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Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only “Trustworthy” News
Facebook Introducing Sweeping Changes: Will Prioritze Only “Trustworthy” News In the latest move that is set to infuriate news organizations that are not deemed “trustworthy”, Facebook is set to introduce “sweeping changes” to its newsfeed as early as next week, prioritizing trustworthy sites and removing “clickbait” and low quality news publishers, while promoting posts from […]
Big Brother = You
Big Brother = You Giorgione The Tempest 1508Happy belated new year. Belatedly. Thought I’d sit out a few days, since there wasn’t much news to be expected. And it did pan out that way, other than Trump bogarting the limelight; but then, that isn’t really news either. Anything he says or does triggers the expansive […]
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018
Expect Even Less Freedom of Internet in 2018 Users of social media have been increasingly reporting that their accounts have been either censored, blocked or suspended during the past year. Initially, some believed that the incidents might be technical in nature, with overloaded servers struggling to keep up with the large and growing number of […]
Facebook Says it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments
Photo: Eric Risberg/AP Facebook Says it is Deleting Accounts at the Direction of the U.S. and Israeli Governments IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR, we noted that Facebook representatives were meeting with the Israeli Government to determine which Facebook accounts of Palestinians should be deleted on the ground that they constitute “incitement.” The meetings – called […]
How Facebook will infiltrate national elections and rule the world in less than 10 years — unless we stop it
How Facebook will infiltrate national elections and rule the world in less than 10 years — unless we stop it What do NATO, private military contractors, giant arms manufacturers, wine merchants, the NSA, Trump, British property tycoons, Russian oligarchs, and Big Oil have in common? The world’s largest social network Source: Geek.com Published to launch the new beta platform […]
Facebook Ditches Its “Fake News Flag” After People Shared Flagged Articles Even More
Facebook Ditches Its “Fake News Flag” After People Shared Flagged Articles Even More Roughly one year ago Facebook promised to eradicate “fake news” from its platform by “flagging” articles that were deemed inaccurate by their hand-selected “fact checkers” (A.K.A. “liberal propagandists”)…we wrote all about it in a post entitled “Facebook Launches Campaign To Combat ‘Fake […]
Designing Against Misinformation
Designing Against Misinformation Updated treatment for misinformation in News Feed using Related Articles Scrolling through News Feed, it can be hard to judge what stories are true or false. Should you trust everything that you see, even if it comes from someone whom you don’t know well? If you’ve never heard of an article’s publisher, but […]
Facebook Really Is Bad For You, Researchers Say
Facebook Really Is Bad For You, Researchers Say Apparently, Chamath Palihapitiya was on to something when he revealed earlier this week that he felt “tremendous guilt” for the role that he played in Facebook’s success as a social-media company. To wit, Facebook’s director of research David Ginsberg and research scientist Moira Burke published a blog […]
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this)
Google ‘Ministry of Truth’ intensifies suppressing ‘fake news’ (such as this) On November 18th, Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt spoke about how Google will help to defeat Russia. He said that Google helps in this effort not by “censoring” Russian newsmedia, but by “de-ranking” them in Google web-searches, so that web-pages from these sites, which he […]
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin
The Asymmetry of Bubbles: the Status Quo and Bitcoin Shall we compare the damage that will be done when all these bubbles pop? Regardless of one’s own views about bitcoin/cryptocurrency, what is truly remarkable is the asymmetry that is applied to questioning the status quo and bitcoin. As I noted yesterday, everyone seems just fine […]
Mark Zuckerberg’s Long Litany Of Failings – Mainstream Media Turns On Social Media
Mark Zuckerberg’s Long Litany Of Failings – Mainstream Media Turns On Social Media The mainstream media is a fickle beast beholden to the direction of the prevailing political winds. Unfortunately for Facebook, Google and Twitter, those winds have turned about face in recent weeks as the political establishment thrashes about in its misguided efforts to […]
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized
The Demise of Dissent: Why the Web Is Becoming Homogenized In other words, we’ll be left with officially generated and sanctioned fake news and “approved” dissent. We’ve all heard that the problem with the web is fake news, i.e. unsubstantiated or erroneous content that’s designed to mislead or sow confusion. The problem isn’t just fake news–it’s the homogenization […]
I’ve Been Banned From Facebook For Sharing An Article About False Flags
I’ve Been Banned From Facebook For Sharing An Article About False Flags My personal Facebook account, which has the maximum 5,000 friends and an additional 5,000+ followers, has been blocked from posting for three days. My page hasn’t been blocked yet, but we’ll see; I shared the article there, too. The reason given for this ban […]
Tax Them Till They Bleed
Tax Them Till They Bleed Jean-Léon Gérôme Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind 1896An entire library of articles about Big Tech is coming out these days, and I find that much of it is written so well, and the ideas in them so well expressed, that I have little to add. Except, […]
