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  InI 09:55 on 29th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), Mexico ( 63 ), social media, Twitter ( 157 )   

  How Google, Facebook and Twitter are manipulating the Mexican presidential elections—Part 1 

  28 April 2018 — WSWS

  US election meddling in the age of the Internet

  By Alex González and Andrea Lobo

  This is the first part in a two-part series

  In recent months, Google, Facebook and Twitter have signed agreements with the Mexican National Electoral Institute (INE), the organization charged with carrying out elections in Mexico, in what amounts to a massive campaign to manipulate the outcome of the July 1 general elections in the world’s tenth most populous country.

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  InI 09:38 on 27th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
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  The Real Reason Social Media Makes Hollywood So Nervous By J. F. Sargent 

  26 April 2018 — FAIR

  

  The Black Mirror episode “Nosedive” envisions a dystopia where every human interaction is rated on social media.

  There’s an episode of the Netflix show Black Mirror called “Nosedive,” about a world where everyone can rate their interactions with everyone else on a scale of 1–5, and each person’s average rating determines their socioeconomic status. The moral of the episode (because most episodes of Black Mirror have a techno-moral at the end) was a warning against the dangers of mob mentality and groupthink on social media. It’s easy to see where they got the idea: you only need to look at the story of Justine Sacco, whose life was turned upside down over an offensive joke she wrote on Twitter, or Zoe Quinn, who’s life was torn apart over lies spread by a vengeful ex, to see that internet hatred and rumor-mongering is dangerous, and we haven’t figured out how to deal with it yet. It’s scary, but TV is obsessed with it.

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  InI 17:42 on 25th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 97 ), data mining ( 90 ), facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), privacy ( 238 ), social media, surveillance ( 469 ), Twitter ( 157 )   

  Facebook codifies its censorship regime By Andre Damon 

  25 April 2018 — WSWS

  [Another, damn good reason NOT to use Facebook et al! WB]

  Facebook, the world’s largest social media company, spelled out for the first time the criteria it uses to censor speech on its platform, purely at its own discretion, and with no legal oversight or recourse.

  Its “community guidelines” are so sweeping and broad that effectively any statement expressing any critical political view can be constrained as violent, defamatory, “extremist,” “bullying” or—in the most sweeping catchall—“fake news,” and flagged for removal or undetectable censorship.

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  InI 13:45 on 16th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: BBC ( 532 ), facebook ( 83 ), fake news ( 7 ), Google ( 83 ), social media, Twitter ( 157 )   

  If you don’t want Facebook, what do you want? By Dan Hind 

  11 April 2018 — Return of the Public

  Facebook is once again in the news. Last month a joint investigation by the Observer, the New York Times and Channel 4 revealed that a UK company, Cambridge Analytica, had used information about Facebook’s users to target voters during Donald Trump’s successful campaign to become president in 2016. But the threat that the data giants’ business model poses to individual autonomy and to democratic process is not news.

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  InI 16:52 on 10th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: analytica, facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), jeff bezos ( 4 ), privacy ( 238 ), Robert Mercer ( 2 ), social media, surveillance ( 469 ), Twitter ( 157 )   

  Who Will Take on the 21st Century Tech and Media Monopolies? By Justin Anderson 

  10 April 2018 — FAIR

  

  Facebook “failed to alert users and took only limited steps to recover and secure the private information of more than 50 million individuals” (London Observer, 3/17/18).

  After decades of regulatory neglect, Big Tech is finally coming under the microscope.

  Facebook is under fire for (among other things) its involvement with Cambridge Analytica, a British data analytics firm funded by hedge fund billionaire and major Republican party donor Robert Mercer and formerly led by President Trump’s ex–campaign manager and strategist Steve Bannon. Cambridge Analytica harvested data from over 87 million Facebook profiles (up from Facebook’s original count of 50 million) without the users’ consent, according to a report by the London Observer (3/17/18) sourced to a whistleblower who worked at Cambridge Analytica until 2014.

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  InI 08:06 on 10th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: data mining ( 90 ), facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), privacy ( 238 ), social media, Twitter ( 157 )   

  If you’re on Facebook then your data has been stolen 

  9 April 2018 — OpenMedia

  Facebook just made the stunning admission that 100 percent of its 2 billion users have likely had their personal data stolen by “malicious actors.”[1]

  That’s right. One hundred percent. If you’re on Facebook, then it’s a virtual lock that your data has been stolen.

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  InI 15:10 on 9th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: censorship ( 97 ), facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), monopoly ( 18 ), social media, Twitter ( 157 )   

  Facebook: A Cooperative Transformation By Roy Morrison 

  7 April 2018 — EcoCivilization

  According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s 2 billion users represent a global community whose interest are served at no charge, a community that facilitates and encourages historically unprecedented social interconnection on a global scale. Unquestionably much of this is positive.

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  InI 07:48 on 6th April 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: facebook ( 83 ), russian bots, social media, Twitter ( 157 )   

  Media Warn of ‘Russian Bots’—Despite Primary Source’s Disavowal By Adam Johnson 

  5 April 2018 — FAIR

  

  Washington Post (4/2/18): “Wading into controversy is a key strategy for Russian propaganda bots.”

  One could forgive the average reader for thinking reporters covering bots had been replaced by bots. The formula is something we’ve seen a million times now: After a controversial story breaks, media outlets insist that “Russian bots” used the controversy to “sow discord” or “exploit tensions”; a “Russian bot dashboard” is offered as proof. (These “dashboards” let one see what Russian bots—automated online persona controlled by the Kremlin—are allegedly  “pushing” on social media.)

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  InI 18:55 on 29th March 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cambridge analytica ( 9 ), election rigging ( 3 ), facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), psychometrics ( 7 ), social media   

  Cambridge Analytica Is Not Alone: i360 and Data Trust Disastrous for Democracy 

  29 March 2018 — TRNN

  Cambridge Analytica, owned by Robert Mercer, is in the news, but other companies — like the Koch Brothers’ i360 and Karl Rove’s Data Trust — are far more dangerous, says investigative reporter Greg Palast Continue reading this...

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  InI 11:40 on 29th March 2018 Permalink | Reply
  Tags: cambridge analytica ( 9 ), election rigging ( 3 ), facebook ( 83 ), Google ( 83 ), psychometrics ( 7 ), social media   

  The truth about Cambridge Analytica-SCL: Psy-ops by UK-US deep state actors By Julie Hyland 

  26 March 2018 — WSWS

  The scandal surrounding Facebook’s relationship with Cambridge Analytica, the election data company previously associated with former Trump campaign Chairman Steve Bannon, dominates the media in the US and Britain.

  The serious privacy concerns involved in the harvesting of the personal information of some 50 million Facebook users were underscored by Britain’s Channel 4 News. An undercover investigation filmed Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix boasting of dirty tricks operations to ensnare politicians and subvert elections.

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