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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 khallow on Wednesday August 26 2020, @01:24PM (4 children)
Probably because they had no evidence to go with that list of crimes.
I sense a trend here. Cool story, bro, but it has nothing to do with reality.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 26 2020, @08:13PM (1 child)
Read the reports you deceitful lazy sack of shit!
And yes yes legally the electoral college win is allowed, but I so wish we could read your replies from the reality where Hillary won the EC and Trump won the popular vote. My god it would be glorious.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 27 2020, @03:17AM
Which reports, which you have yet to mention, have evidence in them? Your post is strangely devoid of such.
The electoral college win is not merely "allowed", it's the law. And now you're claiming something (that somehow I'll behave like you) despite it being completely unfalsifiable. Sorry, a fantasy is not a serious argument.
All I can say is that I wasn't obsessed over that election. I didn't vote for either nor would I protest, if one received the electoral vote, but not the public vote - you know, like what actually happened?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 27 2020, @11:53AM (1 child)
You mean like Saudi Arabia funneling money into Trump's hotels, a violation of the emoluments clause?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday August 27 2020, @01:14PM