The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Edward Snowden: Facebook Is A Surveillance Company Rebranded As “Social Media”
Businesses that make money by collecting and selling detailed records of private lives were once plainly described as “surveillance companies.” Their rebranding as “social media” is the most successful deception since the Department of War became the Department of Defense.
Twitter: Designed for Interesting Messaging
Fake news is getting harder to control and social media networks makes it harder to weed out the truth from the lies. Engadget shares how, “Twitter’s Fake News Problem Is Getting Worse” and how tragedy exacerbates the problem. For example, when a crazed shooter opened fired at a high school in Parkland, Florida, social media, including Twitter, helped spread fake news. The fake news misidentified the gunman, the number of gunmen, how a comedian was one of the shooters when it was just a meme, and misidentified missing people.
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Google is filtering news for the wrong reason
Google is trying to minimize threats to its business, to avoid any kind of criticism that could lead to regulation
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Links to His Book & #GoogleGestapo References Below the Fold
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Facebook Fails Discrimination Test
While racism and discrimination still plague society, the average person does not participate in it. The Internet exacerbates hatred to the point that people believe it is more powerful today than it was in the past. Social media Web sites do their best to prevent these topics from spreading by using sentiment analytics. Sentiment analytics are still in their infancy and, on more than one occasion, have proven to work against their intended purpose. TechCrunch shares that, “Facebook’s Ad System Shown Failing To Enforce Its Own Anti-Discriminatory Policy” is a recent example.
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They ignore the biggest threat of all.
South by Southwest Festival Goes From Tech Back-Slapping to Brooding Introspection
Lizette Chapman for Bloomberg
Revelations around the use of Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and YouTube to spread misinformation, influence the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and recruit terrorists have prompted closer scrutiny of social networks and their responsibility to police content on their sites.
The lawsuit’s account of millions of dollars in newspaper funds being spent to finance Alden’s independent investments hit hard in DFM newsrooms struggling after job cuts. Some worksites have endured staff reductions of more than 40 percent in the last two years alone. Venerable nameplates have vanished or been consolidated, including the Oakland Tribune, now reborn as part of the regional East Bay Times.
