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Google And Facebook Battling Terrorist Groups Online

For years, Islamic terror groups like ISIS and their followers have used the Internet and social media to recruit and spread propaganda, but now the tech giants are exploring new ways to fight back.

Google’s Alphabet parent company GOOG has partnered with Facebook FB and Twitter TWTR to sponsor three experiments that will use videos to counter terrorist propaganda spread on their sites, the Wall Street Journal reports.

The anti-terror ads target Muslim teens and young adults with different kinds of anti-radical messaging to see which works best at diffusing disaffected people before they’re radicalized.

Twitter confirms the projects have been in the works since late 2013.

“We partnered with respected organizations such as People Against Violent Extremism (PAVE) and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to empower credible non-governmental voices against violent extremism,” Twitter spokesperson Nu Wexler tells Fortune. “We also attended government-convened summits on [common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE)] hosted by the White House, the Australian Attorney-General’s Department, the UK government, the French prime minister, the European Commission, and the United Nations.”

Read the entire article on Fortune Magazine, here.

Post-Convention Poll: Hillary Clinton Tops Donald Trump by Nearly 10 Points

Hillary Clinton emerges from her party’s convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, having earned a 7-point convention bounce, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll.

In a two-way head-to-head matchup, Clinton tops Trump 52% to 43%, and in a four-way matchup including third party candidates Gary Johnson and Jill Stein, Clinton leads 45% to 37% with Johnson at 9% and Stein at 5%.

Besides improving her standing against Trump, Clinton’s convention appears to have boosted the share of Americans who think her policies will move the country in the right direction (from 43% before either convention to 48% now), while Trump’s right direction number held roughly steady following the back-to-back political gatherings in Cleveland and Philadelphia.

Further, a majority of Clinton’s backers now say their vote is more to show support for her than to oppose Trump, a sharp shift since early May. Back then, 48% said their vote was one of support for the former secretary of state, 58% say so now. While Trump also improved his numbers on that metric, his voters are more evenly divided, with 47% saying they’re backing him to show support and 50% saying it’s more to oppose Clinton.

More of Clinton’s backers also say they are certain to support her come November: 44% of registered voters are Clinton supporters who say their mind is made up, while 36% say they are solidly behind Trump. Only about 16% of voters say their minds could change in the 99 days left between now and Election Day.

Read the rest of the article here.

Donald Trump Says He Believes The Election’s ‘Going To Be Rigged’

Welp! Looks like Donald Trump is already coming with a lame excuse as to why he probably won’t win the U.S. President bid this November.

Mr Trump just can’t accept the fact that the majority of Americans do not share his racist, misogynistic & hate filled sentiments and wouldn’t vote for him if his name was the only name on the ticket. His own political party is embarrassed by his brash, crass & downright arrogant behavior, so much so that former Republican President George W Bush even strongly denounces his disrespectful shenanigans — that’s saying an awful lot.

According to Time Magazine, Trump was quoted saying he believes this year’s election between him & Hillary Clinton will be rigged, presumably not in his favor.

Donald Trump previewed a possible excuse for a general election loss Monday, saying he thinks it is going to be “rigged.”

“I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged, I have to be honest,” Trump said at a rally in Columbus, Ohio Monday afternoon, after talking about Bernie Sanders and the Democratic primary.

The “rigged system” drumbeat is one Trump hit repeatedly during the primary season, first against the Republican establishment and, more recently, about the Democratic Party, to try to win over Sanders supporters who felt their candidate did not have a fair shake against Hillary Clinton. (Sanders backers grew even more concerned after leaked Democratic National Committee emails showed leadership favoring Clinton.) By turning now to say he believes the general election could also be unfairly favorable to Clinton, Trump is laying the groundwork to fuel his supporters’ fury if he loses on Nov. 8.

With less than 100 days until election day, Trump said, “Can you believe we’re almost there?”

I’m not much of a cheater, but let’s hope this is in fact true! America can’t handle (or afford) a Trump in the White House. I don’t think anybody wants to see that, not even the Republicans.

Check out this interesting blog post I found on Huffington Post written by one of Trump’s ex attorneys, Thomas Wells. Mr. Wells worked with Trump some 30 years ago on an exclusive real estate deal– a fancy shopping center to be named Trump Centre, in New Jersey. Wells goes into great detail with his personal reasoning as to why America doesn’t need a Trump presidency, now or never.

Here is an excerpt from his blog:

I have thought about this a lot, and I want to share my humble insights of why we cannot elect Donald Trump as president of the United States. To me, it is more about character than politics. Because of lack of the former, the latter ― the actual politics of Donald Trump ― are not that easy to discern.

The very first point he gives regarding Trump’s character is that “the man lies all the time” and is in fact, “a skilled liar.”

He goes on to list 19 other reasons Trump is not right for the White House.