在社交媒体和民主电影界，这是一个相当严峻的一周，所以让我们以一个积极的音符结束……从一个严峻的音符开始！

“美国的投票系统非常容易被黑客攻击，甚至一个8岁的孩子也能做到。”伊西·拉波夫斯基从下周在拉斯维加斯举行的著名黑客大会Def Con上举办的一场比赛开始看起。这场有争议的比赛是由民主党全国委员会共同发起的，你可能还记得他在2016年总统选举等之前的黑客事件中的表现。

下面是关于它将如何工作的Lapowsky：

The contest will include children, ages 8 to 16, who will be tasked with penetrating replicas of the websites that secretaries of state across the country use to publish election results. They’ll vie for $2,500 in prize money, $500 of which will come from the DNC and be awarded to the child who comes up with the best defensive strategy for states around the country.

The eye-popping reason that the Democrats have turned to children to hack them? “State election sites are so deeply flawed, Braun says, no ***** hackers would be interested in cracking them. ‘The hackers would laugh us off the stage if we asked them to do this.’”

哈哈？

无论如何，这个故事之所以引人注目至少有三个原因。首先，我们的重点——特别是在这里——是正在进行的社交媒体影响力运动，这可能会分散我们对实际选举基础设施的持续攻击。两者都值得你关注，即使你通常只会关注前者。

第二，民主党的新安全人员来自社交媒体领域。拉菲·克里科里安（Raffi Krikorian）和鲍勃·洛德（Bob Lord）在加入DNC之前，都曾在推特（Twitter）和其他大型科技公司工作过安全问题。

第三，这个故事很好地提醒我们，解决破碎现实危机需要普通人的参与。科技公司和国家**扮演着巨大的角色，但每个人都有大量的工作要做。

甚至是8岁的孩子。

更正，8月6日：这篇文章的标题已经更新，以澄清8岁的孩子被要求破解州选举网站的复制品，而不是投票机。对其进行了进一步编辑，以澄清DNC是该活动的共同发起人，而不是最初所述的主办人。

民主

谷歌努力遏制员工对中国审查计划的不满

瑞安·加拉赫（Ryan Gallagher）报道称，谷歌人对新一轮大规模（秘密）进军中国感到不安：

Company managers responded by swiftly trying to shut down employees’ access to any documents that contained information about the China censorship project, according to Google insiders who witnessed the backlash.

“Everyone’s access to documents got turned off, and is being turned on [on a] document-by-document basis,” said one source. “There’s been total radio silence from leadership, which is making a lot of people upset and scared. … Our internal meme site and Google Plus are full of talk, and people are a.n.g.r.y.”

关于人类如何判断是非的惊人事实

Max Fisher和Amanda Taub写了一篇关于研究的文章，研究表明我们的道德来自周围的人，这对大型社交网络意味着什么：

It especially raises the stakes for how we organize on social media. Sites like Facebook scramble the ways that we relate to one another. They replace our traditional person-to-person social networks with artificial, algorithm-driven networks meant to maximize the amount of time we spend on the site.

That doesn’t necessarily mean that they’re worse for our ability to collectively determine morality. But it definitely doesn’t mean that they’re better, either. We’re only barely beginning to understand the ways that social media can augment up things like misinformation, polarization, filter bubbles and extremi**. Could Facebook also disrupt the processes by which we determine right from wrong — which is, after all, often a social act? How would that change our morality? Our tolerance of violence? Or our likelihood to commit it?

这就是为什么美国军方的推特如此糟糕

Caroline Haskins探索了军方的推特指南，发现在这种情况下，推特的内容过于愉悦：

“Balance ‘fun’ with ‘medicine,’” the handbook reads — in which case “medicine” refers to military promotional materials, or breaking news events like a successful military operation. “It is important to post command messages and organizational information, but try to keep the page entertaining enough for people to want to follow it. Don’t be afraid to have fun by posting interesting links, or asking trivia questi***. Try posting a photo of the day, or asking a weekly question.”

