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.

Comments

Re:Who has only one polling center

[PopeRatzo]

Kind of seems like we have the opposite question here - what kind of ghost town do you live in that you have only a single polling center you can use?

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...

I'm glad Facebook censors, Hope they do more!

[DallasTruaxxx]

“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.

Fact-checkers are just as biased...

[mi]

we have veriabile soruce of informations like Snopes [sic]

This joke is over 2 years old, but remains funny:

• Hillary Clinton: "Sky is blue".
• Fact-checkers: Mostly True.
• Donald Trump: "Sky is blue".
• Fact-checkers: sky is usually black at night, sometimes grey during the day, and red at dusk and dawn — we rate Donald Trump's claim as Mostly False.

Re: Everybody knows

[YrWrstNtmr]

Listen here:
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/3...

Oct 12, Another View.
AV Round Table: VOTE! - skip ahead to 14:30.

Re:It's called a provisional ballot, and works in

[PopeRatzo]

Yes you can, you just end up casting a provisional ballot [azcentral.com] if you do not go to your assigned polling place. You can still vote at any polling place in your county...

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.