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Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections (reuters.com)
"Facebook will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations in the run-up to and during next month's U.S. midterm elections," reports Reuters. The latest efforts are to reduce voter manipulation across its platform. From the report: The world's largest online social network, with 1.5 billion daily users, has stopped short of banning all false or misleading posts, something that Facebook has shied away from as it would likely increase its expenses and leave it open to charges of censorship. The ban on false information about voting methods, set to be announced later on Monday, comes six weeks after Senator Ron Wyden asked Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg how Facebook would counter posts aimed at suppressing votes, such as by telling certain users they could vote by text, a hoax that has been used to reduce turnout in the past.
The information on voting methods becomes one of the few areas in which falsehoods are prohibited on Facebook, a policy enforced by what the company calls "community standards" moderators, although application of its standards has been uneven. It will not stop the vast majority of untruthful posts about candidates or other election issues.
The information on voting methods becomes one of the few areas in which falsehoods are prohibited on Facebook, a policy enforced by what the company calls "community standards" moderators, although application of its standards has been uneven. It will not stop the vast majority of untruthful posts about candidates or other election issues.
Ban politics from Facebook. Totally.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
“When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.” George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings. No more lies, no more 'shadow banning' no more pretense. Facebook is showing their true colors. Now that people have seen the kind of values that Facebook demonstrates, they can make their own choices to continue to associate on the Facebook platform, or not.
Hey Anonymous Coward, which *facts* in this Snopes story are wrong? Be specific.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-ch...
I think you got the names mixed up there. Clinton was under far more scrutiny and was held to a far higher standard than Trump was. Trump's whole gimmick was that everything he says is such an obvious falsehood or exaggeration you can't possibly take any of it seriously, it's all just "political hype" or a joke.
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SJW, n: "Someone I don't like, and by the way I'm a fuckwit" - AC
It proves that Trump is an inveterate liar.
That's important.