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Canadian Government Teams With Facebook To Protect Election Integrity (vice.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Motherboard:
There are nearly as many Canadians who use Facebook daily as there are people in this country who are registered to vote -- which is why the federal government is working with Facebook to protect its next federal election... Facebook is now facing perhaps its biggest test as it looks to curb foreign electoral interference and the rampant disinformation on its platform, both of which undermine the nature of democracy. Facebook Canada's election integrity project includes a partnership with a local digital news media literacy organization MediaSmarts, as well as a "cyberhygiene guide" that highlights particular vulnerabilities such as phishing and page-admin authentication. Facebook also has a crisis email line to help politicians and parties with hacking concerns... Kevin Chan, Facebook Canada's head of public policy, said the social media company is working on preventing bad actors from interfering with the democratic process. "At Facebook we take our responsibilities seriously," Chan said. "We don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy."
At the launch of "the Canadian Election Integrity Initiative," Canada's Minister of Democratic Institutions argued that social media sites "must begin to view themselves as actors in shaping the democratic discourse."
The article points out Facebook "has promised to hire thousands of workers globally to help review flagged and suspicious content, as well as use machine learning to identify suspicious patterns of behavior on its platform."
At the launch of "the Canadian Election Integrity Initiative," Canada's Minister of Democratic Institutions argued that social media sites "must begin to view themselves as actors in shaping the democratic discourse."
The article points out Facebook "has promised to hire thousands of workers globally to help review flagged and suspicious content, as well as use machine learning to identify suspicious patterns of behavior on its platform."
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
It's because the other side believes might makes right, and like to burn down black churches.
Sure. Ask James Damore about that.
All he had to do to invoke the SJW/"progressive" wrath was to quote actual scientific research debunking the idea of a discrimination-based "pay gap" between men and women.
Of course, after Google doubled down on SJW stupidity, stating "Of course all pay differences are the result of discrimition!", they got sued for discrimination. SJW cannibalism at its finest! I'm sure Damore's attorneys will be paying real close attention to Google's defense against claims they discriminated based on sex.
When everything is about race and identity, it all becomes meaningless noise.
Yea it's a fucking Orwellian shitshow.
In Germany we have Facebook deletion centers whose only task is to delete controversial content. They are staffed with hundreds of people and they stocked up before the election. Said centers are being coached by hard left foundations and staffed with hard left staff that happily deletes posts that aren't violating any laws but don't suit their political worldview.
An ex employee recently reported they actively target the AfD, a conservative/right party that's been gaining a lot of popularity, to delete posts that could benefit them.
> "We don't want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy."
That's exactly what Facebook is doing.
Wonderful! So what if assaults are up 200%, murders are up 50% and rapes are up 1000%? The average woman rape victim is thanking us because of how diverse their rapists are!