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A Facebook War: Libyans Battle on the Streets and on Screens

• tim333 8y ago
  I wonder if you could use AI to promote messages of tolerance rather than the tendency of existing algorithms to promote conflict?
  • Iwan-Zotow 8y ago
    Been there, done that. You see, in Civ5 there was famous ruler called Gandhi. He loved peace, he loved people, but (due to software bug, he-he) then suddenly he always went berserk and start nuking neighbours. Infamous "nuclear Gandhi"...
    • tim333 8y ago
      I learned something new there. 8 bit underflow apparently. Though that wasn't quite what I was thinking of.
• rectang 8y ago
  In the wake of Iran's unsuccessful Green Revolution, the government was able to use the tracks left on social media to identify and hunt down dissidents. Libya at present is fractured, but as we see in this article, the same thing is happening on a regional level. While social media makes it possible for people to come together more easily than in the past, it also serves as an omnipresent surveillance tool. Is the age of popular uprisings coming to an end?