FASCIST Facebook “Prepares” for “ELECTION UNREST”

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Here we go……left-elite imposing lockouts, suspensions, shadowbans, banning, etc to advance Democrat misinformation.

We want our day in court against these despot Democrats.

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Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest

Tools include slowing the spread of certain posts and tweaking users’ news feeds

Facebook Inc. FB -2.02% teams have planned for the possibility of trying to calm election-related conflict in the U.S. by deploying internal tools designed for what it calls “at-risk” countries, according to people familiar with the matter.

The emergency measures include slowing the spread of viral content and lowering the bar for suppressing potentially inflammatory posts, the people said. Previously used in countries including Sri Lanka and Myanmar, they are part of a larger tool kit developed by Facebook to prepare for the U.S. election.

Facebook executives have said they would only deploy the tools in dire circumstances, such as election-related violence, but that the company needs to be prepared for all possibilities, said the people familiar with the planning.

The potential moves include an across-the-board slowing of the spread of posts as they start to go viral and tweaking the news feed to change what types of content users see, the people said. The company could also lower the threshold for detecting the types of content its software views as dangerous.

Deployed together, the tools could alter what tens of millions of Americans see when they log onto the platform, diminishing their exposure to sensationalism, incitements to violence and misinformation, said the people familiar with the measures. But slowing down the spread of popular content could suppress some good-faith political discussion, a prospect that makes some Facebook employees uneasy, some of the people said.

“We’ve spent years building for safer, more secure elections,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said. “We’ve applied lessons from previous elections, hired experts, and built new teams with experience across different areas to prepare for various scenarios.”

Facebook already has critics from both political parties, and any widespread attempt to regulate content is likely to provoke further scrutiny.

Facebook earlier this month was criticized by many Republicans, including President Trump, after it slowed the spread of New York Post articles related to Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. The company said the action was in keeping with rules it announced last year to prevent election interference. Democrats have complained that Facebook hasn’t done enough to prevent misinformation from spreading and has been overly deferential to the right.

Facebook regularly makes changes to its algorithms to increase engagement and penalize bad actors; those moves are seldom announced unless the company deems they are in the public interest.

Facebook executives have previously said the company was preparing for a range of possibilities related to the election but haven’t detailed those plans.

“We need to be doing everything that we can to reduce the chances of violence or civil unrest in the wake of this election,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Axios last month. Facebook’s global head of communications and policy, Nick Clegg, told USA Today that the company created “break-glass tools” in the event of a crisis, though he declined to discuss them “because it will no doubt elicit greater sense of anxiety than we hope will be warranted.”

The company also developed levers it could use to better control content ahead of the 2018 midterm elections, including turning off recommendations for Facebook groups. Most of these potential measures, which people familiar with the matter say were less concrete than those discussed this year, weren’t deployed.

At a companywide conference call last week, Mr. Zuckerberg said the coming election and the coronavirus pandemic have already led Facebook to limit speech more than it would like, according to a person who heard the remarks. Citing polls showing Mr. Biden with a lead, Mr. Zuckerberg said a decisive victory for either candidate “could be helpful” in averting the risk of violence or civil unrest in the election’s wake.

His comments were first reported by BuzzFeed News.

Efforts to study and mitigate alleged negative societal impacts of Facebook’s products in major markets are controversial. The company shuttered or watered down a series of efforts meant to reduce polarization, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year, in part because of fear that such initiatives would be perceived as biased.

Since 2018, the company has been taking more aggressive measures overseas, where Facebook has generally faced pressure to do more.

The company formalized procedures for humanitarian interventions after the United Nations blamed the company’s inaction on hate speech and incitements to violence for fueling the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar.

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The company pledged to do better and formed teams that evaluate countries based on geopolitical analysis including the likelihood of atrocities as well as internal data such as Facebook’s market penetration, according to people familiar with the matter.

“It’s not an automated solution. It requires people to say, ‘This is something we need to handle,’” said one person familiar with the tools’ past application.

One such example was Sri Lanka, where a Facebook human-rights consultant concluded that the company’s inaction on hate speech and false rumors set the stage for 2018 atrocities.

The consultant, Chloe Poynton, said in an interview that the experience led Facebook to rethink how to act when dangers are high or the rule of law is weak. “There’s some content that needs to be removed, and there’s some content that needs to not have access to the Facebook tools that create virality,” she said.

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WadeBaker
WadeBaker
3 years ago

If they were really worried about violence and civil unrest, blm would be off of their platform.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  WadeBaker

That’s only because black people are relentless victims of relentless white racism. All the time. Everywhere. And that explains everything.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

A lot of crazy liberal whites are in on it too!
We have major mental nut jobs out there.

Amit Kumar
Amit Kumar
3 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

while conservatives were too busy with stuff , Left/Liberal/jihadis took over colleges , media

So you have lot of young folks who think evil is myth http://offtrade.net/cnmnews/libs-say-evil-is-myth/

And black/jihadi lives matter other lives don;t !
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VTS
VTS
3 years ago
Reply to  Amit Kumar

We relied on our Republican representatives to fight for us, but they preferred to party with the democrooks.

