Types of content to us content that says click me. Mexico is probably not the 1st place that comes to mind when you think of online manipulation sure its happening everywhere but the countries we often hear the most about are the usa and russia. Mexico however has been a testing ground for some of the most insidious online tactics weve seen unleashed around the world. Theres a blogger turned activist called alberto a school zia here in mexico city who im on my way to meet now alberto has been deeply involved in investigating political bots trolls and artificial trends in mexico since 2010 hes received significant blowback because of his work Death Threats have forced him to leave the country 5 times. Is more important to me he called. The most biased bustle. Of what. The north was the draw. The sun in vietnam in tokyo. Yes and which is and. George will give us windows to them were going to and the most to me on the current us to do it in a facebook them in an instagram. Thought of the us a dollar store of produce at a 3rd of the money but since youre just element of lemon this only little studio. Can then which will enable you can there are more showing fluency one of the most effective and powerful tools for those who want to push an agenda online is the dogged now bots are essentially just pieces of Software Algorithms that run whatever tasks you set them and a lot of the internet runs of them however theyve also become synonymous with fake social media accounts pushing political agendas or generating artificial likes shares will fall as the days of these fully automated spam bots a mostly over their actions were simply too obvious making them easy to detect my filters which meant they got purged and easy to spot by uses which. So now literally armies of people paid to act like dogs theyre also called trolls or dicks i also learned or dont know spin to me but its honest and ill handle direct i mean there in the 2nd set of the whats going to start me on as a quintus. And telephone. Consent of quintus the truth that. They are offering you a dex and this is the number of accounts that. Warrant in one hour do can build up during topic in this quantity over guns. Decks are the secret tools used by marketing agencies publicity manages Political Parties and governments to boost topics and people online or to divert and distract from unfavorable attention the advantage of having nice human blood says that while they behave more human on line so the chances of them being eliminated are dismissed a lot. However alerter says activity even if done by humans has an miscible characteristic doses. Of whats going there are known to more. Races then out of the 4 of us were going to get a contest on the going to. Be most grammas from the. Start and then under. Load as awards of programmers or more sort of thrones. Continues. Its just going to. Mean i can then on the former squad. And. All because i mean. All its done and its not the live from the. Travel. So then they heard. From elections too big news events to political debates decks pile on and drive online chat and their alarmingly successful in skewing conversations and narratives a study by the Oxford Internet institute shows that between 20172018 the number of countries where organized social media manipulation of cars increased from 28 to 48 the biggest drivers of organized online manipulation around the world Political Parties the realisation many of them have had is that instead of trying to since the social media platforms its much more effective to simply flood them with bots junk news and decide for the nation Samantha Bradshaw was one of the researchers who worked on the group. The advertisers have used these platforms to reach new audiences and new markets but now were seeing Political Parties learn these platforms can also be used to sway Public Opinion and so instead of selling us these goods theyre theyre selling us World Leaders or political ideologies by using the advertising infrastructure and the algorithms to slowly start nudging hurst Fact Checking opinions about politics were seeing the shift away from purely automated accounts to more human operators who are finding actual real people for hire to work on political campaigns to work with more repressive governments to target people online with this kind of speech to ultimately suppress their participation in politics and public discussion and. A lot of people dont necessarily participate in political discussions online anymore i even find myself withdrawing a little bit from commenting on politics just because of the enormous reaction that you can get and its hard to know whether or not these are real people. And you only have these views or whether theyre just a paid troll sitting far off country somewhere just designed to make me feel this way and to make me withdraw from participating in these discussions online dixon the exist and do so well because cliques have become the defector currency of the online world will become accustomed to the fact that for years the algorithms behind Facebook Twitter instagram and the others have rewarded big numbers mostly it was most comments. And mills use the rewards of growth and the lack of regulation meant that if you want to have an impact clicks a what you need to go out. To dry for clicks isnt restricted to governments political movements or marketing agencies theyre in it to shake perceptions many others are in it for the money but how do you make money Online Engagement the dot and science of keeping people flipped its what keeps the online money machine