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    <title>Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry</title>
    <dc:date>2025-09-05T15:52:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>journalism large_language_models_(so_called) deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process our_decrepit_institutions have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>How Sean Turnbull made a career at SGT Report anonymously amplifying dark plots - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-10T14:02:53+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2021/07/07/sean-turnbull-sgtreport-social-media/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>have_read conspiracy_theories networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator tab_closure</dc:subject>
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    <title>Advocacy Programs, Hire Crowds and Manage Events with Crowds on Demand</title>
    <dc:date>2024-12-06T13:53:56+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Crowds on Demand is your home for impactful advocacy campaigns, demonstrations, PR stunts, crowds for hire and corporate events. Services available nationwide."

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<dc:subject>funny:laughing_instead_of_screaming deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process pseudo-events via:???</dc:subject>
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    <title>Lessons From Operation “Denver,” the KGB’s Massive AIDS Disinformation Campaign | The MIT Press Reader</title>
    <dc:date>2024-09-19T15:42:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In September 1985, the Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) informed other Warsaw Pact foreign intelligence agencies that it had launched a new, major disinformation campaign. “We are carrying out a complex of [active] measures in connection with the appearance in recent years of a new dangerous disease in the USA known as AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome).” The KGB explained that “the goal of the measures is to create a favorable opinion for us abroad — namely, that this disease is the result of secret experiments by the USA’s secret services and the Pentagon with new types of biological weapons that have spun out of control.” Most likely, the KGB had initiated the disinformation campaign as early as 1983, but the September 1985 document — obtained by Christopher Nehring from the former Bulgarian State Security archive — is the earliest conclusive evidence that has turned up so far. (The former KGB foreign intelligence archive has never been accessible to researchers.)"]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB disinformation aids ussr cold_war conspiracy_theories deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process</dc:subject>
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    <title>Collective deception: toward a network model of epistemic responsibility | Synthese</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What kind of collective is responsible for the deception that follows disinformation campaigns? Jennifer Lackey argues in The Epistemology of Groups that a group agent is responsible for such deception. She analyzes this deception as a group lie, which involves a group misrepresenting its own beliefs through a jointly accepted assertion or a spokesperson. Against this view, I argue that the group responsible for disinformation campaigns is a diffuse network. This deception involves misrepresenting scientific knowledge, not a group belief. Taking tobacco industry disinformation campaigns as an example, I argue that these corporate groups needed a network of epistemically authoritative sources—including scientists, doctors, and reputable publishers—to create and spread disinformation in order to make a skeptical view of scientific knowledge appear credible. As such, I argue that a network is epistemically responsible for this deception. First, I challenge the assumption within group epistemology that assertion is the basis of epistemic responsibility and argue that credibility enhancement is the basis instead. This explains how non-testimonial forms of support and corroboration from multiple sources can bolster the apparent credibility of an implausible view. Next, I describe the roles of different corroborators to show why it is necessary to include them. Finally, I defend a network model of epistemic responsibility for deception. Understanding how enhancing the credibility of disinformation is a matter of responsibility can help us to build more trustworthy communities."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB networked_life epistemology deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations social_networks moral_philosophy moral_responsibility re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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    <title>Taxonomy of Non-honesty in Public Health Communication | Public Health Ethics | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-05T01:01:58+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This paper discusses the ethics of public health communication. We argue that a number of commonplace tools of public health communication risk qualifying as non-honest and question whether or not using such tools is ethically justified. First, we introduce the concept of honesty and suggest some reasons for thinking it is morally desirable. We then describe a number of common ways in which public health communication presents information about health-promoting interventions. These include the omission of information about the magnitude of benefits people can expect from health-promoting interventions, and failure to report uncertainty associated with the outcomes of interventions. Next we outline some forms of behaviour which are generally recognised by philosophers as being non-honest, including deception, manipulation, and so on. Finally, we suggest that many of the public health communicative practices identified earlier share features with the non-honest behaviours described and suggest this warrants reflection upon whether such non-honesty is justified by the goals of public health communication."

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    <title>[2301.07015] Simplistic Collection and Labeling Practices Limit the Utility of Benchmark Datasets for Twitter Bot Detection</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-01T20:37:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Accurate bot detection is necessary for the safety and integrity of online platforms. It is also crucial for research on the influence of bots in elections, the spread of misinformation, and financial market manipulation. Platforms deploy infrastructure to flag or remove automated accounts, but their tools and data are not publicly available. Thus, the public must rely on third-party bot detection. These tools employ machine learning and often achieve near perfect performance for classification on existing datasets, suggesting bot detection is accurate, reliable and fit for use in downstream applications. We provide evidence that this is not the case and show that high performance is attributable to limitations in dataset collection and labeling rather than sophistication of the tools. Specifically, we show that simple decision rules -- shallow decision trees trained on a small number of features -- achieve near-state-of-the-art performance on most available datasets and that bot detection datasets, even when combined together, do not generalize well to out-of-sample datasets. Our findings reveal that predictions are highly dependent on each dataset's collection and labeling procedures rather than fundamental differences between bots and humans. These results have important implications for both transparency in sampling and labeling procedures and potential biases in research using existing bot detection tools for pre-processing."]]></description>
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    <title>Is Biden’s Disinfo Czar Qualified? - The Bulwark</title>
    <dc:date>2022-05-12T21:52:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.thebulwark.com/is-bidens-disinfo-czar-qualified/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is so very, very far into the weeds that I defy anyone coming from the outside to say with a straight face that they have enough knowledge to judge the claims, counter-claims and counter-counter-claims and evaluate the positions.  Which is true of any genuine specialty of course, but here we do not have a profession and a discipline, merely a mess of overlapping bureaucracies, spooks, consultancies and projectors/"policy entrepreneurs" (including the author among the latter two categories).  I am disinclined to think the board is a good idea (as many people have said, imagine it under Trump).  But a piece like this serves no purpose, _other than_ rationalizing opposition.]]></description>
<dc:subject>epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process us_politics why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:34cd3f9d0599/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630589386/how-the-campaign-to-ban-plastic-straws-got-its-start">
    <title>How The Campaign To Ban Plastic Straws Got Its Start : NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-13T07:12:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.npr.org/2018/07/19/630589386/how-the-campaign-to-ban-plastic-straws-got-its-start</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[To put this more plainly: the campaigners knew it wasn't a big issue, but made it sound like a big issue, in the hope that getting people to ban plastic straws would somehow magically ease the way for other measures that might actually make a difference ("and then a miracle happens").]]></description>
<dc:subject>epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process to:blog re:anti-nudging</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c57638f02931/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:blog"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:anti-nudging"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinformation-propaganda-amplification-ampliganda/620334/">
    <title>It's Not Misinformation. It’s Amplified Propaganda. - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-10-11T14:39:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/10/disinformation-propaganda-amplification-ampliganda/620334/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- "Ampliganda" is too ugly to adopt, to say nothing of grating on my memories of Latin.  (Surely it should be something like "amplificanda", that which is to be amplified?)  There is also an ambiguity in the writing between what we might call "virality" (people passing it on to each other), "coordination", and finally attempts to manipulate the algorithms that provide good old-fashioned centralized broadcasting ("trending topics" and the like).  (If I were to try to model this, a first cut would be something like "content which is spread widely enough to begin with propagates on a network with Watts-Strogatz style long-range connections, other stuff is more localized".)

