Protests become fertile ground for online disinformation

Post by happytoexplain » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:02 AM UTC

AnimalMuppet wrote: post #35

jachee wrote: post #11

I'm seeing false accusations of Antifa starting violence all over the place. It's the right-wing's boogieman-du-jours, and likely false-flag representation at best. Edit: Downvoters– tell me why you're downvoting this? Why would Antifa purposefully take actions that would deliberately cause an armed police response to otherwise-peaceful protests? Edit 2 since I can no longer post responses: Clearly the misinformation…

It all depends on where the violence is directed. People are protesting police killing a black civilian. Now, if Antifa were to show up, who would they attack, the protesters or the police? The police. If the alt-right showed up, who would they attack? The protesters. Well, who's getting attacked? Not the protesters. So that fits with it being Antifa rather than the alt-right... ... unless it's a false flag, or alt-r…

Post by revnode » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:04 AM UTC

est wrote: post #38

China had an extensive system to delete disinformation. Every IM, UGC website or app are required by law to provide a report button and ICPs are required to response to user complaints immediately. There's also national wide hotline 12377 or website 12377.gov.cn to submit all categories of information you want to disappear. Any bad content esp. those against-govn't ones contained pretty quickly, which means not only…

Post by est » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:12 AM UTC

revnode wrote: post #73

est wrote: post #38

China had an extensive system to delete disinformation. Every IM, UGC website or app are required by law to provide a report button and ICPs are required to response to user complaints immediately. There's also national wide hotline 12377 or website 12377.gov.cn to submit all categories of information you want to disappear. Any bad content esp. those against-govn't ones contained pretty quickly, which means not only…

> China had an extensive system to delete disinformation. China had an extensive system to delete information. Fixed that for you =)

Post by olivermarks » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:17 AM UTC

Post by natrik » Tue, Jun 02, 2020, 2:20 AM UTC

brenden2 wrote: post #21

I keep hearing this from the mainstream, while at the same time politicians keep going on TV saying things that aren't true, or are misleading. I think the politicians are using tactics from the "how to stop riots" playbook, but they don't work in a world where information flows freely. Probably the best example of this is how the authorities in Minnesota lied about 80% of protestors being from out of state, and when…