And then I was writing a book about media manipulation.
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And you thought Trump was the master at media manipulation!
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She researches media manipulation, disinformation, and adversarial media movements that target journalists.
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One Twitter personality saw potential social media manipulation as a key issue.
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The media manipulation and disinformation have even extended to the coronavirus outbreak.
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It was a clever fusion of multilevel marketing and social media manipulation.
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The American people deserve answers about social media manipulation in the 2016 election.
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Something we're watching: This is all part of Donald Trump's media manipulation playbook.
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This social media manipulation, enabled through information technology, challenged democracy's ability to respond.
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Mr. Trump is a genius in the art of propaganda and media manipulation.
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It also highlights Canada's vulnerability to media manipulation ahead of the October vote.
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In the authoritarian political ideology, media manipulation helps the people recognise their true will.
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Joel Zamel, an Israeli political strategist specializing in social media manipulation, was also present.
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"Selective editing and cropping is something we consider to be media manipulation," said Roth.
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The report's 10 chapters each deal with a different type of social media manipulation.
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In addition to media manipulation, Trump has mastered the art of selling impossible solutions.
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Trump's pre-emptive tweets substituted media manipulation for sober leadership at a time of crisis.
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"The American people deserve answers about social media manipulation in the 2016 election," he said.Sen.
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But the new information environment allows media manipulation to grow to a whole new level.
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Founded by artificial intelligence company RefaceAI, Doublicat is perhaps the simplest media manipulation tool yet.
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One was to danah boyd's excellent speech on media manipulation, strategic amplification, and responsible journalism.
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There's Joel Zamel, owner of the Israeli "social media manipulation" company in question, Psy-Group.
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" "Media reports about Mr. Zamel's engaging in 'social media manipulation' are uninformed," Mukasey added. "Mr.
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"There's an increased awareness that social media manipulation exists and is a thing, but that also has the effect of making people look for it everywhere," Renee DiResta, a 2019 Mozilla fellow in Media, Misinformation, and Trust and expert in social media manipulation, told Recode.
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There are big, shocking stories to be told about media manipulation in this day and age.
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A story about the black feminists who saw the alt-right media manipulation coming all along.
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We rarely read stories about the consequences faced by people engaged in for-profit media manipulation.
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JM: Election interference is just the tip of the iceberg in terms of social media manipulation.
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Disinformation and media manipulation researchers say Facebook's announcements Monday left them frustrated and concerned about 2020.
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Russia used stolen documents, social media manipulation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives promoted in the news.
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Astroscreen is a startup that uses machine learning and disinformation analysts to detect social media manipulation.
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People are confused about what social media manipulation is, how it works, and whether it's happening.
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They offer Russia, the original Cold War foe, with election interference and social media manipulation, as proof.
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We need help from social media platforms to reinforce these emerging standards and to counter media manipulation.
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The panel agrees that Russia is continuing to use active measures, including hacking and social media manipulation.
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Accusations of media manipulation are made, as are arguments over whether the video's ends justified the means.
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If so, he could hardly have played us better: He'd be the Keyser Söze of media manipulation.
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Add a semi-skilled orator – say, a reality television star who cut his teeth on media manipulation.
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Its responsibilities included "active measures," a form of political warfare that included media manipulation, propaganda and disinformation.
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" One key theme in the new digital tactics of 2019 was what the researchers call "micro-media manipulation.
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" The lawyer, Marc Mukasey, said that "media reports about Mr. Zamel's engaging in 'social media manipulation' are misguided.
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In an era of social media manipulation and disinformation, we could sure use some help from innovative entrepreneurs.
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Sinan Aral argues social scientists need to do a better job measuring the impact of social media manipulation.
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The NATO StratCom report lays bare what it describes as an extensive "black market" for social media manipulation.
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His campaign is an exercise in a lesson about media manipulation he learned more than 35 years ago.
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"Selective editing is a form of media manipulation that we would take action on under this policy," Roth said.
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The spy chief suggested the video might be fake, hinting at media manipulation to distract from the Chemnitz killing.
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While it aimed at media manipulation, my tweet was insensitive to students who lost friends in a terrible tragedy.
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Deepfakes are one of the newest forms of digital media manipulation, and one of the most obviously mischief-prone.
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They have laid out Russia's hacking, leaking and social media manipulation, most of it in favor of Mr. Trump.
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But the surprise Brexit vote and Trump's shock victory piqued Western interest and gave this social media manipulation international attention.
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The internet allows all who have access to participate, but it also amplifies the effectiveness of media manipulation via automation.
