Facebook Removes 82 Accounts Linked To Iranian Disinformation Campaign (usatoday.com) 54
Facebook said Friday that it removed 82 pages, groups, and accounts from Iran that tried to sow political discord in the U.S. and U.K. over the course of the last year. USA Today reports: The Facebook announcement, coming two weeks before the midterms, was a bracing reminder of the growing scale and frequency of disinformation operations threatening the United States on social media, some of it tied to foreign governments, even as Facebook adds thousands of new employees and strengthens technology to more quickly root out and take down disinformation campaigns.
The page administrators and account owners typically misrepresented themselves as U.S. citizens, or in a few cases U.K. citizens, to post on politically divisive subjects ripped from the headlines such as the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Last week Twitter disclosed more than 1 million tweets from the same operation. The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts, but the investigation is still ongoing.
The page administrators and account owners typically misrepresented themselves as U.S. citizens, or in a few cases U.K. citizens, to post on politically divisive subjects ripped from the headlines such as the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Last week Twitter disclosed more than 1 million tweets from the same operation. The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts, but the investigation is still ongoing.
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How to detect artists and rate their level of political content:
A select group of US and UK government officials will decide on the exact level of domestic political comedy.
US law enforcement has it own experts to prove if a meme has international political content.
A think tank also has top experts to consider the level of comedy and political funniness.
Big US social media brands will then take the gov and think tank findings and report all acc
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Technically any misrepresentation of your identity violates Facebook's TOS [facebook.com], para 3.1. So any account from any non-American claiming to be American will get shut down.
Facebook is a private organization, which has the right to police the content of their site in any manner they see fit. Facebook has many content restrictions, which is its right, but the "real identity" policy happens to be content neutral.
Thank you Facebook! (Score:1)
Or if only the media did it's damn job (Score:3)
Somewhat hilariously one of the hardest hitting journalistic outlets today is Teen Vogue. It helps that they're a bit like the court jester in that nobody takes 'em that seriously so they can get away with stories that anywhere else would have the mega corps come down like a ton of bricks.
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That's exactly right, if only CNN or the NY Times would report on the presence of a disinformation or propaganda campaign, people would believe it.
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No it isn't! Where do you get this stuff? The divide has been growing since the 60's, specifically, because the left has become more and more radical, and ever more willing to toss the constitution, or at least only use it when it suits their purposes, and ignore it when it doesn't. The rule of law is the latest casualty, with US Congresspeople explicitly calling for harassment of anyone that disagrees with them, and the desire for completely unlimited and uncontrolled illegal immigration.
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Obama consistently used the constitution as toilet paper, attempted to rule by executive fiat, and publically lamented that we didn't have a dictatorship to permit him to act. Perversion and debauchery are the rule of the day. You are the worst kind of imbecile.
Reality won the Parody Wars (Score:2)
I still hope this is intended as over the top parody but these days I don't know anymore.
'corporate media' is usually not indented as praise though.
Of course, conservatives will claim... (Score:1, Funny)
Of course, conservatives will claim that only conservative iranian accounts were removed...
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The comment literally right under yours. Well done.
FB done anything close to left leaning pages too? (Score:1)
Can anyone point me to any information that FB has meted similar action to any pages from the left?
BTW, I long for the day we'll get a viable FB alternative. Available ones [fossbytes.com] are g r a s s i n g the last time I checked.
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Why don't you tell us who you're talking about? "The left" isn't a group really except in your AM radio feedback loop, sleepy traitor.
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Your coming was foretold, well done fulfilling the prophecy. [slashdot.org]
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Wake me up (Score:1, Troll)
When they remove anything linked to an Israeli misinformation campaign.
Nobody in Washington fears "Russian trolls and bots".
Everyone fears AIPAC.
Anti-semitic troll (Score:1)
This discussion isn't about Israel, Jews, or AIPAC. It's about Facebook removing 82 Iranian disinformation linked accounts.
If you have to take it all the way down to your racist base you should find a forum more welcoming to that.
Like a Trump arena. Or a Florida van full of stickers.
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Re:Anti-semitic troll (Score:4, Informative)
This discussion isn't about Israel, Jews, or AIPAC. It's about Facebook removing 82 Iranian disinformation linked accounts.
For me it's about censorship and who gets hit by it and why. Individual players or countries of origin means nothing to me.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-N... [jpost.com]
In the past we've seen some influence efforts full of factually incorrect and misleading information (re JCPOA) on behalf of a foreign power (Israel) without so much as a suggestion of media pushback against it.
If you have to take it all the way down to your racist base you should find a forum more welcoming to that.
Just remember Netanyahu would have Trump's children if he could.
Social media is now curated (Score:2)
What is next?
No memes at all because of domestic political considerations? No blasphemy because ads? No funny art work? No links to funny political art work sites?
No freedom of speech online to enjoy funny political art due to investigation and the demands of US and UK government officials?
You can do all the Meme's and politics you want (Score:3)
I'm clever enough to know that information is useless if you don't know it's source. But there's enough that aren't to swing elections. Democracy and Capitalism both only work when there's enough information
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Enjoying having a think tank, law enforcement and social media staff define what a funny meme is and if people will be allowed to get the joke?
A government party political test for what art is and will art will be allowed to be?
Is random funny political art not as funny if the internet don't know the "source"?
Why should governments, law enforcement, party political social media and
Innocent for sure - the Iranian Government! (Score:2)
> The Iranian government has no ties to the accounts
Without the investigation being complete, HOW can they possibly already CLEAR
the Iranian Government SO ABSOLUTELY?
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