Confirmed – Facebook has shadow banned this web site
My Occupy Propaganda page on Facebook was shadow banned beginning about December 15th. Read on for the update – and confirmation.
20th Century Fox created many fake news web sites to promote a movie
The sites were designed by an experienced fake news publisher using the traditional, emotionally laden headlines, with false stories designed to be shared on social media. The purpose was to promote a movie – by design, many people began sharing these fake news stories on social media where they were viewed as real. Many of the stories were partisan political posts with false allegations. One fake post had been shared 65,000 times on Facebook alone. A promotion tactic for “A…
Facebook manifesto: FB intends to control your life
The comments to this opinion column in the Oregonian (via Bloomberg), are mostly from people not happy with how Facebook has degenerated into a culture of outrage, anger and hate (broadly defined – not just in terms of government defined “hate groups”). Source: Facebook plans to rewire your life. Be afraid: Bloomberg View Social media has serious issues. Zuckerberg intends to add automation to eliminate “hate” (conventionally defined) and “fake news” – which suggests he does not understand the problem.
People – and social media sharing – makes fake news successful
The creation of fake news is not the core problem – lying has been around for as long as people have spoken (“Thou shalt not bear false witness,” the Bible says). The problem on social media is that people who don’t know better spread the lies – and the technology enables them to do so faster than ever before. Like the difference between a fire on someone’s stove and a forest fire burning thousands of acres, virality is the primary…
Non profit spins news story into propaganda success?
Source: Traffic deaths surge in 2016 My local paper (not linked here) spun this story with anecdotes and quotes that cell phones were the cause of most car crashes (they are not). The story is appearing in online news reports nationwide. According to the National Highway Transportation Administration, all forms of distracted driving accounted for 10% of all fatal car crashes and 16% of all crashes reported to the police. Cell phone usage is one of several driving distractions. Cell…