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Fake News Get Real

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<		If the system thrives on deceit and allowing its users deceive, what explains our indignation at fake news? Why do we care more about the untruth going viral than about the indignity of our digital lives being constantly denuded and commodified? An immediate answer may lie in the recent behavior that fake news have unleashed in our physical world:
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 A man armed with an assault rifle stormed a popular pizza restaurant in Washington DC to investigate “Pizzagate,” a conspiracy theory widely shared across social media alleging that Hillary Clinton’s campaign operatives procured child prostitutes from the restaurant.
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 In light of these recent events, then, it should be no surprise that over the past year we have been more interested in learning about fake news than about the pervasive collection of our online behavior.
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<		Meanwhile, we remain appeased residents of a “curiously fabricated privatised commons of data and surveillance.” Dataminr, backed by the CIA's In-Q-Tel, retains its monopoly over the mining of our tweets. Out of our Millenial distaste for carrying cash, Venmo’s default sharing features and limited privacy controls expose the financial transaction data of over two million users. A recent study shows Venmo behaves just like Facebook in choosing the profit of user growth over addressing identified privacy vulnerabilities. And our entryway to Facebook, Twitter, and Venmo—the ISPs—are still able to access everything that exits and enters their customers’ computers (although, in a welcome change, broadband providers will soon need to obtain permission before collecting and sharing data on consumers' online activities as new FCC rules come into effect).
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>		Meanwhile, we remain appeased residents of a “curiously fabricated privatised commons of data and surveillance.” Dataminr, backed by the CIA's In-Q-Tel, retains its monopoly over the mining of our tweets. Out of our Millenial distaste for carrying cash, Venmo’s default sharing features and limited privacy controls expose the financial transaction data of over two million users. A recent study shows Venmo behaves just like Facebook in choosing the profit of user growth over addressing identified privacy vulnerabilities. And our entryway to Facebook, Twitter, and Venmo—the ISPs—are still able to access everything that exits and enters their customers’ computers (although, in a welcome change, broadband providers will soon need to obtain permission before collecting and sharing data on consumers' online activities as new FCC rules come into effect).
 

As such, deception in the form of fake news is not only a product of these services; deception is also their business model. The trick? Luring user traffic with the promise of hyper— connectivity and awareness of what’s going on. The real deal? Packaging our online behavior for advertising. Think Facebook is the product? You are deceived; the Machine's most prized product is you.


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