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There's still a lot we don't understand about misinformation, social media manipulation, and online election interference after the 2016 election.
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Her work focuses on media manipulation tactics and techniques, effects of disinformation campaigns and adversarial media movements that target journalists.
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"This pattern of Russian falsehoods and social media manipulation of the American electorate continued through Election Day and persists today."
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Of course it wasn't true, but as I said before, Berlusconi is a master of media manipulation and political survival.
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Buzzfeed reported that the committee would also uncover Russian-sponsored assassinations, investigate 'front' groups, media manipulation, covert broadcasting, and secret funding.
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In 2016, a company owned by Mr. Zamel, Psy-Group, had pitched the Trump campaign on a social media manipulation plan.
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Although Trump is not a master orator, he is the greatest exponent in history of media manipulation and politics as entertainment.
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More Americans, I think, are seeing through the media manipulation and Trump, both at home and abroad, is undeterred by their static.
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Republicans, while critical of the companies, stopped short of conceding that social media manipulation was a deciding factor in Donald Trump's win.
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With expert media manipulation, Trump earned himself approximately $5 billion worth of media attention for free, according to figures reported by Reuters.
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With Lopez Obrador leading most polls by double digits, the Mexican election is unlikely to turn on social media manipulation, experts say.
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Why it matters: Politicians from both the left and right have always used media manipulation tactics in order to boost their election efforts.
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Between the lines: Social media manipulation has become highly effective now that smartphone, social media and messaging use are reaching saturation points globally.
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Its themes of arbitrary power, corruption and media manipulation deliver a Trump-era jolt to the seemingly played-out world of superhero drama.
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According to the bill, that includes everything from the establishment or funding of a front group, covert broadcasting, media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
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Another was to BuzzFeed reporter Charlie Warzel's newsletter describing how a recognition of the alt-right's media manipulation techniques had changed his reporting.
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Ong said the focus on targeting niche audiences using private Facebook groups and other types of "micro-media manipulation" also helped campaigns avoid scrutiny.
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Titled "Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism," the talk examines a variety of subjects that will be familiar to readers of this newsletter.
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Gingrich transformed the GOP, shifting its base from a postwar to a post-Reagan conservatism, one built on opportunism, media manipulation, and political nihilism.
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HARD-WORKING Hamilton is also no stranger to the psychological trickery, media manipulation and sheer single-mindedness that come with being a world champion.
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But the Kremlin, anxious not to feed fears of Russian media manipulation to influence U.S. politics, said only that it was an internal U.S. matter.
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Bots, deepfakes, and other forms of media manipulation continue to generate global concern about their ability to erode trust and seed false narratives in society.
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Gingrich devoted a great deal of time to Trump's media manipulation this year, saying only Lincoln utilized the press as effectively in his political rise.
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"Reality isn't always what we want it to be," Joan Donovan, media manipulation research lead at Data & Society Research Institute, told me over the phone.
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"With advertising technology, political communication has changed dramatically," Joan Donovan, who researches media manipulation and platform accountability at Data & Society, told me in an email.
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Twenty-five Russian intelligence operatives and experts in social media manipulation were charged last year in two extraordinarily detailed indictments released by the special counsel.
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The issues of money laundering, social media manipulation, or how to strengthen our outdated election infrastructure are just a few of the topics left unaddressed.
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"Social media manipulation is the new frontier for antagonists seeking to influence elections, polarise public opinion, and side-track legitimate political discussions," the report states.
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Charming and utterly ruthless, he was willing to use ethnic division, death squads, media manipulation and a host of other unsavory tools to crush all opponents.
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At worst, as Wright argued, they're proof of "law enforcement propaganda and media manipulation"; at best, they're simply distractions that feed our need for constant entertainment.
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Screen shots and other images containing written messages can also help posters hide from tech-based moderation, said Dr. Donovan, who researches disinformation and media manipulation.
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Twitter had previously declined to remove the Biden ad, saying it was released on March 3, two days before it implemented its new media manipulation policy.
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People don't have a clear idea of what social media manipulation is or how it works, and they struggle to identify it when they encounter it.
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And on March 5th, Twitter is expected to unveil its media manipulation policy aimed at curbing the use of fabricated videos and images on the platform.
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The flurry of social media manipulation as Mexicans prepare to vote highlights how the playbook for information warfare has evolved since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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He thought he could build an invincible campaign by combining media manipulation on one hand and nativist bigotry on the other ... But he did not win.
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But the campaign was also the testing ground for misinformation, social media manipulation, the allure of nationalist nostalgia, and for the entrenched polarization all that created.
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Our nation remains acutely vulnerable to online social media manipulation, both from foreign actors like Russia, and nationalists at home intent on undermining our civil discourse.
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In fact, all of the media manipulation, all the cynical crocodile tears cannot wash away the truth – it is Hamas, not Israel, with blood on its hands.
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What's worse is that bad actors engaging in media manipulation are already attacking people who are trying to get honest reporting out there, like Snopes and Politifact.
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" The strategy, Podesta says, is similar to the one used by Russian President Vladimir Putin, and hinges on "a toxic overlap between sensationalist politics and media manipulation.
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But the report underscores how, despite the efforts by Facebook and other social media firms, social media manipulation is on the rise and becoming ever-more sophisticated.
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Wellesley College computer scientists Panagiotis Metaxas and Eni Mustafaraj warned as early as 2202 that social media manipulation to influence politics was already happening and would continue.
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Wellesley College computer scientists Panagiotis Metaxas and Eni Mustafaraj warned as early as 2012 that social media manipulation to influence politics was already happening and would continue.
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Lawmakers at the hearing called attention to the Honest Ads Act, a measure to regulate digital political ads, as one potential way to address social media manipulation.
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The discovery of Hong Kong media manipulation is a signal that the platforms need to be on heightened alert about China, as does the United States government.
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But after a month of purchasing the social media manipulation tools, the NATO-affiliated researchers said that 80 percent of their fake online engagements were still online.
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Taiwan: As Taiwan gears up for a major election this week, officials and researchers worry that China is experimenting with social media manipulation to sway the vote.
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His tactics — a combination of media manipulation and ruthless legal strategies — are a precursor to those used by anti-feminists on social media and in Washington today.
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The big picture: Prigozhin and his social media manipulation operation, the Internet Research Agency, were indicted by special counsel Robert Mueller in February 2018 for election meddling.
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To resist what's become extremely sophisticated forms of media manipulation and particularly resist it when it's already dominating social media because we take that as our assignment editor.
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They were acting as a "red team" on behalf of the military to test just how much they could influence soldiers' real-world actions through social media manipulation.
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Three days after the directors' testimony, the Justice Department announced that a grand jury had indicted a group of Russians accused of running the social media manipulation operation.
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It included an emissary for two wealthy Arab princes who run Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, as well as an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation.
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Looming regulatory threats and growing criticism over antitrust issues and social media manipulation have yet to hurt tech giants' bottom lines, according to earnings reports filed this week.
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"You can't always talk about aliens if you want people to believe aliens exist," said former FBI agent Clint Watts, author of a book on social media manipulation.
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Facebook remains the platform of choice for social media manipulation — with researchers finding evidence of formally organised political disops campaigns on its platform taking place in 56 countries.
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Goldsmith can quickly list heartbreaking examples of the toll social media manipulation can have on the lives of veterans, their families, and people affected by scams or disinformation.
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In October, the military's Joint Staff conducted a three-day confidential simulation exercise involving four possible situations in Latvia in which Russia used drones, cyberwarfare and media manipulation.
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A 2019 study from Oxford University found that social media manipulation campaigns like the Russian interference during the 2016 election are most likely to take place on Facebook.
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The meeting, which took place in August, reportedly included a multimillion-dollar proposal for a "social media manipulation effort" to help Trump beat Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in November.
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"Gab became their safe haven because it was actively recruiting the worst of the worst," said Joan Donovan, a media manipulation researcher with the nonprofit organization Data and Society.
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Publicly measurable indicators—including views, retweets, or likes—are "one of the driving forces in radicalization," says Whitney Phillips, a media manipulation researcher and associate professor at Syracuse University.
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"We do acknowledge the potential of such forward-looking technology being misused or abused for various malevolent purposes," including media manipulation and propaganda, the researchers write in their paper.
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"I think we need to understand — and we're starting to, I think — that media manipulation is often a key part of how violent extremists plan their activities," he explained.
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The CAG-affiliated Twitter accounts were among hundreds flagged as suspicious, based on initial work done by Noam Rotem and Yuval Adam, two Israeli researchers who study social media manipulation.
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But Russia, China, Iran and other adversaries of the United States will seek to meddle in U.S. elections moving forward, including through social media manipulation and cyberattacks, the agencies said.
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Yet the government's social media manipulation tracks with crackdowns in recent years in other authoritarian states, said Alexei Abrahams, a research fellow at Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto.
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Campaign veterans in both parties fear the Russian example may set off a race to the bottom, in which candidates choose social media manipulation because they fear their opponents will.
