www.nytimes.com
Fleeting Note (FN): the creation of Fediverse-based alternatives might suddenly become an urgency.
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www.motherjones.com
When changing their Newsfeed algorithm, Facebook's tests found "a dramatic impact on the reach of right-wing “junk sites,”... [by] January 2018 a second iteration dialed up the harm to progressive-leaning news organizations instead... Mother Jones was singled out as one that would suffer... Daily Wire was identified as one that would be…
medium.com
There are two possible reasons why we are not talking as much about foreign interference. Both could be true. Only one is good news.
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www.newyorker.com
Literature note: “How to Lose the Information War,” ... on disinformation as a geopolitical strategy...Mueller report: I.R.A.-created groups and accounts reached tens of millions... the troll factory found “authentic, local voices,” to foment large-scale distrust in government and democracy... and managed to get into the heads of powerful politici…
medium.com
"We believe in Facebook’s mission that giving people tools to make the world more open is a better way to combat ignorance or deception than censorship.” It turns out that I was wrong... There are more options than just being “open” and “censorship”... The more successful Facebook is ... the more ignorance, deception ...in the world...Facebo…
medium.com
Do we really want to set up Facebook or Google as censors ... to decide what is real and fake, true and false?