I.O.W. I am complaining that someone wrote an _Atlantic_ essay and not an academic treatise.  But I guess that's because I'd be interested to read this person's attempt at a treatise.]]></description>
<dc:subject>social_media epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:19e52783fef3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/20/ai-bots-grassroots-astroturf/">
    <title>‘Grassroots’ bot campaigns are coming. Governments don’t have a plan to stop them. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-28T02:52:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/05/20/ai-bots-grassroots-astroturf/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>text_mining deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator farrell.henry kith_and_kin</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a378518e226f/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:farrell.henry"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:kith_and_kin"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/politics/recurring-donations-seniors.html#click=https://t.co/cINFNzk1vS">
    <title>How Deceptive Campaign Fund-Raising Ensnares Older People - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-27T18:23:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/26/us/politics/recurring-donations-seniors.html#click=https://t.co/cINFNzk1vS</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Memo to self: forward to ZMS.]]></description>
<dc:subject>fraud us_politics deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:515969312681/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/checks-balances-journalism-pr/2021/06/04/df35c110-b3fa-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_story.html">
    <title>The new journalism — and the PR firms behind it - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2021-06-13T04:48:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/checks-balances-journalism-pr/2021/06/04/df35c110-b3fa-11eb-9059-d8176b9e3798_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps our_decrepit_institutions journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:80ee97ab22b0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:our_decrepit_institutions"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:journalism"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32597">
    <title>The AI Marketing Canvas: A Five-Stage Road Map to Implementing Artificial Intelligence in Marketing | Raj Venkatesan and Jim Lecinski</title>
    <dc:date>2021-05-17T13:01:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=32597</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This book offers a direct, actionable plan CMOs can use to map out initiatives that are properly sequenced and designed for success—regardless of where their marketing organization is in the process.
"The authors pose the following critical questions to marketers: (1) How should modern marketers be thinking about artificial intelligence and machine learning? and (2) How should marketers be developing a strategy and plan to implement AI into their marketing toolkit?
"The opening chapters provide marketing leaders with an overview of what exactly AI is and how is it different than traditional computer science approaches. Venkatesan and Lecinski, then, propose a best-practice, five-stage framework for implementing what they term the "AI Marketing Canvas." Their approach is based on research and interviews they conducted with leading marketers, and offers many tangible examples of what brands are doing at each stage of the AI Marketing Canvas. By way of guidance, Venkatesan and Lecinski provide examples of brands—including Google, Lyft, Ancestry.com, and Coca-Cola—that have successfully woven AI into their marketing strategies. The book concludes with a discussion of important implications for marketing leaders—for your team and culture."

--- I am quite sure that I would find this book equally horrifying in aims, content and style, but I am also equally sure that a fair chunk of my students will end up working for these people.]]></description>
<dc:subject>in_NB books:noted marketing data_mining deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:be76d8874382/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:marketing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:data_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13259">
    <title>[2104.13259] #Trend Alert: How a Cross-Platform Organization Manipulated Twitter Trends in the Indian General Election</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-29T03:31:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.13259</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Political organizations worldwide keep innovating their use of social media technologies. Here, we document a novel configuration of technologies and organizational forms used to manipulate Twitter trends in the 2019 Indian general election. The organizers rely on an extensive network of WhatsApp groups to coordinate mass-postings by loosely affiliated political supporters. To investigate the campaigns, we joined more than 600 political WhatsApp groups that support the Bharatiya Janata Party, the right-wing party that won the general election. We found direct evidence of 75 hashtag manipulation campaigns, including mobilization messages and lists of pre-written tweets. We estimate the campaigns' size and whether they succeeded in creating controlled social media narratives. We show that the campaigns are smaller than what media reports suggest; still, they reliably produce Twitter trends drawing on the voices of loosely affiliated supporters. Centrally controlled but voluntary in participation, this novel configuration of a campaign complicates the debates over the legitimate use of digital tools for political participation. It may have provided a blueprint for participatory media manipulation by a party with popular support."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_media networked_life propaganda deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process india re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator eckles.dean twitter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:80b3afc6305e/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:eckles.dean"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814191">
    <title>The Rise and Fall of 'Social Bot' Research by Florian Gallwitz, Michael Kreil :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-20T13:22:14+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3814191</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The idea that social media platforms like Twitter are inhabited by vast numbers of “social bots” has become widely accepted in recent years. “Social bots” are assumed to be automated social media accounts operated by malicious actors with the goal of manipulating public opinion. They are credited with the ability to produce content autonomously and to interact with human users. “Social bot” activity has been reported in many different political contexts, including Donald Trump’s election and the Brexit referendum in 2016. However, the relevant publications either use crude and questionable heuristics to discriminate between supposed “social bots” and humans or—in the vast majority of the cases—fully rely on the output of automatic bot detection tools, most commonly Botometer. We point out fundamental theoretical flaws of these approaches. Also, we closely and systematically inspected hundreds of accounts that had been counted or even presented as “social bots” in peer-reviewed studies. We were unable to find a single “social bot”. Instead, we found mostly accounts undoubtedly operated by human users, the vast majority of them using Twitter in an inconspicious and unremarkable fashion without the slightest traces of automation. We conclude that studies claiming to investigate the prevalence or influence of “social bots” have, in reality, just investigated false positives and artifacts of the flawed detection methods employed."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_media bad_data_analysis deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process via:henry_farrell to_teach:baby-nets re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:13bcfcda3191/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:bad_data_analysis"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07175">
    <title>[2104.07175] Community-Based Fact-Checking on Twitter's Birdwatch Platform</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-16T16:07:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.07175</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Misinformation undermines the credibility of social media and poses significant threats to modern societies. As a countermeasure, Twitter has recently introduced "Birdwatch," a community-driven approach to address misinformation on Twitter. On Birdwatch, users can identify tweets they believe are misleading, write notes that provide context to the tweet and rate the quality of other users' notes. In this work, we empirically analyze how users interact with this new feature. For this purpose, we collect all Birdwatch notes and ratings since the introduction of the feature in early 2021. We then map each Birdwatch note to the fact-checked tweet using Twitter's historical API. In addition, we use text mining methods to extract content characteristics from the text explanations in the Birdwatch notes (e.g., sentiment). Our empirical analysis yields the following main findings: (i) users more frequently file Birdwatch notes for misleading than not misleading tweets. These misleading tweets are primarily reported because of factual errors, lack of important context, or because they contain unverified claims. (ii) Birdwatch notes are more helpful to other users if they link to trustworthy sources and if they embed a more positive sentiment. (iii) The helpfulness of Birdwatch notes depends on the social influence of the author of the fact-checked tweet. For influential users with many followers, Birdwatch notes yield a lower level of consensus among users and community-created fact checks are more likely to be seen as being incorrect. Altogether, our findings can help social media platforms to formulate guidelines for users on how to write more helpful fact checks. At the same time, our analysis suggests that community-based fact-checking faces challenges regarding biased views and polarization among the user base."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB social_life_of_the_mind social_media epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process the_problem_with_peer_review_is_the_peers re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator twitter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:61408b60873a/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_life_of_the_mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_problem_with_peer_review_is_the_peers"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:twitter"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09938">
