Stop, you are embarrassing yourself again..BFD who was president...Your insult is complete bullshit.
That’s where the algorithms come in. American researchers have found they can use mathematical formulas to segment huge populations into thousands of subgroups according to defining characteristics like religion and political beliefs or taste in TV shows and music. Other algorithms can determine those groups’ hot-button issues and identify “followers” among them, pinpointing those most susceptible to suggestion. Propagandists can then manually craft messages to influence them, deploying covert provocateurs, either humans or automated computer programs known as bots, in hopes of altering their behavior.
That is what Moscow is doing, more than a dozen senior intelligence officials and others investigating Russia’s influence operations tell TIME. The Russians “target you and see what you like, what you click on, and see if you’re sympathetic or not sympathetic,” says a senior intelligence official. Whether and how much they have actually been able to change Americans’ behavior is hard to say. But as they have investigated the Russian 2016 operation, intelligence and other officials have found that Moscow has developed sophisticated tactics.
Inside Russia’s Social Media War on America
i'm talking about the ones search engines use.
i can't just put up a website full of fake news and have it hit the first few pages on google. doing SEO is tricky and requires a lot of patience and experience.
has nothing to do with russia, spying, fake news or the like. just how search engines work and even when you tweak it, google or bing or someone else can change how the results are displayed and you start over, to a point.
you know nothing of bots it would seem. or a lot of things, it would also seem. but you read the powerpoint of news sites you like and fling out their bullets as a validation of how you feel.
and that, my friend, is how fake news is born. congrats on the many children you've given birth to in this regard.
Why don't you go ******* look for yourself, don't even reply until you go and read up of the facts..
.What do you think Twitter, facebook and other platforms have been to congress?
The Russians made fake websites, and linked them on Twitter... these fake links spread across social media. When you click on the link it takes you to a fake website that looked legit..so you believe the fake story.
Millions of these fake bot tweets were then retweeted and brought to websites and forums..which brought them up in the search engine when you typed in certain words..
you sure do got an insulting way of doing things, ya know?
i have looked them up. i also run a website or two and have had to do SEO for them and it's a *****. a huge king kamayamaya *****. google changes how it filters traffic, you get to go recode your site. using simple meta / key words doesn't work anymore. you have to have your header tags in place you have to limit scripting your site for speed and you need a shitton of backlinks from reputable sites linking back to you before google and most major search engines will pull you to the top of site results.
so typing in whatever you want to type in will bring you thousands of sites and their info they get from "spidering" your site for content formed in the proper way. if you don't do this and keep it up and active, you simply don't come up on the first 10 pages of search engines when using generic key words. just doesn't happen. i know for a fact because i've had to do it several times. have you? if not, you may want to back off the hate and leave emo at the door.
you think we don't have fake websites out there? hell 30% of facebook or twitter alone is likely fake anyway and not all russians.
As many as 48 million Twitter accounts aren't people, says study
wow. that's a shitload of fakeness and it's not all russia.
now - what did russia do?
Russia used hundreds of fake accounts to tweet about Brexit, data shows
HUNDREDS of fake accounts. do the math and tell me how big an impact hundreds does in a sea of 48 MILLION fake accounts. facebook, the same. the % of accounts and traffic driven are in the 0.01% or less range.
i did the math there too.
this isn't hate, EW. i'm not even mad. i just disagree with you, have been in IT for 25 years and do have some experience here from direct interactions and experience. do you or is it all what you read on sites that validate your emotional state of mind?
go on. get mad and cuss me out again. kinda cute but it makes me feel bad for you to see you live in such a limited view of the world. but, your world. have fun with it i suppose.
read up before you speak up.
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