{"id":51494,"date":"2016-07-23T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T15:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51494"},"modified":"2016-07-23T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T15:23:58","slug":"unfortunate-tweet-sequence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=51494","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate tweet sequence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; keeping a wary eye on algorithms, with the sting in the three links at the end ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a tweet alerting readers to a newspaper piece on the Munich terror attack:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Police investigate claim Muinch gunman lured victims to their deaths with fake Facebook post<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LQh0KYpjKF\">https:\/\/t.co\/LQh0KYpjKF<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/oj82EoQdnq\">pic.twitter.com\/oj82EoQdnq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evening Standard (@standardnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/standardnews\/status\/756752596715593728\">July 23, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here, entirely by chance, is the tweet that followed it as I scrolled down my feed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reach your customers on a personal level with the right message, on the right platform, at the right time. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TnaJVrqQng\">https:\/\/t.co\/TnaJVrqQng<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; FoxMetrics (@FoxMetrics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxMetrics\/status\/754533376414089216\">July 17, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That tweet, for what it&#8217;s worth, was <strong>promoted<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure the people doing the promoting wouldn&#8217;t have chosen to have me read it immediately after reading the newspaper tweet just above it, but that&#8217;s the sort of things that happens when &#8220;thought&#8221; gets automated. It reminds me of the time I was researching <strong>al-Awlaki<\/strong> on the pro-jihadist site <strong>Revolution Muslim<\/strong>, and some algorithm suggested I&#8217;d like an add offering &#8220;bold Christian clothing&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Awlaki-and-ad.jpg\" alt=\"Awlaki-and-ad\" width=\"535\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Awlaki-and-ad.jpg 535w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Awlaki-and-ad-300x183.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No sale there, I&#8217;m afraid. <\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>It gets more serious, though:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>3 Quarks Daily<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3quarksdaily.com\/3quarksdaily\/2016\/07\/algocracyoutsourcinggovernancetoalgorithms. html\">Algocracy: Outsourcing governance to Algorithms<\/a>\n<li><strong>WSJ<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2015\/07\/01\/googlemistakenlytagsblackpeopleasgorillasshowinglimitsofalgorithms\/\">Google Mistakenly Tags Black People as \u2018Gorillas,\u2019 Showing Limits of Algorithms<\/a>\n<li><strong>ProPublica<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/howweanalyzedthecompasrecidivismalgorithm\">How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm ProPublica<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; keeping a wary eye on algorithms, with the sting in the three links at the end ] . Here&#8217;s a tweet alerting readers to a newspaper piece on the Munich terror attack: Police investigate claim Muinch gunman lured victims to their deaths with fake Facebook posthttps:\/\/t.co\/LQh0KYpjKF pic.twitter.com\/oj82EoQdnq &mdash; Evening Standard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[734,1075,526,497,211,393,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-awlaqi","category-charles-cameron","category-christianity","category-terrorism","category-twitter","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51494"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51500,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51494\/revisions\/51500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}