After a backlash, Meta says newly viral AI-generated profiles on Facebook and Instagram were created in 2023 in “an early experiment”, and it is deleting them
and what you can do with it Mia Sato / The Verge : Meta's AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well Josh Kerwick / Star Observer : Meta Wipes Scrutinised AI Accounts, Including A “Black Qu...
Post.News, the news-focused social platform launched in 2022 that offered micropayments to publishers, is shutting down after failing to grow “fast enough”
https://www.theverge.com/... Josh Simmons / @josh@josh.tel : Bet on open source, open standards, and interoperability. — “But several Twitter alternatives are still standing — and all of them are pa...
Twitter drops the “Government-funded” and “state-affiliated” labels from accounts of media outlets and journalists, including NPR, BBC, CBC, RT, and Xinhua
Tesla, Twitter and SpaceX Matt Novak / Forbes : Russia's RT Editor-In-Chief Thanks Elon Musk For Scrapping ‘State-Affiliated Media’ Label On Twitter ChinaTechNews.com : Elon Musk Drops All Media Label...
Meta details influence operations from Russia, impersonating news outlets to spread anti-Ukraine content in Europe, and from China, targeting the US and Czechia
complete with real reporters' bylines and photos — and promoted them using fake accounts to smear Ukraine, according to a new report by Meta https://www.protocol.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : NE...