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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: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Tuesday August 25 2020, @02:34PM (4 children)
Sorry, but "Not Trump" is a good reason to vote for Biden. I'm not really thrilled with him as a candidate, but I'd support a doorknob before I'd support Trump. And I distrust facile promises. In the past the parts of the promise that I disliked most were the parts that tended to be kept. This was true whether I supported the candidate or not, and whichever party the candidate made the promises to.
I'm sure part of the reason is that actual working plans don't make good sound bites. This, however, doesn't encourage me to trust politician's promises.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 3, Touché) by PiMuNu on Tuesday August 25 2020, @02:53PM (1 child)
> "Not Trump" is a good reason to vote for Biden
Well, it might be enough - but it is a pretty weak stance that failed in 2016. It leaves Biden very vulnerable to whatever politics Trump wants to push.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:54AM
Whatever Biden "pushes", it will be socialism, hateful, worst ever, end-of-the-world. Even before Trump that was the entirety of the Republican policy document.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @08:36PM (1 child)
I think that's what keeps you trapped in the situation. It's a recurring joke, one I as non-american heard a decade ago or more from South Park as a duché and a turd. You should suck it up and break out of it, it's worth it to let Trump (or anyone else) have four more years if second-rate parties are allowed to grow, so that you will one day not have to pick between a duché and a turd. When a party reach 5% they can receive public funding for the next election.
These are links to the candidates I could find on Twitter, since that's where politics happen now! It's the nitter interface for twitter. This way you can subscribe to the candidates feeds as RSS.
Republican:
https://nitter.net/GOP [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/realDonaldTrump [nitter.net] (Cand.)
https://nitter.net/Mike_Pence [nitter.net] (Vice-cand.)
Democrats:
https://nitter.net/TheDemocrats [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/JoeBiden [nitter.net] (Cand.)
https://nitter.net/KamalaHarris [nitter.net] (Vice-cand.)
Libertarians:
https://nitter.net/lpnational [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/Jorgensen4POTUS [nitter.net] (Cand.)
https://nitter.net/RealSpikeCohen [nitter.net] (Vice-cand.)
Green Party:
https://nitter.net/GreenPartyUS [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/HowieHawkins [nitter.net] (Cand.)
https://nitter.net/AngelaNWalker [nitter.net] (Vice-cand.)
Alliance Party and Reform Party:
https://nitter.net/alliancepty [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/reformparty [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/JoinRocky [nitter.net] (Cand.)
Constitution Party:
https://nitter.net/donblankenship [nitter.net] (Cand.)
Party for Socialism and Liberation:
https://nitter.net/pslweb [nitter.net]
https://nitter.net/lariva2020 [nitter.net] (Cand.)
I did not bother finding twitter accounts of candidates with ballot access to less than 100 electoral votes [wikipedia.org].
This is my contribution to foreign interference with the election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @12:10AM
*gasp!*
Did you say NITTER?! It looks and sounds so much like that "N" word! I can't be using something like that!