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From the American People get inspiration from him and the other half cringe. Your weekly take on u. S. Politics and society. Thats the bottom line. Around the world, powerful entities a way to manipulate and influence us. Youve heard about it. Trolls taking their algorithms at work behind. Each of these algorithms 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 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 as many important to make the most bloodiest process. I dont know what the last was that all the sudden imbued namin took care. Yes. And which is, and george will give us windows to them. Were going to and they must do me on the current us to do it at a time in the facebook time in instagram because he thought of the us dollar store as part of the source of their money like him. But since youre just element of limb in this only 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 draft. Now bots are essentially just pieces of Software Algorithms that run whatever tasks you set them. And a lot of the internet runs of. However, theyve also become synonymous with fake social media accounts, pushing political agendas or generating artificial likes. Shares follows 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 so now literally armies of people paid to act like dogs. Theyre also called trolls. The dicks i was so learned all dont know us mean to me, but its honest and ill handle direct. I mean there in the 2nd set of the what does mean as a quintus and she Bell Telephone went as the truth that they are offering you a dex. And this is the number of accounts that warrant in one hour. Do can be able to bring topic in this quantity of 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, even if done by humans, has an miscible characteristic and doses. Of whats going there are known to more than is going to commission a conversation out of the 4 of us. Were going to go to contest when the going to be most grammas from the committee and then under orders of wards full of programmers or more sort of said its been 10 years. Its just going to be neck and then on the former squad. And then theres a gap because for me and all because i meant that of all its done and its not the live from the problems. So when they heard from elections 2 big news events to political debates, decks pile on and drive online check. 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 by 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 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 that join you and we 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 exists to 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 comments, moshe is, 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 dot and science of keeping people. Its what keeps the online money machine chinee. And so algorithms have been programmed to push content that gets high and gauge my algorithms dont necessarily determine the veracity of content. Theyre often more concerned with the vibe, reality of it. So if more people are engaging with a certain topic, the algorithms might say, like, this might matter to you 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. There is when the real people will start interacting and sharing these distant from nation stories further and further. On up to us and 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 in 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 one. Yes. Just list also. Those that got us, it broadly must go to another as journalists and 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, shes visiting a state, they were going to get them on the 4th of theyre going to get out also spiritual. So they could get a bit of sun extra where most of the, what i suspect are the sort of more mature than consent and we can have a very narrow was there have already gathered on the day of the attack, 22 year old when hes 43 year old travelling 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 alarming us, but our knowledge gone bad. But i misunderstand the where this happened. Say the other, what im not going to have this happen say, but on more thing where us army said its not a battle over fact us for france. S s. And they 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 in around a 1000 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 to use for sharing content. Yes you do, you look at it. And there are literally meant in africa newscast. But then set in motion the familiar to us. And there are in england, germany, and in there are mistakes with the got. So used to that in the middle corners, in the middle seem to spur him as a facebook get a person in the this is be the list or dimple, but its a little notice of locals, you know, mentor the last inch. I mean, toss in a successful you learn up a little more of the style in this, but its in the way life is a problem. Unless youre not going to sort of mental enjoyment to simply look at them, you know, more to see intent or something of that place. But a fellow by his can see in simple we can do for us. But i had a clue to put it in there at the end of the way in which social media platforms to distribute all kinds of fake news or dissent from a show 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 strategic manager for news at facebook. Mexico did agree to meet without pay and most of us here limbert see less important than the spectacle of men who want the toast be on your guinness. I know there are other think that its the people there, but the former focus will focus on other sources than the formica look at him because theyre, i mean, hes the most of them we dont do the single most of the this talk source is who sets it up, that is, it went thats francis does not, they must have forgot to watch out for their own, but theyre important that they last quintets files as a facebook closest thing is that was kind of him putting a get in systemic response of you that is what only a kid that is a continual bit of water logged off by society us here and most of us include some of those enormous connie that yes, most of them will hear. Yeah. Procure a little bit more. But at the thought of the quote that i started to luis is facebooks, its a pain. 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 to get my most of the program other than if you got a lot of the sales. Are you that most critics parables . But if you got all this, you could maybe because theyre going to because you said you another thing that a company or vendor that appropriate at 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 fight. So here we go. Yes and more. You see the sawdust going to, you know, he is this, he look at. If you go it will fight. So bored with the guy was that he can see if you see he looked a little he had wished that i could then, you know, put this he had with the odds in putting him through all this little purpose. Why do you get more than they used to google videos from coal . I see him do it well known that hes, hes going to school and it will be seen as equipment. That is the other. Let us you have these, this equipped to deal with this received little puddle structure. Most of the responses that weve seen from the platforms to us far have gone to tweaking their algorithms to how downgrades and certain kinds of just 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 the 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 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 less than this bluegrass. With a look to a look, work a stunt in them which up, but it soon, the less youll see that made us, you know, going to soon this is because they got so little because she put out this in this at the one already. Im normally didnt see on the one hand theres an ice cream or youll just have to go. That is, some of its a part of the cup at a certain and, but also looking in the gospel and them up with them, which obviously youre going to get are several which will put a case 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 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 and 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 details this kind of information can actually be about us. And i think thats one of the 1st real eye opening things that 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 app, these are, these are really big question. And underlying all of the Big Questions around social media, democracy is, are our right to privacy and what that actually means in the digital age. When said we, since you can be said, if weve got a lot of the supposed to see the, your community crucial role sort of these 2, we enlist the court, did you see this they must see a lawyer, but the because he that must settle with the express, he will put us through the skin. Maybe youll get maybe a little so youll have to go without me and you have this little thing says he believes plame, which was part of the article merely by the siegel but he was the see in the canyon. I want to look at them in a familiar on the boards on board and on the circles down the list. You know them. You mean with them in circles united on this but i must look good without some person thats going to waltz. For mustard on his skin is going to seem intent on the look about him that simply i cannot lock my phone with my face. 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