I have written on journalism and media trends eariler few years ago. So it is time for update. What is the state of journalism and news publishing in 2017? NiemanLab’s predictions for 2017 are a good place to start thinking about what lies ahead for journalism. There, Matt Waite puts us in our place straight away by telling us that the people running the media are the problem.
There has been changes on tech publishing. In January 2017 International Data Group, the owner of PCWorld magazine and market researcher IDC, on Thursday said it was being acquired by China Oceanwide Holdings Group and IDG Capital, the investment management firm run by IDG China executive Hugo Shong. In 2016 Arrow bought EE Times, EDN, TechOnline and lots more from UBM.
Here are some article links and information bits on journalist and media in 2017:
Soothsayers’ guides to journalism in 2017 article take a look at journalism predictions and the value of this year’s predictions.
What Journalism Needs To Do Post-Election article tells that faced with the growing recognition that the electorate was uniformed or, at minimum, deeply in the thrall of fake news, far too many journalists are responding not with calls for change but by digging in deeper to exactly the kinds of practices that got us here in the first place.
Fake News Is About to Get Even Scarier than You Ever Dreamed article says that what we saw in the 2016 election is nothing compared to what we need to prepare for in 2020 as incipient technologies appear likely to soon obliterate the line between real and fake.
Headlines matter article tells that in 2017, headlines will matter more than ever and journalists will need to wrest control of headline writing from social-optimization teams. People get their news from headlines now in a way they never did in the past.
Why new journalism grads are optimistic about 2017 article tells that since today’s college journalism students have been in school, the forecasts for their futures has been filled with words like “layoffs,” “cutbacks,” “buyouts” and “freelance.” Still many people are optimistic about the future because the main motivation for being a journalist is often “to make a difference.”
Updating social media account can be a serious job. Zuckerberg has 12+ Facebook employees helping him with posts and comments on his Facebook page and professional photographers to snap personal moments.
Wikipedia Is Being Ripped Apart By a Witch Hunt For Secretly Paid Editors article tells that with undisclosed paid editing on the rise, Wikipedians and the Wikimedia Foundation are working together to stop the practice without discouraging user participation. Paid editing is permissible under Wikimedia Foundation’s terms of use as long as they disclose these conflicts of interest on their user pages, but not all paid editors make these disclosures.
Big Internet giants are working on how to make content better for mobile devices. Instant Articles is a new way for any publisher to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook. Google’s AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) is a project that it aims to accelerate content on mobile devices. Both of those systems have their advantages and problems.
Clearing Out the App Stores: Government Censorship Made Easier article tells that there’s a new form of digital censorship sweeping the globe, and it could be the start of something devastating. The centralization of the internet via app stores has made government censorship easier. If the app isn’t in a country’s app store, it effectively doesn’t exist. For more than a decade, we users of digital devices have actively championed an online infrastructure that now looks uniquely vulnerable to the sanctions of despots and others who seek to control information.
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New York Times:
Report: number of countries using political disinformation campaigns more than doubled to 70 since 2017; Facebook remains #1 social network for disinformation
At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/technology/government-disinformation-cyber-troops.html
In Vietnam, citizens were enlisted to post pro-government messages on their personal Facebook pages. The Guatemalan government used hacked and stolen social media accounts to silence dissenting opinions. Ethiopia’s ruling party hired people to influence social media conversations in its favor.
Despite increased efforts by internet platforms like Facebook to combat internet disinformation, the use of the techniques by governments around the world is growing, according to a report released Thursday by researchers at Oxford University. Governments are spreading disinformation to discredit political opponents, bury opposing views and interfere in foreign affairs.