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That's why when there are allegations flying about social media manipulation by bots, or when conservatives make unfounded claims about social media bias, they're so hard to definitively respond to.
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Authors Britt Paris and Joan Donovan argue that deepfakes, while new, are part of a long history of media manipulation — one that requires both a social and a technical fix.
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We know that (beyond social media manipulation) Russia quite brazenly hacked into the IT systems of political campaign committees and tried to gain access to data held by local elections boards.
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Last year, the Oxford Internet Institute reported that governments or political parties orchestrated "social media manipulation" campaigns in 70 countries in 2019 (up from 063 in 2017 and 48 in 2018).
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The confusion surrounding #NeverWarren is just the latest instance in an ongoing problem: We're still really confused about social media manipulation, and we don't know how to deal with it responsibly.
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"We saw it in 2016, and we're seeing it right now, how well they integrate into organic online activism," said Kate Starbird, a University of Washington professor who studies social media manipulation.
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"There's no way the problem of social media manipulation is limited to a single troll farm in St. Petersburg, and that fact is now beyond a doubt," Warner said in a statement.
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The development of new machine learning technologies, autonomous weapons systems, cyber threats and social media manipulation are already destabilizing the global political order and potentially increasing the risk of a nuclear cataclysm.
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In other words, this is a story of media manipulation, leaked documents, propaganda, shifting allegiances, bribe money and whispered secrets — and the 2022 World Cup is at the very center of it.
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So-called influence operations — in which intelligence officials use media manipulation and other covert tactics to disrupt a political process — is a well-known part of the Russian government's playbook, experts say.
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But to many observers who are wary after the role social media manipulation played in the 2016 election, it seemed odd that the debate moment would have that much of an impact.
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Investigators are still examining the campaign contacts of an Israeli specialist in social media manipulation who has worked for Prince Mohammed and of a Lebanese-American businessman who acted as his emissary.
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"Facebook hasn't done enough," said Samantha Bradshaw, a researcher at Oxford University's Computational Propaganda Project, who published a recent report on social media manipulation and was not associated with the NYU research.
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Trending down: A new analysis of coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook shows the social network is still failing to keep up with the spread of disinformation and media manipulation on the platform.
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The report found that computational propaganda and social media manipulation have proliferated massively in recently years — now prevalent in more than double the number of countries (27) vs two years ago (225).
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Stamos said if the order discouraged Facebook or other companies to only see the potential risks in academic research, then it could be a blow for the public's understanding of social media manipulation.
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Last weekend, by the slenderest of margins -- and the sleight of hand only media manipulation can manage -- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took control of his country out of the hands of the people.
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What Mr. Putin has demonstrated, however, is that by using the cheap, new tools of hacking, leaking and social media manipulation, Russia can cause outsize trouble for the United States and other countries.
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Factor in voter suppression efforts, social media manipulation from both inside and outside of our country's borders, and racist defunding of polling places in lower socioeconomic areas and the effect is even stronger.
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Renee is an expert on a lot of important issues on the internet today, including disinformation and social media manipulation, which is an area that I'm hugely interested in, as are many people.
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In recent years, however, we've lost our sense for the value of slow and steady deliberation, for the type of work that depends more on patient diplomacy than on power plays and media manipulation.
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Especially when they face political tumult or scandal, administrations deploy every instrument of soft power at their disposal, every media manipulation tactic, every surrogate willing to appear on national television and vouch for them.
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Birth of a Movement, on the other hand, was meant to be about how you can use media to catalyze a social movement and try to get people to join forces against media manipulation.
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In August, officials from 44 states (and a few election companies) beamed into Washington for three days of role-playing exercises on spearphishing attacks, social media manipulation, and, tellingly, DDOS attacks on state websites.
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But it was as the self-proclaimed "oracle of Birmingham'" that he summoned all his provocative brilliance to produce a triumph of moral righteousness, strategic Realpolitik and mass-media manipulation that made history swerve.
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In an era where objective truths are continually debated in arenas that favor the loudest voices, a fixation on media manipulation and their general unwillingness to be easily categorized as anyone specific thing feels resonant.
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The velocity of social sharing, the power of recommendation algorithms, the scale of social networks, and the accessibility of media manipulation technology has created an environment where pseudo events, half-truths, and outright fabrications thrive.
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" Warner continued: "I've been saying for months that there's no way the problem of social media manipulation is limited to a single troll farm in St. Petersburg, and that fact is now beyond a doubt.
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"I've been saying for months that there's no way the problem of social media manipulation is limited to a single troll farm in St. Petersburg, and that fact is now beyond a doubt," he said.
