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How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States
Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 24 2019 Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States William J. Aceves California Western School of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl Part of the Communications Law Commons, Internet Law Commons, and the Law and Race Commons Recommended Citation William J. Aceves, Virtual Hatred: How Russia Tried to Start a Race War in the United States, 24 MICH. J. RACE & L. 177 (2019). Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjrl/vol24/iss2/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Michigan Journal of Race and Law by an authorized editor of University of Michigan Law School Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. VIRTUAL HATRED: HOW RUSSIA TRIED TO START A RACE WAR in the UNITED STATES William J. Aceves* During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the Russian government engaged in a sophisticated strategy to influence the U.S. political system and manipulate American democracy. While most news reports have focused on the cyber-attacks aimed at Democratic Party leaders and possible contacts between Russian officials and the Trump presidential campaign, a more pernicious intervention took place. Throughout the campaign, Russian operatives created hundreds of fake personas on social media platforms and then posted thousands of advertisements and messages that sought to promote racial divisions in the United States. This was a coordinated propaganda effort. -
ON DOCTORS and BOMBS Supermarkets Being Brought in to Colonise ESSAY As We Take a Step Back from the Events of the Primary Care
BaTHcE k Pages Contents Viewpoint 840 ON DOCTORS AND BOMBS supermarkets being brought in to colonise ESSAY As we take a step back from the events of the primary care. Management speak dominates The 21st century GP: summer, perhaps now it is possible to look the discourse, divide-and-rule is the modus physician and priest? Jim Pink, Lionel Jacobson rationally at the effects of the alleged terrorist operandi and drug company research rules and Mike Pritchard attacks in Glasgow and London on the the roost. League tables and other punitive medical profession in this country. measures are manifestations of the 842 Firstly, we need to recognise that the issues pathological culture of bullying and EDO Michael Lasserson are those of criminality and global politics and intimidation that defines transnational are in no way medico-legal or related to capitalist structures. Many diseases of 843 overseas recruitment procedures. We must affluence are actually diseases of ESSAY not succumb to the blind panic that overtook corporatism. From a non-patient’s perspective government and regulatory bodies following A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine in Peter Tomson the Shipman revelations. As a consequence Glasgow was stabbed in the middle of her of this ethos, a lawyer specialising in medical morning surgery. Are we now going to 844 negligence was put in charge of the suspect all patients and install CCTV in our REPORTAGE investigation and with stunning intellectual waiting and consulting-rooms? No, of course The 61st Edinburgh International Film Festival laziness, promptly succeeded in conflating not. Bad eggs do bad things, whether they David Watson criminality with competence issues. -
When Childhood Gets Commercialized, Can Children Be Protected?1
When Childhood Gets Commercialized, Can Children Be Protected?1 Juliet B. Schor In 2004, a significant debate about the effects and even the ethics of marketing to children emerged in the U.S. The catalyst has been the growing epidemic of childhood obesity and the related rise in medical diseases such as hypertension and type II diabetes (Surgeon General 2001). Children’s advocates have argued that food marketing is a major cause of the shift to unhealthy diets dominated by added sugar, fat and salt. They point to the billions of dollars of food advertising and marketing which children are exposed to, on television, in schools, on the Internet, and in the grocery store (Nestle 2002, Brownell and Horgen 2003). Although it did not gain much traction before the recent attention to junk food marketing, the critique goes beyond food to include other addictive substances such as tobacco and alcohol, as well as the marketing of violence, unhealthy body images, and materialism. Social scientists and pediatricians have compiled an impressive array of research results about the impact of various aspects of consumer culture on children. (See Robinson et al. 1998, 2001, Sargent et al. 2001, Kasser 2002, Strasburger and Wilson 2002; and Schor 2004, among others.) Ac- tivists have argued that children are suffering from ‘marketing-related diseases’ (see commercialalert.org), and that marketers are engaging in a ‘hostile takeover of childhood’ (Linn 2004, see also Nader 1996). In addition to their opposition to particular products and messages, many critics believe that advertising to child- ren is inherently unfair, even exploitative, because children are unable to under- stand ads or resist their persuasiveness. -
White Collar Criminality: a Prediction Model Judith M
