Meta says a small cluster of WhatsApp accounts linked to the Iran-backed hacking group APT42 targeted people affiliated with the Biden and Trump administrations
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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 ...
Several artists whose work Stability AI included in the dataset used to train Stable Diffusion are angry that they weren't informed, asked for consent, nor paid
Erin Hanson has spent years developing the vibrant color palette and chunky brushstrokes that define the vivid oil paintings for which she is known. Tweets: @fabiochiusi , @green_footballs , @carnage4...
[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 :...
Twitter's crowdsourced fact-checking program Birdwatch remains a small pilot project 13 months after launch, with only 359 contributors flagging tweets in 2022
With the Ukraine war unfolding on social media, parsing fact from fiction has never been trickier — or, for those involved, more urgent. Tweets: @willoremus , @kcoleman , @shannonpareil , @carnage4lif...
Frances Haugen's documents have been useful to the press and groups opposing Facebook, but reporting should now expand to examine Haugen and her backers' goals
> regulators —> legislation, we're not going to get the outcome we're hoping for. 7/n Joe Bak-Coleman / @jbakcoleman : My concern is that we're going to address “move fast and break things” with “regu...
Ex-members of Facebook's integrity team speak of demoralization as management ignored their work; at least 10 members now work in a similar division at Twitter
because if you're underpaid it's that much harder to store up the financial power to speak. https://twitter.com/... David Sacks / @davidsacks : Did anyone else notice that the Facebook whistleblower b...
In a 60 Minutes interview, WSJ's Facebook Files whistleblower says Facebook is misleading the public on progress against hate speech, misinformation, and more
or Congress can force it to be ABC News : Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are back after hours-long shutdown Shannon Bond / NPR : Watch Live: Whistleblower to Congress: Facebook products harm kids an...
WSJ's Facebook Files don't show that Facebook's execs are evil or incompetent, but highlight their hubris in believing they can get things back under control
Read in app Shannon Bond / NPR : Senators Blast Facebook For Concealing Instagram's Risks To Kids Tweets: Laura Edelson / @lauraedelson2 : So now it is abundantly clear. @JeffHorwitz and the @WSJ were...
Sources detail Google's lackluster response to the BLM movement, which one employee said was to “isolate the black employees” to vent without structural changes
they were essentially “dead” links.https://www.nbcnews.com/ ... @hypervisible : Google, yes fucking GOOGLE, sent an email to employees w/ resources “for allies who are looking for ways to help” on mat...