The Left wants “common sense” restrictions to the First Amendment

[gipper]

The thread is about censorship, and about how those who demand it want to be the ones to put forth disinformation, without being challenged on it.

The #CoronaHoax2020 is a spectacular example of a massive, malevolent disinformation campaign, backed up by widespread censorship against those who dared to call out the lies for what they clearly were.

It's almost a perfect model of where those who call for “‘common sense’ restrictions to the First Amendment” clearly intend to go with it.

Agreed.

 

[hadit]

Russia did it! LOL

Look the point isn't partisan. There's no vetting facts, or finding planted lies, on the internet. That should give anyone a few wrinkles.


The IRA's disinformation campaign was described in the final report by special counsel Robert Mueller, and in his indictment of multiple Russian nationals. U.S intelligence agencies assessed that the social media manipulation was part of a Russian intelligence operation designed to undermine American democracy by exacerbating divisions, hurt Democrat Hillary Clinton and help Trump. Experts say the U.S. government and American social media companies have yet to develop a strategy to prevent such manipulation from happening again. Just last week, a different cybersecurity firm exposed an Iranian effort to manipulate U.S. social media with fake accounts.

The IRA's basic strategy, Symantec found, was to use a small core of Twitter accounts to push out new content. And they harnessed a wider pool of automated accounts to amplify those messages.

The operation was carefully planned, with accounts often registered months before they were used — well in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Symantec found. The average time between account creation and first tweet was 177 days.

The core group of main accounts consisted mainly of "fake news" sources masquerading as regional news outlets or political organizations. Most of them had at least 10,000 followers but followed substantially fewer accounts. They were mainly used to publish new tweets.

Report: Russian 2016 troll campaign was well planned, made money

Some accounts were set up months in advance. And some trolls used fake accounts to make money, researchers found.

www.nbcnews.com

This puzzles one. If, as you say, "American social media companies have yet to develop a strategy to prevent such manipulation from happening again", how did we go from 2016 being such a corrupt election because of Russian tweets to 2020 being the most secure election in our history? At least, if one followed the media, one saw immediately that they went bonkers in 2016 about "Russia, Russia, Russia" to total silence on the subject in 2020, even though, again, the social media platforms did nothing to stop it. It wouldn't have anything to do with who won, would it?