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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…
ONE OF THE intellectual gargoyles that has crawled out of Donald Trump’s brain is the idea that we should “open up” libel laws to make it easier to punish the media for negative or unfair stories. Trump also wants top officials to sign nondisclosure agreements, so they never write memoirs that upset the boss. Trump is…
When Time magazine first launched its “Man of the Year” feature, in 1927, it was out of embarrassment. They’d managed to go a whole year without putting Charles Lindbergh — the famous aviator and, at the time, the biggest celebrity in the world — on its cover. The famously press-shy Lindbergh refused to sit for…
“You are going to bleed and be tortured,” the caller said, according to police.View Full Caption DNAinfo/Gwynne Hogan EAST WILLIAMSBURG — A worker at the popular pizza joint Roberta’s received death threats after rumors spread on YouTube and Twitter that it was connected to Pizzagate — the fake-news conspiracy theory claiming Hillary Clinton was running a child abuse ring out…
2. The unhinged conspiracy theory now known as “Pizzagate” has resulted in a man bringing an assault rifle to the DC bar named in the theory, according to local police. “Pizzagate” claims that Democratic operatives placing orders at Comet Ping Pong were actually using code to talk about underage prostitutes. This strange and convoluted conspiracy…
“The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” “The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared across…