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Retrospective Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 1991 White collar criminality: a prediction model Judith M. Collins Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd Part of the Industrial and Organizational Psychology Commons, Personality and Social Contexts Commons, Social Psychology Commons, and the Social Psychology and Interaction Commons Recommended Citation Collins, Judith M., "White collar criminality: a prediction model " (1991). Retrospective Theses and Dissertations. 9607. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/rtd/9607 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Retrospective Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. INFORMATION TO USERS This manuscript has been reproduced from the microfilm master. UMI films the text directly from the original or copy submitted. Thus, some thesis and dissertation copies are in typewriter face, while others may be from any type of computer printer. The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. Broken or indistinct print, colored or poor quality illustrations and photographs, print bleedthrough, substandard margins, and improper alignment can adversely affect reproduction. In the unlikely event that the author did not send UMI a complete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if unauthorized copyright material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. Oversize materials (e.g., maps, drawings, charts) are reproduced by sectioning the original, beginning at the upper left-hand corner and continuing from left to right in equal sections with small overlaps. -
Politics and the Constitution: a Review of Judge Malcolmwilkey's Call for a Second Constitutional Convention Charles D
McGeorge Law Review Volume 27 | Issue 3 Article 6 1-1-1996 Book Review - Politics and the Constitution: A Review of Judge MalcolmWilkey's Call for a Second Constitutional Convention Charles D. Kelso University of the Pacific; cGeM orge School of Law R. Randall Kelso South Texas College of Law Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/mlr Part of the Law Commons Recommended Citation Charles D. Kelso & R. R. Kelso, Book Review - Politics and the Constitution: A Review of Judge MalcolmWilkey's Call for a Second Constitutional Convention, 27 Pac. L. J. 1213 (1996). Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/mlr/vol27/iss3/6 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals and Law Reviews at Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in McGeorge Law Review by an authorized editor of Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Book Review Politics and the Constitution: A Review of Judge Malcolm Wilkey's Call for a Second Constitutional Convention Is IT TIME FOR A SECOND CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION? BY JUDGE MALCOLM R. WILKEY. The National Legal Center for the Public Interest, Washington, D.C. 1995. Pp. viii, 214. Reviewed by Charles D. Kelso* and R. Randall Kelso** This book, an expanded version of lectures given by Judge Wilkey in 1993 at Brigham Young University, calls for a second Constitutional Convention.' The book also includes comments by seven accomplished persons and a reply to each comment by Judge Wilkey.2 I. JUDGE WILKEY'S THESIS Judge Wilkey opens with his conclusion that our current constitutional system has failed because of three fundamental problems of modem American politics: gridlock, near perpetual incumbency, and unaccountability of our representatives to the electorate.3 Gridlock, says Judge Wilkey, is "the inability to pass con- structive legislation because of conflicting, neutralizing forces built into the system. -
Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J
STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES 11 Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference by Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb Center for Strategic Research Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University Institute for National Strategic Studies National Defense University The Institute for National Strategic Studies (INSS) is National Defense University’s (NDU’s) dedicated research arm. INSS includes the Center for Strategic Research, Center for Complex Operations, Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs, Center for Technology and National Security Policy, Center for Transatlantic Security Studies, and Conflict Records Research Center. The military and civilian analysts and staff who comprise INSS and its subcomponents execute their mission by conducting research and analysis, publishing, and participating in conferences, policy support, and outreach. The mission of INSS is to conduct strategic studies for the Secretary of Defense, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Unified Combatant Commands in support of the academic programs at NDU and to perform outreach to other U.S. Government agencies and the broader national security community. Cover: Kathleen Bailey presents evidence of forgeries to the press corps. Credit: The Washington Times Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference Deception, Disinformation, and Strategic Communications: How One Interagency Group Made a Major Difference By Fletcher Schoen and Christopher J. Lamb Institute for National Strategic Studies Strategic Perspectives, No. 11 Series Editor: Nicholas Rostow National Defense University Press Washington, D.C. June 2012 Opinions, conclusions, and recommendations expressed or implied within are solely those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the views of the Defense Department or any other agency of the Federal Government. -
