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Facebook Takes Down Fake Account Network Used To Spread Hate In UK (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Facebook has removed a network of more than 100 accounts and pages for "coordinated inauthentic behavior" on its social networks -- the first time it has done so for UK-based operations seeking to influence British citizens. The operation was spread over Facebook and Instagram and used a network of fake accounts to pose as both far-right activists and their opponents. It ran pages and groups whose names frequently changed in order to drum up more followers and operated fake accounts to engage in hate speech and spread divisive comments on both sides of UK political debate, Facebook says.
The pages, with names like "Anti Far Right Extremists", "Atheists Research Centre", and "Politicalized", attracted about 175,000 followers on Facebook, and a further 4,500 on Instagram, according to the company's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher. The pages shared content from mainstream news sources, such as the BBC and the New York Times, but also shared original content, even including administrators actively engaging in debate with users. "We are constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people," Gleicher said. "We're taking down these pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted. In each of these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action.
The pages, with names like "Anti Far Right Extremists", "Atheists Research Centre", and "Politicalized", attracted about 175,000 followers on Facebook, and a further 4,500 on Instagram, according to the company's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher. The pages shared content from mainstream news sources, such as the BBC and the New York Times, but also shared original content, even including administrators actively engaging in debate with users. "We are constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people," Gleicher said. "We're taking down these pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted. In each of these cases, the people behind this activity coordinated with one another and used fake accounts to misrepresent themselves, and that was the basis for our action.
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Good to know, rabbi Suckerberg.
"we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people"
Facebook prefers to keep that power to themselves.
"We're taking down these pages and accounts based on their behavior, not the content they posted."
90% of the article is focused on the message of 'spreading hate', even though Facebook apparently doesn't care about the content they posted. This still doesn't explain the countless other political voices that DO get blocked and censored despite not breaking any technical rules.
PS: Yes, Liberals. We all know already that Facebook is a private company that has the legal right to do what they want. Of course that right only applies to companies that Liberals like, and not cake designers. It's funny how you can make any NPC Socialist suddenly LOVE their giant trillion dollar corrupt corporations, just so long as they're censoring people Liberals don't like.
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Fuck censorship !
YOUR voice will get silenced someday unless you
support all Freedom of Speech TODAY !!!
Facebook deletes 100 accounts, only 999,999,900 to go or thereabouts. I'll bet there is an internal rating system for this, approved fake accounts and unapproved fake accounts, you pay, you can have all the fake accounts you want, you don't pay and they might eventually kick you off.
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Spread hate eh ... hate that chunky peanut butter ... spread it ... hate those nibbers .... hate those gaffots ... hate those ... Trotsky-slut bitches ... my gawd what fools you are. Producing one bronze bolt would be of more human value than all the emotocentric anti-hate-spreaders in the universe.
they will bother with the far left Fake Account networks? Naaaaa.
Yeah, yeah Chris! We know you always revert back to posting nazi/apk stuff when you're out of meds and/or frustrated. This must be the consequence of only one of the multiple syndrome you suffer from: "Tourette Syndrome".
with the Atheists? It's bizarre, because you'd think the last folks who would be buddy buddy with the right are the Atheists, what with the right usually getting in bed with Evangelicals. Not that there aren't plenty of left wing Atheists (Aronra comes to mind. And Genetic Skeptic) but still.
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We are constantly working to detect and stop this type of activity because we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people
Of course they don't want that.. it would hurt their ludicrous business model of manipulating people.. and people might be manipulated from dumping Facebook.
Is it those pesky Russians at the Internet Research Agency again? I bet it is. If only our bare-chested comrade would do something to improve his own people's lot instead of stealing from them, cutting their pensions and trying to bring other countries down to his crooked level.
Apparently today is international women's day, so instead of showing the usual new releases on thursday night/friday morning, they are only listing old pop albums from last year by women instead of new music from this week. What the fuck is this bullshit. Law off the SJW pipe, sheesh. No one asked for this.
Corporations and governments are silencing political dissent by calling it hate speech.
Atheism is anti-muslim. In an Islamic state such as the UK, that is not allowed.
Scary business!
No such network exists it was individual people expressing their opinions. Facebook is deleting accounts because of legal action being taken against them in the U.S. by Tommy Robinson.
