The FBI says that losses from crypto-related frauds increased 45% YoY to $5.6B in 2023, with losses from investment scams accounting for 71% of the total
FBI Tanzeel Akhtar / Cryptonews : FBI Reports $5.6B Lost to Crypto Fraud, 45% Increase in Loss Since Prev Year Associated Press : Americans lost $5.6 billion last year in cryptocurrency fraud scams, t...
Substack and Telegram searches reveal scores of white supremacist, neo-Confederate, and Nazi newsletters on Substack; over 16 displayed overt Nazi symbols
Jonathan M. Katz / The Atlantic : Threads: @anildash and @carnage4life . Mastodon: @CdnCurmudgeon@mastodon.social X: @william_wgordon , @yappelbaum , @egavactip , and @blackamazon . Forums: r/TrueRed...
Brazilian lawmakers file a complaint against Google for letting Google Play users download Slavery Simulator from April 20 to May 24 before taking the game down
even reviewed — the app, and a tech giant that exercised no oversight of sales on its platform. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Matthew Hay Brown / @matthewhaybrown : IN SLAVERY SIMULATOR players ...
Docs: investments in 4chan include $800K from owner Hiroyuki Nishimura, $4.8M from his company, and $2.4M from Tokyo-based Good Smile, which makes Disney toys
I got my hands on records of the corporate partnership that enabled, and financed, the corrosive imageboard. Tweets: Liam Robertson / @doctor_cupcakes : This is such a bizarre story. https://twitter.c...
Researchers say ChatGPT can produce clean, convincing text that repeats conspiracy theories and misleading narratives but can sometimes debunk falsehoods too
Researchers used ChatGPT to produce clean, convincing text that repeated conspiracy theories and misleading narratives. Mastodon: @alexcc@mstdn.science . Tweets: @caulfieldtim , @egavactip , @bigmeani...
Biden backtracks on his Facebook criticism, says he meant top users spreading vaccine misinfo were “killing people”, and urges Facebook to reduce misinformation
Biden walks back attack over vaccine lies Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post : The Technology 202: Facebook isn't sharing how many Americans viewed vaccine misinformation New York Times : 'Facebook isn'...
New report says the proliferation of right-wing content on YouTube is driven by both supply and demand rather than the platform's recommendation algorithm
In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content. Tweets: @parismartineau , @wired , @parismartinea...
How the Mastodon community is dealing with the influx of hateful content after Gab migrated to Mastodon's decentralized open source protocol
Adi Robertson / The Verge : Tweets: @egavactip , @thedextriarchy , and @reckless Tweets: Mark Pitcavage / @egavactip : Alt right social media site Gab is now using open source platform Mastodon. What...