Agreed - but my question is what can be done about it? How do we combat it. I hope people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions and not let social media dictate how to think. How do we stop the influence without censorship? Insuring that both sides can express views?AnnieArk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:22 pmValentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pmThat "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.Lemons wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:52 pm
Block all Russian IP addresses? You're kidding right?
Russia and far right groups have been putting out conspiracy theories and untruths and propaganda into our elections, European countries and possibly the EU. Radical left doesn't belong in this topic.
The first thing that can be done is acknowledge it's happening and educate people on what to look for in terms of legitimate news vs fake news coming from questionable sources. That can't be done because Trump fired the messenger and is telling his base that it's misinformation. He's lying.
It's not FB deciding what's fact and what isn't. It's American intelligence agencies. The professionals who have made a career of protecting our country say Russia is a real threat to our democracy. Trump and his supporters can deny it all they want. Their denials won't change the truth.
US intelligence warned House members Russia is working to get Trump re-elected – reports
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Sadly, she is. She's drunk the kool-aid.californiagirl83 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 4:39 pmYou can't be F***ing serious.
Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:45 pmAgreed - but my question is what can be done about it? How do we combat it. I hope people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions and not let social media dictate how to think. How do we stop the influence without censorship? Insuring that both sides can express views?AnnieArk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:22 pmValentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pm
That "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.
It's not FB deciding what's fact and what isn't. It's American intelligence agencies. The professionals who have made a career of protecting our country say Russia is a real threat to our democracy. Trump and his supporters can deny it all they want. Their denials won't change the truth.
It's not censorship to thwart a hostile nations attempt to throw an American election. It's a valid self-defense. No nation should be able to use our own Bill of Rights to attack us. That means the government should have the authority to force social media to shut down sites using misinformation.
Voters have the responsibility to accept news from valid sources whether they like what they hear or not. That means no longer accepting as fact the crap that so conspiracy websites are putting on the internet. It means no longer reposting altered news clips no matter how much they dislike a politician.
It also means that people need to stop defending and rationalizing bad behavior from Trump and his minions. Unfortunately, I don't think most his followers have the moral backbone to do that.
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Probably the first step would be admitting that Russia is using social media in order to sway a US election?Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:45 pmAgreed - but my question is what can be done about it? How do we combat it. I hope people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions and not let social media dictate how to think. How do we stop the influence without censorship? Insuring that both sides can express views?AnnieArk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:22 pmValentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pm
That "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.
It's not FB deciding what's fact and what isn't. It's American intelligence agencies. The professionals who have made a career of protecting our country say Russia is a real threat to our democracy. Trump and his supporters can deny it all they want. Their denials won't change the truth.
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Facebook, or any other social media, doesn't need to decide anything. People could actually check before they click. It's quite easy for anyone who isn't looking to have their beliefs confirmed.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pmThat "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.Lemons wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:52 pmBlock all Russian IP addresses? You're kidding right?Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 11:52 am So if Russia is trying to interfere and they are trying to steer people into voting in Sanders, what EXACTLY can be done about it? The claims have been they're exerting influence on social media, setting up bots, making false posts.
What EXACTLY can the US do about it? Block all Russian IP addresses? What about those operating from within our country? We're going to have the corporations deciding what's really Russian influence and what's not? This censorship is what's happening now to those that don't toe the radical left line and spout the approved rhetoric. There are independent and conservative channels and pages being banned, shadow blocked, and taken out of search results constantly. That's censorship. That's controlling information that we're able to obtain. That's living in communist China.
Russia and far right groups have been putting out conspiracy theories and untruths and propaganda into our elections, European countries and possibly the EU. Radical left doesn't belong in this topic.
The first thing that can be done is acknowledge it's happening and educate people on what to look for in terms of legitimate news vs fake news coming from questionable sources. That can't be done because Trump fired the messenger and is telling his base that it's misinformation. He's lying.
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I couldn't agree more. I don't need some third party dictating to me what's real and what's not, what I'm to think or not think. I'm perfectly capable of using my own powers of discernment.Thelma Harper wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 2:57 amFacebook, or any other social media, doesn't need to decide anything. People could actually check before they click. It's quite easy for anyone who isn't looking to have their beliefs confirmed.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pmThat "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.Lemons wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:52 pm
Block all Russian IP addresses? You're kidding right?
Russia and far right groups have been putting out conspiracy theories and untruths and propaganda into our elections, European countries and possibly the EU. Radical left doesn't belong in this topic.
The first thing that can be done is acknowledge it's happening and educate people on what to look for in terms of legitimate news vs fake news coming from questionable sources. That can't be done because Trump fired the messenger and is telling his base that it's misinformation. He's lying.
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But the average person doesn't do that, and politicians know it.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:07 amI couldn't agree more. I don't need some third party dictating to me what's real and what's not, what I'm to think or not think. I'm perfectly capable of using my own powers of discernment.Thelma Harper wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 2:57 amFacebook, or any other social media, doesn't need to decide anything. People could actually check before they click. It's quite easy for anyone who isn't looking to have their beliefs confirmed.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pm
That "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.
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It’s not just social media.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:45 pmAgreed - but my question is what can be done about it? How do we combat it. I hope people are intelligent enough to make their own decisions and not let social media dictate how to think. How do we stop the influence without censorship? Insuring that both sides can express views?AnnieArk wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:22 pmValentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pm
That "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.
It's not FB deciding what's fact and what isn't. It's American intelligence agencies. The professionals who have made a career of protecting our country say Russia is a real threat to our democracy. Trump and his supporters can deny it all they want. Their denials won't change the truth.
They hack our computers to get voter information and then they target specific voters. They stole hundreds of thousands of personal voter information during the 2016 election. They were able to get into some states computers where they were in a position to delete and change votes. There was no evidence they did it but if noting was done about it they might advance their attacks this time.
Now Trump is claiming the Russians are interfering but only trying to help Bernie not him. So he’s picking and choosing what intelligence information to use according to how it affects him. And people can vote for that?
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You're absolutely right. Which is what makes this all so frightening.californiagirl83 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:12 amBut the average person doesn't do that, and politicians know it.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 11:07 amI couldn't agree more. I don't need some third party dictating to me what's real and what's not, what I'm to think or not think. I'm perfectly capable of using my own powers of discernment.Thelma Harper wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 2:57 am
Facebook, or any other social media, doesn't need to decide anything. People could actually check before they click. It's quite easy for anyone who isn't looking to have their beliefs confirmed.
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But they don't, especially when the misinformation is confirmed as "true" from the administration. Interesting article the other day in The Guardian about bots, social media, and climate change.Thelma Harper wrote: ↑Sun Feb 23, 2020 2:57 amFacebook, or any other social media, doesn't need to decide anything. People could actually check before they click. It's quite easy for anyone who isn't looking to have their beliefs confirmed.Valentina327 wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 6:07 pmThat "education" has been discussed and publicised since 2016. That's when this first started becoming a topic. Trump firing someone yesterday is immaterial. You now have Facebook deciding what's fact and what isn't. This is all a slippery slope leading to censorship.Lemons wrote: ↑Sat Feb 22, 2020 3:52 pm
Block all Russian IP addresses? You're kidding right?
Russia and far right groups have been putting out conspiracy theories and untruths and propaganda into our elections, European countries and possibly the EU. Radical left doesn't belong in this topic.
The first thing that can be done is acknowledge it's happening and educate people on what to look for in terms of legitimate news vs fake news coming from questionable sources. That can't be done because Trump fired the messenger and is telling his base that it's misinformation. He's lying.
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