Posted on 09/06/2019 9:26:20 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke is demanding answers from major tech platforms following an unsubstantiated claim online that the gunman involved in last weekend's mass shooting in Odessa, Texas, was driving a vehicle with an O'Rourke campaign sticker.
Jen O’Malley Dillon, campaign manager for the former House lawmaker from Texas, sent letters to Facebook, Google and Twitter on Friday asking for greater transparency about how the companies respond to disinformation on their platforms and calling on them to take action against any fraudulent accounts involved in amplifying the claim.
“As a campaign, we’re almost entirely powerless to stop misinformation,” O’Malley Dillon wrote on Twitter earlier this week. “We can tweet corrections, but only a fragment of the people exposed will see it. This rests on Twitter, Facebook, and Google who let this go completely unchecked.”
None of the companies immediately responded to requests for comment from The Hill.
SNIP
O’Rourke believes social media spreads disinformation.
Now imagine if you are a conservative...
Mayor Pete presses its husband’s briefs.
To a Democrat like Yo Quiero Taco Bell “disinformation” is whatever hurts their chances at winning elections.
By disinformation he means things that exposes the left and the deep state.
First question: Define “disinformation”
Second Question: Who determines whether or not a piece of information is “disinformation”
If they really did this, none of the major news networks nor the cable news networks would be able to use these tech giants to distribute their “news”.
At the end of the day, this is a presidential candidate asking those that give a format for speech, to restrict people’s free speech, because the government can’t.
It’s like the Jews having Rome kill Jesus because they couldn’t.
Spaz says what?
Did he say,”Quit that f****** disinformation?”
I thought it was Mickey at first.
How will we every know he said anything?
What Beano means by disinformation is anything that deviates from the narrative established by the Ministry of Propaganda.
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