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Month: October 2016

How social media censorship threatens the flow of information #wikileaks

How social media censorship threatens the flow of information #wikileaks

The rise of the Internet has expanded the ways in which information may be delivered to end users, going around potential media and government control of information. However, as social media platforms increasingly become our gateways to the web, they are recentralizing the distributed web. As Facebook breaks 1.7 billion users worldwide, every one of those users in every country of the world are subject to a single centralized set of rules governing what is acceptable content that can be…

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“What you see is all there is”

“What you see is all there is”

A popular propaganda method is to give you some information that leads you to a likely incorrect conclusion, but the conclusion the propagandist would like you to reach. The trick works because we see some information in the propaganda message and our brain short circuits and concludes that “What you see is all there is”. We then quickly agree with the message without considering that we have an incomplete picture. The following social media propaganda poster was shared into my timeline…

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"What you see is all there is"

"What you see is all there is"

A popular propaganda method is to give you some information that leads you to a likely incorrect conclusion, but the conclusion the propagandist would like you to reach. The trick works because we see some information in the propaganda message and our brain short circuits and concludes that “What you see is all there is”. We then quickly agree with the message without considering that we have an incomplete picture. The following social media propaganda poster was shared into my timeline…

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Bizarre attempts at social media propaganda regarding #Wikileaks

Bizarre attempts at social media propaganda regarding #Wikileaks

This is bizarre on many levels: The files are read as HTML (text) files via the Wikileaks.org web site, which does not present a way to deliver malware to your computer. The first document release contained about 2,000 text files, making the “33,000 viruses” claim silly. This social media propaganda message might have been posted in attempt to discourage you from reading the Wikileaks documents for your self, or it could have been posted by someone that wants you to think…

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Google plans to offer “fact check” for news.google.com

Google plans to offer “fact check” for news.google.com

Source: Labeling fact-check articles in Google News It appears they will add links to sources that might help to check if items in the news story are true or false. That this needs to be done says something about news reporting 🙂 I am having a difficult time seeing how “fact checking” would work on stories like this, this and this, which we showed, were incorrectly reported initially, and in some cases, led to the creation of “false” facts. President Obama also…

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