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 Social media  (communication technology)   | |
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| Interest of | • Bilderberg/2019 • DFR Lab • Carl Miller • Project Iris • Reclaim The Net |
Social media are websites which allow users to choose friends and exchange information with them.
Interest
The Integrity Initiative has shown great interest in the use of social media for spreading (dis)information.
"The Weaponisation of Social Media" was on the agenda for the 2019 Bilderberg.
Censorship
"Social media companies are experimenting with Artificial intelligence technology to remove hateful content from their platform."[1]
Examples
| Page name | Description |
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| 4chan | 4Chan is a website where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously. |
| The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014. | |
| Gab | Gab is a social networking service with a strict free speech approach for which it is criticized in corporate media. |
| A popular photo sharing website. Owned by Facebook. | |
| Locals | Locals is an Alt Tech platform. |
| Telegram | Telegram is a social media service. |
| TikTok | Like YouTube but videos have a duration from fifteen seconds to three minutes. |
| Twitch | Twitch is an American video live streaming service; mainly used for video games. |
| Twitter is a social media service. | |
| YouTube | The internet's most popular video sharing site, now owned by Google. Aggressively removing information about Covid-19 while promoting Covid vaccines |
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disinformation | “The weirdest thing about the Biden administration tasking itself with the censorship of “disinformation” on social media is that the United States is the hub of a globe-spanning empire that is built upon a foundation of disinformation, maintained by disinformation, and facilitated by disinformation.” | Caitlin Johnstone | July 2021 |
| Euan Grant | “* With the help of the UK financial sector (BBA, ABI, London Stock Exchange) establish relations with EU counterparts and European for liaison with European bourses. Activity: £1.8k Euan Grant?
| Euan Grant | 30 May 2018 |
| Institute for Statecraft/Secrecy | “Social media training. Activity: £5k Chris Hernon and Charlie Hatton – Jacky Sloane to film.” | 30 May 2018 | |
| Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador | “Yes, social media should not be used to incite violence and all that, but this cannot be used as a pretext to suspend freedom of expression. How can a company act as if it was all powerful, omnipotent, as a sort of Spanish Inquisition on what is expressed?” | Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador | 14 January 2021 |
| Henry Wales | “In today’s world, we are so connected like a vast nervous system, whether we are online or not. And much like the virus, there are no borders online. So when vaccine misinformation and disinformation spreads, magnified on social media and in parts of traditional media, it exposes a collective threat to humanity. I believe that misinformation is a global humanitarian crisis, and the crisis is getting worse.” | Henry Wales |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Social Media Investigation and Monitoring Proposal - Subject Poisoning of Sergei Skripal | program proposal | 15 March 2018 | Greg Rowett | Establish the flow across social media of the messaging, and establish key influencers, friendly and anti, to HMG. |
| Document:Social Media as a vector for propaganda | paper | 26 December 2018 | Integrity Initiative |
