Facebook Bans Massive Fake Pro-Trump Network As Election Looms | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Ben Collins, tech and media reporter for NBC News, talks with Rachel Maddow about how a company using fake accounts with artificial user photos and a pro-Trump agenda was banned by Facebook after it had amassed tens of millions of followers using ads and clickbait content. Aired on 12/20/19.
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Facebook Bans Massive Fake Pro-Trump Network As Election Looms | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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    1. people can only think,(clearly),for themselves provided,”Maslow’s hierarchy of needs”,are met. present government makes that even harder,than ever,today.

    1. YT doesn’t flush it’s fake accts — YT embraces them. YT is where all the fakes flock to every time Twitter or Facebook– flushes or bans them .

    2. Looks like borscht bots all over the comments here. They’ were on YT before FB staarted. I’d bet they were the majority of Paulians that swarmed YT.

    1. I deleted mine after the Cambridge Analytica Scandal. Don’t miss it a day, in fact it gave me a new peace of mind.

    2. Just common sense that legit news cannot be trusted on social media. If I do see news on a social media site I cross check with multiple legit news sources. Too many simple minded people that lack critical thinking skills in this country. Everything you read in this day and age should be taken with a grain of salt, especially on social media sites.

    3. @R&R My cell phone is just an expensive clock these days, I use it so rarely for texting I have to make one call every six months to prevent them cutting me off due to pay as you go terms and conditions of my provider.

    1. Thats how you captivate the brilliant tRUMP voter. Build a wall. Real simple ideas work for real simple people. UH DUH, MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL. yeah right. give me a break.

    2. TAX breaks for huge corporations will stimulate the economy, they will do enovation, hire and train more people , and as soon as Republicans get rid of Social Security and Medicaid and Medicare and health care for all , Moscow Mitch & Madame. Mitch McConnell’s wife Madame her name is Cho , transportation Secretary will join the billionaire’$ club …

    3. @barry colley The Democrats are working on a bill that will remove the $10,000 cap on what millionaires and billionaires can deduct from their taxes. That’s a really nice tax gift to millionaires and billionaires. But lets keep pretending that Trump is the problem.

  1. Russia is already interfering in the Elections, I hope they block all that Propaganda, and all those Alternative facts ! 😖🙏🏼👍🏻

    1. @Maggie Rezac they are attacking the people who use an avatar to have what little privacy they can get. So it is an attack on free speech. And in my circle of friends we are not afraid to say “Merry Christmas”! No PC directive in these mountains and foothills. So enjoy whichever holiday you celebrate and be well.

    2. @David Sanchez YA’LL ARE JUST LIKE YOUR CULT LEADER, LOVE FOREIGN HELP IN ELECTIONS, TRUMP’S NOTHING BUT A TRAITOR AND CHIEF, AND COMMANDER AND THIEF, AND HIM AND PUTIN CAN, DICTATE Y’ALL, BUT THEY CAN’T DICTATE US ALL ! 😡🙏🏼👍🏻

    3. YA’LL SHOULDN’T BE HERE ON MSNBC LOOKING FOR TROUBLE, WHY DON’T YOU GUYS GO BACK TO FOX LYING NEWS, AND YA’LLS ALT RIGHT NEWS MEDIA’S, THAT LOVES ALTERNATIVE FACTS, AND PUSHING PROPAGANDA, LIKE YOU GUYS DO, YA’LL ARE ON IN THE WRONG COMMENT SECTION ! 😳😢🙏🏼👍🏻

    4. @David Sanchez IT’S A DIFFERENT FORM OF FREE SPEECH, AND JUST BLANKLY SPREADING DANGEROUS AND MISLEADING THINGS, TOO DISRUPTED AND CAUSE HATED, VIOLENCE, DIVISION AND CHAOS ! 🙏🏼👍🏻😳😖🤯😢

  2. Sen McConnell and his “bodyguard of liars” continue to protect not the truth but another liar and an impeached criminal who continues to serve only the interests of oligarchs and putin at the expense of Americans health and welfare. 

    Vote on November 3, 2020 to end the attack on our Republic.

    1. The fake accounts in youtube under this video are easy to tell. They ALWAYS say the same thing. How long they have been off facebook.

    2. @Mark Greenhowe I know a lot of people tht have a dummy account just for Angry Birds and some other games. LOL! Yeah, I don’t miss FB at all. More time back in my life to go do fun stuff.

    3. It is also happening on youtube and Twitter. It is the same thing that was done by the US O.S.S during WWII.

    1. @MIKE BARAN Funny, the person that thinks communication requires physical face uses a mandalorian as a profile pic 🙂

    1. not really, they are on several social media platforms. You can only solve the problem by understand how it works. You don’t need to learn to code or linear algebra to understand books like Weapons of Math Destruction.

  3. Social media is not where you should get your information from all the time stay awake America do your research to get to the real TRUTH!!!!!!!

  4. Left Facebook and Twitter 2 years ago. Feeling better, cleaner, smarter, more connected with my family and friends. Have never seen or read political discourse on either website. You know that feeling that there’s something dead about Facebook? Go with that. It is dead. Get over it. Get a life.

    1. Facebook is one the best investments in my portfolio. Always worth buying a good company in a dip. IT’s not going down anytime soon with that reach.

    1. @Get a Life THIS your own comment is proof. Why would a conservative watch and comment on MSNBC’s youtube channel?

    2. Jhon Shephard I’m a libertarian and I enjoy watching losers follow other losers who portray themselves as champions who are actually propagandists for simpletons.

    1. it is not about selling information. They didn’t “sell” anything but ads. Russia and a company called Cambridige Analytica abused the system and simply used Machine Learning to target people very specifically and then add fake content and ads. Just look at some of these comments, why do you think any conservative will be watching MSNBC? They aren’t the comments are bots or paid trolls.

    2. Jhon Shephard Yes I understand the jest of the video.
      Farcebook still has sold THOUSANDS of peoples private information.

  5. There’s a reason why Facebook and other similar companies, have been sued in Europe. They take people’s personal information, and sell it to companies, who use it for any purpose they choose. The reason they aren’t being sued in the US is because republicans and their backers, who bought the government of the US, believes in unregulated capitalism. Democrats on the other hand believe in regulating capitalism, when they prey on the citizens of this country.

  6. I can’t wait for Google to take down all the fake accounts on YouTube.. they are obvious shills working for Trump* and the Kremlin.

    1. you can’t just keep waiting. Learn the basic concepts of how it works. You don’t need to code or learn math to read related books like Weapons of Math Destruction or take a free course like Fast.AI’s Machine Learning or Deep Learning. If your relatives ask how this works, show them the last 20 minutes chapter 6 of the Deep Learning course

    2. I can understand your dislike for Trump, but that type of thinking can be extremely dangerous.

      Asking for your opponents to be censored leaves you just as vulnerable to that censorship. It’s a system that is meant to implode

    3. @Daniel Johnson There is a difference between censoring legitimate speech and banning fake accounts.. There is not an equivalence between truth and propaganda.

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