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Wikipedia Propaganda
Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented. Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts.
Jimmy Kimmel and Charlie Kirk - What Trump et al do not understand about the Internet
People are worried that, now that the blatant influence peddling and the outright in-the-sunlight bribery at the White House and FCC is consolidating everything from Amazon, Meta, and Google to the “major networks” into the hands of Trump’s billionaire friends, all is lost. Not so. They have bit off more than they can chew. They are still thinking small while bragging how big they are. Small minds rarely do big things. They have also kicked the bear in the process. Remember the de-centralization — on purpose? There is only one organization that is at the center of the Internet, something that most people have never heard of. It is called the IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. It’s job is simple. Remember the agreement you and I would have to work out so our addresses would not conflict/overlap? IANA does that for the whole planet.
First, Murdoch papers targeted me. Now there is evidence they falsely implicated me in a cover-up
by Gordon Brown 31/7/24 The Guardian
Lewis and Robert Winnett, who was appointed by Lewis as editor of the Washington Post before quickly deciding not to take the job, are accused of benefiting from private investigators who broke the law.
There is something wrong at the New York Times
by Lucian K> Truscott IV 5/3/24 Salon
Two things — check that, three things — appear to have gone off the rails at the paper we used to call the Gray Lady. First, whoever is in charge of the paper’s polls is not doing their job. Second, whoever is choosing what to emphasize in Times coverage of the campaign for the presidency is showing bias. Third, the Times is obsessed with Joe Biden’s age at the same time they’re leaving evidence of Donald Trump’s mental and verbal stumbles completely out of the news.
The internet is in decline – it needs rewilding
by John Naughton 4/5/24 The Guardian
Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, had come up with the idea for a “world wide web” as a way of locating and accessing documents that were scattered all over the internet. With a small group of colleagues he envisaged, designed and implemented it in the late 1980s and eventually put the whole thing – protocols, server and browser software, HTML specification, etc. – on one of Cern’s internet servers, and in doing so changed the world.
COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories
1958 Demonstration of American Dialects/Accents
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We hear 6 speakers of standard English from different areas: Smithfield Virginia, Green Bay Wisconsin, Brooklyn New York, North Andover Massachussets, and Dallas Texas. I've never heard of some of the dialect features demonstrated in this film, and think they must have been lost by the current day.
Researchers identify seven types of fake news, aiding better detection
<embed>https://phys.org/news/2019-11-fake-news-aiding.html</embed> PhysOrg 11/15/2019
In a study, researchers narrowed down myriad examples of fake news to seven basic categories, which include false news, polarized content, satire, misreporting, commentary, persuasive information and citizen journalism. The researchers also contrasted those types of content with real news and report their findings in the current issue of American Behavioral Scientist.
