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Sea Ray said:
Regardless of how one might feel about Elon Musk, it's pretty messed up that our government is holding meetings with British disinformation experts where their top annual priority is repeatedly "Kill Musk's Twitter". Shouldn't someone stand up in those meeting and tell the Brits to pound sand when they advocate 'killing' an American tech giant? Is this the kind of person you want running our country?

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Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter"

England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show
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We should be telling Harris, D's, and R's to leave social media TF alone, regardless of what country their advisors are from.
 
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Sea Ray said:
Regardless of how one might feel about Elon Musk, it's pretty messed up that our government is holding meetings with British disinformation experts where their top annual priority is repeatedly "Kill Musk's Twitter". Shouldn't someone stand up in those meeting and tell the Brits to pound sand when they advocate 'killing' an American tech giant? Is this the kind of person you want running our country?

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Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter"

England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show
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That was disturbing. It's hardly surprising that Biden and Harris are working with leftist foreigners to undermine our civil liberties and to attack uncooperative business interests in the US.
 
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Sea Ray said:
Regardless of how one might feel about Elon Musk, it's pretty messed up that our government is holding meetings with British disinformation experts where their top annual priority is repeatedly "Kill Musk's Twitter". Shouldn't someone stand up in those meeting and tell the Brits to pound sand when they advocate 'killing' an American tech giant? Is this the kind of person you want running our country?

www.racket.news

Election Exclusive: British Advisors to Kamala Harris Hope to "Kill Musk's Twitter"

England, not Russia, is the culprit in a real foreign election interference story, as the leaked Stateside plans of an advisory group with close ties to Prime Minister Keir Starmer show
www.racket.news www.racket.news
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n_huffhines said:
How does one turn that into election interference?
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I can't remember which partisans were supporting the opposing sides, but we had a discussion a few years ago about SM platforms. Some of the discussion was about what they actually are. While I disagree an "attack" on SM platform does not equal election interference, the thought that it does connects to how some defined what SM is and what it's purpose is (in the big picture of communication).
 
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McDad said:
I can't remember which partisans were supporting the opposing sides, but we had a discussion a few years ago about SM platforms. Some of the discussion was about what they actually are. While I disagree an "attack" on SM platform does not equal election interference, the thought that it does connects to how some defined what SM is and what it's purpose is (in the big picture of communication).
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This CCDH stuff could be in service of election tampering, but I can't see where there is any evidence from what's been presented. Maybe all they really want is for hate speech to be regulated. I just need to know how we get from hate speech regulation to election tampering, is all.
 
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n_huffhines said:
This CCDH stuff could be in service of election tampering, but I can't see where there is any evidence from what's been presented. Maybe all they really want is for hate speech to be regulated. I just need to know how we get from hate speech regulation to election tampering, is all.
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I don't think you will find a resource which walks you through connecting the dots. I think the connection is extrapolated (poorly) from previous discussions. Add to that what we learned about Facebook altering content at the direction of the White House and the extrapolation becomes more pronounced.
 
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McDad said:
I don't think you will find a resource which walks you through connecting the dots. I think the connection is extrapolated (poorly) from previous discussions. Add to that what we learned about Facebook altering content at the direction of the White House and the extrapolation becomes more pronounced.
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But that's the WH tampering
 
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n_huffhines said:
This CCDH stuff could be in service of election tampering, but I can't see where there is any evidence from what's been presented. Maybe all they really want is for hate speech to be regulated. I just need to know how we get from hate speech regulation to election tampering, is all.
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They don't care about the "hate speech." They care about the truth getting out.

Here's how I look at it. When Elon bought Twitter, he had access to everything that went on with the platform including the 2020 election, covid, etc.
It's the only platform being attacked. That should tell you everything you need to know.
 
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McDad said:
Yessir. So the extrapolation is...if the WH can tamper, can others (including foreign entities) tamper as well?
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Foreign election interference would have to be anything directly done by a foreign party, IMO. But I'm having trouble looking up the laws so I can't interpret them. So if they're spreading misinformation, or threatening voters, etc. then that would qualify. Advising the VP on how to control messaging, if that's what's happening, doesn't seem like it would qualify, because they're not doing anything directly.

Look at it this way. If I told people in Turkey if they push for and get open communication on social media, they could get more democratic elections, would that be election tampering? I do not think so but it seems like by your definition it would?
 
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n_huffhines said:
Foreign election interference would have to be anything directly done by a foreign party, IMO. But I'm having trouble looking up the laws so I can't interpret them. So if they're spreading misinformation, or threatening voters, etc. then that would qualify. Advising the VP on how to control messaging, if that's what's happening, doesn't seem like it would qualify, because they're not doing anything directly.

Look at it this way. If I told people in Turkey if they push for and get open communication on social media, they could get more democratic elections, would that be election tampering? I do not think so but it seems like by your definition it would?
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Keep in mind, I am offering context of why others may be taking their position in the blind. I am not of that position myself.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
They don't care about the "hate speech." They care about the truth getting out.

Here's how I look at it. When Elon bought Twitter, he had access to everything that went on with the platform including the 2020 election, covid, etc.
It's the only platform being attacked. That should tell you everything you need to know.
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What are you talking about? There have been serious concerns as recent as this year about TikTok getting banned. Facebook/Zuckerberg has been dragged in front of congress several times, and he has haters everywhere. Zuck went scorched earth on past (D) government intervention this year. He's not in the Musk boat because there is littke/no perception that hate speech is a problem on FB rn. Sincerely, WTF?

They probably do care about hate speech. It's like the liberals who say pro-life people don't care about the sanctity of life, they just want to control women's bodies. Two sides of the same coin. People are way more complicated than taking an entire organization and saying none of them have good intentions, and only bad. FFS
 
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McDad said:
Keep in mind, I am offering context of why others may be taking their position in the blind. I am not of that position myself.
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What's the big deal with "foreign election interference" anyway? We have multinational media conglomerates interfering in our elections, we have our own federal and some state governments interfering in our elections and we have SM companies interfering. As long as none of them are hacking into the voting machines changing votes, messing with voter roles or forging mail in ballots what's the big deal? We interfere in other elections all over the world.
 
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hog88 said:
What's the big deal with "foreign election interference" anyway? We have multinational media conglomerates interfering in our elections, we have our own federal and some state governments interfering in our elections and we have SM companies interfering. As long as none of them are hacking into the voting machines changing votes, messing with voter roles or forging mail in ballots what's the big deal? We interfere in other elections all over the world.
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Maybe Elon doesn't like anybody horning in on our territory???
 
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I’m curious as to everyone’s thoughts on X and xAI being tied together. It seems to me that many of the decisions/changes made in X serve to make it a better training ground for AI. For those not aware X owns 25% of xAI which was valued at 24 billion dollars in its last funding round.
 
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ButchPlz said:
So let me get this straight- a newspaper decides to actually live by its slogan by appointing people on both sides to contribute to the paper. Lefties are getting mad and say democracy is being killed because more than their side gets to be heard.

Am I getting this in order here?
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No. It's because the paper didn't endorse Kamala
 
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