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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 7:57:59 GMT -6
woo, they aren't playing around. Seven minute rounds!
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 7:58:34 GMT -6
Colin Stretch is going without his glasses today. Maybe he didn't appreciate the Andersen Cooper comparisons?
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:00:20 GMT -6
Something that I hope the Intelligence committees are looking into is 4Chan. Shortly after the election I heard an interview with this 20 year old woman who was part of a huge 4Chan group who created and circulated anti-Hillary memes. They were chaos agents, nothing more. They didn't even like Trump, but they liked that he would be destructive and sow chaos and discord. She proudly proclaimed, "We meme'd Trump into the presidency." I was disgusted.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:05:06 GMT -6
They keep talking about how small, in aggregate, the number of fake and bot accounts or content is as a percentage of total content/accounts. That's so not the point, dudes.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:07:01 GMT -6
Oh, Google sent someone new today. Kent Walker, Senior VP and counsel for Google.
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:09:51 GMT -6
Oh, Google sent someone new today. Kent Walker, Senior VP and counsel for Google. I was just going to say this.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:13:08 GMT -6
The thing about Google isn't even as much about ads, it's about the way they place search results into a hierarchy. If you put the word "Clinton" into the Google search bar, the first predictive text you get is "Clinton Uranium." All it takes is some kind of code that searches things on Google and gives hits to BS sites, and it pushes those results higher on the results list for everyone else and contributes to the predictive text results. And I bet there are seven year olds who could write that code.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:16:43 GMT -6
oh my god. The Russians created two different Facebook groups: One a "heart of Texas" knee-jerk 'Murica type deal,and one for Muslim pride. Those pages then,subsequently, created events and used ad buys to promote the events. One was the "Heart of Texas" group meeting at the Houston Islamic Center to protest the"Muslimization of Texas," and the other was at the same place, at the same time, for the Muslim Pride group to promote Muslim values. That could have gone so, so badly.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:19:12 GMT -6
I'm glad Facebook is monitoring for targeting of our military personnel, but dear lord, one would hope that deployed people aren't posting sensitive and classified info on Facebook
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:21:15 GMT -6
I'm glad Facebook is monitoring for targeting of our military personnel, but dear lord, one would hope that deployed people aren't posting sensitive and classified info on Facebook I think someone up a command chain would catch that pretty quick before FB.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:21:16 GMT -6
Facebook wasn't monitoring the authenticity of accounts until SSCI basically made them. Oh.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:22:00 GMT -6
I'm glad Facebook is monitoring for targeting of our military personnel, but dear lord, one would hope that deployed people aren't posting sensitive and classified info on Facebook I think someone up a command chain would catch that pretty quick before FB. nothing like a good military tribunal to tamp down on 'leaks'
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:22:05 GMT -6
They are using IP addresses to find location.
That doesnt seem enough..
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:24:23 GMT -6
Twitter audits users monthly, they've determined that, for several years, fake or spam accounts represent less than 5% of total Twitter accounts. Once an account is identified as false, it is permabanned, and they work to link it to any other accounts that may be associated and also fake.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:25:54 GMT -6
Senator Burr just said that outside audits actually show that more like 12-15% of total Twitter users are fake. That's like 3 million accounts. That's insane.
ETA sorry that was Warner, not Burr
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:26:51 GMT -6
They are using IP addresses to find location. That doesnt seem enough.. Didn't I read that there are ways for hackers to bounce or shield foreign IPs? To make it look like they are somewhere else?
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:27:28 GMT -6
I really hope they dont crack down on the 'like if you love jesus more than X' accounts. it would make fb really boring.
I like to use the angry button on those.
I'm mostly kidding, except for the part where I hit the angry button
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:27:52 GMT -6
Mark Warner is NOT happy. Remind me never to cross him.
Basically, the SM companies response to this has been wholly inadequate in every way.
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:28:06 GMT -6
They are using IP addresses to find location. That doesnt seem enough.. Didn't I read that there are ways for hackers to bounce or shield foreign IPs? To make it look like they are somewhere else? Yes and Stretch said its also the most easily manipulated. So doesnt really work.
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:30:46 GMT -6
Warner did not come to play, he wants yes/no answers. And Stretch is skirting.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:31:11 GMT -6
FB took down 30k accounts that were interfering in the French election, but they haven't cross-checked to see if those accounts were active in the US election. This is getting heated.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:32:23 GMT -6
Mark Warner's campaign is getting a donation from me today. He's not up in 2018, but still.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:33:48 GMT -6
A fake TN GOP account had 154,000 followers. The real TN GOP account had 15,000 followers. But meanwhile, POTUS, Junior and KellyAnne were RTing the fake account. Good lord.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:37:09 GMT -6
Senator Risch would like us all to know that there were ads supporting both sides. K.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:39:32 GMT -6
the republicans on the committee are in full "Trump is totally a legitimate president, nothing to see here" mode.
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Post by jkjacq on Nov 1, 2017 8:39:57 GMT -6
Senator Risch would like us all to know that there were ads supporting both sides. K. I went to the restroom while he was talking because I have a visercal reaction to his voice. Hes so ineffective and as long as he gets to travel he doesnt give a shit about governing.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:42:21 GMT -6
Senator Feinstein: "I don't think you get it...what we're talking about is a cataclysmic change. What we're talking about is the beginning of cyber warfare."
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:42:47 GMT -6
Senator Risch would like us all to know that there were ads supporting both sides. K. I went to the restroom while he was talking because I have a visercal reaction to his voice. Hes so ineffective and as long as he gets to travel he doesnt give a shit about governing. he wasted his 7 minutes.
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:43:53 GMT -6
Senator Feinstein is reminding the SM companies that they created a monster and now they are responsible for mitigating the damage of their misuse
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Post by dc2london on Nov 1, 2017 8:44:57 GMT -6
DiFi: What is Twitter doing to prevent and stop illegal tweets?
Edgett: We're always improving. We're trying. We are focused on the behavior of the accounts to try to spot accounts who might do this before they do it.
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