Michael Goldman
Michael Goldman
3 years ago
Reply to  VTS

A lot of them did. An absolute disgrace.

TJJ300
TJJ300
3 years ago

I hope that was satirical, otherwise you’re very funny.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
3 years ago
Reply to  TJJ300

Comments like that could upset some. Remember, always remember …. Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry.

TJJ300
TJJ300
3 years ago

I hope that was satirical, otherwise you’re very funny.

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

These tech companies are galling!
Who the hell do they think they are?
They need to be punished for censoring free speech and broken up.
They are not our First Amendment gods.

Anthony Silvio
Anthony Silvio
3 years ago

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Jack Holan
Jack Holan
3 years ago

The Leftist Elite rationale is to be expected, in crushing the Civil Rights of tens or 100s of millions with total disdain and disregard for the US Constitution and Bill of Rights, especially #1A that was listed by Our Founding Fathers in numerical priority of importance.
Facebook has become the Der Stuermer or if you don’t like that name TASS of Our time on a Worldwide basis. They work in the shadows, clandestinely, secretly creating and executing their plans to develop a World that reflects their vision and to HELL with all other people. They don’t deserve an opinion contrary to Gods like smart-axx Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. They speak for mankind without an elected office simply by silencing some and accentuating voices and news they want to be heard. Today its not the cliché’ it’s for the children but rather it’s to control hate and violence. Just how do they plan to control a natural human condition that has existed since the beginning of mankind to the present. Voiced or not many people hold views that may not be savory but they’re the views of free-thinking people If they don’t act upon those thoughts or words if they just express them verbally, they’ve broken no laws. because of Amendment #1A. If you try to crush their belief system and disallow free-thought that leads to an underground that leads to violence. I’m sure given time Mark Zuckerberg and his ilk would change that with re-education camps and we know from experience what would come next.
MARK ZUCKERBERG YOU’RE NOT G-D! YOU’RE AN ENPRENEUR, period; no more no less. If you start playing with Our civil rights watch out for the civil war with you in the center. Besides you may lose your company now. Since it’s admitted that you will control news, what’s broadcast and what isn’t you’ve become a medium for broadcast news and subject to Anti-Trust Laws. I hope they break up FB, Twitter, YouTube into very tiny companies.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago
Reply to  Jack Holan

It couldn`t happen soon enough .

Andrew Blackadder
Andrew Blackadder
3 years ago

Is it just me or does Zuckerberg look more and more like a Robot every time I see a photo of him.

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
3 years ago

…..and more and more evil !!!!

felix1999
felix1999
3 years ago

It’s not just you …
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VTS
VTS
3 years ago

He looks more like Adolf Hitler. Just imagine a little toothbrush moustache under his nose and you will recognize the face of the leader of the Fascist Book.

Bill Kay
Bill Kay
3 years ago

Have never liked his looks very strange / just plain ugly .

norman's nonsense
norman's nonsense
3 years ago

I’ve just been blocked for 12 hours from Twitter. I suspect this is because of an anti Biden post.. they are doing wveryhing they can to protect Slow Joe

Hans Wellington
Hans Wellington
3 years ago

Would be interesting to see if they would do the same with an anti Trump post ??

Jesse W. Brogan
Jesse W. Brogan
3 years ago

What ever happened to the old Common Law crime of “Inciting to Riot” where those who took paid rioters, instructed rioters on how to riot, or otherwise promoted other people to engage in riot, were considered to be responsible for any resulting injuries or damages?

Jack Holan
Jack Holan
3 years ago

Frankly, what happened with the crime Insurrection and Sedition. Prominent names that figure into the former, BLM, Antifa, George Soros (money-man) how many of the 150 organizations he supports, Jihadists, CAIR, Muslim Brotherhood. Regarding the latter, James Comey, James Brennan, Hillary Clinton, James Clapper, the Attorney at the Bureau, the Counter-Intel Agent at the Bureau just to Start. I would include each Mayor and Governor running Sanctuary protected areas refusing to turn over Federal crime suspects over to the Federal Government.

Raymond of Canada
Raymond of Canada
3 years ago

This is peace for Facebook: When all speech and opinions are emanating from one corner.

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Of course!
If there is only one “acceptable paradigm” then there is peace because there can be no dissent.

Raymond of Canada
Raymond of Canada
3 years ago
Reply to  Leonard Payne

That describes what peace is like under Islam.

Leonard Payne
Leonard Payne
3 years ago

Facebook should be shut down, permanently, and Suck-a-berg should be executed for election interference and other High Crimes against the Republic and Her people.

durabo
durabo
3 years ago

BRING IT ON, COMRADES! There are millions of us Cold War veterans ready to take on our traditional foe. I gua-ran=damn-tee that you Snowflakes, AntiFa, BLM, MaoCrats and assorted tangos will lose the battle.

bailintheboat
bailintheboat
3 years ago

“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?”
Who will watch the watchers?”

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