The Global Disinformation Order
2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation
https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/93/2019/09/CyberTroop-Report19.pdf
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“The danger is the proliferation” of the techniques, he said. “Anybody who wants to influence the 2020 election may be tempted to copy what the Russian operation did in 2016.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/technology/government-disinformation-cyber-troops.html
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It leaves a bad taste in my mouth how quickly people will let one bad cluster of comments negate a man’s entire life work. I have already outlined my opinions on this matter elsewhere but I still hope this incident doesn’t ruin RMS.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21088690
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Colleges Create AI to Identify ‘Hate Speech’ – Turns Out Minorities Are the Worst Offenders
https://pluralist.com/ai-censorship-cornell-study/?fbclid=IwAR1MfYl2GjQfp79gyQXRhTBTn8spcfRMFhzcYbn_MnTDZBHJQdoQy2-L-Hc
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https://geoff.greer.fm/2019/09/30/in-defense-of-richard-stallman/
decent summary of the events. In short: Stallman made some technically-correct-but-utterly-tactless comments on a private mailing list, mostly in defense of his late friend and colleague Marvin Minsky. Someone leaked those comments to the public. He was then forced to resign from pretty much every position he held.
Frankly, none of this should have happened. In a sane world, people would have rolled their eyes at Stallman’s pedantry and he would continue furthering the cause of free software. Maybe a few people would chastise the person who leaked the emails, and that would be the end of it.
But we don’t live in a sane world. We live in a bizarro world where someone can leak private communications, blatantly lie about what was said, and cause a selfless man’s life to be ruined. And in reaction to these events, people cheer. This is madness.
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Countries Can Force Facebook To Remove Posts, EU Court Rules
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lisettevoytko/2019/10/03/countries-can-force-facebook-to-remove-posts-eu-court-rules/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie/#676f7264696
The court determined that while Facebook wasn’t liable for the posts, it now has more responsibility to moderate content that’s found to be illegal.
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Singapore’s ‘fake news’ law takes effect as critics sound alarm
https://news.yahoo.com/singapores-fake-news-law-takes-effect-critics-sound-053322467.html
Singapore’s new law to combat “fake news” came into effect Wednesday despite criticism from tech giants and activists, who labelled the tough rules a “chilling” attempt to stifle dissent.
The law gives government ministers powers to order social media sites to put warnings next to posts authorities deem to be false, and in extreme cases get them taken down.
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The Global Disinformation Order: 2019 Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation
https://comprop.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/cybertroops2019/
Over the past three years, we have monitored the global organization of social media manipulation by governments and political parties. Our 2019 report analyses the trends of computational propaganda and the evolving tools, capacities, strategies, and resources.
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Geocities Archive / Geocities Mirror
Dedicated to the memory of Geocities and an attempt to archive early web culture
https://www.geocitiesarchive.org/default.aspx
Thank you for visiting the geocitiesarchive.org homepage; For those of you who do not know, Geocities was a free web hosting service that was launched in November of 1994 and was closed on October 26th 2009.
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Colleges Create AI to Identify ‘Hate Speech’ – Turns Out Minorities Are the Worst Offenders
https://pluralist.com/ai-censorship-cornell-study/
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Miten kauan podcast-jakson teko kestää?
https://www.podcast-tuotanto.fi/podcastin-teko
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Li Yuan / New York Times:
How China is using social media and films to stir patriotism and get communist party propaganda enthusiastically embraced by young people — Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
China Masters Political Propaganda for the Instagram Age
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/05/technology/china-propaganda-patriotism.html
Leveraging celebrities, the know-how of tech companies and images built for social media, the Communist Party can effectively stir patriotism among the youth.
“When I was growing up, it was considered uncool to be overtly patriotic and take photos with the national flag,” one person in China wrote of the outpouring of love among young people for their country. “Not anymore.”
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Louise Matsakis / Wired:
Unlike other social media platforms, TikTok doesn’t timestamp user uploads, frustrating some creators, but making it possible for months-old content to go viral
On TikTok, There Is No Time
https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-time/
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Facebook has begun hiding likes
The social media giant is testing hiding the number of likes, reactions and views that posts get.
https://www.cnet.com/news/facebook-has-begun-hiding-likes/
Facebook began hiding likes on Friday, Sept. 27, making the number of reactions, views and likes visible only to a post’s author. The test kicked off in Australia
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Carrie Mihalcik / CNET:
Two new California laws crack down on deepfakes in politics and porn, with one giving citizens the right to sue if they are placed in porn without their consent
California laws seek to crack down on deepfakes in politics and porn
The laws go after malicious video forgeries.
https://www.cnet.com/news/california-laws-seek-to-crack-down-on-deepfakes-in-politics-and-porn/
While some deepfakes are silly and fun, others are misleading and even abusive. Two new California laws aim to put a stop to these more nefarious video forgeries.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday signed AB 730, which makes it illegal to distribute manipulated videos that aim to discredit a political candidate and deceive voters within 60 days of an election. He also signed AB 602, which gives Californians the right to sue someone who creates deepfakes that place them in pornographic material without consent.
