propagandatechniques
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Artefact News App Now Lets Users Flag ‘Clickbait’
There are lots of ways to write a headline, many of them bad. Take this article, for instance. It might’ve been titled:
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A Secretive Israeli Company Says It Manipulated More Than 30 Elections Worldwide
A secretive Israeli cyber company is engineering ongoing influence operations directed at elections all over the world, a consortium of more than 30 news organisations reports. The CEO of the company, a former Israeli special forces agent named Tal Hanan, boasted to undercover journalists that his team of psychological warfare operators had been involved in…
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Facebook’s Going Back to Only Using Algorithms to Curate Its News Tab
If at first the algorithms don’t succeed at stopping disinformation, just simply add humans. But if the algorithms grow too burdensome, then simply go back to the algorithm. So round and round the social media carousel we go.
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Social Media Companies Now Have to Tell California What Their Hate Speech and Disinfo Policies Are
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced late Tuesday that he’d signed a “first-of-its-kind” bill into law designed to “protect Californians from hate and disinformation spread online.”