This might be interesting to watch. There's been claims of Facebook buying machines for the state to use, and the machines adjusting the vote count.Horse wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 8:50 pmAnd another bit of actions and consequences.Horse wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 4:09 pmAlso the Cambridge Analytics tie-in helping Trump in 2016, a bit of revenge?Mussels wrote: ↑Mon Jan 25, 2021 3:57 pm
Everyone's got it in for big tech having the power to censor people on a whim without being held responsible. The claim they hid behind that they are platforms and not publishers has been blown out of the water by them making editorial descisions on what gets posted.
Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against Rudolph W. Giuliani, the lawyer for Donald J. Trump and former mayor of New York City who played a key role in the former president’s monthslong effort to subvert the 2020 election.
The 107-page lawsuit, filed in the Federal District Court in Washington, accuses Mr. Giuliani of carrying out “a viral disinformation campaign about Dominion” made up of “demonstrably false” allegations, in part to enrich himself through legal fees and his podcast.
The suit seeks damages of more than $1.3 billion and is based on more than 50 statements Mr. Giuliani made at legislative hearings, on Twitter, on his podcast and in the conservative news media, where he spun a fictitious narrative of a plot by one of the biggest voting machine manufacturers in the country to flip votes to President Biden.
The former seems on the face of it to me to be a terrible idea with FB's business model being based on a complete disregard for privacy. The latter just seems wrong, either a valid vote went to one of the candidates or the other, it's binary like that. Invalid votes should be checked by a human or disregarded. That bit about votes cast for Trump going down part way through is also a puzzle to me.
Our counting system isn't perfect by any stretch but IMO it would take so much effort to rig it as to be not worth the effort. There was a bit of a fuss about postal votes back in Blair's day too. AIRI, patriarchs voting for the whole family.