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Offline TomSea

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Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« on: July 31, 2018, 05:02:14 pm »
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Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
Alexei Oreskovic

Reuters

    Facebook has found a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 mid-term elections using Facebook profiles and advertisements.
    Facebook said that it doesn't yet know who is behind the misinformation attack.
    Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were told earlier this week, the New York Times reported.

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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2018, 05:06:02 pm »
Facebook and the rest of the FANGS are in the toilet.  Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet (Google) all ended in red to start the trading week, leading the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite to its biggest 3-day loss since March.

Facebook has problems and those problems ain't going away anytime soon. 
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2018, 05:14:57 pm »
So now it is illegal to influence elections?
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2018, 05:17:39 pm »
"Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections"  By the global left, mainstream media, etc.? 
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2018, 05:18:06 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on July 31, 2018, 05:14:57 pm
So now it is illegal to influence elections?

Guess it depends on who’s doing the influencing.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2018, 05:20:38 pm »
Quote from: Sanguine on July 31, 2018, 05:17:39 pm
"Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections"  By the global left, mainstream media, etc.?

Probably from its own employees.  Same with YouTube.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #6 on: July 31, 2018, 05:22:17 pm »
Rush is talking about this right now (12:13 pm).  It's hilarious how the idiot left manages to show their ignorance and illogic .... on a daily basis.  The implication by these leftists... is that Russia is once again "tampering" and attempting to influence (or rig) US elections for the Republicans.

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Facebook has not directly linked the efforts to Russia, the Times reported, thought it cited two anonymous sources that said Russia was "possibly" involved.

If (big "if") Russia was involved in election tampering or "influencing" in the USA.... Russia would be trying to get a Democrat elected.... NOT a Republican.   Yet, most lefties aren't bright enough to comprehend that rather obvious fact.   Republicans are for a stronger US military... always.  Democrats are always for a weakened, if not gutted, military.  It ain't rocket science.  Except to your average SOS leftie, that is. 

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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #7 on: July 31, 2018, 05:28:43 pm »
What do you want to bet... that all 32 of those "removed" pages and accounts were right-leaning....

"coordinated inauthentic behavior", indeed.

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The company said https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/07/removing-bad-actors-on-facebook/#what-weve-found on Tuesday it had removed 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram because they were involved in "coordinated inauthentic behavior".

"This kind of behavior is not allowed on Facebook because we don't want people or organizations creating networks of accounts to mislead others about who they are, or what they’re doing," the company said in a blogpost.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-identified-ongoing-political-influence-campaign-nyt-164042101--finance.html?soc_trk=gcm&soc_src=ceafb8ea-13ba-326e-8577-780d7df5b520&.tsrc=notification-brknews
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #8 on: July 31, 2018, 05:35:50 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on July 31, 2018, 05:06:02 pm
Facebook and the rest of the FANGS are in the toilet.  Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet (Google) all ended in red to start the trading week, leading the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite to its biggest 3-day loss since March.

Facebook has problems and those problems ain't going away anytime soon.

Amazon is not doing too badly. Nothing like Facebook and Twitter.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #9 on: July 31, 2018, 05:39:31 pm »
Quote from: Applewood on July 31, 2018, 05:35:50 pm
Amazon is not doing too badly. Nothing like Facebook and Twitter.

Yeah the 'A' will prolly do well over-all bezos has a wide stance.  The F-N-and G stock are gonna tank further.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #10 on: July 31, 2018, 05:41:18 pm »
I left Facebook years ago when I said something about a republican and FB scolded me. They gave me a nasty gram about not thinking that way.
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I moved to My Space and cannot post anything more until I join FB and some other site. We can always go back to dial up modems and bulletin boards.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #11 on: July 31, 2018, 06:09:42 pm »
Quote from: The Ghost on July 31, 2018, 05:39:31 pm
Yeah the 'A' will prolly do well over-all bezos has a wide stance.  The F-N-and G stock are gonna tank further.

I don't consider Amazon to be anything like FB, et al.  One thing I know is that Amazon doesn't care if you're liberal, conservative, Democrat or Republican.  Amazon will sell you products, get the money from your credit card or PayPal and that's it.  Anyone know if Amazon has sold your personal information to third parties?  I haven't heard anything about that re:  Amazon.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #12 on: July 31, 2018, 06:52:17 pm »

AG Jeff Sessions will be right on top of this.

Surely this justifies another Special Prosecutor.

The Ryan, McConnell, all committee chairs get on this.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
« Reply #13 on: July 31, 2018, 06:58:37 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on July 31, 2018, 05:14:57 pm
So now it is illegal to influence elections?

I've detected a coordinated effort to influence the midterms by CNN, ABC, NBC and CBS. Someone call the FBI.
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Re: Facebook has detected a coordinated effort to influence the 2018 US midterm elections
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