Showing posts with label 2020 US elections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2020 US elections. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 18, 2020

FB, Twitter CEOs defend handling of disinformation in US election

 

The CEOs of Facebook and Twitter have affirmed before an incredible Senate Judiciary Committee of Congress where they protected their treatment of disinformation in the intently battled US official political race.

Facebook CEO and originator Mark Zuckerberg told officials on Tuesday that in front of the November 3 political decision, the web-based media goliath attempted the biggest political decision trustworthiness exertion by any privately owned business as of late.

Inside and out, I accept this was the biggest political race trustworthiness exertion by any privately owned business as of late. This is the thing that individuals expect of us, Zuckerberg told the Senate Judiciary Committee which held a conference on Censorship and the 2020 Election.

I'm happy that from what we've seen up until now, our frameworks performed well. Yet, political race impedance stays a progressing danger that will never completely be comprehended. So we keep on improving with every political race, he stated, giving subtleties of the endeavors being embraced by the California-settled organization during the decisions.

Taking note of that they assume liability at Facebook to ensure the trustworthiness of this political race truly, Zuckerberg said that in 2016, the organization started to confront new sorts of dangers and following quite a while of planning, they were prepared to protect against them.

We assembled complex frameworks to ensure against political decision obstruction that joined man-made brainpower, huge human audit and organizations with the insight network, law implementation and other tech stages, he said.

Facebook has brought down in excess of 100 organizations of troublemakers who are attempting to facilitate and meddle all around the world.

It set up an organization of autonomous reality checkers that covers in excess of 60 dialects and made political publicizing more straightforward on Facebook than anyplace else, including TV, radio and email. It additionally acquainted new approaches with battle citizen concealment and deception, he said.

All things considered, the pandemic made new difficulties regarding how to deal with deception about COVID-19 and casting a ballot via mail, how to plan individuals for the truth that outcomes would require some investment and how to deal with in the event that somebody rashly announced triumph or wouldn't acknowledge the outcome, Zuckerberg said.

Monday, June 10, 2019

Donald Trump: The most unpopular US election winner could win again in 2020

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Donald Trump is the first president to ever be elected while being actively disliked by the majority of Americans. Trump was also the first person elected president who was significantly less popular than his counterpart.
Most Americans have heard of presidents losing the popular vote but winning the election. But to win while the majority of Americans oppose you? How is that possible?At the time of the election, Trump had the highest unfavorability rating in history, with over 61% of Americans having an “unfavorable” view or “disapproving” of Trump. (There’s also an “undecided” option.)
Luckily for Trump, he faced a historically unpopular opponent. Before 2016, no losing presidential candidate had had an unfavorable rating above 47%. But on election eve, Hillary Clinton’s was 52%, an unprecedented election in American history.Pretty soon, Americans will start to hear nothing but polls, predictions and political forecasts in the news cycle for the 2020 elections. But, as a statistician and political polling expert, we think that there is one polling prediction device that will be overlooked and misunderstood: approval ratings.
Winning without the popular vote
History has been rather kind to presidents who didn’t win the popular vote. Trump is the fifth U.S. president to lose the popular vote and win the Electoral College.All presidents have experienced a bump in popularity between election and Inauguration Day. But only Trump still found his approval rating – the percent of Americans who approve of the way the president is handling his job – below 50% upon entering office.

 According to FiveThirtyEight, the day Trump stepped into the White House, he had only a 45.5% approval rating. This stands in stark contrast to Barack Obama, for example, who took office with a 68% approval rating.