Posted on 10/25/2020 6:13:13 PM PDT by karpov
Facebook Inc. teams have planned for the possibility of trying to calm election-related conflict in the U.S. by deploying internal tools designed for what it calls “at-risk” countries, according to people familiar with the matter.
The emergency measures include slowing the spread of viral content and lowering the bar for suppressing potentially inflammatory posts, the people said. Previously used in countries including Sri Lanka and Myanmar, they are part of a larger tool kit developed by Facebook to prepare for the U.S. election.
Facebook executives have said they would only deploy the tools in dire circumstances, such as election-related violence, but that the company needs to be prepared for all possibilities, said the people familiar with the planning.
The potential moves include an across-the-board slowing of the spread of posts as they start to go viral and tweaking the news feed to change what types of content users see, the people said. The company could also lower the threshold for detecting the types of content its software views as dangerous.
Deployed together, the tools could alter what tens of millions of Americans see when they log onto the platform, diminishing their exposure to sensationalism, incitements to violence and misinformation, said the people familiar with the measures. But slowing down the spread of popular content could suppress some good-faith political discussion, a prospect that makes some Facebook employees uneasy, some of the people said.
“We’ve spent years building for safer, more secure elections,” Facebook spokesman Andy Stone said. “We’ve applied lessons from previous elections, hired experts, and built new teams with experience across different areas to prepare for various scenarios.”
Facebook already has critics from both political parties, and any widespread attempt to regulate content is likely to provoke further scrutiny.
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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.
Yes...put together code words now IF you are in FB on election night...I plan to be here on FR
The 4chan anon who correctly said Epstein was dead just posted that Hunter Biden is dead from an overdose...
Very few have fax machines or land lines anymore, but faxes over IP might still be viable.
Would not be a bad prediction.
Like Jeffrey Toobin, Fakebook likes to manipulate.
“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.
We ha rioting across dozens of cities this year, but they did nothing about that.
Yes they will. But if people continue to use facebook that is what they will get.
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.
Yep that’s the heavy hand.
How is Parler?
It must be good autocorrect is fighting my spelling.
I'm on Parler and have identified a couple of issues:
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