Ah the Personal Democracy Forum. I think this is the one which was stuffed with Microsoft and Facebook speakers last year.
Speaker boasts about taking Google money. This already isn't looking good.
It's not "information disorder" it's the advertising industry running everything - the industrialization of influence for cash
"manipulation" and "authenticity". This is just dancing around using the word "advertising".
I don't think the answer to this is to create yet another institution.
I don't think the answer to this is to create yet another institution.
Guy in the audience who runs a data mining company asks Facebook employee about news bias.
Military/industrial audience member asks about Facebook's security officers.
"hiring from the FBI". Is that a Freudian slip?
Facebook employee: "my opinion of Snowden is very different from most people".
It's a military/industrial love-in.
It's a military/industrial love-in.
"In the circles I'm in with a lot of political donors..."
Slight slip up from the English speaker revealing her dislike of the left.
Even though it has "personal" in the title I think Personal Democracy Forum is one of the least personal conferences with a very top down institutional narrative.
English (I notice "English", not "UK") speaker has the right analysis of what Zuckerberg is doing. He knows that people are moving to encrypted chat to avoid surveillance, and that's where the growth is especially for younger demographics.
"Those people in the rights community..." (who like anonymity)
@rah I should say that this is just my take on the subtext and picking up on casual things the speakers insert often as little asides.
