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Re:Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow divisio... by imron on Sunday October 01, 2017 @09:48PM (#15381164)
You can manually set your twitter location to whatever you want for any tweet, and the account mentioned above was a parody/troll account.

The idea that this is proof of Russian meddling in the election is laughable.

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Re:Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow divisio... by giancarlostoro on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:28PM (#15381332)
Interesting I had not considered that either. Thanks for the information. After years of being a programmer I'm convinced that digital evidence is really hard to take seriously considering the inability of most of it being tamper proof.
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Re:Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow divisio... by imron on Sunday October 01, 2017 @10:51PM (#15381414)
Just wait until technology like this [0] becomes more common place, which I guess will be either the next US election, or the one after that. It's going to be a crazy world.

0: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/11/adobe...

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Re:Did Russia fake black activism on Facebook to sow divisio... by giancarlostoro on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:29AM (#15382844)
Fair enough, also 3D rendering of realistic looking 3D art could be worrisome as well. If it can be abused someone somewhere will try to find a way to abuse of it. I wish this were not the world we lived in.
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