A four hour presentation on manipulation strategies on social media with real life examples (not included here) and my concerns about how AI will be used as a tool to sway public opinion.
Category: Social Media
Judges and media conference
Presiding Panel #2 – “May the judge communicate?” of the “Judge and Media” Conference organized by the Ministry of Justice with Judge Valerie-Odile DERVIEUX, Judge Fayçal Makki, Attorney and President of the Internet Society – Lebanon Chapter, Mr. Charbel Chbeir, and Mr. mounir younes. My Introduction (translated with Google Translate – Original version in French…
Maharat Foundation – Roundtable on Media & Elections
In the past ten years, I analyzed more than 3 million tweets, posts, and WhatsApp messages related to Lebanon’s social and political crises. Here are some of the key insights I’ve gathered: In my opinion, during the most recent municipal elections, political actors refrained from fully deploying their digital arsenal. For 2026, despite the shift…
The new role of teachers and students for AI evolution readiness
My conference at ESA BUSINESS SCHOOL on how to evolve in a world that will be AI driven This conference was part of the first set of conferences for the Ed’Innov project at SmartESA
Fresh Website 2023, LinkedIn and Instagram Badges
After almost 30 years in the business of web development and hosting, I finally terminated my last hosting server and moved my own WordPress blog to shared hosting. I decided to start the website from scratch, just copying the wp_posts table from the old server to the new one. I had to recreate some of…
Smart Govs III: How Political Players Sway Public Opinion
My input at the “Who investigates the crime?” webinar of the Forum for Memory and Future in partnership with the Institute of Political Science of the Saint-Joseph University Introduction The following work is a collection of tweets analysis (more than half a million tweets) that took place between 2015 and 2021. Discussions take several different…
27 Video Formats and Styles to Inspire You
A collection of video styles to inspire your next post or campaign on social media or traditional media. 1. Narrator Video An invisible narrator is telling the story creating distance between you and the subject which can – depending on the story – give a feel of fantasy, romance, wonder, or expertise (if the voice…
Combining Multiple Twitter Searches in NodeXL
There are two reasons you may need to combine different Twitter imports in NodeXL: You want to import tweets for the same search for a longer period than a week (Twitter’s limit) by re-importing the results for the same search every few days for the period you want to cover You want to add several…
Using LostCircles’ Graphml files with NodeXL
LostCircles (https://lostcircles.com/) uses a proprietary format that NodeXL fails to open and use. Below is a workaround for this problem and a step by step approach to charting your Facebook network of friends: Open the “Graphml (No Pics)” file downloaded from LostCircles Find the <node id=”n0″> tag and delete all the text that precedes it Copy…
Showing Bridging Nodes Only in NodeXL
Bridges (edges) and bridging nodes (vertices) in a network are essential in connecting cliques, moderating the debate and introducing new ideas and innovations and filling structural holes in a network (ref. Ronald S. Burt). When you separate vertices in groups in NodeXL (figure), several columns are added to your “edges” sheet, mainly “Vertex 1…