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Facebook Reopens Probe Into Russian Involvement in Brexit (techcrunch.com)
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Facebook has said it will conduct a wider investigation into whether there was Russian meddling on its platform relating to the 2016 Brexit referendum vote in the UK. Wednesday its UK policy director Simon Milner wrote to a parliamentary committee that's been conducting a wide-ranging enquiry into fake news -- and whose chair has been witheringly critical of Facebook and Twitter for failing to co-operate with requests for information and assistance on the topic of Brexit and Russia -- saying it will widen its investigation, per the committee's request. Though he gave no firm deadline for delivering a fresh report -- beyond estimating "a number of weeks".
It's not clear whether Twitter will also bow to pressure to conduct a more thorough investigation of Brexit-related disinformation. At the time of writing the company had not responded to our questions either. At the end of last year committee chair Damian Collins warned both companies they could face sanctions for failing to co-operate with the committee's enquiry -- slamming Twitter's investigations to date as "completely inadequate", and expressing disbelief that both companies had essentially ignored the committee's requests... Independent academic studies have suggested there was in fact significant tweet-based activity generated around Brexit by Russian bots."
Theresa May has said Russia's attempts to "sow discord" in the West could not go unchallenged, and warned Vladimir Putin, "We know what you are up to."
Facebook's response complained that a new investigation "requires detailed analysis of historic data by our security experts, who are also engaged in preventing live threats to our service."
It's not clear whether Twitter will also bow to pressure to conduct a more thorough investigation of Brexit-related disinformation. At the time of writing the company had not responded to our questions either. At the end of last year committee chair Damian Collins warned both companies they could face sanctions for failing to co-operate with the committee's enquiry -- slamming Twitter's investigations to date as "completely inadequate", and expressing disbelief that both companies had essentially ignored the committee's requests... Independent academic studies have suggested there was in fact significant tweet-based activity generated around Brexit by Russian bots."
Theresa May has said Russia's attempts to "sow discord" in the West could not go unchallenged, and warned Vladimir Putin, "We know what you are up to."
Facebook's response complained that a new investigation "requires detailed analysis of historic data by our security experts, who are also engaged in preventing live threats to our service."
The leftists are losing their bloody minds, you can't blame all your losses on Russia. Sour grapes mate. Enough with this, face it the other side won. Fucking elitist doss cunts, you're in such denial that you lost, that it couldn't POSSIBLY have happened without shady intervention. You lot are off your medication.
The problem is that it's just an excuse by liberal elites to not take responsibility for abandoning their voter bases. Even if Russia did interfere, the best solution would be to adopt populist left policies, but that would mean rich assholes would have to actually pay taxes, and that the "centrist" corporate cocksuckers would need to die out like the dinosaurs they are.
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My slashdot history is full of posts asking for Donald Trump to be shot into the sun. I'm not a sockpuppet, I just hate losers who continue to use failed strategies, especially when those strategies get in the way of actual left wing policies being passed. Get rid of the Clintonites and replace them with actual progressives, and Trump and his ilk don't stand a chance.
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Brexit is a seperate issue to American elections, do read the summary before posting !
It would be interesting to know if there was a Russian effort to trick people into voting for Brexit. It is probably too late to change, but it is not too late to fight future propaganda.
One thing people forget about the American elections was that Americans created the conditions that the propaganda and fake news could thrive, and many of them had (R)s next to their names. I presume you had similar conditions during Brexit, at least from what I recall of world elections lately..
Twitter should do the work, even if they have to hire people. Britain should, if required, foot the bill, to make sure it gets done. Truth does take effort, and sometimes it is a monetary one...
Economically, most of what I'm asking for is to go back to the immense success of America before Ronald Reagan's Alzheimer-riddled idiocy implemented some bullshit written on the back of a napkin while Cheney and Rumsfeld were in the room, because you can't do anything stupid in America without them, apparently. Hell, Bernie's platform only winded the clock back to roughly Ronnie's FIRST term.
So please, spare me your bullshit.
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Omg, you're a Berner.
We're done here. There's no point in trying to discuss politics or economics with communist minions.
#blacklivesmatter is responsible for a dozen or more police officer deaths. There's also no shortage of key leadership figures who've posted long anti-white screeds or what the progressive left would like to call "hate speech." And there is next to zero outcry over that, or even next to zero outcry in the media over it. The only one that got any real media play was the #blm leader in Toronto because it came very close to actually hitting the level for incitement in Canada.
I'll remind you that if the left want to play by the "hate speech" rules, there will be people who will hold them to those same rules.
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