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Month: January 2018

Facebook and Google announce they are launching their own anti-propaganda content

Facebook and Google announce they are launching their own anti-propaganda content

Anti-propaganda is just propaganda in front of a mirror. Facebook, Google and Twitter say they’re creating more anti-terror propaganda to combat violent messages at their source. Source: Facebook, Google tell Congress how they’re fighting extremist content Google’s Youtube analyzes your past searches and viewing patterns and “determines” if the viewer “may be headed toward extremism”. If so, Youtube presents ads to “subtly contradict” others’ propaganda messages. Youtube is removing comments from videos that contain hateful content, as determined by Youtube’s…

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Baltimore launches social media propaganda campaign to counter city’s failures and negative public image #MyBmore

Baltimore launches social media propaganda campaign to counter city’s failures and negative public image #MyBmore

The multiple failures are piling up at a time when Baltimore is particularly desperate to present a positive face to the world. Its tourism board has launched the #MyBmore campaign to encourage residents to post personal, positive content online to counterbalance the bleaker images more typically associated with their city. Source: Cold classrooms, patient dumping: Baltimore tries to put its best foot forward, stumbles – Baltimore Sun They are working on positive “branding” and “image” management to “change the narrative…

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Baltimore launches social media propaganda campaign to counter city's failures and negative public image #MyBmore

Baltimore launches social media propaganda campaign to counter city's failures and negative public image #MyBmore

The multiple failures are piling up at a time when Baltimore is particularly desperate to present a positive face to the world. Its tourism board has launched the #MyBmore campaign to encourage residents to post personal, positive content online to counterbalance the bleaker images more typically associated with their city. Source: Cold classrooms, patient dumping: Baltimore tries to put its best foot forward, stumbles – Baltimore Sun They are working on positive “branding” and “image” management to “change the narrative…

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Facebook to alter its news feed sharing algorithms

Facebook to alter its news feed sharing algorithms

Facebook is said to be rolling out changes to how content is selected for each of us to see in our news feed. FB will show us content that their algorithms believe is user generated (versus that from publishers), and which has been shared, liked or commented upon. Other posts will apparently see lower priority and less visibility, meaning, they sort of disappear. Facebook says this should result in seeing more personal posts from actual FB friends. FB is trying…

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Change.org “signature” fraud

Change.org “signature” fraud

I just received an email from Change.org thanking me for online signing a political petition – a petition I know nothing about and did not sign. Like everything in the online world, low end identify theft is rampant. Stealing people’s identities for online petitions is just another propaganda tool. All it takes is a name and an email address. Recently, the FCC received millions of comments in regards to “net neutrality”. Subsequently, researchers identified hundreds of thousands of comments that…

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