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Facebook To Show Users Which Russian Propaganda They Followed (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Facebook will show people which Russian propaganda pages or accounts they've followed and liked on the social network, responding to a request from Congress to address manipulation and meddling during the 2016 presidential election. The tool will appear by the end of the year in Facebook's online support center, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. It will answer the user question, "How can I see if I've liked or followed a Facebook page or Instagram account created by the Internet Research Agency?" That's the Russian firm that created thousands of incendiary posts from fake accounts posing as U.S. citizens. People will see a list of the accounts they followed, if any, from January 2015 through August 2017. Facebook will only be showing people the names of the pages and accounts, not the content. A user will only see what they liked or followed, so if they simply saw IRA content in their news feeds, they won't be notified.
Maybe we need a better criteria for voting eligibility than a pulse.
Why did you leave out the DNC paid for that report or Natlia got her entry into the US approved by Obama administration.
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And, the more things change...
Interesting how "the usual suspects" openly scoffed at accusations of Russian propaganda when the purported Russian propaganda was in support of their causes.
Back then, the Russian propaganda was mostly along political lines, supporting whoever was most sympathetic to Communism. Now, Russia being nationalist and not Communist these days, and not so much pushing an ideological line, their propaganda is more like "How much can we screw them up?" So when the Left's ox gets mauled by the Russian bear... Suddenly, what was an object of derision ("The '80s called, they want their foreign policy back") becomes A Clear And Present Danger.
I wonder what could screw us up more than Trump in the White House... And the left says "Hold my joint."
Is facebook now the thought police? why are they only targeting Russian propaganda? why cant they show me when i have liked or followed ANY propaganda?
Oh wait, its because they have their own political agenda.... The board should be sacked along with all C suite executives at they no longer are interested in maximizing returns for their shareholders. They have instead opted to use their influence to try and sway popular opinion, its a bold strategy but not one that will maximize returns as it is based on the personal beliefs of people instead of a rational analysis of the market direction. That and they should know that to pick a side in any battle is strategically risky as it may not be the side that wins in the long term.
What you're basically saying is that empty land area matters more than what the majority of actual people want.
mainly it doesnt allow the coastal elites control of the country. my state of NY is a perfect example of why the electoral college is better than a straight vote. NYC covers an area of what, 30 square miles? if that?? Yet due to its population density, it has control over the entire state, eventhough the entire state minus NYC does not want anything to do with the policies that come through due to the influence of NYC
now imagine the entire country being run by NYC and a few other big cities. No thanks
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
or maybe we could limit the power of the federal government and stop expanding it so that way the states have more power than the fed, as intended
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
I like the fact that big, heavily-populated states (California, New York, Texas) don't get to set the agenda for the rest of us
So instead a few "battleground" states (PA, OH, FL) get to set the agenda for the rest of us.
I don't see the difference.
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
Except :
One pro-Trump Facebook ad called for the "removal of Hillary Clinton from the presidential ballot" while another blamed Black Lives Matter for a "gruesome attack on police". Meanwhile, a fake gay rightsâ(TM) account praised Bernie Sanders as a "hero", and an anti-Trump profile advertised a "not my president" rally after the election, which attracted interest from nearly 50,000 people on Facebook and said: "Racism won, Ignorance won, Sexual assault won ⦠STOP TRUMP!"
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People still aren't getting it. Or are being purposefully obtuse to try and keep the "Russia!" panic alive and try to paint Trump in a bad light. If he's such a bad president and bad person, why do you people even need to make stuff up to defame him ?
The only thing creating division in the U.S. right now is not the President, it's all the #RESIST BS that keeps shoving "Russia!" hysteria and spinning everything the President does as negative. It's gotten so bad that if the man cured Cancer tomorrow, he'd be accused of putting Oncologists out of a job.
"Not to mention all the idiots who use words like boxen."
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 04, @06:49PM
And, if that was the way it was intended, you'd have a point... but it wasn't. The Constitution empowered the federal government over the states specifically because the Confederacy of States (where the states were more powerful than the fed) was a spectacular failure... so spectacular of a failure that it took them less than 7 years to realized they needed something exactly the opposite.
Your post isn't insightful, it's simply repeating the lies of people who hate the UNITED States or America.
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"Empty land" is what feeds the majority of America. Not fucking over farmers is in the best interest of y'all city folk,
City folk didn't purposefully elect a prick to screw with their political opposition. City folk don't want to screw over farmers. Nor is it in the farmer's best interests to screw over city folk, cuz we do things like eliminate polio, invent dwarf wheat, bring down the cost of manufactured goods, and raise the quality of life. We have also made it possible for the US to have the world's best military, because everyone has brave muscular men, but few have an unlocked GPS system.
We're all Americans and our votes should count equally.
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