We live in the age of fake news — both the really fake news that’s simply fake and the kind of news that some people like to call “fake” only because they don’t like hard facts.
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How to make fake friends and influence people politically with botnets by https://is.gd/SWn6wb
Dale Carnegie would be horrified. His classic on how to influence people has been perverted for online political manipulation. How do botnets work? How are they used for mass deception? How to recognize that you might be interacting with a political bot?
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AI and Machine Learning Disruption Timeline by https://is.gd/sCtK2S
How fast? Of all the questions hanging over artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, perhaps the biggest is how fast these technologies will disrupt business and society.
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How All Elections Are ‘Hacked’ by https://is.gd/FXW4I1
US authorities have arrested a reportedly shady character who goes by the alias ‘Severa’ in Spain. Severa, whose real name is Pyotr Levashov, is a Russian spammer who is listed at Number 7 in Spamhaus’ Top 10 Spammer list.
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A Simplified Guide To Social Media Marketing Platforms by http://bit.ly/2nprnGx
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While the majority of business leaders and marketers are well versed by now in social media marketing, not everyone is on board yet. There are still a lot of companies, C-Suite level executives, and “old school” workers that aren’t aware of what social media marketing platforms offer.
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The Secret Agenda of a Facebook Quiz by via 
“…Cambridge Analytica, has been using Facebook as a tool to build psychological profiles that represent some 230 million adult Americans…
…No data point is very informative on its own, but profiling voters, says Cambridge Analytica, is like baking a cake. “It’s the sum of the ingredients,” its chief executive officer, Alexander Nix, told NBC News…
…It didn’t have to build everything from scratch. Mark Zuckerberg and others had already built the infrastructure the campaign needed to reach voters directly…”
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Facebook’s Ad Targeting Is Under Scrutiny About Whether It Allows Discrimination – ProPublica suggests illegality – by via 
“… Christian Martinez, Facebook’s head of multicultural, posted a response to the article.
“A nonprofit that’s hosting a career fair for the Hispanic community can use Facebook ads to reach people who have an interest in that community. And a merchant selling hair-care products that are designed for black women can reach people who are most likely to want its products,” he wrote.
“That merchant also may want to exclude other ethnicities for whom their hair care products are not relevant—this is a process known in the ad industry as “exclusion targeting.”…”
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In my personal opinion, this could mean:
but potentially also…..
That’s a dilemma!
Best Books on the Impact of Technology on Society by medium.com
“…As technology moves from the realm of the visible to the invisible; embedded, pervasive computing that adds intelligence to even the most mundane objects and experiences — there will be an inevitable, ongoing conversation about the consequences, unintended or otherwise… The books on this list run the gamut, from unabashed enthusiasm for our coming robot overlords, to heartfelt expressions of anxiety about whether what we’re giving up is worth what we’re getting in return…”
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