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Peer2Politics
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on peer-to-peer dynamics in politics, the economy and organizations
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"Research I have been directing in recent years suggests that Google, Inc., has amassed far more power to control elections—indeed, to control a wide variety of opinions and beliefs—than any company in history has ever had. Google’s search algorithm can easily shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more—up to 80 percent in some demographic groups—with virtually no one knowing they are being manipulated, according to experiments I conducted recently with Ronald E. Robertson ."
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Alt-Market.com - supporting local economies, barter networks, farmers initiatives, and alternative currencies backed by tangible commodities.
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Social network lets campaigns match profiles with political habits and contact info, as Silicon Valley influence becomes ‘game-changer’ for targeted ads
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Carlos Delclós writes about new generation of activist-politicians advancing the municipal agenda in Spain.
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Anti-poverty activist Ada Colau elected as mayor of Barcelona, while battle for control of capital pits countess against former communist
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Voting is centuries old, why can't we move with the times and use our phones, tablets and computers? Tom Scott lays out why e-voting is such a bad idea.
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People say Washington is broken and on the decline, that government no longer works for them — only for the rich and powerful.
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"No democracy" inside the euro: "If you vote for what you want, the EU will crush you".
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The company’s dominance means it can easily manipulate voter behavior. Though it claims it won’t, just the possibility is a threat to democracy
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A hacker claims to have maintained an army of 30,000 fake Twitter profiles that helped candidates win elections in Latin America.
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The country’s political convulsions and the rise of Podemos show that the fight against austerity did not die with Syriza in Greece
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What the Spanish media ignore about this new generation of activist-politicians is why they became famous enough to put on a ballot in the first place: their roots in prominent local struggles and their willingness to spearhead radical democratic participation.
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Protest parties make gains in Spain's local elections, depriving the governing People's Party of overall control of Madrid and other councils.
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The same technology that makes Bitcoin an alternative currency could be adapted to make elections impervious to cheating at a fraction of the current cost.
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On Oct. 26, Pres. Dilma Rousseff of Brazil of the Partido dos Trabalhadores (Workers Party, PT) won re-election in the second round of voting by a narrow margin against Aécio Neves of the Partido da Social Democracia Brasileira (Brazilian Social Democratic Party, PSDB). Despite the name of the PSDB, this was a clear left-right struggle, in which voters generally voted their class position, even though the programs of the two parties were on many fronts more centrist than left or right.
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