    <title>[2006.09938] Did State-sponsored Trolls Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Discourse? Quantifying Influence on Twitter</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-16T16:01:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.09938</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["It is a widely accepted fact that state-sponsored Twitter accounts operated during the 2016 US presidential election, spreading millions of tweets with misinformation and inflammatory political content. Whether these social media campaigns of the so-called "troll" accounts were able to manipulate public opinion is still in question. Here, we quantify the influence of troll accounts on Twitter by analyzing 152.5 million tweets (by 9.9 million users) from that period. The data contain original tweets from 822 troll accounts identified as such by Twitter itself. We construct and analyse a very large interaction graph of 9.3 million nodes and 169.9 million edges using graph analysis techniques, along with a game-theoretic centrality measure. Then, we quantify the influence of all Twitter accounts on the overall information exchange as is defined by the retweet cascades. We provide a global influence ranking of all Twitter accounts and we find that one troll account appears in the top-100 and four in the top-1000. This combined with other findings presented in this paper constitute evidence that the driving force of virality and influence in the network came from regular users - users who have not been classified as trolls by Twitter. On the other hand, we find that on average, troll accounts were tens of times more influential than regular users were. Moreover, 23% and 22% of regular accounts in the top-100 and top-1000 respectively, have now been suspended by Twitter. This raises questions about their authenticity and practices during the 2016 US presidential election."

--- This doesn't seem to say anything about voting.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB us_politics deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process social_influence social_media information_cascades re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator twitter</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:8ec8009b0053/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e1912443118">
    <title>Measuring the news and its impact on democracy | PNAS</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-14T17:48:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e1912443118</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Since the 2016 US presidential election, the deliberate spread of misinformation online, and on social media in particular, has generated extraordinary concern, in large part because of its potential effects on public opinion, political polarization, and ultimately democratic decision making. Recently, however, a handful of papers have argued that both the prevalence and consumption of “fake news” per se is extremely low compared with other types of news and news-relevant content. Although neither prevalence nor consumption is a direct measure of influence, this work suggests that proper understanding of misinformation and its effects requires a much broader view of the problem, encompassing biased and misleading—but not necessarily factually incorrect—information that is routinely produced or amplified by mainstream news organizations. In this paper, we propose an ambitious collective research agenda to measure the origins, nature, and prevalence of misinformation, broadly construed, as well as its impact on democracy. We also sketch out some illustrative examples of completed, ongoing, or planned research projects that contribute to this agenda."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process watts.duncan</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e1912440117">
    <title>Why the backfire effect does not explain the durability of political misperceptions | PNAS</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-14T17:47:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e1912440117</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Previous research indicated that corrective information can sometimes provoke a so-called “backfire effect” in which respondents more strongly endorsed a misperception about a controversial political or scientific issue when their beliefs or predispositions were challenged. I show how subsequent research and media coverage seized on this finding, distorting its generality and exaggerating its role relative to other factors in explaining the durability of political misperceptions. To the contrary, an emerging research consensus finds that corrective information is typically at least somewhat effective at increasing belief accuracy when received by respondents. However, the research that I review suggests that the accuracy-increasing effects of corrective information like fact checks often do not last or accumulate; instead, they frequently seem to decay or be overwhelmed by cues from elites and the media promoting more congenial but less accurate claims. As a result, misperceptions typically persist in public opinion for years after they have been debunked. Given these realities, the primary challenge for scientific communication is not to prevent backfire effects but instead, to understand how to target corrective information better and to make it more effective. Ultimately, however, the best approach is to disrupt the formation of linkages between group identities and false claims and to reduce the flow of cues reinforcing those claims from elites and the media. Doing so will require a shift from a strategy focused on providing information to the public to one that considers the roles of intermediaries in forming and maintaining belief systems."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process nyhan.brendan via:henry_farrell</dc:subject>
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    <title>As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-17T07:46:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/18/technology/timpone-local-news-metric-media.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process our_decrepit_institutions why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.001.0001">
    <title>Computational Propaganda: Political Parties, Politicians, and Political Manipulation on Social Media - Oxford Scholarship</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-16T07:39:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.001.0001</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Computational propaganda is an emergent form of political manipulation that occurs over the Internet. The term describes the assemblage of social media platforms, autonomous agents, algorithms, and big data tasked with the manipulation of public opinion. Our research shows that this new mode of interrupting and influencing communication is on the rise around the globe. Advances in computing technology, especially around social automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence mean that computational propaganda is becoming more sophisticated and harder to track at an alarming rate. This introduction explores the foundations of computational propaganda. It describes the key role that automated manipulation of algorithms plays in recent efforts to control political communication worldwide. We discuss the social data science of political communication and build upon the argument that algorithms and other computational tools now play an important political role in areas like news consumption, issue awareness, and cultural understanding. We unpack the key findings of the nine country case studies that follow—exploring the role of computational propaganda during events from local and national elections in Brazil to the ongoing security crisis between Ukraine and Russia. Our methodology in this work has been purposefully mixed, we make use of quantitative analysis of data from several social media platforms and qualitative work that includes interviews with the people who design and deploy political bots and disinformation campaigns. Finally, we highlight original evidence about how this manipulation and amplification of disinformation is produced, managed, and circulated by political operatives and governments and describe paths for both democratic intervention and future research in this space."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator to_download to_read deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life advertising propaganda</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10879">
    <title>[2005.10879] Automatic Detection of Influential Actors in Disinformation Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-11T15:25:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10879</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The weaponization of digital communications and social media to conduct disinformation campaigns at immense scale, speed, and reach presents new challenges to identify and counter hostile influence operations (IOs). This paper presents an end-to-end framework to automate detection of disinformation narratives, networks, and influential actors. The framework integrates natural language processing, machine learning, graph analytics, and a novel network causal inference approach to quantify the impact of individual actors in spreading IO narratives. We demonstrate its capability on real-world hostile IO campaigns with Twitter datasets collected during the 2017 French presidential elections, and known IO accounts disclosed by Twitter over a broad range of IO campaigns (May 2007 to February 2020), over 50,000 accounts, 17 countries, and different account types including both trolls and bots. Our system detects IO accounts with 96% precision, 79% recall, and 96% area-under-the-PR-curve, maps out salient network communities, and discovers high-impact accounts that escape the lens of traditional impact statistics based on activity counts and network centrality. Results are corroborated with independent sources of known IO accounts from U.S. Congressional reports, investigative journalism, and IO datasets provided by Twitter."

