Algorithmic social control: networks, conspiracies and disinformation

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Luis César Torres Nabel

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This text has the objective of exposing the social, economic, political and cultural consequences of the power of algorithmic models of control of human behavior in social networks. Consequences such as the increase in conspiracy theories, political tendencies, misinformation, economic chaos, among others. As well as the possibilities of counterpower and reprogramming of these models from society.

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César Torres Nabel, L. (2021). Algorithmic social control: networks, conspiracies and disinformation. Revista SOMEPSO, 6(2), 14-37. Retrieved from https://revistasomepso.org/index.php/revistasomepso/article/view/106
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Luis César Torres Nabel, Universidad Pedagógica Nacional

Profesor de la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional, Unidad Guadalajara.

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