Category: Information Operations (IO)

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Betty Boop: #GoogleGestapo — Google Atrocities in Detail

Commerce, Commercial Intelligence, Corruption, IO Impotency

Google — a dictator unlike anything the world has ever known

Story at-a-glance

  • Robert Epstein is a Harvard trained psychologist who has exposed how Google is manipulating public opinion through their search engine so they can change the results of elections and many other important areas
  • His research shows how Google is using new techniques of manipulation that have never existed before in human history. If this weren’t bad enough, these tools are ephemeral and leave no paper trail of their devious behavior
  • According to Epstein’s calculations, Google can shift 15 million votes leading up to the upcoming U.S. presidential 2020 election
  • Because Google has become and everyday tool that's used for more than 90% of searches worldwide, the company has likely determined the outcomes of 25% of the national elections in the world
  • Search suggestions — shown in a drop-down menu when you begin to type a search term — is another powerful manipulation tool capable of turning a 50/50 split among undecided voters into a 90/10 split, with no one having the slightest idea that they've been manipulated

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Stephen E. Arnold: Amazon Loses Another Big One to Microsoft

IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Amazon: Some Trouble Down Under?

DarkCyber noted “Case Study: Why the Australian Electoral Commission Migrated to Microsoft Azure.” On the surface, the write up is another PR output. When considered in terms of the competition between Amazon and Microsoft for juicy non commercial jobs, the article provides a check list of what’s lacking in Amazon AWS.

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Phi Beta Iota: Amazon is actually the better offering on the back office side of the ledger, but they totally suck at everything else. And they are, if this is possible, even more arrogant and closed off than Microsoft. Both companies will follow IBM and Oracle into oblivion for failure to listen.

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Charles Hugh Smith: Don’t Be Too Sure ….

Cultural Intelligence, IO Impotency
Charles Hugh Smith

Don't Be Too Sure

Don't be too sure that the coronavirus will blow over and have no effect on global growth.

If there is anything that characterizes this moment in history, it's complacency: everyone's so sure that current trend lines will continue, onward and upward, and risk has been tamed for the foreseeable future.

Don't be too sure.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Google Manipulating Search…Again

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

Google: Making Friends Everywhere

Would it surprise anyone if Google alters search results to favor itself? Nope! Reuters explains that Europe is once again fed up with Google’s shenanigans, so “Axel Springer Unit, Others Say Google Still Playing Unfairly, Want EU To Act.” Axel Springer owns the shopping comparison Web site Idealo and it has teamed with forty other companies to accuse Google of altering search. The companies want the European Union to enforce a ruling against Google.

The claimants are pressuring European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager to enforce an order she made two years ago for Google to stop favoring its own price comparison shopping service.

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Stephen E. Arnold: Openness is Search — Does Money Displace Ethics & Efficacy?

Commerce, Corruption, IO Impotency
Stephen E. Arnold

A Call for Openness in Search

“Opening Up Search Is an Ethical Imperative” presents an argument for opening up search. “Opening up” appears to mean that Google’s grip on ad supported search and retrieval is broken. The write up states:

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Advertisers go where the eyeballs are. Money can alter the meaning of ethics. And that money issue may be the reason Web sites are not indexed comprehensively, US government Web sites are indexed infrequently and superficially, and why Google ignores certain types of content.

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