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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.
Reliable? Seriously? You think those sites are reliable and aren't also spreading agenda skewed news?
I hope that the conflation of illegal immigrant vs legal immigrant data gets policed.
Australia has learnt a long time ago that this doesn't change anything. They'll just move onto the next derogatory comment to describe people who some political group don't want.
Illegal Immigrants. - Asylum seekers aren't illegal immigrants.
Queue Jumpers. - Asylum seekers don't have a queue to get into.
Boat People. - Oh FFS, the Prime Minister who made this comment's own parents arrived by boat.
We'll keep finding new ways to dehumanise people.