@potemkinvillage@commodon Really delighted to hear the feedback my new online propaganda course is getting! One student today: "I most certainly feel better prepared to filter the information I consume. I also have a new appreciation for the work you and others do in ensuring our legislators are aware of, and pass legislation that will help safeguard our rights."
@activitypub_fetcher
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Whether it's #Fox refusing to apologize for its #lies, weaponized #leaks or the threats of #AI#disinformation... our #digitalmedia environment can seem increasingly hard to navigate without a robust understanding of #propaganda. Which is why I created my new @udemy course. 🤓👇Sign up now and master the misdirection!!! https://www.udemy.com/course/propaganda-disinformation-level-1-beginners/?referralCode=F6D164B12D33A03ADF60#media#digital#socialmedia@potemkinvillage@commodon
@emmalbriant@potemkinvillage good to see this is being done
Have you ever wanted to learn more about #Propaganda and #Disinformation? I’m excited to share with you all the new @udemy #course I’ve designed, you can sign up now and attend anywhere in the world!!! 🌍😃 this is Level 1 - for Beginners! https://www.udemy.com/course/propaganda-disinformation-level-1-beginners/?referralCode=F6D164B12D33A03ADF60#media#digitalliteracy#commodon@potemkinvillage#udemy#onlinelearning#courses
Talking to LLM researchers about ethics be like:
Glad to provide expertise in @fbdnstories@birdsite.am-institute.swiss deep investigation of #influence firms I told them “companies in this industry “regularly throw each other work” for deniability and legal cover…” A MUST READ on #cyber#mercenaries… #cambridgeanalytica#propaganda#hacking#socialmedia#disinformation#intelligence@potemkinvillagehttps://www.occrp.org/en/storykillers/hacks-bots-and-blackmail-how-secret-cyber-mercenaries-disrupt-elections#storykillers#fakenews#SCLGroup
I told @fbdnstories@birdsite.am-institute.swiss “manipulating the truth has swelled into a billion-dollar business with hundreds, possibly thousands, of service providers worldwide.” “There is a huge range of unregulated industry practices that would widely be considered unethical but not illegal.” https://forbiddenstories.org/story-killers/gauri-lankesh-in-the-age-of-false-news/@potemkinvillage
Glad to provide expertise in @fbdnstories@birdsite.am-institute.swiss deep investigation of #influence firms I told them “companies in this industry “regularly throw each other work” for deniability and legal cover…” A MUST READ on #cyber#mercenaries… #cambridgeanalytica#propaganda#hacking#socialmedia#disinformation#intelligence@potemkinvillagehttps://www.occrp.org/en/storykillers/hacks-bots-and-blackmail-how-secret-cyber-mercenaries-disrupt-elections#storykillers#fakenews#SCLGroup
"Hacking, Faking, Manipulating: The Business of Elections" -
"An Israeli company offers disinformation campaigns for money - worldwide. Joint research by ZDF, SPIEGEL and ZEIT with the investigative network Forbidden Stories reveals the extent."
#Documentary in #German with #English or #German subtitles
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg0okVa6sSU
Three journalists go undercover to meet men who operate in secret and claim they can manipulate any election in the world. On offer: the complete package. Sowing doubt, causing unrest, ultimately torpedoing democracy. They call it electronic warfare. Their tools are an army of avatars.
The research on Team Jorge, the secretive force from Israel, took several months. Journalists from more than 30 editorial offices around the world were involved - including the Israeli daily Haaretz, Radio France, Le Monde and the Guardian.
#Disinformation#DisinformationIndustry#Hacking#Desinformation#FakeNews#Israel#Wahlmanipulation#ElectionManipulation
#ForbiddenStories
#StoryKillers#CambridgeAnalytica
#Elections
#Africa
#SocialMedia
#FakeAccounts
NEW: Brett Favre is suing Missisisppi State Auditor Shad White, accusing the Republican official of "defamation."
He accuses White of carrying out an "outrageous media campaign of malicious and false accusations" over Mississippi's welfare scandal.
White's office maintains that "everything Auditor White has said about this case is true and is backed by years of audit work by the professionals at the Office of the State Auditor."
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/30984/brett-favre-sues-mississippi-auditor-shad-white-alleging-defamation-over-welfare-scandal-remarks
2017 gründet die Tessiner Firma Idrobotica einen Ableger im russischen Kaliningrad. Pikant: Sie stellt Unterwasserroboter her, darunter auch Kamikazefahrzeuge, die sich selber sprengen können.
