Cyberculture agenda: Two new types of social media hoax- Fake crowds- Fake victims….

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Two new types of social media hoax to look out for (and how to spot them)

First Draft News by First Draft

Where do you get your news? According to the recent Digital News Report, the internet is quickly gaining on television as the primary source of news for most people and social media is even more important for younger audiences.

But, as almost anyone who has spent time online will attest, the internet is full of rumours, fakes and hoaxes. A little digital literacy and healthy skepticism can help spot a fake story from the growing number of viral “news” sites but online trolls continue to find new ways to trick the casual social media user.

 

As social media centralized, blogging’s core infrastructure has withered

Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow

When “social media” meant “blogs,” there were many tools, services and protocols that comprised an infrastructure for federated, open, loosely joined interaction: the rise of the social giants has killed off much of this infrastructure, all but erasing it from our memories.

 

The rise and fall and rise of the GIF

 Mashable! by Lance Ulanoff

GIFs are the Esperanto of our Internet culture, a semi-nonsensical, visual language that acts as a stand-in for everything from random thoughts and reactions to intricate art and instructions.

If adblocking is dead, the future is brandblocking–and less appetizing things, too

Boing Boing by Rob Beschizza

Facebook is at war with users who block ads, and battle proceeds apace. Just two days after boasting that it could serve ads that were undetectable by adblockers, Facebook got a rude awakening in the form of updates to AdBlock that detected them just fine. But it isn’t giving up, and has already adjusted its code to once again circumvent the blocks.

Reddit CEO: Built it. Sold it. Came back to fix it.

The Next Web by Brian de Graft

Huffman and Jobs have more in common than the first name Steve. When Reddit‘s CEO Ellen Pao resigned in 2015, the company’s largest shareholder, Condé Nast, asked its founder Steve Huffman to come back and fill the top spot (like Apple did with Jobs in 1997). Why?  Because he’s the only guy in the world who knows Reddit well enough to actually fix it. Huffman had sold the website in 2006 and went on to pursue other things, like the travel website Hipmunk, which he founded in 2010 with Adam Goldstein and funding from Y Combinator. He often stated that selling Reddit…

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Erdoğan’ı dinlerken. via Facebook Pages http://ift.tt/1heKubC

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Erdoğan wanted, Coalition talks between AKP-CHP collapsed…

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World dates: Turkey faces snap election as talks fail
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors said Thursday that they would push on with an investigation into an allegation of rape made in 2010 against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after dropping probes into three other allegations. Mr. Assange has been .

PM Davutoğlu Explains Why There Won’t be a Coalition

 Bianet :: English

Prime Minister Davutoğlu explained the dichotomy between two political parties and why there wouldn’t be a coalition.

A second election in six months?

Talks between Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu’s Justice and Development Party (AK Parti) and Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu’s Republican People’s Party (CHP) over the possibility of a “Grand Coalition” government in Turkey failed on Aug. 13 after a one-and-a-half hour meeting in Ankara.

Turkey headed for more elections after coalition talks break down

 World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk

Discussions of alliance between ruling and secular parties find little common ground as next week’s deadline for forming new government approaches

 

Turkish Coalition Talks End Fruitlessly, Making New Elections Likely

NYT > Turkey by By TIM ARANGO

The failure of Turkey’s two largest political parties to form a coalition after June elections sets the stage for a new vote and threatens further instability.

10 Stories You May Have Missed As Coalition Talks Fail In Turkey

The Istanbulian by Emre Kızılkaya

The news of the day was undoubtedly this:

AKP-CHP coalition talks fail on transitory gov’t proposalhttp://t.co/glV4FUcSqOhttp://pic.twitter.com/hsNIuISCMA

— Hurriyet Daily News (@HDNER) August 13, 2015

Coalition talks between AKP and CHP fail, elections ‘highly likely’

Coalition talks between Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) ended negatively on Aug. 13, a senior CHP official told Reuters, potentially setting the stage for a snap election later this year.

