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      Facebook eyes “Election Commission” in possible bid to shed political scrutiny

      Tim De Chant · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 26 August, 2021 - 18:24

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    Enlarge / Facebook's voter information center for the 2020 election in the US. (credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg )

    Facebook may finally be acknowledging that it’s handling of elections around the world has been less than stellar. And this time, its response may amount to more than just another apology from Mark Zuckerberg.

    The social media company is considering creating an “election commission” that would guide it on election-related issues around the world, according to a report in The New York Times . The commission would advise Facebook on everything from disinformation to political advertising, and if implemented, it could be a boon for the company’s public relations. The commission would ideally also take some heat off CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who reportedly doesn't want to be the "sole decision maker on political content," the Times reports.

    A Facebook spokesperson declined to comment on this story when contacted by Ars.

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      Le Sénat dynamite l’idée du gouvernement sur les machines à voter

      Julien Lausson · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 19 February, 2021 - 13:39

    Le Sénat a très largement rejeté l'idée du gouvernement sur les machines à voter et le vote par anticipation. Mais la proposition pourrait revenir à l'Assemblée nationale. [Lire la suite]

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      Présidentielle 2022 : les problèmes que posent les machines à voter

      Julien Lausson · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Wednesday, 17 February, 2021 - 11:11

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    Le gouvernement semble se dire que ce serait une bonne idée d'introduire le vote par anticipation en utilisant des machines à voter. Un amendement a été déposé. Mais cette proposition soulève des problématiques fondamentales. [Lire la suite]

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      Voting machine firm files $1.3B defamation suit against “kraken” lawyer

      Kate Cox · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Friday, 8 January, 2021 - 21:32

    Sidney Powell, flanked by Rudy Giuliani, at a press conference on Nov. 19, three days before the Trump campaign publicly cut ties with her.

    Enlarge / Sidney Powell, flanked by Rudy Giuliani, at a press conference on Nov. 19, three days before the Trump campaign publicly cut ties with her. (credit: Tom Williams | CQ Roll Call | Getty Images )

    Dominion Voting Systems has filed a suit against former Trump campaign attorney Sidney Powell, alleging that her widespread, unfounded conspiracy theories led to both reputational damage to the company and death threats against its employees. Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion in damages.

    Statements made by Powell, "in concert with allies and media outlets" presenting a "false preconceived narrative" about the 2020 election, caused "unprecedented harm" to Dominion, the company said in its suit ( PDF ).

    Powell is the attorney who filed the "kraken" lawsuits seeking to de-certify the results of the 2020 election . The Trump campaign abruptly cut ties with Powell in late November, but that stopped neither her increasingly outrageous claims nor her increasingly ludicrous lawsuits from flowing. Not only were Powell's suits based on unfounded conspiracy theories, but they were also just plain bad filings in myriad other ways, including naming locations that didn't exist, misspelling ones that did, and naming plaintiffs who had not agreed to participate in the case.

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      Voting security experts refute Trump claims of voting machine hacking

      Dan Goodin · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Tuesday, 17 November, 2020 - 14:07

    Voting security experts refute Trump claims of voting machine hacking

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    As President Trump continues to make unfounded claims of widespread election fraud, 59 of the world’s foremost experts on electronic voting are hitting back, saying that recent allegations of actual voting machine hacking “have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.”

    Monday’s letter came after almost two weeks of baseless and unfounded claims from Trump and some of his supporters that this month’s presidential election had been “rigged” in favor of President-elect Joe Biden. On Thursday, Trump started a new round of disinformation when he took to Twitter to say that polling machines made by Dominion Voting deleted 2.7 million Trump votes around the country.

    Vulnerabilities aren't exploits

    Over the weekend, Trump tweeted a video from last year’s Defcon hacker convention. It showed attendees participating in an event called the voting machine hacking village . Organizers of the event held it to raise awareness about the importance of security in electronic voting. Some of the event organizers were beside themselves that Trump was using the video as innuendo that voting machine hacking played a role in the results of this month’s election, or in any election ever, for that matter.

