Facebook and WhatsApp Are Shutting Down “Fake News” Accounts Around The World

Derrick Broze breaks down the latest efforts by the Military Industrial-Complex and Facebook to combat “fake news”. We look at the actions taken by Facebook and WhatsApp in the U.S., Brazil, Sweden, and India.

Sources:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/ron-wyden-on-dni-silence-over-possible-china-election-interference-you-cant-have-it-both-ways

https://theconsciousresistance.com–dry-run/2018/10/red-alert-hundreds-altindy-media-fb-pages-unpublished/

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/brazil-election-2018-whatsap-fake-news-presidential-disinformation-a8593741.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-19/whatsapp-bans-more-than-100-000-accounts-in-brazil-election

How WhatsApp Turned Brazil’s 2018 Elections Upside-Down: An Autopsy Report

https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/fake-news-took-lives-in-india-swayed-brazil-polls-what-fb-could-have-done-118110200226_1.html

https://thehill.com/opinion/international/414216-brazil-election-shows-its-time-for-digital-resilience

Facebook Announces Partnership with Think Tank Connected to NATO, Military Industrial Complex

https://www.thelocal.se/20180906/report-swedes-bombarded-with-fake-news-ahead-of-election?fbclid=IwAR3EC_VzwzqlRtjnMDKTdKHSNTOk3WBUybQFGX2LBVAmkjhloFPdl9P0KjQ

https://theconsciousresistance.com–dry-run/2018/10/whos-behind-ongoing-altindy-media-purge/

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