Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
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Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#2I posted the original Guardian story yesterday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990
but perhaps because of my lousy copyediting of the title it only attracted five upvotes. This follow-up story seems pretty good and the title was not difficult to squeeze under 80 chars.
The story of Facebook treating India's ruling BJP has attracted a fair bit of coverage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... - but the story suggests FB values good connections with the quasi-fascist ruling party over the risk of yet more damage to its reputation.
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#3I posted the original Guardian story yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 but perhaps because of my lousy copyediting of the title it only attracted five upvotes. This follow-up story seems pretty good and the title was not difficult to squeeze under 80 chars. The story of Facebook treating India's ruling BJP has attracted a fair bit of coverage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix…
I feel like Facebook has realized that if they win in a major market and becomes a monopoly, reputation no longer matters as they are dominant anyway. This is perhaps the logic behind nonintervention.
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#4Earlier discussions of original articles about political manipulation on Facebook in The Guardian:
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#5When you actually read the article some were voting for AAP and also happened to Congress too. So another politically partisan headline.
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#6With this finally being mentioned, it also needs to be said that they are quite enthusiastic about mowing down Congress on FB, and IG.
And that very much unlike other far more on the fringe parties. This was going on for far longer before Facebook's political engagement became known in the West.
It feels to me, Zuckerberg wants INC dead, and buried.
Wouldn't be against that myself. INC, is for all reasons, synonymic with corruption. But this will leave BJP with no counter whatsoever besides regional parties.
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#7When you actually read the article some were voting for AAP and also happened to Congress too. So another politically partisan headline.
But those accounts were removed, if I understand correctly?
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#8I posted the original Guardian story yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26825990 but perhaps because of my lousy copyediting of the title it only attracted five upvotes. This follow-up story seems pretty good and the title was not difficult to squeeze under 80 chars. The story of Facebook treating India's ruling BJP has attracted a fair bit of coverage - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix…
> but the story suggests FB values good connections with the quasi-fascist ruling party over the risk of yet more damage to its reputation.
Do people need a better example?
He literally orders Facebook employees to read communist propaganda. https://amp.smh.com.au/technology/mark-zuckerberg-snapped-wi...
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#9It seems to me on this topic almost everyone (including myself) is in a completely hypocritical position.
We want facebook to take action in countries where we disagree, but not take action in areas/countries where we agree. Here is a perfect example.
I imagine most people criticising Facebook here were in favour of facebook wiping the hunter biden story from everywhere. Because one is a conservative government, the other is a risk to electing a left wing one.
The other situation china. Most people find it outrageous that Google tried to get into china by building a censoring search engine. Yet expect Google and Facebook to filter disinformation elsewhere that is a threat to their side, or even just articles sceptical of lockdown.
Unfortunately in both cases we can't have both. These are directly conflicting situations, you can have one, but you can't have both.
Re: Facebook removed fake accounts in India until it saw BJP politician was involved
#10The Indian leading party has over 3.2 million WhatsApp accounts. These groups are used during Election Day in many states to spread misinformation amongst gullible citizens and change the outcome on the last moment....