Around the world. To manipulate and influence us youve heard about it trolls fake news their algorithms at work behind each of these algorithms developed and designed to push specific types of content to us 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 and hes received significant blowback because of his work Death Threats have forced him to leave the country 5 times. Is more important to make it go for the. Most bloodiest bustle. Of what are also the most was that all. 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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 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 her stock. 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 detector currency of the online world with all 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 hot 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 dissent 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. The users from the real people will start interacting and sharing these distant from patient stories further and further. On up to yes. 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 with the most brutal form of more violence. More of the less but its on us because several one in us just give a list also does that give us it broader must go to another service 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 went to say shes voting or staying there are going to look and that the month before theyre going to get out also spiritual so they could get a bit of sun its trying to get us where most of the what i suspect are the sort of you are more mature than consent and we can. 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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 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. Have it out but of course it is literally meant in africa news because bolton said it was from the familiar to us but to him there in england germany and in their arguments with the got so used him in the middle corners in the. Us in despair him as a facebook that a person in the this is middle east or dimple but its a little notice of locals you know mentor the note in german to us and this is you learn up a little more of the style in this but its in the way less is akin to no problem unless you know were going to sort of a dual in german to simply let them you know more to see intent or something of that place but a fellow by his can see im simply going to forgive us. But i had a clue to put a canary in 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 pop form 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 of the news at facebook mexico did agree to meet without pay and most of us here limber see less important than the spectacle and then they move on to the toast be on your side now they are out of the palace the people there. The former focus will focus on other sources going to the platform i can look at m. S. K. 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Training algorithms to recognize misinformation is incredibly complicated no wylder 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 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 exists here youll see the. Its called the needle so here we go. Yes and more you see that the sawdust going to the needle. Is this he look at if you go to wolf i was so bored with was the guy was. Because he if you see he looked a little he had wished that i. Could then you know put this he had with the sides he. Was up for yellows in putting him through all. This little purpose why do you get more than they used to the. Good that he has friends will. See him do it when that he sees that this woman it will. Be seen as the equipment that he was at the. 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 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 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 your structure as 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 its fun to do and look what distant in them which up but its true in the lessons that have made us you know going to soon the sun is just a gust so we took a seat for this in this at the one already and. Normally didnt. Leprosy on the one hand theres an ice cream or your little smith together what is some of. Its about the cup its your number but its a look and make us all from him up with them which obviously youre going to get are several which will particularly if you know levis 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 searches of both small tweaks to the algorithm that might happen nothings going to actually change until i click a scene its 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 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 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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