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Not So Private Messaging: Facebook Announces ‘Fact Checking’ in WhatsApp For French Election
Breitbart ^ | 18 Feb 2022 | PETER CADDLE

Posted on 02/19/2022 10:58:19 AM PST by Mount Athos

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1 posted on 02/19/2022 10:58:19 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

This would be unbelievable if it weren’t so believable.


2 posted on 02/19/2022 11:00:35 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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To: Mount Athos

The argument for expensive scopes has never been so clear.


3 posted on 02/19/2022 11:03:47 AM PST by Celerity
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To: Mount Athos

Good God.

When one considers any election how could you possibly control debate so that only supposedly true statements are made?


4 posted on 02/19/2022 11:05:04 AM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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To: Mount Athos

American interference!


5 posted on 02/19/2022 11:07:44 AM PST by packagingguy
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To: Mount Athos

They have already been doing that for some time and worldwide. Knowing not to speak of hydroxychloroquine on my page I talked to a friend by FB messaging about it. They are politically connected in their country to the highest degree. Friends of their VP. My two FB pages where deleted 2 days later. No explanation.


6 posted on 02/19/2022 11:08:02 AM PST by ShawnShawntheLeprecaun
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“’Meta has announced it will be implementing a ‘fact checking’”

So what that means is if you post something Emperor Zuckerberg doesn’t like it will be banned.


7 posted on 02/19/2022 11:08:16 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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Yes, even if it is a PRIVATE message sent on whatsapp between only you and your friend....


8 posted on 02/19/2022 11:10:01 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

Where’s a Navajo code talker when you need one?


9 posted on 02/19/2022 11:10:11 AM PST by Augie
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To: Mount Athos

Ah, so now Facebook is running the entire world. Wow.


10 posted on 02/19/2022 11:10:31 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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“John has a long moustache!”


11 posted on 02/19/2022 11:13:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Climb Mount Niitaka”
12 posted on 02/19/2022 11:18:46 AM PST by immadashell (New Planned Parenthood slogan: Black Babies’ Lives Don't Matter!c)
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To: Mount Athos
Well of course. Big Brother does what Big Brother does. Would we expect otherwise? Anyone who uses FB to get their news is a fool. A big fat fool. However, there are a lot of fools in this world and history proves itself that “one is born every minute.”

We should all be preparing ourselves for the time when big tech, that includes the ISPs and telephone providers start filtering what we see and say.

There are currently ways to make yourself anonymous on the internet and to prevent big tech from doing this. I suspect that as big tech and big government start cracking down, more options and methods will become available to us.

13 posted on 02/19/2022 11:19:36 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: immadashell

“Blessent mon cœur d’une langueur monotone!”


14 posted on 02/19/2022 11:19:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Mount Athos

Whatsapp is crap.


15 posted on 02/19/2022 11:20:20 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

Oh, I just use it to stay in touch with family.

Every time I heard that over the years I’d become furious.


16 posted on 02/19/2022 11:23:03 AM PST by Born in 1950 (Say hello to never.)
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Probably blocking citizens who ate not cool with islamofacists decapitating priests during mass and forming rape gangs, no go zones, etc.

Misimformation?


17 posted on 02/19/2022 11:23:51 AM PST by epluribus_2
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Yup. Whatever they deem as misinformation. And a message that is deemed wrong now might very well be deemed right months from now. But would they admit it?

And who would hold them accountable when it was proven that what they censored was wrong? And how would they be held accountable — by the same government that was involved in the censorship in the first place?


18 posted on 02/19/2022 11:28:40 AM PST by dhs12345
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To: Celerity

Hmm. Toy have a solid point.


19 posted on 02/19/2022 11:30:40 AM PST by TermLimits4All (We all know the solution to preserve freedom. Who though has the will to fight for it.)
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Thought they said they wouldn’t interfere in elections any more . . . ?


20 posted on 02/19/2022 11:31:57 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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