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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: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:16PM (8 children)
Trump looks and talks like a goddamn idiot but he is weakening our enemies, bringing us peace in the Middle East, and making moves that are good for long-term strategy. If you turn off the TV, ignore his orange face, and look at the results, Trump is the best president since Roosevelt or Lincoln while his biggest problems are either natural disasters like Covid or are something that the Democrats did.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:33PM
Trump is caught in a middle-eastern political power play that will not really benefit the US. The poles of that conflict are Saudi Arabia, a Sunni theocracy, and Iran, a Shia theocracy.
Saudi Arabia has strategically aligned with Israel, which forces us to take that side, no doubt in part to Trump's family and friends with ties to Israel.
It would do us best to stay out of that shithole area.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Tuesday August 25 2020, @05:35PM
You get my point I think. Not that I necessarily agree with you - but if the Dems don't come out with some sort of policy then I believe Trump will win based on exactly the arguments you propose. And so he should.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 26 2020, @02:08AM (3 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @09:32AM (2 children)
You just don't get it, do you, khallow?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:13PM (1 child)
Oh look, a whiny AC adding nothing to the conversation, again.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @11:18PM
Better than a whiny khallow, who adds nothing to the conversation but the opportunity to whine about how he adds nothing to the covfefesation. Hey, have you read von Hayek lately?
(Score: 3, Touché) by dry on Wednesday August 26 2020, @05:21AM
The Kurds were your enemies? Recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of Israel was a peace move? Putting Tariffs on Canada so American breweries have to buy cans from China is a good long term strategy? Cheering on China's human rights abuses is also a good long term strategy? Not to mention dividing Americans more then anyone in a 150 years does not seem smart, but I guess a civil war is one way to get dictatorial powers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2020, @11:49AM
He's bringing peace to the middle east by continuing all of our unconstitutional forever wars against countries that didn't attack us. He brought peace to the middle east when he vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have ended the US's support of Saudi Arabia's genocide in Yemen, after Saudi Arabia funneled money into his hotels of course. That is the most amazing peace I've ever witnessed!
And I'm not sure how 7+ million people losing health insurance under Trump helps us in the long-term. Or his tax cuts for the mega rich. Or much of anything he's done.