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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: 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".