Page 30 - Echo Chambers News Today

Whistleblower, and regulating hate speech and misinformation this country, and around the world really. and redacted versions were obtained by cnn in a group of 16 other news organizations, and what this tells us is really chilling, as well. >> one of the things that happens with groups and networks of groups is that people see echo chambers, create social norms, if im in a group that has lots of covert misinformation and i see over and over again if someone gives covert vaccine that encourages ...

All, of course, contributing to these echo chambers. i just want to show you a quick tip very quickly. an adviser to this whistle-blower explaining some of this. >> what it does is amplify the messages that it noise will drive engagement, and it just turns out we humans get most riled up by lies and hate and all sorts of misinformation. >> but if you ask mark zuckerberg or for that matter some of his spokespeople, they will tell you basically its all -- its all false. its all a load of nonsense ...

Chilling. >> one of the things that happens with groups and with networks of groups is that people see echo chambers that create social norms. so if im in a group that has lots of covid misinformation and i see over and over again that if someone gives covid vaccine like things they encourage people to get vaccinated, they get completely pounced upon and torn apart. i learned that certain ideas are acceptable and unacceptable. when that context is around hate, you see a normalization of hate and...

Networks of groups is people see echo chambers that create social norms. so if im in a group that has lots of covid misinformation and i see over and over again that someone gives covid vaccine things that encourage people to get vaccinated, they get completely pounced upon. they get torn apart. i learned that certain ideas are suitable and unsuitable. when that context is around hate, now you see a normalisation of hate, normalisation of dehumanising others and thats what leads to violent incid...

Theres an old philosophers quote, when you build the ship, you invent the ship wreck. when you build the train, invent the train, you invent the train wreck. when mark zuckerberg invents facebook, he is responsible for all of the damage, all of the harm thats caused and what you see in these documents over and over again, and these stories are going to keep coming out for days, day one of several days, youll see more all week, is all the different assorted harms. theyre talking about ethiopia, t...

To a parliamentary committee. she told them her former employer is "unquestionably making hate worse". the algorithms take people who have very mainstream interests interests and they push them towards extreme interests. you can be someone center left and you will be pushed to radical left. you can be a center right and pushed to radical right. you can be looking for a healthy recipes, youll get pushed to anorexia content. there are examples in facebook�*s research of all of this. one of the t...

Asking — groups or should a regulator be asking these questions about facebook ribs, from what youre saying _ facebook ribs, from what youre saying they are a significant of engagement, if engagement as part of output _ engagement, if engagement as part of output they have decided groups must be a problem to. part}r output they have decided groups must be a problem to-_ be a problem to. party what is that we talk about _ be a problem to. party what is that we talk about sometimes - be a proble...

Record repeating and repeating, playing the same tune until you cant get it out of your head. youtube is that good or that bad at locking people into echo chambers. a group called tech transparency project is releasing a new study today thats all about this. it says the echo chamber problem is worse in fox of america. theyre a nonpartisan wash dog group funded by people like fred newmark. looking at how fox recommended how often and how many and found a real disparity. look on screen. i asked th...

Because they think what hes saying is true. i know youve been focused on this. i know this worries you about the upcoming next couple of elections. whats the answer? >> it certainly does, and look, trump is the king of spreading disinformation, and he has decided that that is actually the platform that works, and unfortunately, the republican party, most of the republican party, has followed suit, and they continue to spread lies in these echo chambers, and they continue to, i would say, radical...

We recently wrote about Joe Bernstein's excellent Harper's cover story, which argues that we're all looking at...