Curated Resource ( ? )

Tech Giants Prepared for 2016-Style Meddling. But the Threat Has Changed. - The New York Times

Like social media , facebook , twitter , trump , us , election , disinformation , us2020
Curated: 05/04/2020 from www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/technology/facebook-google-twitter-november-election.html
Tech Giants Prepared for 2016-Style Meddling. But the Threat Has Changed. - The New York Times

my notes ( ? )

big tech companies have spent the past three years working to avoid a repeat of 2016... struggling to handle the new challenges of 2020...

foreign governments ... are now using ... bots that are nearly impossible to distinguish from hyperpartisan Americans... partisan groups in the United States have borrowed Russia’s 2016 playbook ... tough calls about restricting the speech of American citizens...

For Mr. Zuckerberg... November’s election has become a personal fixation...Facebook’s rank-and-file workers are cautiously optimistic... Twitter’s ... banning all political ads ... introduced automated systems to detect bot...new guidelines to label or remove deceptively edited videos...

YouTube... prevent foreign-backed disinformation campaigns and introduced transparency measures for political ads... promote more authoritative news and fewer conspiracy theories...

Threats have also emerged in unexpected places... ToTok... leaking audio, photos, texts, and contacts to United Arab Emirates intelligence officials...

Russia’s Internet Research Agency... has better disguised itself... may now also be paying Americans to post information on their behalf...

The most divisive content this year may ... from American politicians ... The White House... Mr. Bloomberg’s presidential campaign... “The future of disinformation is going to be domestic"

Read the Full Post

The above notes were curated from the full post www.nytimes.com/2020/03/29/technology/facebook-google-twitter-november-election.html.

Related reading

More Stuff I Like

More Stuff tagged social media , facebook , twitter , trump , us , election , disinformation , us2020

See also: Content Strategy , Online Strategy , Social Media Strategy , Content Creation & Marketing , Disinformation in the US 2020 elections , Social Web , Media , Politics

Cookies disclaimer

MyHub.ai saves very few cookies onto your device: we need some to monitor site traffic using Google Analytics, while another protects you from a cross-site request forgeries. Nevertheless, you can disable the usage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser. By browsing our website without changing the browser settings, you grant us permission to store that information on your device. More details in our Privacy Policy.