AI to Track How Dissent Grows on Twitter

AI to Track How Dissent Grows on Twitter

Freedomist Editor January 17, 2022

Billionaires and their corporate toys are using artificial intelligence and deep learning machines to attempt to re-engineer humanity to be more obedient to them, as well as being less competetive. Researchers from Europe are attempting to use AI to analyzie tweets about vaccines and climate change to learn how to identify sources of dissent and shut it down. Of course the researchers didn’t say such things outright, but, in essense, this is how we read a project such as this. Researchers claim to just be attempting to understand how opinions form, how ideas spread, but they’re essentially seeking to map out the structures of dissent itself.

Researchers use AI to analyze tweets debating vaccination and climate change

From phys.org
2022-01-17 09:06:08

Excerpt:

Using artificial intelligence (AI) researchers have found that between 2007 and 2016 online sentiments around climate change were uniform, but this was not the case with vaccination.

Climate change and vaccinations might share many of the same social and environmental elements, but that doesn’t mean the debates are divided along the same demographics.

A research team from the University of Waterloo and the University of Guelph trained a machine-learning algorithm to analyze a massive number of tweets about climate change and vaccination.

The researchers found that climate change sentiment was overwhelmingly on the pro side of those that believe climate change is because of human activity and requires action. There was also a significant amount of interaction between users with opposite sentiments about climate change.

However, in the snapshot of the timeframe of the dataset, vaccine sentiment was nowhere near so uniform. In fact, only some 15 or 20 percent of users expressed a clearly pro-vaccine sentiment, while around 70 percent expressed no strong sentiment. Perhaps more importantly, individuals and entire online communities with differing sentiments toward vaccination interacted much less than the climate change debate.

“It is an open question whether these differences in user sentiment and social media echo chambers concerning vaccines created the conditions for highly polarized vaccine sentiment when the COVID-19 vaccines began to roll out,” said Chris Bauch, professor of applied mathematics at the University of Waterloo. “If we were to do the same study today with data from the past…

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Biden Admin Has Begun Mining for Bitcoin

Ivo Fysic December 10, 2021

US Government is Mining Bitcoin, Says White House Adviser : CryptoCurrency

From www.reddit.com
2021-12-06 11:17:20
/u/AmbientTextures
Excerpt:

tldr; Cryptocurrency expert and White House adviser Whit Gibbs revealed that Joe Biden’s government has been mining bitcoin. Gibbs made the revelation during an interview on Anthony Pompliano’s “Best Business Show” on Wednesday, December 1st. Meanwhile, Senator Elizabeth Warren has lobbied against a bitcoin mining company in New York due to its impact on climate change.

This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

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Class-Action Suit Claims Facebook Job Ads Violate Israel Law

Ivo Fysic October 7, 2021

The Silicon Valley giant, Facebook, faces a class-action lawsuit in Israel for allegedly violating its anti-discrimination job advertising laws. Facebook’s allowance of advertisers to target certain demographics for job advertising is a violation of Israel’s anti-discrimination advertising laws.

Israeli class-action suit against Facebook targets job ads

From www.jpost.com
2021-10-03 16:00:00

Excerpt:

A class-action lawsuit filed in Israel against Facebook charges that ads on the social media giant violate the Equal Employment Opportunity Act, which prohibits the posting of discriminatory job ads.

Israeli employment law, like that in most Western countries, states that a job advertisement cannot discriminate by age, gender, race, political beliefs or other variables. The law allows for anyone affected by such discrimination to be compensated for NIS 50,000, without proof of damage.

“Years ago that meant that a company couldn’t write explicitly in a job ad that it was only looking for, say, white males aged 25-40,” explained attorney Dr. Matan Gutman, who filed the case at the Tel Aviv Regional Labor Court. “But Facebook’s ad system allows companies to discriminate in a more elegant way – by offering the options to target only certain types of people. That would be equivalent to a newspaper offering its clients the option to target only certain readers, which would clearly be prohibited. But Facebook publishes thousands of such job ads in Israel every year.”

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Telegram Auto-Delete Bug Information Released by Dmitrii

Parker Davis October 7, 2021

A researcher that goes by the name Dmitrii decided that the bouty award, coupled with the delay in response, from Telegram after he disclosed a safety flaw in the app, was enough for him to release an auto-delete bug, Telegram had offered a bounty award to Dmitrii of $1,159 if he chose not to release the information. Due to Telegram failing to fix the problem, and the low amount of money Telegram offered, it is assumed Dmitrii chose to release the information.