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Virtue is whiplash-inducing stuff, certainly not for the faint of spine, but it carries a real weight too, given Casablancas' long-espoused fascinations with propagandist media manipulation and the overwhelming state of global politics.
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First, exploring how "free speech" defenders employ trolling rhetoric allows for a pointed discussion of media manipulation, and the ways far right actors and outlets are able to hijack mainstream narratives for their own ends.
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Mark Warner (D-VA), who has been one of the leading critical voices on social media manipulation and Russian propaganda in the Senate, pointed to Facebook's flawed efforts to remove inauthentic accounts as an example.
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Once again, US-Cuba relations will come down to the whims of a grudge-holding demagogue with a talent for media manipulation—only now, that demagogue is on the American side of the Florida Straits.
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Now, the voices of doubt have mostly been silenced, in part because of two indictments Mr. Mueller secured last year against a total of 25 Russian military intelligence operatives and experts in social media manipulation.
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Third, the New York Times revealed that an Israeli firm called Psy-Group pitched its "social media manipulation" services to Trump campaign aide Rick Gates in early 2016, but that Gates didn't hire the firm.
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The committee has not yet said what it will do with the reports, but noted that it doesn't necessarily endorse the reports' findings and that it is working on its own report about social media manipulation.
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The first is that she concisely lays out how media manipulation works in our current moment: Media manipulators have developed a strategy with three parts that rely on how the current media ecosystem is structure: 1.
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Conversations like these are a regular part of my job and usually focus on the quantifiable aspects of social media manipulation campaigns—volume of posts, follower count, common keywords, signs of inauthenticity, that sort of thing.
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The company did not show up at a congressional hearing this month that was attended by Twitter's chief executive, Jack Dorsey, and Facebook's chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, to address lawmakers' questions about social media manipulation.
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"Given the low number of accounts removed, it is clear that social media companies are still struggling to remove accounts used for social media manipulation, even when the accounts are reported to them," the report concluded.
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The presidential Electoral College System features a winner-take-all structure in states that experts say may not protect against or account for the kind of voter suppression mechanisms and social media manipulation Russia deployed last year.
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No Russians were present — the meeting instead involved George Nader (an adviser to the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates), Erik Prince (an American private security contractor), and Joel Zamel (an Israeli "social media manipulation" specialist.
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" In a statement, Senator Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, said, "There's no way the problem of social media manipulation is limited to a single troll farm in St. Petersburg, and that fact is now beyond a doubt.
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The report comes out of the Data & Society research institute's Media Manipulation Initiative, and is written by Whitney Phillips, author of This Is Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship Between Online Trolling and Internet Culture.
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Smartly cast, it operates as a mystery, a satire, a battle of wits and perhaps foremost, a provocative consideration of the dangers of hero worship, and the way media manipulation can be used to seduce a gullible public.
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A friend and I had a meaningful conversation about the hoe-shaming and policing of women's bodies present in Remy's track, and how Minaj's strategic media manipulation has positioned her to be the pop icon she is today.
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Although his real estate and gambling empire suffered massive losses in the early 1990s, and Trump's "finances went into a tailspin," he survived thanks to the superficial value of his brand, which he propped up though media manipulation.
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And while it's unlikely any of the defendants will ever see a U.S. courtroom, the charges provide a common set of facts for the public to understand the depth and breadth of social-media manipulation during the election.
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"I've been saying for months that there's no way the problem of social media manipulation is limited to a single troll farm in St. Petersburg, and that fact is now beyond a doubt," he said in a statement.
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Why it matters: Media manipulation has always been a part of the political playbook, but technology has enabled politicians to take the practice a step further by changing or mimicking real stories and news outlets to mislead voters.
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Facebook has taken steps to mitigate the danger, including launching a dedicated team to detect and remove attempts at social media manipulation and starting an internal task force on civil rights led by Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.
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Psy-Group, an Israeli company specializing in social media manipulation, worked for Russian oligarchs and in 22017 pitched the Trump campaign on a plan to build an online army of bots and avatars to swing Republican delegate votes.
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First, while pressuring social media companies to take information warfare seriously, the public and the media will need to take steps to make ourselves less vulnerable to influence campaigns, by increasing our fluency with disinformation and media manipulation tactics.
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Before Now Computer programs are getting better at processing vast amounts of text — a task called natural language processing — which means they are better at ferreting out telltale social media manipulation signals such as semantic errors and common hashtags.
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But after Russia's playbook for social media manipulation became public after the 2016 election, sellers have proved willing to pursue other geographies and deploy their services in the West, Roman Sannikov, an analyst with Recorded Future, told NBC News.
