nir Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Russia and Iran are under the microscope. Twitter has previously cracked down on accounts linked to election interference campaigns and provided snippets of their tweets, but now it's flinging the gates wide open. The social network has published data sets with over 10 million tweets from 4,611 accounts behind "inauthentic" activity, 3,841 of which are from the Russia-linked Internet Research Agency with the remaining 770 possibly tied to Iran. The library also includes over 2 million GIFs, videos and recorded Periscope livestreams. As for why Twitter is doing this? Simply speaking, it can't study this data all by itself. The company wants to promote "open research and investigation" to help understand these meddling campaigns, according to Head of Site Integrity Yoel Roth. While Twitter will try to stop and prevent these efforts, it doesn't believe it (or society at large)\ will truly understand these threats unless there's outside analysis. "We strongly believe that this level of transparency can enhance the health of the public conversation on the internet," Roth said. Twitter has already provided access to a handful of specialist researchers to get the ball rolling. It's not certain that posting this data will lead to revelations beyond what you've already seen. It's no secret that millions of people followed and interacted with bogus Russian accounts, for instance. However, independent researchers have both different goals than Twitter as well as their own resources. They may spend more time tracing the origins of given tweets or identifying consistent patterns of behavior. While the added transparency is likely coming too late to signifciantly affect the 2018 US midterm elections, it might help detect and thwart influence campaigns in future elections. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted October 17, 2018 Share Posted October 17, 2018 Bloomberg said Twitter said they dont think it will help so they must be doing it to please the USA and EU governments and its a waste of time and resources .. Quote Twitter said it doesn’t expect such information operations to stop and expects bad actors to continue to adapt to new technologies. It said an independent analysis of the activity is an important step towards a shared understanding of the threats. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/twitter-posts-millions-of-tweets-linked-to-russia-iran-meddling Like i posted about in mobile news now people are using other means now besides social media to get there news now people are getting it right from the horses mouth . If were not for sites like Facebook and Twitter stuff like this would not even be possible like the Cambridge Analytica data scandal . Social media is killing itself by banning so many people and its not even considered a good place to even get election news anymore. Social media they have to approve of what news gets posted if you post something they dont approve of they will ban you . You take Facebook for example there anti fake news campaign its being ran by a bunch old school politicians from D.C. Quote Facebook Censorship and the Atlantic Council What very few people know though, is that about 5 months ago, Facebook announced that is was officially partnering with the Atlantic Council in the form of an “election partnership […] to prevent [their] service from being abused during elections.” Indeed, the US midterm elections are only a couple of weeks away, so the Atlantic Council and its Digital Forensic Research Lab are now going at it with full force, closing facebook accounts left and right that they personally deem could be fake accounts, or accounts spreading misinformation, based on very shady criterias. One doesn’t need to look far to understand who the Atlantic Council are and what they stand for : it is a think tank essentially funded by NATO, weapons manufacturers, Middle-Eastern oil-state monarchies, billionaires and different branches of the US military. In short, it has been described as being nothing less than NATO’s unofficial propaganda wing. The Atlantic Council doesn’t shy away from its political intents across the world, which can be seen solely by looking at who sits on its directors board – the crème de la crème when it comes to US neocons & war criminals: Henry Kissinger, Condoleezza Rice, Frank Carlucci, James A. Baker, R. George P. Shultz, James Woolsey, Leon Panetta, Colin Powell, Robert Gates, and many more. Needless to say, the Atlantic Council has been on the same side as every single war and conflict engendered by US and NATO imperialism over the last 50 years, and has itself played a role in abusing democratic elections around the world as well as spreading propaganda and misinformation both in home countries and abroad to achieve its political means. https://www.globalresearch.ca/facebook-censorship-and-the-atlantic-council/5656896 You may as well say these Social media sites are just USA and EU state ran media centers now . They fight fake news with fake news like the USA always has for the last 50 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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