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Pt 1 highlights from our 1st panelist of the day: What is Democratic about Technologies? Johnathan Albright @d1gi spoke about the data and structural aspects that are behind news events and the amplification aspects of propaganda and misinformation. #digidems #digitaldemocracy 
Albright mapped out the 2016 media ecosystem and found that much of the far right and extreme views were populating through public API resources, things like wikipedia forces and Youtube. The manipulation of public networks, then..
makes it important to understand more about the structural ecosystem, the pathways and the amplification of bias views that people find through information technologies. The positioning of accounts within the network reveals the tactical position of particular content and media..
