The exhaustive dossier offers "insights for evaluating #media development activities and rethinking approaches to disinformation, alongside practical solutions and expert #advice with a focus on the Global South and Eastern Europe."
California's BOT Disclosure Law was perhaps unfairly panned in a Wired commentary in 2019, by an employee of what Harper's magazine said is the industry-captured "Big Disinformation" research industry.
It was passed by the legislature and signed by CA Gov Jerry Brown.
Humans and machines are different species. Humans, even the ones who go rogue, care about how other humans, such as their kids, see them.
A machine-fabricated author being displayed as a human is a recipe for mass mayhem. And #MachineLearning startup companies will not get traction for very long in such an environment.
Which is why the BOT disclosure law needs publicity. It was unfairly panned.
Thread Postscript: As Futurism reported in their "Meet AdVon" investigation, the lack of BOT disclosure in written text makes people disengage from both BOT-authored and human-authored content.
After last week, I'll assume all outlets are publishing BOT-authored content alongside human-authored without disclosure, until they publish a policy statement indicating otherwise
A false narrative suggesting that over half a million migrants had registered to vote in swing states shows how quickly misinformation can spread — and how difficult it is to stop. Thanks, Elon!
"Generative artificial intelligence (#GAI) adds a new dimension to the problem of #disinformation. Freely available and largely unregulated tools make it possible for anyone to generate (...) fake content in vast quantities. (...) But there is also a positive side. Used smartly, GAI can provide a greater number of content consumers with trustworthy information"
A handful of billionaires are tightening their grip on the information ecosystem.
Elon Musk has transformed Twitter into x, a platform that amplifies disinformation, bigotry and conspiracy theories. Musk altered the network's algorithm to promote his fascist propaganda and suppress links from factual, science and reputable Information and other independent outlets.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has downgraded reliable news and political sites for Information on Facebook and other Meta properties, prioritizing memes and celebrity gossip.
If, like roughly a hundred million Americans, you regularly consume fascist propaganda in the guise of cable “news” (fox, newsmax, & other propaganda outlets) online disinformation publications, and the platform formerly known as Twitter, it’s likely that at least some of that fascist propaganda is originating in Moscow.
Kremlin documents reveal Russian trolls are targeting U.S. support for Ukraine and engaging in a significant campaign to undermine U.S. elections and discourage voting.
@finche
You say it is a "fact" that they have nothing to do with Israel. Cite for that "fact"? And no, the IDF is not credible; anything sourced from them is not a 'fact".
I don't want to fall for #disinformation like you won't. Therefore I wanted to point out, that the corpses could have been murdered by Israel, but that isn't sure. There are individuals in Gaza, often called terrorists, known for brutality, and so I didn't rule out a deed of palestinian murderers as well.
Sorry, that is not the sort of discussion I want to engage in. This is, I beg your pardon, some emotional talk to be talked in bars, streets or rallyies.
But, in short: I don't believe there have been nearly 200 Israeli there.
And, pardon again, thinking of the strip as a concentration camp does nothing than expose your knowledge of the organization of concentration camps.
For us to flourish as we integrate COVID-management into our lives, democracy-avoidant brands could incorporate a trend now circling academic sociology networks, the concept of "antifragility".
In it's best form, sociological antifragility is the encouraging of students to become more full human beings by trying things they may fail at, but trying them and growing as a result.
I want to keep TracingVRL going. I've developed my own methodology in those red notebooks.
My project is having an impact.
And we're up against a lot.
Now that antivaxx influencer O.G. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who said "I'm a spoiler", is on just enough ballots to spoil the election for either Donald Trump or Joe Biden , small outlet disinfo reporters contribute a lot.
A #juror was quickly dismissed at the start. She was among the 7 already selected, she said she was very worried that despite the fact the court ruled to keep jurors’ name secret, she would still be exposed & targeted.
It’s unclear what her friends were messaging, but the concerns reflect the reality that #media outlets are publishing details about jurors were revealed in open court, that some #RightWingcommentators use to say if jurors would be pro #Trump or not.
Prosecutors asked Judge #Merchan to rule Trump violated his #GagOrder by posting a quote from #FoxNews’ #JesseWatters falsely claiming that some of the prospective jurors are “undercover liberal activists." [#disinformation#propaganda]
More about the question of whether #Trump violated his #GagOrder by posting a quote from #FoxNews' #JesseWatters, Trump didn’t “repost” Watters, he wrote out his own post referencing Watters’s false characterization of prospective jurors.
Here's an #AI tool that arrives just in time: The PRISA media group has created an audio #verification and #deepfake detection service for voices in Spanish.
Their goal: Support #journalists (e.g. when covering election campaigns) and foster trust in the face of #disinformation.
Remarkable: The creators also address the problem of powerful people claiming their voices have been cloned after saying something embarrassing.
You FAILED THE #FactCheck. There's footage of direct hits @w7voa. Your old ways of creating #Disinformation and #Propagada no longer work. We're on to you. Someday we'll do to people like you what was done to "Tokyo Rose" and "Axis Sally". That day can't come soon enough.
#October7 / NYT Casts Doubt on Its Own Reporting of Sexual Attacks in Be'eri
An unnamed Israeli paramedic had told media outlets that he found the partially clothed bodies of two teenage girls that bore signs of sexual violence in a home in Be'eri. However, a video taken by an Israeli soldier shows the fully-clothed bodies of three female victims, identified as two sisters and their mother, with no apparent signs of sexual assault. Residents of Be'eri who viewed the video concluded that the paramedic's account of the two girls being sexually assaulted was false.
While the paramedic declined to retract his account, the Israeli military said he may have "misremembered" the location where he saw the teenagers' bodies.
[…] More than 50 tenured journalism professors from top universities have signed a letter calling on the New York Times to address questions about a major investigative report that described a “pattern of gender-based violence” in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.
[…] The letter follows months of criticism and concerns raised by outside critics as well as some Times staffers about the credibility of its sourcing and the editorial process for the story.
Specifically they raise concerns about the reliance on inexperienced freelance reporters, Anat Schwartz and Adam Sella, for such an important story. They also highlight contradictions between the story's language about "evidence" and the reporter Jeffrey Gettleman's comments downplaying the use of that term.