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<dc:subject>to:NB causal_inference social_influence epidemiology_of_representations deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life re:homophily_and_confounding rubin.donald_b. color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy062">
    <title>How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policymakers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | Oxford Academic</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-10T03:17:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axy062</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In their recent book, Oreskes and Conway ([2010]) describe the ‘tobacco strategy’, which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policymakers regarding the health risks of tobacco products. The strategy involved two parts, consisting of (i) promoting and sharing independent research supporting the industry’s preferred position and (ii) funding additional research, but selectively publishing the results. We introduce a model of the tobacco strategy, and use it to argue that both prongs of the strategy can be extremely effective—even when policymakers rationally update on all evidence available to them. As we elaborate, this model helps illustrate the conditions under which the tobacco strategy is particularly successful. In addition, we show how journalists engaged in ‘fair’ reporting can inadvertently mimic the effects of industry on public belief."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations social_life_of_the_mind re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050718-032814">
    <title>Political Misinformation | Annual Review of Political Science</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-03T19:28:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050718-032814</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Misinformation occurs when people hold incorrect factual beliefs and do so confidently. The problem, first conceptualized by Kuklinski and colleagues in 2000, plagues political systems and is exceedingly difficult to correct. In this review, we assess the empirical literature on political misinformation in the United States and consider what scholars have learned since the publication of that early study. We conclude that research on this topic has developed unevenly. Over time, scholars have elaborated on the psychological origins of political misinformation, and this work has cumulated in a productive way. By contrast, although there is an extensive body of research on how to correct misinformation, this literature is less coherent in its recommendations. Finally, a nascent line of research asks whether people's reports of their factual beliefs are genuine or are instead a form of partisan cheerleading. Overall, scholarly research on political misinformation illustrates the many challenges inherent in representative democracy."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050807">
    <title>Judging Truth | Annual Review of Psychology</title>
    <dc:date>2021-01-03T19:27:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-050807</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Deceptive claims surround us, embedded in fake news, advertisements, political propaganda, and rumors. How do people know what to believe? Truth judgments reflect inferences drawn from three types of information: base rates, feelings, and consistency with information retrieved from memory. First, people exhibit a bias to accept incoming information, because most claims in our environments are true. Second, people interpret feelings, like ease of processing, as evidence of truth. And third, people can (but do not always) consider whether assertions match facts and source information stored in memory. This three-part framework predicts specific illusions (e.g., truthiness, illusory truth), offers ways to correct stubborn misconceptions, and suggests the importance of converging cues in a post-truth world, where falsehoods travel further and faster than the truth."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB psychology cognitive_science deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/evans-disinformation-florida-email">
    <title>’The Bearded Patriot’ publishes conservative ‘news’ hoping to gather email addresses - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-29T19:38:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/08/11/evans-disinformation-florida-email</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life have_read rhetorical_self-fashioning deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process epidemiology_of_representations running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy utter_stupidity advertising re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YEGAUV6ASVFGP9AIX7XV/full">
    <title>Why do so few people share fake news? It hurts their reputation - Sacha Altay, Anne-Sophie Hacquin, Hugo Mercier, 2020</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-26T16:09:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/YEGAUV6ASVFGP9AIX7XV/full</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In spite of the attractiveness of fake news stories, most people are reluctant to share them. Why? Four pre-registered experiments (N = 3,656) suggest that sharing fake news hurt one’s reputation in a way that is difficult to fix, even for politically congruent fake news. The decrease in trust a source (media outlet or individual) suffers when sharing one fake news story against a background of real news is larger than the increase in trust a source enjoys when sharing one real news story against a background of fake news. A comparison with real-world media outlets showed that only sources sharing no fake news at all had similar trust ratings to mainstream media. Finally, we found that the majority of people declare they would have to be paid to share fake news, even when the news is politically congruent, and more so when their reputation is at stake."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life epidemiology_of_representations mercier.hugo re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.34.3.220">
    <title>Facts and Myths about Misperceptions - American Economic Association</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-08T08:52:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.34.3.220</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Misperceptions threaten to warp mass opinion and public policy on controversial issues in politics, science, and health. What explains the prevalence and persistence of these false and unsupported beliefs, which seem to be genuinely held by many people? Though limits on cognitive resources and attention play an important role, many of the most destructive misperceptions arise in domains where individuals have weak incentives to hold accurate beliefs and strong directional motivations to endorse beliefs that are consistent with a group identity such as partisanship. These tendencies are often exploited by elites who frequently create and amplify misperceptions to influence elections and public policy. Though evidence is lacking for claims of a "post-truth" era, changes in the speed with which false information travels and the extent to which it can find receptive audiences require new approaches to counter misinformation. Reducing the propagation and influence of false claims will require further efforts to inoculate people in advance of exposure (for example, media literacy), debunk false claims that are already salient or widespread (for example, fact-checking), reduce the prevalence of low-quality information (for example, changing social media algorithms), and discourage elites from promoting false information (for example, strengthening reputational sanctions)."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063407645">
    <title>OIL AND GAS: Slip-up reveals Chevron ties to architect of climate attack -- Thursday, June 18, 2020 -- www.eenews.net</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-18T15:58:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.eenews.net/stories/1063407645</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process climate_change the_american_dilemma</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:705fea93033a/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:climate_change"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:the_american_dilemma"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://psyarxiv.com/tdfh5/">
    <title>PsyArXiv Preprints | “If this account is true, it is most enormously wonderful”: Interestingness-if-true and the sharing of true and false news</title>
