Is “pretty privilege” real on social media? There are strong hints that it is a real issue. Some of it may come from how users select videos, which trains the “algorithm” in your likes, but others have said that the algorithms are intentionally designed to minimize views of videos with “non pretty” people.
Two appalling bad studies were widely shared by “experts” on social media. One was so bad, and its errors so obvious, that they only way they could have decided to share was to do so without having read even the abstract of the study.
The primary purpose of Twitter is to censor viewpoints that do not agree with government guidelines. The secondary purpose is to censor the distribution of official government data that disagrees with “conventional wisdom”.
Twitter is utter garbage.
The World Economic Forum proposes development of a global, AI-based censorship system to detect and halt the distribution of “misinformation” and “disinformation”. What could possibly go wrong?
Amazon.com Inc. hasn’t just bought a maker of robot vacuum cleaners. It’s acquired a mapping company. To be more precise: a company that can make maps of your home. Source: Amazon’s iRobot Deal Is Really About Roomba Mapping Your Home – Bloomberg