“Voters have a right to know when video, audio, and images that they are being shown, to try to influence their vote in an upcoming election, have been manipulated and do not represent reality,” Berman said in a release.
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
How rumors about Biden and Ukraine began with a dark-money group and a Peter Schweizer book before hitting Fox News, mirroring the path of Clinton Cash theories
The Invention of the Conspiracy Theory on Biden and Ukraine
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-invention-of-the-conspiracy-theory-on-biden-and-ukraine
How a conservative dark-money group that targeted Hillary Clinton in 2016 spread the discredited story that may lead to Donald Trump’s impeachment.
For nearly two years, conservative operatives have been trying to weaponize the Ukraine-based story that has led Trump to the brink of impeachment.
America’s news organizations continue to be just as susceptible to manipulation by political partisans pushing complicated and hard-to-check foreign narratives as they were in 2016. In fact, several of the same players are involved. “There’s no effective mechanism in this country for weeding disinformation out,” Paul Barrett, the deputy director of N.Y.U.’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, and the author of the recent study “Disinformation and the 2020 Election,” said. “We’re not doing anything about it at all.”
Anyone trying to track the Ukrainian conspiracy stories that were eventually embraced by President Trump is likely to get mired in the same echo chamber of right-wing news purveyors that misinformed voters in 2016. A pivotal source of the allegations against the Bidens, for instance, is the Government Accountability Institute, a Florida-based opposition-research operation that was founded by the former Trump political adviser Stephen Bannon—the same conservative nonprofit that ginned up questionable stories about the Clintons during the last Presidential campaign.
Asked about the Government Accountability Institute’s role in this year’s Biden scandal coverage, Bannon e-mailed to say, “It’s key. It was the predicate,” as it had been for much of the previous Clinton scandal coverage.
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Russia’s Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started
https://www.wired.com/story/russias-disinformation-war-is-just-getting-started/
The Internet Research Agency specifically targeted African Americans, and has not stopped trying to influence elections, a Senate intelligence report says.
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A new study finds that the use of politically incorrect language creates the impression of authenticity.
In New Research, Psychologists Explore The Upside Of Political Incorrectness
http://on.forbes.com/61831EaRZ
“I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.” This was a statement made by Donald Trump in a 2015 presidential debate.
Specifically, a team of psychologists led by Michael Rosenblum of the University of California, Berkeley examined the inferences and character judgments people made in response to others’ use of politically incorrect language. They found that, while not without its downsides, the use of politically incorrect language led people to believe that communicators were more “authentic” than they may have otherwise felt.
The authors conclude, “Political correctness is increasingly discussed as a standard of language in America, but little is known about how it influences attributions of communicators. Across nine experiments, even when a person expressed the same position, using politically incorrect language made the communicator seem more authentic—but also colder—than using politically correct language.”
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Social Engineering And Sabotage: Why Deepfakes Pose An Unprecedented Threat To Businesses
https://deeptracelabs.com/social-engineering-and-sabotage-why-deepfakes-pose-an-unprecedented-threat-to-businesses/
There is growing concern about the threats that weaponised misinformation, such as fake news, pose to businesses and their brands. This concern is well founded, as reflected in a recent report by New Knowledge, showing 78% of consumers think misinformation damages brand reputation. Whilst this statistic shows businesses need to develop strategies to combat existing forms of misinformation, deepfakes pose an even greater threat moving forwards.
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“Deepfakes are the next step in a long chain of the democratisation of media production,” says Peter Rojas, a venture capital investor at Betaworks Ventures. “Deepfakes are the democratisation of CGI. It’s not that different to what blogging did for publishing.”
Deepfakes: Hollywood’s quest to create the perfect digital human
https://www.ft.com/content/9df280dc-e9dd-11e9-a240-3b065ef5fc55?shareType=nongift
Tech advances help film-makers but could lead to a glut of videos involving politicians or porn
The 23-year-old Smith clone, known in the movie as Junior, is not the real actor hidden under layers of make-up or prosthetics. Instead, he is a completely digital recreation
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Social media is often accused of damaging children’s mental health, but a new study suggests it is not to blame.
Social Media Is Not To Blame For Children’s Poor Mental Health
http://on.forbes.com/618811ykm
Young girls report lower levels of well-being than boys, but a new report suggests it’s not because of social media
Social media is often accused of damaging children’s mental health – but a new study suggests it is not to blame.
Instead, bullying, lack of sleep and problems with friendships are more important factors, with no strong link between social media use and psychological problems.
And in fact, social media use may even be linked to a greater sense of well-being among older teenagers, according to researchers.
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ZEDD: “I JUST GOT PERMANENTLY BANNED FROM CHINA BECAUSE I LIKED A SOUTH PARK TWEET”
https://edm.com/news/zedd-banned-china-south-park
According to Zedd (real name Anton Zaslavski), his ban resulted from him liking a tweet from the South Park account. The show itself had been scrubbed from the Chinese internet after the airing of an episode aptly titled “Band in China” which criticized Hollywood for bending to the will of overseas censors.
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There Are Now 15,000 Deepfake Videos on Social Media. Yes, You Should Worry.
http://on.forbes.com/61851E9fH
It’s getting easier than ever to create deepfake videos.
That’s because the software to make these fake videos (which fool you into thinking President Obama is calling President Trump names or that Elon Musk is a baby) is widely available. Anyone can download the apps on the Dark Web.
Once removed, they tend to reappear in yet another video somewhere else.
Sadly, the proliferation itself is hard to track. For a celebrity or politician, or even a friend from work, the videos are embarrassing because they look so realistic.
And the problem is getting worse.
There is a balancing act between allowing free expression and allowing the harmful material.
For now, deepfakes challenge the notion of speech. Many deepfakes are obviously harmful to the person depicted in the videos. They have no intent other than to cause embarrassment.
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THE SOFT POWER OF AN AMERICAN CARTOON: SOUTH PARK AND THE INFORMATION WAR WITH CHINA
https://mwi.usma.edu/soft-power-american-cartoon-south-park-information-war-china/
Why should we consider the usually vulgar South Park both a necessary component of American soft power internationally and a means of reinforcing the importance of certain values domestically?
Chinese actions should not be ignored; global leaders should be identifying these actions and shaming them in the news and social media.
Make no mistake, South Park’s episode cut so deeply that the Chinese Communist Party banned it within days. Moreover, Chinese sensors scrubbed the Chinese internet, deleting all South Park episodes and even any mention or discussion of the show.
Fortunately, South Park responded to the ban in its follow-up episode in the show’s typical irreverent fashion
China knows it is in an information war with the West—and has been for years. In 1999, two Chinese colonels wrote Unrestricted Warfare, in which they described an asymmetric approach for weaker countries, like China, to compete in a high-tech fashion against the technologically more advanced and economically more powerful United States (and the West, more broadly), identifying societies as the next battlefield. China has been pursuing various methods to shape and influence foreign societies and their political systems to be more pro-Chinese.
South Park: Providing an American Vision for Winning?
Ultimately, this South Park incident should be viewed as an inflection point for American action to maintain its soft-power advantage in the twenty-first century. China has drawn a line in the sand, and now it is up to the West to take a moral and ethical stand against China. The Western belief that technology and economic liberalization would make China open up politically has completely and utterly failed. In fact, such Western engagement has actually given the Chinese government more tools, capacity, and economic power to oppress its society and impose its vision on the region by doing things like flooding Taiwan with disinformation.
