Unhappy with Silicon Valley's efforts to curb manipulation of its platforms, the Democratic Party has been monitoring and tackling online disinformation on its own. The Iowa Caucus will be the first 2020 test of its new counter disinformation team.
"[U]se any opportunity to criticize Hillary and the rest ," they read. The guidance had been circulated among a group of Russians who were covertly running a vast network of social media accounts seeking to divide Democrats and push the candidacy of Donald Trump. Four years later, unhappy with Silicon Valley's efforts to curb the manipulation of its platforms, the Democratic Party has developed capabilities of its own to monitor and tackle online disinformation.
When the company refused to take down a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi last year,"it was clear they do not feel responsible for what goes on their platform," Mook told CNN on Saturday. "It's like a polluter who wants to dump toxic waste in a river and is happy to take home a profit but thinks they don't have to pay for cleanup," he added. Tech companies, particularly Facebook, have gone to some lengths to try to show they are doing something.
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