    <dc:date>2020-06-08T17:01:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://psyarxiv.com/tdfh5/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Why would people share news they think might not be accurate? We identify a factor that, alongside accuracy, drives the sharing of true and fake news: the ‘interestingness-if-true’ of a piece of news. In two pre-registered experiments (N = 604), participants were presented with a series of true and fake news, and asked to rate the accuracy of the news, how interesting the news would be if it were true, and how likely they would be to share it. Both interestingness-if-true and accuracy played an important role in explaining the sharing of true and fake news, with participants more willing to share news they thought interesting-if-true, and accurate. Participants also found fake news less accurate but more interesting-if-true than true news, and were more likely to share true news than fake news. Higher trust in mass media was associated with a greater ability to discern between true and fake news, and participants rated as more accurate news that they had already been exposed to (especially among true news). These results suggest that people may not share news of questionable accuracy by mistake, but instead because the news has qualities that make up for its potential inaccuracy, such as being interesting-if- true."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB epidemiology_of_representations networked_life mercier.hugo deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:637bae7c72f3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:mercier.hugo"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qqyn/an-ex-google-employee-turned-whistleblower-and-qanon-fan-made-plandemic-go-viral">
    <title>An Ex-Google Employee Turned 'Whistleblower' and QAnon Fan Made 'Plandemic' Go Viral - VICE</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-15T19:20:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/k7qqyn/an-ex-google-employee-turned-whistleblower-and-qanon-fan-made-plandemic-go-viral</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process psychoceramics utter_stupidity coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019-- conspiracy_theories social_media networked_life</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7b124b10fbaa/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychoceramics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:utter_stupidity"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:coronavirus_pandemic_of_2019--"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:conspiracy_theories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://aelkus.github.io/theory/2019/11/27/trinity">
    <title>To Chain The Beast</title>
    <dc:date>2019-12-18T23:14:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aelkus.github.io/theory/2019/11/27/trinity</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is now a booming cottage industry of work on “virtual social warfare”, “hostile social manipulation”, and similar new terms for phenomena studied under previous names in the 2000s, 1990s, and 1980s as waves of informatization created new social realities. And in turn the 2000s, 1990s, and 1980s terminology recapitulated important features of Cold War denial and deception and active measures, and so forth. One might humorously conjecture that running on a hamster wheel of terminology is in and of itself a successful information attack on our collective information processing and decision-making systems. But that is for another conversation. Under whatever name, how shall we analyze it and deal with it? A big problem is accounting for what seem like competing interpretations of the same underlying events. Are they doing it for the lulz? Is it a Russian plot? And how do we know if we’re just attributing too much signal to what could just be enormous amounts of noise?"]]></description>
<dc:subject>networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:7ffce208db80/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:have_read"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12203">
    <title>[1910.12203] Do Sentence Interactions Matter? Leveraging Sentence Level Representations for Fake News Classification</title>
    <dc:date>2019-10-29T14:15:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.12203</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The rising growth of fake news and misleading information through online media outlets demands an automatic method for detecting such news articles. Of the few limited works which differentiate between trusted vs other types of news article (satire, propaganda, hoax), none of them model sentence interactions within a document. We observe an interesting pattern in the way sentences interact with each other across different kind of news articles. To capture this kind of information for long news articles, we propose a graph neural network-based model which does away with the need of feature engineering for fine grained fake news classification. Through experiments, we show that our proposed method beats strong neural baselines and achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on existing datasets. Moreover, we establish the generalizability of our model by evaluating its performance in out-of-domain scenarios. Code is available at this https URL"]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB text_mining deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life re:disinformation_attacks_on_democratic_systems</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c345a4d890eb/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to:NB"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:text_mining"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:disinformation_attacks_on_democratic_systems"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06173">
    <title>[1908.06173] The History of Digital Spam</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-20T14:17:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.06173</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Spam!: that's what Lorrie Faith Cranor and Brian LaMacchia exclaimed in the title of a popular call-to-action article that appeared twenty years ago on Communications of the ACM. And yet, despite the tremendous efforts of the research community over the last two decades to mitigate this problem, the sense of urgency remains unchanged, as emerging technologies have brought new dangerous forms of digital spam under the spotlight. Furthermore, when spam is carried out with the intent to deceive or influence at scale, it can alter the very fabric of society and our behavior. In this article, I will briefly review the history of digital spam: starting from its quintessential incarnation, spam emails, to modern-days forms of spam affecting the Web and social media, the survey will close by depicting future risks associated with spam and abuse of new technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (e.g., Digital Humans). After providing a taxonomy of spam, and its most popular applications emerged throughout the last two decades, I will review technological and regulatory approaches proposed in the literature, and suggest some possible solutions to tackle this ubiquitous digital epidemic moving forward."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB spam advertising deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process history_of_technology history_of_computing networked_life to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fc28f62e9fad/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:spam"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:advertising"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_technology"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:history_of_computing"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:to_teach:data-mining"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/01/how-i-knew-the-covingtonboys-video-was-click-bait/">
    <title>How I Knew the #CovingtonBoys Video Was Clickbait | Public Seminar</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-06T12:54:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.publicseminar.org/2019/01/how-i-knew-the-covingtonboys-video-was-click-bait/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think the most underreported story about #CovingtonBoys is how it got to us in the first place. It originated with a piece of clickbait that was chosen and edited, by persons unknown, to produce outrage on the right and the left. Originating in a fake account, and proliferated by other fake accounts, it was part of a professional social media campaign intended to disrupt."]]></description>
<dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life social_media natural_history_of_truthiness re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ee8ffeb8766d/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6425/374">
    <title>Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election | Science</title>
    <dc:date>2019-08-06T12:51:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://science.sciencemag.org/content/363/6425/374</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The spread of fake news on social media became a public concern in the United States after the 2016 presidential election. We examined exposure to and sharing of fake news by registered voters on Twitter and found that engagement with fake news sources was extremely concentrated. Only 1% of individuals accounted for 80% of fake news source exposures, and 0.1% accounted for nearly 80% of fake news sources shared. Individuals most likely to engage with fake news sources were conservative leaning, older, and highly engaged with political news. A cluster of fake news sources shared overlapping audiences on the extreme right, but for people across the political spectrum, most political news exposure still came from mainstream media outlets."

