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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 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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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
> 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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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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This discussion isn't about Israel, Jews, or AIPAC. It's about Facebook removing 82 Iranian disinformation linked accounts.
For me it's about censorship and who gets hit by it and why. Individual players or countries of origin means nothing to me.
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In the past we've seen some influence efforts full of factually incorrect and misleading information (re JCPOA) on behalf of a foreign power (Israel) without so much as a suggestion of media pushback against it.
If you have to take it all the way down to your racist base you should find a forum more welcoming to that.
Just remember Netanyahu would have Trump's children if he could.