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on Wednesday November 15 2017, @06:53AM
from the following-in-leader's-footsteps dept.
from the following-in-leader's-footsteps dept.
Elections in 18 separate nations were influenced by online disinformation campaigns last year, suggests research.
Independent watchdog Freedom House looked at how online discourse was influenced by governments, bots and paid opinion formers.
In total, 30 governments were actively engaged in using social media to stifle dissent, said the report.
Educating users to spot fake news and making tech firms police their networks could combat the manipulation, it said.
Hacking must explain why voters are going off-script.
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Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 15 2017, @09:43AM (1 child)
If they ain't Dick Niggers, I'm not interested.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:10AM
You see, Mr. Ed is a Dick Nigger. Mr. Ed was an allegory for the Black Heroin addict who was subject to the pen of the White man and with an addiction to the finest apples and molasses, yet had issues of wondering about his true Black heritage. For example, that episode where he wondered if he was part donkey. [youtube.com] So he tried to wander among the donkeys but was rejected for being White.
Mr. Ed was an allegory for not only an alpha Black man but a hipster (and other beta male archetypes) way back in 1961 and in that episode in 1965. Only, unlike modern beta males such as his master Wilbur, Mr. Ed had a deep voice and a huge cock.