Because the government wanted to delete his webpage and because of the sting on the BBC they had to quickly silence everybody.
If you upload a picture of Tommy or his video they immediately delete your account. Facebook denies its previous statement it alleged that Tommy Robson, was telling people to cut off Muslims heads obviously that never happened that would be incitement to murder a criminal offence in the U.K..
These are very dangerous times in the U.K. I have never seen this before and I have lived in a few countries. This is dangerous.
The BBC are trying to hide this story which was published in the Guardian who tried to frighten Tommy Robson's children with a crackhead and filmed it live.
He has a court case against the police for harassment coming up soon. They are working out legal proceedings against Facebook in the U.S., they have served legal papers against the Guardian and the Socialist workers party. They have also serve legal papers against the Crown Prosecution Service. https://youtu.be/TdWahm2z_R0
He says the government not the Crown Prosecution Service are now charging him https://youtu.be/-RYmnsDeYTg
Tucker Carlson who works for Fox which is owned by Robert Murdoch who owns sky News enemy of Tommy Robertson slipped in an acknowledgement https://youtu.be/P6E1PFt8-a4
The information-theoretical definition of "reception of information" is that the receiver's behavior changes as a result.
So if their services "don't manipulate people", they're not sending any information that the people actually receive.
This corresponds to "duckspeak" - both Big Brother's and Donald Duck's, in two different but related ways:
* Like 1984's it consists only of the inner party's approved messages (which the listeners already know and don't change their behavior as a result of hearing the latest artistic rendering of a standard rant).
* Like Donald Duck's tantrums, It is all incoherent sound and fury, which the character at whom it's directed ignores (if he can even mange to parse it.)
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
that just means "without prior busine$$ partnership agreement"
Atheism is NOT anti-muslim, it is about self position, and has NO rules whatsoever about others... it, like Agnosticism, Libertarian/Voluntary/Anarchism, is compatible with everything else... because they DO NOT try or impose anything on others.
ISLAM is COMPLETELY INCOMPATIBLE with everything else.
Your options as a NON-Muslim in a muslim majority land are as follows...
1) Convert and shut the fuck up, or die.
2) Shut the fuck up and pay the jizya tax, or die.
3) Die.
Any reading of the Quran will tell you that with crystal clarity.
It's completely riddled with not giving a single non-self-serving shit about non-muslims.
And that's bollocks mate.
Do your own research!
Don't let these taqiyya speaking fake pacifists fool you.
Prompted by unnamed aggrieved parties with an agenda.
Oh well at least this time it seems to be a mostly left leaning bunch of groups. Normal people would reflect that maybe censorship is a bad thing for everyone, I expect the people behind this will just try harder to make certain they're the ones that get to censor.
Oh man it's the end of the world - the feminists and SJWs have dealt a mortal blow to American manliness with this despicable act. I hope you're OK a/c and not too distraught but I do expect a lot of neckbeard suicides today.
Hey man, I pay for Apple Music to have access to the music I want, not have it filtered through some pop editor's SJW hobbyhorse of the moment. At least if they had selected good music it might have been interesting, but the list is a bunch of old pop bullshit. Just give me the new releases for today thanks.
The hateful part is how much moderators hate transposition errors in titles.
Had Facebook worked on this shit a lot earlier, the current global political trend of far-right populism would probably have been prevented. Now, you have people like Duterte, Trump, Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Modi, et al, running a significant portion of the world.
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I literally have a spare account for both Twitter and Facebook.
I would call neither a fake account nor a hate account, I do post my actual opinion on several topics which the regressive, hypocritical far left would gladly dox me for though and fire me.
I try my best to not be hateful, I do end up speaking with some nasty people, sure. But in our current world, if you say "I think our immigration rate is too high and unsustainable, leading to wage stagnation and difficulty finding work" to the wrong people, it could result in job termination against a determined enough person.
I also feel that blindly open immigration from /some regions/ is out stupidity. We in Australia here have imported people from several bad locations and they are now videos representing a MASSIVE disproportionate balance of car jacking, home invasion, mugging. Stats are factual and recorded, but frequently suppressed in the paper and taboo to discuss.
That particular one goes down very poor with them, so sadly yes anonymous
P.s before you "put me in a box"
Agnostic
Extremely pro choice (!)
