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FEAR PEDDLERS: “If you’re wondering why British political discourse began to degrade, look no further than the arrival of American right-wing conservatism via both the funding of activists and new media outlets which propagated their message.”- @peterjukes https://bylinetimes.com/2020/11/17/citizens-disunited-the-end-of-the-transatlantic-trumpist-alliance/
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“UK’s culture wars were triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling over free speech. Free speech was the wedge by which formerly marginal expressions of xenophobic nationalism, racism, and Islamophobia could become central in Britain’s public debate.”- @peterjukes
+MERCER: “UK’s culture wars were triggered by a US Supreme Court ruling over free speech. Free speech was the wedge by which formerly marginal expressions of xenophobic nationalism, racism, and Islamophobia could become central in Britain’s public debate.”- @peterjukes
CAMBRIDGE DATA CRIMES: “It didn’t matter if many voices expressing these opinions online were paid for by multiple accounts, boosted by dark digital analytics, or indeed often outright replicants run by troll farms hosted and funded by hostile foreign countries.”- @peterjukes
CITIZENS (DIS)UNITED: “If the Supreme Court had ruled that corporations were people, why not networks of bots and troll armies?”- @peterjukes @BylineTimes
BOT NATIONS: “And we fell for it. Millions of Brits and Americans read and believed opinions and facts effectively generated by robots.”- @peterjukes
”The pioneer of computing, Alan Turing, once suggested that artificial intelligence would arrive when, during a conversation, we failed to spot the difference between a computer and a person. We failed the Turing test, politically, in 2016.”- @peterjukes @BylineTimes
