It right now for one simple reason because stopping military actions is the main focus right now and if i Say Something i couldnt danger people ethiopias Central Government has vowed to continue a military operation in the Northern Tier grey region until a number of conditions there and that they want the meeting with leaders to face trial for a new administration to be set up and for all of their missiles to be destroyed Prime Minister had ordered that offensive integrate almost a week ago now chief palestinian negotiator syud erica has died after contracting carbon 19 eric out served as the chief negotiator in peace talks with israel for 2 and a half decades he was 65. 00. The u. S. Supreme court has begun hearing arguments in the latest challenge against the Affordable Care act the landmark legislation known as obamacare was signed into law by the former president a decade ago President Trump and other republicans want it struck down a decision is expected by the end of june next year french president to manual background says europe needs to come up with a coordinated Security Strategy off to recent attacks on took part in a Virtual Summit with the leaders of austria germany and the e. U. Or 3 nations have experienced attacks in recent weeks he says the shang in areas open border policy needs to be rethought. Perus congress has sworn in the countrys new leader a day off today voted overwhelmingly to oust former president martin this current manual merino will stay in power until july which would have been the end of his cars tag his car was removed from office over allegations that he accepted bribes when he was a regional office. Well those are the headlines and ill have more news for you here on aljazeera after all hail the algorithm the algorithm made me do it. Around the world powerful entities are working to manipulate and influence us youve heard about it trolls bought this fake news their algorithms at work behind each of these algorithms that have been developed and designed to push specific types of content to us content that says click me. Mexico is probably not the 1st place that comes to mind when you think of online manipulation sure its happening everywhere but the countries we often hear the most about are the usa and russia. Mexico however has been a testing ground for some of the most insidious online tactics weve seen unleashed around the world. Theres a blogger turned activist called alberto a school zia here in mexico city who im on my way to meet now alberto has been deeply involved in investigating political bots trolls and artificial trends in mexico since 2010 and hes received significant blowback because of his work Death Threats have forced him to leave the country 5 times. Is more important to me. The most bloodiest possible event. Of what. The north whats the draw. The sun in vietnam in tokyo. And which is and. George will give us windows to them were going to end the most doomy on the current us to do it at a time when facebook come in and instagram gets a dollar of the us dollars dollars but deals at the top of the money pool are like im not so sure just element of limb in this only little studio where you can there are more to the enable you can there are more showing fluency one of the most effective and powerful tools for those who want to push an agenda online is the dogged now bots are essentially just pieces of Software Algorithms that run whatever tasks you set them and a lot of the internet runs of however theyve also become synonymous with fake social media accounts pushing political agendas or generating artificial likes shares will fall as the days of these fully automated spam bots a mostly over their actions were simply too obvious making them easy to detect by filters which meant they got purged and easy to spot by uses which meant they go to. So now literally armies of people paid to act like theyre also called trolls or dicks theyre also learned or dont know spring to military but its almost a stunt that will come to direct them in their elation that meant that if you want to have an impact clicks a what you need to go of. The drive for clicks isnt restricted to governments political movements or marketing agencies theyre in it to shape perceptions many others are in it for the money but how do you make money Online Engagement the art and science of keeping people flipped its what keeps the online money machine churning and so algorithms have been programmed to push content that gets high and gauge what algorithms dont necessarily determine the veracity of content theyre often and moves use the rewards of growth and the lack of regulation meant that if you want to have an impact clicks a what you need to go off to. The drive for clicks isnt restricted to governments political movements or marketing agencies theyre in it to shape perceptions many others are in it for the money but how do you make money Online Engagement the art and science of keeping people flipped its what keeps the online money machine churning and so algorithms have been programmed to push content that gets high and gauge what algorithms dont necessarily determine the veracity of content theyre often more concerned with the by reality of it so if more people are engaging with a certain topic the algorithms might say like this might matter to you as well that could be you know the new avengers movie could be a new viral video about cats but it could also be something of importance such as you know a new breaking news story and this is where we see. Dr is trying to manipulate the popularity metric and thats