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"We spend so much time thinking about how to regulate the social media companies — but not so much about how to regulate the social media manipulation industry," said Sebastian Bay, one of the researchers who worked on the report.
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"We're at an inflection point right now where people understand that they can place content on YouTube and generate a media spectacle from doing something controversial," Joan Donovan, who conducts media manipulation research at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, told BuzzFeed News.
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Watts is one of the most respected figures in the nascent field of social media manipulation — and when it came time to diagnose root of Russia's platform meddling, he put much of the blame on the decision to allow anonymous accounts.
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"With shrewd showmanship and calculated irreverence, his year-old candidacy has turned the tired ritual of holding court from behind a lectern into a frequently riveting spectacle of self-promotion and media manipulation," Times reporters Michael Barbaro and Jessica Dimson write.
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A video shown ahead of a keynote speech at Adobe's Max conference (captured by MS Power User) showed the Smart Desk being used in similar situations as the Surface Studio: illustration, photo and video editing and multi-hand media manipulation.
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As a result, at multiple turns, Facebook took political optics into account when making major policy decisions — including how to apply its Community Standards, with regard to Trump, and how much to divulge about the Russian connection to social media manipulation.
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And yet it feels fresh — partly because of renewed interest in text-based art by people like Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and Gretchen Bender, and partly because the media manipulation and coercion that Mr. Cokes identifies has become more exaggerated today.
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Homeland Security hasn't done enough to protect election infrastructure, says watchdog Throughout the year, reports of persistent media manipulation and the dissemination of propaganda on social media platforms have cropped up not just in the United States but around the world.
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On Tuesday, American intelligence chiefs warned the Senate Intelligence Committee that Russia appears to be preparing to repeat in the 2018 midterm elections the same full-on chicanery it unleashed in 2016: hacking, leaking, social media manipulation and possibly more.
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In May, after The Times reported about the meeting with the emissary for the Arab princes and the Israeli social media manipulation specialist, Senator Chris Coons, Democrat of Delaware, raised concerns that Mr. Trump may have lied to the committee.
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It's hard to fathom that the same person who wrote "Trust Me, I'm Lying," a bombastic treatise on the art of self-promotion through media manipulation, went on to write a meditation on the perils of self-absorption and pride.
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Among other things, the legislation would require the establishment of an interagency committee to "counter active measures by the Russian Federations to exert covert influence over peoples and governments" -- including media manipulation, establishment of a front group and offensive counterintelligence.
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In our extreme perfection-obsessed world, where everyone is expected to have thousands of friends and fans online while always looking like a movie star (at least online), teaching kids about media manipulation needs to begin around the time toilet-training ends.
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We know that in August 2016, Trump Jr. met at Trump Tower with Republican donor Erik Prince, two Gulf emissaries and an Israeli social media specialist who pitched him on the idea of a social media manipulation effort to help elect his father.
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Fraudsters have used phishing campaigns and social media manipulation to masquerade as legitimate administrators of ICOs so they can disseminate fake information to potential investors and around the web about where to send money and even when an ICO will be taking place.
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Here are the big social media takeaways from the indictment: The indicted individuals were linked to the Russian troll farm called the Internet Research Agency, which employed roughly 100 people to manage social media manipulation of the US 2016 election beginning in 2014.
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Tucked into the 6900-page unclassified portion of the legislation, approved by a vote of 2628-28503, is a measure establishing an interagency committee to counter Russian meddling in foreign countries that's often taken the form of media manipulation and spreading disinformation.
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Tucked into the 85033-page unclassified portion of the legislation, approved by a vote of 390-30, is a measure establishing an interagency committee to counter Russian meddling in foreign countries that's often taken the form of media manipulation and spreading disinformation.
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Witnesses, including experts on social media manipulation, Renee DiResta of Data for Democracy and Philip Howard of the University of Oxford, pointed to examples of accounts now known to be fake pushing out derisive racial messages intended to elicit divisions between Americans.
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The person who requested those plans was Rick Gates, a top Trump campaign official who wanted ways to use fake online personas, social media manipulation and intelligence to help the candidate, according to interviews and copies of the proposals reviewed by The Times.
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The social media specialist, Joel Zamel, extolled his company's ability to give an edge to a political campaign; by that time, the firm had already drawn up a multimillion-dollar proposal for a social media manipulation effort to help elect Mr. Trump.
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The social media platform is choosy with enforcing its media manipulation policy, in the past running political ads that contained intentionally false information about public figures and candidates; Elizabeth Warren herself tested this with a fake ad of Mark Zuckerberg endorsing Trump.
