Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by chris11 on Sunday November 08, 2020 @01:14AM (#25023516)

Social media is now a primary target for foreign election interference, I'm sure that's a major cause. In 2016 Russia targeted Clinton and supported Trump. But they also generally tried to increase division. One ugly thing about that is disinformation campaigns would actually get support from some Americans.

The House is Democratically controlled, but Republicans control the senate, so there's bipartisan agreement on this. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/technology/indictment-rus...

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

https://intelligence.house.gov/social-media-content/

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Re:Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided ... by redisman on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:43AM (#25024186)

My main worry is that this is in the US and it's being handled poorly already. A country with great resources where these companies are based and somewhat governed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_elections_in_2020

How many Cameroonian experts do the US based tech giants have to combat misinformation there?

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