Is this election interference or not?

[We Never Know]

THIS is election interference:

“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.

www.propublica.org

“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.​

As I said on the other thread about that, not that they will but either party could use it.
As it says, "any Georgian."

 

[anna.]

As I said on the other thread about that, not that they will but either party could use it.
As it says, "any Georgian."

What party launched the website, making it possible?

 

[We Never Know]

What party launched the website, making it possible?

The right. Which in turn it could bite them in the butt if the left also use it.

 

[Kathryn]

For the same reason that Harris Assasination does not autocomplete, references to Assasination are blocked and they had to rewrite the algorithm for the specific case.
At least that is what Google said and it makes sense. They did not actively omit it, it just wouldn't show up with any name.

But there was a Trump assassination attempt and there has not been a Harris assassination attempt.

 

[Kathryn]

THIS is election interference:

“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.

www.propublica.org

“A Terrible Vulnerability”: Cybersecurity Researcher Discovers Yet Another Flaw in Georgia’s Voter Cancellation Portal

The flaw would have allowed anyone to submit a voter registration cancellation request for any Georgian using their name, date of birth and county of residence — information that is easily discoverable online.​

Everything important is easily discoverable online unfortunately!

 

[anna.]

Everything important is easily discoverable online unfortunately!

It's one thing to have discoverable information, it's quite another for a bad actor to use it to cancel someone else's voter registration without that voter's knowledge because a government website made it possible for the bad actor to do so.

 

[fantome profane]

Why did Google omit Trump assassination attempt from searches?

It didn't. It only omitted it from the autocomplete. All that means is that if you want to search for Trump assassination attempt you had to type "Trump assassination attempt". That is all.

If this was somehow done intentionally, I guess it could be considered interference. Pathetic, but interference. But I am not convinced it was intentional.

 

[tytlyf]

Why did Google omit Trump assassination attempt from searches?

They didn't. Google it and you'll see all the stories.

 

[We Never Know]

It didn't. It only omitted it from the autocomplete. All that means is that if you want to search for Trump assassination attempt you had to type "Trump assassination attempt". That is all.

Its back to normal now. Type 'Trump as' and autocomplete does the rest.

If this was somehow done intentionally, I guess it could be considered interference. Pathetic, but interference. But I am not convinced it was intentional.

That's what I like about you. You look at the thing as a whole and you are honest about it.

 

[Pogo]

It didn't. It only omitted it from the autocomplete. All that means is that if you want to search for Trump assassination attempt you had to type "Trump assassination attempt". That is all.

If this was somehow done intentionally, I guess it could be considered interference. Pathetic, but interference. But I am not convinced it was intentional.

My understanding from what I've read is it was a general block on the word that had to be removed to pass the results to the autocomplete, they may have been slow but it worked if you typed what you want which is still better than Grok giving out misinformation and not being corrected.

Secretaries of state call on Musk to fix chatbot over election misinformation

X’s Grok AI chatbot falsely told users ‘ballot deadline has passed for several states’

www.theguardian.com

 

[Kathryn]

They didn't. Google it and you'll see all the stories.

Right. Now.

And my computer uses Bing, which is worse than Google. Or better, if that's how you play it. For instance, I typed in "Trump Assassination" and here's what I got immediately on Bing:

MSN

MSN

MSN

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistani-national-charged-plotting-assassination-212100754.htmhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-congressional-candidate-pushes-two-shooter-trump-assassination-attempt-conspiracy/ar-AA1olGHV?ocid=BingNewsVerp

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2024-08-06/republican-congressman-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-fights-to-survive-washington-primary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5041734/trump-shooting-assassination-crooks-bulter-secret-service

OK I'm tired of it all.

 

[We Never Know]

Right. Now.

And my computer uses Bing, which is worse than Google. Or better, if that's how you play it. For instance, I typed in "Trump Assassination" and here's what I got immediately on Bing:

MSN

MSN

MSN

https://www.yahoo.com/news/pakistani-national-charged-plotting-assassination-212100754.htmhttps://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-congressional-candidate-pushes-two-shooter-trump-assassination-attempt-conspiracy/ar-AA1olGHV?ocid=BingNewsVerp

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/washington/articles/2024-08-06/republican-congressman-who-voted-to-impeach-trump-fights-to-survive-washington-primary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump

Attempted assassination of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

https://www.npr.org/2024/07/19/nx-s1-5041734/trump-shooting-assassination-crooks-bulter-secret-service

OK I'm tired of it all.

Those about the Pakistani man are the newest stories.

 

[Kathryn]

Those about the Pakistani man are the newest stories.

I know but still. You said use Google but I'm sorry, I used Bing. And why are the top news stories from MSN?

 

[tytlyf]

I know but still. You said use Google but I'm sorry, I used Bing. And why are the top news stories from MSN?

Bing is owned by Microsoft. MSN = Microsoft

 

[Kathryn]

Bing is owned by Microsoft. MSN = Microsoft

Well, that explains a lot. Thanks!

 

[Twilight Hue]

No, "Google attributed the situation to existing protections against autocomplete predictions associated with political violence, noting that “no manual action was taken” to suppress information about Trump."



Just something else for wingnuts to feed their urge for outrage. Now they're raging about autocomplete?

Weird!

Google sesrch is crap and it's biased.

 

[The Hammer]

Google sesrch is crap and it's biased.

"Google’s results were surprisingly non-partisan (61%) for key political topics. It’s not perfect, and the results lean left, but it’s likely not because Google’s algorithms are biased."

Is Google Biased? New Case Study for 2024

We analyzed 50 key politically-driven topics to see if Google is biased. Click here to see the results.

www.gotchseo.com

 

[Heyo]

Because it's a left wing biased search engine. I don't even use Google anymore for my searches not that the search results are anywhere near accurate and useful.

I use Duck Duck Go.

Because it's a data-mining giant (and therefore too far right for me). I don't even use Google any more for my searches, not that the search results are anywhere near accurate and useful.

I use DuckDuckGo.

 

[anna.]

Because it's a data-mining giant (and therefore too far right for me). I don't even use Google any more for my searches, not that the search results are anywhere near accurate and useful.

I use DuckDuckGo.

I've used DuckDuckGo for years, for the same reason as you. The only exception for image searches where I'm looking for the original source to find out (hopefully) if an image is fake or altered. If you know of a way to do that with DuckDuckGo, please let me know.

 

[Drunk_Uncle_Bob]

What do you all think
Election interference or not?
How long and far will it be played?

Google autocomplete results around Trump lead to claims of election interference
Updated 4:57 PM CDT, July 30, 2024

FACT FOCUS: Google autocomplete results around Trump lead to claims of election interference

A lack of Google autocomplete results about the attempted assassination on former President Donald Trump is being held up on social media as evidence of election interference.

apnews.com

Google Admits to Omitting Trump Assassination Attempt from Search Autocomplete Feature
August 5, 2024 7:18 PM

Google Admits to Omitting Trump Assassination Attempt from Search Feature | National Review

www-nationalreview-com.cdn.ampproject.org

No? Seems like it was some auto filter that stopped political violence searches from auto populating and it was fixed soon as it was brought up. And then they said something about "President Trump" itself not autofilling and google went "Oh? Thats weird. Well it looks it that is broken for litterally all presidents. Including Obama, Biden and the like. We'll fix that too."

It didn't filter results of any kind it just didn't autofill the suggestion section in the search box.