IST 195 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Trolls From Olgino, Infowar, Web Traffic

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Information Studies
• Course: IST 195
• Professor: Rubin

Document Summary

Algorithms are used to see what is put on the internet and the russians flooded the zone of fake twitter and facebook accounts to swing american voters. These automated accounts were called bots to influence how people vote. Second video (mostly false): thousands of paid bots to push out fake news at a high volume and flooding social media with fake information. Infowars: spreads fake news but it is popular on facebook twitter, and etc so these news organizations band them. Big move in 2018 because there"s a difference between freedom of speech and fake news to sway people. Social media is useful in the sense of getting news and being updated on the world, but in 2018 we"re trying to help show where the news came from since people are using these programs to manipulate news. Memes: become weaponized because it can spread fake information.