Tag Archives: New Knowledge
Can we get the facts of life from social media?
Short answer: no. What follows is one entire chapter from my book, How I Learned The Facts of Life, the title of which is duplicated above. (A very short chapter.) There’s a reason why I’m posting it here today. I … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Komprosplat, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged 538.com, bots, bots on Twitter, Carnegie Mellon, Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cybersecurity, COVID, Kar Swisher, MIT, MIT Technology Review, New Knowledge, Reddit, Renee DiResta, Russian troll farms, Trump, Twitter
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If Mark Zuckerberg won’t protect us from political ads that lie…
What do we do? We protect ourselves. By now, anyone who has paid a moment’s attention to trolling, lying and outright fake news utilizing social media knows they exist. And knows we users of social media are the targets. I … Continue reading
Posted in Komprosplat, political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Facebook, fake news, Kara Swisher, Mark Zuckerberg, New Knowledge, Renee DiResta
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