Where can you collect the Facebook engagement data used for this analysis?
Facebool Graph api: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/reference/v2....
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#32This is why democracy is broken. Attention is scarce. So when you combine all the resources and effort that marketing departments from Fox News to Charmin toilet paper, add Facebook as a primary medium, throw iPhones and ADHD into the mix, the only tactics that work appeal to base instincts. Make something flashy, attention grabbing, and short lived. When that happens to ALL information, there’s no place left for bal…
This is fairly well understood, as is the fact that none of the parties involved - Facebook, the media, or the political parties - have an ounce of incentive to change. So, what do we do? It may be becoming apparent that the theory that democracy does not work in a world with social media is correct, but what can be done with that information? For every Buzzfeed you kill there's another, for every social network with…
Governments ran by algorithms
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here, I have a proposal for you: Imagine a world government wherein the killing, torture, and imprisonment of people is illegal, as the core clause of the state. In this state, the core clause does not permit the interests of the state over those of the individual; the state exists to support an individual. Imagine a political party which comes to power through the co-option of the public sphere to support the above…
Sorry, what is the orange flag a reference to?
Trump
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#34Can you guess why this will make only 1 in 10 people cry tears of joy? https://media.giphy.com/media/kFgzrTt798d2w/giphy.gif
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#35clickbait may get attention but does it change minds? I count a clickbait headline against the publisher and author.
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#36So now there is a cheat sheet of terms for people to use in their click bait headlines to get even more clicks!
ARRRRRRRRGGGGHH!
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#37This is why the reason is only 1 in 10 will make you... (Can we guess?)...
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#38Where can you collect the Facebook engagement data used for this analysis?
Oh, this was generated from Facebook? Totally irrelevant, then, IMO.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sortition. Rule by random citizen.
Sounds nice but pretty much guarantees that anything of any serious complexity will get contracted out (or hired in) to an increasingly entrenched oligarchy.
Politicians are already incapable of handling everything of any serious complexity, except maybe for a narrow domain of their own expertise. For everything else, they need to rely on other's advice.
It seems to me that often, those people tend to be lobbyists that just happened to volunteer themselves when the politician was out of their depth. If the politician is any good at what they do, they will consult several experts, but there is still room for significant bias to creep in.
Now the question is whether the average random citizen is more or less likely than the average politician, to succumb to this kind of external influence. My guess is that random selection will yield less people who are only in it for the power, but also less people who are genuinely driven by the need to solve problems within society.
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#40This is why democracy is broken. Attention is scarce. So when you combine all the resources and effort that marketing departments from Fox News to Charmin toilet paper, add Facebook as a primary medium, throw iPhones and ADHD into the mix, the only tactics that work appeal to base instincts. Make something flashy, attention grabbing, and short lived. When that happens to ALL information, there’s no place left for bal…
CNN, MSNBC, and BBC, are at the top of the fake news paradigm. Everything they report goes through a process that removes all details that do not match the narrative they are pushing at the time.
The underlining problem is that fair and honest journalism - that reports the facts and lets the viewer/reader make up their own mind - has been replaced by a sided & weaponized news media, owned and operated by those with high-level agendas (those that want to impose control on the public, engage in geopolitics, fight petrodollar wars, consolidate power, etc).