Category: Fake Media & Education Infrastructure

Cyberturfing is Astroturfed Online Media Collusion

We are living in an age of widespread cyberturfing by media, internet search, marketing, and political entities. A large percentage of information search and curation is funneled through a few portals under the control of extremely politically-aligned groups. Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook are among the biggest platforms or channels for this abuse, but content …

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Exploit, Don’t Endorse – Responding to the Big Social & Big Search Credibility Crisis at Google, Facebook, and Twitter

Exploit, Don’t Endorse – Responding to the Big Social & Big Search Credibility Crisis at Google, Facebook, and Twitter Big Social Media Companies have become a large part of customer-facing communications and interactions, so how best to respond ethically to their privacy, corruption, and censorship scandals? We promote an explicit “Exploit, Don’t Endorse” policy that …

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