The leading global hacker organizations.
Source: WSJ 4/21/18.
N. Korea, Russia, and Iran based groups are most frequently cited as the sources internet hacking.
Facebook has grown from less than 100 Million users in 2005 to more than 2 Billion users in 2018, despite repeated questions about its use of user data.
Source: WSJ 4/13/18.
Research … finds humans, not bots, are primarily responsible for spread of misleading information.
I have long thought that cable news/talk was a key contributor to the decline in our nation’s democratic discourse. Cable channels cater to narrow, targeted demographics and the logic of television programming for the benefit of advertisers takes over. Nielsen share trumps nuance and truth.
We now face a new generational sea change in the sources of media erosion of our democracy — the Internet. Cyber makes up for in speed and virility what it lacks in editorial judgment and attention to facts.
Recent research from MIT’s Media Lab identified the growing proliferation of false claims on Twitter (see chart below).
Importantly, the sources of the proliferation of false information are…. wait for it …. primarily humans, not bots.
The report had several other findings that are disturbing to those of us enamored of truth.
You can read the Science article here.
You can watch a video on the genesis of this study here.