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Update on Twitter’s Review of the 2016 U.S. Election

28 points by coloneltcb 9y ago

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cgb223 9y ago
> Verify major party candidates for all statewide and federal elective offices, and major national party accounts, as a hedge against impersonation It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat? What about Libertarian and Green Party candidates? 3rd party runs like Ross Perot? If I don't have a political party until election time like Emmanuel Macron, does that qualify me? What about fringe extremist candidates do they get the same treatment as their more traditional less hateful counterparts? > the 3,814 identified IRA-linked accounts posted 175,993 Tweets, approximately 8.4% of which were election-related. I wonder what the other 91.6% of tweets were about
- craftyguy 9y ago
  > It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat? I'm almost 100% certain they just mean Republican and Democrat. 3rd parties are (very) rarely invited to highly-publicized debates and/or granted equal air time when compared to the the Rs and Ds. Why would twitter 'elevate' them to the same level?
  - cgb223 9y ago
    Is verifying a candidate's identity on Twitter the same thing as elevating them?
    - craftyguy 9y ago
      Considering a candidate from a 3rd party as a member of a 'major party' is indeed elevating them. For the record, I wish we had a true multi-party system.
  - joelrunyon 9y ago
    That's because the commission that puts together the debates is own by the Rs & Ds and purposely have worked since Perot to exclude 3rd parties. http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presidential-debates-1 http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presiden...
    - tomkat0789 9y ago
      I voted for a third party last year and I didn't even know that this case happened! Thanks for posting the link. That said, is anti trust law and loose metaphors to markets the best they could do to attack the two party system? That, and if anti trust law were useful for anything the US corporate landscape would look very different.
ajkjk 9y ago
"Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period. " That's an interesting move...
calimac 9y ago
Where is the video of Twitter's engineers and head of security vomiting twitter's Orwellian/Stalinist data exploitation methods to an investigative journalist from project veritas. Hacker News BLOCKED the link from being posted. The hacker news algorithm disallowed the link as "fake news". As if it is dangerous. You call yourself "Hackers" and go along with this silent but deadly censorship. ... Pathetic If you immediately discount this because you've discounted the source is a strong indication you're programmed. DoublePathetic
sdca 9y ago
>Our partners Common Sense Media, the National Association for Media Literacy, the Family Online Safety Institute and Connect Safely, amongst others, have helped us to craft materials and conduct workshops to help our users learn how to process online information and understand which sources of news have integrity. So Twitter, which sources of news have integrity?

28 points by coloneltcb 9y ago

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> Verify major party candidates for all statewide and federal elective offices, and major national party accounts, as a hedge against impersonation It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat? What about Libertarian and Green Party candidates? 3rd party runs like Ross Perot? If I don't have a political party until election time like Emmanuel Macron, does that qualify me? What about fringe extremist candidates do they get the same treatment as their more traditional less hateful counterparts? > the 3,814 identified IRA-linked accounts posted 175,993 Tweets, approximately 8.4% of which were election-related. I wonder what the other 91.6% of tweets were about

craftyguy 9y ago
> It would be helpful if Twitter provided a definition of "Major Party". Does that just mean Republican and Democrat? I'm almost 100% certain they just mean Republican and Democrat. 3rd parties are (very) rarely invited to highly-publicized debates and/or granted equal air time when compared to the the Rs and Ds. Why would twitter 'elevate' them to the same level?
- cgb223 9y ago
  Is verifying a candidate's identity on Twitter the same thing as elevating them?
  - craftyguy 9y ago
    Considering a candidate from a 3rd party as a member of a 'major party' is indeed elevating them. For the record, I wish we had a true multi-party system.
- joelrunyon 9y ago
  That's because the commission that puts together the debates is own by the Rs & Ds and purposely have worked since Perot to exclude 3rd parties. http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presidential-debates-1 http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/21/the-commission-on-presiden...
  - tomkat0789 9y ago
    I voted for a third party last year and I didn't even know that this case happened! Thanks for posting the link. That said, is anti trust law and loose metaphors to markets the best they could do to attack the two party system? That, and if anti trust law were useful for anything the US corporate landscape would look very different.

ajkjk 9y ago

"Consistent with our commitment to transparency, we are emailing notifications to 677,775 people in the United States who followed one of these accounts or retweeted or liked a Tweet from these accounts during the election period. " That's an interesting move...

calimac 9y ago

Where is the video of Twitter's engineers and head of security vomiting twitter's Orwellian/Stalinist data exploitation methods to an investigative journalist from project veritas. Hacker News BLOCKED the link from being posted. The hacker news algorithm disallowed the link as "fake news". As if it is dangerous. You call yourself "Hackers" and go along with this silent but deadly censorship. ... Pathetic If you immediately discount this because you've discounted the source is a strong indication you're programmed. DoublePathetic

sdca 9y ago

>Our partners Common Sense Media, the National Association for Media Literacy, the Family Online Safety Institute and Connect Safely, amongst others, have helped us to craft materials and conduct workshops to help our users learn how to process online information and understand which sources of news have integrity. So Twitter, which sources of news have integrity?