Virtual Forces in the Real World
In this digital era, the size of public support for electoral candidates on social media can be engineered with a fingertip. It is easy to produce fake reports, insults or exaggerated good news about a candidate. Facebook, Twitter, Path, blogs and YouTube, to name a few, are media that can carry any newsbe it true or false. With a little tinkering of an algorithm, bogus information can be kept at the top of Internet search results. In this way, reports of uncertain veracity can attract large numbers of readers.
All candidates for Jakarta governor and their campaign teams are now competing for domination of the Internet. They have established cyber teams, deployed influential web people known as buzzers, and created hashtags in an effort to produce trending topics.
November 29, 2016
In this digital era, the size of public support for electoral candidates on social media can be engineered with a fingertip. It is easy to produce fake reports, insults or exaggerated good news about a candidate. Facebook, Twitter, Path, blogs and YouTube, to name a few, are media that can carry any newsbe it true or false. With a little tinkering of an algorithm, bogus information can be kept at the top of Internet search results. In this way, r
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