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Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com)
Facebook said Friday that it removed 82 pages, groups, and accounts from Iran that tried to sow political discord in the U.S. and U.K. over the course of the last year. USA Today reports: The Facebook announcement, coming two weeks before the midterms, was a bracing reminder of the growing scale and frequency of disinformation operations threatening the United States on social media, some of it tied to foreign governments, even as Facebook adds thousands of new employees and strengthens technology to more quickly root out and take down disinformation campaigns.
The page administrators and account owners typically misrepresented themselves as U.S. citizens, or in a few cases U.K. citizens, to post on politically divisive subjects ripped from the headlines such as the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Last week Twitter disclosed more than 1 million tweets from the same operation. The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts, but the investigation is still ongoing.
The page administrators and account owners typically misrepresented themselves as U.S. citizens, or in a few cases U.K. citizens, to post on politically divisive subjects ripped from the headlines such as the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Last week Twitter disclosed more than 1 million tweets from the same operation. The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts, but the investigation is still ongoing.
Of course, conservatives will claim that only conservative iranian accounts were removed...
of muckraking. I keep saying this but we lost a lot when guys like Gawker went away. Sure, they did a lot of awful tabloid journalism, but they also did a fair bit of the investigative stuff that the tabloids paid for.
Somewhat hilariously one of the hardest hitting journalistic outlets today is Teen Vogue. It helps that they're a bit like the court jester in that nobody takes 'em that seriously so they can get away with stories that anywhere else would have the mega corps come down like a ton of bricks.
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Why don't you tell us who you're talking about? "The left" isn't a group really except in your AM radio feedback loop, sleepy traitor.
That's exactly right, if only CNN or the NY Times would report on the presence of a disinformation or propaganda campaign, people would believe it.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
With inauthentic behavior found and someone sure they are really detecting an effort to spread discord.
What is next?
No memes at all because of domestic political considerations? No blasphemy because ads? No funny art work? No links to funny political art work sites?
No freedom of speech online to enjoy funny political art due to investigation and the demands of US and UK government officials?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
> The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts
Without the investigation being complete, HOW can they possibly already CLEAR
the Iranian Government SO ABSOLUTELY?
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This discussion isn't about Israel, Jews, or AIPAC. It's about Facebook removing 82 Iranian disinformation linked accounts.
If you have to take it all the way down to your racist base you should find a forum more welcoming to that.
Like a Trump arena. Or a Florida van full of stickers.
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AC re "Will the same standard of scrutiny and censorship"
How to detect artists and rate their level of political content:
A select group of US and UK government officials will decide on the exact level of domestic political comedy.
US law enforcement has it own experts to prove if a meme has international political content.
A think tank also has top experts to consider the level of comedy and political funniness.
Big US social media brands will then take the gov and think tank findings and report all accounts and users trying to be funny in the same way.
All such accounts will then be banned.
Too much skill with funny political art shows the hidden work of an anthropologist and an advanced medical study of the US and UK population.
A political meme that is not funny enough shows the low levels of freedom and creativity found in other nations.
Any art work that is found to be funny and creative shows a long term domestic support group of artists in the USA. Getting international funding to support decades of artistic study within the USA.
Cells of artistic spies in the USA getting funding from other governments over decades to study the history of US animation cels.
Who then ramp up the domestic production of funny political art. US and UK government officials cant view too much meme magic or their party political views change.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Technically any misrepresentation of your identity violates Facebook's TOS, para 3.1. So any account from any non-American claiming to be American will get shut down.
Facebook is a private organization, which has the right to police the content of their site in any manner they see fit. Facebook has many content restrictions, which is its right, but the "real identity" policy happens to be content neutral.
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Your coming was foretold, well done fulfilling the prophecy.
"Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
but you have to make your agenda clear. If the gov't of Iran wants to campaign against Trump that's their prerogative. But if they want to lie and pretend they're Americans campaigning against Trump that's when they've crossed the line. The same is true for the Russians when they campaign for Trump.
I'm clever enough to know that information is useless if you don't know it's source. But there's enough that aren't to swing elections. Democracy and Capitalism both only work when there's enough information to go around.
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It's clear that you didn't even look at the article. Look at the examples of posts made by the pages that were taken down and you'll have your answer.
Obama consistently used the constitution as toilet paper, attempted to rule by executive fiat, and publically lamented that we didn't have a dictatorship to permit him to act. Perversion and debauchery are the rule of the day. You are the worst kind of imbecile.
I still hope this is intended as over the top parody but these days I don't know anymore.
'corporate media' is usually not indented as praise though.