Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
In my exploration of “fake news”, I’ve found some troubling things. And it’s not just the rightwing news network that’s worrying. I’ve recently gone back and taken a preliminary look at the leftwing media ecosystem, trying to map the hyperlinks between these sites – so I’m not trying to establish causation or assign blame as…
Combined “left-wing” +“right-wing” news hyperlink network; RED: sites only linked to in right-wing network; BLUE: sites only linked to in left-wing network ; WHITE: sites that are linked to in *both* L & R networks. Finished! Here is a combined (ie, merged) network graph from my left-wing and right-wing news hyperlink “ecosystems”. The graphs were normalized…
Until now, the work in this project has focused on the “right-wing” news media ecosystem. The “micro-propaganda” network graph showed a number of smaller sites in the right-wing news ecosystem orbiting as “satellites” around the mainstream media, YouTube, and Google. In the widest-view “right-wing” network graph, red lines show thousands of hyperlinks being directed “in” from the…
Start Article Post Content When he was helping to choose writers for the staff of Fox’s television revival of “The Exorcist,” executive producer Jeremy Slater kept encountering the same plot point over and over. “One of my hard-and-fast rules when reading spec scripts was, the second that there was a rape that was used for…
My Final Post Re: the Post-Fact Era The Age of Post-Truth Politics How can we still be speaking of “facts” when they no longer provide us with a reality that we all agree on? The problem…www.nytimes.com *It’s done: I’ve added this final round of analysis and network visualizations based on 1.3 million hyperlinks captured across…
Propaganda-lytics A journey into the behavioral tracking technologies of the right-wing “micro-propaganda” machine After running a second “fake news” data quest idea past Dave Carroll, I decided to use a simple script to sequentially visit each of the 117 websitesin the #Election2016 “micro-propaganda machine.” #Election2016 right-wing “micr0-propaganda network” With Mozilla’s “Lightbeam,” I was able to…
This is a supplemental research observations post; the embed below has a {*Table of Contents*} for the five main articles in this #fakenews series: #Election2016 #FakeNews Compilation Intro/Background: Military Grade #Election2016 Data Miningmedium.co “Fake News” Sites: Certified Organic? Where does the traffic actually come from? Here’s a comparative traffic breakdown from a sample of five…
Real Sources / Fake News After finding evidence that much of the “fake” and hyper-biased news traffic during #Election2016 was arriving through direct hyperlinks, searchengines, and “old school” sharing tactics such as email newsletters, RSS, and instant messaging, I thought I would do a small “big data” project. I wrote this piece because I feel the argument about Facebook’s role in…
What do Nelson Mandela, Thom Tillis, Trump’s possible Secretary of State pick John Bolton, Brietbart Chairman Steve Bannon, Ted Cruz, a reclusive billionaire computer scientist political donor, a quant hedge trading fund, the #Brexit, and Donald J. Trump have in common? Military-grade data firepower. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/01/ted-cruz-trump-iowa-caucus-voter-targeting Too many post-election Trump think pieces are trying to look through the “Facebook…
author contributed graphic #Election2016 #FakeNews Compilation Something like Mr Robot meets House of Cards meets academic hackathon deep-data journalism. IDK. All open data and tools used. Left, Right, whatever — it’s important. 1. Intro/Background: Military Grade #Election2016 Data Mining What’s Missing From The Trump Election Equation? Let’s Start With Military-Grade PsyOps What do Nelson Mandela, Thom Tillis, Trump’s possible…