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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:16:53 GMT -6
oh god, Senator Grassley decided to drop in
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:18:47 GMT -6
Facebook: "We are focused broadly on questioning authenticity of advertisements placed on our platform." The lessons we learned from 2016 informed the steps we have taken to identify and detect malicious content
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:18:52 GMT -6
FB apparently has figured out which are fake. orly.
coordinated inauthentic activity
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:21:25 GMT -6
have you completed internal investigations to identify all accounts that are linked to Russia and purchased political ads up to and through the 2016 election and, if not, what is your timeline for completing such investigation?
All three platforms say that they are still working on it and are coordinating with the committee staff to keep them informed.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:24:35 GMT -6
DiFi time!
bad actors exploited a Facebook tool called "custom audiences" by creating fake pages and using those to spread falsehoods.
Mr. Stretch responds that Facebook finds it "vile" and "cynical" that anyone would use the platform to exploit the divisions in American society. Most ads were targeted to the country as a whole, with about 25% targeted to specific states. They used Facebook users' "likes" to determine in which causes they were interested and try to get them to "like" these fake pages.Facebook is limiting ad content permissions so that ads targeted at potentially divisive issues aren't targeting particular individuals or communities.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:26:03 GMT -6
Mr. Salgado: For a period of time, RT qualified under an objective evaluation process to participate in a program of news organizations on google, which may have given them a bigger platform on YouTube. Google didn't specifically do anything to terminate RT's participation in that program, they simply stopped meeting the requirements of the program.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:27:27 GMT -6
Twitter said that posts telling voters (mostly Clinton voters) that they could "Vote by text" did not violate Twitter's TOU. The posts were only taken down once Twitter users reported them.
Mr. Edgett: It was a small number of tweets. There were far more tweets pointing out that those things were invalid than there were impressions ("likes" and "retweets").
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:29:13 GMT -6
Sasse is up.
Twitter has 330 million active monthly users. Less than 5% of Twitter users are false accounts, spam, or automated.
Sasse: Can you distinguish between fake and automated?
Edgett: we can't calculate whether someone is pretending to be someone they are not. We have a pseudononymous policy, so we can't track those metrics.
Sasse: Ok but.....
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:31:00 GMT -6
Edgett: We prioritize automated activity when looking for malicious activity. Mutual impressions where certain accounts are largely tweeting back and forth between each other, occurs naturally between legitimte human accounts too.
Mr. Sasse pointed out that a lot of the very obvious bot accounts largely impress with each other (e.g. liking or retweeting a small group of other fake accounts) and asked if Twitter has a method of distinguishing between that and real people just tweeting with their friends.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:31:21 GMT -6
Safety and abuse is the number one priority of Twitter.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:32:20 GMT -6
Say what you will about Sasse, he does a great job of questioning expert witnesses.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:33:21 GMT -6
Facebook has 10,000 people working daily on safety and security and they plan to double that number by 2018 (whoa!)
"We need to have the capacity both as a company and an industry to be able to track [terrorism] and mitigate it"
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:34:04 GMT -6
unlike Twitter, Facebook has experts in various world languages, cultures and religions to help Facebook identify what is malicious or terroristic activity
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:35:46 GMT -6
Senator Durbin.
19 civil rights organization sent a joint letter to Facebook expressing concern about the use of Facebook to amplify anti-Muslim, anti-black anti-immigrant and anti-LGBTQ ideals. Facebook was also used to organize an in-person white supremacist rally. What is your response to this letter?
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:36:02 GMT -6
ok I have to go pick up my kid. Back soon.
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:43:06 GMT -6
Kennedy asks about being able to see a user using 4 or 5 shell corp. How do you recognize if they are real? he asks about ability to see them Stretch says no we can not see behind the activity
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:45:02 GMT -6
Buying an ad that everyone see is costly? Yes
so you can narrow it down? Is that your business model we can provide targeted advertising.
Kennedy wants to know if you could find out everything about a user. there are limitations in place.
You have that ability? not exactly.
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:46:25 GMT -6
I think kennedy is trying to get to how much information an advertising company can gleen from a profile.
Asks if Google is a newspaper Richard says no and tries to expand kennady says outta time
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:48:17 GMT -6
Amy talking about her and Warners bill being a national sec issue
Will you support the bill?
FB is skirting the question. Will work with her on it. Google supports the legislation.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:49:49 GMT -6
Twitter isn't sure how to tell an issue ad from a commercial ad. Oh.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:50:50 GMT -6
Senator Klobuchar is making the case that greater transparency will actually benefit the SM companies themselves
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 13:52:27 GMT -6
Doesn't paying money to boost/promote an ad amount to it being a paid ad?
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:54:39 GMT -6
They are really letting FB take over this. Stretch seems to be doing most of the talking.
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Post by shadesofgold on Oct 31, 2017 13:55:25 GMT -6
I want to see Facebook held accountable but I am really worried that the targeted advertising will get locked down as the low-hanging fruit. That use of targeted social marketing for public health campaigns is literally saving people's lives.
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 13:59:53 GMT -6
While I think that SM need to be held to the same standards in advertising as TV/Radio. I think we need to teach people especially kids at this point, critical thinking and being able to research things and not take everything on SM at face value. We cant just expect FB, Google, Twitter or whatever iteration comes after to be the keeper.
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Post by jkjacq on Oct 31, 2017 14:15:31 GMT -6
Are the profile pics Leahy is showing from today?
Because he is saying they look like 'fake' Stretch says they shouldnt be linked to any they have previously identified as inauthentic activity.
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 14:20:27 GMT -6
I'm back in time for Blumenthal!
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 14:22:59 GMT -6
I love how everyone brought giant posters today. Senator Blumenthal brought a blown up pic of an ad that used Aziz Ansari's picture to encourage people to vote "by text"
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 14:23:44 GMT -6
Mr. Edgett keeps saying that they saw 8 times as many retweets claiming that the voter suppression images were false as there were legitimate retweets but that doesn't answer for the number of people who fell for it
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Post by dc2london on Oct 31, 2017 14:26:20 GMT -6
While I think that SM need to be held to the same standards in advertising as TV/Radio. I think we need to teach people especially kids at this point, critical thinking and being able to research things and not take everything on SM at face value. We cant just expect FB, Google, Twitter or whatever iteration comes after to be the keeper. I completely agree, and it's something I'm already working to teach my children. But what do we do about t he vast numbers of American adults who don't question anything?
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