The Bird is Freed
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cajunrevenge
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I admit that Trump is not serving as the current President of the United States.
cajunrevenge
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Care to fill me in on which voter fraud conspiracies you believe and which ones you can admit are not real? If all of them are true Biden must have gotten a negative amount of votes.
sturg33
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He really is the biggest of frauds
There are some legitimate reasons to combat disinformation online. I don’t like it being done behind the scenes like this. It should be completely out in the open.
cajunrevenge
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For an example , in 2016 Russian trolls were using social media to enflame the anti police sentiment in an effort to sow discord in the country. I give this example because as most of you know I dont like the police. That they were pushing something I might agree with doesnt mean they shouldn't be shut down and doesnt mean that people cant post anti police content.
cajunrevenge
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Is there anyone here who thinks Truth Social doesnt censor "free speech"?
nsacpi
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Twitter has disrupted three China-based operations that were covertly trying to influence American politics in the months leading up the midterm elections by amplifying politically polarizing topics, according to a trove of data released by the social media giant to researchers and The Washington Post.
The operations spanned nearly 2,000 user accounts, some of which purported to be located in the United States, and weighed in on a wide variety of hot-button issues, including election-rigging claims about the 2020 presidential election and criticism of members of the transgender community. Two of the three networks favored the U.S. right and one skewed left. At least some repeated pro-China narratives aimed at an American audience.
Twitter also took down three networks that were based in Iran but often claimed to be based in the United States or Israel, the data shows. At least one of the accounts involved in the Iranian efforts, 10Votes81, endorsed candidates even in local races. An account named 10Votes and using the same logo as an avatar was also active on YouTube, TikTok and especially Reddit, said Renée DiResta of Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership, one of the data’s recipients.
Graham Brookie, head of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, which also received the data, said the tweets issued by the Chinese networks largely amplified ideas that originated with members of America’s ideological extremes.
“This is equal opportunity hyper-partisanship, a tactic that’s been more embraced by Russia,” said Brookie, who added that the campaign was more assertive than past Chinese efforts. “It’s the same theory of the case: A weakened adversary is one that allows you to shape geopolitics more.”
One network that Twitter removed, the data showed, included 22 user accounts that tweeted more than 250,000 times. Between April and early October, their posts were generally pro-Trump and conspiratorial, particularly about the pandemic and coronavirus vaccines.
Alethea, another recipient of the data, concluded that Chinese-linked accounts on Twitter and elsewhere were pursuing divisiveness but plugging right-wing issues more than left, sometimes with nods to conspiracy theories. In the newly suspended batch, one account tweeted in May that former president Barack Obama was a “lizard person who is a member of the Illuminati,” according to copy of the tweet archived by the Internet Archive.
Twitter said that while many of the network’s accounts purported to be located in the United States, the company discovered technical signals that indicated many were based in China. Twitter removed the accounts because they violated the company’s rules against platform manipulation and spam, the company said.
While the network was small, some of its users attracted high levels of engagement. One of those accounts, which went by the name Ultra MAGA BELLA Hot Babe, author of the Obama tweet, attracted 26,000 followers, more than 400,000 likes and more than 180,000 retweets before it was taken down.
In May, Ultra MAGA BELLA Hot Babe tweeted a meme with a photo of someone holding paper near a purported ballot drop box with the caption “MULE TAKING PICS! PROOF OF CRIME REQUIRED TO GET PAID BY THE DNC.” In June, the account tweeted a comment implying that children from the transgender community are simply impressionable and being abused by their parents, according to archived copies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/01/china-midterms-twitter-networks/
It will be obviously up to the new owner to decide what to do with respect to deza of various sorts, domestic and foreign. Good luck to the new owner. May his brand flourish and may he make lots of money. It will be a thankless task whatever approach he takes.
The operations spanned nearly 2,000 user accounts, some of which purported to be located in the United States, and weighed in on a wide variety of hot-button issues, including election-rigging claims about the 2020 presidential election and criticism of members of the transgender community. Two of the three networks favored the U.S. right and one skewed left. At least some repeated pro-China narratives aimed at an American audience.
Twitter also took down three networks that were based in Iran but often claimed to be based in the United States or Israel, the data shows. At least one of the accounts involved in the Iranian efforts, 10Votes81, endorsed candidates even in local races. An account named 10Votes and using the same logo as an avatar was also active on YouTube, TikTok and especially Reddit, said Renée DiResta of Stanford’s Election Integrity Partnership, one of the data’s recipients.
Graham Brookie, head of the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensics Research Lab, which also received the data, said the tweets issued by the Chinese networks largely amplified ideas that originated with members of America’s ideological extremes.
“This is equal opportunity hyper-partisanship, a tactic that’s been more embraced by Russia,” said Brookie, who added that the campaign was more assertive than past Chinese efforts. “It’s the same theory of the case: A weakened adversary is one that allows you to shape geopolitics more.”
One network that Twitter removed, the data showed, included 22 user accounts that tweeted more than 250,000 times. Between April and early October, their posts were generally pro-Trump and conspiratorial, particularly about the pandemic and coronavirus vaccines.
Alethea, another recipient of the data, concluded that Chinese-linked accounts on Twitter and elsewhere were pursuing divisiveness but plugging right-wing issues more than left, sometimes with nods to conspiracy theories. In the newly suspended batch, one account tweeted in May that former president Barack Obama was a “lizard person who is a member of the Illuminati,” according to copy of the tweet archived by the Internet Archive.
Twitter said that while many of the network’s accounts purported to be located in the United States, the company discovered technical signals that indicated many were based in China. Twitter removed the accounts because they violated the company’s rules against platform manipulation and spam, the company said.
While the network was small, some of its users attracted high levels of engagement. One of those accounts, which went by the name Ultra MAGA BELLA Hot Babe, author of the Obama tweet, attracted 26,000 followers, more than 400,000 likes and more than 180,000 retweets before it was taken down.
In May, Ultra MAGA BELLA Hot Babe tweeted a meme with a photo of someone holding paper near a purported ballot drop box with the caption “MULE TAKING PICS! PROOF OF CRIME REQUIRED TO GET PAID BY THE DNC.” In June, the account tweeted a comment implying that children from the transgender community are simply impressionable and being abused by their parents, according to archived copies.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/01/china-midterms-twitter-networks/
It will be obviously up to the new owner to decide what to do with respect to deza of various sorts, domestic and foreign. Good luck to the new owner. May his brand flourish and may he make lots of money. It will be a thankless task whatever approach he takes.
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Yes, this is completely comparable to components of our government that are working together with a private company to censor speech they don't want out.
If Trump was doing this you would be freaking out. Since it's dems you don't care.
nsacpi
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Remind me again who was president in 2020.
Was the president the one doing this? It was the same FBI that tried to take down Trump that was doing this.
As I've said a million times the FBI and DHS have gone rogue.
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He is trolling at this point because he has nothing else.
Just a disgraceful display of stoicism.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
The government shouldnt tell organizations what they allow on their platforms. But the government should share information with anyone who wants it. It should should be up to the organization what to do with it.
You're right to a degree but the line is drawn when the government and tech start working together to censor others.