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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.
Listening to NPR last week about voting registration, etc, one of the commentators said that she was going to tell all her Republican relatives that election day had been changed to Wednesday.
All of the other panelists agreed that this was acceptable, and a good idea.
States like Texas, Georgia, etc have been closing polling places in minority neighborhoods. This is why, every single election, the longest lines you see are in minority communities.
I mean, come on, SuperKendall. You must know better than this. It's not like Republicans have been hiding their voter suppression efforts. How do you not know this stuff?
https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/r...
You are welcome on my lawn.
“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...
So, more important to get authentic line length info. Someone posting from Bulgaria about line length in Council Bluffs is probably trying to suppress the vote.
In Maricopa County, as in all of Arizona, you are assigned a polling place. You can't just show up at whichever one you want on election day.
You would know this if you were a voter in the US.
You are welcome on my lawn.
This joke is over 2 years old, but remains funny:
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
Listen here:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/3...
Oct 12, Another View.
AV Round Table: VOTE! - skip ahead to 14:30.
Provisional ballots are generally not counted.
And the ballot you cast provisionally must be the ballot for the precinct you are from. They don't keep ballots for all precincts at all polling places. So unless you are in the rare state that will send you the ballot by mail ahead of election day, the only way you're going to get the correct ballot is by going to your assigned precinct's polling place. If they could get their assigned ballot from their assigned polling place, then they wouldn't need a provisional ballot, would they?
Yes, you could cast a provisional ballot, but it would not be counted unless it was the ballot from the precinct you were assigned. That's law. Also, there are several states that do not allow provisional ballots at all.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It proves that Trump is an inveterate liar.
That's important.