chinee and so algorithms have been programmed to push content that gets kind gauge when algorithms dont necessarily determine the veracity of content theyre often more concerned with the by reality of it so if more people are engaging with a certain topic the algorithms might say like this might matter to q. As well that could be you know the new avengers movie could be a new viral video about cats but it could also be something of importance such as you know a new breaking news story and this is where we see doctors trying to manipulate the popularity metric and thats why we get descent from ation stories spreading like wildfire because if there are a bunch of fake accounts online engaging with a fake breaking news story that might get pushed into the news feeds of or. Williams there is when the real people will start interacting and sharing these distant permeation stories further and further. When i say yes. Im on my way now to a cutline in central mexico in august 2 10182 men Ricardo Flores was beaten and burned to death because people thought that they were child snatches warnings on Facebook Twitter and whatsapp had gone viral with the news that gangs of kidnappers had been picking up children and selling their organs the news wasnt true but the stereo led to the most brutal form of violence. Of their life but its on the run yes. He says must also does that give us it broader must go to the various alice and sort of the local phrase walk. On the ice and boil loss a several more set i mean will. They actually have like im going to link with this i was betting if they were going to put them on the 4th of the good i would also spiritual so they could get a bit of sun and strength to get us where most of the what i suspect are the sort of more mature than in consumer he can. Have it was there have already been there was a backlash. On the day of the attack 22 year old when hes 43 year old. Traveling together. They made a pit stop to buy a drink it happened to be near a school and with suspicion of child kidnappings in the area they became fatal targets to a mob galvanized by on mine. I meant would resign. And ill go to. Apple with. A longing yes. But our knowledge. But i misunderstand the where this. Happened say. But American Families will make one yalla what a nickel saddle this up and say but only one more thing whatever us. Family said its not a matter. Of. Fact us. For france us. And they are not sent there by law or secondly so possibly even more shocking than the impact of this fake news is the motivation for it often ideology only plays a small part in a scam thats really all about money. The money were talking isnt small change in mexico a website can earn around a 1000. 00 u. S. Dollars for every 1000000 page views every time a person lands on a page the advertising algorithm kicks in and the website starts. Creating a website isnt difficult and most times a single group of the administrators will have several on the go and whats generating around 2. 00 to 5000. 00 or more it doesnt matter if the content is real or not as long as readers flock to the site then making a buck. How do you get people to your website well thats with comes in with over 2000000000 uses its one of the most powerful distribution tools for sharing content yes you do you look at and there are going to be there literally meant to us in africa news gets blocked and set in motion the familiar to us and there in england germany and there are mistakes with the guy so use him in the middle corners. Doesnt display him as a facebook get a person in the this is be the list with him but its a little notice of locals you know mentor the lynch i mean toss in a successful you learn up a little more of that style in this and what i see in the employer is a competitor no problem unless youre not going to sort of a dual enjoyment to simply let them you know more to see intent or something of that place but followed by him see in public and the freedom yes. But i had a clue to put it in their lives the way in which social media platforms distribute all kinds of fake news or dissent from a show and about politics or conspiracy theories about politics or any any other aspects of life is really really important because most people today use these platforms to find news and information and its often a trusted source of news and information not as much as traditional t. V. Or Mainstream Media but its trusted in the sense that its our friends and our family who are sharing this content and we tend to trust information that comes from people who are like minded theres all kinds of research from the field of psychology that you know talks about confirmation bias and thats why facebook can be such a powerful platform for spreading falsehoods about politics because we do inherently trust this information a little bit more than than other kinds of information getting facebook on the record isnt easy. The company is battling a lot of justifiably bad press around the world but listeria the strategic manager of the news at facebook mexico did agree to meet without pay and most of us here limits the less important they respect the government they want that those value can also know they are cut the ties to people there. But the former focus of assaults on our resources and the form i can look at him is that i use them to provide them with under the secrecy a name of the movie was their story so i will source is who sets it up that i was a quint thats francis those most able to fork out a watch and theyre calm but they. They last quintets father says