2024-05-31
Excellent point. Vaccine-related flagged misinformation was 0.3% on Facebook (usual) BUT non-flagged vaccine-skeptical content was much more diffused and had a 46X estimated effect. Study news not fake news! https://www.science.org/...
TechCrunch
Researchers claim that 2,107 US voters, mostly older, white Republican women, accounted for spreading 80% of the fake news on Twitter during the 2020 election
A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds …
2024-01-03
“When it comes to the most serious misinformation, the calls tend to come from inside the house. Technology will not change that, so let's stop gaslighting the public and admit clearly [...] that misinformation often comes from the top.” https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
Despite the focus on generative AI misinformation, policy discourse ignores that politicians pose the gravest misinformation threat, ahead of big 2024 elections
As we head into a big election year, beware the risks of misleading statements from those at very top X: @fascinatorfun , @jpeterburger , @prateekwaghre , @katray , @rasmus_kleis ,...
2021-12-06
Another leaked document - this time on TikTok algorithm. tldr: it is pretty boring. “There seems to be some perception (by the media? or the public?) that they've cracked some magic code for recommendation, but most of what I've seen seems pretty normal” https://www.nytimes.com/...
New York Times
A document from TikTok's engineering team in Beijing details the product's addictive algorithm, which optimizes for “retention” and “time spent”
It's the most successful video app in the world. Our columnist has obtained an internal company document that offers … Tweets: @zeyiyang , @akcronin , @jerrydunleavy , @mims , @gw...