Researcher refuses Telegram’s bounty award, discloses auto-delete bug

From arstechnica.com
2021-10-04 14:12:18
Ax Sharma
Excerpt:

Telegram patched another image self-destruction bug in its app earlier this year. This flaw was a different issue from the one reported in 2019. But the researcher who reported the bug isn’t pleased with Telegram’s months-long turnaround time—and an offered $1,159 (€1,000) bounty award in exchange for his silence.

…mononymous researcher Dmitrii discovered a concerning flaw in how the Telegram Android app had implemented self-destruction.

Because each instance of self-destruction takes at least 24 hours to run, Dmitrii’s tests spanned a few days.

“After only a few days… having shown diligence, I achieved what I was looking for: Messages that should be auto-deleted from participants in private and private group chats were only ‘deleted’ visually [in the messaging window], but in reality, picture messages remained on the device [in] the cache,” the researcher wrote in a roughly translated blog post published last week.

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How DNC Hunger Artsts Are Seeking to Make Facebook Pay for January 6th

Paul Collier October 4, 2021

A Facebook whistelblower will claim the company failed to take multiple warnings seriously leading up the events surrounding the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Facebook plans on getting in front of the story that seems to have legs and seems to be building negative momentum against the Silicon Valley leviathon. They will attack the credibility of the whistleblower and claim they knew full well the science and did all they could to minimize the damage.

The whole affair is also a symbol of the cycles of moral clout public scalping Facebook itself has enabled, and is now on the ‘being scalped’ end of the latest public moral clouting. Here’s how we got here and where we’re going next:

Facebook chose to advance a particular narrative after the January 6th Capital Hill Incident that is sometimes called a Riot, sometimes called a Protest Gone Bad, sometimes called an Insurrection, and sometimes called literally Apocolypse itself. Facebook chose to go with the Apoclypse Iself narrative and treated any information that might be shared that might offer a counter to the Apoclype narrative, one that would lead the non-poliitcally engaged to assume that a man dressed a buffalo almost single-handeldy brought down the American state.

Nevermind those ARs, boys, mind the buffalo head men. They can just walk into the Capital and boom, all those military advantages just evaporate before the might of the buffalo-headed men.

Well, that decision to throw in with the Apocolypse version of “The Incident of Jaunary 6th on the Capitol Hill” might potentially backfire. You see, leading up to the event that almost lead to literally wholesale Mad Max Anarchy across the American lands themselves, Facebook allowed people to stream, stream, stream, and share, and group-up, and organize, and, and, and…..

I am assuming you are getting the picture here. The very sicophants of the cult of the DNC these Facebook execus were placating AFTER “the incident” are now using Facebook’s own characterization of the event through what it has censored after the event, action that demonstrates, in this writer’s opinion, not only an advocation of the Apocolyptic narrative, but a coercive enforcement of that assumption on its users. Any expression that challenged the DNC official narrative of “the incident” would be censored, and if the user repeated this offense, the user themselves woud be removed.

And now, that hardball approach to post-1-6 has left Facebook vulnerable to the same people they chose to enable, the rabid adherents of the DNC party line, which, at this point in the political discouse, represents that vast overwhelming majority of the ‘left,’ even the so-called anarchist left, who seem more inclined than ever to cheer on corporate censorship and massive state spending bills that are thousands of pages long and will produce tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of regulatory code through which the interests of the few will be protected from the liberty of the many.

But, it might give some people here and there some sugar to get them through the apocolypse, so, that’s good, and that’s about the best the ‘left’ will ever get from the international party they seem so willing to serve, the DNC.

Be careful the mosnters you create, though, DNC, and don’t be so trusting of the models your deep learning machines are showing you to follow. We humans will not be pinned down by machines and you’re soon to discover this truth. Here, Facebook’s machines did not protect the executives from the beasts they were creating, the people that thrive on public scalpings for their primary source of power, the acolytes of the DNC.

They will pick your bones apart in a second if it means moral clout as defined by the DNC.

This unquenchable hunger, the acolytes of the DNC as a spirt, seeks revenge to offer it but a moment of rest from the burden of such desires. The buffalo-headed men are rotting in jail, even as we speak, and culturally, they are mostly buffoons and mad, but inept, terrorists who sought to restore the KKK to world power once again. The vanquished buffalo-headed men are now just leftist menes floating freely on this same Facebook platform.

The hunger artists in reverse have a new delicious dish to eat, one which could afford them even more power to strip the bones off the latest opportunity for public moral clout scalping. their source of sustenance. That dish, of course, is Facebook, and a whistleblower is about to come forward and declare that Facebook was told it was enabling the January 6th Apocolype but did nothing about it.

