Facebook bigger threat to democracy and truth than Putin.

[Mark Kohut]

Looks like I should have waited another hour before sending that
link-loaded email.
>From 'Dark Money'-- and much more,-- Jane Mayer:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/01/how-russia-helped-to-swing-the-election-for-trump

On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 5:27 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/07/facebookgot-into-mess-cant-get-out-of-it-mark-zuckerberg-surveillance-capitalism
>
> An estimated 10 million views of the Russian memes some estimate
> carefully, provisionally, full of uncertainty. But, as the anthropologists
> have said about counting in many pre-industrial societies, it's "one, two,
> many".....so MANY it is...
>
> And, of course, not just ads but the creation of events, rallies....one of
> those hard-working thirteen
> squared would create a Group post for a rally in a small rural town in
> Michigan or PA, say.......and some Trump supporters would jump into the
> Group and, if you've been in one of those active groups, the origins are
> unknown to most..........the group would self-organize and presto an IRL
> rally.....with local coverage at least and, if anything 'exciting'
> happened--if it bleeds it leads--, a bit larger.
>
>
> https://qz.com/1284222/russian-facebook-ads-were-barely-targeted-and-they-were-still-hugely-effective/
>
>
> https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/10/russian-facebook-ads-house-intelligence-full-list/
>
>
> http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2017/11/here_are_the_facebook_posts_russia_used_to_meddle_in_the_2016_election.html
>
>
> https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/05/11/what-we-found-facebook-ads-russians-accused-election-meddling/602319002/
>
> https://twitter.com/tomricks1/status/1043565929685225472
>
> At least one political science [sorry for the oxymoron; the world is
> crazy] team wrote up a fine
> probabilistic analysis of how many votes MIGHT have been cast in the swing
> states by the influence and effect of those MIGHTY THIRTEEN--gawd, sounds
> like it could be a Stalin-era work collective--, working on the common
> sense belief that 1) well, one could swing easily, right?; so two as well,
> right?...how many, how many then, work it out?--could be motivated to vote
> if not  sure--among an enthusiastic number of folks and
> therefore,.........enough votes MIGHT have
> been made to happen.......in the swing states....
>
> I think I was hit by some of those hulking thirteen hackers over my Send a
> Free Constitution to Donald Trump FB effort....long story which Joseph
> would not finish, I'm sure, but just to say: late burst of anti-senders,
> pro-Trumpets...from FB accounts with no history in some cases.
>
> and I was told by Twitter I interacted with some of those 13 by 13 to
> the13th  Russians.
> But I would, wouldn't I?
>
> https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1043679347922677761
>
> Using Hoaxy, a measuring tool from U of Indiana, one learns that 16% of
> all #VetoBeto posts are bots. Most think Russian bots but no confirmation
> yet. That is two every minute discrediting Beto for Cruz.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:04 AM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
>
>> Sold troves of private info to Koch sponsored Republican meme mechanics
>> Making 13 Russians and their ineffective actions look like some kind of
>> pathetic scrawling on the outhouse wall
>>
>> Bullshit memes continue to be targeting those vulnerable to far right
>> propaganda with no effective fact checking
>>
>> Is actively suppressing news and opinions its operatives don’t like,
>> effectively censoring their major social media platform
>>
>>
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