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But the 61-year-old building contractor was incensed to learn from ProPublica that his name, age, New Hampshire address, phone number and registered voting status were in a database compiled by the gun industry’s chief lobbyin... See more
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Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
The twenty-seven-year-old former computer programmer deliberately styled himself after his hero, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, for whom he briefly served before being arrested and thrown in the Camp Bucca prison in 2006. Now he sought to replicate his mentor’s look, from the shaggy black hair, cap, and beard to his penchant for posing unmasked for cameras
... See moreJoby Warrick • Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS
Attention Sanctuaries: Social Practice Guidelines and Emergent Strategies in Attention Activism
dgrahamburnett.nettoday’s social media ecosystem affords the influencer-algorithm-crowd trinity another method for shaping public opinion: harassment. Harassment campaigns have also evolved as a result of the collision between the propaganda machine and the rumor mill; as we have discussed, mobs may target a random Main Character of the day or may focus instead on a
... See moreRenee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
Anti-Defamation League director Jonathan Greenblatt, who studies extremism, wrote that “79% of those arrested had no explicit connection to extremist groups. This suggests that a significant number of seemingly ordinary Americans decided that mob violence was an appropriate response to the election results.”
Renee DiResta • Invisible Rulers
by deploying alternative news feed algorithms on in-silico social media platforms, where large language model (LLM) agents that mimic human social media users interact with one another, we can explore and test the impact of these alternative algorithms on macro-level social outcomes, such as conflicts and polarization.[385]
Audrey Tang • ⿻ 數位 Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy
our best defense in chaos is a good offense: