Online Hate Is Rampant. Here's How to Keep It From Spreading | WIRED

amarashar's bookmarks 2018-08-03

Summary:

Better yet, this was the great age of sock puppet and bot-farm technology too. So it was possible for white supremacists to give their memes and conspiracy theories artificially generated upvotes and retweets, helping them mount the “recommended” leaderboards of social media. That was part of the ploy: Make something seem so big that reporters would feel remiss in not pouncing on it. One problem reporters faced was that, from the far-right’s point of view, any coverage was good—even coverage that rebutted or fact-checked their memes. They were following the script often attributed to PT Barnum and, not incidentally, Trump: All publicity is good publicity.

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https://www.wired.com/story/covering-online-hate/

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08/03/2018, 10:21

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08/03/2018, 06:21