There are powerful people willing to wreck what little democracy remains in America, anything to get Donald Trump re-elected in 2020.
Facebook and Twitter on Friday disabled a global network of hundreds of fake accounts that pushed pro-Trump messages and covered its tracks using inauthentic photos generated with the aid of artificial intelligence.
The use of AI to trick social media companies, deceive unsuspecting users and essentially create people who do not exist marked a major, troubling new development, according to disinformation researchers, who expressed fresh alarm that such tactics could have implications for the 2020 presidential election.
The tech giants' takedown targeted the BL, a US-based media company that Facebook linked to Epoch Media Group. The organisation has criticised the Chinese government, and it has ties to the Falun Gong, a Chinese spiritual movement.
The researchers with whom Facebook shared data about the BL and Epoch Media Group described the operation in a report as "a large-scale artificial amplification factory."
More malicious actors now seek to manipulate conversation online using new, sophisticated techniques just four years after Russian agents weaponised Facebook, Google and Twitter to undermine the 2016 presidential race.These tactics play straight into the hand of the Trump campaign. That's mainly because Trump supporters are, well, stupid. They're gullible and are guided more by base instincts than some trace of intellect and critical thought. You can feed them this shit all day long and they'll still be asking for more.
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between that and removing hundreds of thousands of people from the voting registers in states, dtrump may well romp to another win. Add in the corruption in Alabama and you have a real shit hole country.
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