ongoing digg into new attacks on chans for hate speech
Fake research groups justify new MSM attacks on "conspiracy theorists" – Gp 2: Network Contagion Research Institute
WaPo article "Hateful Conspiracies Thrive on YouTube despite pledge to clean up problematic videos" cited the following groups and individuals as "researchers":
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Data & Society (Joan Donovan)
* Network Contagion Research Institute <<< SEE BELOW
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AlgoTransparency (Guillaume Chaslot)
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Columbia University Tow Center for Digital Journalism (Jonathan Albright)
NETWORK CONTAGION RESEARCH INSTITUTE:
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Two primary guys: Joel Finkelstein (political guy) & Jeremy Blackburn (tech guy). Both are high-IQ autist types.
Joel Finkelstein: PhD, Stanford in "psychology & the neural underpinnings of compassion"; used to work at GOOGLE! Research sounds innocuous & fake but could be aimed at predicting anti-social behavior by neural mapping. And in science it's one short step from "prediction" to "control." And you know patriots will be defined as anti-social, right?
Jeremy Blackburn: Degree?? Doesn't say. Asst Prof, computer science at UAB (Univ Alabama at Birmingham). So low-status position; might want a lot of freedom. Studies the World Wide Web. Worked at Telefonica Research in Barcelona. Studies low level cryptography in video games, lots of other network stuff like cyber security.
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New organization: all articles are dated 2018; FB/Twitter has very little content, lots of repeat stuff. Like a "gay fake" org. Oldest blog post is date 9-6-18.
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Focus is mapping hate speech memes using some kind of cluster analysis to depict how objectionable memes are interrelated and spread
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No funding info; shoe-string op (unless they have hidden funding). Still cited by WaPo as tho they're some kind of major league research prganization; bogus image.
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Use AI to study "billions of posts from fringe and mainstream websites…to better understand and hopefully treat the ominous infection of hate in modern political life.
Sauce:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/hateful-conspiracies-thrive-on-youtube-despite-pledge-to-clean-up-problematic-videos/2018/12/10/625730a8-f3f8-11e8-9240-e8028a62c722_story.html?
>>4283805 From WaPo: "Hateful Conspiracies Thrive on YouTube" Call for a DIGG
>>4303851 Fake research groups justify new MSM attacks on "conspiracy theorists" : Group 1: DATA & SOCIETY
>>4306289 "On the Origins of Memes by Means of Fringe Web Communities"
THE PDF BELOW IS THE SCIENTIFIC PAPER QUOTED FROM IN SCREENSHOTS:
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10061780/1/De%20Cristofaro_On%20the%20Origins%20of%20Memes%20by%20Means%20of%20Fringe%20Web%20Communities_AAM.pdf