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Sticking to its existing strategy of serving advertising customers in China that want to reach a global audience is a better bet but, even then, working with state-run publications — as Facebook does — throws up plenty of issues around media manipulation and fake news.
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The French study uses data from a recent week on Twitter but a greater role is being played by Facebook, said Kevin Limonier of the University of Paris VIII, who is studying social media manipulation in the election with a grant from the French government.
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During the 2016 campaign, Prince — who is the founder of private military company Blackwater and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — also met with Donald Trump Jr., United Arab Emirates emissary George Nader and Israeli social media manipulation specialist Joel Zamel at Trump Tower.
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Those rivals and others, the report found, are also increasingly engaged in what the military calls "gray-zone conflicts" — actions short of all-out war but that include diplomatic and economic coercion, media manipulation and cyberattacks, and the use of paramilitaries and proxy forces.
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Speaking to Swisher in front of a live audience at the University of California Berkeley's journalism school in March, Manjoo explained that Twitter's lax attitudes about real identity and high usage by journalists like him make it the perfect breeding ground for media manipulation.
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A new report offers one of the most comprehensive overviews of the challenges to global electoral integrity posed by the onslaught of misinformation, online extremism, and social media manipulation campaigns, and calls for a series of reforms from platforms, politicians, and international governing bodies.
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On the economics front, his administration has been a revolving door for hacks and hucksters who are skilled at media manipulation and addicted to opportunism, but who would wash out at a major automaker in a matter of months when forced to deal with the managerial challenges.
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WASHINGTON — A top Trump campaign official requested proposals in 22016 from an Israeli company to create fake online identities, to use social media manipulation and to gather intelligence to help defeat Republican primary race opponents and Hillary Clinton, according to interviews and copies of the proposals.
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A top Trump campaign aide asked an Israeli private intelligence firm — with links to the IDF, Cambridge Analytica and a Russian billionaire — to devise a "social media manipulation" strategy to hurt Trump's political rivals during the primaries and the election, according to a New York Times report.
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The findings — based on analysts purchasing social media manipulation tools and then testing how the companies responded — stand in stark contrast to public statements from Facebook, Twitter and Google that claim they have all significantly clamped down on such activities since the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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In 2017, the industry took a stand against social media manipulation when the Public Relations and Communications Association expelled Bell Pottinger, a now-defunct London-based PR firm, after investigating its work in South Africa, where the firm stoked racial tensions in service of a billionaire client.
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Op-Ed Contributor Washington — A new president, swept into office on a tide of fake news and media manipulation, surrounds himself with generals: his adviser on foreign policy, the defense minister, his minister of the interior and the further possible appointments of foreign minister and intelligence director.
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New research by the Oxford Internet Institute has found that social media manipulation is getting worse, with rising numbers of governments and political parties making cynical use of social media algorithms, automation and big data to manipulate public opinion at scale — with hugely worrying implications for democracy.
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Drawings portraying Clinton, Sanders, and Trump are prima facie political, but Powhida's don't advocate for one side over another as much as bore into the minds of the candidates and the electorate, pulling out, like a tapeworm, a meta-display of electoral scheming and media manipulation.
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How journalists should not cover an online conspiracy theory Whitney Phillips has some words of warning for journalists writing about QAnon and other insane conspiracy hoaxes: The final question reporters must ask themselves stems from the fact that journalists aren't just part of the game of media manipulation.
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The new President Bannon, in other words, is President Kushner—and he got there, in part, by cleverly playing the media manipulation game, casting himself as the very image of competence and sanity while reportedly leaking less than flattering details about many of his competitors, like former President Bannon.
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If you really do want to make your ex as miserable as you are, instead of out and out harassment like the above, it's more effective—and, importantly, less traceable—to stir up a constant sense of dread deep within them through calculated socializing and social media manipulation.
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The report, entitled, "The Global Disinformation Order 2019: Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation," looked at how an increasing number of governments and political parties around the world are using social media propaganda to discredit political opponents, drown out opposing views, or undermine trust in the liberal international order.
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This week's rampant speculation over potential foreign interference related to Harris and Gabbard signals a conversation we're going to keep having in American politics: Have platforms and the government done enough to prepare for and prevent social media manipulation and misinformation campaigns, and how are we ever going to know?
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The researchers looked at computational propaganda activity in 70 countries around the world — including the US, the UK, Germany, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Argentina, Brazil and Australia (see the end of this article for the full list) — finding organized social media manipulation in all of them.