MHP welcomes AKP invitation but sustains objection to interim or election government

Shortly after PM said a fresh election now appeared to be the only option after last-ditch negotiations between AKP and CHP yielded no deal, he asked for an appointment with MHP leader, who accepted the invitation but made clear they don’t consider being part of an interim government

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4. Unexpected move from Constitutional Court, probably hurts Erdoğan’s ambitions: “Turkish court blocks school closures
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These underage civilians were killed by special forces and the Ağrı Governor labelled them as terrorists…

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Two people killed by Turkish army in the east were underage civilians, says mayor

Even though the eastern province of Ağrı’s governorate stated three members of the outlawed PKK had been killed in clashes after PKK members staged an attack on the Gendarmerie Command, the mayor of the district has claimed two of the dead were actually underage civilians

Special Operations Team Allegedly Kills Two Teenagers, an Adult

 Bianet :: English

Three people died in an attack carried out against gendarmerie station in eastern Turkey. Governorship said perpetrators died while local newspapers told two teenagers and an adult were killed.

PKK won’t disarm or withdraw from Turkey, senior figure says

Outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants will not disarm or withdraw from Turkey as long as Ankara conducts ongoing airstrikes against PKK camps in Turkey and northern Iraq, according to an umbrella organization of Kurdish groups that includes the PKK

U.S. and Turkey Face Questions in Anti-ISIS Effort

NYT > Turkey by By BEN HUBBARD

Two weeks after the United States and Turkey announced the plan, it is unclear which forces will fight the jihadists and what support they will receive.

Five wounded in bomb attack in Turkey’s east

One soldier and four civilians were wounded in a late Aug. 13 bomb attack by suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) on a military post in the eastern province of Tunceli

Kurdish leader blasts Turkey’s president

washingtonpost.com – Op-Ed Columns by David Ignatius

Turkey’s political tensions were sharply evident Thursday, as the country’s leading Kurdish politician accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of “supporting ISIS” in the past. He said that Erdogan wants early elections as part of a strategy of “attacking the Kurdish movement” and reversing its recent political gains.Read full article >>

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‘The Intercept’ claims that “As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates

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As Turkey Bombed Anti-ISIS Fighters, It Hired Lobbying Firm Tied to 2016 Candidates

 The Intercept by Lee Fang

On July 24, Turkey launched a massive military campaign that included sweeping attacks against Kurdish forces as well as minor strikes on Islamic State positions south of Turkey’s border. Just five days later, the Turkish government inked a contract to hire a team of prominent lobbyists to add to its already formidable army of influence-peddlers in Washington.

HDP accuses Erdoğan over inciting village heads to act as informers against citizens

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s call for local “muhtars” across Turkey to collect intelligence on people in their area as part of the struggle against terrorism has infuriated the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which accused the president of taking yet another step aimed at creating polarization between citizens

Ertuğrul Kürkçü: Silopi People Want Peace

Bianet :: English

HDP İzmir Deputy, HDK Co-Spokesperson Ertuğrul Kürkçü told “Everyone wants peace in Silopi. They say ‘We don’t want the death of soldiers and policemen beside our sons.’

PKK, not Islamic State, is Erdogan’s real target | Letters

World news: Turkey | guardian.co.uk by Letters

Luke Harding’s report (11 August) considerably underplays the extent to which Turkey has sought to reverse Kurdish gains in Syria and Iraq on the pretext of confronting Isis. Far from being embroiled in a two-front war, Turkey has carried out hardly any attacks against Isis and has instead focused on bombing raids on PKK camps in northern Iraq. Almost all the jihadis entering Syria did so via Turkey. There are an estimated 12,000 jihadis. That’s a lot to miss. In 2014, when the al-Qaida affiliate al-Nusra captured Kassab, it was clear they’d been allowed to mobilise from within Turkey. Ankara initially opposed the movement of Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga to lift the siege of Kobani by Isis. So far as Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is concerned, the PKK represents a greater threat to Turkish interests than Isis.

 

Turkey’s summer of mayhem

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Living in Turkey today means experiencing a creeping sense of dread – a sense that the animals have the run of the zoo.

VIDEO: Life for Syrian refugees in Turkey

 BBC News | Europe | World Edition

Around 70,000 Syrian refugees are gathered in the port city of Izmir in Turkey, which has become a hub for human smuggling.

Turkish FM corrects statement suggesting US jets did not hit ISIL from Turkey yet

Coalition forces have conducted airstrikes against ISIL targets using Turkey’s İncirlik Air Base, Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu has said after correcting a statement earlier from Aug. 13 in which he appeared to say U.S. forces had not yet attacked the jihadist group from the base.

Turkey, US agree PYD cannot cross west of Euphrates: Turkish official

Turkey and the United States both agree that the PYD cannot be permitted to enter an area in Syria in which Turkey plans to establish a zone that will ostensibly be free of jihadists

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