Fake accounts, manufactured reality on social media. Suspicious and fake Facebook accounts share common practices, forming a nest that spreads and repeats lies and propaganda. Published 1. 0: 0. AM, October 0. 9, 2. Updated 9: 5. 5 AM, October 1. Part 3. Read Part 1: Propaganda war: Weaponizing the internet. Read Part 2: How Facebook algorithms impact democracy. MANILA, Philippines – Create false perceptions. This is what a network of combined real and fake accounts on social media can achieve in a matter of minutes. Over the past several weeks, we monitored several suspicious accounts connected to various online Facebook groups. One account alone we determined to be fake was connected (as of October 6, 2. Filipino groups associated with Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, and other hobby groups. Another fake account was linked to over 9. President Rodrigo Duterte, and still another was connected to an estimated 3. Filipino organizations and buy- and- sell groups. Imagine the impact of a single message sent from just one fake account and spread to these hundreds of thousands of Facebook accounts. Even assuming only 1. They can convincingly manufacture reality on social media as they wish, transforming perception to reality, and swaying opinion on the basis of perceived number and power. In the Philippines, with a population of 1. Facebook accounts as of 2. In the 2. 01. 6 elections, Facebook recorded about 2. Filipino Facebook users interacting and actively talking about, and debating over the elections with friends and their respective connections. Yet, most political campaigners belittled the ability of social media to sway voters and influence voting – some political camps said it was just all noise with little power for conversion. Something interesting happened, however, in the last quarter of 2. Nest of 'sock puppets'John Victorino, an investment analyst who has been working overseas for the last 7 years, and who has monitored a nest of online accounts for at least 3 months already, spotted some noticeable patterns in what he described as suspicious accounts. He called them “sock puppets” or fake accounts. Sock puppets are used to either amplify a message, drown out a contrary or conflicting message, or even create a false sense of the popularity of an idea or cause through amplification and spread. Some of these sock puppets, aptly named because they act according to how a puppeteer motions them, post in existing online forums on Facebook – political groups, hobbyists, buy- and- sell, and even OFW groups, Victorino observed. The infiltration is subtle, and the undiscerning could very well fall into the trap of interacting with and helping create activity within a group or discussion thread. Victorino said some of the accounts he watched closely were created fairly recently, in the last quarter of 2. Social & Political Issues in America: Resources in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley. The site is able to use the tool to tell. Social Control through popular culture, mass media, ideological divisions, religion, fear and anger, drugs, public education. Find internships and employment opportunities in the largest internship marketplace. Search paid internships and part time jobs to help start your career. May 2. 01. 6 elections. Those who were part of this nest shared common practices: They used profile photos of celebrities or other sexy- looking persons instead of their own. They used cover photos like gardens and foreign sceneries that were shared among them and their supposed friends. They had similar liked pages such as Okay Dito and Ask Philippines. They had less than 5. One of them, linked to groups whose members number over 2. October, is a certain . She uses the profile picture of pop star Im Yoona of Girl’s Generation, a South Korean KPop group, and has ties to over 1. Bong. Bong Marcos United at over 1. Filipino workers groups like Pinoy OFW sa UAE with over 6. A check with ABS- CBN showed that . She used as her profile picture the photo of former Miss Korea and now actress Kim Sa- rang. She also happens to be a Facebook “friend” of the fake . This was established via tineye. She has 4. 6 friends – many of them sock puppets too sharing the same characteristics, and some of them appearing to be real people. A fourth Facebook account, that of . She only has 1. 4 friends as of October 7 but is a member of various groups whose members total almost a million. Mediagazer presents the day's must-read media news on a single page. The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. Keeping up with these changes. Read the latest technology news from Australia and the world online. Visit the website to find out more. Get the latest science news and technology news, read tech reviews and more at ABC News. Now ISIS is using social media to expand its war far beyond its borders. What started with the choreographed execution video of James Foley, blasted across the Web through an army of dummy Twitter accounts, has now morphed. There is also the account of . Raden uses another profile picture also of Im Yoona. He however describes himself as a senior engineer at Northrup Grumman Corporation and lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan. How social media is helping Australian journalists uncover