[liberationtech] Intentional Big Tech Leftist Bias in Social and News Media Corrupts Elections and Defrauds Peoples

[Doug Schuler]

An article in the recent Science magazine talked about a “syndemic” which

"is the intersection of two epidemics—two diseases ravaging a population at
the same time, exacerbating each other. HIV weakens the immune system, for
instance, which makes people more likely to develop tuberculosis. The world
witnessed some- thing similar this year. We live in an eco-system that
allows viruses to cross from wildlife to humans more often and spread
farther and faster than ever before—that gave us SARS-CoV-2. But the virus
emerged in an information ecosystem that helps misinformation and lies
spread faster than scientific evidence, weakening our ability to respond to
new threats. That made the pandemic far worse."

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/370/6523/1395.full.pdf

Without necessarily buying into the entire metaphor it seems pretty useful,
bringing up concepts susceptibility, vulnerable populations, super
spreaders, mode of transmission, and, of course, inoculation.

It also fits well into my investigations into civic intelligence which I
believe is threatened like other natural resources. And if it gets too low,
our ability to address our problems cooperatively becomes ever more
helpless.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!

— Doug




On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:49 AM Richard Brooks <rrb at g.clemson.edu> wrote:

> Interesting.
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> https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/2/21278601/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-trump-posts-employee-call-fact-checking-voter-misinformation
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> https://faculty.lsu.edu/fakenews/elections/thethreatofqanon.php
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> https://www.france24.com/en/20201006-qanon-conspiracies-go-global-in-pandemic-perfect-storm
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> https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1329334?journalCode=rics20
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> https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html
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> On 12/23/20 4:31 AM, grarpamp wrote:
> > The Invisible Influence of Big Tech on Politics & Elections - Allum
> > Bokhari #Deleted
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFJfGphZBmQ
> > #Deleted: Big Tech's battle to erase the trump movement and steal the
> election
> > https://deletedbook.com/
> >
>
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