This weekend I spoke to a black who claimed she wasn& #39;t going to vote for Trump, but that he had done a great job "With human trafficking" . I thought this was strange for a lot of reasons, but it ended up exposing yet again Facebook& #39;s failure to stop disinformation
First, it& #39;s patently not true, Trump has done no better battling "Human trafficking" than previous presidents & that& #39;s before you consider children who& #39;ve gone missing from border interment camps https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/aug/12/viral-image/graph-showing-rising-human-trafficking-arrests-und/">https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...
But this narrative plays into the conspiracy about #pizzagate & child abuse that bots & hate groups have spread online. Here& #39;s the catch though, many of you have probably never actually SEEN any of these memes or stories pop up on your timeline on Facebook. Why?
Because Trump/Russia/ suppression efforts target persuadable people or those that can be deterred. If you& #39;re GETTING these kinds of messages it& #39;s because Trump thinks you& #39;re uninformed enough to be persuaded to not vote or vote for him https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/28/trump-2016-campaign-targeted-35m-black-americans-to-deter-them-from-voting">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...