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Introducing: Hamish “The Illusion” Patterson

21st Century Wire says…
Welcome to Spaceship Earth.
This past week, Stuart J. Hooper took a trip to Los Angeles, California and got the chance to meet up with YouTube star Hamish “The Illusion” Patterson.
The Illusion has made over 1,200 videos covering everything from current events, to the nature of the universe, and his journey through sobriety.

YouTube Set to Single-Handedly Overcome All TV Viewership

(ZHEIn a dramatic confirmation of the relentless growth of online video, at the expense of the agonizing, slow death of conventional TV, YouTube said that its worldwide viewers are now watching more than 1 billion hours of videos a day, on pace to eclipse total US TV viewership over the next few years, a milestone facilitated by the Google aggressive embrace of artificial intelligence to recommend videos.

Social media companies begin collaboration to fight online “extremism”

By Alex Christoforou | The Duran | December 6, 2016 YouTube and Facebook have started using hashes to automatically remove extremist content. Giant tech companies are banding together to stop extremism on the web. YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Microsoft will begin sharing a common database to flag accounts and user profiles they deem as threats […]

Propagande anti-russe automatisée sur internet

Voici la vidéo édifiante d’un reportage diffusé sur Arte le 1er novembre 2016. Une société allemande de robotique a découvert plus de 15 000 programmes-robots dont les adresses proviennent de serveurs en Grande-Bretagne. Ces robots interviennent dans les forums (Facebook, Twitter et autres réseaux sociaux). Dès qu’ils détectent le mot « Ukraine » ils envoient automatiquement des messages de propagande anti-russe, de l’ordre de 60 000 par jour, rien que pour Twitter.