Divisive and domestic disinformation remains a pernicious problem epitomizing the social decay of the Trump era, where citizens have re-fashioned the idea of news into an authoritarian decimation of a common truth. nyti.ms/2CcbknF
This round of bans consist of accounts classified as spam and inauthentic. It just so happens that political disinfo is profitable to generate (fraudulent) adtech revenue (junk clickbait to score ad revenue); “lumascape” companies as underlying culprits. newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/r…
In January 2017, wrote this little ditty trying to tie this idea together in the election aftermath. Facebook being willing to classify forensically obvious domestic hyperpartisan junknews garbage as spammy fakery fraud is a step in the right direction. medium.com/@profcarroll/1…