Divide and Conquer
ISSN 1936-5349 (print) ISSN 1936-5357 (online) HARVARD JOHN M. OLIN CENTER FOR LAW, ECONOMICS, AND BUSINESS DIVIDE AND CONQUER Eric A. Posner, Kathryn Spier, & Adrian Vermeule Discussion Paper No. 639 5/2009 Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA 02138 This paper can be downloaded without charge from: The Harvard John M. Olin Discussion Paper Series: http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/olin_center/ The Social Science Research Network Electronic Paper Collection: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1349971 Divide and Conquer Eric A. Posner,* Kathryn Spier,** & Adrian Vermeule*** Abstract: The maxim “divide and conquer” (divide et impera) is invoked frequently in law, history, and politics, but often in a loose or undertheorized way. We suggest that the maxim is a placeholder for a complex of ideas related by a family resemblance, but differing in their details, mechanisms and implications. We provide an analytic taxonomy of divide and conquer mechanisms in the settings of a Stag Hunt Game and an indefinitely-repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma. A number of applications are considered, including labor law, bankruptcy, constitutional design and the separation of powers, imperialism and race relations, international law, litigation and settlement, and antitrust law. Conditions under which divide and conquer strategies reduce or enhance social welfare, and techniques that policy makers can use to combat divide and conquer tactics, are also discussed. JEL: K0 * University of Chicago Law School. ** Harvard Law School. *** Harvard Law School. Thanks to Adam Badawi, Anu Bradford, Jim Dana, Mary Anne Franks, Aziz Huq, Claudia Landeo, Jonathan Masur, Madhavi Sunder, Lior Strahilevitz, and an audience at the University of Chicago Law School for valuable comments, and Paul Mysliwiec and Colleen Roh for helpful research assistance. -
The Political Construction of Collective Insecurity: from Moral Panic To
Center for European Studies Working Paper Series 126 (October 2005) The Political Construction of Collective Insecurity: From Moral Panic to Blame Avoidance and Organized Irresponsibility by Daniel Béland Department of Sociology University of Calgary 2500 University Drive NW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 1N4 Fax: (403) 282-9298 E-mail: [email protected]; web page: http://www.danielbeland.org/ Abstract This theoretical contribution explores the role of political actors in the social construction of collective insecurity. Two parts comprise the article. The first one briefly defines the concept of collective insecurity and the second one bridges existing sociological and political science literatures relevant for the analysis of the politics of insecurity. This theoretical framework articulates five main claims. First, although interesting, the concept of moral panic applies only to a limited range of insecurity episodes. Second, citizens of contemporary societies exhibit acute risk awareness and, when new collective threats emerge, the logic of “organized irresponsibility” often leads citizens and interest groups alike to blame elected officials. Third, political actors mobilize credit claiming and blame avoidance strategies to respond to these threats in a way that enhances their position within the political field. Fourth, powerful interests and institutional forces as well as the “threat infrastructure” specific to a policy area create constraints and opportunities for these strategic actors. Finally, their behavior is proactive or reactive, as political actors can either help push a threat onto the agenda early, or, at a later stage, simply attempt to shape the perception of this threat after other forces have transformed it into a major political issue. -
Social Engineering
Social Engineering Blurring reality and fake: A guide for the insurance professional www.cybcube.com Deception and disguise are criminal the radar of insurance professionals, as they methods that are as old as time. become more widely used. Numerous examples - from Ulysses Cyber insurance products do - and will and his Trojan Horse in Greek continue to - cover claims from social Mythology, to Fagan, the pickpocket, engineering attacks. This paper is designed in Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist - to educate insurers on developing strains reinforce the long history of criminals of social engineering, so they can engage achieving their goals by hoodwinking with their clients meaningfully on their targets into believing that an cybersecurity and risk management interaction is something that it is not. strategies against these new attacks. Today, that deception is largely being carried CyberCube invests heavily in cybersecurity out in the non-physical realm. Recent huge expertise - both human capital with deep strides made in technology take historic social engineering techniques to new levels experience in the cyber security domain and in terms of both scale and sophistication. also in data sources and security signals that might flag vulnerabilities and risk areas. In this paper, we will outline some of the forms of social engineering and explore This paper combines those resources, to some of the criminal motivations for carrying offer some pointers on what warning signs out these attacks. We will take a deeper enterprises should be alert to, and how dive into four developing areas of social insurers could address this growing trend engineering, which we believe should be on before it becomes a major claims event. -
