False memories and Fake News
Study reveals that exposing people to fake news creates false memories if that fake news panders to their preexisting biases and beliefs.
Fake News
Facebook and “Freedom of Expression”
As the 2020 elections loom in the US and also in the UK in just a few weeks, the role that Facebook plays in swinging the outcome via outright manipulation and lies is coming sharply into focus. “I don’t know, I can’t remember” There was this recent interaction between AOC and Mark Zuckerberg. What happened … Read more
Harry Houdini and Abraham Lincoln
Did you know that Harry Houdini and Abraham Lincoln were good friends and would often meet up? For example, see the picture above. There is of course one rather glaring flaw here. Lincoln was rather famously assassinated on 15 April 1865, and Houdini was born after that in 1874. How then is a picture such … Read more
Wingnut Weekly – 27 Oct 2019
It is almost universally true that truth matters. Think of anything familiar and consider the consequences of what would happen if the wingnut policy of “alternative truth” prevailed … Medicine: If you were diagnosed by a guy who simply made up an illness to explain your symptoms because it felt right then how would you … Read more
Sandy Hook father awarded $450,000
For most, the loss of a child is an unimaginable devastation. For parents in Sandy Hook the nightmare became reality. Picture in your mind how you would cope and you might then begin to grasp the deep well of despair that they endured. What followed after that was deeply offensive, not just to the parents … Read more
Trollbot swarms
What is a trollbot, and what are they currently being deployed to do on social media platforms? How can we actually see what is happening?