--- To Bruce Sterling's (obviously correct) dictum that "The future is about old people, in big cities, afraid of the sky", perhaps we should add "outraged at nonsense".]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read social_media deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness lazer.david us_politics networked_life re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:818b73d5c6e4/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
</rdf:Bag></taxo:topics>
</item>
<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on">
    <title>‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2019-05-24T22:57:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/nothing-on-this-page-is-real-how-lies-become-truth-in-online-america/2018/11/17/edd44cc8-e85a-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html?noredirect=on</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This is incredibly sad, on so many levels.]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read networked_life natural_history_of_truthiness trolling internet social_media whats_gone_wrong_with_america re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator via:? deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:772a09eb9a2f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:?"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html">
    <title>How Much of the Internet Is Fake?</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-26T19:38:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/12/how-much-of-the-internet-is-fake.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1e1e937863a1/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nber.org/papers/w25329">
    <title>Hall of Mirrors: Corporate Philanthropy and Strategic Advocacy</title>
    <dc:date>2018-12-12T02:03:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nber.org/papers/w25329</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Politicians and regulators rely on feedback from the public when setting policies. For-profit corporations and non-pro t entities are active in this process and are arguably expected to provide independent viewpoints. Policymakers (and the public at large), however, may be unaware of the financial ties between some firms and non-profits - ties that are legal and tax-exempt, but difficult to trace. We identify these ties using IRS forms submitted by the charitable arms of large U.S. corporations, which list all grants awarded to non-pro fits. We document three patterns in a comprehensive sample of public commentary made by firms and non-profits within U.S. federal rulemaking between 2003 and 2015. First, we show that, shortly after a firm donates to a non-profit, the grantee is more likely to comment on rules for which the firm has also provided a comment. Second, when a firm comments on a rule, the comments by non-profits that recently received grants from the firm's foundation are systematically closer in content similarity to the firm's own comments than to those submitted by other non-profits commenting on that rule. This content similarity does not result from similarly-worded comments that express divergent sentiment. Third, when a firm comments on a new rule, the discussion of the final rule is more similar to the firm's comments when the firm's recent grantees also comment on that rule. These patterns, taken together, suggest that corporations strategically deploy charitable grants to induce non-pro fit grantees to make comments that favor their benefactors, and that this translates into regulatory discussion that is closer to the firm's own comments."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB corruption deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process us_politics regulation corporations via:rvenkat</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:f2fc0b7b50e8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:corruption"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://theconversation.com/advertising-is-obsolete-heres-why-its-time-to-end-it-101639">
    <title>Advertising is obsolete – here's why it's time to end it</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-25T11:46:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theconversation.com/advertising-is-obsolete-heres-why-its-time-to-end-it-101639</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>advertising deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process modest_proposals</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fb220d177ac3/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:modest_proposals"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531">
    <title>How three conspiracy theorists took 'Q' and sparked Qanon</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-15T14:32:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/how-three-conspiracy-theorists-took-q-sparked-qanon-n900531</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I read stuff like this, and I think about a favorite quotation from a favorite historian

> [I]t is a great mistake to suppose that the only writers who matter are those whom the educated in their saner moments can take seriously. There exists a subterranean world where pathological fantasies disguised as ideas are churned out by crooks and half-educated fanatics for the benefit of the ignorant and superstitious. There are times when this underworld emerges from the depths and suddenly fascinates, captures, and dominates multitudes of usually sane and responsible people, who thereupon take leave of sanity and responsibility. And it occasionally happens that this underworld becomes a political power and changes the course of history.  [Norman Cohn, _Warrant for Genocide: the Myth of the Jewish World-Conspiracy and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 1st ed., p. 18]

and I realize that I never really _felt_ the force of this before.]]></description>
<dc:subject>conspiracy_theories natural_history_of_truthiness networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process via:henry_farrell psychoceramics re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:5e2130a45d6b/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:via:henry_farrell"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:psychoceramics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01239">
    <title>[1801.01239] How to Beat Science and Influence People: Policy Makers and Propaganda in Epistemic Networks</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-13T13:32:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.01239</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In their recent book Merchants of Doubt [New York:Bloomsbury 2010], Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway describe the "tobacco strategy", which was used by the tobacco industry to influence policy makers regarding the health risks of tobacco products. The strategy involved two parts, consisting of (1) promoting and sharing independent research supporting the industry's preferred position and (2) funding additional research, but selectively publishing the results. We introduce a model of the Tobacco Strategy, and use it to argue that both prongs of the strategy can be extremely effective--even when policy makers rationally update on all evidence available to them. As we elaborate, this model helps illustrate the conditions under which the Tobacco Strategy is particularly successful. In addition, we show how journalists engaged in "fair" reporting can inadvertently mimic the effects of industry on public belief."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to_read collective_cognition science_as_a_social_process deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process re:democratic_cognition via:henry_farrell in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:c521a279fbbf/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:science_as_a_social_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:democratic_cognition"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:in_NB"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a">
    <title>It's Looking Extremely Likely That QAnon Is A Leftist Prank On Trump Supporters</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-06T14:46:01+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanhatesthis/its-looking-extremely-likely-that-qanon-is-probably-a</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>utter_stupidity networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process conspiracy_theories us_politics re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:aa86ce6101e7/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:networked_life"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:conspiracy_theories"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:us_politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2875">
    <title>Network structure and influence of the climate change counter-movement | Nature Climate Change</title>
    <dc:date>2018-08-03T14:09:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2875</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Anthropogenic climate change represents a global threat to human well-being1,2,3 and ecosystem functioning4. Yet despite its importance for science and policy, our understanding of the causes of widespread uncertainty and doubt found among the general public remains limited. The political and social processes driving such doubt and uncertainty are difficult to rigorously analyse, and research has tended to focus on the individual-level, rather than the larger institutions and social networks that produce and disseminate contrarian information. This study presents a new approach by using network science to uncover the institutional and corporate structure of the climate change counter-movement, and machine-learning text analysis to show its influence in the news media and bureaucratic politics. The data include a new social network of all known organizations and individuals promoting contrarian viewpoints, as well as the entirety of all written and verbal texts about climate change from 1993–2013 from every organization, three major news outlets, all US presidents, and every occurrence on the floor of the US Congress. Using network and computational text analysis, I find that the organizational power within the contrarian network, and the magnitude of semantic similarity, are both predicted by ties to elite corporate benefactors."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB to_read vast_right-wing_conspiracy deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process network_data_analysis text_mining climate_change via:?</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b95803be7dde/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:network_data_analysis"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:climate_change"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311968/trust-me-im-lying-by-ryan-holiday/9781591846284/">
    <title>Trust Me, I'm Lying by Ryan Holiday | PenguinRandomHouse.com</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-25T17:54:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311968/trust-me-im-lying-by-ryan-holiday/9781591846284/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Hailed as “astonishing and disturbing” by the Financial Times and “essential reading” by TechCrunch at its original publication, former American Apparel marketing director Ryan Holiday’s first book sounded a prescient alarm about the dangers of fake news. It’s all the more relevant today. 
"Trust Me, I’m Lying was the first book to blow the lid off the speed and force at which rumors travel online—and get “traded up” the media ecosystem until they become real headlines and generate real responses in the real world. The culprit? Marketers and professional media manipulators, encouraged by the toxic economics of the news business. 
"Whenever you see a malicious online rumor costs a company millions, politically motivated fake news driving elections, a product or celebrity zooming from total obscurity to viral sensation, or anonymously sourced articles becoming national conversation, someone is behind it. Often someone like Ryan Holiday. 
