What Is the Potential of Social Media?
April 11, 2016
Short honk. I read “How to Hack an Election.” The write up reports that a person was able to rig elections. According to the story:
For $12,000 a month, a customer hired a crew that could hack smartphones, spoof and clone Web pages, and send mass e-mails and texts. The premium package, at $20,000 a month, also included a full range of digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense. The jobs were carefully laundered through layers of middlemen and consultants.
Worth reading and then considering this question:
What are the implications of weaponized information?
Are pundits, mavens, self appointed experts, and real journalists on the job and helping to ensure that information online is “accurate”?
Stephen E Arnold, April 11, 2016
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