Tactic . I think it will not help the president s legacy. I think that i know from my discussions with foreign leaders, verse 4, that they are hopeful that the United StatesDemocratic Institutions are viewed once again as being strong endure. And, but i think at the end of the day, you know, its all going to come to fruition. In january 20th. The u. S. Supreme court has heard arguments in a case which could strip 20000000. People have medical insurance justices have already signaled that theyre unlikely to strike down all of the Affordable Care act. A key piece of president obamas legacy, also known as a bomb maker. President trump and other republicans want the law struck down bus protests have been taking place of across peru after martin. His car was removed as president protesters fault with Police Outside congress in the capital city. His car remains very popular despite decades. 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Their algorithms at work behind each of these algorithms that have been developed and designed to push specific 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. The most biased possible advantage of what are also the north. Whats the last stand in vietnam in tokyo and which is, and george will give us windows to them. Were going to and the most to me on the current us, the time in the facebook. I mean instagram because he thought of the us a dollar store of produce at a 3rd of the money people are like, im not so sure. Just element of limb in this one, a little studio where you can, there are more to the 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 by filters, which meant they got purged and easy to spot by uses, which meant they go to. So now literally armies of people are paid to act like dogs. Theyre also called trolls or dicks. I also learned or dont know spin to me, but its honest and to handle the addict. I mean, theyre in the 2nd set of the whats going to start me on as a quintus and telephone book or percent 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 that are not able to form a sort of go to contest when the going to be most grammas from the start and they dont under a lot as of old school of programmers or more sort of thrones must go into the news if thats going to be neck and then on the former squad and the goal here, i mean all is done and what they live for. So when they heard from elections 2 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 votes, 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 person 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 and 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 genuinely they 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 defective currency. 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. Comments and mills use. The rewards of groups and the lack of regulation meant that if you want to have an impact, clicks a what you need to go on. The drive 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 pot 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 real use. And then real people will start interacting and sharing these distant permeation stories further and further. On up to us, im on my way now to a cut plan 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 would lead to the most brutal form of violence of their life. But its on the one. Yes. Just list also. Does that get us it broadly must go to another cell. This is sort of the local phrase, walk on the ice and well, last a several more set. I mean, will they actually have like, i mean the link with this i was betting is paid. They were going to get them on the 4th of theyre going to get out also spiritual, so they could get a bit of sonic strength to get us where most of what i suspect are the sort of you are more mature than consent and we could have made all that was you have already. There was a backyard 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 us. But our nala gone, but by no means understand the where this happened, say, but im not the other what im not going to have this up and say, but only one more thing. Whatever us army said its not a battle for 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. Busy in mexico, a website can in 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 at once, generating around 2. 00 to 5000. 00 a month. 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 facebook comes in with over 2000000000 uses. Its one of the most powerful distribution tools for sharing content. Yes you do, you have it out. But of course it is literally meant as an africa newscast. But then set in motion the familiar to us. And there are in england, germany, and there are mistakes with the guy, so use him in the middle corners, display him as a facebook, get a person in the this is be the list with him, but a little notice of locals, you know, mentor the lynch, i mean toss in a successful you let on a little more of that style is a bonus in the way life is a competitor, no problem. Unless youre not a particular sort of mental enjoyment to simply let them you know more to see intent or something of that place. But if i dont buy him, ask a c. M. Simply get the figures. But i had a clue to put it in their lives. 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 isnt 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 limbo, see less important than the spectacle and then they move on to toast. Be on your side. No, they are other think that its the people there. The former focus will focus on other sources than the formica. Look at him. Is that, i mean, hes the most of them we have under the secrecy. A name of the of this story source is who sets it up. That is, it went thats francis. The most the most and forgot the chalk and theyre calm, but theyre important. They last quintets files as a facebook closest to my looks like thought it was that was kind of him putting a get in systemic response of you. That is what only a dad is, a continual bit of what a lot of us aside here, and i most trust him because some of those Normal School money that yes, most of the law here yet procure a little bit more. But at the back of the court, there are a staggering luiss face books thats a painting. 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 trainee. Algorithms to recognise 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. Again, the most important mother, if you cover the steps, are you out of most clinics where pills, 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, exists here, youll see that its called the needle. So here we go. Yes, in most more we see the sawdust going to the needle. He is this he look at if you go fug. So bored with just the guy was that he can see if you see, he looked a little here and wished that i called them you put those he had with the studs. He was up for you. I will see him put him through all this little purpose. Why do you get more than they used to get that . He goes for all i see him do it. You know, now you see this woman you see this woman died is the other that it is you, are these this equipped to deal with this received little puddle structures. Look, most of the responses that weve seen from the platforms just 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 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 opposed to theres a real systemic challenge is in the way that these platforms are governed and operated, operated. And there hasnt been enough attention or rethinking about how these big 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 assumed the order lesson, this bluegrass. If they look to and look what distant in them which up, but assume the lessons that have made us, you know, going to soon, the sun is just a little because she put out this in this, at the, when the rodeo normally did in the leprosy on the left and theres an eskimo, youll miss will smith to go. That is some of its a part of the cut up, its your number. But instead of looking in the gospel, i mean up with them, which obviously youre going to get are several which particular, 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 poems 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 then 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. Users are, are shocked by the fact that these platforms might have conversation and your private messages, the fact that they might have even accessed the phone number is on your found if you install the facebook. 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 . When said, we since used to be said most if we got it was it wasnt disposed to see there, your community crucial role sort of these 2. We enlist the call. Did you see this . They must because he that must seattle where the experts he worked, but also the skill level that maybe you could see maybe a little seals had to go without me and you have this little thing says he believes the little neighborly but he was in a canyon i want to look at them when we know compile a familiar and listen for an answer to this event on board and on the stop of us tonight on a yes or no year on the list will know about them. But you know, this mean we can go government circles united on this. I must look good without some person thats going to waltz. For mustard on his skin is going to seem intent on the left. But some of us look about him that simply 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. But biometrics are far from perfect. They convenience and seeming infallibility. Comes at a cost most crucially, our privacy in the fall from a far far series, i dont rate addresses the appropriation of our most personal characteristics. All hail the algorithm on a 0. I was 2nd to prison, enjoy the knowledge that i was betting one. Yes or just me. Oh mother, in the father of my daughter, i eat lunch here. When parents are imprisoned, the government doesnt have any plans for the trigger left behind. So this shouldnt need for, they need shelter, they are searching for love. My passion is to see that this should, in a prison, is also given another chance to live like no which shouldnt, because theyre not a party to the crimes committed by their parents. 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