• [^] # Re: Les joies des fausses news

    Posté par (site web personnel) . En réponse au lien Pas d'argument? Invente avec grand mots : analyse de la création et de la propagation d'un mensonge. Évalué à 4.

    Par exemple, citation de ma référence:

    Fake accounts and computational propaganda
    In addition to official government accounts, many cyber troop teams run fake accounts to mask their identity and interests. This phenomenon has sometimes been referred to as "astroturfing", whereby the identity of a sponsor or organization is made to appear as grassroots activism (Howard, 2003). In many cases, these fake accounts are "bots"—or bits of code designed to interact with and mimic human users. According to media reports, bots have been deployed by government actors in Argentina (Rueda, 2012), Azerbaijan (Geybulla, 2016), Iran (BBC News, 2016), Mexico (O’Carrol, 2017), the Philippines (Williams S, 2017), Russia (Duncan, 2016), Saudi Arabia (Freedom House, 2013), South Korea (Sang‐Hun, 2013), Syria (York, 2011), Turkey (Shearlaw, 2016) and Venezuela (VOA News, 2015). These bots are often used to flood social media networks with spam and fake news. They can also amplify marginal voices and ideas by inflating the number of likes, shares and retweets they receive, creating an artificial sense of popularity, momentum or relevance. Not all governments make use of this form of automation.