The shareholders have voted against open sourcing their ‘propaganda atomic bomb’ fake news generator. They’re developing a business model around ‘ethical propaganda’.
On the live feed, Jonas is singing songs from the Lion King in Swedish. But this morning he was really quite eloquent talking about @EarnestVoice on BBC World Service.
Starts about 16mins in
https://t.co/F7HPNWHMXc
Join us for the @EarnestVoice project retrospective right now.
What next for Operation Earnest Voice? What have they learned from the project? Have the propaganda agency developed a corporate ethical policy?
Stream it now
https://t.co/9CYjIRzqUF
This story exposes the myth of control. Spotify & Netflix could read *private* FB messages. Microsoft, Amazon & Yahoo all had access far beyond what ANY user agreed to. The total lack of respect for user wishes is the infinitely repeating scandal of 2018 https://t.co/bbVm8odT56
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"took a week to match up 17% of the users and 11 weeks to get to a 95% rate of accuracy. (With the added GPS data from smartphones, it took less than a week to hit that number.)"
'Thousands of times a day we are put unwillingly and unknowingly into ‘buckets’ or ‘universes’ by clever data analysts who obsess over ‘click-through rates’ and ‘conversion.’
Related reading for @EarnestVoice on the politics of big data.
https://t.co/WxYO2dZuSH
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