Ostensibly, this is about the Israel/Gaza crisis. But, its actually about something more important and its a theme I hit on in my social media trigger posts. Its about bias in the news we receive due to the way social media works. We construct a representation of our interest by choosing to follow or like specific pages. The more we engage with certain type of content, the more similar content is made visible in our feeds. and The better we get at modeling user preferences, the more accurately we construct recommendation engines that fully capture user attention. In a way, we are building personalized propaganda engines that feed users content which makes them feel good and throws away the uncomfortable bits. Its TRUE. And scary. And if we dont regularly seek out ideas and issues that make us uncomfortable or with which we disagree, we will never see them. io9/the-biggest-source-of-disinformation-on-the-gaza-confli-1616469889?utm_campaign=socialflow_io9_facebook&utm_source=io9_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 02:05:00 +0000
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