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Blowback Against a Hoax
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/01/08/author-recent-academic-hoax-faces-disciplinary-action-portland-state
was found by his institutional review board to have committed research misconduct. Specifically, he failed to secure its approval before proceeding with research on human subjects — in this case, the journal editors and reviewers he was tricking with his absurd but seemingly well-researched papers. Some seven of 20 were published in gender studies and other journals. Seven were rejected. Others were pending before the spoof was uncovered.
Author of a recent academic scam faces disciplinary action by Portland State, for failing to alert his research review board before hoodwinking journal editors with outrageous articles. Many say he’s guilty of bad form, but did he commit misconduct
Boghossian said in a statement that Portland State, “like many college campuses, is becoming an ideological community and I’ve demonstrated that I don’t fit the mold. I truly hope the administration puts its institutional weight behind the pursuit of truth but I’ve been given no indication that’s what they intend to do.”
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https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/arts/academic-journals-hoax.html
Why we did it: Three academics explain goal of year-long hoax on profession
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HiN2yqUliCk
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Readers Beware: AI Has Learned to Create Fake News Stories
https://www.wsj.com/articles/readers-beware-ai-has-learned-to-create-fake-news-stories-11571018640?mod=e2fb
Researchers warn about the risks of computer-generated articles—and release tools that ferret out fakes
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Yahoo is shutting down its Groups website and deleting all content
https://engt.co/2oBECrn
Yahoo (owned by Engadget’s parent company Verizon) is phasing out one its longest-standing features. The internet pioneer is closing the Yahoo Groups website in a two-phase process that will effectively see it disappear. You’ll lose the ability to post new content on October 21st, and Yahoo will delete all “previously posted” material on December 14th. Users can still connect to their groups through email, but the site will effectively be vacant. All groups will be made private and require an administrator’s approval.
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Twitter will limit the reach of tweets by certain politicians who break its rules
https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-will-limit-the-reach-of-tweets-by-certain-politicians-who-break-its-rules/
The company is doing more than just slapping a warning label over offending tweets. Users won’t be able to like, reply, share or retweet these tweets.
In June, Twitter said it would start placing a notice over tweets from certain elected and government officials who break the company’s rules. But it turns out Twitter is doing more than just slapping a warning label over offending tweets the company leaves up in the name of public interest. On Tuesday, Twitter said users won’t be able to like, reply, share or retweet these tweets. Users will still be able to share the tweet with a comment.
“These actions are meant to limit the tweet’s reach while maintaining the public’s ability to view and discuss it,” Twitter said in a blog post. The company also outlines when they’re more likely to make an exception for public interest.
About public-interest exceptions on Twitter
Defining the public interest
https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/public-interest
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Jennifer Aniston joined Instagram, broke it, and set a Guinness World Record — all in less than 6 hours
https://bit.ly/2qkoVFr
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Cristiano Ronaldo reportedly makes more money being an influencer on Instagram than he does playing soccer for Juventus
https://bit.ly/2IV7LVg
The 34-year-old pockets an annual $47.8 million from paid Instagram posts, according to a study by social media firm Hopper HQ on Buzz Bingo.
In contrast, his salary at Juventus is reportedly $34 million, according to Goal.com.
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Verkkosivusto – viisi yleistä sudenkuoppaa
https://matter.fi/verkkosivusto-viisi-yleista-sudenkuoppaa/
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How To Start A Blog: Step By Step For Beginners 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZDGogEYjLg
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Verkkosivujen liikenteen lähteet ja parhaat somekanavat kävijöiden kalasteluun – globaalin kartoituksen tuloksia
https://www.karhuhelsinki.fi/blogi/verkkosivujen-liikenteen-lahteet-ja-parhaat-somekanavat-kavijoiden-kalasteluun
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Lue mitä asioita kannattaa huomioida, kun suunnittelet uusia nettisivuja.
https://ws6.opiferum.net/~opiportal/sites/562/
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https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/56-percent-of-americans-dont-think-we-should-teach-arabic-numerals-in-school/
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10 Reasons Your Top Talent Will Leave You
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2012/12/13/10-reasons-your-top-talent-will-leave-you/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Malorie/#11d36c4838a6
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https://matter.fi/sisaltomarkkinointi-ja-natiivimainonta/?utm_content=buffer0a52c&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Facebook isn’t free speech, it’s algorithmic amplification optimized for outrage
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/20/facebook-isnt-free-speech-its-algorithmic-amplification-optimized-for-outrage/?tpcc=ECFB2019
This week Mark Zuckerberg gave a speech in which he extolled “giving everyone a voice” and fighting “to uphold a wide a definition of freedom of expression as possible.” That sounds great, of course! Freedom of expression is a cornerstone, if not the cornerstone, of liberal democracy. Who could be opposed to that?
