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Facebook Braces Itself for Trump to Cast Doubt on Election Results:
Facebook spent years preparing to ward off any tampering on its site ahead of November's presidential election. Now the social network is getting ready in case President Trump interferes once the vote is over.
Employees at the Silicon Valley company are laying out contingency plans and walking through postelection scenarios that include attempts by Mr. Trump or his campaign to use the platform to delegitimize the results, people with knowledge of Facebook's plans said.
Facebook is preparing steps to take should Mr. Trump wrongly claim on the site that he won another four-year term, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Facebook is also working through how it might act if Mr. Trump tries to invalidate the results by declaring that the Postal Service lost mail-in ballots or that other groups meddled with the vote, the people said.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chief executive, and some of his lieutenants have started holding daily meetings about minimizing how the platform can be used to dispute the election, the people said. They have discussed a "kill switch" to shut off political advertising after Election Day since the ads, which Facebook does not police for truthfulness, could be used to spread misinformation, the people said.
The preparations underscore how rising concerns over the integrity of the November election have reached social media companies, whose sites can be used to amplify lies, conspiracy theories and inflammatory messages. YouTube and Twitter have also discussed plans for action if the postelection period becomes complicated, according to disinformation and political researchers who have advised the firms.
[...] The preparations underscore how rising concerns over the integrity of the November election have reached social media companies, whose sites can be used to amplify lies, conspiracy theories and inflammatory messages. YouTube and Twitter have also discussed plans for action if the postelection period becomes complicated, according to disinformation and political researchers who have advised the firms.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by aristarchus on Tuesday August 25 2020, @07:12AM (7 children)
Sic Semper Trumpanius.
Yep, liberal founding fathers, not these corporate whores of the 1% and Faux News! Time to impeach Trump again, to throw his tea into the harbor, to ensure his son never have a place of graft and privilege in the future, and to hunt down all the Loyalists this time. They will not be fleeing to the Socialist Great White North of Canada.
Entire pamphlet, Common Sense" [libertyfund.org], available at this wacko libertariantard website. (They do some good. )
(Score: 0, Interesting) by hemocyanin on Tuesday August 25 2020, @01:30PM (3 children)
Is Hunter paying any child support yet to the stripper mamma out of that Ukraine graft?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:20PM
Buttdry male! We got a buttery male here!! One more and we can get the unwatchable buttery boof off.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday August 25 2020, @11:15PM (1 child)
Hunter Biden is just the latest in a long line of hard drinking, skirt-chasing members of your ruling class.
Most presidents have had one of these around them, from Billy Carter, to Michael Reagan, to Roger Clinton, to George W Bush, who you guys actually elected as president, despite him being a lazy fool.
Hunter Biden is no doubt a huge embarrassment to Joe, but he won't be given a role in the White House, as "Senior Advisor" because he is obviously useless, just like the various Trump children and children in law.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:38AM
World peace dude. You forget that he solved world peace.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by dry on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:49AM (2 children)
Yet, what really pissed off the Americans, especially the real-estate people, was that nasty King and his Royal Proclamation of 1763, where he said all his subjects were equal, even the non-whites and worse, the Papists and not to steal the natives land. The rich real-estate developers like Washington riled up the people with stories of unfair taxes and such, had a war of separation which they called a revolution, won when the mother country was busy with European wars and proceeded to steal the best part of a continent from its owners to bring them freedom.
You should remember all that Aristarchus, or were you busy elsewhere?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:20AM
He's probably not into historical revisionism. Oh wait...
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Wednesday August 26 2020, @08:54AM
But, I was referring to the King of America, the Trump, and his real estate dealings. Was busy elsewhere during the American Revolution, since it did seem to be a minor political movement, and, as you point out, inherently conservative in orientation.