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The spread of misinformation and propaganda online has exploded partly because of the way the advertising systems of large digital platforms such as Google or Facebook have been designed to hold people’s attention.

“People are being distorted by very finely trained AIs that figure out how to distract them,” said Tim Berners-LeeBritish computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide WebSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.558.

In some cases, these platforms offer users who create content a cut of advertising revenue. The financial incentive drove Macedonians teenagers with “no political skin in the game” to generate political clickbaitWeb content whose main goal is to entice users to click on a link to go to a certain webpage or videoSource: Wikidata Confidence: 3.922 fake news that was distributed on Facebook and funded by revenue from Google’s automated advertising engine Google AdSenseProgram that allows publishers in the Google Network to serve automatic text, image, and video, that are targeted to site content and audienceSource: Wikidata Confidence: 3.396.

“The system is failing. The way ad revenue works with clickbaitWeb content whose main goal is to entice users to click on a link to go to a certain webpage or videoSource: Wikidata Confidence: 3.922 is not fulfilling the goal of helping humanity promote truth and democracy. So I am concerned,” said Tim Berners-LeeBritish computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide WebSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.558, who in March called for the regulation of online political advertising to prevent it from being used in “unethical ways”.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/nov/15/tim-berners-lee-world-wide-web-net-neutrality

EdinburghCapital city of Scotland, UK and local government council areaSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.31 is a city of rises and falls. Her crags, wynds, vennels and vaults entice you up crooked steps with good reason. Get some height, and you’ll really see her. Medieval tenements clustering on a glacial tail. The geometric perfection of rational GeorgianSet of architectural styles current between 1720 and 1840Source: Wikidata Confidence: 1.902 streets. A lick of blue where North SeaSea in EuropeSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.81 meets sky. Gilded by summer sun, this city sings, but she wears her storm clouds effortlessly. Brooding under a blackened sky with the malting sweetness of hops on the air, EdinburghCapital city of Scotland, UK and local government council areaSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.31 gets into your bones.

With the city’s rich history, it’s easy to lose yourself unearthing the past. But beyond the cobblestonesNatural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildingsSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.105, a modern city aches to tell its tale. This capital’s present is just as relevant, if you know where to look. Here you can go urban foraging with the Edinburgh Larder, find a fetish club in a cave, welcome May Day with fire, or sit in Scotland’s first cat cafe with a fat Persian called Guillaume. EdinburghCapital city of Scotland, UK and local government council areaSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.31 is losing its stiff upper lip, and embracing a world beyond bygone heroes and royal ties.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/04/edinburgh-guide-hotels-restaurants-sights-bars

 

Jeremy Corbyn has said he “learned at a lot” at a PassoverJewish holiday celebrating the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in EgyptSource: Wikidata Confidence: 4.311 event hosted by a leftwing Jewish group highly critical of mainstream Jewish bodies, after he was rebuked by MPs for attending.Political party in the United KingdomSource: Wikidata Confidence: 2.565

The Labour leader took part in the seder, the traditional meal of the Jewish festival, organised by Jewdas, which last week accused the Jewish Board of Deputies, Jewish Leadership Council and Jewish Labour Movement of “playing a dangerous game with people’s lives” by organising protests against Corbyn’s handling of anti-semitismPrejudice or hatred of, or discrimination against JewsSource: Wikidata Confidence: 1.898 in Labour.

The group – which runs alternative Jewish parties, events and a satirical website – said in a statement last week over the Enough Is Enough protests that much of the furore over antisemitism in Labour was “the work of cynical manipulations by people whose express loyalty is to the Conservative party and the right wing of the Labour party”.

Speaking during a visit to SwindonTown in Wiltshire, EnglandSource: Wikidata Confidence: 1.881, Corbyn said the event was “a celebration of PassoverJewish holiday celebrating the Israelites’ liberation from slavery in EgyptSource: Wikidata Confidence: 4.311, which I celebrate with young Jewish people from my own community and my own constituency”.

“It was very interesting talking to a lot of young people about their experiences of modern Britain and I learned a lot. Isn’t that a good thing?”

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/03/jeremy-corbyn-called-irresponsible-after-attending-radical-jewish-event