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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, Interesting) by PiMuNu on Tuesday August 25 2020, @08:28AM (20 children)
Quite. Ditto with "woke", "boomer", "SJW", etc. Labelling everyone facillitates lazy arguments like "you are wrong because you are a boomer/sjw/alt-right".
I get shadows of it in UK occasionally in the news media and on here. It seems to be some sort of weird US political thing. Or maybe a friendface thing?Then again, I dont use twitbum, maybe that is it.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @09:58AM (12 children)
Yes, somebody should put these words on a blacklist. Wait...
(Score: 3, Funny) by DannyB on Tuesday August 25 2020, @01:57PM (10 children)
Words like "blacklist" have been blacklisted. You should not say blacklist because it is offensive.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @02:15PM (1 child)
Stop mansplaining!
(Score: 4, Funny) by PiMuNu on Tuesday August 25 2020, @04:44PM
Men are so sexist.
(Score: 3, Funny) by VanessaE on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:38PM (4 children)
Those responsible have been blacklisted. Mind you, the SJW's insistence on this can be pretty nasty. We apologize again for the fault in the media. Those responsible for blacklisting the people who decried "blacklist", have been blacklisted.
(with no apologies to Monty Python folks ;-) )
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @08:42PM (2 children)
Just mentioning Monty Python will get you a mod funny from me.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:31AM
From the Ministry of Funny Mods?
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday August 26 2020, @03:22AM
I did further down and I got an "offtopic" mod.
(Score: 2) by Mykl on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:45AM
(mind you, Blacklists kan be pretti nasti)
(Score: 2, Insightful) by RandomFactor on Tuesday August 25 2020, @11:59PM (1 child)
Actually, 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' were changed to 'safelist' and 'blocklist' in some filtering products years and years ago.
В «Правде» нет известий, в «Известиях» нет правды
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:33AM
And then evolved to AmericaGreat list and MooslimTerrists.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2020, @02:43AM
So we need to blacklist: "blacklist".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @04:11PM
I'm pretty SJ-y (I don't think I'd say SJW, but I will point out injustices when I see them).
That said, I still face palm when people say that using the term Blacklist denigrates black people.
https://www.etymonline.com/word/denigrate [etymonline.com]
You... you just did the thing that you said not to do...
Then again, maybe in English there just isn't a way to avoid conflating black and bad, we have been doing so for so... so long.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @12:38PM (1 child)
Don't worry dehumanization is only stage 4 in the 10 stages to Genocide.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:32PM
I love Genocide I have all their albums!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday August 25 2020, @12:57PM (3 children)
It's not the labels that are to blame, but rather thinking that slinging around labels constitutes an argument. Else, without labels we'd be dealing with a great deal more discursive confusion, wherein instead of saying, say, "American," we'd be running through multiple descriptions for all the factors that describe what that label sums up.
And, lest we fall into the conceit you hinted at, that slinging labels is an exclusively American practice, we must acknowledge that all cultures, languages, and peoples use labels as linguistic shorthand. Consider the slur "chav" and then ask yourself if Britons are really so innocent of this practice as you suppose.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday August 25 2020, @01:04PM
> Consider the slur "chav" and then ask yourself if Britons are really so innocent of this practice as you suppose.
Fair point - it may just be that I am out of touch with the young folks of today.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:36PM (1 child)
Though you most centainly do have a thing with symbols and virtue signalling. I mean what's up with all your bumperstickers and yardsigns?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @06:48PM
Oh crap, I looked up "virtue signalling". I didn't mean it to be pejorative as it said in the dictionary. Please insert other neutral word.
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by RS3 on Tuesday August 25 2020, @03:56PM
Extremely good insight. My take is that we (US colonists) use English language differently. I had an ancestor who was a fairly famous linguist. If he was still around, I'd love to get his take on the interaction between language, usage, diction, etc., and sociology / general social and cultural behavior / personality. For what it's worth, I prefer the British way, love "Britcoms", Monty Python, Dr. Who, etc. Many here (Americans likely?) misunderstand sarcasm / subtle humor (that I love), which forces me to be more vigilant about what I write (if I write at all...)