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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 there are. Literally meant in africa news gets blocked and set in motion if they are to us and there are going to me and there are mistakes with the guy so use him in the middle corners. Of the scene to spur him as a facebook get a person in the this is middle east or dimple but its a little notice of locals you know mentor the lovely german toast and they said you let on a little more of the styling is a bonus in the way luck is a competitor no problem unless youre not going to sort of a duel in german to simply let them you know more just intent or something of that place but a fellow by his can see in simple we can the figures. But i had a clue to put a canary in the way in which social media platforms to 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 pop forum 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 is an easy. The company is battling a lot of justifiably bad press around the world but listeria the strategic manager for news at facebook mexico did agree to meet without pay and most of us here limbert see less important than they suspect because then they wouldnt get those value get us i mean they are part of that that is the people there. But the form of focus will focus on other sources going to the platform i can look at him because theyre i mean hes the most of them we have under the secrecy a name of the of this story i will source is who sets it up that i was a quote that francis does not have also forgot to walk in there come but they. They last went thus far as a facebook closest to my looks like thought it was that was kind of him putting a look at him in systemic. Is what only a dad is a continual bit of what a lot of. Society owes here and i must trust him to some of those enormous connie that yes. Most of the law he yelled procure a little bit more but i thought that of the quote that i started based luiss facebooks its 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. The number one project book can get more support our mother if you cover the steps are you that most clinics parables but if you got all these you could maybe because theyre going to cut your. 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How to structure most of the responses that weve seen from the platforms thus far have gone to tweaking their algorithm to how downgrades and certain kinds of this information from being shared online were seeing Companies Like facebook or google work with fact check. Or invest in Media Literacy programs so that citizens can be a little bit more educated about how to find and challenge information that they find and discover online i dont think a lot of the changes have really addressed the heart of the issue in 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. 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 structure or is actually are contributing to the problem. Facebook says avoiding misuse of it services is a big priority i contacted twitter in mexico as well and they said the same thing but 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 to the lesson this bluegrass if they look to and look what extent in them would jump but assume the lesson that was made use if youre going to assume the sun is because theyve got so little cause heat for this in this that the minority and. Normally didnt. Attend the leprosy on the left and theres an eskimo youll just have to go though it is some of. Its a part of the cup its your number but also looking in the gospel from him up with them which obviously youre going to get are several particularly if you know live or sports. 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 vogue sort of 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 to ensure and how details this kind of information can actually be about us and i think thats one of the 1st real eye opening things and users are are shocked by the fact that these platforms might have conversation your private messages 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 Big Questions around social media democracy is are our rights of privacy and what that actually means in the digital age. 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I cannot lock my phone with my face you can access your bank account with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification the fine metrics are far from perfect a convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cost most crucially our privacy in the 4th of a 5. 00 part series on the radio addresses the appropriation obamas personal characteristics all hail the algorithm on a just 0. September on aljazeera with ethiopia taking its 1st steps into democracy aljazeera needs for diversity europeans who are reshaping the countrys Political LandscapeWorld Leaders gather in new york for the United NationsGeneral Assembly global issues are on the table they listen host dissects the worlds media how they operate and the stories they cover Global Warming and possible solutions to Climate Change are on the agenda of the United Nations a special 2 part series exposed how human activity has damaged much of the planet and cause some of the biggest environmental threats to mankind september on aljazeera. A modern and open minded woman who feels ethiopia is poised to develop rapidly aljazeera goes on a journey with the 1st woman appointed to the position of chief justice in ethiopia i knew that this was going to be a difficult assignment in expect that to be corrected and they went. To the world they wanted to be. Seen my ethiopia on aljazeera. Driven by outrage and spanning generations the rohinton demonstrators gathered on the very day a widely criticized repatriation agreement between the governments of bangladesh and me and more was to begin the anger. Was all too apparent and the fear was probably if you dont like were so afraid that if they send one of us back to myanmar today tomorrow theyll send back 10 and the day after tomorrow theyll send back 20 if we were given citizenship in myanmar then there would be no need to take us back there we would go back on our own we must remember the injoke among the most persecuted minority youth in the world. Really so liberated as a journalist was. Going to the truth was that i would love for this job to. Zimbabwes founding later Robert Mugabe has died we look at his rise to power and his controversial leadership. Im Richelle Carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. His plans are in tatters for the u. K. Prime minister says theres no way hell ask the e. U. For another delay. As dana points its 1st female foreign minister we hear from other women fighting for a leading role in the political transition. The former president of zimbabwe Robert Mugabe has died hes one of the last leaders of africas and dependent struggles he died at a hospital and singapore a role for decades 1st as Prime Minister later as president but by the time he was supposed to the military coup in 2017 a man once seen as a democratic Freedom Fighter was or wild as a dictator by many of his own people we began with this report. Hoda abdelhamid. Deliberate or who turned into a tyrant the man who destroyed a promising country through his determination to cling on to power. By some but in the end despised by many in zimbabwe of the widely admired across africa as a hero who fought colonialism and stood up to the west. 965. Aeons mrs white settlers declare independence from britain an event that they find Robert Mugabes life and still holds his country. The black majority resisted races in the cities and out in the countryside where a vicious bush war raged for years. Robert mugabe a teacher turned activist emerged from prison as an articulate leader of the independence struggle we started the war in order to give our country. We have a country they did get their country at lancaster house in london in 1979. And when zimbabwe celebrated independence mugabe