"As he explains, “I wrote this book to explain how media manipulators work, how to spot their fingerprints, how to fight them, and how (if you must) to emulate their tactics. Why am I giving away these secrets? Because I’m tired of a world where trolls hijack debates, marketers help write the news, opinion masquerades as fact, algorithms drive everything to extremes, and no one is accountable for any of it. I’m pulling back the curtain because it’s time the public understands how things really work. What you choose to do with this information is up to you.”"]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted advertising networked_life natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process re:democratic_cognition color_me_skeptical</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:fee82609b7d8/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:advertising"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:natural_history_of_truthiness"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:democratic_cognition"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:color_me_skeptical"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them">
    <title>Ad Scammers Need Suckers, and Facebook Helps Find Them - Bloomberg</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-28T13:53:54+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-03-27/ad-scammers-need-suckers-and-facebook-helps-find-them</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It doesn't say enough, for my purposes, about _how_ Facebook helps the scammers.  Is it just that the algorithm classifies the ads together, and so engaging with one makes it more likely that it will show you others from that class?  If so, _why_ does the algorithm classify scam ads together?]]></description>
<dc:subject>advertising facebook social_media fraud deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process networked_life have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e6b320b6aaea/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_media"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592">
    <title>[1707.07592] The spread of misinformation by social bots</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-05T15:42:18+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The massive spread of digital misinformation has been identified as a major global risk and has been alleged to influence elections and threaten democracies. Communication, cognitive, social, and computer scientists are engaged in efforts to study the complex causes for the viral diffusion of misinformation online and to develop solutions, while search and social media platforms are beginning to deploy countermeasures. However, to date, these efforts have been mainly informed by anecdotal evidence rather than systematic data. Here we analyze 14 million messages spreading 400 thousand claims on Twitter during and following the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and election. We find evidence that social bots play a disproportionate role in spreading and repeating misinformation. Automated accounts are particularly active in amplifying misinformation in the very early spreading moments, before a claim goes viral. Bots target users with many followers through replies and mentions, and may disguise their geographic locations. Humans are vulnerable to this manipulation, retweeting bots who post misinformation. Successful sources of false and misleading claims are heavily supported by social bots. These results suggest that curbing social bots may be an effective strategy for mitigating the spread of online misinformation."]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB natural_history_of_truthiness social_media social_life_of_the_mind deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process text_mining networked_life via:henry_farrell re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator epidemiology_of_representations</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:ff64488981b0/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:social_life_of_the_mind"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:epidemiology_of_representations"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1198-6">
    <title>The ‘Alice in Wonderland’ mechanics of the rejection of (climate) science: simulating coherence by conspiracism | SpringerLink</title>
    <dc:date>2017-12-10T23:21:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11229-016-1198-6</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Science strives for coherence. For example, the findings from climate science form a highly coherent body of knowledge that is supported by many independent lines of evidence: greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human economic activities are causing the global climate to warm and unless GHG emissions are drastically reduced in the near future, the risks from climate change will continue to grow and major adverse consequences will become unavoidable. People who oppose this scientific body of knowledge because the implications of cutting GHG emissions—such as regulation or increased taxation—threaten their worldview or livelihood cannot provide an alternative view that is coherent by the standards of conventional scientific thinking. Instead, we suggest that people who reject the fact that the Earth’s climate is changing due to greenhouse gas emissions (or any other body of well-established scientific knowledge) oppose whatever inconvenient finding they are confronting in piece-meal fashion, rather than systematically, and without considering the implications of this rejection to the rest of the relevant scientific theory and findings. Hence, claims that the globe “is cooling” can coexist with claims that the “observed warming is natural” and that “the human influence does not matter because warming is good for us.” Coherence between these mutually contradictory opinions can only be achieved at a highly abstract level, namely that “something must be wrong” with the scientific evidence in order to justify a political position against climate change mitigation. This high-level coherence accompanied by contradictory subordinate propositions is a known attribute of conspiracist ideation, and conspiracism may be implicated when people reject well-established scientific propositions."]]></description>
<dc:subject>philosophy_of_science conspiracy_theories climate_change deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process in_NB</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:be0a474c09df/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/">
    <title>How a Professional Climate Change Denier Discovered the Lies and Decided to Fight for Science</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-01T23:57:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://theintercept.com/2017/04/28/how-a-professional-climate-change-denier-discovered-the-lies-and-decided-to-fight-for-science/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>climate_change vast_right-wing_conspiracy deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:79b51f73c205/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:vast_right-wing_conspiracy"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-analytica.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=1">
    <title>Data Firm Says ‘Secret Sauce’ Aided Trump; Many Scoff - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2017-03-16T15:50:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/us/politics/cambridge-analytica.html?hp&amp;action=click&amp;pgtype=Homepage&amp;clickSource=story-heading&amp;module=first-column-region&amp;region=top-news&amp;WT.nav=top-news&amp;_r=1</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[What's notable about this piece  is that it provides almost no information about whether their much-touted product _works_.  Everything is about whether sources liked it, or used it, or thought it was effective; not who's right.]]></description>
<dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process data_mining networked_life psychometrics factor_analysis to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b884c2d4b70e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/12/08/the-strategy-of-subversive-conflict/">
    <title>The Strategy of (Subversive) Conflict</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-11T15:19:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2016/12/08/the-strategy-of-subversive-conflict/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9aef1106117c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745669854">
    <title>Book - Colin Crouch - The Knowledge Corrupters: Hidden Consequences of the Financial Takeover of Public Life</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-05T22:41:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745669854</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["In principle the advanced, market-driven world in which we now live is fuelled by knowledge, information and transparency, but in practice the processes that produce this world systematically corrupt and denigrate knowledge: this is the powerful and provocative argument advanced by Colin Crouch in his latest exploration of societies on the road to post-democracy."
