[P2P-F] Fwd: Weekend Roundup: How to Curb the Mobocratic Algorithm of Social Media

Sat Oct 29 14:08:56 CEST 2016

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From: The WorldPost <highlights at theworldpost.com>
Date: Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 6:03 PM
Subject: Weekend Roundup: How to Curb the Mobocratic Algorithm of Social
Media
To: michel at p2pfoundation.net

Weekend Roundup:  How to Curb the Mobocratic Algorithm of Social Media

By: Nathan Gardels, Editor-in-chief
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Dear Michel,

Wael Ghonim is the internet activist who helped spawn
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the
Arab Spring in Egypt with his Facebook posts. During those heady days in
Cairo, as he explains in an interview with *The WorldPost*, Ghonim
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came
to realize that, "the algorithmic structure of social media amplified and
abetted the turn to mobocracy" because it is designed to bring together
those with common passions and sympathies irrespective of whether the
information they share is truth, rumor or lies.
In our present moment, says Ghonim, "Donald Trump is the living example of
the damage mobocratic algorithms can do to the democratic process." The
challenge has thus shifted, he says. "While once social media was seen as a
liberating means to speak truth to power," Ghonim argues, "now the issue is
how to speak truth to social media."
Since "people will be as shallow as platforms allow them to be," he
explains, Ghonim proposes that the big social media companies focus on
creating a "meritocratic algorithm" that rewards credible information and
dialogue, not just the broadcast of "sensational content" to the
like-minded.
As Nick Robins-Early
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reports,
the Pirate Party in Iceland may soon have the chance, at least in
coalition, to test social media in governance. If the anti-establishment
party is elected in this weekend's vote, among the pledges they've made is
to change the constitution
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to
a crowdsourced document.
In a short essay
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based
on a recent speech in Beijing, I note the irony of how the U.S. election
campaign has helped achieve some of China's cherished strategic aims. "By
saying America might cast off the burden of allies," I write, "U.S.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has already planted the long
seeds of doubt among leaders in Japan, South Korea, the Philippines and
elsewhere in Asia. Rodrigo Duterte, the Philippine president, likely only
says what many are thinking when he questions American staying power and
recognizes the need to forge a closer relationship with China." I also note
that opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP - by both
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and Trump - has derailed
President Barack Obama's "pivot" to Asia by challenging its central plank.
Writing from Manila, Richard Javad Heydarian
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reflects
on Duterte's declaration during a state visit to Beijing earlier that he
would "separate"
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from
his country's long reliance on the United States. "The Duterte
administration is intent on transforming China from an embittered
territorial rival into a partner for national development," Heydarian says.
Our Hong Kong partner, the *South China Morning Post
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reports
that an official paper in China, *The People's Tribune*, editorializes that
"China needs a Mao-like strongman leader, and President Xi Jinping fits the
bill." Indeed, this week the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee
elevated
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Xi
to the status of a "core" leader.
Dean Obeidallah
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observes
another irony of the American presidential campaign. The Trump attack on
Khizr Khan - the father of an American Muslim soldier killed in battle -
has turned Khan into a proud emblem of tolerance and diversity who now
appears in a new video ad for Hillary Clinton. "As an American Muslim,"
Obeidallah writes, "I shed tears watching this video because for once my
community isn't being equated with terrorism."
Turning to the ongoing refugee crisis, this photo essay
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documents
what it was like as the French government closed down the famous "Jungle"
refugee camp in Calais this week and began dispersing the residents
throughout France. In the chaos of the closure, Willa Frej
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reports,
"children as young as 6 are being turned away to sleep in the street." She
also reports
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that
one of the last open routes for refugees to Europe - the Mediterranean sea
between Libya and Italy - is one of the most treacherous.
The senator-mayor of Beauvais-sur-Matha, France, Corinne Imbert
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writes: "The humanitarian situation had become a dire concern of the
highest priority. In that sense, the dismantling of the 'Jungle' is a good
thing. But one must wonder how in France, the land of human rights, such a
place could have thrived for so long." Markus Berktold
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the mayor of Seeg, a small village in Bavaria, writes about how his small
community of 3,000 is helping refugees to integrate. From Lampedusa,
Italy Angela
Giuffrida
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profiles
Pietro Bartolo, a 60-year old doctor who, for most of the last two decades,
has been the only physician treating refugees and migrants on the island.
Giuffrida recounts some of the many harrowing tales of rescue and
desperation from Bartolo's recent book, "Salt Tears."
As American-led airstrikes pound
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nearby as part of the assault on Mosul to dislodge the self-proclaimed
Islamic State, WorldPost Middle East Correspondent Sophia Jones
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talks
with some of the Christian families who took refuge from ISIS at the
ancient Mar Mattai Monastery in Iraq. "We are so tired," one middle-aged
man tells her. "It's always war, war, war."
Writing from Abuja, Nigeria, Mercy Corp's Ghilda Chrabieh
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reports
on "the unseen hunger crisis" now afflicting the same people who survived
the terror of militant group Boko Haram. Tom Saater documents the
"humanitarian catastrophe" emerging there with striking photos from the
ground.
Margaret Levi
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looks
back at the prescient thinking of Rosa Luxembourg, who, in her book
"Accumulation of Capital," theorized at the turn of the 20th century about
globalization and the downward pressure on wages from technological
innovation.
In a beautifully written essay, Calvin College's James K.A. Smith
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recounts
how his millennial students found their "'hitchhiker's guide' to a secular
age" in the works of philosopher Charles Taylor, who was recently awarded
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Berggruen Prize. In the essay Smith quotes novelist Julian Barnes
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as
saying, "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him." And he says that Taylor's
meditations on secularism suggest to those pondering a leap of faith that
it is, "better to pray in the ruins than settle for disenchantment."
Nick Visser
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reports
that the long-sought transition to renewable energy is well underway. In
2015, he writes, "more than half of all of energy generation capacity added
came from renewable sources."
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details
a conference at New York University that explored, "the ethical questions
behind artificial intelligence." "Though most people involved in the field
of artificial intelligence are excited about its development," she writes,
"many worry that without proper planning an advanced AI could destroy all
of humanity."
Finally, Singularity this week looks at the impact of digital technology in
the workplace. "While many focus on a massively automated future," Raya
Bidshahri
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"technology has been changing the nature of work for years. Widespread
connectivity and computing are rapidly decentralizing the workforce."
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