why we get dissent from ation stories spreading like wildfire because if there are a bunch of fake accounts online engaging with fake breaking news story that might get pushed into the news feeds of real users when the real people will start interacting and sharing these distant from nation stories further and further. On up to us and. Im on my way now to a cut in central mexico in august 2 10182 men Ricardo Flores was beaten and burned to death because people thought that they were child snatches warnings on Facebook Twitter and whatsapp had gone viral with the news that gangs of kidnappers had been picking up children and selling their organs the news wasnt true but the stereo would lead to the most brutal form of violence. You know more of their left but its on this case at all i mean yes this may be a. Left also does that get us it brought it must go to another sallis sort of the local facebook you know speaking yes come on you know yes and close a several more set i mean will. They actually had to like i mean they really went to say shes voting a state they were going to import i like and that among the photos they could get i would also spit you also they could get to some extent and begin your square loss i mean what i suspect other sort of more mature than consent i mean he can. Have an old and. There was. A video. On the day of the attack 22 year old when hes 43 year old. With traveling together. They made a pit stop to buy a drink it happened to be near a school and with suspicion of child kidnappings rife in the area they became fatal targets to a mob galvanized by online. I met would resign. And ill go to sister in law. Or are portrayed will. Be honest. I mean yes they are but im no lock on but the. Bottom is on this and the what this. Up and say. Get me hala what im michael sam this will make one yellow what im Michael Savage this up and say oh no more. Us going to the bottom he said its not a battle. Is far far less. For process. And theyre not sent there by law. Secondly possibly even more shocking than the impact of this fake news is the motivation for it of an ideology only plays a small part in a scam thats really all about money. The money were talking isnt small change in mexico a website can earn around a 1000. 00 u. S. Dollars for every 1000000 page views every time a person lands on a page the advertising algorithm kicks in and the website starts. Creating a website isnt difficult and most times a single group of women strangers will have several on the go at once generating around 2. 00 to 5000. 00 a month it doesnt matter if the content is real or not as long as readers flock to the site then making a buck. How do you get people to your website well thats with facebook comes in with over 2000000000 uses its one of the most powerful distribution tools for sharing content yes you do you look at it and there are. Literally meant in africa news because bolton set in motion the familiar to us and there are in england germany and there are mistakes with the guy so use him in the middle corners. Display him as a facebook get a person in the this is be the list with him but its a little notice of locals you know mentor the lynch i mean toss in this accustomed you let on a little more of that style is a bonus in the way life is a competitor no problem unless youre not going to sort of mental impairment to simply let them you know more to see intent or something of that place but a fellow by him is can see in simple he can the figures. But i had a clue to put it in there at the end of the way in which social media platforms to distribute all kinds of fake news or dissent from a show about politics or conspiracy theories about politics or any any other aspects of life is really really important because most people today use these platforms to find news and information and its often a trusted source of news and information not as much as traditional t. V. Or Mainstream Media but its trusted in the sense that its our friends and our family who are sharing this content and we tend to trust information that comes from people who are like minded theres all kinds of research from the field of psychology that you know talks about confirmation bias and thats why facebook can be such a powerful pop forum for spreading falsehoods about politics because we do inherently trust this information a little bit more than than other kinds of information getting facebook on the record isnt easy. The company is battling a lot of justifiably bad press around the world but Lewis Theriot the strategic manager for news at facebook mexico did agree to meet without pay and most of us here liberty less important than they suspect the government they want the post be on your side no they are other think that is the people there. The former focus will focus on other sources going to the platform i can look at him because then i use them to provide them with under the secrecy a name of the voters this source is who sets it up that is it went thats francis doesnt have also forgot to watch on their own but theyre important that they last quintets files as a facebook closest thing is that was kind of him putting a get in systemic. Response of you that is what only a kid that is a continual bit of water logged off. As necessary us here most of us include some of those enormous company that yes. Most of the law here yet procure a little bit more but at the back of the court there are us data based luiss facebooks thats a pain he gave us lots of millions of fake accounts taken down and thousands of millions of spam posts cleaned off the site by Artificial Intelligence algorithms sweeping the. Training algorithms to recognize misinformation is incredibly complicated no wylder of them can easily determine whats true or false after all there are cases where even human stone agree so in an effort to curb the spread of misinformation the company has begun to collaborate with external factor is. The number one project book again the most important mother if you cover the steps are you out of most clinics parables but if you got all this you could maybe because theyre going to because you. 