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Facebook 'Likes' Are a Powerful Tool For Authoritarian Rulers, Court Petition Says (qz.com)
A Cambodian opposition leader has filed a petition in a California court against Facebook, demanding the company disclose its transactions with his country's authoritarian prime minister, whom he accuses of falsely inflating his popularity through purchased "likes" and spreading fake news. From a report: The petition, filed Feb. 8, brings the ongoing debate over Facebook's power to undermine democracies into a legal setting. The petitioner, Sam Rainsy, says that Hun Sen, the prime minister, "has used the network to threaten violence against political opponents and dissidents, disseminate false information, and manipulate his (and the regime's) supposed popularity, thus seeking to foster an illusion of popular legitimacy." Rainsy alleges that Hun had used "click farms" to artificially boost his popularity, effectively buying "likes." The petition says that Hun had achieved astonishing Facebook fame in a very short time, raising questions about whether this popularity was legitimate.
..is more dislikes.
"Making Again Good for America" and his support is entirely grassroots and real!
now, my views as a finnish person may not have much weight in this discussion but in my experience trump does authentically have higher popularity until you get up to category of +60 year old women who overwhelmingly would've preferred clinton of the males in my own age group I am yet to find the first one telling they'd have liked clinton over trump
You're a fool if you think Slashdot has any "reach" and thus would be worth it to spend money on paid shills. Those days have come and gone. Remember when the Slashdot Effect could crush websites? Today articles barely get 100 comments each.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
Shit, I'd take David Hasselhoff over Trump
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
"now, my views as a finnish person "
I had a Nordic girlfriend once, don't know which nation exactly, but during sex she always yelled: "I'm not finnish!"
"When Russians buy ads it's "meddling", but when DNC and RNC do it, it's just campaigning."
Congratulations, you understood the law perfectly!
The data doesn't support your anecdote: Young people of both genders were both more likely to vote for Clinton than the general population. See e.g. http://college.usatoday.com/2016/11/09/how-we-voted-by-age-education-race-and-sexual-orientation/
Somebody is simply using the courts to try to find out dirt on their opponent.
Caution: Contents under pressure
You're drunk right now, aren't you? I love Finland and Finnish people, but they are drunk almost all the time.
In your experience, do you realize that there are actually data that shows you have it completely wrong? Among women, Trump is most popular with women over 65.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...
http://college.usatoday.com/20...
You are welcome on my lawn.
Facebook 'Likes' Are a Powerful Tool For Authoritarian Rulers
...Facebook, (...) whom he accuses of falsely inflating his popularity through purchased "likes" and spreading fake news.
Well, Facebook is designed to be just that: a paid propaganda conduit enabling corporate customers (you know, the ones who actually pay Facebook) to get their kool-aid into the heads of billions of unwitting consumers. What else would motivate them to collectively pour billions of dollars into a service like Facebook? Follow us on Facebook, little people! Hammer your brain with our name, make it look like we’re the most popular and let us see everything about you, all in a single click!
And why think that politicians wouldn’t do the exact same thing when they regularly employ the same marketing agencies and the same mass propaganda techniques as commercial entities?
Except what this article is about and the main thing Russia is accused of is not buying ads, but buying manufactured presence on social media sites, which is not simply failing to disclose the source of a political ad buy (which, yes, is illegal), but, in fact, fraud, although I suspect fraud laws are poorly written to handle things like buying likes and impersonating someone on social media, so it may or may not be technically illegal for local political parties to do depending on the locality and the courts.
https://imgur.com/a/7BVhN
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