Facebook Prepares Measures for Possible Election Unrest. Tools include slowing the spread of certain posts and tweaking users’ news feeds

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 25, 2020 | Jeff Horwitz and Deepa Seetharaman

[ETCM]

So, any reports of vote fraud or Trump winning will be suppressed. Post a pic of high turnout in a red district and get banned.

[goodnesswins]

Yes...put together code words now IF you are in FB on election night...I plan to be here on FR

[TigerClaws]

The 4chan anon who correctly said Epstein was dead just posted that Hunter Biden is dead from an overdose...

[The Antiyuppie]

Very few have fax machines or land lines anymore, but faxes over IP might still be viable.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Would not be a bad prediction.

[sauropod]

Like Jeffrey Toobin, Fakebook likes to manipulate.

[VanShuyten]

“So any nasty conservatives whooping up Trump’s re-election will be sent to FB Jail while having their posts pulled.”

Yes, and reports of rioting and looting by Dims will also be suppressed.

[PghBaldy]

We ha rioting across dozens of cities this year, but they did nothing about that.

[funfan]

Yes they will. But if people continue to use facebook that is what they will get.

[funfan]

If people just closed their account they wouldn’t need lindsey to do anything. The people who use that product are allowing themselves to be censored and they want someone else to fix it for them. Nobody is going to fix it people will have to fix it themselves-Get off of Facebook and twitter.

[ptsal]

Yep that’s the heavy hand.

[ptsal]

How is Parler?

It must be good autocorrect is fighting my spelling.

[The Duke]

For everyone who owns a Facebook account, need to have a “backup” place to meet. Parler?

I'm on Parler and have identified a couple of issues:

• It's based on 'tags' like Twitter, with limited messages sizes. Really a conservative Twitter.
• You have to provide them personal docs (e.g. drivers' license pic) in order to have certain important features like sending private messages.