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            Making matters worse, bots—automated social media accounts that impersonate humans—enable misguided or malevolent actors to take advantage of his vulnerabilities.

            Compounding the problem is the proliferation of online information. Viewing and producing blogs, videos, tweets and other units of information called memes has become so cheap and easy that the information marketplace is inundated. Unable to process all this material, we let our cognitive biases decide what we should pay attention to. These mental shortcuts influence which information we search for, comprehend, remember and repeat to a harmful extent.

            Readocracy's "bust your bubble" feature will help displace your bias.

            Indiana University

            Heed to ask Sara about this

            University of Warwick

            should look them up as well.

            Herbert A. Simon noted, “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.” One of the first consequences of the so-called attention economy is the loss of high-quality information.

            Our models revealed that even when we want to see and share high-quality information, our inability to view everything in our news feeds inevitably leads us to share things that are partly or completely untrue.

            We prefer information from people we trust, our in-group

            Compounding the problem is the proliferation of online information. Viewing and producing blogs, videos, tweets and other units of information called memes has become so cheap and easy that the information marketplace is inundated.

            The need to understand these cognitive vulnerabilities and how algorithms use or manipulate them has become urgent.

            At the University of Warwick in England and at Indiana University Bloomington's Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe, pronounced “awesome”), our teams are using cognitive experiments, simulations, data mining and artificial intelligence to comprehend the cognitive vulnerabilities of social media users.

            how can we help with this?

            scientificamerican.com |

            Time Spent

            1h 53m

            # of Content Items

            13 items

            12 articles

            1 video

            Full list of content consumed, including annotations

            10 highlights & notes

            9 minutes Engaged reading, read (04/09/21)

            datajournalism.com |

            The Age of Information Disorder

            Claire Wardle leads the strategic direction and research for First Draft, a global nonprofit that supports journalists, academics and technologists working to address challenges relating to trust and truth in the digital age. She has been a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, the Research Director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and head of social media for UNHR, the United Nations Refugee Agency.

            6 minutes Engaged reading, read (06/29/22)

            econreview.berkeley.edu |

            3 minutes Engaged reading, read (06/29/22)

            wikipedia.org |

            5 minutes Engaged reading, read (10/29/22)

            wikipedia.org |

            6 minutes Engaged reading, read (10/29/22)

            fs.blog |

            Hanlon's Razor: Relax, Not Everything is Out to Get You - Farnam Street

            Hanlon’s Razor teaches us not to assume the worst intention in the actions of others. Understanding Hanlon’s Razor helps us see the world in a more positive light, stop negative assumptions, and improve relationships.

            15 minutes Engaged reading, read (10/29/22)

            law.stanford.edu |

            The Outrage-Industrial Complex | Stanford Law School

            (This article was first published in the The American Interest on December 17, 2019.) In the culture of pervasive outrage, everything is an outrage,

            6 minutes Engaged reading, read (06/29/22)

            medium.com |

            32 minutes Engaged reading, read (05/20/22)

            Making matters worse, bots—automated social media accounts that impersonate humans—enable misguided or malevolent actors to take advantage of his vulnerabilities.

            Compounding the problem is the proliferation of online information. Viewing and producing blogs, videos, tweets and other units of information called memes has become so cheap and easy that the information marketplace is inundated. Unable to process all this material, we let our cognitive biases decide what we should pay attention to. These mental shortcuts influence which information we search for, comprehend, remember and repeat to a harmful extent.

            Readocracy's "bust your bubble" feature will help displace your bias.

            Indiana University

            Heed to ask Sara about this

            University of Warwick

            should look them up as well.

            Herbert A. Simon noted, “What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients.” One of the first consequences of the so-called attention economy is the loss of high-quality information.

            Our models revealed that even when we want to see and share high-quality information, our inability to view everything in our news feeds inevitably leads us to share things that are partly or completely untrue.

            We prefer information from people we trust, our in-group

            Compounding the problem is the proliferation of online information. Viewing and producing blogs, videos, tweets and other units of information called memes has become so cheap and easy that the information marketplace is inundated.

            The need to understand these cognitive vulnerabilities and how algorithms use or manipulate them has become urgent.

            At the University of Warwick in England and at Indiana University Bloomington's Observatory on Social Media (OSoMe, pronounced “awesome”), our teams are using cognitive experiments, simulations, data mining and artificial intelligence to comprehend the cognitive vulnerabilities of social media users.

            how can we help with this?

            scientificamerican.com |

            2 minutes Engaged reading, read (06/29/22)

            socialintegrity.umich.edu |

            7 minutes Engaged reading, read (06/29/22)

            thedrum.com |

            Is everything on the internet fake?

            This is an edited transcript of a talk that The Drum’s Promotion Fix columnist, Samuel Scott, recently gave at The CMO Network in the UK.

            12 minutes Engaged reading, read (06/29/22)

            cbc.ca |

            Why you can't believe everything you read on Google reviews | CBC News

            Using data gathering and analysis techniques, a CBC News Investigation has catalogued just a portion of one fake review network on Google's My Business pages — 208 fake accounts that posted 3,574 fake reviews for 1,279 businesses across North America.

            6 minutes Engaged reading, read (10/29/22)

            fastcompany.com |

            I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

            When 8th grader Sonia Bokhari joined social media for the first time, she discovered that her mom and sister had been posting about her for her entire life.

            6 minutes Normal reading, read (06/29/22)

            youtube.com |

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            Gold Badge Earned

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            Graham Blair

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            Good Internet Citizenship