a facebook closest thing is that was kind of him putting a look at him in systemic. Response are you that is what only a kid that is a continual bit of water logged off. By society yes and i was trusting because some of it was not a must call me that yes. Most of the law he yelled procure a little bit more but at the back of the court that i was data based luiss facebooks thats a pang he gave us lots of millions of fake accounts taken down and thousands of millions of spam posts cleaned off the site by Artificial Intelligence algorithms sweeping the. Training algorithms to recognize misinformation is incredibly complicated no wilder of them can easily determine whats true or false after all there are cases where even human stone agree so in an effort to curb the spread of misinformation the company has begun to collaborate with external factor is. The number one project book to get my most of the program other than if you got a lot of the sales are you out of most clinics parables but if you got all these you could maybe because theyre going to because youre. Doing other things that accompany your vendor that appropriate but the form of facebook and i dont maybe flag in your news feed if it has been disputed by an independent 3rd Party Fact Checker outside of facebook c s c use the seeding. Its called the needle fight so here we go here for a moment yes in most more we see the sort us going to succumb to you know he is this he look at if you go global fund so bored with a guy was. 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Other night with us who are these this equipped to deal with this received little huddle structure most of the responses that weve seen from the platforms thus far have gone to tweaking their algorithms to how downgrades and certain kinds of this information from being shared online were seeing Companies Like facebook or google work with Fact Checkers or invest in Media Literacy programs so that citizens can be a little bit more educated about how to find and challenge the information that they find and discover online i dont think a lot of the changes have really addressed the heart of the issue and the real nuts and bolts of why dissent from ation goes viral in the 1st place going back to their Business Models and going back to the algorithms and the way that they still incentivize certain kinds of content to go viral a poster there is there is real systemic challenges in the way that these platforms are governed and operated operated and there hasnt been enough attention or rethinking about how these baker structure or is actually are contributing to the problem. Facebook says avoiding misuse of its services is a big priority i contacted twitter in mexico as well and they said the same thing for someone who is not just seen the misinformation was online but actually food in them these if its by the social media platforms a little more than window dressing the former assistant assumed the order less than this but we girls if they look too and look what distant in them would jump but assume the lessons that made us you know going to soon the sun is. Just so little because she put out this in this at the when the rodeo. Normally did in. Leprosy on the one hand theres an ice cream or your its just to go that is some of. Its a part of the cup its your number but also looking in the gospel i mean up with them which obviously youre going to get are several which particularly if you know letters portfolio. With billions of pieces of content being uploaded to the internet every single day its no surprise that tackling online manipulation is such a challenge digital deception is now a global game so no matter how many pages of small tweaks to the algorithm that might happen nothings going to actually change until after clicks a scene is more than just insurance and revenue generators in an internet environment where engagement and clicks and viral 80 s what drives the spread of content i dont think its fair to cut users off the hook in this problem because democracy is something thats hard work at something that we as citizens have to work towards and invest time and to find Accurate Information and not something thats easy you know the real power in the internet is that it can bring us together and we weve seen not time and time again so going back to that more often mystic view of what the internet can and could be for a Democratic Society and political participation and i think its something we need to remind ourselves of and work towards as individuals. So i was going to go home to. Thinking about some of these Big Questions around social media democracy and what it means to be not only a user of technology but a citizen in our digital public sphere the 1st thing i would do is request all of the data about me from these big social media platforms from facebook from twitter from google its really important that we have an insight into actually how vast this Data Collection system is and how and how details this kind of information can actually be about us and i think thats one of the 1st real eye opening things users are are shocked by the fact that these platforms might have conversation and your private message as the fact that they might have even accessed the phone numbers on your found if you installed the facebook app these are these are really big question and underlying all of the questions around social media democracy is are our rights of privacy and what that actually means in the digital age. When said we since used. 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