MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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By Stefan Wojcik & Michael Barthel @ PewResearch.org
Since the 2016 U.S. presidential election, much attention has been focused on the role of bots in promoting political news on Twitter. But bots can play a role in spreading many other types of news and information as well.
Indeed, a new Pew Research Center analysis finds that suspected bots are far more active in sharing links to news sites focusing on nonpolitical content than to sites with a political focus. And when they do share political news on Twitter, suspected bots are more likely to link to sites with ideologically centrist audiences than to ones with staunchly liberal or conservative followings.
To conduct the analysis, researchers examined 108,552 tweeted links to 50 popular news websites sent during a six-week period in the summer of 2017 [....]
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There's alot here. But when it comes to analytical data research re our interest in bots, I think the high point was before the November 2016 election:
Of course, as I said, there's alot here to absorb. But the time frame matters when we consider the import overall, and what we're trying to understand.
by barefooted on Thu, 06/21/2018 - 8:40pm
Found this June 10 Parscale interview with 60 minutes (has transcript as well as video for those who prefer to read,) very interesting in that he clearly still is a true believer Facebook is what helped them win, espec. the micro-targeting, with Facebook staff helping them learn "how to", like this (my underlining):
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 2:35am
Repeating post of a new large Pew study I linked to 4 days ago,
DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN FACTUAL AND OPINION STATEMENTS IN THE NEWS
The politically aware, digitally savvy and those more trusting of the news media fare better; Republicans and Democrats both influenced by political appeal of statements
@ Pew Resarch Center, June 18
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 3:37am
Within the Pew link you cited, I tried to find the actual poll - kinda curious how we'd do - but this is the best they had. An answer sheet, really, but I can't imagine not being able to tell the difference between the statements even without a cheat sheet.
by barefooted on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 3:01pm
I can't imagine not being able to tell the difference
Well, you're a news junkie, and basically one of their conclusions was that news junkies could tell the difference, so there you have it! Like you, I did go over the questions, because it's a hint for us news junkie types a little insight into what non news junkie types might fall for. It was also interesting that they stressed that experience at reading mainstream news sources was a factor. Makes no judgment why, just says....one could make different presumptions about why.
by artappraiser on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 4:06pm
But in a larger sense, doesn't it go farther than the news? Simply the wording of a statement should give a large clue about whether it's an opinion or a fact. WaPo and others regularly do little "test your news iq!" quizzes which are just silly fun and judge nothing more than whether you've been a news junkie over the preceding week or so - but this kind of polling should (in effect) show whether you have the innate ability to tell the difference between something proven and something supposed.
by barefooted on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 4:30pm
The opinion statements are clearly opinions so I have some trouble understanding how people didn't get that. But they did do much better with them than the factual statements. The factual statements are written as facts but I'd guess that people got them wrong because they disagreed whether the fact was true. In other words as is so often the case with polls and studies this poll was not actually testing what the pollsters assumed it was testing.
by ocean-kat on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 5:15pm
.. this poll was not actually testing what the pollsters assumed it was testing.
Exactly.
by barefooted on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 6:12pm
It is like the Stanford Prison experiment all over again.
by moat on Fri, 06/22/2018 - 6:18pm