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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.
France doesn't have elections. Trump is President of the World.
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!
"Perhaps you should research"... so weak even you don't assert it as truth.
Be clear about it, Trump fucked piss hookers in Russia, in the hotel across from the FSB, a hotel known to be monitored by the FSB. This story was reported by a British spy, who quoted known Russian sources. Current and former FSB agents and a maid in the hotel. Those sources are credible and fit the profile of Russians arrested by Putin for treason shortly after Trump got to power.
So CNN reported this spy report, which turned out to be real, which remains as true today as it was before Trump got to power. Those memos talk about Putin grooming ex General Flynn. This was *before* Trump even nominated Flynn, how could Putin known who Trump would nominate before Trump even produced the shortlist? The meetings between Manasfort and Putin, the meetings between Cohen and the FSB head, these all turned out to be true. Even Stone's emails discussions with Guccifer 2 have been confirmed.
"You could google "CNN Fake news" or "CNN controversies" ".... you want me to search your keywords for you? Do you need help making your fake point?
Let me Google something simple, [Bernie Sanders site:cnn.com].... oooo look, you claim of a Bernie Sanders blackout is a lie too. His talking points are there page after page after page.
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.
"You forgot Project Veritas" i.e. Brietbart and Trump funded fake news outfit known for paying big libel payouts.
It's all funny for you isn't it? But when Trump sends in US troops into battle and PRE-WARNS his buddy Putin, the way he did in Syria, and Putin warns Assad and Assad gasses US troops, will it be so funny then?
This round it was only missiles wasted, not lives. The Pentagon fired Tomahawks, which are designed to hit munitions and weapons systems, not concrete bunkers, yet all they found there was tarmac and concrete. Assad's military had took the warning from Trump and fled. What if he sends troops into battle like that??
Trump's a triator, a spy, a man who sides with foreign leaders to get power. It's NEVER acceptable to undermine democracy using the secret service of a foreign dictator.
Is Just Distraction from Hillary's E-mails Yes?
I am real Americanskaya
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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This is all done to control the election.
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.
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 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.