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TheBlackAdder

(28,261 posts) Sat Jan 20, 2018, 10:39 AM Jan 2018

Twitter: Besides Notifying Users if Exposed to Russian Content, Notify Others Too, with an Icon.

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Twitter seems to be going partially there, when addressing the Russia exposure thing. You too Facebook!

They should also include a symbol on their account, which users cannot remove or alter, indicating they could be compromised. Since they had exposure to Russian content, alert others that these people could be witting or unwitting agents of the Russian government. Place a Russian Flag symbol on their main page, so people landing on it can see that they could be spouting Russian propaganda.

Twitter Inc, which is reviewing Russian interference during the 2016 U.S.elections, said on Friday it would notify some of its users whether they were exposed to content generated by a suspected Russian propaganda service.

The company said it would email 677,775 people in the United States who followed, retweeted or liked content from accounts associated with the Internet Research Agency (IRA) during the election.

The IRA is a Russian organization that according to lawmakers and researchers, employs hundreds of people to push pro-Kremlin content under phony social media accounts.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/twitter-to-notify-users-exposed-to-russian-propaganda-during-us-elections-2/

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Twitter: Besides Notifying Users if Exposed to Russian Content, Notify Others Too, with an Icon. (Original Post) TheBlackAdder Jan 2018 OP

Red letter A? zaj Jan 2018 #1

Would most of these 667K users admit they pushed Russian content onto others or could still be? TheBlackAdder Jan 2018 #2

We need to be careful about becoming what we fear. zaj Jan 2018 #5

Here's an example... zaj Jan 2018 #6

"What about the other 329 million users?" Wwcd Jan 2018 #3

These 667K are the accounts that actively pushed Russian content. TheBlackAdder Jan 2018 #4

zaj

(3,433 posts)

1. Red letter A?

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Original post)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 10:40 AM

Jan 2018

No thank you. Good goal, bad solution.

TheBlackAdder

(28,261 posts)

2. Would most of these 667K users admit they pushed Russian content onto others or could still be?

Reply to zaj (Reply #1)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 10:56 AM

Jan 2018

I would like to know if someone who I am listening to could be compromised, or if they tried to sell me on suspect content. It does very little to let the senders know, when they themselves might have hundreds or thousands of followers.

Alert everyone, and let the pushers atone for their sins. If they don't atone, they are complicit.

zaj

(3,433 posts)

5. We need to be careful about becoming what we fear.

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:05 PM

Jan 2018

I agree with your goal of solving the problem. Just not buying that this is the right approach.

It's not an easy problem nor an easy solution.

zaj

(3,433 posts)

6. Here's an example...

Reply to TheBlackAdder (Reply #2)

Sat Jan 20, 2018, 02:08 PM

Jan 2018

A better approach isn't to label the person as a promoter, but the content that they promoted, in all of the ways it showed up... and to all of the people who saw it.

If a tweet was corrupt, that tweet is labeled. If a person retweeted it, their retweet of it is labeled. If that retweeter posts a favorite recipe, they aren't labeled and neither is the tweet with the recipe.