the overwhelming winner of elections was in power. And soon showing revival liberation fighters what hed do to keep it met the belly land in the early eightys the opposition crushed thousands killed in ethnic massacres atrocities that were barely noticed abroad. But there was also much to admire resul reconciliation education and health for millions of zimbabweans although later the economy declined and the invasions of white farms in the year 2000 were turning point this time the world did notice. People said that this was going to happen it was going to turn into a bloodbath turn into another congress. Were going to have to get out of. It was a coward to destructive process but said he was correcting an old injustice and in many ways still fighting the old colonial power the land is ours we give it to whom we please its not the business of britain you see to tell us who to give land they do not wear that those who are given members of my by my party isnt relevant to britain. By now opposition was growing despite murder and many many zimbabwe seemed ready to throw mugabe out they had a new hero morgan chang right who said Robert Mugabes earlier cheve mans will always be overshadowed by the years of oppression. Do we portray him as the great liberator or do we portray him as somebody who has betrayed the liberation that the photo. I think the latter will prevail the 2 rivals ended up in government together although mugabe made sure he kept the real power and chunky violator returned to a position where he would eventually die without being is constantly sharing how hypocritical the west is and africa loves that and for that reason and i think he will be judged alternately as being a more important figure in africa than simply this party isnt as part hes a dictator hes a tyrant hes anywhere you want to threaten but its something more than that he says hes the wrong messenger with the right message. By now his wife grace 41 years his junior had emerged as a political player who got be well into his ninetys seem determined to go on and on. The. Trail goes you know. That the Robert Mugabe is still here. But not as strong as he thought in the citys anger boiled over a new generation demanded mugabe go its time for you to resign its time for you to step down. In the end it was the army that pushed him where he the point grace as his successor a former colleague and then lee rival of graces emerson women took over it was more palace cruden revolution although the joy mirrored that of zimbabwes original revolution 37 years earlier will gladly retreated to his mansion bitter to the last we dont deserve you. Pretty drawn. Probably because. The real tragedy Robert Mugabe could never bear of his country enjoying a 2nd freedom from his room this group would have been for me. Joins us on the phone now from johannesburg so the news is only broken within the last down hour or so how do you think this will be received in zimbabwe considering the very complicated legacy and rule of Robert Mugabe. He was a controversial leader so lively there be mixed opinion from those who supported him and those who really didnt like him right now and the Radio Station people have been calling in some of them giving the condolences some of them who are maybe opposition supporters and didnt really have any good feelings about him saying that maybe its an end of an era and its unfortunate that his legacy has been tainted what is likely going to happen today is they could be some kind of a gathering at the rulings on the pay of headquarters in harare way maybe reporters will come and try and pay his respects he is a complicated figure because many of the bar were dismissed those who remember the Liberation War those who grew up in the 1980 the 1990 s. He was pretty much seen as the dolling of africa so people saw him as one of the Founding Fathers of the blood way he helped in White Clothing rule and he was a teacher and his one of his may think of educating these people thats why you hear go belly people will say zimbabwe has one of the highest literacy rates in the world available to applaud him for what he did with land without despite International Pressure he went and took land from white commercial farmers a lot of blacks who thought that it wasnt right that a white minority controlled most of the good land actually applauded that but in its critics say there was an agenda some of that land is not be used some of that land allegedly went to the really Party Officials who arent fully utilized doing it for corruption in a company they instituted and they say he was getting older he was losing grip on power its alleged that some people including his wife grace were probably trying to tell him what to do tell him how to run the country is why some people even the rulings on a few party were very not happy with grace wanted her out and eventually wanted him out which is what happened in twentys and. Lets talk about 2017 it was a bit of a drawn out process is finally ousted by a military coup. Do you think that perhaps he was given a little bit of good will because of what he had done 30 years ago. Exactly. God be the good little god the bad as the boss as a black bob and a lot of them felt that. He was. Perfect but at the same time the concept get some of the good he did not just go back to bobbys attitude as a whole only travel the continent you still get from people who see him as a liberation theyll say well god is one of the few African Leaders with brave enough to stand up to waist and country he was brave enough to take the land weve put in south africa they still talking about the land reform what to do about it how to do it properly to try and please everyone which of course is not going to happen one fight is not going to be happy if and when land is exposed for a lot of african thing he was a hero in that sense but the average the bobby after decades of living and let you know in my thirtys the oppression economy in particular was a bitter pill for a lot of people to swallow the body of the 180 or the great boss that of africa the country could could use its own sweet and export trade off the land or for that and of course there is a drought of the country struggling to feed its people so a lot of good and bad got me through but now i think initially the officials in the bali will try and obviously make arrangements to bring the body back home from singapore will tell people what the Funeral Plans will be and then from they will get a general reaction from both sides in the body opposition and with what they thought about. Harry mythos thank you very very much that rob thank you of spring and privilege of unary who is a journalist joining us now from the lake karim area hes in an area that president mugabe is from the shuttle and west so thank you so much for joining us there was talk about this and the knowledge that you have of the area that Robert Mugabe yes from how is he thought of there. Its mixed. One others take him is a liberator and others take him is the dictator i think thats the legacy that he is leaving. For this side of the liberated they take him as a man who was able to stand up going to the white colonial rule and who would speak out is mind when ever he would be on the international platform. On the other hand. He is you know people will speak about the things that happened under his rule your total for how they can on the was money and also the legacy that he has left we even the Current Administration is trying to correct in terms of. How they can only perform to because. It has been a difficult one to put them to shake it off and get the economy to start running again a little mixed reactions to that to let me ask you about that about this this transition from a Freedom Fighter. To to a dictator what drove that i think when the Liberation War happened the whole. Agenda was to take the country out of the shackles of colonialism i think is the went out years went by apollo is sweet and. It crowds as well