"...a pro-Israel smartphone app that seeds and amplifies pro-Israel messages across social media — saw its first major test in May 2019. It offered a glimpse of the novel methods by which future influence campaigns will be conducted and information wars won...[the app] assigns users a series of 'missions' — typically a comment, retweet, or … Continue reading How a “Political Astroturfing” App Coordinates Pro-Israel Influence Operations
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"On [Archive of Our Own, a.k.a.] AO3, users can put in whatever tags they want. (Autocomplete is there to help, but they don't have to use it.) Then behind the scenes, human volunteers look up any new tags that no one else has used before and match them with any applicable existing tags, a process … Continue reading Fans Are Better Than Tech at Organizing Information Online | WIRED
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