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infullview

(982 posts)
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 08:51 AM Oct 2020

Revealed: Trump-linked consultant tied to Facebook pages warning election will cause civil war


A militia-promoting father and son duo of fake news publishers and a Trump-connected social media consultant are linked to pages which promote the idea of an American civil war with material presented in a way that appears to be an effort to sidestep Facebook’s fact-checking system.

Comments on their Facebook pages and other materials obtained by the Guardian show that some rank and file Donald Trump supporters are enthusiastically receiving the message that they should prepare for violence against their perceived political enemies in November.

The network is comprised of websites owned and operated by Dino Porrazzo Sr and Dino Porrazzo Jr, whose company, AFF Media, is headquartered in Pinon Hills in California. The pair have been running rightwing websites since at latest 2013, according to DNS website records.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/04/revealed-trump-linked-consultant-facebook-pages-warning-election-cause-civil-war

If they could tie this directly to the Trump campaign it would make him guilty of sedition.
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Revealed: Trump-linked consultant tied to Facebook pages warning election will cause civil war (Original Post) infullview Oct 2020 OP
Social Dilemma on Facebook, 87% favorable rotten tomato, must see Cicada Oct 2020 #1
fuck those gun humping cowards Skittles Oct 2020 #2

Cicada

(4,533 posts)
1. Social Dilemma on Facebook, 87% favorable rotten tomato, must see
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 09:06 AM
Oct 2020

Several former top executives at online firms like Facebook, Twitter, scared me to death. They say that without any human decision algorithms at those firms have “learned” to maximize profits by creating belief in conspiracies. On their own artificial intelligence driven algorithms learned that belief in conspiracies increases profits. So they feed us information they have learned will increase our belief that the earth is flat, that Hillary has sex with children and then eats them, deep state, etc. There executives, high level executives, believe that process can lead to civil war, literally. Social Dilemma, in my opinion. If Facebook controls 109% of the information you see then it has a good chance of persuading you something absolutely insane. Watch it.

Skittles

(153,193 posts)
2. fuck those gun humping cowards
Sun Oct 4, 2020, 09:43 PM
Oct 2020

the fact that they loves them some Trump tells us everything we need to know about their mentality

fucking PATHETIC

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