stories hidden in plain sight. The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is an elite worldwide federal law enforcement organization whose mission is to protect and serve the Navy and Marine Corps and their families. NCIS has approximately 1600. This account has 4. October 5, about 1. Victorino. Among Raden’s friends is someone with an identical name but who appears to be a real person. The same real person Raden has over 1,3. He also creates a page as a public figure with likes of over 1,2. How falsehood spreads. To illustrate how one misleading and false information can be spread using a mix of trolls and real people, Victorino pointed to identical posts by . Duterte Movement group about “alleged martial law victims” posted last September 2. The blog also said: “Martial law victims should tell young generation that . For instance, Nic Gabunada, who was part of the presidential campaign of then Davao mayor Rodrigo Duterte, said limited campaign funds forced them to be creative in using the social media space. Duterte’s campaign budget was nowhere near the budget of other presidential contenders, if political ads were any indication. In the past, presidential campaigns were said to cost anywhere between P1 billion to P3 billion. In an interview last June with Rappler, Gabunada, who was part of the Duterte campaign communications team, said his P1. It was these “warriors” on social media who delivered the presidency to Duterte, who won with over 1. Manuel “Mar” Roxas II who got over 9. In contrast, the battle for the vice presidency was intense and breathlessly close between Leni Robredo of the Liberal Party and Marcos. Robredo edged out Marcos, garnering 1. Duterte campaign insiders admitted they used trolls or fake accounts and paid for them, along with “influencers” on social media, essentially people or accounts that had a huge following. There was no unanimity of opinion within the Duterte camp, however, as some like Duterte social media director Pompee La Vi. During the campaign, there were messages of the week or of the month cascaded to what he called “parallel groups” or the Duterte “warriors”. They had administrator or “admin coordinators” in various chat rooms that already existed. A chat group of admins constituted the “super admins”. Gabunada explained that it could be a chat group of 2. And they could be at play even today, Duterte supporters say. Fast- forward to the present, months after Duterte won as president, there is evidence that trolls are still very much alive. These trolls “seed” messages taken from blogs and pages, and which are then amplified by other trolls and spread through members of bigger groups. The messages are beneficial to various political camps and interests, creating a false notion of what is true and what is real. Propaganda agents and propagators. In addition to the activities of the trolls, there are also noticeable “propaganda pages” associated with Duterte. In September of this year, du. An account is classified as an agent or spammer if it had posted more than 1. The 4,0. 00 posts resulted in a cumulative 1. This means that one post alone generated an average of over 4. At least five of these posts received more than 1,0. This is how one post can go viral very quickly. Besides that, newsph. Similarly, nowreader. In the same month, the site whose content is regularly shared by the troll Luvimin Cancio, OKD2. From August 1 to September 2. Our tally showed that each of the top 1. The interval of posts varied from 3 seconds to 6 minutes based on time stamps. The frequency of posts of sock puppets and real persons alike indicate any of several things: posters who pretty much post and share content to their liking throughout the day are dedicated followers or supporters of whoever they are supportingposts are automatedposts can be misused as an effective tool of harassmentposters copy- paste and share content for a living'Business partners'How much are trolls paid – whether for political or commercial purposes? In one page for commercial purposes, for example, repeated call- outs were made for “business partners” who were required in 2. Facebook. Payment was supposed to range conservatively from P1,0. P1. 0,0. 00 a month, with training provided. The Inquirer had reported that some trolls even get paid from P2,0. P3,0. 00 a day just by copy- pasting content. This explains the uniform posts or comments seen on Facebook. Clearly, trolling has become and can become an even more lucrative business. The danger of propagators spreading false or misleading information is all too evident. It can result in beliefs or convictions anchored on false premises. Different versions of what is supposed to be the one true fact can be manufactured, creating confusion and deep- seated schisms among groups who get to believe that their version of the truth is what is real and correct. Expose the fake, don't engage. What to do, given a virtual world of manufactured truth and reality? Spot and actively call out the fake accounts, the sock puppets, the trolls. Gather evidence and report them. Don’t bother to engage them because it is a lost cause. Help clean up the social media space and restore it to what it used to be, or at least a semblance of what it used to be. Abandoning social media and not challenging lies being