The public consternation over Cambridge Analytica’s “misuse” of Facebook users’ data has received a lot of press lately, culminating in an appearance by Mark Zuckerberg in front of Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. What went on in committee was pretty much…
I am old enough to remember when the World Wide Web was born. I also remember the creation of search engines which now routinely “crawl” the web to index all of the content on the web. In those days I…
As of November 12, 2022 the US midterm elections are still in doubt, even though election day is four days in the past. There does seem to be one certainty however, the epoch of Donald Trump is coming to a…
This article is an extension of a previous article: Conspiracy Theory Marketing. This article focuses on the demographic known as the “Alt-Right”, which are very often the target of conspiracy theory marketing. The Alt-Right has proven to be fertile ground…
The current global pandemic has induced a stress which has shown us many things. One clear revelation is that how people have responded to the pandemic says more about them than anything about the pandemic itself. There are sharp divisions…
In my opinion, one of the unfortunate side effects of the global pandemic is that Big Pharma can now posture as the savior of humanity. Given the past behavior of some major pharmaceutical companies, they have shown themselves to be…
Given the rise in various “conspiracy theories” around the current pandemic and those who have been caught up in them, it is time for some explanation around how this happens and why. I would like to dedicate this article to…
The title of this article is slightly misleading. Big data is not watching you, but big data could not exist without all of your activities on the Internet being monitored on a continuous basis. So what? Since you are not…
One of the more pervasive and pernicious aspects of social media and web based marketing is what is known as “the filter bubble”. This impacts all of us since the content we are viewing on the internet is selected or…
Let me clarify, what I am discussing in this article is a technique of marketing that is being widely used by those promoting so called “conspiracy theories”, as a way of promoting their products and services. The term “conspiracy theory”…