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.

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Re:Fact checking?

[Anonymous Coward]

None of that is true. CNN did not attempt to shape the elections. They reported facts. You just don't like the facts.

Putin, on the other hand, did try to shape the US election, and succeeded. So much so, that the US launched a missile strike against Syria, and Putin was informed ahead of time. Putin inturn informed Assad, who removed all the aircraft from the base. We call such people spies. Today that spy is undermining a missile strike, tomorrow he'll be sending American troops to pre-arranged Russian traps.

Re:Fact checking?

[Pentomino]

Ever notice how people who attack CNN for how they treated Bernie, somehow never mention Fox News' 20 years of consistent and deliberate lying, nor to both networks' bounty of free airtime to the Trump campaign?

Yes, CNN was "declared fake news". Directly by the President, who has declared uncooperative journalists his enemy.

So, Fox's 20-year war against facts has finally succeeded, and Trump's war on journalism itself has only started. The weakening of the American spirit will continue, until the one-party system is cemented into place.

I can see why you're defending the propagandists from France's efforts to fight them. It would work so much better for the Kremlin, if only Western Europe would also destroy itself in this way, wouldn't it? But of course, we're not supposed to believe in that, either. It's not politically correct?

Marine Le Pen is their target

[newdsfornerds]

They want to prevent her from gaining office. Fuck Islam.