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<big><big>'''How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World ''' | '''2023''' | ||
<big><big>'''A New Challenger Rolls Out -- Artificial Intelligence's ChatGPT'''</big></big> | |||
'''ChatGPT Confronts 'Climate Denialism'''' | |||
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<big>'''How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World '''</big> | |||
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Revision as of 15:57, 29 January 2023
GreenPolicy360: The development of science over the ions is, as the song goes, "a long and winding road" but here we are in the 21st Century and still facing ancient themes. The "Scientific Revolution", as it was called, was based on ancient knowledge -- and arguments -- that carried through the "Middle Ages" and led to the "Age of Enlightenment", the "Age of Reason", and in Europe the end of "Feudalism", and beginning of "Mercantilism", "Colonialism", "Capitalism" and "Socialism". Social and political revolutions across the world in the 1800s brought on conflict and wars that carried into and across the 1900s with two world wars and nuclear weapons now threatening civilization -- and humanity's existence. Now as the 21st Century reveals new reality, we look out at mixed economies, a heated struggle between democratic and authoritarian governments. New technology and communication networks are used and misused, a global "Internet Age" connecting nations across our planet. We are creating the beginnings of a new electronic, computer era with all its benefits, knowledge, and threats -- an online 360, 24/7/365 system that is 'always on' and shaping our world view.
Within the Internet, the "World Wide Web", the 'lit, open web' and the 'dark web', a different neural network than any before the 21st Century is powering up, with machine learning and artificial intelligence on the near horizon. Computer-assisted reach, engagement, and persuasive power of digital communication is just beginning to feel its full power.
Welcome Digital Citizen. Are you prepared?
Fact Checking and Embedded Links
Privacy on the Net-Online Rights
Strategic Policy-Internet Online Rights
Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki
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2023
A New Challenger Rolls Out -- Artificial Intelligence's ChatGPT
ChatGPT Confronts 'Climate Denialism'
2022
How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation Around the World
Via ProPublica
October 2022
Using data from fact-checking newsrooms and researchers, @ProPublica scanned more than 13,000 active article pages from thousands of websites in more than half a dozen languages to determine whether they were making money with Google Ads.
The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found.
The company has publicly committed to fighting disinformation around the world, but a ProPublica analysis, the first ever conducted at this scale, documented how Google’s sprawling automated digital ad operation placed ads from major brands on global websites that spread false claims on such topics as vaccines, COVID-19, climate change and elections.
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Books on Disinformation: Its History, Techniques and Effects
Via New York Times / June 2022
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NewsGuard targets Disinformation / Misinformation: Check out the NewsGuard online services
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The Union of Concerned Scientists Reveals Facts About the 'Disinformation Playbook'
Countering Disinformation in Your Community (PDF)
Is Disinformation the Same as Misinformation?
What You Can Do to Stop Disinformation
How Business Interests Deceive, Misinform, and Buy Influence at the Expense of Public Health and Safety
Here are five of the most widely used “plays” and some of the many cases where they have been used to block regulations or minimize corporate liability, often with frightening effectiveness—and disastrous repercussions on public health and safety.
1) The Fake
Conduct counterfeit science and try to pass it off as legitimate research
2) The Blitz
Harass scientists who speak out with results or views inconvenient for industry
3) The Diversion
Manufacture uncertainty about science where little or none exists
4) The Screen
Buy credibility through alliances with academia or professional societies
5) The Fix
Manipulate government officials or processes to inappropriately influence policy
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Misinfo/Disinfo, Powerful Political Tools
Hybrid Threats, Hybrid Warfare
In politics, in influencing and swaying public opinion, in engaging target audiences and motivating these groups and individuals with 'calls to action'
In international relations, in regional conflicts, in the cause of nationalism, conflicts and wartime
In the Internet Era, the Use of Misinformation and Disinformation becomes a formidable weapon
Psyops
Dictionary Definition of Psyops (psychological operations) by Merriam-Webster
- Military operations usually aimed at influencing the enemy's state of mind through noncombative means (such as distribution of leaflets)
First Known Use of psyops
- First known use of psyops -- 1965, in the meaning defined above
GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands, adds an expanded definition in cyberwarfare application of psyops -- consider "cyber-psyops" as in the disinformation/misinformation viral use of online social media platforms to deliver messaging intended to deceive, distract, and sow distrust of fact-based news and online information
e.g., via The Guardian / March 20, 2022
"Fake news factories with wave of sanctions
"UK and US crack down on outlets and websites peddling ‘false and misleading’ reports thought to be backed by Russian intelligence"
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Disinformation / Misinformation
The Bane of the Early Internet Age
Misinformation... Disinformation... Deeply Damaging Democracy
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Fact-Checking, 'Facts Count'
80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)
60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)
37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)
Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network
Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News
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WWW Origins-Foundation, established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web" - WebFoundation.org
- March 2017 Open Letter from Berners-Lee on Threats to the Web
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From the Aspen Institute:
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From Micah Sifry:
April 2021
On Anti-disinformation work
In the last five years of a whole cottage industry (has been built) of research centers, academic studies, journalistic conferences and tech summits on disinformation.
In 2017, the CUNY School of Journalism (now called the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY) launched a $14 million News Integrity Initiative with primary funding from Facebook, with the goal of “helping people make informed judgments about the news they read and share online.” That same year, the Omidyar Network announced $100 million in funding for journalism outlets and to organizations combating hate speech and the spread of false information. The Annenberg Innovation Lab launched a “Truthiness Collaborative” to “advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem.
Now in just the last year, there’s a plethora of new organizations with names like The Forum on Information and Democracy, Digital Citizens Alliance, the Coalition for a Safer Web, and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism.
More from Micah:
To Change Voters’ Sympathies, It’s Time to Go Deep
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Time for an International 'Internet Bill of Rights'
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Fighting Back: Time for Facts and Science
Digital360
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen | Digital Citizen
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights | Digital Rights
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Beginning_of_WWW_89_TimBerners-Lee_CERN.jpg | World Wide Web
GreenPolicy360 & Science
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png | GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science | GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms | Global Climate Keywords
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg | Measure-to-Manage
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt | Merchants of Doubt
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)
- http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 | Wiki Community Science
Climate Denial / Misinfo
- https://climatefeedback.org | ClimateFeedback.org
- https://climatecrocks.com/ | Climate -- Crocks, Denial, Facts & Vids
- https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/y3z737/the-12-arguments-every-climate-denier-uses-and-how-to-debunk-them | Debunking Climate Denial
- http://www.desmogblog.com/ | Desmog Blog
- http://www.desmogblog.com/about | Desmog & Climate Change
- http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database | Denier Database
- http://www.desmogblog.com/slamming-the-climate-skeptic-scam | Desmog Perspective
- https://www.beforetheflood.com/explore/the-deniers/top-10-climate-deniers/ | Denier Favorites
- https://www.drillednews.com/post/fake-science-is-a-real-danger | Drilled - Corp Sponsored
- https://grist.org/series/skeptics/ | Grist on Skeptics
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:PEN_America-Earth_Institute-Columbia_U..._How_to_defend_yourself_online.jpg | PEN America, Envir Writing, How to Defend Yourself and Your Work Online
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_of_the_Humans,_a_documentary_film | Re: Misinfo of 'Planet of the Humans' Documentary
- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Denier_Talking_Points_--_and_Rebuttals | Rebutting Climate Denier Talking Pts
- https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php | Skeptical Science Site
- https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm | Skeptical - Attacks on Climate Models
- https://www.snopes.com/collections/climate-change-denial-debunked/ | Snopes on Climate
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg | Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png | Techniques of Science Denial (Video)
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