France sets precedent for propaganda crackdown
Say it with me: Robots. Are. Not. People.
The Putinbots who were preemptively shut down in France leading up to Sunday’s election are really “unhappy” about France trampling all over their “rights” — like liberté, égalité and fraternité.
Fake people, visually represented by pillaged photos of actual people from the internet or sometimes cartoons or Twitter “eggs” — all created for the purpose of legitimizing and amplifying propaganda — are whining about their rights. “They” wanted to spread fake news and unleash the hacked emails from the campaign of Emmanuel Macron, France’s president-elect, but were shut down. Injuste!
“Amy Mek,” the Twitter profile I wrote about in March, is among the outraged.
http://www.sfexaminer.com/france-sets-precedent-propaganda-crackdown/