Facebook is seeking to pre-empt the damage by going on the offenseive against the whisteblower before they ever speak. Facebook aims to discredit the whisteblower’s claims in advance by asserting they did all they could and followed the science that suggested what they should do next (what their deep learning think-tanks were ‘suggesting’).

Perhaps the machines predicted more placation after the election was declared for Biden than actually occored. Who knows? Either way, schadenfreude would not be inappropriate here for so many of us hemmed in by the new morality of the DNC as upheld by Silicon Valley, in this case. Watching the suits of Facebook having to face their own moral puritanicalism from people who have moral clout than them will surely be a glorious thing to behold, to a point, but when the kids make up (and they will) it will result in at least a short-term bad outcome for the rest of us, even more governance placed in the hands, directly, of the most active of moral clout activists, the hunger artists of the DNC.

Facebook goes on offense ahead of whistleblower revelations on Capitol riot role

From www.independent.co.uk
2021-10-03 21:49:04
Sheila Flynn
Excerpt:

Facebook was on the offense this weekend as the clock ticked down to a company whistleblower coming forward with revelations about the social network.

The whistleblower is due to reveal their identity on news programme 60 Minutes on Sunday. The former employee, who has turned over thousands of potentially damaging documents regarding company policy, is expected to allege that Facebook had dismantled security protections too soon after the 2020 election, contributing to the fallout and Capitol riots; disregarded or failed to disclose damaging research; and profited from users sharing divisive content.

The social media giant has been accused of failing to adequately address known harmful consequences of its platform and its tools. Key amongst the criticisms is that Facebook has contributed to the 6 January storming of the Capitol, political polarization across America and even negatively affected teens’ mental health.

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Has the DNC Become Some Kind of New Right Dressed in Blue?

Paul Collier October 1, 2021

The alleged #resist movement the DNC in part wraps around itself derives its moral high ground from the claim it is simply antifascist, that’s all, and all of the uses of coercion, from burning down buildings to destroying businesses and careers of people who violate the antifascist code are for the good of the whole.

Of course, the whole is the people who are still qualified as people, a trick often used by factions seeking to create soldiers willing to die and to kill. Anyone outside the orthodoxy is not to be engaged with as a fellow human neighbor in an American Democratic Republic limited by a Constitution fundamentally defined by the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence.

The whole construct of the American state as it ostensibly claimed it was is called in to doubt, all accused of being nothing but a giant historic dog whistle for fascism at its core. To stop this, the antifascist must end the very idea of America itself, stripping the land and the people of the whole privilage, entitelment of ‘rights’ so uniquely enjoyed in the land by the vast majority of people who live and grow up and age and die here.

That whole movement is still applying preassure on the Biden administration to demand that corporations, financial institutions, every institution, freeze people and their businesses out of of the new normal state.

The pressure from the muscle of the party has yielded some fruit as Jen Psaki, the current, and first, primary surrogate of the Biden administration, to publically proclaim the administration’s support of Corporations stepping up their efforts to purge the landscape of the non-orthodox, both the content and the creators and anyone associated with them, especially anyone willing to associate with these creators commercially.

Fascism is a complex term that has multiple meanings, some of which might be in flux even as I write this, but, one of the fundamentally sure signs that fascism is afoot is when the corporation and the state become one, and the state is able to use the corporations to apply soft-power coercion on the opposition without any need for governments to write laws at all.

Whether or not we can term this use of the corporation in totality ‘fascism’ is up to contextuality, not detailed poilitical science definitions of a term whose political science definitions hardly anyone fully understands, nor are fully settled as the debate about where fascism begins and ends still continues to this day. In the vaguer, adjectival sense of the term, which, I support, is simply using power advantage to control the weak through a strict enforcement of a moral supremacist, certain code.

Fascists, in the broader adjectival sense, are those who use tactics of subhumanization and ostracism to create hatred between groups for the purpose of creating people willing to kill and to die in the name of the morally supreme cause.

Here, we see corporations using their considerable power advantages, their near-monopolistic, and mostly cabalistic, advantages, to create fear and hate by cutting off more than half the discourse from the public square and corpo-criminalizing thoughts and people who fail to meet their supposed high moral standards.

I will let the reader decide, but, for me, this party, the DNC, and its corporate allies in Silicon Valley, Hollywoord, and New York, are more fascistic in spirit than not. All that is missing is one charismatic leader and a nationalist fervor for the doubt to be removed.