在别处

Snap召开非常简短的股东大会

祝贺Snap投资者：

Snap held what may be the shortest annual shareholder meeting by a U.S. public company in history — not that anyone necessarily keeps records of that feat. Snap’s meeting lasted just two minutes and 46 seconds, an accomplishment that seems fitting for a company that pioneered disappearing messages.

Patreon的创作者们争先恐后，因为付款被错误地标记为欺诈

我的同事梅根·法罗克曼内什（Megan Farokhmanesh）报告说，现在是依赖帕特伦收入的可怕时刻。

Creators logging on today found that some of their July payments have been affected due to what appears to be a combination of banking issues and changes to internal company operati***. While it’s unclear why certain Patreon users (and not others) have been impacted by this problem, many creators say they’ve not gotten any support or answers from the company despite reaching out directly. And though it’s typical for some payments to be declined, the scope of the current issue is concerning to members of the community.

什么是社会的小丑迷因“帮派杂草”

这是Brian Feldman关于帮派杂草的疯狂解释者，很少有模因更需要解释者。费尔德曼将其描述为“对愤愤不平的‘石匠虚无主义绅士游戏玩家’和那些将讽刺性模因视为掩饰自己对此事真实感受的人的模仿。”我几乎不理解其中任何一点，但非常喜欢解释者。

YouTube总部扩张计划显示，谷歌看到了视频的蓬勃发展前景

YouTube在圣布鲁诺有巨大的扩张计划：

据城市管理者称，YouTube支持一项提案，该提案将增加230万平方英尺的办公空间，并最终为该地区带来10000多个新工作岗位。并非所有这些工作或空间都属于谷歌，但圣布鲁诺市社区发展总监大卫·沃尔林（David Wolteng）表示，“其中绝大多数将属于YouTube。”

旧金山杜莎夫人蜡像馆的马克·扎克伯格蜡像馆正在免费参观大厅。

商业内幕在旧金山发现了一个蜡像马克·扎克伯格雕像。

发射

Facebook已经开始对其约会应用程序进行内部测试

在F8之后，我认识的一些聪明人向我推测，Facebook约会最终会变成泡影。也许是这样，但与此同时，它正在进行内部测试。

Facebook推出数字识字图书馆，帮助年轻人负责任地使用互联网

我的同事达米·李（Dami Lee）指出，Facebook新的“数字识字图书馆”中没有发现社交媒体上的骗局或错误信息的信息。

Maisie Williams展示了Daisie，一款用于艺术合作的应用程序

Arya**了一个社交应用程序。

拿

亚历克斯·琼斯谎言的持久创伤

梅根·加伯批评“信息污染”的现状：

Competing truths — “alternative facts” — are no longer the primary threat to American culture; competing lies are. Everything was possible and nothing was true: C***piracies now **irk and **og in the air, issued from the giant **okestacks at InfoWars and The Gateway Pundit and the White House itself. Hannah Arendt warned of the mass cynici** that can befall cultures when propaganda is allowed to proliferate among them; that cynici** is here, now. And it is accompanied by something just as destructive: a sense of pervasive despair. Americans live in a world of information pollution—and the subsequent tragedy of this new environmental reality is that no one has been able to figure out a reliable method of clearing the air.

最后。。。

成群结队的Instagrammers迫使加拿大一家向日葵农场禁止所有游客

本周早些时候，我们以@insta_repeat结束，这是Instagram的一个账户，它的特点是每个人都拍同一张照片。下面是一个故事，当每个人都拍同一张照片时会发生什么，那就是它毁坏了加拿大的向日葵农场：

As The Globe and Mail reports, Bogle Seeds in Hamilton, Ontario had to close down its fields to all visitors following a viral image that lead to a massive increase in foot traffic of people shooting pictures of its sunflower fields. In late July, the farm was open to everyone, with the owners charging an entry fee of $7.50 to people who wanted to visit the brightly colored flowers. At first, the crowds were manageable, but by July 28th, everything had changed. After pictures of the farm went viral, an estimated 7,000 cars lined up on the roads leading to the farm.

下次有人因为你给自己拍照而责骂你时，告诉他们你在支持当地企业。拯救农场——**。

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