Re:How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation
by ajflkjasdf777 on Thursday June 01, 2017 @02:45PM
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Personally, I look at all of it as rigged and treat their narratives as such up front, regardless of the source.
The media in the US has been gamed by one power broker or another since its beginning. The Founding Fathers wrote and distributed propaganda anonymously.
The government invented an entire group to handle modern propaganda operations and worked with the media to peddle their narratives for the last generation.
This is all documented plainly, often via government record itself.
I don't think measuring these things is all that useful, given this.
The premise of "it's gamed for partisan gain" is firmly established by history. How much either way is a quibble, IMO. Let's focus on equitable outcomes for all, and stop diving into these overly customized data holes.
The media in the US has been gamed by one power broker or another since its beginning. The Founding Fathers wrote and distributed propaganda anonymously.
The government invented an entire group to handle modern propaganda operations and worked with the media to peddle their narratives for the last generation.
This is all documented plainly, often via government record itself.
I don't think measuring these things is all that useful, given this.
The premise of "it's gamed for partisan gain" is firmly established by history. How much either way is a quibble, IMO. Let's focus on equitable outcomes for all, and stop diving into these overly customized data holes.