Facebook Removed References To Russia From Fake-News Report (arstechnica.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Back in April, Facebook published a report called "Information Operations and Facebook" that detailed the company's efforts to combat fake news and other misinformation campaigns on the site. The report was released in the midst of an uproar over potential Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential campaign. But the report doesn't mention Russia by name, saying only that Facebook's data "does not contradict" a January report by the Obama administration detailing Russian meddling in the election. On Friday, The Wall Street Journal reported that the decision not to mention Russia was hotly debated inside Facebook. An earlier draft of the report discussed what Facebook knew at that time about Russian meddling, but that material was ultimately removed from the report before publication. "Some at Facebook pushed to not include a mention of Russia in the report because the company's understanding of Russian activity was too speculative, according to one of the people," according to the Journal.

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This latest round of crap is all about universal health care, which started gaining real traction so, mass censorship and an idiots distraction.

It smells very much like the US government wants to ban foreign comments on it's corrupt politics, they are so threatened because their corrupt scam has been so exposed. All there actions do is make them look worse and worse as they desperately try to corruptly cling to power.

They are making a real push to silence all opposition to the establishment prior to the next primary season and they will fail miserable, the more the try tighten their grip on comments the more comments will slip through their fingers, heh, heh.

My God, they are just totally making themselves look really stupid now to any kind of educated audience, the crazy crap they are up to is just laughable and only profound arrogance stops them seeing what fools they are making of themselves. The world is starting to laugh at you USA because of the stupid shenanigans of your corrupt politicians.