Berto Jongman: Gary Price Flags Free PDF “False Information on Web and Social Media – A Survey”

Corruption, Cultural Intelligence, Government, IO Impotency, Media, Peace Intelligence
Berto Jongman

False Information on Web and Social Media: A Survey

Srijan Kumar, Neil Shah

False information can be created and spread easily through the web and social media platforms, resulting in widespread real-world impact. Characterizing how false information proliferates on social platforms and why it succeeds in deceiving readers are critical to develop efficient detection algorithms and tools for early detection. A recent surge of research in this area has aimed to address the key issues using methods based on feature engineering, graph mining, and information modeling. Majority of the research has primarily focused on two broad categories of false information: opinion-based (e.g., fake reviews), and fact-based (e.g., false news and hoaxes).

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Stephen E. Arnold: If Facebook is a Tyranny, Governments are Inept at Regulating It… #GoogleGestapo

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency, Media
Stephen E. Arnold

Regulating Facebook and Unexpected Consequences

After Mark Zuckerberg’s mostly frothy and somewhat entertaining testimonies for Congress and the Senate, what are we left with? Some tea leaves are saying that Facebook will likely be permitted to self regulate.

What happens if governments step in. One commentator worries not just for our privacy, but for society as a whole. We learned more from a recent Guardian story, “Facebook is a Tyranny and Our Government Isn’t Built to Stop it.”

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Penguin How the EU could change the world through Data Asylum

IO Impotency, IO Privacy

How the EU could change the world through Data Asylum

All that is needed is a provision that any big Internet company doing business in the EU would be required to offer the EU's end user license agreement (EULA) as an option for all accounts, no matter where they lived.

PS:  Or, it might be possible to get the same effect by switching your country of origin/location in Facebook and Twitter to Germany..

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