Not really long enough for a post – but too important to ignore, or delay, and it just came in.
The Election Integrity Project held a seminar just this morning, and Eric Smalley, technology editor for The Conversation, attended and felt this information was the most important to share:
- Russian efforts, by way of the shadowy Internet Research Agency, are focused on amplifying claims by Americans of fraud by Democrats, but unlike 2016 the Russian participation is getting dramatically less traction.
- A major concern is entities purporting to be livestreaming video but who are in fact using old and/or unrelated video to create a false narrative. This was first seen during the George Floyd protests.
- The danger zone is the time between the polls closing and results coming in. People will be anxiously watching for news and information, and entities pushing disinformation/misinformation will attempt to fill the news vacuum.
- Things the Election Integrity Project is watching:
There is likely to be lots of online video showing incidents of intimidation that will be rapidly decontextualized and used to delegitimize the election.
Both Facebook and Twitter will be labeling problematic posts, but only Twitter disallows sharing of those posts. Will Facebook need to follow suit?
And when I say share, I mean share. This was in an email from The Conversation. Feel free to share the inforation with friends and family.
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Good information, and w/be passing this on!
Thank you so much for this post, Joanne.
Not that either one of them has done a stellar job of monitoring content, but Facebook (particularly Zuckerberg) SUCK!
He’s a little brown-nosing toady suck-up:
He is, yes, indeed. Whenever I run across the phrase “thug in a hoodie,” I always think of him and that picture of his pasty white face showing him wearing an ultra-light-sweatshirting hoodie. Everything so white it’s a wonder one can make out any detail at all. If that image nauseates you as badly as it does me, I apologize from the bottom of my heart for bringing it up.
Trust only verifiable sources. Don’t trust Shitter, but even Shitter is better than Fakebook!
Trust TomCat…..
Great information.
We need to be safe, especially now with all of the crap that is happening with the corrupt creep we have in office. It’s gotten worse ever since 2016.
Thanks Joanne