WH Press Secretary Jen Psaki PUSHES for Big Tech to Censor More

From www.newsbusters.org
2021-09-28 16:02:00
Alexander Hall
Excerpt:

It’s as if Big Tech has not already been censoring enough. Now the Biden administration is pushing platforms in an even more censorious direction.

COVID-19, like many national crises, has been used to push for more government tyranny. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki explained in a late September Morning Joe interview that platforms don’t censor Americans enough: “As we’re in the middle of a pandemic, we know that they have more data about how misinformation is traveling on the internet. And we know that people are getting misinformation on the internet that is preventing them or prompting them not to get a vaccine.”

When asked if action could be expected soon, Psaki made it clear that a series of factors need to align. “We’ll have to see. There has to be appetite in Congress. Uh, there has to be a desire to get things, uh, done and changed, but certainly elevating these issues as a number of reporters have, as you have, as we tried to do, is also…

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YouTube Calls Ron Paul Channel Kill “A Mistake”

Mark Clouse October 1, 2021

YouTube says Ron Paul Institute’s channel was removed by ‘mistake,’ is now reinstated

From www.theblaze.com
2021-09-30 20:55:00
Chris Pandolfo
Excerpt:

YouTube on Thursday restored the Ron Paul Institute channel after mistakenly removing it for violating its community guidelines, the company said.

Responding to a tweet from former Texas Congressman Dr. Ron Paul announcing that his channel had been removed apparently without warning, YouTube said its enforcement action was a “mistake” and quickly corrected the error.

Earlier, Paul tweeted he was “Very shocked that @YouTube has completely removed the Channel of my Ron Paul Institute,” the popular libertarian host of the “Ron Paul Liberty Report,” saying the channel was removed without warning, strikes, nor evidence of wrongdoing.

“Only explanation was ‘severe or repeated violations of our community guidelines.’ Channel is rarely used. The appeal was automatically rejected. Help?” said Paul.

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Facebook is Built on Anger, and They Know It

Parker Davis September 27, 2021

The social media platform that wears its moral supremacism on its sleeve, Facebook, has a problem living up to its own moral supremacist standards, which is more often than not when dealing with moral supremacists in general.

The Wall Street Journal has conducted a study that shows that Facebook is LITERALLY relying on the emotion of anger as its best marketing tool. It’s what sells and what builds. Anger is the energy that Facebook must sustain and cultivate if it hopes to continue its unquenchable desire for more. If it wants to gain members, grow revenues, and everyone does, it seems, then it must continue to make hundreds of millions of people angry every day to do so.

But hey, at least they”re not racist or bigoted, though.

Facebook knowingly makes people angry and have worse body image, Wall Street Journal report finds

From www.vox.com
2021-09-21 13:00:00

Excerpt:

Reading the findings from the Wall Street Journal’s massive, three-part investigation into Facebook — that the platform makes people angry and depressed, and that the company exempts a huge class of VIP users from its rules regarding harassment and incitement of violence — my reaction was: Well, obviously.

Anyone who spends a decent amount of time online knows what happens when you shove a bunch of strangers into the same place. We replicate existing power dynamics, we form groups, we troll, we project our biases, we yell until only the most extreme voices are the ones that get heard. We expect the companies that own these platforms to fix it, but nobody can agree on how.

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Anonymous Claims to Have Doxxed the Dark Alt Right Web

Paul Collier September 20, 2021

Anonymous is claiming to have conducted an operation it called “Epik Fail,” deriving its eponym from the name of a DNS server called EPIK that happens to be the home of a lot of alleged ‘alt-right’ sites, a phrase that has now almost become synonymous with white nationalism.

Some major sites on this server include Parlor, Gab, and 8chan.

The social media monopolies have successfully filtered opinions to such a degree that anytime any potential competitor creates a platform that alleges to be a ‘free speech platform,’ the first people there will be the ones from the fringe of opinion in current year society. Most of that fringe is inocuous in the sense that it doesn’t produce coerce justification against humans for merely being outside those ‘fringe’ standards.

But also contained within that fringe are the worst of the worst as far as opinions that produce non-consensual assumptions regarding those who don’t fit into the very rigid acceptable range of what it means to be human in the first place. White Supremacists most certainly fit into this worst of the worst kind of category for almost all humans across the political, philosophical, and theological spheres. Race Supremacism in general is one of the worst, most dangerous patterns of assumptions that leads to this subhumanization.

