Some blue-check Twitter accounts, one pretending to be Bloomberg, spread an AI-generated image of an explosion at the Pentagon; the stock market briefly dipped
and markets briefly dipped Shannon Bond / NPR : Fake viral images of an explosion at the Pentagon were probably created by AI Davey Alba / Bloomberg : How Fake AI Photo of a Pentagon Blast Went Viral ...
Tests show Elon Musk's Twitter removed limits on Kremlin-linked accounts, including Putin's, with some showing in For You feeds, reversing an April 2022 policy
Bans Mastodon and Substack links, unrestricts the Kremlin tweets. — https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ ... Lauren Weinstein / @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org : Musk welcomes Russian propaganda back t...
[Thread] Twitter CEO gives context on how Twitter counts spam, saying “multiple human reviews” of thousands of accounts seen as mDAUs have found <5% are spam
Exit Content Preview — On the off chance you weren't on Twitter … Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Elon Tells Twitter: Prove That Bots Aren't a Big Deal, or I Sink This Buyout Scott Bicheno / Telecoms.com :...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
foreign organizations that strategically target these groups for financial and possibly political gain. https://twitter.com/... Ella Dawson / @brosandprose : “In October 2019, all 15 of the top pages ...
Internal docs show how antivax activists flooded vaccine content on Facebook with negative comments, despite Zuckerberg's push to promote COVID-19 vaccines
Internal company documents suggest that the company plays down awareness of its flaws. Kara Swisher / New York Times : The Endless Facebook Apology Katie Canales / Insider : Apple reportedly threatene...
Internal Facebook report: Eastern European troll farms reached 140M US users/month before the 2020 election; 75% of these users didn't follow any of their Pages
In the run-up to the 2020 election, the most highly contested in US history, Facebook's most popular pages for Christian … Tweets: @_karenhao , @profcarroll , @melissaryan , @adam_k_levin , @katestarb...
Facebook releases a previously shelved Q1 content transparency report, acknowledging the widespread reach of content casting doubt on COVID vaccines
and making note of some of the components of the story. Benedict Evans / @benedictevans : NY Times: FB shelved Q1 ‘most viewed’ report because of things like this. Six inches further down the page, it...
Western Digital says some My Book Live devices are being compromised by malware leading to a factory reset erasing all data, believes its servers weren't hacked
Mybookliveduo - looks to have formatted itself WD Community : Action Required on My Book Live and My Book Live Duo Ashwin / gHacks Technology News : Western Digital My Book Live drives are getting wip...
Internal Facebook emails, accidentally sent to a journalist, show its “long-term strategy” for data scraping incidents, framing it as a “broad industry issue”
where they run circles around legislators. How different could it be if community leaders who understand technology and civil rights served in Congress? https://twitter.com/... @gregbensinger : Facebo...
Critics say Microsoft 365's productivity score feature is enabling workplace surveillance by letting managers track employee activity at an individual level
we just don't use the ‘S’ word around here.” 🤦🏿♂ ️ https://www.theguardian.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @dhh : Holy fuck. The word dystopian is not nearly strong enough to describe the fresh hell...