebook says it has targeted 30,000 fake accounts linked to France ahead of the country's presidential election, as part of a worldwide effort against misinformation. The company said Thursday it's trying to "reduce the spread of material generated through inauthentic activity, including spam, misinformation, or other deceptive content that is often shared by creators of fake accounts." It said its efforts "enabled us to take action" against the French accounts and that it is removing sites with the highest traffic. Facebook and French media are also running fact-checking programs in France to combat misleading information, especially around the campaign for the two-round April 23-May 7 presidential election. European authorities have also pressured Facebook and Twitter to remove extremist propaganda or other postings that violate European hate speech or other laws.
To be scared or not to be scared, that is the question.
Not the real problem. The real problem are people who make their vote decision based on facts they get on Facebook posts.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
Sounds more like shaping the message they want you to hear.
We all know how well "fact checking" and poll massaging CNN and Politifact were doing prior to the elections in an attempt to shape the election and it backfired.
Even if the content is considered fringe to the MSM, repressing it usually has the opposite effect, it only confirms the persecution complex of those fringe groups.
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How long until some comes up with an idea to combat true information under the same pretense?
Welcome to the world of censorship where someone is "fact-checking" your posts.
Considering failbook's history, it's an educated guess that most if not all of those accounts were in fact just right wing, and not fake at all. Keep on spinning that narrative guys, you can get the Trump surprise all over again when Le Pen wins despite your censorship and propaganda.
Do you also talk about Canada accounts or United States of America accounts?
FRENCH accounts.
...and it was never a crisis until a populist got elected POTUS and "online bullshit" found itself high on the list of the failed establishment candidate's excuses for losing.
Now the elites who suddenly fear that the commoner plebs might no longer vote how they want them to are trying to ministry-of-truth the internet because either A) they actually believe a few russian bots spreading "Fake News" on facebook that not even people with the appropriate biases believed influenced a measurable amount of voters, or B) "Fake News" is a conveniently broad and vague term that can just as easily be thrown at real news/opinion sites with the wrong biases as at news sites documenting the impending alien takeover of Dallas. At least once your friendly unbiased "fact" checkers at Snopes or WaPo give you cover.
I hate to break it to you but the elites of which you speak own alternative media. Billionaires and their fellow travelers cannot buy the output of CNN but they can buy as many shill accounts and alt-right blogs as they like. It is pretty good money too I can tell you losers. Facebook is run by a vaguely leftist idealistic collage graduate and the sooner we kill off his network the sooner we can get that police state that keeps the scummy poor where they belong.
Facts are history now plebs have politics for religion on social media.
Best way to stop fake news & info, isn't it ?
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>Billionaires and their fellow travelers cannot buy the output of CNN
So who do you think owns CNN? Do you think it's a government program? A charity?
Surely "Anti-Establishment" and former Rothschild banker are so mutually exclusive that Reuters should be labelled "Fake News"?
How would we know that those are the only things that went?
Zuck did not graduate college
PUTIN WINS!
Apparently.
Uhh Clinton does.. It's the Clinton News Network. You're slow.
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pro-American sentiments in their communications, or are voting for the anti-American candidate. It's convenient to control information like Facebook do.
Wow, you believe anything. A real CNN watcher.
Is Just Distraction from Hillary's E-mails Yes?
I am real Americanskaya
take a stand against information crime.
Surely you meant to post as AC?
Follow the money.
Typically a rich backer wants some story put out. e.g. "Acorn helps black pimps evade the law". They fund a straw man front, someone like James O'Keefe. He then makes fake videos, puts them out as "project veritas" truths. "Acorn helps pimps evade laws, here watch this video".
He then gets sued, Acorn get the full UNEDITED video, in which he pretends to be representing a congressman, not a pimp, and it's clear he's edited it to deceive people, cutting in stuff filmed after the fact to change the narrative. Acorn sues him for libel, and he acknoweldges it was a lie, and settles the case for $100k.
If the rich backer did this directly then Acorn could sue him for *billions* in damages. O Keefe is simply there to minimize the damages from the lie. He's just a straw man fronting the lies.
It's all about money. If you want to see whose behind some fake news, just follow the money. The motive for these professional liars is money. They do it for cash, its business.
The entire FB is a FAKE.
For Zuck to come clean would require all of FB to shut down and Zuck give back his billions.
That is Not going to happen.
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When you want to prove a point with a bomb strike, not a body count, you give warning that you are doing it. This lets the 'enemy' move their troops out, and prevents the news coverage from focusing on all those "poor innocent soldiers" lying dead in the target zone.
The fact that you can't even conceive there is a reason to warn the enemy this way shows how much you understand of the real world.
Now go back to class so you can get more idiotic arguments shoved into your brain.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
This is all done to control the election.
Video evidence showing the proof and you call it "fake news" with no other explanation. Yet when it's some unverifiable establishment propaganda, you're all-in on believing it and throw around traitor accusations at the President.
You need to do some soul-searching. You're very lost.
I dumped Zuckerbook years ago. This madman is out of control
>80 column hard wrapped e-mail is not a sign of intelligent
>life
After that a-hole on Facebook's board almost single-handedly turned the site into a Trump-friendly fake news factory during the US election...NOW they suddenly care about this?
More likely they're just afraid the EU will fine them into the poorhouse if they try the same kind of nonsense in civilized countries.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.
Oh, yesterday posting a link to a homeopathic cream was 'fake news', now it is 'information crime', tomorrow it will be... 'quackery terrorism'?
(By the way, I just notice that also slashdot seems to be involved in these nefarious practices, as their spell checker marks the word 'homeopathic' as erroneous. But then, it does the same with the word 'slashdot'! :)
But I digress.
