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Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years
Washington has Engaged in Information Warfare, Including Fake News and Trolling, for Years The howling in government and the corporate media and among many liberals about an alleged Russian information war, with bots, trolls and fake news being placed in social media to mislead and incite Americans against each other, might lead one think, like […]
We Can’t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things
We Can’t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things Whatever your solution may be, the path to change a nation starts locally. It’s happened again, another tragedy in America, and once more we hear the cries for systematic change echo from coast to coast. Instead of berating you with countless policy prescriptions in the aftermath, and […]
The Big Bot Conspiracy
The Big Bot Conspiracy Bots. Is there anything they can’t do? The Internet Research Agency indictment accuses a troll bot farm of trying to influence the election in what the media claims is the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor. 9/11 need not apply. Bots are everywhere. “Bots Are Trying to Help Populists Win […]
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War?
Is That Russia Troll Farm an Act of War? According to the indictment by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Russian trolls, operating out of St. Petersburg, took American identities on social media and became players in our 2016 election. On divisive racial and religious issues, the trolls took both sides. In the presidential election, the trolls […]
Kofi Annan Echoes Soros Scaremongery: “Social Media Threatens Democracy”
Kofi Annan Echoes Soros Scaremongery: “Social Media Threatens Democracy” Just a few short weeks after billionaire George Soros spoke in Davos, demanding that the European Union regulate social media because voters’ minds are being controlled and “manipulated,” none other than former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace laureate, Kofi Annan, has issued an […]
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Abandons Facebook; Says News Feed is “Banning Professional Journalism”
Brazil’s Largest Newspaper Abandons Facebook; Says News Feed is “Banning Professional Journalism” São Paulo, Brazil— The largest newspaper in Brazil, Folha de S Paulo, announced late last week that due to Facebook’s recent changes to their news feed algorithm resulting in what the paper claims is “effectively banning professional journalism,” it would cease publishing content on […]
Can Fake News Be Outlawed?
PHILIPPE WOJAZER/AFP/Getty Images Can Fake News Be Outlawed? French President Emmanuel Macron used the occasion of an annual New Year’s press conference this year to propose a new law to prevent the spread of disinformation online. But even if France’s restrictions work as intended, fake news is a global problem, and it will require […]
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 […]
Project Veritas Exposes Twitter “Shadow Banning”, Blocking Opposing Views
Project Veritas Exposes Twitter “Shadow Banning”, Blocking Opposing Views In the latest of a series of undercover operations targeting the mainstream media and now Social Media, James O’Keefe of Project Veritas has just dropped a new undercover video which reveals Twitter “shadow banning” and creating algorithms that censor certain ideas. The first clip features a former Twitter software engineer who […]
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 […]
Welcome to 2018 – We Are All Connected
Welcome to 2018 – We Are All Connected To see a world in a grain of sand And to see heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage. A dove-house fill’d with doves […]
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 […]
Issues, Problems, (Social) Media and the Manipulation Thereof
ISSUES, PROBLEMS, (SOCIAL) MEDIA AND THE MANIPULATION THEREOF Back when I was knee high to a grasshopper the biggest issues I had were trying to avoid that jerk of a bully living across the street and making sure I returned home promptly when the street lights came on. There was no wiggle room on the […]
Bitcoin, Terence McKenna and the Future of the Internet
Bitcoin, Terence McKenna and the Future of the Internet We have millions of people who are warehoused in almost a larval state in their apartments, watching tv, paying for their medical plans, and glued to this mindless opera of cultural decay that’s recited day after day in front of them. I mean, it’s horrible to […]