peddled and spread is losing by default to the trolls and propagandists. In August this year, Archbishop Socrates Villegas spoke to a group of youth leaders and priests during a clergy recollection on how priests should respond to the current socioeconomic landscape. He told them about the boiling frog syndrome. Easy to find on Google, the anecdote about how a frog can slowly be boiled alive without it realizing what's happening was shared by Villegas. If it's thrown into a pot of boiling water, a frog would jump out. But if it's put in cold or lukewarm water which is slowly put to a boil, the frog will not sense the danger until it is cooked to death. Resources in the Media Resources Center, UC Berkeley. Affirmative Action. This event took place on February 2, 1. Booth Auditorium, Boalt Hall, University of California, Berkeley. An exchange of views and a discussion on affirmative action between Charles Murray, Senior Research Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New York, and Ronald Takaki, Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Affirmative Action: The History of an Idea. Explores the historical roots of affimative action and the current debate over its usefulness. Looks at several different affirmative action programs including the Univ. Army, federal aid to minority businesses, and affirmative action in the Chicago Police Dept. Includes archival footage and features interviews with a wide array of academic scholars. Video/C 4. 99. 9Beyond Black and White: Affirmative Action in America All sides in the affirmative action debate say that they believe in the Constitutional right to equality regarding race, creed and sex, but they bring very different interpretations to what that means. A distinguished panel of experts discuss this issue. Ogletree; panelists: Ward Connerly, Angela Walker, Ruth J. Simmons, Ann Coulter, Frank D. Lewis, Antonia Hernandez, Suzan Shown Harjo, Diane Chin, Robert L. Woodson, Sr., Christopher Edley, Jr., Judge Jon O. Strangfeld, Tamar Jacoby, Lt. Video/C 7. 33. 1. The Constitution- -That Delicate Balance, Part 1. Affirmative Action versus Reverse Discrimination. Featured in the program are Roy Innis, Chairman of the Congress on Racial Equality; Ward Connerly, Regent of the University of California and Charles Willie, professor of Education at Harvard. DVD 2. 14. 1 Skin Deep. A diverse group of college students reveal their honestfeelings and attitudes about race and racism. This program looks at the impact of affirmative action admissions policies, speech codes, and race relations on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. Includes drama students enacting plays about racial conflicts and intolerance on campus. The film also examines the debate in California over a series of social studies textbooks which are under fire from critics, who charge that they do not adequately reflect California's multicultural heritage. Deena Gonzalez, Chair of the Graduate Assembly, delivers an address on the disproportionate low number of minority students enrolled at the University of California. Philip Habib, former Undersecretary of State and Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East, delivers the keynote address on American foreign policy and the Middle East. Film examines racial problems of urban areas focusing on the 1. Boston that were triggered by busing of children from the predominantly Black community of Roxbury to Charlestown with a mostly Irish population. Residents speak on the street and during a discussion group about the issues of racism and the impact busing and affirmative action programs have on their communities. This emotionally complex film is also a portrait of young adults struggling to overcome the scars of their troubled childhood in order to realize their dreams of independence and fulfillment. Written, produced and directed by Roger Weisberg. The filmmaker explores what happens when nothing happens. The theme of crime and punishment is present in every moment. When there is no death sentence, there is only time. Time can be spent conversing with God - or maybe with the Devil. Boris asks himself whether he should try to go insane. Written and directed by Alexander Gutman. DVD X3. 24. 51. 99. UN Human Rights Conference Preview Segment one is a behind- the scenes look at the problems, priorities, and players at the 1. United Nations World Conference on Human Rights, the first to be held in 2. Includes interviews with undersecretary of State Timothy Wirth and former President Jimmy Carter and UN Sec. General Boutros Boutros- Ghali. The second segment examines a Chicago based campaign against capital punishment by families of murder victims who tour the United States to combat the death penalty. Video/C 6. 69. 5After Innocence. This documentary tells the dramatic and compelling story of the exonerated - innocent men wrongfully imprisoned for decades and then released after DNA evidence proved their innocence. The film focuses on the gripping story of seven men and their emotional journey back into society and efforts to rebuild their lives. Directed by Jessica Sanders. DVD 7. 27. 9 Awards. American Library Association Video Round Table Notable Videos for Adults. Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer. Tells the true story of the first female serial killer in the U. S., Aileen Wuornos, and the opportunists who used her story. They include the born- again Christian woman who adopted Aileen while she was on trial and then sold Aileen's story, the lawyer who convinced Aileen to plead no contest, and Aileen's lesbian lover who got her to confess. Video/C MM2. 29. All Things Censored . Joyce Elders (: 1. A rap thing (4: 0. Alice Walker (: 2. Mother loss (2: 4. William Kunstler introduction (2: 3. Acting like life's a ballgame read by William Kunstler (4: 1. Ramona Africa (: 4. May 1. 3 remembered, part 2 (3: 5. Juan Gonzalez (: 4. Seeds of wisdom (3: 1. Martin Sheen (: 2. NAFTA: a pact made in Hell (3: 1. Robert Meeropol (1: 2. De Profundis (3: 3. Justice Bruce Wright (: 3. No law, no rights (3: 2. Assata Shakur (1: 3. Sweet Roxanne (3: 1. Manning Marable (: 4. Blackmun bows out of death game (3: 4. Judy Bari (: 3. 6) - - It's not nice to fool with mother nature (2: 4. John Edgar Wideman (: 4. South Africa (3: 1. Recorded between 1. Sound/D 4. 2 America, Behind Bars: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex: Critical Resistance The growing reliance on prisons as the solution to systematic social problems, has created a punishment industry that bleeds taxpayers as it wields repression against the poor, immigrants and minorities. The first film, Visions of Freedom (3. Critical Resistance Conference held in Berkeley, California in 1. Weaving music, poetry and speakers at the conference, this video highlights the growing outlines the growth of the prison industrial complex, the privatization of corrections and the social trade- offs being made to support it. The second film is USA, INCorporated (2. Commentary: Angela Davis, Mike Davis, Ruthie Gilmore, Jose Lopez, Ramona Africa, Vince Shiraldi, Bruce Franklin, David Muhammad, Asha Bandele, Bernardine Dohrn, Luana Ross, Christian Parenti, Reese Erlich. Produced in conjunction with Deep Dish TV's America Behind Bars series & The Prison Activist Resource Center.? Racial Profiling and Law Enforcement For many African- Americans, simply having dark skin seems to be grounds for being pulled over by police and searched for drugs. This investigative report examines the issue from the victim's point of view as well as through the eyes of the police. The film features videos recorded by prison surveillance cameras and correction officers themselves, supplemented by interviews with former prisoners, a warden, a prison doctor, inmates' relatives, attorneys and former correction officers who have broken the code of silence. DVD 4. 77. 5Description from First Run/Icarus catalog. America's Least Wanted Criminologists, media critics and other experts discuss the forces behind crime hysteria in the United States, why American prisons don't work, the economic costs of crime and the large social and economic impact of white collar crime. Arizona began the first female chain gang. In this documentary the filmmaker seeks the truth about chain gangs. Does forced labor change the hearts and minds of career criminals or does it make them hardened and even worse when they return to society? Both inmate and penal officer views of the situation are examined in this honest and shocking portrayal of the men and women in the American penal system. Video/C 6. 99. 7 Angel on Death Row. Joseph) America v. March 8, 1. 99. 7): 1. News & World Report v. Feb 5, 1. 99. 6): 1. Side 2: Mark Schwartz reports on the prison movement and alleged BGF members in isolation. Geronimo Ji- Jaga Pratt talks about several cases of prisoners charged with the murder of guards and Doc Holliday (Douglas Fowley) expounds on the social and political philosophy of George Jackson. Sound/C 1. 51. 0 At the Death House Door An intimate look at the death penalty in the state of Texas through the eyes of Pastor Carroll Pickett, who served 1. Walls' prison unit in Huntsville. During Pickett's remarkable career he presided over 9. After each execution, Pickett recorded an audiotape account of his trip to the death chamber. Directed and produced by Steve James, Peter Gilbert. DVD X2. 10. 6 Awards. American Library Association Video Round Table Notable Videos for Adults. Black Panther Party: Attica Prison Riots, September 9- 1. Presents coverage of interviews with prisoners during the four- day revolt at the Attica Correctional Facility in New York in September, 1. The prisoners talk about the background of the rebellion, asking for an investigation into the treatment of prisoners and conditions at the prison which instigated the riots. Highlights statistics on the racial makeup of America's death row population, mistaken identification, the toll on those wrongfully convicted, and the effects of the Jim Crow era. Directed by Gerry Nelson. Originally produced as an episode of the Irish public television program What in the world? DVD X2. 95. 2Black Panther Party: 3. After Attica On the 3. Attica Correctional Facility in New York in September, 1. Presents interviews with prisoners and guards during the 5 day occupation including spokesman prisoner L. Barkley who was killed in the riots and Frank . Looks at public misperceptions about the criminalization of youth and highlights the relationship between increases in prison spending and decreases in education spending.
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