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      Le renseignement américain attribue une campagne d'intimidation pro-Trump à l'Iran

      Marie Turcan · news.movim.eu / Numerama · Friday, 23 October, 2020 - 15:33

    Des électeurs américains ont reçu des emails d'intimidation, signés du nom d'un groupuscule d'extrême droite. À peine les médias se sont-ils intéressés au sujet que les autorités ont attribué cette campagne d'emails à l'Iran. [Lire la suite]

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      Iran behind supposed “Proud Boys” voter-intimidation emails, Feds allege

      Kate Cox · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 22 October, 2020 - 19:59

    A man in a suit speaks in front of a Justice Department logo.

    Enlarge / FBI Director Chrisopher Wray speaking at a press conference in Washington, DC, on October 7. (credit: Jim Watson | AFP | Bloomberg | Getty Images )

    We now have less than two weeks to go before the federal voting deadline on November 3, and basically everything is, as many expected, hitting the fan at once. Now, intelligence officials and lawmakers are all but begging Americans to be less credulous with what they see and hear online amid new allegations that actors from Iran emailed individual voter-intimidation efforts.

    Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe and FBI Director Christopher Wray joined forces at a hastily announced press conference Wednesday night to issue a warning that foreign actors "have taken specific actions to influence public opinion relating to our elections." Specifically, Ratcliffe said, actors from Iran and Russia, separately, had obtained "some voter registration information" and were using it "to communicate false information to registered voters that they hope will cause confusion, sow chaos, and undermine your confidence in American democracy."

    Ratcliffe was referring to an email campaign that started earlier this week, when some voters in Florida, Arizona, and Alaska started receiving threatening messages .

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      Facebook, Twitter limit controversial story about Joe Biden’s son

      Kate Cox · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Wednesday, 14 October, 2020 - 22:36

    Facebook, Twitter limit controversial story about Joe Biden’s son

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    Facebook and Twitter today are facing criticism from all sides after taking rare action to suppress an apparent attempt at blatant disinformation being spread three weeks before the election.

    Both social media platforms are deprecating or outright blocking the sharing of a link to a story the New York Post published this morning about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. Although Twitter and Facebook have both acted in the past to deplatform fringe actors, today's action marks one of the extremely rare times either has taken action against a story from a relatively mainstream outlet.

    The story

    The story at the root of all the drama appears to be an attempt to duplicate the effect the Comey memo had on the 2016 presidential election by suggesting there's a scandal in the Biden camp. The New York Post claimed to have received copies of emails that were obtained from a laptop that Biden's son Hunter dropped off at a Delaware computer repair shop in 2019. These emails, which the Post called a "smoking gun," allegedly indicate that Hunter Biden connected his father with Ukrainian energy firm Burisma in 2014.

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      Facebook to pause all political advertising—after the election

      Kate Cox · news.movim.eu / ArsTechnica · Thursday, 8 October, 2020 - 18:26 · 1 minute

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    Enlarge / Facebook's "voter information center" as seen in July 2020. (credit: Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty Images )

    It seems fair to say that, here in the United States, this is an election season unlike any other, with tensions running exceptionally high. Facebook, which through its collection of apps reaches the vast majority of the US population, has again launched a new slew of initiatives to mitigate the harm misinformation on its platforms can cause. Several of these measures are sound ideas, but unfortunately, two of its latest efforts once again amount to waiting until the horse has made it halfway around the world before you shut the barn door.

    Facebook explained yesterday in a corporate blog post what its Election Day efforts are going to look like on both Facebook and Instagram. The company has promised for months that it will run real-time fact-checking on and after November 3 to prevent any candidate from declaring victory before a race is actually called, and it showed what that process will look like.

    In that post, Facebook also said that although ads are "an important way to express voice," it plans to enact a temporary moratorium on "all social issue, electoral, or political ads in the US" after the polls close on November 3, to "reduce opportunities for confusion or abuse." That stance will put Facebook, at least for the time being, in like with Twitter's position on political ads.

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