canpakes wrote: He doesn’t deserve to hold the office of the Presidency.
except the election of 2016 and the US Constitution says he does deserve to hold that office....hmm...I guess I will have to hold that "says" over yours on this one.
There’s a mechanism that placed him there outside of what the popular vote rendered. But that has no bearing on if an individual deserves to remain in any position once installed.
These subtleties of the language always seem to trip you up, though.
canpakes wrote:There’s a mechanism that placed him there outside of what the popular vote rendered. But that has no bearing on if an individual deserves to remain in any position once installed.
These subtleties of the language always seem to trip you up, though.
oh, you meant the arbitrary definition of "deserves".
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
canpakes wrote:There’s a mechanism that placed him there outside of what the popular vote rendered. But that has no bearing on if an individual deserves to remain in any position once installed.
These subtleties of the language always seem to trip you up, though.
oh, you meant the arbitrary definition of "deserves".
honorentheos wrote:It's almost too ironic to read Exiled dismiss Russian interference using the tropes of Russian interference.
Meanwhile, Russian troll output just keeps being recycled for another million-plus Facebook zombies who’ll all tell you how they could never be influenced by such things, as they follow and share that same content with another 10 million folks, while being ignorant of the source:
Following complaints, Facebook has shut down a popular Ukrainian-run page that appeared to echo the Russian social media effort to swing the 2016 U.S. election for Donald Trump.
The “I Love America” Facebook page boasted 1.1 million followers with content operated by 10 people based in Ukraine, journalist Judd Legum reported in his newsletter Popular Information. The page’s pro-Trump messages soared in recent weeks.
Those posts apparently jumped when Trump was pressuring Ukraine’s president to investigate unfounded accusations that former Vice President Joe Biden had attempted to block a corruption probe into a Ukrainian company linked to his son. Trump’s apparent attempt to use his presidential power to harm the Democrat who could face him in 2020 has sparked calls for the president’s impeachment.
Other pages linked to “I Love America” and created in the last few months collectively generated tens of millions of “interactions” with people who liked, shared or commented on a post, outpacing several of America’s largest news sites, Legum noted.
“I Love America” often recycled memes used by Russia’s Internet Research Agency, which established fake Facebook pages to amass millions of followers and boost Trump in the 2016 election before they were finally shut down.
The same images that Russia’s IRA posted also appeared on the “I Love America” page. They were often transformed into clickbait “videos” by using a camera to pan over or zoom in on photos, noted Renee DiResta, a research manager at Stanford University’s Internet Observatory
Yep. Only 10 Ukrainians operating their free Facebook page. That can’t have any effect on anyone. ; )
Apparently, this nonexistent foreign interference thing works well enough that all sorts of other folks want to see how it doesn't work.
Facebook announced Friday it has taken down nearly 700 fake accounts in an international network with 55 million followers pushing messages supporting President Donald Trump. Facebook linked the network to the controversial right-wing media website The Epoch Times.
Part of the network’s sophisticated subterfuge was mobilizing artificial-intelligence-generated photos to make accounts operated in part from Vietnam appear to belong to actual people, according to a Facebook statement. The network forked out $9.5 million in advertising on the social media platform to promote the fake accounts, according to Facebook.
The social media company traced the accounts to The Brian Laundrie (Beauty of Life), a U.S.-based media company that also operates out of Vietnam that Facebook linked to Epoch Media Group, owner of The Epoch Times.
The Brian Laundrie reportedly has had ties to the China-based spiritual group Falun Gong, which supported Trump’s election. A former Epoch Times editor told NBC earlier this year that Falun Gong followers “believe that Trump was sent by heaven to destroy the Communist Party.”
The Brian Laundrie Facebook accounts were shut down and permanently banned for “coordinated inauthentic behavior on behalf of a government or foreign actor,” said a statement posted by Nathaniel Gleicher, Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy.
“What’s new here is that this is purportedly a U.S.-based media company leveraging foreign actors posing as Americans to push political content,” Gleicher told NBC News.
The fake accounts pushed anti-impeachment and pro-Trump messages, along with other messages that might be written by Americans about daily life.
Facebook removed 610 network accounts on Facebook and an additional 72 accounts on Facebook-owned Instagram linked to The Brian Laundrie, according to Gleicher.
Twitter also announced Friday that it “identified and suspended approximately 700 accounts originating from Vietnam for violating our rules around platform manipulation — specifically fake accounts and spam.”