So whenever there exists a platform that is committed to creating a free speech platform in competition with a highly monitored platform, it is easy, was easy, and will always be easy, to label these platforms by whatever group is the worst of the worst to show up on that platform. It’s a brilliant tactic from a strategic perspective, but one which could not be pulled off if you did not own the means of cultural production as this particular factional coalition does, the DNC and those who are at various degrees allies and enablers of the party’s interests.

When you create such a narrow space for ‘acceptable’ opinion, there is no doubt that any platofrm, whether it was created by an actual ‘allt righter’ or a crypto-anarcho-communist, will not end up immediately, more fundamentally, populated by the worst of the worst fhe planet has to offer. The question is, can the platform transition from being a haven for the worst thoughts of humanity to a viable free speech platform populated by a wide-ranging group of opinions, hardly any of which fall into this particular category, or even many other forms of opinioning that more usually lead others to subhumanize their neighbors for their being or thought alone.

Platforms have little chance to get to that transition when the faction with the means of cultural production uses its near-monopolistic powers to pitch to the rank and file of the land a notion that these sites are havens for Nazis and Bigots. As mentioned earlier, due to the circumstance of the times, the monpolostic social media platforms having filtered out a lot of unacceptable opinions from public access, there will be some truth to what these organs of the DNC coalition claim, which will produce, and most likely is producing, a filter for preventing rank and file people for exploring these platforms as alternatives to the monpolistic ones.

The Valley Cabal, as I like to call it, the coalition of Silicon Valley Social Media giants work as an undocumented team to assure near-similar standards regarding filtering of thought on their platforms to assure that together they can effectively preemptively delegitimize any potential competitor willing to expose their weakness, the filter in the first place. The minute you open your doors to the public, actual Nazis and actual Bigots will show up.

What’s a platform to do but to be branded an alt right site before it ever got the chance to prove itself? And the filter remains protected from potential competition, and the big socs of Silocon Valley, the Valley Cabal, also remain protected from competition, meaning the rest of Corporate America will continue to rely on the Valley Cabal, if you will (yes, I’m being a bit tongue in cheek), for ad impressions to sell their products.

And now, these safe havens for the worst of us have now had, allegedly, their private data exposed, and tens of thousands of humans might find themselves on the DNC Coalition’s Dark Web hit lists. The number of actual Nazis and bigots on that list, though, will most likely be significantly less than what Anonymous will alllege, and, if it is legit, and if people start getting economic and/our physical consequences for appearing on these lists, well, there will be mostly innocent victims in the days, weeks, and months to come.

“Alt-right” domain registrar hacked, reportedly deanonymizing domain owners

From boingboing.net
2021-09-17 12:26:47
Rob Beschizza
Excerpt:

Epik, an internet services company that reportedly provided hosting and domain name services to right-wing sites such as Parler, Gab and the recently-infamous Texas abortion snitch site, was hacked this week and customer data leaked.

In a press release on the hack, dubbed Operation EPIK FAIL, Anonymous claimed that it was able to obtain “a decade’s worth” of information, including domain registrations and transfers, account credentials, and emails from an Epik employee.” This dataset is all that’s needed to trace actual ownership and management of the fascist side of the internet that has eluded researchers, activists, and, well, just about everybody,” the release alleges.

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India Working to Become World Model for Digital Caesarists

Freedomist Editor September 20, 2021

India is paving the way to justify a digital caesarism based on opaque and ill-defined standards of fake news. The end goal is to allow an essentially reactionary and authoritarian government to control digital speech by means of anti fake news rules.

These rules are applied to platforms that themselves unofficially censor the speech of people who disagree with the particular brand of Caesarism their owners embrace. So we have an right-leaning authoritarian government going up against the left-leaning censorious platforms in a battle that true freedom lovers cannot win.

See below for original reporting that is stunningly devoid of the deeper critique a true people-centered free press would exercise.

New IT Rules prevent fake news, misuse of freedom of press: Centre tells HC

From www.outlookindia.com
2021-08-31 16:14:30

Excerpt:

The Centre has defended the legality of the new Information Technology (IT) Rules before the Delhi High Court, saying that the rules seek to “prevent the misuse of the freedom of press” and protect the citizens from fake news in digital media space which used to be largely unregulated.The Centre, in its counter affidavit filed on a challenge to the constitutional validity of the new IT Rules, has submitted that although the right to freedom of speech and expression, including the freedom of press, is critical for a vibrant democracy like India, citizens “cannot be treated as passive consumers.”

While submitting that there have been “past incidents of disinformation on digital media leading to disturbance of public order”, the Centre has asserted that digital media “allows sensational content being re-circulated in a different context leading to misinterpretation by the audience”, making it susceptible to being used as fake news.

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