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Month: May 2018

Fake news for hire: Google, Uber pay London’s Evening Standard newspaper for favorable news coverage #fakenews

Fake news for hire: Google, Uber pay London’s Evening Standard newspaper for favorable news coverage #fakenews

Democracy dies in darkn… oh WTF: Google goes full evil. Source: George Osborne’s London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others – for £3 million | openDemocracy Starbucks, by comparison, said Nyet to the Evening Standard’s offer to sell happy talk news about Starbucks.

#Facebook to build huge data center next to #NSA data center in Utah

#Facebook to build huge data center next to #NSA data center in Utah

Source: No surprise: Facebook to build data center in Eagle Mountain | Deseret News The “most profitable social media company on the planet” will receive $150 million in tax breaks, just to start (with more after that – as in a total of $750 million dollars over 40 years because Facebook could not run their business without subsidies.) From Google Maps, NSA Utah Data Center, at upper right. Facebook data center will be located on the south side of Eagle…

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News: Journalists fall for false meme: why?

News: Journalists fall for false meme: why?

The long time thesis of this blog is that social media is a frictionless platform for the spread of propaganda. In the “good old days”, propaganda required owning a printing press or broadcast license. Today, anyone can become a propagandist by posting an appropriate meme on social media and watch it shared thousands or millions of times. Journalists frequently use their personal accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (but especially Twitter) to share items of interest to themselves. Due to…

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Journalists fall for false meme, because they want it to be true?

Journalists fall for false meme, because they want it to be true?

The long time thesis of this blog is that social media is a frictionless platform for the spread of propaganda. In the “good old days”, propaganda required owning a printing press or broadcast license. Today, anyone can become a propagandist by posting an appropriate meme on social media and watch it shared thousands or millions of times. Journalists frequently use their personal accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram (but especially Twitter) to share items of interest to themselves. Due to…

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Another social media meme turned into imaginary news story

Another social media meme turned into imaginary news story

“I don’t like the phone because my [parents] are on their phone every day … I hate my mom’s phone and I wish she never had one,” one student wrote in a photo posted to Beason’s Facebook page that has since been turned to private. The post was shared more than 261,000 times — parents expressed guilt, and fellow teachers echoed similar conversations they’ve had in their classrooms. Source: kgw.com | I wish my mom’s phone wasn’t invented, 2nd grader…

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