Facebook targets “stop the steal” content ahead of Inauguration Day

&quot;Facebook is working &quot;24&#x2F;7&quot; to tackle content including &quot;stop the steal&quot; from spreading across the network ahead of the US Inauguration Day.&quot;<p>Nothing quite like locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

I can&#x27;t tell if these are troll accounts from the FSB or people whose brains have been colonized.

Removing offensive content is the laziest possible solution and it&#x27;s funny how quickly Facebook and Twitter reverted to it once this solution was again on the table. Most interesting part of all of this was what they did before, when they couldn&#x27;t just delete the content.<p>They had to properly fact-check it and educate the viewers. I think this should be the default mode for stupid (counter-factual) opinions. I know it&#x27;s hard but you are not the richest companies for nothing. Figure it out.<p>I think letting platforms just delete whatever causes an outrage is delaying the moment when we will finally get these kinds of things presented with proper fact based context instead of surrounded by ads and links to similarly stupid speech.

From the looks of it here the conspiracy shills must be getting good pay these days. Anyone know the going rate? I could pretend to be a concerned foreigner or write bobble head replies for a few bucks.

So I have always wondered, but now it seems particularly germane. Why does HackerNews not require some kind of verification or elaborate registration to join?<p>I like the pseudonymity in some ways but everything I have posted I will stand by. I am already a pariah in my social circles for going against the east coast preppy conventional wisdom, I don&#x27;t care if I am mocked here too.<p>If HN really wants to be a quality refuge for high-brow discussion they should show a commitment to this by migrating from being a libertarian get rich quick forum to a place where actual debate can happen without spamming by bots, intelligence service officers, etc.

To a non-us citizen and somebody who believes in free speech, this whole debacle looks like the parties behind who own our social media trying to stop in anyway the possibility that, maybe, just maybe, there might have been something fishy going on in the voting process.<p>Why would they otherwise go through so lengthy processes in order to stop the spreading of this information ? Claiming it is because of possible violence seems unbelievable, seeing as it is arms manufacturers and so on still have a voice on these platforms, like Raytheon and what have you, who are killing more people every day through their actions than what this political upheaving has done.<p>To me, it seems that some parties are ready to stomp on freedom of speech as a basic right in order to make sure that this information does not get to spread. Why, I ask ?<p>Why would they be so interested in this fact ? Is it a threat to them ? Why suddenly all platforms are stopping the spreading of this information.<p>I just ask this, to me it seems like they have a lot to lose perhaps in this game personally, the owners of these platforms.<p>Maybe we should just ban everything, I mean, look at Uganda for example what they are doing before the elections: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techjaja.com&#x2F;govt-blocks-google-playstore-apple-appstore-and-youtube&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;techjaja.com&#x2F;govt-blocks-google-playstore-apple-apps...</a>. Banning all play store, app store and youtube :D<p>Is this the next step then? Sounds like those who own these platforms are starting to show their true nature.