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2020-05-28 Cyber

Upping the ante: Trump Threatens to 'Close Down' Social Media after Tweets Tagged

And while the Twitterverse explodes in indignation, the Trump administration continues quietly deleting unnecessary regulation, putting together cases against those involved in Obamagate, and preparing more judicial candidates for Senate approval.

[AnNahar] U.S. President Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
on Wednesday threatened to close down social media platforms after Twitter labelled two of his tweets "unsubstantiated" and accused him of making false claims.

"Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen," Trump tweeted.

Twitter targeted two tweets the president posted on Tuesday in which he contended without evidence that mail-in voting would lead to fraud and a "Rigged Election."

Under the tweets, Twitter posted a link which read "Get the facts about mail-in ballots" -- a first for the social network which has long resisted calls to censure the U.S. president over truth-defying posts.

Trump pushed back again on Wednesday saying "we can't let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots.

"Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!"

The president also accused social media platforms of interfering in the last election, saying "we saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016."

"We can't let a more sophisticated version of that happen again."

Trump has long used Twitter to publish controversial conspiracy theories and at times false information and even insults.

Before being elected in 2016, he built his political brand by supporting the "birther" lie that Barack Obama
My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world. I hope you'll join with me as we try to change it...
, America's first black president, was not born in the United States and therefore was not eligible to be president.

And he has recently ignited another storm with an attempted character liquidation of MSNBC TV host Joe Scarborough by spreading the baseless rumor he murdered an aide.

Kellyanne Conway unleashes Trumpers on Twitter integrity czar
[IsraelTimes] Yoel Roth, whose team counters misinformation on the micro-blogging platform, has called the US president ‘a racist tangerine’ and a Nazi.

Posted by trailing wife 2020-05-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11140 views ] Top

#1 Twitter and Facebook need to decide whether they want to be publishers or common carriers. A common carrier simply provides a communication channel. They don't censor the traffic and are not responsible for the content. Think phone company. A publisher, like a newspaper or magazine, *is* responsible for the content, and since they are on the hook legally, expected to edit it.

Right now they have an exemption in the law that makes them neither fish nor fowl and keeps them from being sued for incitement or defamation. I don't see that continuing.

Posted by SteveS 2020-05-28 00:39|| 2020-05-28 00:39|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ Dude: they're, like, platforms.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-28 07:25|| 2020-05-28 07:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Rantingly: Twitter Hires Chinese Communist Party-Linked AI Expert Who Wanted to Hide ‘Secret’ Weapons Contracts

Dr. Fei-Fei Li – a Stanford Professor and former Google Vice President linked with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) projects – has been appointed to the board at Twitter as an ‘independent advisor.’

The news comes as Twitter begins to alter President Trump’s Twitter feed to suit narratives that are likely to impede his re-election.

Dr. Fei-Fei has been described as one of “the Google scientists who led the company’s efforts to build its China AI operations” and during her tenure at the digital media giant, the company began “cooperating with a leading artificial intelligence (AI) research body at Tsinghua University, a prestigious Chinese academic institution that also conducts AI research for the Chinese military.”

Now, she’s at Twitter.

According to Radio Free Asia, Dr. Fei-Fei was a guest at two China Overseas Talent Exchange Conferences. One in Guangzhou in 2017, and the other in Beijing in 2018. The conferences were hosted by the European and American Alumni Associated with the backing of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Work Front Department (UWFD).

The UFWD works to “co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party,” with its primary focus being “the management of potential opposition groups inside China, but it also has an important foreign influence mission,” according to a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-28 08:25|| 2020-05-28 08:25|| Front Page Top

#4 You wish to go to an American school, no problem, here are our rules.

In a recent article for the Spectator, U.S. author and publisher Roger Kimball noted: “There are nearly 400,000 Chinese students in American universities. Thanks to Article 7 of the Chinese National Intelligence Law of 2017, each of these students is required to ‘support, assist and cooperate with state intelligence work according to law’. In other words, the United States is home to some 400,000 potential spies from China.”

Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-28 08:28|| 2020-05-28 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 #3 What is it with Stanford?
First a Stanford Nobel Laureate in Biophysics predicts that, at most, 10 people will die in Israel from CV19.
Then, there is Lex's favorite scientist John Ioannidis.
Now, Dr. Fei-Fei Li – a Stanford Professor and former Google Vice President linked with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) projects

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 08:39|| 2020-05-28 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg criticizes Twitter for fact-checking President Trump but CEO Jack Dorsey says it won't stop 'pointing out incorrect or disputed information'

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-28 11:21|| 2020-05-28 11:21|| Front Page Top

#7 #3 What is it with Stanford?

It was once a great institution.

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-28 11:21|| 2020-05-28 11:21|| Front Page Top

#8 Google, Facebook and Twitter face bias reckoning: Donald Trump will sign executive order to investigate web giants he claims are censoring conservatives in wake of Twitter fact-check row

Posted by Skidmark 2020-05-28 11:23|| 2020-05-28 11:23|| Front Page Top

#9 #7 Still hiring somebody named Fei-Fei? They should've, at least (IMO), demanded that he anglicise Fei-Fei to "Robert E.".

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-28 12:25|| 2020-05-28 12:25|| Front Page Top

#10 The President should leave Twitter and move to Gab

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-28 20:32|| 2020-05-28 20:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Close Down? Hell no, he's forcing them to open up and allow all points of view by taking away an unjust protection th3e government gives them by treating them like a platform instead of a publisher. If they stop editorial control of opinions of other: deleting, banning, shadowbanning, twitter-splaining, deciding to "fact check" some posts and not others... they will not be liable to losing the protection of the laws as written. So either give up editorial control, or give up the exemption and start acting as a publisher who can be sued.

Posted by Marilyn Tojo7566 2020-05-28 22:01|| 2020-05-28 22:01|| Front Page Top

#12 ^ This

Posted by Frank G 2020-05-28 22:13|| 2020-05-28 22:13|| Front Page Top

#13 What Marilyn said. These jokers want it both ways: all the revenue that comes from being de facto a media company but with the none of the responsibilities of the press.

Posted by Lex 2020-05-28 23:16|| 2020-05-28 23:16|| Front Page Top

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