US media: We may never know how much facts have hidden the Internet to us

The New York Times article on August 25th, original title: We may never know how many facts have hidden the Internet to us. The Internet brings together the most comprehensive human knowledge ever, but is its huge scale advantage or loopholes? Does its scale destroy it as the effectiveness of the source of faith? How is it frequently buried valuable data under a large amount of spam? When you search for a famous or fame, are you getting the accurate picture of the life of that person or being manipulated?

This is not a new problem. As the Internet changes, the answer has been changing. In such a complicated digital noise, I am worried that it is difficult for people to listen to accurate signals than ever. Recently, the Times reporter Karen Weiser published a sensational report that recorded Dan Price's malicious abuse. In 2015, Price set a minimum annual salary of $ 70,000 in his company, so he became an Internet celebrity. After interviewing a number of women, Weiser said: "Priece uses his reputation to chase women on the Internet, while the latter claims that both physical and mental aspects are hurt from him."

But this is not the first time that Weiser pierced the myth around Pryce. At the end of 2015, for the first time in Pryce, after a few months of the media from all over the world, Weiser published an article on Bloomberg Business Weekly, exposing many of his ugly scandals, including Prince's one His ex -wife accused him of extreme violence and explained that his salary increase for employees was more selfish than he preached. Since then, Price has been skilled in Twitter, eventually sucking hundreds of thousands of powder, and has become a benchmark figure in some left -wing Twitter circle. "With the tweet, his online image has resumed again." Weice wrote, "Bad news disappears behind the scenes. Just as social media can destroy a person, it can also bury a person through time. "

The Internet should not work like this. Each technological giant claims that communication and organization online data is the company's responsibility. In Weiser's first report to Prilez, it includes important information about this small and famous online character. When he accumulates online followers, the information should be highlighted, not buried. What is even more disturbed is what kind of frequency is this kind of thing? Priece's story may be an extreme example of buried information, but there are reason to suspect that similar incidents are happening on the Internet.

Why? There are three reasons. Hi Xin is hate: technology companies are far more focused on highlighting the information in front of the eyes than before, which makes it more difficult for people to figure out the past. Organizational manipulation: Online thugs are blindly manufacture online reality. Although the platform claims to pay attention to the issue, the thugs seem to occupy the upper hand. Of course, there are capitalism: Due to the urgent need to improve performance, technology companies do not have much energy to solve these problems.

When there is no picture, the relevant party tries to affect the information displayed by the platform to people, the situation will become worse. As researchers have shown, this is more likely to be due to the flooding of robots and network sprays on the platform. These platforms indicate that they have been fighting such behaviors, but the platform's actions are not transparent, and at best it is just half -hearted.

It is not surprising for many readers. When I tell you not to believe anything you see on the Internet, I am not publishing any news. But after reading the story of Priece, I think it is worth repeating: perhaps the Internet does not show you the real scene that is happening in the world fairly. For any given story, you may never know how much information you see. (Author Fahad Manju, translated by Ding Yan)

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