The Electoral #SupremeCourt (#TSE) announced on #Twitter three partnerships to help them fight #fakenews, #misinformation, and #disinformation with the goal of preventing those from influencing the elections.
The partnership were made with #Google, #TikTok, and Twitter. Fact-checkers are also helping the TSE. Google and Twitter have long been accused in #Brazil, in the #UnitedStates, and in other countries of manipulating search results, and doing shadowbanning and censoring. TikTok has been in hot waters with the US for fear of spying on Americans, and fact-checkers are criticized also here and everywhere for not being accountable to anyone else (who fact-checks the fact-checkers).
TSE is urging people to denounce users who share news with others, and says that one shouldn't forward a post if:
- You don't totally trust the sender;
- You don't find the source of the information;
- You can't distinguish an opinion from a reporting;
- You are not sure the news is true.
WHAT TSE IS (DELIBERATLY?) MISSING
An average person doesn't have all the tools and/or time to go after knowing if a piece of news is a 100% true. And if they find the source, how do they know the source is true? If a TSE fack-checker says it's true, who can prove the fact-checker is true?
Many stories that eventually come out to be true were one day only unproven suspicions, and as more and more people talked about it, people with more capacity (tools and time) to investigate it, like journalists, dug deeper, finding superficial evidence, then they denounced it, and then it was investigated by the police, finally finding hard evidence. So, by discouraging people from being open about their suspicion, a lot of stories may never come to light.
It doesn't stop there. TSE will receive online voting project ideas from 29 technology companies. Three Brazilian cities are going to carry out a simulation test already in the 2020 elections. The trust in the electronic voting machine is already low, even though they work offline, and TSE is considering carrying out votes through the internet?
Why is TSE doing everything contrary to common sense?