Cloaked Facebook Pages, Hate Profiles, and Propaganda, with Johan Farkas
Social Media and Politics
English - October 15, 2017 18:06 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 27 ratingsGovernment Science Social Sciences social media social networks politics political science digital marketing media communication democracy facebook Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Johan Farkas, Lecturer and Researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, joins the show to discuss his research on "cloaked Facebook pages" that spread propaganda through false identities. We talk about how cloaked Facebook pages have been used in Denmark to spread hate speech about Muslims, how a Facebook group of activists formed to combat these accounts by reporting them to Facebook, and what Facebook's response to the reports actually was. We also get into fake news and post-truth democracy in the age of social media, and why these terms might not best describe the current media environment.