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Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing

May 4, 2020 by sergneri 1 Comment

In the Atlantic is an essay covering the confusion surrounding the pandemic, it is well worth the time to read: Why the Coronavirus Is So Confusing A guide to making sense of a problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend Story by Ed Yong April 29. 2020 And the … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Pandemic, Politics, Racism, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: CDC, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Disinformation, Donald Trump, economists, epidemiologists, health-care workers, misinformation, social distancing, the White House, WHO, World Health Organization, Y2K bug

Read Sacha Baron Cohen’s scathing attack on Facebook in full: ‘greatest propaganda machine in history’

November 23, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

The Guardian published the contents of a speech by Cohen: In a speech last night at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), the actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen attacked Facebook and other social media platforms for enabling the proliferation of hate speech and misinformation. The speech was striking in its sincerity – Baron Cohen appeared as … [Read more…]

Posted in: Ethical and green living, Faits Divers, Feminism, Finanace, IT Failures, Politics, Racism, Science, Sea Stories, Slavery, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Anti-Defamation League, Aphabet, bigotry, Facebook, Fake News, GOOGLE, hate, hate speech, misinformation, Propaganda, racism, Sacha Baron Cohen, Stephen Miller’s Labradoodles

Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social Media

November 16, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

View From the Valley Telecom Internet Tech Leaders Dismayed by Weaponization of Social MediaBy Tekla S. Perry Posted 14 Nov 2017 | 15:00 GMT IEEE SPECTRUM The tech industry can’t hide from the information war, particularly when its own creations are being weaponized. That was the consensus of a panel at the Techonomy17 conference in … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Science, Trump Tagged: AdSense, Advertising, Autodesk, clickbait, Facebook, GOOGLE, misinformation, Net Neutrality, Propaganda, social networks, Techonomy, Twitter, Verizon

Tim Berners-Lee on the future of the web: ‘The system is failing’

November 15, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

From the Guardian – Wednesday 15 November 2017 The inventor of the world wide web remains an optimist but sees a ‘nasty wind’ blowing amid concerns over advertising, net neutrality and fake news Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s optimism about the future of the web is starting to wane in the face of a “nasty storm” of … [Read more…]

Posted in: Politics, Science, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: AdSense, Advertising, Ajit Pai, AT&T, Cambridge Analytica, clickbait, Comcast, Facebook, GOOGLE, misinformation, Net Neutrality, Propaganda, social networks, Twitter, Verizon, Vint Cerf

The True History of Fake News

February 19, 2017 by sergneri Leave a Comment

L.M. Slackens: The Yellow Press, showing William Randolph Hearst as a jester handing out newspapers, published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, October 12, 1910 ” In the long history of misinformation, the current outbreak of fake news has already secured a special place, with the president’s personal adviser, Kellyanne Conway, going so far as to invent … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Thinking about, Trump Tagged: Anecdota, broadsides, canard, Fake News, Journalism, misinformation, pasquinades, Procopius, Yellow Journalism

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