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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.
If you get most of your news from Facebook
. . . you'll be voting for Zuck for President in a few years. Zuck will pay Russia to force Kaspersky to pay Facebook to support him.
. . . and no, Anonymous Coward, we shouldn't be talking about banning bump stocks. That will happen anyway. And you can bump a semi-automatic weapon with a rubber band anyway. And banned bump stocks will still be available anyway from your local crack dealer. The damn things are probably flying off the shelves of gun dealers now. There is nothing like the threat of a ban to increase consumer demand into a frenzy.
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