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Other night with us who are these this equipped to deal with this received little puddle structures look most of the responses that weve seen from the platforms just far have gone to tweaking their algorithms to how downgrades and certain kinds of this information from being shared online were seeing Companies Like facebook or google work with fact check or invest in Media Literacy programs so that citizens can be a little bit more educated about how to find and challenge the information that they find and discover online i dont think a lot of the changes have really addressed the heart of the issue in the real nuts and bolts of why dissent from ation goes viral in the 1st place going back to their Business Models and going back to the algorithms and the way that they still incentivize certain kinds of content to go viral opposed to there as there is real systemic challenges in the way that these platforms are governed and operated operated and there hasnt been enough attention or rethinking about how these big structure or is actually are contributing to the problem. Facebook says avoiding misuse of it services is a big priority i contacted twitter in mexico as well and they said the same thing but for someone who is not just seen the misinformation was online but actually food in them these if its by the social media platforms a little more than window dressing the former assistant assumed the order less than this but we girls if they look too and look what distant in them which up but assume the less youll see that its made us if youre going to assume this is just a little kiss you for this in this at the one already im. Normally didnt. Tend to leprosy on the one hand theres an eskimo youll just have to go though it is some of. Its a part of the curve to put a strain on but also look at it in the gospel i mean look with them which obviously youre going to get are several mature particularly if you know levers portfolio. With billions of pieces of content being uploaded to the internet every single day its no surprise that tackling online manipulation is such a challenge digital deception is now a global game so no matter how many pages of poems sort of tweaks to the algorithm that might happen nothings going to actually change until after clicks a scene is more than just insurance and revenue generators in an internet environment where engagement and clicks and viral 80 s what drives the spread of content i dont think its fair to cut users off the hook in this problem because democracy is something thats hard work at something that we as citizens have to work towards and invest time and to find Accurate Information and not something thats easy you know the real power in the internet is that it can bring us together and we weve seen not time and time again so going back to that more often mystic view of what the internet can and could be for a Democratic Society and political participation and i think its something we need to remind ourselves of and work towards as individuals. So i was going to go home to. Thinking about some of these Big Questions around social media and democracy and what it means to be not only a user of technology but a citizen in our digital public sphere the 1st thing i would do is request all of the data about me from these big social media platforms from facebook from twitter from google its really important that we have an insight into actually how vast this Data Collection system is and how to ensure and how details this kind of information can actually be about us and i think thats one of the 1st real eye opening things that users are are shocked by the fact that these platforms might have conversation and your private messages the fact that they might have even accessed the phone number is on your found if you installed the facebook app these are these are really big question and underlying all of the Big Questions around social media democracy is are our rights of privacy and what that actually means in the digital age. 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I cannot lock my phone with my face you can access your bank account with your voice unique algorithmic measurements of us that are revolutionizing the process of identification the biometrics of a far from perfect convenience and seeming infallibility comes at a cost most crucially our privacy. In the fall for the firefox series on the radio addresses the appropriation of our most personal characteristics all hail the algorithm on a 0. There is no channel by coverage of world news like we do the scale of this camp is like nothing youve ever seen happen called aragon what we want to know is how do these things affect people we revisit places stay even when there are no International Headlines aljazeera really invests in that and thats a privilege as a journalist. An ethiopian ours to crack down and communist rebel only to be disobey it. A familys tragedy and twined with a violent chapter in the countrys history when you see the