Online Media and the 2016 US Presidential Election
Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election The Harvard community has made this article openly available. Please share how this access benefits you. Your story matters Citation Faris, Robert M., Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Nikki Bourassa, Ethan Zuckerman, and Yochai Benkler. 2017. Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society Research Paper. Citable link http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33759251 Terms of Use This article was downloaded from Harvard University’s DASH repository, and is made available under the terms and conditions applicable to Other Posted Material, as set forth at http:// nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:dash.current.terms-of- use#LAA AUGUST 2017 PARTISANSHIP, Robert Faris Hal Roberts PROPAGANDA, & Bruce Etling Nikki Bourassa DISINFORMATION Ethan Zuckerman Yochai Benkler Online Media & the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This paper is the result of months of effort and has only come to be as a result of the generous input of many people from the Berkman Klein Center and beyond. Jonas Kaiser and Paola Villarreal expanded our thinking around methods and interpretation. Brendan Roach provided excellent research assistance. Rebekah Heacock Jones helped get this research off the ground, and Justin Clark helped bring it home. We are grateful to Gretchen Weber, David Talbot, and Daniel Dennis Jones for their assistance in the production and publication of this study. This paper has also benefited from contributions of many outside the Berkman Klein community. The entire Media Cloud team at the Center for Civic Media at MIT’s Media Lab has been essential to this research. -
Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia
/ w / %w '* v *')( /)( )% +6/& $FOUFSGPS*OUFSOBUJPOBM)VNBO3JHIUT-BX"EWPDBDZ 6OJWFSTJUZPG8ZPNJOH$PMMFHFPG-BX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This report was prepared by University of Wyoming College of Law students participating in the Fall 2017 Human Rights Practicum: Jennie Boulerice, Catherine Di Santo, Emily Madden, Brie Richardson, and Gabriela Sala. The students were supervised and the report was edited by Professor Noah Novogrodsky, Carl M. Williams Professor of Law and Ethics and Director the Center for Human Rights Law & Advocacy (CIHRLA), and Adam Severson, Robert J. Golten Fellow of International Human Rights. The team gives special thanks to Julia Brower and Mark Clifford of Covington & Burling LLP for drafting the section of the report addressing LGBT rights, and for their valuable comments and edits to other sections. We also thank human rights experts from Human Rights Watch, the United States Department of State, and the United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office for sharing their time and expertise. Finally, we are grateful to Ethiopian human rights advocates inside and outside Ethiopia for sharing their knowledge and experience, and for the courage with which they continue to document and challenge human rights abuses in Ethiopia. 1 DIVIDE, DEVELOP, AND RULE: HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN ETHIOPIA CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW & ADVOCACY UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING COLLEGE OF LAW 1. PURPOSE, SCOPE AND METHODOLOGY 3 2. INTRODUCTION 3 3. POLITICAL DISSENTERS 7 3.1. CIVIC AND POLITICAL SPACE 7 3.1.1. Elections 8 3.1.2. Laws Targeting Dissent 14 3.1.2.1. Charities and Society Proclamation 14 3.1.2.2. Anti-Terrorism Proclamation 17 3.1.2.3. -
Social Media's Use of Psychology of Persuasion 1
1 Running head: SOCIAL MEDIA’S USE OF PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION How social media uses the psychology of persuasion to influence the purchase of beauty products to the young generations By Kiersten Denton A thesis submitted to the University Honors Program at Southern New Hampshire University to complete HON 401, and as part of the requirements for graduation from the University Honors Program Manchester, New Hampshire May 2019 ___________May, 2019__________ *Your year and month of graduation 2 Running head: SOCIAL MEDIA’S USE OF PSYCHOLOGY OF PERSUASION Abstract As someone who currently works in the beauty industry and follows the industry intensely. I noticed how much impact persuasive methods have on the young generation of consumers through social media and digital marketing. This was illustrated through the various sources on social media such as influencers, bloggers, celebrities, social media outlets and much more. This thesis sought to determine if these persuasive techniques that brands use to market their products to younger generations are increasing the amount of purchases these consumers make or influence their decisions to purchase beauty products. A survey was conducted through Qualtrics and distributed to the target market, comprised of the Millennial Generation and Generation Z between the ages of 18-40 years old to determine how much of an impact these persuasive methods conducted by the beauty industry has on them overall; as well as to gather demographic information. Results showed that although these methods have a strong impact on the purchasing decisions of young consumers on beauty products many still rely on word of mouth recommendations from trusted friends and family members.