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finally thinking about the mental mind yes i say this but returned the sewing machine sewing i suppose was more from real time does the writing of my. knowledge i want to meet those moving back home my bones about it and social rules and informed and more dead means i'm right. my name is the american home and they weren't even. the recent vote in india the world's biggest democracy was dropped the election in america it has been said that trump would never have become president without the help of facebook and in germany and the run up to the european parliament election on you tube i posted a video railing against the conservative c.d.u. party it dominated the final days of its complaint what effects to social media
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have on the market see you tube facebook and co threatening free society our topic unshift today. 2.6000000000 people worldwide use facebook instagram i was up at least once a day i know i do social platforms actually the main place where many teenagers get their news but it's important to take sources and facts because especially in social media it's often unclear where a post comes from what comes up on the news feed is and random facebook and poll carefully tailor content to individuals interests and tastes the companies have a profile on every user each time we click on something we leave clues about our likes and dislikes and our profiles get more and more detail so if you think you're in full control of what you see online. i'm afraid that you're mistaken. all
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social media companies make money with affectively placed ads that are individually tailored to user profiles they know what kind of car users drive who's just had a baby and who is planning a world trip. so called micro-targeting can sway a user without them even noticing politicians also target their constituents but online it's often hard to recognize political ads. in them cannot invoke when the margin of an election is narrow with just a few votes tipping the scale like what just happened in michigan and wisconsin it's all about mobilizing every last voter solid data analysis can make a political communication strategy more effective than us problem look at. this is where social media profiles become a tool for focusing campaign ads car drivers want lower fuel costs young parents want safer neighborhoods and someone planning a world trip is probably well off and would be happy if taxes were lower targeting
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ads have long played an important role in campaigning. micro-targeting micro-targeting is constantly developing for george w. bush used it during his 2004 campaign as it obama in 2008 and hillary clinton and donald trump and 20 sixteenth's little interest in the market now you could argue that my kids are getting is a good thing for instance i don't own a car so i don't care about new car. but what if that makes an algorithm think i'm not interested in any car related news what about exhaust fumes on you immobility technologies but knowledge is power and people should be able to choose what information they access plus they should be provided balanced views on social media this is often not the case like on twitter where a far right german minority repeatedly manages to skew discussions.
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this is how it goes so imposing a news item saying that mohammed is the most popular name in germany's capital berlin. different mission goes viral on social media and takes on new meaning with fire right users saying it confirms their fear that germany has been flooded by foreigners. according to a new study almost half of the items posted in social media platforms lean towards the extreme right and yes only 10 percent of users belong to extreme right parties . the 5 the danger is that posts that reflect people's anger create even more anger which then ends up in established journalism. this happened after a far right politician who posted another news item and disparage the fact that there was no how loud version of a famous with chocolate prepared according to the precepts of islam. the post was shared thousands of times and even turned up in serious daily papers. in this
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case social media help far right politicians spread their world view. social media play an important role in political discourse and uses and politicians alike need to know how to handle that one great example for how not to handle things is what happened in germany in the run up of the european parliament election result as 1600000 followers and is known for his political commentary you're normally find in rapping or telling jokes but shortly before the election he posted a video that quickly went viral a modified politicians and a blistering tirade reso dismantled germany's largest conservative party the c.d.u. of course they were not amused but what the parties reaction to the video really showed was most german politician. and still don't know how to deal with social
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media does the internet is still uncharted territory for us my favorite quote by merkel what's it like in your country are your politicians also still overwhelmed with the internet if they hadn't done this review i'm going to show how city you politicians live how they like basic skills for their job how they make policies against expert opinion that they've participated in war crimes and how they're used for propaganda and misinformation against younger generations. strong words followed by an awkward aftermath the c.d.u. responded to the youtube video with p.d.f. 11 pages long and then the party's leader called for rules for digital spaces defying the status question is clear if you consider populism what rules should we apply in the analog sphere and which rules apply to digital spaceships if we can give you tons of a shout and critics say this means parties supports online censorship but reso did
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exactly what daily newspaper commentators would do he stated his opinion paradoxically politicians then began discussing whether results commons warrant being discussed at all quite a foolhardy approach meanwhile the online community began discussing what resort has not how he had said it is video was she had commented that and praised most content related to bad took place online without politicians german politicians have a lot to catch up on i think it's definitely better to join a conversation and to censor it controlling social media and restricting freedom of expression already exists in china social media is much more a part of everyday life over $800000000.00 people logged on each day but the government closely monitors what users do with their. international social media companies grew immensely over the past decade but in. china western platforms are
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not used the country has its own. instead of facebook you tube and what we chat scene away bell and. digital activists c l t and give some insight as to why. the advantage of those chinese companies are the promise of the government they harbor compasses to control our line contacts so they will not they will listen to the government or they will actually preemptively deleting lot of accountants before the internet police even take a look chinese social media providers monitor their own platforms and censorship is getting stricter shopping and browsing are permitted but content which could shed public political opinion is closely sense it and anyone who directly criticizes the chinese government faces harsh sanctions like the shanghai tell
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a human rights defenders sentenced to 19 years imprisonment he had criticised beijing's persecution of weaker muslims his we taped messages we used as evidence against him in court after the arab spring government that's where they really felt . threatened. so any information or any activities you see in the social media to correlate the collective action to express that kind of political opinion is under a severe punishment. government has largely succeeded in eliminating the topics of data protection and privacy from public debate privacy is no discussion in china because the government preventing such a large scale discussion in civil society for ordinary chinese consumers they have no option this is how china has created a system in which social media does not promote democracy. but one. about countries without the same centralized censorship as china
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a social media more neutral and reliable they're. a safe place for political opinions let's look at south america uses their can access any social platform they like and they do often 246000000 people use facebook and co at least once a day in south america far more than that in the us or you so it's not surprising that social media has a big impact on political opinion but it seems state interference is also a problem and as a whalen human rights activist majano numbers explains that there are many gun governments biggest been the source of information and this happens with government with political forces also from opposition parties within that in america and also of course with big media conglomerates but they have the broadest aspects of this information to not come from the society of. digital rights activists marianna d.s.
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anomalies says that in latin america governments do not sense your social media but that does not mean freedom of speech isn't under threat. of government are you seeing there it's cues for storing revelation about hate speech and information the sort of there's a way that opinions the governments decide what counts as fake news and hate speech no evidence required in effect this allows them to regulate social media content. for instance if you say something about the press then that is that is that sort of the precedent that can be hate speech then it becomes one of those meanings and that's not what hate speech so about hate speech about some form of protecting. critical opinions converse simply be dismissed as hate speech or misinformation and the government monitoring what should be a free space in this way can keep politicians in power while under my. running the
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principle of democracy social media and democracy difficult topic can social media strengthen democracy on the positive side social platforms make it quick and easy for anyone to exchange ideas join discussions and gather information they can actively take part in political debate on the negative side companies and politicians are controlling what content we see micro-targeting makes it easier to manipulate people than ever before right wing populist can skew public debate by constantly bringing their topics to the forefront of our discussions plus governments like china and monitoring and limiting it to vittie what do you think it's social media helping or hurting democracy i love exchange as long as we stay aware that facebook and co don't offer a balanced view and you can find more digital topics on our you tube channel see you there. by by.
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