Fake polls as political propaganda
Using “fake telephone polls” to reach voters with campaign propaganda. Why do they use fake telephone polls? Probably to prevent people from hanging up on the telephone solicitation.
10% Of Twitter Users Create 92% Of All Tweets
Some people tweet a lot.
Privacy: “How Covid-19 Turned College Campuses Into Surveillance Machines”
Colleges and universities instituting intense and personal surveillance of students for everything from attendance tracking, identifying groups deemed too large, to tracking students temperature and health symptoms, automatically. Scary stuff.
What social media [thinks they] know about us
Social media compiles a dossier on each of us (even we do not belong to the platform) to understand us better than we understand ourselves. This information is then used to target advertising at us – basically finely targeted propaganda. Some times they are selling products, other times services, and some times ideas (politics). Regardless, their analysis has made some big misses about me 🙂
I am so old, I remember when newspapers were bastions of free speech and expression
Washington Post advocates for social media platforms to censor political speech.