Astroturfing

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media has launched a new tool in the fight against online disinformation: BotSlayer. The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of aut…

After President Trump declaredU.S. talks with the Taliban dead on Monday, the commander ofCENTCOM told Reuters that the U.S. military is likely to ramp up operations against Taliban fighters across the country. Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, speaking at Bagram…

Hardly a day passes without a major news story about climate change and the damage we are doing to our natural habitat. Rising global temperatures, melting arctic sea ice, plastic contamination in the ocean, a steep increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and…

What Remains is an 8-bit game, blending visual novel and adventure elements. The story translates real events from the 80's into an epic quest to save the world. The game lets you experience the fight against industry disinformation, showing you several way…

A Joker fan attending the 2017 New York Comic Con Getty In the soon to be released Joker movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck as he morphs into the complex, twisted and downright scary character we know from the Batman comic books and films. Back in th…

Here at The Truth About Guns, we communicate a pro-gun, informative message. Obviously we draw a lot of The People of the Gun as our readership. We also attract readers who don’t share our love of things that go bang, and that’s OK, too. Maybe they’ll learn s…

Never Again Action bears all the signs of movement hijacking by anti-Israel activists with pre-existing and current relationships who saw an opportunity to position themselves within a broader movement.Over the past several months, Never Again Action (NAA), a…

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 3:54 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz And remember that proprietary GitHub is… ‘openness’? Summary: The term “Open Source” faces extinction by meaninglessness — a subject if not a taboo topic that s…

One great irony of the World Wide Web is that the wonder of “information at our fingertips” brings with it various challenges, including fake news, astroturfing, cyber bullying, and the rapid proliferation of bad news. The latter, at least, is not so much abo…

Posted in Deception, Free/Libre Software, Marketing at 11:28 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Amusing only for marketing departments, which don’t understand technical issues and probably cannot properly and coherently define even their own catchphrases Summary: We…