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Fearful of fake news blitz, Census Bureau turns to tech giants
NYPost ^ | March 27, 2019

Posted on 03/27/2019 3:30:31 PM PDT by SMGFan

The US Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off “fake news” campaigns it fears could disrupt the upcoming 2020 count, according to Census officials and multiple sources briefed on the matter.

The push, the details of which have not been previously reported, follows warnings from data and cybersecurity experts dating back to 2016 that right-wing groups and foreign actors may borrow the “fake news” playbook from the last presidential election to dissuade immigrants from participating in the decennial count, the officials and sources told Reuters.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2020census; bigtech; census; facebook; google; techgiants; techtyrants; twitter
WE can turn to no one else?
1 posted on 03/27/2019 3:30:31 PM PDT by SMGFan
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New York could lose 2 congressional seats after 2020 census 12/24/18

https://nypost.com/2018/12/24/new-york-could-lose-2-congressional-seats-after-2020-census/


2 posted on 03/27/2019 3:32:27 PM PDT by SMGFan
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The Census is going to be the start of the Apocalypse! It’s true! And the long form Census will infect people with leprosy and smallpox!!!

(Just getting my fake news in before the censors.)


3 posted on 03/27/2019 3:37:10 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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"The US Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter -- aka NSA/CIA/US Gov't to help it fend off “fake news” campaigns..."
4 posted on 03/27/2019 3:44:27 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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You forgot E.D.

Electoral dysfunction.

5 posted on 03/27/2019 3:45:16 PM PDT by blackdog
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And if the citizenship question survives the court challenge, don’t you right wingers dare remind illegals that they must answer the question truthfully.


6 posted on 03/27/2019 3:47:03 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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People have lied on the census since the first census count.


7 posted on 03/27/2019 3:59:26 PM PDT by bgill (when you badmouth women, you are badmouthing your mama and the good women on FR)
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Perhaps more than anything else we need a division of the FBI to instantly react to such obvious Deep State fabrications to nip them in the bud, before they end up costing more governmental credibility, and millions of taxpayer dollars.


8 posted on 03/27/2019 4:03:01 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists call 'em what you will they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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“The US Census Bureau has asked FAKE NEWS GIANTS Google, Facebook and Twitter .....


9 posted on 03/27/2019 4:24:07 PM PDT by DanielRedfoot (Liberalism is a mental disorder, and is revealed through abject stupidity)
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One of the first actions by king obuma was to place the US Census Bureau under White House control. He flooded the bureau with obuma sycophants and propagandists.

I’d trust nothing from the US Census Bureau.


10 posted on 03/27/2019 5:00:14 PM PDT by sergeantdave (Teach a man to fish and he'll steal your gear and sell it)
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It sounds fascistic to me.

If we had either conservatives or apoliticals in the Federal leviathan, then they would not even think about going to those Marxist enclaves for help.


11 posted on 03/27/2019 10:52:29 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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Census Bureau is asking the foxes to guard the henhouse?


12 posted on 03/28/2019 1:07:10 AM PDT by octex
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