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After three years of monitoring social media platforms, the results showed that the number of countries with governments or political parties that have engaged in social media manipulation has more than doubled in the past two years, up to 70 — and that Facebook continues to be at the heart of the issue.
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Backdrop: Prince, the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and an informal adviser to the 2016 Trump campaign, told Al Jazeera's Mehdi Hasan that he informed the House Intelligence Committee in November 2017 about a meeting he had with Donald Trump Jr., UAE emissary George Nader and Israeli social media manipulation specialist Joel Zamel.
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"When journalists see a story getting big on Twitter, they consider it a kind of responsibility to cover it, even if the story may be an alternate frame or a conspiracy theory," said Alice Marwick, who was co-author of a recent report on the mechanics of media manipulation for the Data & Society Research Institute.
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Kevin Roose reflects on the first impeachment of the social media era at The New York Times: As impeachment looms, disinformation experts are bracing for a fresh cyclone of chaos, complete with fast-twitch media manipulation, droves of false and misleading claims, and hyper-polarized audiences fiercely clinging to their side's version of reality.
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When applied to questions of online toxicity, biomass pyramids speak to the fact that there are far more everyday, relatively low-level cases of harmful behavior than there are apex predator cases—the kinds of actions that are explicitly and wilfully harmful, from coordinated hate and harassment campaigns to media manipulation tactics designed to sow chaos and confusion.
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" And in November, Vice's John Surico wrote that Barron was "the billionaire businessman's first foray into media manipulation, a strategy the Republican presidential frontrunner has mastered, with his Twitter rants, his widely-publicized feuds—with networks, candidates, famous women, the people of Mexico—and his frequent threats against anyone who tries to discredit his personal narrative.
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On August 3, 2016, Trump Jr. took part in a meeting with Erik Prince, a Trump booster, founder of the private security firm Blackwater, and brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos; George Nader, a business executive and emissary for the princes of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates; and Joel Zamel, an Israeli expert in social media manipulation.
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The answer is unclear, but reading between the lines, Mueller may suspect Psy-Group did in fact end up doing social media manipulation on Trump's behalf (Zamel has denied this), that George Nader (who paid Psy-Group $2 million after the election) and Erik Prince were involved, and that there may even have been a Russian angle.
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"[The study] confirms much of what we are seeing in social media overall, which is that headlines sell the story and false news is both less expensive to make and more interesting to read, as has always been the case with tabloids," says Joan Donovan, the project lead on media manipulation at the New York-based research group Data & Society.
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While many, including Dorsey, seem to fear that striking Jones down from media platforms will only make him more powerful, media manipulation research lead Joan Donovan at the research institute Data & Society tells The Verge that throughout her work, she has observed the opposite: once you remove the biggest megaphones from bad actors, their power diminishes and their ability to attract larger audiences and sow disinformation decreases.
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News Integrity Initiative (Facebook, Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund, Ford Foundation, Democracy Fund, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Tow Foundation, AppNexus, Mozilla and Betaworks) NewsGuard (Longtime journalists and media entrepreneurs Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz) The Journalism Trust Initiative (Reporters Without Borders, and Agence France Presse, the European Broadcasting Union and the Global Editors Network ) Internews (Longtime international non-profit) Accountability Journalism Program (American Press Institute) Trusting News (Reynolds Journalism Institute) Media Manipulation Initiative (Data & Society) Deepnews.
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On the U.S. side the ever-deepening revelations of Russian interference in the2016 election process as such replete with media manipulation, intervention on behalf of Trump and attacks on 39 state election commissions underscored the U.S. view, expressed by UN Ambassador Nikki HaleyNimrata (Nikki) HaleyThe Hill's Morning Report - Trump on defense over economic jitters Haley: 'Threats of China on full display' in Hong Kong Juan Williams: Trump's trouble with women MORE and former Vice-President Dick Cheney that such attacks were an act of war and mandated swift and stern retribution.
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Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 85033 breach New intel chief inherits host of challenges Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a frequent critic of the social media companies, to slam the tech giants for not acting faster on foreign social media manipulation.
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Mark WarnerMark Robert WarnerFacebook users in lawsuit say company failed to warn them of known risks before 2018 breach New intel chief inherits host of challenges Overnight Defense: US, Russia tensions grow over nuclear arms | Highlights from Esper's Asia trip | Trump strikes neutral tone on Hong Kong protests | General orders ethics review of special forces MORE (D-Va.), the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee and a leading lawmaker in the push to respond to Russian social media manipulation in U.S. politics, thinks that counterfeit videos could have impacts beyond politics.
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