Anti circumcision
Very Pro gay marriage
Zero issue with trans people.
No issues with women's rights IF everything is equal. (Very sick of "not enough women in cushy technology Jobs" but ZERO comments regarding garbage collector, oil rig worker, etc) equally is equality. Can't have one thing and not the other. Fair is genuinely fair)
Ling story short, some of us want to speak our minds with anonymity, without retribution.
Posting anon for obvious reasons.
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Skeptics are now more often cast as "far right".
Call out Christian BS 15 years ago? Cool dude.
Call out Muslim BS now? FAR RIGHT RACIST BIGOT.
Don't believe three-letter government agencies 15 years ago? Smart independent thinking dude.
Don't believe three-letter government agencies now? FAR RIGHT RUSSIAN BOT.
Resisting the constant shifting of definitions 15 years ago? Haha George Carlin is pretty badass.
Resisting the constant shifting of definitions now? YOU ARE BAD AND AN ASS AND FAR RIGHT.
your thin skin doesn't make me a troll
Notice how the MEDIA has redefined the word "hate" to mean "anything that the Jews (who run the entire media) don't want you to hear"...
Laughable.
Oohhh... those evil "far-right" white people.
How dare they think they can keep their own countries! Don't they know that it's just not fair that white countries are nicer places to live in - nothing to do with white people of course, it's the MAGICAL LAND MASS that we happen to have been born on, that magically makes it a better place to live.
And the poor non-whites just happened to born on the wrong LAND MASS which isn't 'magical' and that's why their countries are shitholes that they don't want to live in.
Oh, but wait a minute - soon there won't be enough white people to go around! We all know that non-whites can only 'get a better life' by living around white people, and the more white people the better. But soon white people will be a minority in our own countries, and then the poor non-whites won't be able to 'get a better life' any more, because there will be too few white people... But I thought it was the 'magical land mass' that made white countries better, not white people's DNA?
"we don't want our services to be used to manipulate people" - just hilarious. That's all the JEW ever does - use his media to manipulate his 'cattle'.
I refuse to participate in the genocide of my own people.
I want the white race to continue existing.
How 'evil' of me.
Why would you automatically assume this person is a man?
Just because they hate sjw propaganda?
Because they hate the feminazi cult pushing hate at every turn?
Very telling. This is exactly why the propaganda needs to stop and should be hated.
"Oh you don't sjws giving women everything in unequal measure? What are you? A MAN?"
Some women have brains too, don't give them all such little credit that you don't think they could actually desire equal treatment. Rude.
Wow, such rabid hate kid.
Man beards are adolescent, so not men, and no one should be applauding anyone committing suicide.
Dafuq is wrong with you?
attracted about 175,000 followers on Facebook, and a further 4,500 on Instagram
In other words, an open communication 'marketplace' was working as expected and almost no one was paying attention to their crap factory. Those numbers are pathetically low, and still provide no data at all on whether any of this vanishingly small percentage of accounts even paid attention to any of the crap.
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pivoted to a lot far right, mostly anti-SJW stuff. Part of that is that the anti-SJW stuff gets clicks. Also there's a lot of right wing think tanks and they've been helping signal boost the right wing skeptic pundits and provided them with valuable consulting advice on how to grow communities.
That said none of that would matter if there wasn't a community receptive of their message. The SJW stuff is super popular, as is the gamer gate and anti-feminism stuff. But it's weird and a little disheartening that any concerns they had regarding evangelicals seemed to have vanished. It's not even like the Bernie Bros and the Corporate Dems, where one is trying to change the other. The skeptic community's just dropped most of the skepticism. Heck, a bunch are down playing the Atheism.
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Khazar Talmudic Jews believe this of all they call goyim/gentiles (any non-jew): Jews = biggest racists of all for which they "jew guilt" you for no less! They're hypocrites known as thieves all thru history or were Argentines in the 1940 under Peron, Spanish inquistion, France (1306), Egypt (despoiled/robbed by jews), Arabs (pre & post 1948), England (1330 Edward longshanks), Romans under titus, Russia pogroms and Germany who got rid of them from their nations nazi german's too? No. Driven into DESERTS ages ago! Don't wonder why after all those exilings above.