Von Lorenz Naegeli und @jan_jirat
🚀 We are excited to announce the opening of an Assistant/ Associate Professorship at the Digital Democracy Centre:
Be part of a vibrant, new, interdisciplinary Centre.
#academicjob@academicchatter
@politicalscience@communicationscholars@communications
Assistant prof: https://www.sdu.dk/da/service/ledige_stillinger/1201823
Associate prof: https://www.sdu.dk/da/service/ledige_stillinger/1201822
Have any news outlets joined Mastodon yet?
@JClarkPowers Congratulations! It is an amazing achievement at any time. Also a methodologically focused PhD is very cool 😎 @communications@communicationscholars@interdisciplinarity
Can't lie, holding a hardbound of my dissertation had me in my motions. 351 pages. 1,923 days. That's 5 years, 3 months, 6 days. So here it is, in the flesh.
Title is 'Endogenous Measures for Contextualising Large-Scale Phenomena: A Corpus-Based Method for Mediated Public Discourse'
But that's a bait and switch. It's just an extended empirical, critical philippic about our subject models in social science.
@communications
@communicationscholars
@interdisciplinarity
But! I think the general point -- that institutions now have the opportunity to run their own instances of whatever variety (I'm much less sure that Mastodon is the right activitypub server, for example) on an open protocol, on a platform where they have significantly more agency.
At the very least, I think institutions have a massive opportunity to innovate[sic] and explore what it means to be a news producer + provider in an environment with more open protocols + platforms.
... and more on Mastodon and social spaces in today's newsletter episode:
s13e24 - The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e24-the-careless-conversation-the-shape-of/
But! I think the general point -- that institutions now have the opportunity to run their own instances of whatever variety (I'm much less sure that Mastodon is the right activitypub server, for example) on an open protocol, on a platform where they have significantly more agency.
At the very least, I think institutions have a massive opportunity to innovate[sic] and explore what it means to be a news producer + provider in an environment with more open protocols + platforms.
... and more on Mastodon and social spaces in today's newsletter episode:
s13e24 - The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things
https://newsletter.danhon.com/archive/s13e24-the-careless-conversation-the-shape-of/
Next ALSO REALLY BIG POINT:
It's one thing to have an institutional instance (whether admined by the institution, or provided as a hosted service a la Google Mail), it's another to:
* be sure that Mastodon is a secure service that meets the institution's eg security, privacy, trust and safety needs. That's a new, big lift!
* have the capacity to act on eg law enforcement requests (especially eg when the instance is open to users other than staffers, like readers)
But! I think the general point -- that institutions now have the opportunity to run their own instances of whatever variety (I'm much less sure that Mastodon is the right activitypub server, for example) on an open protocol, on a platform where they have significantly more agency.
At the very least, I think institutions have a massive opportunity to innovate[sic] and explore what it means to be a news producer + provider in an environment with more open protocols + platforms.
Next ALSO REALLY BIG POINT:
It's one thing to have an institutional instance (whether admined by the institution, or provided as a hosted service a la Google Mail), it's another to:
* be sure that Mastodon is a secure service that meets the institution's eg security, privacy, trust and safety needs. That's a new, big lift!
* have the capacity to act on eg law enforcement requests (especially eg when the instance is open to users other than staffers, like readers)
But! I think the general point -- that institutions now have the opportunity to run their own instances of whatever variety (I'm much less sure that Mastodon is the right activitypub server, for example) on an open protocol, on a platform where they have significantly more agency.
At the very least, I think institutions have a massive opportunity to innovate[sic] and explore what it means to be a news producer + provider in an environment with more open protocols + platforms.
Second BIG point:
Institutional instances -- WITHOUT AGREEMENT FROM EMPLOYEES (and preferably from union representation!) -- would by default preserve the employer/employee power imbalance.
Institutions and journalists share an interest in proving identity. They also obviously have diverging needs and incentives.
Journos/staffers are free agents. Their network must be portable. Their content must also be preserved.
I don't have an answer for this, save that it must be negotiated.
Next ALSO REALLY BIG POINT:
It's one thing to have an institutional instance (whether admined by the institution, or provided as a hosted service a la Google Mail), it's another to:
* be sure that Mastodon is a secure service that meets the institution's eg security, privacy, trust and safety needs. That's a new, big lift!
* have the capacity to act on eg law enforcement requests (especially eg when the instance is open to users other than staffers, like readers)
