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There was massive disinformation campaign through targeted massive whatsapp groups. Everyone in Brasil is on whatsapp so that was a way to do it. I understand
by sprafa 7y ago
There was massive disinformation campaign through targeted massive whatsapp groups.
Everyone in Brasil is on whatsapp so that was a way to do it. I understand your point but some research would help.
It’s not so much as blaming ISPs for piracy but blaming hosting services for serving stuff like 8chan ir far right neonazi websites.
Yes the networks are different but we still need to consider the consequences and how to mitigate things. It’s either that or chaos.
- diegoholiveira 7y agonot true. spread that the Left stole the tax payer is not disinformation.
- ikll 7y agoWhat about blaming the forest fires on NGOs, like he did earlier this week? That's the kind of thing being spread to his electoral base. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762592
- vcoelho 7y agoNot even HN is a safe place anymore. This is a perfect example of the targeted users in Brazil's last elections: little care for facts, fond of over simplifications and dichotomies.
- skrebbel 7y agoSo you think WhatsApp should have censored user messages? I mean, that's quite a thing to say, very different from saying YouTube should make their recommendation algorithm more varied/broad. I'm mostly just guessing what you're arguing for, but an American (i.e. foreign) megacorp blocking my message to my aunt because their shitty AI decides that it doesn't fit their head office's politics du jour, that sounds pretty dystopian to me. Is that what you're for? If not that, then what? It's easy to blame people for things gone wrong when you can't tell what they should've done instead. If you can, please enlighten us. (I agree with your points wrt Facebook and YouTube)
- neves 7y agoThey could have prevented the deliberate misinformation campaign.