This is how we transparently communicate our expectations to the government. Send an email, communicate about what is important to you. - ThreadSky

sasspirella.bsky.social • 31 days ago

This is how we transparently communicate our expectations to the government. Send an email, communicate about what is important to you.

Reposted from Charlie Angus

Don't let Elon Musk interfere in our elections.
Here is my letter to Elections Canada to protect our electoral process from interference by the X algorithm.
www.charlieangus.ca/_files/ugd/5...
If you are worried about Musk's extremism
please send an email to:
[email protected]

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sasspirella.bsky.social•30 days ago

Elections in Canada and Algorithms

Dear Mr Perrault,

I fear this email is too late in the electoral period to see significant policies or changes to what can be done to protect the Canadian electoral system.

The rise in international influence on social media feeds that

sasspirella.bsky.social•30 days ago

Canadians access every day is proving to be a step climb to overcome in partisan equity. When external agents purchase, design and implement algorithms that determine the social content received through social media accounts, the possibility of externally curated opinions,

sasspirella.bsky.social•30 days ago

information saturation, singular rhetoric and voter manipulation tactics are in the hands of agents beyond Canadians borders. This academic article published by Paulo Gerbaido in December 2024 looks at the changes that have occurred with social media in the rise of algorithms.

sasspirella.bsky.social•30 days ago

TikTok and the algorithmic transformation of social publics: from social media to social clusters theorizes that while “first-generation social media revolved around ‘networked publics’ formed by explicit interpersonal connections, second-generation social media introduces ‘clustered publics’.”

sasspirella.bsky.social•30 days ago

My fear is that information sharing driven by shareholder, silent political actors and external agents of Canada are shaping the political narrative in Canada.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448241304106

The more machine built socializing, guided by unknown (or known) agents in our electoral field,

sasspirella.bsky.social•30 days ago

the more at risk Canada is of not being truly represented in parliament; all of these risks with the added layer that content, messages, and graphic media has a higher rate of artificial creation; where bots employ multimodal large language models to create artificial content and stories as well as

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