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1. Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 09:30:50 EDT Ted Gould

   One of the arguments for decentralized federated social networking should be that these efforts get reported on because Facebook is a US company and the actions are to effect US politics. If the CIA is trying to effect other country's elections using Facebook do you think it would be announced? — https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/31/us/politics/facebook-political-campaign-midterms.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

   1. der.hans (lufthans@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 23:42:16 EDT der.hans

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      @ted back to the original post, how do we detect and stop an astroturf campaign in the fediverse?

      do we notice if some ISP association pays a social media company to create a bunch of mastodon accounts, populate them with human-like posts, but intersperse posts against net neutrality and in favor of zero rating?

   2. der.hans (lufthans@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 02-Aug-2018 15:39:31 EDT der.hans

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      @ted The EU is starting to slightly hold companies responsible. The EU is big and companies want access, so the EU has some leverage.

      How do countries like Honduras, Ghana, Viet Nam and New Zealand pressure a multi-national company or keep it from being used by their citizens?

      They are at a significant disadvantage until Wakanda is willing to provide assistance and leadership...