Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday released a plan to fight disinformation and to hold tech companies accountable for their actions in light of the 2016 election.
“Disinformation and online foreign interference erode our democracy, and Donald Trump has invited both,” Warren said in a Tweet Wednesday. “Anyone who seeks to challenge and defeat Donald Trump in the 2020 election must be fully prepared to take this on – and I’ve got a plan to do it.”
Warren proposed to combat disinformation by holding big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter and Google responsible for spreading misinformation designed to suppress voters from turning out.
“I will push for new laws that impose tough civil and criminal penalties for knowingly disseminating this kind of information, which has the explicit purpose of undermining the basic right to vote,” Warren said in a release.
Warren, who has been an advocate for breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Facebook, has said that she wants to make “big structural changes to the tech sector to promote more competition.” It’s part of a broader policy to stop disinformation, requiring tech companies and the government to come together to solve the problem.
Other candidates such as Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Bernie Sanders have also been skeptical of large technology companies. Sanders has repeatedly targeted Amazon, saying it should increase its wages and benefits for workers.
Warren has slipped in recent polls ahead of the Iowa caucuses next week. She’s in third place in national polls and fourth place in Iowa.
Warren also criticized how the companies’ emphasis on profit contributed to misinformation during the 2016 election, such as false ads that led to polarization and could have suppressed votes from groups like black voters.
As president, Warren said she would reinstate the position of cybersecurity coordinator at the National Security Council, a position crucial to protecting the U.S. She added she will also open up data for research so that academics and organizations can provide the public with knowledge on disinformation.
“The stakes of this election are too high — we need to fight the spread of false information that disempowers voters and undermines democracy,” Warren said. “I’ll do my part — and I’m calling on my fellow candidates and big tech companies to do their part too.”
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Who gets to define “disinformation”…. ? Chip
Senator Warren decides and that is frightening. That this has entered the mainstream political debate is also frightening.
Is there a more tone-deaf human being in existence? Lizzie Warren aspires to be a police state tyrant but is a pathetic leftist hack with the charisma of a banana slug.
“Is there a more tone-deaf human being in existence?”
she’s very much in-tune with her constituents.
“the charisma of a banana slug”
well I like banana slugs.
One teenage kid ended up brain dead after eating one on a dare.
I always figured it was a bad idea for me to eat one of those tequila worms, but all the guys were doing it and I had no idea there was that much difference in whiskey and tequila.
I woke up fully dressed in a bathtub half full of water with my purse sitting inside the hotel room door, all ID intact and all cash gone.
Dear God, it was a “don’t ask, don’t tell” walk back to Keesler AFB.
I could almost lose all respect for red ropes except I’ve done worse things. Don’t ask.
me too but im still gonna call and ask…
They didn’t mean anything, Paula, I was thinking of you the whole time.
i gots the scoop… she was one lucky country bumpkin
Apparently, Pocahontas has eaten several.
She needs to get her own lying and disinformation under vontrol before she points at others.
Seriously? She needs? She needs to tighten your noose, because she can. That’s what they do. You’re pointing out the hypocrisy now like it’s new and exciting. Meanwhile, the noose tightens and you want Elizabeth Warren to change. Great plan. You’re not alone. I am. Pick your poison. Group impotence has a later onset, so bully for you. Tick, tock, tick,
I dont want ol liz to change. I want her prosecuted for fraud.
Saturn devouring his children.
Is there anything more satisfying than to watch your enemy rain friendly fire down on their own troops?
It would be more satisfying if it wasn’t metaphorical.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Agincourt
RiNS,
Have you read this? I have a nephew who is a huge fan of the author and recommended it.
Quite gripping at times.
https://www.amazon.com/Agincourt/dp/B001QCZTS4/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Agincourt+novel&qid=1580357440&s=books&sr=1-1
But, war is a stupid waste, then and now.
well, yeah … watching them wake up is better.
We obviously need a Ministry of Truth.
I hope you are being sarcastic Neuday. If not then what truth seaking individual from the uni-party can we hope to find? Surely they won’t go looking among us deplorable common folk. We don’t need another layer of bureaucracy.
Everyone knows TBP is Sarcasm-Free. Personally, I think the NY Times should discern truth, with oversight by the ADL, and that truth should be disseminated by all media outlets. It’d be a drastic change for America.
I was thinking the SPLC would be more in line. The reeducation Gulag’s would begin sooner.
Since the deep state controls Facebook, Google, Twitter, and all the rest, the government no longer has to worry about the First Amendment, or the limits imposed on government behavior. They just have their friends in bigTech do all the censoring they require.
Google and Facebook are already biasing people to the Democrat ticket by the millions. Twitter bans anyone on the right not operating in the tiny window of allowable disagreement. What more does this crazy woman want?
“What more does this crazy woman want?”
all of it. every last little bit.
Ya ta hey! Pale-faced squaw injun speak with fork-ed tongue.
“Pale-faced squaw injun speak with fork-ed tongue.”
that’s disinfo bro, off to the gulag with you.
forked
im offended at the pale face squaw remark and u didnt even stand up for me to make sure nobody was talking about me
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Warren = Hitler
More like Warren=Stalin
Na, Mao would be more appropriate.
The dems are coming for your freedom. They want to criminalize free thought and free speech. Either you act and think like them and how they want you to or face prison. But gun owning, bible thumping tax paying patriots are the fascists. Yeah
Seems this is not going to end well and if you cannot change someones belief system and they openly state they want to end you or imprison you you have only one choice left it would seem and it is not voting…….he who is ended last wins. “There ain’t no second place in a two man race. You either are a winner or a loser. “
In the last 6 months of a campaign everything both sides say is disinformation. So what she is really saying is winner sends the loser & all their supporters to the gulag. After that elections can have 2 people from the same Party.
“So what she is really saying is winner sends the loser & all their supporters to the gulag.”
she is.
maybe we should we play it that way ….
So what would be the penalty for running an ad like this?
And since virtually EVERY poll is a means to discourage voters from feeling like their candidate has a chance (and thus suppressing turnout), what then? And since virtually every proposal from the democrats is unconstitutional, cannot ever be paid for in anyone’s lifetime, etc. what about that? And what about claiming you are a Native American to get votes?
Slippery slope. Just more unconstitutional proposals from Liawatha.
Whose truth? My truth is not your truth. What arbiter decides what is the truth? Liawatha ?
” could have suppressed votes from groups like black voters”
Are you saying they are too stupid to discern fake news? Ouch!
Nah, I’ll stick with plenty of fake news, thanks.
Love how THEY attract more potential voters with promises of ever-increasing reduction of rights for the “other guys” . . .
How’s this for disinfo, bitch? YOU ARE TRYING TO START A WAR FOR YOUR MINIONS – NOT YOU – TO FIGHT.
SO FUCK YOU!
Pot….Kettle.
Interesting coming from a liar of the first order.
The bitch is a would be Hitler. Socialists are all for repressing the rights of the people and centralized control of the masses…..