Regulate Time to regulate search & social media tech giants as they’re brokers into the information marketplace, & critical infrastructure to the global economy. An industry consortium, (sanctioned by government) can regulate, balance the interests of small & large firms, and set ground rules for how they interact with society Guessed the Word? Series…
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Optimist Unusual business model, based on optimistic faith in the community to do good, can work: Wikipedia is 5th most popular website on earth. New global platform for multilingual, quality news soon. Journalists/volunteers will publish facts. Supporters donate, so no ads, no paywalls. Measures to stop fake news, spread by eager/unwitting volunteers, have failed. Fight…
Scam Web scammers don’t need to guess who’ll fall for their cons. Social media’s trove of user data + algorithms target their fake ‘news’ & ‘endorsed’ ads across multiple platforms – by age, interests, location or IP address – based on previous clicks on their links Guessed the Word? Series 22 (8/8) [pic:…