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you've heard about it trolls but fake news. there are algorithms that 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 with the mexico is probably not the 1st place that comes to mind when you think of online manipulation. sure, it's happening everywhere, but the countries we often hear most about the usa and russia. mexico, however, has been a testing ground for some of the most insidious online tactics we've seen, on least around the world. there's a blogger turned activist called alberto a school. here in mexico city who i'm on my way to make now. oh good has been

deeply involved in investigating political bought trolls, an artificial trends in mexico since 2010. he's received significant flow back because of his work. death threats have forced him to leave the country 5 times. we important to me he got to get my most budget specified. russo. what's the send him get them into. yeah. so yes. yes. and which is fine. it's joel ok. there was some of those to them we're going to and there must do me on the quinta, them in the facebook and instagram get can thought of the f, a dollar sort of deals. i thought i thought of the money like useful lamentable women. this when they lose together and then i'm which of the enable it. and then i'm, we're trying fluency one of the most effective and powerful tools for those who want to push an agenda on line is the not. now,

books are essentially just pieces of software algorithms that run whatever tasks you set them. and a lot of the internet runs. however, they've also become synonymous with fake social media accounts. pushing political agendas will generating artificial likes, shares or follow the date of these fully automated sam. but mostly overall, their actions were simply too obvious, making them easy to detect which meant they got purged and easy to what by uses which they got ignored. so now literally armies of people are paid to act like books. they're also called trolls or decks. so lando do not mean to me, look into mil from us because don't handle the rectum in there. and this was the correct it was that what skip right on this to me on this once look of us can be achieved. l. telephone, keep welcome to poker c. endless. interesting, gentle squint of the twitter they in offering you

a dick's and this is the number of guns that you can buy or rent in one hour. you can build that during the quantity of gums. dec saw the secret tools used by marketing agencies. publicity manages political parties and governance to base topics and people on line ought to divert and distract from unfavorable attention. the advantage of having these human boxes that will they behave more human online, so the chances of them being eliminated or dismiss a law. however, a letter says bought activity, even if done by humans, has an admissible characteristic. it says invoice. i see, you know, what can, there are no more electron taken out right? is being, is going to look at the commissioner conferences. you took it and read is comalla races. the article, what am i sort of going to go to contest on the contest? we're going to compare the most, most of the you are going to see and then they don't put others,

have lots of programmers aboard sort of throws but a muscular intention to respond 10 years look similar if that's going to young to know. and then on the form us, whether along the way compact analysts or there's a good telephone movie and then there's a gap because to me and just to let us down and though that i meant it was come with us and then more telephone, know that i'm because you're still in the heart of those over from elections to big news events to political debate decks, pylon and dr. online chapel. and they're alarmingly successful in schooling, conversations and warping narrative. a study by the oxford internet institute shows that between 20172018, the number of countries where organized social media manipulation occurs increased from 28 to 48. the biggest drivers of organized online manipulation around the

world. political parties, the realization many of them at the head is that instead of trying to sense the social media platforms, it's much more effective to simply flood them with bots, junk news, and different nation. samantha bradshaw was one of the researchers who worked on the report. advertisers have used these platforms to reach new audience as a new market. but now we're seeing political parties learn that these platforms can also be used to way public opinion. and so instead of selling us these goods they're, they're selling us world leaders or political ideologies by using the advertising infrastructure and the algorithm to slowly start nudging perspectives and nudging opinions about politics. we're seeing this shift away from purely automated accounts to more human operators. we're finding actual real people for hire to work on political campaigns,

to work with more repressive governments to target people on line with the kind of speech to ultimately suppress their participation in politics and in public discussion. and a lot of people don't necessarily participate in political discussions online anymore. i even find myself withdrawing a little bit from commenting on politics just because of the enormous reaction that you can get. and it's hard to know whether or not these are real people, that you only have these views or whether they're just a paid troll, sitting far off country somewhere, just design to make me feel this way and to make me withdraw from participating in these discussions online dixon, the do so well because clicks had become the defective machine. the online world, with all become accustomed to the fact that for years the algorithms behind facebook, twitter, instagram,

