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“But I read it on Facebook”
Are you a fool for Facebook? Do you get your facts, your news, your information off Facebook websites? That’s what journalists who cover social media think — and it’s giving them fits about what this will mean for the upcoming … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, How I Learned The Facts of Life, political campaigns, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism, voting rights
Tagged COVID 19, Facebook fake news sites, Facebook misinformation, fake news, Kara Swisher, Kevin Roose, medical professionals, QAnon, Renee DiResta, social media
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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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What should we do about Facebook? I have a plan*
(*Thanks, Elizabeth Warren, for this catch phrase.) Boy, is everyone going crazy over Facebook! It is evil, it has to be censored. It allows politicians to sell ads with ugly and discredited smears. It was and will be again the … Continue reading
Posted in political campaigns, Politics, The Facts of Life
Tagged Betsy DeVos, bots, censorship, chatbots, child pornography, deepfakes, Elizabeth Warren, Facebook, Kara Swisher, kompromat, political ads, Renee DiResta, trolls
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