Many #GenX & #Boomer men are Republicans & some are anti-vaxxers, but a few women boomers are largely responsible for spreading #misinformation:
A small group of committed “supersharers,” predominately older R women, were responsible for the vast majority of the #fakenews in the period looked at. They promoted & shared links to vaccine hesitancy & politics-flavored fake news. 2,107 reg. US voters accounted for spreading 80% of it during the 2020 election.
Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.
Ep.1 is about The Well and British Journalist #JamieBartlett claims that The Well was the world's first social network.
Before he was even born the Brits (and Europeans!) were running big, successful online social media sites and I think we mostly understood the potential consequences.
From an American? Fine - But come on BBC/Jamie! Do your research or get Tom Sandage to fact-check a little. Grr!
Russia may launch psychological operation about opening new front from Belarus
Defense Council Center for Countering #Disinformation forecast launch of a new #Russian#psychological operation about opening a new front aiming to stir up mass panic in Ukrainian society
We expect a series of provocative statements by the top leadership of Russia and #Belarus#threatening#Ukraine soon
"After The Markup first reported on how Ohlala regularly translated misleading far-right websites like The Gateway Pundit and Newsmax into Vietnamese, more than a dozen Vietnamese community members asked The Markup to dig further. They wanted to know why she was broadcasting in Vietnamese and why her videos were so heavily pro-Trump. Several community members also shared suspicions that she was a Russian agent..."
Company posts #misinformation about me. Company continues to post misinformation about me after I tell them what they wrote was false. Here is the consequence.
'Just 10 "superspreader" users on Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34 per cent of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January and October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US and UK.'
"Facebook users who deactivated their accounts for six weeks before the 2020 U.S. presidential election weeks may have been less likely to cast a vote for Trump [...]."
Looking back at the actions of the MSN in the USA as the Vietnam war was dragging on bitterly - to inevitable failure - and the playing up of good stories, the positive and not the reality of the war, I see many similarities in the handling of Trump and his consorts by the press today.
An abject failure to report the truth in an unbiased and honest manner to those who need to know.
A pandering to bias, to misinformation, to abuse.
When all is said and done, the MSN will claim they did their best, and sweep the whole matter under a carpet for fifty years. But the damage, today, is being done, and cannot be undone.
"Last Saturday, I was at a community gathering of around 30 Vietnamese immigrants, all in their 50s and 60s, in Oakland, California, when I asked if anyone knew anything about AI or artificial intelligence.
None of them had ever heard of it...And in this room full of elders from my community, the Vietnamese community, no one knew about it, which meant no one knew to look for it."
For Assigned, I wrote about the right-wing misinformation that has surrounded the Cass Report, and how Hilary Cass herself has chosen to ignore all of this misinformation, instead focusing on mischaracterizing statements by her trans critics.
Pro-meat and climate crisis misinformation rife on social media, says report
"Misinformation on social media doesn't happen in a vacuum,” said Haughton-Boakes. “It seeps into the real world. And it does have real-world implications for policy debates.”
One out of maybe 12 that I had to report … it does not reflect well on the #SEO industry and #Semrush. It does reflect very well on Medium, which took down misinformation posts very quickly.