A look at the LA Times' AI “Insights”: much of the cited sourcing wouldn't pass scrutiny in a newsroom or a classroom, and the political labels can be confusing
The hope: The L.A. Times will appear more “objective” if it presents both sides of an issue, even if one side's written …
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
Sweden has tasked its psychological defense authority with openly combating fake news from foreign actors. … X: Alex Steffen / @alexsteffen : Some people, at least, are treating th...
How Sweden's Psychological Defense Agency, a part of the Ministry of Defense, is combating online disinformation from foreign adversaries, especially Russia
The country has empowered a government agency to openly combat online disinformation coming from foreign adversaries, and especially the Kremlin. Mastodon: @carl@heath.social . X: ...
How Telegram, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter were used to boost election fraud claims in Brazil before riots hit Congress and government buildings
Researchers detected a surge in agressive rhetoric from election denialists in far-right channels online ahead of Sunday's rioting
Elon Musk's focus on Twitter Blue is part of a trend in which consumer tech platforms pivot from advertising in favor of recurring revenue through subscriptions
Tech's marriage of convenience to the ad industry hits the rocks — Request: Please fill out this survey as I think through …
A review of 80K+ Freedom Convoy 2022 donations reveals a Bangladeshi digital marketing firm was behind two of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the events
A review of 80K+ Freedom Convoy 2022 donations reveals a Bangladeshi digital marketing firm was behind two of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the events
As American politicians call for stateside convoys, a Grid investigation finds signs that foreign actors, QAnon and hate pervade the movement's support.
A review of 80K+ Freedom Convoy 2022 donations reveals a Bangladeshi digital marketing firm was behind two of the biggest Facebook groups promoting the events
As American politicians call for stateside convoys, a Grid investigation finds signs that foreign actors, QAnon and hate pervade the movement's support.
Court documents show Google ran a campaign from 2018 to 2020 to “convince” staff that “unions suck”; Google refuses a judge's order to produce more documents
employee resource groups and other tools deployed by corporate diversity initiatives are technologies of union-busting. https://twitter.com/... Daisuke Wakabayashi / @daiwaka : In ...
Internal docs: a Facebook well-being team's survey found 12.5% of participants reported compulsive use of Facebook that negatively impacted their lives
360 million people—report engaging in compulsive use of social media that hurts their sleep, work, parenting or relationships. Then Facebook shut down the research team. https://ww...
Sources detail Zuckerberg's decisions putting growth over safety, like censoring “anti-state” posts in Vietnam and opposing a US voting info center in Spanish
Late last year, Mark Zuckerberg faced a choice: Comply with demands from Vietnam's ruling Communist Party …
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
good and bad. This has risks (as these leaks show) but are the only honest way to tackle the problem. Would love to see the same from https://abc.xyz/ Thomas Baekdal / @baekdal : I...
Internal docs detail Facebook's struggles with violence-inciting content in India, including failure to designate some politically-connected groups as dangerous
Internal documents show a struggle with misinformation, hate speech and celebrations of violence in the country, the company's biggest market.
Nobel peace prize winner Maria Ressa discusses the role of social media in polarization, interactions with Zuckerberg and Sandberg in 2017, Frances Haugen, more
The journalist, whose reporting has taken on the president of the Philippines and the C.E.O. of Facebook, discusses the … Tweets: @dabeard , @nytopinion , @karaswisher , and @nytop...
Investigation finds 45 criminal cases that cite Google geolocation data, obtained via a geofence warrant, to place suspects inside Capitol during Jan. 6 riots
and unearthed six previously unidentified mob members, including a Chicago cop. https://www.wired.com/... Mark Harris / @meharris : New from me: How the FBI used @Google geofence w...
The DoD has retaken all 175M IPv4 addresses it handed over to a Florida company on Trump's last day; DoD says its schedule was “agnostic” of the admin change
Control of a remarkable 6 percent of the Internet was handed over to a Florida company as part of a cybersecurity pilot project.
An obscure Florida company began acquiring DoD's IP addresses, now totaling 175M, on Jan. 20; DoD says it is a pilot to prevent unauthorized use of its IP space
An obscure Florida company began acquiring DoD's IP addresses, now totaling 175M, on Jan. 20; DoD says it is a pilot to prevent unauthorized use of its IP space
On January 20, 2021, a great mystery appeared in the internet's global routing table. Kim Lyons / The Verge : The Pentagon reportedly gave a small company control of its IP address...
An in-depth look at Project CETI, a research effort that seeks to use AI to understand the vocalizations of sperm whales off the coast of Dominica
Craig Welch / National Geographic : Tweets: @davideagleman , @liv_boeree , @dabeard , and @natgeo Tweets: David Eagleman / @davideagleman : Too cool. I retain hope that within our...