Collaborate Disseminate
It’s “crazy” to think that Facebook news stories influence people, he said. The internet’s response: Facebook ads do, but its news doesn’t? Continue reading Zuckerberg pushes back on fears over fake news on Facebook
Social media giants are uniting with traditional media, including the New York Times, to stop fake news from cluttering your news feeds. Continue reading Facebook and Twitter team up with news orgs to help stop hoax news
The hardest part about an internet hoax is timing the reveal. Continue reading How to Convince People Your Fake Website for Thigh Gap Jewelry Is Real
Long and interesting article about a fixer who hacked multiple elections in Latin America. This isn’t election hacking as in manipulate the voting machines or the vote counting, but hacking and social-media dirty tricks leading up to the election. EDITED TO ADD: April Fool’s joke, it seems. Fooled me, probably because I read too fast. The ending is definitely suspicious…. Continue reading Hacking Elections in Latin America
This interesting study tries to build a mathematical model for the continued secrecy of conspiracies, and tries to predict how long before they will be revealed to the general public, either wittingly or unwittingly. The equation developed by Dr Grimes, a post-doctoral physicist at Oxford, relied upon three factors: the number of conspirators involved, the amount of time that has… Continue reading The Mathematics of Conspiracy