The problem is that Facebook doesn’t offer free speech; it offers free amplification. No one would much care about anything you posted to Facebook, no matter how false or hateful, if people had to navigate to your particular page to read your rantings, as in the very early days of the site.
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-stands-for-voice-and-free-expression/
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Should we rethink the politics of ‘blocking’?
https://techcrunch.com/2019/10/20/should-we-rethink-the-politics-of-blocking/
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New Facebook features fight election lies everywhere but ads
https://tcrn.ch/2J6NQTd
Heaven forbid a political candidate’s Facebook account gets hacked. They might spread disinformation…like they’re already allowed to do in Facebook ads…
Today Facebook made a slew of announcements designed to stop 2020 election interference. “The bottom line here is that elections have changed significantly since 2016″ and so has Facebook in response, CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on a call with reporters. “We’ve gone from being on our back foot to proactively going after some of the biggest threats out there”
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/update-on-election-integrity-efforts/
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Mitt Romney Admits He Operates Secret ‘Pierre Delecto’ Twitter Account
http://on.forbes.com/61891Hgvh
Senator Mitt Romney admitted to using a secret Twitter account to “lurk” on the network and follow political discussions—and occasionally to defend himself.
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ISIS Reportedly Using TikTok To Spread Propaganda
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rachelsandler/2019/10/21/isis-reportedly-using-tiktok-to-spread-propaganda/?utm_source=FACEBOOK&utm_medium=social&utm_term=Gordie/#676f7264696
Topline: TikTok—the biggest new social media craze in recent years, with an image so sunny that even high schools have embraced it—has removed two dozen accounts that were posting propaganda from the Islamic State in an effort to appeal to young people, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
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Facebook:
Facebook bans networks, three originating in Iran and one in Russia, running “inauthentic” accounts, Pages, and Groups misleading users in the US, Latin America
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/removing-more-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-iran-and-russia/
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Facebook:
Facebook says it will more prominently label content that fact-checkers deem false on Facebook and Instagram, will ban ads suggesting voting is pointless
https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/10/update-on-election-integrity-efforts/
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India moves closer to regulating internet services as it fears ‘unimaginable disruption to democracy’
https://tcrn.ch/2BsreZr
India said on Monday that it is moving ahead with its plan to revise existing rules to regulate intermediaries — social media apps and others that rely on users to create their content — as they are causing “unimaginable disruption” to democracy
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Democrazy?
Which are the craziest, those countries that try to limit Internet, fear-mongering politicians, social media platforms or people who do not see those platforms as a big thread?
India moves closer to regulating internet services as it fears ‘unimaginable disruption to democracy’
https://tcrn.ch/2BsreZr
India said on Monday that it is moving ahead with its plan to revise existing rules to regulate intermediaries — social media apps and others that rely on users to create their content — as they are causing “unimaginable disruption” to democracy
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British parliament presses Facebook on letting politicians lie in ads
https://tcrn.ch/2BwB3W7
In yet another letter seeking to pry accountability from Facebook, the chair of a British parliamentary committee has pressed the company over its decision to adopt a policy on political ad that supports flagrant lying.
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Digital ad spend reached $57.9B in the first half of 2019, but growth has slowed (IAB report)
https://tcrn.ch/2o35a4k
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“Legislators around the globe have one thing in common: the urge to “eradicate” vaguely defined “online harms”. The rhetoric of danger comprised in online harm has become a driving force behind regulatory responses in liberal democracies. This is exactly the kind of logic frequently used by authoritarian regimes to restrict legitimate debate.”
https://edri.org/content-regulation-whats-the-online-harm/