Should anyone doubt any of this see Jacob Javits' crony Rosenthal spill the beans on it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4zMVZ8HnFI/ where he called all Christianity fools for helping Israel and the biggest scam of all time per their beliefs below from their Talmud.
This is the province of the synagogue of Satan (Pharisees whom Jesus Christ himself kicked to the curb out of the temple & they killed him for it. Jeremiah did the same to them also + the Essenes could not stand them either breaking away from the pharisee corruption):
Jew Talmud excerpts (the book that calls Christ's mother a whore & a bastard of a roman soldier):
1. Sanhedrin 59a: "Murdering Goyim is like killing a wild animal."
2. Abodah Zara 26b: "Even the best of the Gentiles should be killed."
3. Sanhedrin 59a: "A goy (Gentile) who pries into The Law (Talmud) is guilty of death."
4. Yebhamoth 11b: "Sexual intercourse with a little girl is permitted if she is three years of age."
5. Schabouth Hag. 6d: "Jews may swear falsely by use of subterfuge wording."
6. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Do not save Goyim in danger of death."
7. Hilkkoth Akum X1: "Show no mercy to the Goyim."
8. Choschen Hamm 388, 15: "If it can be proven that someone has given the money of Israelites to the Goyim, a way must be found after prudent consideration to wipe him off the face of the earth."
9. Choschen Hamm 266,1: "A Jew may keep anything he finds which belongs to the Akum (Gentile). For he who returns lost property (to Gentiles) sins against the Law by increasing the power of the transgressors of the Law. It is praiseworthy, however, to return lost property if it is done to honor the name of God, namely, if by so doing, Christians will praise the Jews and look upon them as honorable people."
10. Szaaloth-Utszabot, The Book of Jore Dia 17: "A Jew should and must make a false oath when the Goyim asks if our books contain anything against them."
11. Baba Necia 114, 6: "The Jews are human beings, but the nations of the world are not human beings but beasts."
12. Simeon Haddarsen, fol. 56-D: "When the Messiah comes every Jew will have 2800 slaves."
13. Nidrasch Talpioth, p. 225-L: "Jehovah created the non-Jew in human form so that the Jew would not have to be served by beasts. The non-Jew is consequently an animal in human form, and condemned to serve the Jew day and night."
14. Aboda Sarah 37a: "A Gentile girl who is three years old can be violated."
15. Gad. Shas. 2:2: "A Jew may violate but not marry a non-Jewish girl."
16. Tosefta. Aboda Zara B, 5: "If a goy kills a goy or a Jew, he is responsible; but if a Jew kills a goy, he is NOT responsible."
17. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 388: "It is permitted to kill a Jewish denunciator everywhere. It is permitted to kill him even before he denounces."
18. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen Hamiszpat 348: "All property of other nations belongs to the Jewish nation, which, consequently, is entitled to seize upon it without any scruples."
19. Tosefta, Abda Zara VIII, 5: "How to interpret the word 'robbery.' A goy is forbidden to steal, rob, or take women slaves, etc., from a goy or from a Jew. But a Jew is NOT forbidden to do all this to a goy."
20. Seph. Jp., 92, 1: "God has given the Jews power over the possessions and blood of all nations."
21. Schulchan Aruch, Choszen H
Facebook only got hated when the RWNJs no longer found themselves able to use it for their insanity and FB banned them. That is why you are all over facebook: they're not for your nutjobbery so they MUST be evil liberals...
that most fake accounts and troll bots are running for the rightwingers, and that is so well known that, like "reality has a liberal bias", fake accounts have a conservatard one as every fule know.
Nope, not believing in a god is as rational as not believing in Santa Clause or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or a Teapot Orbiting between Jupiter and Mars.
If you believe in a god and claim it is "rational" because "well we don't know it ISN'T real!", then you have to really believe in all the other gods too, and the FSM, monsters under the bed, etc.
Note that if you claim that god is real, then you are lying, since Shiva is god, according to the believers of Shiva. If you don't accept that Shiva is real, then you should not believe YOUR god is real either. Both have 100% identically valid "evidences", so if you believe in one god, you HAVE to believe in them all.
Or accept YOUR belief in YOUR god is irrational.