and the others have rewarded big numbers more thought it was no comment washes and more views. the rewards of growth and the lack of regulation meant that if you want to have an impact, clicks on what you need to go up the drive, the clicks isn't restricted to governments. political movements or marketing agency . there in it to shake perceptions. many others, i read it for the money, but how do you make money online? engagement? the art and science of keeping people? it's what keeps the online money machine churning and so algorithms having programs to push content that gets high engagement algorithms don't necessarily determine the veracity of content. they're often more concerned with the 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 vendor as movie. it could be a new viral video about caps. but it could also be something of importance, such as new breaking news story. and this is where we see bad actors trying to manipulate the popularity metric. and it's why we get this information stories spreading like wildfire. because if there are a bunch of fake accounts online, engaging with fake breaking news story, then that might get pushed into the news feeds of re users and then real people will start interacting and sharing these to information stories further and further . i'm on my way now to a cutlass in central mexico in august 2018 to men. ricardo, when albert of flores were beaten and burned to death, because people thought that they were child snatches, warnings on facebook, twitter, and what's up had gone viral with the news that kings of kidnappers had been

picking up children and selling the old. and the news wasn't true, but they stereo whipped up, led to the most brutal form of milk, violet. yet more then let's put it on us. get said robin. yes we vehicle give gives us lots of those that got us. it brought must go. us in control, going out various ellis. so at the local facebook, you know, speaking yes, good morning. earth and wireless. a federal motor saturday. we will be here. this isn't like me that it went this. i say the thing is we're going to get put into the month of the get. i would also spent your so they could get a put us next and you can use wireless. what specialists are, morgan, you want your singles mccune and consent, and he can the

on the day of the attack 22 year old ricardo, when he's 43 year old uncle alberto, were traveling together. they made a pit stop to buy a drink. it happened to be near school and with suspicion of child kidnapping rice in the area. they became fatal targets to a mob galvanized by online rooms. i met with rosario rodriguez, ricardo's mother and sister in law. guess i have is the far right. apple because you want to get a persona guess it was $5.00 a but no luck on the work. but i mean on the same as as he he woke up and say get me hold off what i'm saturdays for me. when you look for the medical service company for them off to get the 1st one, you said not a battle for

5. good morning, gussy on this for false as part of the pianist handling offensive bio for 2nd noise . possibly even more shocking than the impact of this fake news is the motivation for it. often ideology only plays a small part in a scam that's really all about money. the money we're talking isn't small change. busy in mexico, a website can and around a 1000 us dollars for every 1000000 page views. every time a person lands on a page, the advertising algorithm kicks in and the website start creating a website isn't difficult. and most times a single group of administrators will have several months ago and one generating around $2.00 to $5000.00 a month. it doesn't matter if the content is real or not, as long as read is flocked to the site, then making

a buck. how do you get people to your website? well, that's where the facebook comes in. with the 2000000000 uses, it's one of the most powerful distribution tools for sharing content. yes into you can go look at it. but she did that element that lucas from the news, just put them sharon will send them to us in rancho me into that. are my slicks, mr. gus or you can in the middle goodness, if you could, let me, let me look into speaking of the facebook. get a person in the list or in general, but it's a lot of pieces, okay. you know, mentor the local channels and if you don't have a little more expensive, but it's in the way, it's a computer problem. but again, that's what i meant orange, i'm innocent. i'm in a little more to st. dental's and in place, but a phone package. so you can probably kind of figure yes, but i find that at least, but i know the way in which social media platforms distribute all kinds of

fake news or just information about politics or conspiracy theories about politics or any, any other aspects of life. it's really, really important because most people today use these platform to find new and information. and it's been a trusted source of news and information, not as much as traditional tv or mainstream media. but it's trusted in the sense that it's our friends in our family who are sharing this content. and we tend to trust information that comes from people who are like minded. there's all kinds of research from the field of psychology that talks about confirmation bias. and that's why facebook can be such a powerful platform 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 isn't easy. the

company is battling a lot of justifiably bad press. around the world, but louis de reality strategic manager knew that facebook, mexico did agree to meet him and his dad was handling the feel as important the spectacle. and then they ran the thought daniel politic. that is the people that also sent the form up. okay, so on, so i saw some dental in the form i can look at that i, it comes to them with a single same table that they gave most of this, those cells a fast enough that i went aside from the same simple government in a combat thing on the la quinta file for the facebook last us, the miles i thought it was, candles him pre a to get in to stem until fitness terrace for somebody that s what on level a decided to continue open for a lot at all. i, simplest campbell's, my society, us, him and we're starting to sun as to normal school when he died. yes. mr. thing little

