Rip Curl Caught in a Vortex of Fake Profiles
I find it an uncanny coincidence that there’s a Brock connection to Pizzagate, which has become the poster child for “fake news,” just as Brock happens to emerge to lead the anti–fake news movement.
Sharyl Attkisson • The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote
As we are fed more content, we are pushed deeper into algorithmic niches. In return, we are encouraged to engage with more extreme and polarizing identifiers because it is more labelable, more indexable by the machine — the creation of the “Island". On this island, the slang, in-jokes, and archetypes which emerge as a community develops in isolatio... See more