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If we know that bots influence people's perception and decisions, why do social networks decide to intervene in China, but they don't do it here? - @CarlosPaezAgraz of @Mesurar from Mexico, expert on #bots & social media

¡Una buena pregunta! Mexico deserves some answers.
ICYMI @samuelwoolley has said "I would say that Mexico is the benchmark for the worst and most manipulative use of bots”

They've been dealing with this problem since at least 2011. Both Facebook and Twitter need to give them some answers already.
Interview with bot expert @AlbertoEscorcia of @loquesigue_ from Sept 2016 about the wide scale social media manipulation in Mexico:
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Facebook India - Towards a Tipping Point of Violence
Caste and Religious Hate Speech equalitylabs.org/facebook-india… 2019 report by Equality Labs
“Facebook staff lacks the cultural competency needed to recognize, respect, and serve caste, religious, gender, and queer minorities.”
“Hate speech targeting Indian caste, religious, gender, and queer minorities is rampant across Facebook.”
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The FBI issued a warning about hackers hacking smart TVs & Business Insider wrote about it but neither mentioned the 2017 FTC settlement when Vizio paid $2.2M for collecting viewer data from 11 million smart TVs without their consent. ftc.gov/news-events/pr…
Since 2014 Vizio was using used proprietary software to track up to 100 billion data points per day from more than 10 million TVs. They even remotely installed the software on older models. Data was stored indefinitely. How is a hacker worse than this? ftc.gov/system/files/d…
I hate to be that person "they didn't mention x" but the fear-mongering that your TV is gonna get hacked vs. the manufacturer hoovering up 100 billion data points per day per TV and selling them for profit is just... we're afraid of the wrong things.
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People don't understand that their news feeds are algorithmically generated based on people and content they previously interacted with. I cannot stress enough how bad this is.
SM companies do this to keep you on their platforms, looking at their ads. They assume if you engaged with "x" FB page 4 times last week then you must like "x" FB page so they'll keep showing you more of "x" FB page, since you like it, and hopefully you'll stay on FB longer.
The other unseen force that keeps us glued to our feeds: the user interface is engineered to be addictive. It's a slot machine in your pocket. People embrace the "endless scroll" because it's designed that way -- and it's good for business.
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Here’s another example of the CCP #China trying to control and intimidate Chinese Americans on US soil. People in #California have been posing as Chinese police in cars marked with China’s Communist police logos/symbols and pulling people over.
The China Communist Party have also set up cells on college and university campuses across the US under the guise of exchange programs while actually directing students to form Communist Party cells on campuses.

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#China built a surveillance database on Americans from stolen/hacked data, such as the #OPM hack, and some US software developers helped them build & implement it.

I’d love to know who those (treasonous, IMO) developers were.
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Okay, I think I figured out what is Trump's ultimate game in this escalated US-China trade tensions and I think he will get it. Will share my thoughts in a thread soon! 😎
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