Who didn't see this coming?

Submitted by WaterLily on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 2:24pm

From Business Insider:

Facebook will now require Pages with large followers as well as political ads to be authorized

The company will now require Pages with large numbers of followers to be authorized and will require the same of political ads on its site and Instagram. The new requirements are aimed at increasing transparency and accountability and preventing election interference, Rob Goldman, Facebook's vice president of ads, and Alex Himel, its vice president of local and Pages, said in a blog post on the company's site.

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"These steps by themselves won't stop all people trying to game the system," Zuckerberg wrote. "But they will make it a lot harder for anyone to do what the Russians did during the 2016 election and use fake accounts and pages to run ads."

FFS.

I'm too pissed/tired/demoralized to offer any further commentary. Just wanted to post this in case others hadn't yet seen it.

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#Propaganda #Censorship #Fuckerberg #OMGRussia!
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Submitted by ovals49 on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 2:54pm

Anyone who is still peddling the "Russia, Russia, Russia" narrative should be prohibited from becoming self appointed arbiters of what is fake and what is real.

Period.

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“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”

The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963

Submitted by WaterLily on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 2:58pm
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@ovals49 I'm appalled by how many of them are cheering this development. They're actually arguing that censorship is necessary and good.

I swear, we went to sleep and woke up in 1936.

SMFH.

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Submitted by ovals49 on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 3:14pm

@WaterLily
Yes, it is that bad.

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“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”

The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963

Submitted by Ellen North on Sat, 04/07/2018 - 10:32pm

@WaterLily

Tons of paid trolls out there...

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Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.

A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.

Submitted by thanatokephaloides on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 6:17pm
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@ovals49

Dupes.

DIPSHITS is more like it!

Anyone who is still peddling the "Russia, Russia, Russia" narrative should be prohibited from becoming self appointed arbiters of what is fake and what is real.

Period.

More like: "Anyone who is still peddling the "Russia, Russia, Russia" narrative should be prohibited from all publication of any kind. Period."

There's no right to propagate stupidity or lies, and no Constitution or Law has the power to establish one!

Diablo

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"US govt/military = bad. Russian govt/military = bad. Any politician wanting power = bad. Anyone wielding power = bad." --Shahryar

"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

Submitted by dkmich on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 3:06pm

we must have the fox guarding the hen house authorize the chickens. One can only hope FB, Youtube, Google and Twitter all die.

FB has been secretly deleting Zuckerberg's emails on Messenger "in order to protect his privacy".

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/facebook-admits-to-secretly-deleting-messag...

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Submitted by Mark from Queens on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 3:57pm
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It's an incredibly comprehensive piecing-together of the insane dystopia of this whole thing in so many directions.

Must-read (don't have the time or I'd dedicate an essay just to it):

Can We Be Saved From Facebook?
The social media giant has swallowed up the free press, become an unstoppable private spying operation and undermined democracy. Is it too late to stop it?

As usual Snowden nailed it too:

Taibbi goes into that and so much more. The guy's smoking hot lately.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

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Submitted by WaterLily on Fri, 04/06/2018 - 9:52pm
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@Mark from Queens Taibbi, IMHO, has always been smoking hot. I'm shocked, in a way, that he's still allowed to speak in the mainstream.

Thanks, MFQ, for the tip on his latest. I'm off to read it now.

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Submitted by ovals49 on Sat, 04/07/2018 - 5:57am

@Mark from Queens
Taibbi pulls no punches and reveal a fully developed instrument of information extraction and manipulation that leaves anything Orwell might have imagined far behind. I do not see how this country, or the world, will ever regain the possibility of an informed electorate chosing its leaders democratically. The level of personal data collection and manipulation is already chilling in the extreme.

How can a public that has lost its mind and its independence in this way ever hope to find it again?

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“The story around the world gives a silent testimony:
— The Beresovka mammoth, frozen in mud, with buttercups in his mouth…..”

The Adam and Eve Story, Chan Thomas 1963

Submitted by Alligator Ed on Sat, 04/07/2018 - 6:55pm
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@Mark from Queens came lots of info:

Additionally, they posited, "The main driver of misinformation diffusion is the polarization of users on specific narratives rather than the lack of fact-checked certifications." Translation: Lazy thinking and sheltered mental environs lead to more misinformation than fake news does.

Ain't that the truth? Hence the reason to listen to all sides of an argument, even (gasp) the NYT.

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