Brazilian researchers scraped 2B+ Discord messages from 3,167 public servers using Discord's public API, covering 2015 to 2024, and publish the messages online
A Brazilian team used Discord's API to scrape 10% of its open servers. — Researchers published a massive database … Bluesky: @vortexegg.com , @cfiesler , and @josephcox Bluesky: @vortexegg.com : It'...
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: @...
Brazilian authorities have arrested a hacker, known as USDoD, who they allege is linked to breaches of National Public Data, the FBI's InfraGard, and others
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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...
Bluesky reports a record spike in usage as many X users in Brazil move to Bluesky and Threads; Brazil is X's fifth-largest international market, with 20M+ users
uau... bem-vindos ao UM MILHÃO de novos usuários nos últimos três dias!!! 🎉 Mike Masnick / @mmasnick.bsky.social : very time some Elon fan tweets a similar thing (often misleading) about ExTwitter to...
X is right to stand up to Brazil's unjust “hostage laws,” but Musk's fight highlights his cynical free speech stance after he caved to Modi's censorship demands
RE: https://www.threads.net/... Adam Cook / @motorcityadam : Pretty clear that Musk wants Bolsonaro re-installed and Musk wants to leverage Twitter, by design, to encourage Bolsonaristas to overthrow ...
A profile of Priscila Barbosa, who defrauded Uber and other apps by building a ~$10K-per-month business renting fake accounts to undocumented workers in the US
She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, she built a business empire up from nothing. Mastodon: @waxy@xoxo.zone and @giannetti@ursal.zone X: @bhumrobhumro ...
Human Rights Watch finds the LAION-5B AI dataset scraped 170+ images and the personal info of Brazilian children without consent; LAION pledges to remove them
A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim.
After nine months with Starlink, the Marubo, an Indigenous Amazon tribe, faces challenges like addiction and concerns about potential loss of cultural identity
it turns out, many of the same challenges that have racked Americans for years (teens glued to phones, gossip-filled group chats ...).https://www.nytimes.com/ ... Phillip Crenshaw / @pcmugwort1 : @Jon...
Brazilian singer Anitta's fans gamed Spotify's algorithm to make “Envolver” top the charts by switching accounts after 20 streams, creating playlists, and more
by @mmarasciulo