Facebook and Twitter are being used to manipulate public opinion – report

[Sanguine]

Nine-country study finds widespread use of social media for promoting lies, misinformation and propaganda by governments and individuals

Alex Hern
@alexhern

Mon 19 Jun 2017 13.57 EDT
First published on Mon 19 Jun 2017 10.58 EDT

This article is 8 months old

Researchers found ‘the lies, the junk, the misinformation’ of traditional propaganda, is widespread online and ‘supported by Facebook or Twitter’s algorithms’.

Propaganda on social media is being used to manipulate public opinion around the world, a new set of studies from the University of Oxford has revealed.

From Russia, where around 45% of highly active Twitter accounts are bots, to Taiwan, where a campaign against President Tsai Ing-wen involved thousands of heavily co-ordinated – but not fully automated – accounts sharing Chinese mainland propaganda, the studies show that social media is an international battleground for dirty politics...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/19/social-media-proganda-manipulating-public-opinion-bots-accounts-facebook-twitter

Not exactly new information, but this is very informative.

[Hoodat]

Paging Capt. Obvious.  Please pick up the white courtesy phone.  Paging Capt. Obvious . . .

[Free Vulcan]

Wherever information is communicated, there will be propaganda and psyops.  Our mainstream media is an excellent example.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Propaganda on social media is being used to manipulate public opinion around the world ....

And the "mainstream" media is preparing to sue for copyright infringement.