Crouch shows that executives in profit-maximizing corporations have incentives to ignore or distort knowledge, especially firms in the information business of the mass media themselves, as financial knowledge increasingly trumps the other kinds of knowledge that business needs. Firms also seek to take control of public knowledge and use it for their own ends, often at the cost of other stakeholders in society. Meanwhile the transfer of similar practices to professional public services undermines professional skills and ethics - especially when these services are out-sourced to the private sector. Attempts to extricate ourselves from these problems involve reshaping the complex and often conflicting relationships among citizens, professionals, managers and financiers.]]></description>
<dc:subject>to:NB books:noted deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness crouch.colin social_life_of_the_mind via:henry_farrell books:owned</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:a7c0bd3fd719/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda?intcid=mod-latest">
    <title>The Propaganda About Russian Propaganda - The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2016-12-05T01:44:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-propaganda-about-russian-propaganda?intcid=mod-latest</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps networked_life deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness epidemiology_of_representations us_politics journalism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b4bf98be7b57/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332162">
    <title>The Market for Data: The Changing Role of Social Sciences in Shaping the Law by Elizabeth Warren :: SSRN</title>
    <dc:date>2016-06-30T17:38:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=332162</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A vigorous market for scholarly data exists, as journalists, lobbyists and legislators search for facts to pepper their public statements and better influence public opinion. In the bankruptcy area, data providers, such as the Credit Research Center located at Georgetown University, have taken money from the consumer credit industry to produce studies supporting the credit industry's political positions. In the case of the CRC, the studies bear the University logo, but the Center describes the data as "proprietary," belonging exclusively to the industry funders who decide what data are released and what data are held private. This paper explores the implications of such funding arrangements on independent research and ultimately on the public debates."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/04/26/dark-money-group-spends-58000-attacking-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/">
    <title>Dark money group spends $58,000 attacking Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - Sunlight Foundation Blog</title>
    <dc:date>2016-05-02T23:02:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2016/04/26/dark-money-group-spends-58000-attacking-consumer-financial-protection-bureau/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics our_decrepit_institutions deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process have_read watson.libby</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/18/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-why-this-is-the-final-column/">
    <title>What was fake on the Internet this week: Why this is the final column - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-12-19T23:38:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/18/what-was-fake-on-the-internet-this-week-why-this-is-the-final-column/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I had no idea this even existed, much less that it'd given up.]]></description>
<dc:subject>networked_life psychoceramica epidemiology_of_representations running_dogs_of_reaction natural_history_of_truthiness deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process track_down_references to:blog have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:e660aa4ad43d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/">
    <title>America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker - The Huffington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2015-11-14T20:05:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The whole series is incredible, and too full of perfectly everyday abuses for any excerpt to do it justice.  But I can't help flagging a point of parochial interest, from chapter 4, where J&J is hiring a company to seed the medical literature with propaganda:

"“No other medical education company has the tremendous access to top opinion leaders that Excerpta Medica does … ” Excerpta promised. “Our parent company, Reed Elsevier, is the largest supplier of medical information in the world, publishing over 700 medical journals in almost every conceivable therapeutic area. Each journal has an editorial board composed of renown specialists throughout the world who are available to us as consultants, advisory board members, speakers, and in other capacities. We provide this significant access to all of our clients.” (The Excerpta connection to the giant Europe-based publisher would be severed in 2010, when it was sold to a unit of the giant advertising agency Omnicom.)"

(I also want to acknowledge that, fair's fair, this incredible piece of well-documented journalism is coming from Huffington Post, so my last tag is a genuine question for once.)]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/news/study-points-to-press-releases-as-sources-of-hype-1.16551">
    <title>Study points to press releases as sources of hype : Nature News &amp; Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2014-12-29T01:57:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/study-points-to-press-releases-as-sources-of-hype-1.16551</link>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/cigarettes/">
    <title>“If our product is harmful . . . we’ll stop making it.” « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2012-09-02T16:14:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewgelman.com/2012/09/cigarettes/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process natural_history_of_truthiness smoking statistics causal_inference corruption our_decrepit_institutions rubin.donald_b.</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/dishonesty-is-the-seventh-killer-app/261352/">
    <title>Dishonesty Is The Seventh Killer App - Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-21T02:50:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/08/dishonesty-is-the-seventh-killer-app/261352/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["But one thing to keep in mind is there is no real penalty for respectable lying in our world of intellectual discourse. Ferguson will almost certainly continue to have a field for his thoughts, regardless of how little effort he puts into stringing them together. The Krugman rebuttal in which Ferguson claims he was only talking about the insurance end (it's detailed in Weisenthal's piece) is not a debatable opinion, but the sort of thing that would raise a red-flag for any fact-checker worth their weight.
"When I first started wading my way into the world of ideas, I thought having a big university on your C.V. along a PhD held said something about your trustworthiness. I would have seen that Ferguson was a historian at Harvard and thought, "No way he'd fudge facts. He's a Harvard big-shot who publishes in big magazines." I would have been, of course, dead wrong. 
"Dishonesty of this sort is insidious. It can't be dismissed with the ease of plagiarism or manufactured evidence. As long you're not egregious, you can actually make a career as respectable public intellectual, and occasionally lie. No one will stop you. Almost no one cares."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://mindhacks.com/2012/07/06/made-for-pr-neuroscience/">
    <title>Made for PR Neuroscience « Mind Hacks</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-14T16:35:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://mindhacks.com/2012/07/06/made-for-pr-neuroscience/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["What’s interesting is that simply making something appear like a neuroscience study is enough to get it and the associated product in the news – to the point where companies can now base their business model on the practice.
"Neuromarketing is the study of the neuroscience of marketing – a genuinely interesting field that, contrary to what neuromarketing companies will have you believe, has absolutely no practical benefit at the moment because no-one has yet demonstrated that a neural response is a better predictor of the key outcomes than a behavioural response.
"This, however, is more like neuro-spin-marketing, as it relies on people believing the hype of neuromarketing to get branded pseudo-studies into the media."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/">
    <title>How the Professor Who Fooled Wikipedia Got Caught by Reddit - Technology - The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2012-05-17T06:57:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/print/2012/05/how-the-professor-who-fooled-wikipedia-got-caught-by-reddit/257134/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_life_of_the_mind networked_life hoaxes deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process re:democratic_cognition via:?</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://andrewgelman.com/2012/04/how-to-mislead-with-how-to-lie-with-statistics/">
    <title>“How to Lie with Statistics” guy worked for the tobacco industry to mock studies of the risks of smoking statistics « Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science</title>
    <dc:date>2012-04-27T17:10:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://andrewgelman.com/2012/04/how-to-mislead-with-how-to-lie-with-statistics/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Deeply disappointing.]]></description>
<dc:subject>statistics huff.darrell deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/jonathan-chait-why-im-so-mean.html">
    <title>Why I’m So Mean -- Daily Intel</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-09T04:32:28+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/jonathan-chait-why-im-so-mean.html</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" But it’s not a philosophical dispute. It’s a simple case of her making up false claims based on extremely elementary errors.
And this is why I am forced to be so mean. There are just a lot of people out there exerting significant influence over the political debate who are totally unqualified. The dilemma is especially acute in the political economic field, where wealthy right-wingers have pumped so much money to subsidize the field of pro-rich people polemics that the demand for competent defenders of letting rich people keep as much of their money as possible vastly outstrips the supply. Hence the intellectual marketplace for arguments that we should tax rich people less is glutted with hackery. "]]></description>
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    <title>Bruce Bartlett: Gingrich and the Destruction of Congressional Expertise - NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-29T19:01:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/29/gingrich-and-the-destruction-of-congressional-expertise/</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://edgeofthewest.wordpress.com/2011/11/13/its-sunday-lets-pick-on-the-new-york-times/">
    <title>It’s Sunday, Let’s Pick On The New York Times « The Edge of the American West</title>
    <dc:date>2011-11-13T20:56:07+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Innovations in Corporate Lobbying: TAPPED Archive | The American Prospect</title>
    <dc:date>2010-07-08T14:51:18+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Wait, lobbyists actually drumming up an astroturf cause _before_ they had corporate clients?  That's not how base & superstructure are supposed to relate!
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