Posted on 08/02/2019 9:47:30 AM PDT by Steve1999
A Republican lawmaker is crafting legislation aiming at removing fake accounts from online social media platforms. Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is working with Facebook to craft regulations to cut down on the amount of fake accounts and scams that take place on its platforms, according to the New York Times. Kinzinger has been the victim of numerous scams for over a decade as people use his image and often his name to create fake accounts. Kinzinger is a lieutenant colonel in the Air National Guard. The names and likenesses of U.S. service members are used to create thousands of fake social media accounts.
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We also need to protect our privacy.
Adam Kinzinger is a crackpot, NeverTrumper. I’m not sure if I believe him or the scammers.
Makes me think Fakebook and other Social Media groups allow this to happen to conservatives.
As payback.
“She waited around in that bus station for two weeks for me to show up, and I didn’t,”
She waited two weeks at a Rockford bus station?
She could write a blues song.
The other motive is to make it a national law to instantly identify any of their political enemies who speak out online, so they can be destroyed, like this Mario Lopez ["3-year-olds Don't Understand Gender!"] fellow.
As payback.
I certainly agree with you on that. On Twitter there is something very automated going on when it comes to comments about Trump's Tweets. Same people over and over and over bubble to the top of the list of comments. 95% are negative.
61,000,000 plus followers and essentially all negative comments. I don't think so.
Twitter algorithm?
Robo posts?
Both?
Facebook and Google are just the US branch of the Chinese Communist Party’s Spy Agency
This smells like an attempt to require ID to use the internet.
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