here. yeah, probably a little bit more, but at the, out of the current status is louis says, facebook, it's a pain. he gave us lots of numbers, millions of take accounts, taken down and thousands of millions of span cleaned up the site by artificial intelligence algorithm sweeping the platform. but training algorithms to recognize misinformation is incredibly complicated. no algorithm can easily determine what's true or false. after all, there are cases where even humans don't agree. so in an effort to curb the spread of misinformation, the company has begun to collaborate with external fact checkers from, you know, sort of the project or more support i'm other than if you can assess or you can experiment if you've got a, what is equal manuscript gusio k, if you another thing that a company or dental that up up up up up on my facebook, an item may be flagged your news feed if it has been disputed by an independent 3rd party fact checker outside of facebook. yes sir,

you'll see that company all 5 so will know him for months left a most more receival of this on us going to the company will pay. he looked at telecom will file support for plays like that. i like that. he can see that you see electing will. he whispered, i get a thick that continue to put concealment. they take for supple yellows in for him for a report. this purpose is swati us. when use if that if they report that will stick it in your company was 5, so whole handle on analysis comparison. and you can comment that is the most i can think of all that. and i will say that the company will instances, say, los angeles received a loss. i lost fact checkers. not. most of the responses that we've seen from the platforms thus far have gone to tweaking their algorithms to help downgrade some certain kinds of this information from being shared online. we're seeing

companies like facebook or google work, with fact checkers or invest in media literacy program for that citizens can be a little bit more educated about how to find and challenge information that they find and discover online. i don't think a lot of the changes have really addressed the heart of the issue and the real nuts and bolts of why this information 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 others. there's real systemic challenges in the way that these platforms are government and operate operated. and there hasn't been enough attention or rethinking about how these bigger structures actually are contributing to the problem. facebook says,

avoiding misuse of its 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 for them, these efforts by the social media platforms a little more than window dressing, the former assistant and or lesson this weekend. so not to end up with something in the which up, but it's, you know, the last, the last meadows soon the sellers. but like i say, we'll look at what this initiative and already and low medium. yes. and we important leprosy on the left hand. but so let's come all your to miss together. what is the most come with this? i perfect that put us your number but a sort of look at it because i mean me up with them, which is general curos at which point. okay. in a little while, so you gotta put us young with billions of pieces of content being uploaded to

the internet every single day. it's no surprise that tackling online manipulation is such a challenge. digital detection, it's now a global game. so no matter how many of the tweaks to the algorithm that might happen, nothing's going to actually change until i click a seen more than just influence and revenue generated in an internet environment where engagement and clicks and by reality is what drives the spread of content i don't think it's fair to cut users off the hook in this problem because democracy is something that's hard work. it's something that we as citizens have to work towards and invest time and to find accurate information. it's not something that's easy. you know, the real power in the internet is that it can bring us together and we, we've seen not time and time again. so going back to that more optimistic view of

what the internet can and could be for democratic society and political participation. and i think it's something we need to remind ourselves of and work towards as individuals. so if i was going to go home today to end 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 it could have been in our digital public sphere. the 1st thing i would do is request all of the data about me from the big social media platforms from facebook, from twitter, from google. it's really important that we have an insight into actually how vast this data collection system is and how insure kids and how detailed this kind of information can actually be about us. and i think that's one of the 1st real eyeopening things that users are shocked by. the fact that these platforms might

have conversations of your private messages, the fact that they might have even access the phone number is on your phone. if you installed the facebook. these are, these are really big questions and underlying all of these big questions around social media, democracy is our, our right to privacy and what that actually means in the digital age. it's the, i'm in the deepest kick it okay. when's that? when he says he has to get so close to the so most but with animals, the local fisher faculty, the meaning console by that no sort of but a pc, pc we endless day continue to move, fussiness move the well, kill the needle. good thing on that car lisa. they must seattle. you gotta get them when that a extra see what, but i get a 100 level that he says he both those maybe you'll get to know maybe

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