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Robert Steele: Barack Obama Mis-Informed, John Brennan a Liar — Van Jones (Crap News Network) and Marc Zuckerberg (Facebook) are All Outright Liars — Fake News is What White House, Mainstream & Social Media Mandarins “Do” UPDATE 2

UPDATE 2: Calls to delay electoral college vote on Trump presidency as 70 members demand Russia hack details UPDATE 1: Sam Biddle at The Intercept: Here’s the Public Evidence Russia Hacked the DNC — It’s Not Enough Here is the “official” narrative from the White House relying on CIA (John Brennan, not the many good …

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Stephen E. Arnold: Understanding the 50% (or More) of the Internet that is Outright Crap

Understanding Trolls, Spam, and Nasty Content “From terrorist propaganda distributed by organizations such as ISIS, to political activism, diverse voices now use social media as their major public platform. Organizations deploy bots — virtual, automated posters — as well as enormous paid “armies” of human posters or trolls, and hacking schemes to overwhelmingly infiltrate the …

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Stephen E. Arnold: CyberTap (Engineering Centric) Kicks the Crap Out of “Advanced” Search (Sales Centric)

THE HONK (Email Subscription) As I was working through updates to the search vendor profiles on Xenky.com, I ran across a reference to Cybertap LLC. The company’s name rang a bell. I recalled an interview one of the goslings conducted with its founder in 2012. The point that caught my attention last week was a …

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Theophillis Goodyear: Time for an Open-Source Truth Blitz on CNN and the Boston Bombing Story — Calling All Bloggers — Kick the Crap Out of CNN, Fox Et Al on Boston NOW — May the Force Be With You!

This is a response to Owl’s post Owl: Public Awake, Major Media Shredded — the Revolution IS Being Televised! CNN is having ratings problems. If their subterfuge in Boston becomes common knowledge they will loose credibility and even more viewers. It would be a shot fired across the bow of every other news network. All …

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Howard Rheingold: Crap Detection & Critical Thinking

YouTube Library Howard Rheingold on essential media literacies [6:09] Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 1) [9:59] Creating a Critical Society – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 2) [4:49] Determining Site Credibility – Howard Rheingold on Crap Detection (Part 3) TED: Howard Rheingold: The new power of collaboration (19:34) Selected Books on Thinking by …

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Howard Rheingold: Finding Credible Social Information & Crap Detection

Finding Credible Information Sources in Social Networks Based on Content & Social Structure (PDF DOWNLOAD) “A task of primary importance for social network users is to decide whose updates to subscribe to in order to maximize the relevance, credibility, and quality of the information received. To address this problem, we conducted an experiment designed to …

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