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[maaarine]

@fchollet

[kenyatta]

Can we devise solutions that aren’t reactive and ad hoc, and aren’t bogged down by accusations of partisan bias? One idea is to treat fake news as a distribution problem, treating it more like spam. Spam is something the platforms already understand and deal with. In the early days of the web, industry players introduced tools like DNS blacklists. The Spamhaus Project has been compiling anti-spam registries for over a decade. Back then, it wasn’t controversial to suggest that we could use signals to determine whether or not a domain was low quality. There was a consensus that not all information was worth pushing directly into people’s inboxes. Today, the vast majority of email that’s clearly crap is stopped at the source—and no one mourns the free speech rights of spammers. Content that is borderline makes it into a designated Spam folder, where masochists can read through it if they choose. And legitimate companies that use spammy email marketing tactics are penalized, so they’re incentivized to be on their best behavior. Examining distribution more closely allows for a balance of free expression and a healthier information ecosystem.

The Return of Fake News—and Lessons From Spam | WIRED

Label, treat, and research disinformation like it’s spam.

[maaarine]

Renée DiResta:

“When we talk about Russia and disinformation campaigns now, I hear a lot like, "Oh, it's just some stupid memes."

And it's interesting to me to hear that because I'm like, well, you know, they were running the same messages in the 1960's in the form of long-form articles.

And that's because in the 1960's people were reading long-form articles or they were listening to the radio. And so you would hear propaganda on the radio. 

So the propaganda just evolves to fit the distribution mechanism and the most logical information, kind of the reach of the day.

And that's why you see propaganda kind of evolving into mimetic propaganda. (…)

Memes is not just cat pictures, right?

Memes is units of cultural transmission, ways in which we encode meaning. In the Dawkins sense, genes of culture, right? Cultural genes.

So, the building blocks, the foundational building blocks of culture, which spread from person to person. 

You remember the visual, you remember the alliterative message.

Usually, it's quite simple. You're going to get max two sentences in there, maybe even just one.

It's a fundamentally different way of transmitting these short bite-size, completely nuance-lacking pieces of information very rapidly, and they lend themselves to this virality.”

Source: Your Undivided Attention: Episode 5 — From Russia with Likes

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ट्विटर ने चीन का प्रोपगेंडा फैलाने वाले 1.7 लाख से अधिक खातों पर की कार्रवाई

ट्विटर ने चीन का प्रोपगेंडा फैलाने वाले 1.7 लाख से अधिक खातों पर की कार्रवाई

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नई दिल्ली: ट्विटर (Twitter) ने ऐसे 1.7 लाख से अधिक खातों पर कार्रवाई की है, जो चीन के प्रोपगेंडा को आगे बढ़ा रहे थे. इन खातों से चीनी सरकार के समर्थन में अभियान चलाया जा रहा था, जिसे देखते हुए ट्विटर ने गुरुवार को उन्हें बंद कर दिया. सोशल मीडिया कंपनी के साथ काम करने वाले विशेषज्ञों का कहना है कि संबंधित खातों से हांगकांग के विरोध-प्रदर्शन और COVID-19 पर पोस्ट किए जा रहे थे. ट्विटर ने कहा…

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Meet Our New PITCH Judge - Renee DiResta

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