Friday, February 23, 2018

Dirty Datavores


As a non-partisan entity, I still can't help but think this is the hardest dig I've ever read about one of the two sides.

The best dis is one that was never meant to be, as seen here while a researcher describes the events of the past couple years in the US regarding mass psychological manipulation, i.e., fake news and Russian bots etc.; she really doesn't mean to throw the shade, but she does:

Twitter bot purge prompts backlash
Feb 2018, BBC

"Our work indicates a lot of the more conservative Americans were consuming more junk news," she explained.

"Filter bubbles and echo chambers are more dominant on the right compared to on the left.

"So, I don't necessarily think it's an attack on the right, it's just a reflection about the different ways different kinds of people consume information."

Ouch

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