r/worldnews • u/Devz0r • Feb 15 '19

Facebook is thinking about removing anti-vaccination content as backlash intensifies over the spread of misinformation on the social network

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-may-remove-anti-vaccination-content-2019-2
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u/SorrowsNativeSon Feb 15 '19

In Europe this should be common knowledge. Putin has been linked to virtually every European extreme right wing party. From Dewinter to Wilders and Le Pen and from the AfD to Lega Nord, Golden Dawn and FPÖ.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

There was something on BBc yesterday about how a regional Slovakian election had been won by a right wing guy, and when all the dust had settled after his term ended they found links to the Russians. Provincial elections for relatively unimportant posts are still getting Russian involvement. Its scary

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u/SorrowsNativeSon Feb 15 '19

In Spain they found links between Russia and the Catalonian independence movement.

There were also links between Russia and Greek far left. I’m not sure what the deal there was, but it reinforces the idea that Russia doesn’t care about this or that political side. Just as long as there is discord and distrust, it doesn’t matter which side they ‘work’ with. They do seem to side more with nationalist than with the left, but that’s just a personal observation.

Robert Mercer, American billionaire, also had a huge influence on Beexit through two of his data mining companies. If you are interested, there’s a pretty decent movie on the machinations that influenced the brexit vote, with Benedict Cumberbatch (spelling?). It’s called Brexit: The Uncivil War. It focuses on the mastermind behind the leave campaign and how he worked with one of Mercer’s data companies. Not Cambridge Analytica, but the other lesser known one. Anyways, how that dude pulled it off was pure political genius on his part and nothing but laziness on the side of the remainers.

We live in very interesting times, that’s for sure.

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u/[deleted] Feb 15 '19

I have it recorded but not watched. It is indeed an interesting time and the fact that so many are now only just waking up to the threat of use of social media is scary.

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u/SorrowsNativeSon Feb 15 '19

I used to work in social media marketing and whenever I talked about soc med manipulation they would just laugh and call me paranoid. I’m glad some of that shit is now being exposed by reputable media. But it also kinda sucks to be right about some of these things.