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Bad actors have opted to poison the internet and the flow of information by spreading polarizing material to influence people, which can include fake news, altered media content, bots, and trolls spreading biased sources and polarizing comments online. To spot it, critical thinking is necessary
Agus Sudibyo, a member of Indonesia’s Press Council, is worried about the state of journalism in Indonesia. He just published a book, Tarung Digital: Propaganda Komputasional di Berbagai Negara (“Digital Battle: Computational Propaganda in Many Countries”), about the pressures that internet giants such as Google and Facebook have put on Indonesian media by sucking up more than 50 percent of media revenue.
American as apple pie and it's really, really important for not just this country but the world. >> here is a list of some of the esteemed people that will be there to press the button. we have people -- every news network is represented, major news network is represented as well as all sorts of newspapers and again i'm just so excited to have all of these colleagues. we're competitors, somewhat, by d day, but we stand together, you know, arms locked together during this time of crisis, really, for truth as you point out, and facts. >> i think it's existential and we do have to stand together....
In the information architecture within social media is incoun e incredibly interesting. i note, it's a criticism, but there's a far left architecture manipulated in this as well. it's not just the right. there's also the bernie bot contingent that still interests on social media. these feed and fuel each other, drive the campaigns, and that's really the more important question. it's not if is it a bot or not, but an automated amplified campaign for the purpose of manipulative content, and what was the purpose of that campaign? >> and that is called computational propaganda. that's what you wri...