I still haven't found the truth that 'the Russkis' hacked any election, that Assad's air force dropped a chemical bomb last week, that Ghaddafi mass-murdered his own people, that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and/or 'links' with Al Qaeda, that Iran wants to destroy Israel or that North Korea's primary intent is to destroy somehow the whole US of A.
Now, what was it you said was the fake news?...
But ok, great idea, let Facebook and Snopes decide who gets in power and who is 'the wrong person' to get in. What happened to democracy?
Totally sick, if you ask me.
Try searching using this
[Hillary Clinton site:cnn.com daterange:2457388.5-2457754.5]
About 193,000 hits
[Bernie Sanders site:cnn.com daterange:2457388.5-2457754.5]
About 40,000 hits
They want to prevent her from gaining office. Fuck Islam.
Damping absorbs vibrations. Dampening is caused by moisture.
Or do you somehow believe that CNN and CIA are the same thing?
If that's the case, I have some super-secret NASA designed from alien technology aluminum foil to stop those government rays they are beaming into your head.
We can negotiate the price later. It's your health that's the priority here.
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Stick to same old ideas (i.e. stay conservative) and with every second you are more and more wrong until you're standing in the middle of the street shouting anti-gay slogans wearing nothing but a Reagan-Thatcher "love" shirt.
But it's actually Right wing == fake news and disinformation.
http://www.cjr.org/analysis/br...
Our own study of over 1.25 million stories published online between April 1, 2015 and Election Day shows that a right-wing media network anchored around Breitbart developed as a distinct and insulated media system, using social media as a backbone to transmit a hyper-partisan perspective to the world.
This pro-Trump media sphere appears to have not only successfully set the agenda for the conservative media sphere, but also strongly influenced the broader media agenda, in particular coverage of Hillary Clinton.
While concerns about political and media polarization online are longstanding, our study suggests that polarization was asymmetric.
Pro-Clinton audiences were highly attentive to traditional media outlets, which continued to be the most prominent outlets across the public sphere, alongside more left-oriented online sites.
But pro-Trump audiences paid the majority of their attention to polarized outlets that have developed recently, many of them only since the 2008 election season.
Attacks on the integrity and professionalism of opposing media were also a central theme of right-wing media.
Rather than "fake news" in the sense of wholly fabricated falsities, many of the most-shared stories can more accurately be understood as disinformation: the purposeful construction of true or partly true bits of information into a message that is, at its core, misleading.
Over the course of the election, this turned the right-wing media system into an internally coherent, relatively insulated knowledge community, reinforcing the shared worldview of readers and shielding them from journalism that challenged it.
The prevalence of such material has created an environment in which the President can tell supporters about events in Sweden that never happened, or a presidential advisor can reference a non-existent "Bowling Green massacre."
Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens
Good timing, assholes. When the world burns, it'll be your fault, at least in part. We could have had a COMPETENT president, we could even, (whisper of a dream,) have had a president who was competent, and NOT corrupt! But NOOOoooo...
I wish FB would have taken this stand before the US elections. But they didn't want to be accused of discriminating against the Republicans for filtering fake news stories, the vast majority aimed at right wing voters. It got so bad I quit FB a year ago and haven't been back since.
It amazes me that a party who never met a conspiracy about Obama or Hillary they didn't believe, can be so un-curious about the very real foreign interference and domestic treason during the election and probably still ongoing at the highest levels.
There is nothing so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
I think Trump is an incompetent halfwit, and even I think warning the Russians was essential. Just about every Syrian-controlled airbase and military facility has Russian forces present. If the US had simply launched an unannounced attack, there would have been Russian fatalities and while one may dicker as to whether the Russians would consider that an act of war, at the very least it would greatly escalated matters and it's those sorts of "inadvertent" attacks on Russian forces that could lead to direct conflict between US and Russian troops. It's why the US hasn't directly intervened over the Ukraine civil war as well. If you have US and Russian forces in the same area uncoordinated, even where they may not be in technically in mutually hostile positions, it could go to shit very very fast.
If the accounts were true, Trump was given multiple options, but it was recommended to send in a symbolic strike, rather than an out-and-out "blow 'em up real good" attack. If you feel, as I do, that the intelligence Trump was given that the gas attack was airborne and thus could only come from Syrian forces, then I think this is exactly what you do. You call up your Russian contacts, tell them "What Assad requires a response, but we're giving you time to get any of your soldiers out of the line of fire" before just blasting away. Yes, it's possible that Assad could have got some materials out of there, though I wonder if there was enough time to actually much in the way of actual chemical weapons, but that wasn't the important part anyways.
What I think people are missing here is that while Russia and the US have spent much of the last 70 years as enemies and competitors, particularly since the Cuban Missile Crisis, there has long been backchannel communications, to make sure that whatever actions Washington or Moscow are taking don't suddenly plunge the two countries into even a technical state of war.
What Trump supporters should be really pissed about is the fact that, despite all the declarations of America First and how he was going to keep US forces out of foreign wars, Trump seems to be evolving quickly into a rather typical US president. His style is quirky, but the Tomahawk attack demonstrated an Administration that in some ways more resembles Bill Clinton's foreign policy than anyone else.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Forget "globalist". He's just an unhinged idiot that would rather believe in an insane conspiracy theory than believe his party's anointed one is anything but perfect.
He's just engaging in classic blame deflection.
Some disturbing cult of personality nonsense too...
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
Every argument you make is spot on. Thank you for the reply.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
I wonder how many of these accounts were left wing?
I'm willing to bet zero.
Facebook sucks. Like Trump voters.
Facebook and similar sites are rife with fake news. Either they should all be shut down as the lying, interfering foreign spy cesspools that they are or each and every post should be human moderated and fact checked before going public, with anything that slips through costing large fines and firings.
Love when the government gets to tell me what is fake, what is propaganda, and what is real.