U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering with Election

Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by dbatten on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:36PM (#16394630)

What do you mean by that? Filtering billions of posts, trying to figure out which ones are "real news" vs. "fake news," and which ones come from well-meaning vs. nefarious actors, AND doing so in a way that is not only politically neutral but also perceived as politically neutral is a MASSIVELY non-trivial problem.

Even if you think the social networks should be trying to solve this problem (and some would argue that it's a hornets nest they would do well to avoid), acting as if they're being negligent or incompetent because they haven't figured it out already is a bit unfair.

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by antidaily on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:42PM (#16394691)

How about simple transparency in who's buying ads like tv and print have to go through?

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by dbatten on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:09PM (#16394974)

Again, what do you mean by that? Most (all?) Facebook ads already state which business page they're associated with. (I'm admittedly not on Facebook, but I have trafficked some ads for work.)

If you're asserting that Facebook should say who's REALLY behind by the ads, you're basically asking for Facebook to hire a crack team of private investigators. Should they be responsible for figuring out that Nice Ad Buyers LLC is really a wholly-owned subsidiary of some other corporation, which some neo-nazi millionaire owns the controlling stake of?

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Re:U.S. Charges 13 Russians, 3 Companies for Interfering wit... by antidaily on Saturday February 17, 2018 @03:51PM (#16402617)

https://twitter.com/robjective/status/964952978657509376 they’re smarter than you give them credit for. they just don’t do anything about it. got it?

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