As Meta proudly unveils AI tools, Facebook users find feeds clogged with AI junk, even when Facebook is needed as a civic resource to coordinate disaster relief
by which they mean there are no instances of deep fakes of candidates themselves or voting-related activities. It has been a weird coverage cycle. Mark Little / @marklittlenews : A big concern at the...
A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions
Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall_path , @rosenzweigj...
How Modi's government is increasingly skirting India's own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a “fake news” pretext
Sandeep Ravindranath, an Indian filmmaker, posted his latest work to YouTube in May. The video … Tweets: @cambskeptics , @marklittlenews , @david_msullivan , and @mhbergen Tweets: @cambskeptics : What...
How Modi's government is increasingly skirting India's own internet rules to crack down on free speech and dissent on social media, under a “fake news” pretext
Sandeep Ravindranath, an Indian filmmaker, posted his latest work to YouTube in May. The video … Tweets: @marklittlenews , @david_msullivan , and @mhbergen Tweets: Mark Little / @marklittlenews : “We ...
In a speech on disinformation, Obama said social media firms' design choices contribute to polarization, and called for more transparency and Section 230 reform
including over the First Amendment—I didn't expect to find much to agree with in this speech. But it's actually very good, and worth reading, even if I don't agree with all of it. THREAD https://techp...
Patreon suspends donations to Come Back Alive, a nonprofit started in 2014 to equip Ukrainian soldiers, for violating policies on funding military activity
On Wednesday night, Russia began its invasion … Shawn Amick / Bitcoin Magazine : $4.4 Million In Bitcoin Has Been Donated To Ukrainian Military Support Groups Arnold Kirimi / Cointelegraph : Crypto co...
Some Instagram meme pages are turning into “war pages” that repost unverified footage without context, often claiming to be run by journalists in Ukraine
Just hours after the first explosions rocked Ukraine Wednesday night, massive Instagram meme pages began promoting … Tweets: @taylorlorenz , @taylorlorenz , @marklittlenews , @tylerkingkade , @bostonj...
Behind the rise of “alt-jihadists” on social media and how they have adopted alt-right's organizational tactics and imagery to fuel their growing movement
The playbook of the “alt-right” is guiding a new generation of fringe jihadists, showing just how complicated extremism is about to become online. Tweets: @cepineurope , @isdglobal , @bjornih , and @m...
Internal documents show Facebook defends algorithmic ranking because its data suggests that its algorithm knows what users want better than they do themselves
Jeff Jarvis generously gave me support for the idea of using rivers in news orgs. Tweets: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : For years, @davewiner has been begging newspapers to provide a “river of news”—tha...
A deep dive on Tether, which issued 48B coins this year, as regulators struggle to understand its cash reserves, organizational structure, and other details
something money-market funds avoid.” By @ZekeFaux https://www.bloomberg.com/... Daniel Viola / @dannyviola : Great investigation into the likely Ponzi scheme that is Tether: https://www.bloomberg.co...