Gaming platforms

With Facebook we see algorithms have replaced editorial boards... a lot of people welcome that... but they may have not have entirely thought through the implications. The Facebook and Twitter platforms have been gamed/amplified by clever/nefarious state-backed programmers. A lot of positive work done to engineer the Internet, has, like the snake eating its tail, begun to devour itself. Her work is not "light reading" but Renee DiResta is someone who I find has really thought through this stuff, and is thinking several steps ahead of the bad guys. - Vaughan

Related

https://www.c-span.org/video/?449088-1/senate-intelligence-committee-holds-hearing-social-media-foreign-influence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdqXZWs3yg

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/12/technology/social-media-disinformation.html