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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @02:38PM (2 children)
I doubt that. I think there is a significant majority of Americans (the ones who don't spend their days Tweeting and their nights setting police cars on fire) who are astonished and appalled at what has been going on for the last few months. Those people don't go out and march in the streets and howl at the moon, but they do vote.
I don't know anyone who voted for Trump in 2016 who isn't voting for him again, but I know many people who voted against Trump last time who are going to vote for him in 2020. Remember just how wrong all the polls were last time. This time it will be even more so, since it has become actually dangerous to admit support for Trump. But, those people can express their true opinions in the voting booth.
Which is why the Democrats are so eager to eliminate them, and replace them with a system that will make it easier to "filter out" the ballots they don't like.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:56AM (1 child)
FTFY
Remember, we are men of action, lies do not become us. (Dread Pirate Roberts)
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 27 2020, @03:25AM