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Twitter Deletes Over 10,000 Bots That Discouraged US Midterm Voting (cnn.com)
Twitter has deleted over 10,000 disinformation bots discouraging Americans from voting in Tuesday's midterm elections.
An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Twitter said that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had brought the accounts to their attention. "For the election this year we have established open lines of communication and direct, easy escalation paths for state election officials, DHS, and campaign organizations from both major parties," the spokesperson said. The company said it believes the network of accounts was run from the United States.
The 10,000 accounts were deleted in late September and early October, Reuters reports: The number is modest, considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts it determined were responsible for spreading misinformation in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Yet the removals represent an early win for a fledgling effort... The DCCC launched the effort this year in response to the party's inability to respond to millions of accounts on Twitter and other social media platforms that spread negative and false information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other party candidates in 2016, three people familiar with the operation told Reuters... The DCCC developed its own system for identifying and reporting malicious automated accounts on social media, according to the three party sources.
An anonymous reader quotes CNN: Twitter said that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee had brought the accounts to their attention. "For the election this year we have established open lines of communication and direct, easy escalation paths for state election officials, DHS, and campaign organizations from both major parties," the spokesperson said. The company said it believes the network of accounts was run from the United States.
The 10,000 accounts were deleted in late September and early October, Reuters reports: The number is modest, considering that Twitter has previously deleted millions of accounts it determined were responsible for spreading misinformation in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Yet the removals represent an early win for a fledgling effort... The DCCC launched the effort this year in response to the party's inability to respond to millions of accounts on Twitter and other social media platforms that spread negative and false information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and other party candidates in 2016, three people familiar with the operation told Reuters... The DCCC developed its own system for identifying and reporting malicious automated accounts on social media, according to the three party sources.
disenfranchising felons (and making it impossible for them to get their rights back)
GOOD. It's a shame it's not permanent; I thought that was one of the effects of committing a serious crime. OTOH, once you've served your time you're supposed to have "completed your punishment for your crime against society", so I guess I that need to agree with you here. (Bah! I hate it when I have to be consistent.)
and my personal favorite stationing armed police in riot gear outside polls in predominately black neighborhoods to "keep order"
Really? I did early voting the other day in my "predominately black neighborhood". There were 30 people in line when I got there, 40 when I left. I was one of 3 Black-Impaired people in line. No guards, no police, just a few bored poll-workers and 2 officials? who actually activated the touch machines with their paper trail that showed the result of you pressing buttons in real-time.
Of course the library is maybe 1,000 feet from the area police substation, so I guess the police in riot gear were taking a smoke break.
OTOH, it's not Tuesday, when the clubs and tear-gas would have a greater effect. I sure am glad there are no black policemen or I'd be worried!
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Nobody has to agree to host your racist bullshit, loser.
Right, now it's get your own platform -- get your own hosting provider -- get your own domain service -- get your own ISP -- get your own payment processor -- get your own banking network... and bake me that cake, you fucking Christian bigot!
Everybody owes me a living and a safespace from opinion I don't agree with, waah waaaah waaaah!
Look you Anonymous Coward Trump voter, your dear leader has already told you the USA owes you your coal mining job, so stop whining.
Now go back to your FOX NEWS safe space and get off the internet where you might hear opposing views, you conservative snowflake.
I guess you're talking about the "nuclear option" that the Democrats used to appoint judges. The Republicans returned the favor with the Supreme Court nomination.
As for completely ending the filibuster, maybe their ulterior motive is to keep voting issues alive, or maybe they like keeping the majority party in check via tradition. Not being privy to their thoughts or private conversations, I don't know what their thinking is, but I tend to agree, I'd be inclined to end the filibuster too.
That said, even without a filibuster, there is a problem with getting a sane immigration policy because there's a certain percentage of Republicans (like Paul Ryan) that are soft on immigration. That puts a tarnish on Republicans, but compared to the Democrats it's night and day.