Quote to Note: Experts from UK Take a Look at US Social Media
I read “Silicon Valley’s ‘Belated and Uncoordinated’ Efforts at Dealing with Russian Fake News Revealed.” The report was created by experts in the UK and leaded to the Washington Post.
Here’s a quote which suggests the principal finding:
“Social media have gone from being the natural infrastructure for sharing collective grievances and coordinating civic engagement to being a computational tool for social control, manipulated by canny political consultants and available to politicians in democracies and dictatorships alike,” the authors of the report wrote.
The idea is that technology is neutral until a person figures out how to use it as a weapon or to his or her advantage.
Phi Beta Iota: We must create the next Internet and completely displace all elements of #GoogleGestapo, starting with Facebook, Google, MeetUp, Twitter, and YouTube.
See Especially:
Robert Steele: Plans for Displacement of #GoogleGestapo UPDATE 2
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