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Getting into political beef on social media with people you don& #39;t know is really just pulling a grenade and dropping it. After 2016 we learned that Russia and Iran are investing resources into influencing elections through sm.
We also learned that our administration couldn& #39;t care less about the integrity of our democracy, the same democracy we& #39;ve died and committed atrocities across the globe to & #39;protect& #39;, but I digress.
We& #39;re in a situation where foreign governments are refining their technological arms, and we rest any countermeasures on the shoulders of companies who have no incentive to combat the issue. Shouldn& #39;t the US government be the protector of democracy it& #39;s always claimed to be?
You can argue that Facebook and Twitter are removing fake accounts, but I would emphasize that they are removing fake accounts IF and WHEN they want to.
You can laugh at the obvious & #39;speaking as an African-American& #39; fake accounts, but with resources and time they& #39;ll get less funny and harder to identify. It should never be the responsibility of tech companies to enter an arms race with foreign governments.
