How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the time, but it doesn’t matter,” Farid says. “Every once in …
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Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
For three months in late 2020, nearly 7,200 US adults on Facebook and 8,800 on Instagram received a radically different experience than the services’ billions of other users. When they …
House Republicans put contempt vote targeting Zuckerberg on hold
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) put the panel’s scheduled vote on whether to hold Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress on hold Thursday after he said the …
It’s Getting Harder for the Government to Secretly Flag Your Social Posts
Wrote Doughty, “Defendants ‘significantly encouraged’ the social-media companies to such extent that the decisions (of the companies) should be deemed to be the decisions of the government.” Doughty’s ban, which …
A Leaked Memo Shows TikTok Knows It Has a Labor Problem
Last month, a court in Kenya issued a landmark ruling against Meta, owner of Facebook and Instagram. The US tech giant was, the court ruled, the “true employer” of the …