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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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2018/03/142018/03/12

Stephen E. Arnold: Facebook Fails Discrimination Test

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency

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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2018/03/132018/03/11

Berto Jongman: S by SW Festival Gets It Wrong — Ignoring #GoogleGestapo Censorship, Manipulation, & Digital Assassination

Collective Intelligence, Commerce, Corruption, Government, IO Deeds of War, IO Impotency, Media

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.

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2018/03/122018/03/10

Berto Jongman: Ethical AI? In Canada?

Advanced Cyber/IO

How Canada can be a global leader in ethical AI

Canada’s research expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) has led to significant recent investment. But far fewer resources have been dedicated to the governance, ethics or social responsibilities of this new technology, leaving many different local initiatives to try to fill the gap.

2018/03/102018/03/09