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At The Hill,
Washington Monthly Executive Editor Gilad Edelman said the perception of Silicon Valley has shifted dramatically among Democrats and Republicans since the 2016 presidential election.
Edelman told Hill.TV that the industry was relatively insulated from criticism and viewed favorably by both parties until President Trump's surprise victory over Hillary Clinton, saying his win "really scrambled a lot these beliefs and intuitions."
"Silicon Valley seems to have gone from an industry with no enemies to an industry with no friends," Edelman said during an interview on "Rising."
"Democrats realized that whatever the CEOs of Google or Facebook might think, these platforms seems to have facilitated Donald Trump's election," he added. "On the right, the fact that Trump could get elected while breaking from some pretty serious orthodoxies — at least superficially on economic matters — meant that maybe there was more room to criticize corporate business practices than conservatives had previously thought."
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:09PM (3 children)
Which is why mass generated media like Facebook, etc. is so revolutionary / scary for the establishment. Sure, everybody has an angle, prejudices, color on their commentary, but... with BILLIONS of sources, you get a statistically analyzable sample with everyone's biases out there to see. No longer do you parse the output of three primary sources and develop a huge assumption model on how their outlets color the news attempting to infer the truth-for-your-purposes, there's actually enough noise out there to average it out and extract a meaningful signal.
Of course, as Cambridge Analytica and friends have already demonstrated: this, too, is ripe for manipulation...
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(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 11 2019, @05:45PM (1 child)
Exactly.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday September 11 2019, @06:02PM
I used to follow Scott Adams blog. In it, he related a very personal story about his bout of verbal aphasia - he had a great deal of trouble speaking for a while, which he eventually started to cure by sing-song repeating a word. As the story developed, he shared details of his struggles and progress over time. Then, a few years later, I guess he decided that was a little too much share for his taste, so he had it all scrubbed, not just off his blog but also off secondary mentions of it around the web. I didn't try too hard, but I definitely noticed it there, then gone.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 12 2019, @02:49AM
BILLIONS of sources that just happened to be perfectly correlated with a small number of sources.
You don't have a normal distribution that averages away noise. You have a noise amplifier that hides the signal. It's YOU. It's YOU, cunt.