Category Social Media
DN! Forced Entry: NSO Group Spies Secretly Seized Control of Apple Devices by Exploiting Flaw in Code
“This is … the most important crisis around global civil society right now.” Over 1.65 billion Apple products in use around the globe have been vulnerable to the spyware since at least March.
Henry Giroux: The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy
“Times have changed. Capitalism has degenerated into a full-stage criminal enterprise and democracy is no longer distrusted; on the contrary, it is disdained, feared and subject to the scorn of crooks parading as politicians. Instead of having too much democracy, the current historical moment is being framed by the call to eliminate it altogether.”
Meet the Censored: Hitler, by Matt Taibbi
“Asking computer programs to sort out the subtleties of different types of speech — differences between commentary and advocacy, criticism and incitement, reporting and participation — has proven a disaster.”
Facebook’s disinformation problem is harder than it looks, by Matthew Ingram
“finding the right line between disinformation control, public-health awareness, and outright censorship is not an easy task.”
Feeding Hate With Video: A Former Alt-Right YouTuber Explains His Methods
“Over the more than two years he helped produce and publish videos for Robinson and others, Robertson learned how making clever edits and focusing on confrontation could help draw millions of views on YouTube and other services. He also learned how YouTube’s recommendation algorithm often nudged people toward extreme videos.”
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges on the State of the American Empire
Noam Chomsky addresses the current state of the American Empire after the attack on the capital on Jan 6, 2021. His new book: “Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.”
Chris Hedges: Don’t be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars
“We must be wary of allowing those wielding the toxic charge of racism, no matter how well intentioned their motives, to decide who has a voice and who does not.”
Weaponized Social Media Is Driving the Explosion of Fascism, by Dr. Michael I. Niman
By 2016, sophisticated propagandists utilizing artificial intelligence algorithms driven by a seemingly limitless trove of data points on damn near every internet user, revolutionized social media-based psych-ops campaigns.
“The Left Can’t Meme”: How Right-Wing Groups Are Training the Next Generation of Social Media Warriors
…memes in politics: Cheap, subversive, and designed to provoke an emotional response, memes are a disruptive form of information guerrilla warfare. Republicans have gotten Giesea’s message, while Democrats have all but ignored it.
The ‘Weaponization’ of Social Media — And Its Real-World Consequences
Singer and Brooking tackle the mind-bending questions that arise when war goes online and the online world goes to war.
On the Media: Facebook Censorship, “You Are the Product,” and the Global Internet and Copyright Directive
THE COPYRIGHT DIRECTIVE IS SET TO RESHAPE THE INTERNET GLOBALLY
Why Antonio Gramsci is the Marxist Thinker for our Times, by George Eaton
The late Italian philosopher’s concept of hegemony was startlingly prescient.
Syria – a case study in propaganda, by Chris Kanthan
In a democracy, the most important but least understood tool is propaganda. Let me share with you the fundamentals of a successful propaganda campaign.
Disarming the Weapons of Mass Distraction by Madeleine Bunting
Distraction has become a commercial and political strategy, and it amounts to a form of emotional violence that cripples people…
Facebook’s ‘Secret’ File on You Is Bigger Than You Think — Here’s How to View It
Whigham urges people to download their file so they can see the extent to which their privacy is being violated by what he calls “surveillance capitalism.”
Facebook details plans to censor news feeds and manipulate public opinion
Facebook’s censorship regime is part of a drive by all the major technology firms, including Twitter and Google, to limit the freedom of expression.
Organizing Resistance to Internet Censorship with Chris Hedges and David North (Video)
A dialog between David North and Chris Hedges, live-streamed worldwide tonight, January 16, 2018.
Mike Madden | Senior Advisor Sharon Burke at New America Says Ending the Worst Excesses of the War on Terror, Including Torture, Would Be “Concessions to ISIS”
What likely concerns Ms. Burke, is that social media is further from government control than is the traditional media.
Millennials ‘Search for Truth’ on Election and Distrust Media, Intelligence Firm Reports
“If millennials vote en masse, they have a chance to determine the election’s outcome,”
Glenn Greenwald Calls Out Facebook for Working With Israeli Government on Censorship Plan
Facebook officials, Greenwald revealed, have laid out plans with the Israeli government on how to block material that they feel “incites violence.” This news comes at a time when the Israeli government is pushing legislation that would censor social media content from platforms its members consider disagreeable.
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