FACEBOOK PROPAGANDA PAYS TO RUN LIES
Facebook paid Teen Vogue to run a fake article praising Facebook for “helping ensure the integrity of the 2020 election” https://boingboing.net/2020/01/09/facebook-paid-teen-vogue-to-ru.html
FACEBOOK COO SHERYL SANDBERG SHOULD GO TO JAIL
“It was no one’s job to ask: What could go wrong?” Roger McNamee speaks at TED2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/04/17/it-was-no-ones-job-to-ask-what-could-go-wrong-roger-mcnamee-speaks-at-ted2019
Shortly after the byline-free “article” ran, a notice appeared at the top, which said, “Editor’s note: This is sponsored editorial content.” A little while later, the piece disappeared entirely.
Disinformation For Hire: How A New Breed Of PR Firms Is Selling Lies Online
One firm promised to “use every tool and take every advantage available in order to change reality according to our client’s wishes.”
Peng Kuan Chin pulled out his phone, eager to show the future of online manipulation.
Unseen servers began crawling the web for Chinese articles and posts. The system quickly reorganized the words and sentences into new text. His screen displayed a rapidly increasing tally of the articles generated by his product, which he dubs the “Content Farm Automatic Collection System.”
With the articles in hand, a set of websites that Peng controlled published them, and his thousands of fake social media accounts spread them across the internet, instantly sending manipulated content into news feeds, messaging app inboxes, and search results.
“I developed this for manipulating public opinion,” Peng told the Reporter, an investigative news site in Taipei, which partnered with BuzzFeed News for this article. He added that automation and artificial intelligence “can quickly generate traffic and publicity much faster than people.”
Social media is a threat to democracy: Carole Cadwalladr speaks at TED2019
https://blog.ted.com/2019/04/16/social-media-is-a-threat-to-our-democracy-carole-cadwalladr-speaks-at-ted2019
Is Lying On The Internet Illegal?
from Facebook’s Terms of Service:
- You will not provide any false personal information on Facebook, or create an account for anyone other than yourself without permission.
- You will not create more than one personal profile.
- If we disable your account, you will not create another one without our permission.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/15/142356399/is-lying-on-the-internet-illegal
How to fight lies, tricks,and chaos online
A viral half-truth is part of the fabric of today’s internet, and the kind of anger it inspired has been turned into a dangerous commodity.
Tracing the path of information online is one of my favorite activities, like solving a puzzle or directing an archaeological dig. I want to share that process with other people — and to make a case for why getting things right is more interesting and valuable than just confirming your beliefs or scoring points online.
And above all, I want to argue for treating investigation like a shovel, not a knife. Critical thinking shouldn’t just be a synonym for doubting or debunking something, and the point of research isn’t simply to poke holes in a story. It’s to understand the story better, or — if somebody is telling that story maliciously or incompetently — to get deep enough to find the truth.