Why is it so hard for you theist idiots to accept your belief is irrational? We can't refute your belief, but we CAN refute your logic for your believe BECAUSE you claim your belief is rational. Stop claiming it is rational and suddenly we don't have a leg to stand on to change your belief.
Of course you have no basis to convert anyone, so you can't bother others over your belief, but which is more important to you: your god or annoying the shit out of other people?
Medicare for all is 80% popular. Increased taxes on the higher earners is 70% popular. Both "far left" positions, both massively popular.
Now tell me how they are malignant?
Or was your claim merely so that you can ignore the need to disassociate from the rabble of shitheaded morons you cheer on by fake even handedness?
A nettle sting and a bullet to the gut are both painfull. But that doesn't mean you'ld take a bullet in the gut as happily as you would a nettle sting.
It's only now that the RWNJs like yourself aren't getting the bully pulpit to themselves and the left and center are both deciding that if YOU aren't going to play as a human in public on the internet, why the fuck should we, and now instead of dealing it out you're now also having to receive it (and boy were you lot a bunch of snowflakes all along...), so you're wanting the left to stop, ignoring the right like always and resorting to yellow journalism to pretend that YOU don't have to change, everyone else does.
And pivoting just invites demonetization sooner.
Instead of selling out to pivot, many are turning to alternative revenue streams (e.g patreon, merch store)
The rest of your post is a bunch of assertions without evidence... which, I'm sure many skeptics would tell you, can be dismissed without evidence.
You have the same choices there, it's just that in the most visible places for the western world, the western world and the places with lots of cash or resources to exploit, SECULAR, "ATHEIST" government has laws against that. The conservative christians would 100% enact the same policies if they got into power in the USA. They HAVE done in Africa, where the media hardly appear because there's no cash to exploit there.
if it weren't for the millions of loudmothed idiotic morons (much like your good self) who insist on prattling about their religion to others, being as loud and obnoxious as possible about it, and teaching children about their fantasy mythology as if it were real instead of make-believe. Stop being a theist in public and you will see atheists disappear from public view too.
You were here bleating on loudly and obnoxiously first, though, by several centuries, so you go first.
Take down the orders of magnitude more spreading open borders socialism rhetorhic?
... to "justify" the creation of media social profiles that spread misinformation: for the mainteiners, it's only "a joke" (tell that to my grandma [and several other people], that believes it...)
The Nazi party did not socialise industry, they paid off corporate owners and only mandated they work "for the good of the german people". Why else do you think IBM invested so heavily in 1930's Germany? It wasn't to support socialism....
The PR also required that leaders of industry, while wearing their top hats, ate the same food at the same table as the german people's (white aryan christian ones, of course), just like the party leaders did. For the cameras.
Shit you're normally rational, but somehow you fucked THIS one up a treat.
Is it the propaganda of the USA that got to you all unknowing,or is it that you prefer the idea that Hitler was a socailist for political reasons?
Note also that trump campaigned on leftist socialist ideas (sic it to the banks, heathcare for all, jobs for all, tax evasion eviscerated, etc). Was the republican party therefore socialist???
The RWNJs CLAIM that this is said so that they can attack "the left" as if they MADE the claim attributed. This has not happened.
Muslims have claimed it is racist. Muslim apologists have claimed it is racist. Then again, white christians have claimed it is racist to undo repression of minorities because it doesn't address white christian problems.
That the christian would be right wing in the USA almost 70% of the time would not make "You hate christianity? YOU RACIST!!!" a rightwing nutjob claim, but a SECTION of the RWNJ, and it isn't the RW but the NJ part that is relevant. The REAL decider is it is from the religious that is not being pandered to making the complaint.
Just like if you DO see someone who ISN'T a white christian RWNJ making the claim "You're against Islam, YOU RACIST!!" though the minority of people you see (unless the majority of the names are controlled by one bot factory, see subject of the article), are not doing it for being "leftist" but for being MUSLIM.
Is this real news or simply a case of Facebook censoring opposition sources whose facts are unjustly labeled as hate???
Hmmmm?????
Cardi-B is literally a fucking stripper. What a great icon to promote on "women's day".
Oooh look the tiny dick incel virgin brigade is here with their Nazi propaganda, sad ass little weenies.
IN THAT POST: The "enlightened" malkavian doesn't even realize he just did what he accused the left of doing.
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