Omnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a North Carolina state senator and CNN Brazil found DM9 used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads
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A look at “kidfluencers” in Brazil who promote online get-rich-quick schemes to other children on TikTok, Kwai, and Instagram, amid growing government scrutiny
Young Brazilians chase social media fame, selling “get-rich” schemes, while legal battles question platform responsibility and the cost to childhood. Bluesky: @rinachandran and @restofworld.org . X: @...
A look at efforts by Apple and others to become carbon neutral by investing in eucalyptus farms in Brazil's Cerrado region, amid skepticism from some ecologists
We were losing the light, and still about 20 kilometers from the main road, when the car shuddered and died at the edge of a strange forest. Mastodon: @peterpur@hci.social . X: @shehzadyounis . Linked...
Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors
An algorithmic tool meant to reduce bureaucracy is misfiring on complex cases, and vulnerable Brazilians are paying the price.
Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10
Outages have been preventing X feeds from loading across web … Jonathan Greig / The Record : Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack Newsweek : Dark Storm Team Claims DDoS Attack on X, ...
Google deactivates an Android feature that crowdsources device sensor data to provide earthquake warnings in Brazil after mistakenly sending notifications
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How gambling apps are ravaging Brazil in the wake of legalization; Nubank reassured investors in September 2024 that it had limited exposure to troubled bettors
The boom shocked policy makers who are now scrambling to control it — At the headquarters of the United Nations … X: @lucas_shaw , @lpolgreen , @_night_brain__ , @ezraklein , @otis_reid , @pkafka , ...
An era of politically motivated AI slop is here, exacerbating viral conspiracy theories and making a big impact after disasters, as in the US, Brazil, and Gaza
The era of politically-motivated AI slop is here and it sucks. — By now, if you have spent any amount of time reading … Mastodon: @404mediaco@mastodon.social . X: @brianbrackeen Mastodon: @404mediac...
Meta not disclosing which select creators it pays to post on Threads undermines trust in everyone's motivations, as users assume others are “engagement farming”
It was a useful program, and the archival has merit, but publishers argued that the Archive overstepped, and the courts eventually agreed. Threads: @katienotopoulos , @cotyrosenblath , @jenvalentino_n...
A look at X's shrinking clout in Brazil even before the ban; Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media with 40M+ users, while X had an estimated 22M users
The platform formerly known as Twitter once dominated Brazilian social media, fueling nationwide protests in 2013 and propelling Jair Bolsonaro to the presidency. Forums: Hacker News , r/Twitter , and...