Breaking news from the everything app: Not everything you see on the everything app is real. This is not news to you, of course: You are a savvy internet user. But lots of other people seemed to be shocked to learn that some high-profile accounts on X, the app formerly known as Twitter, are not who they say they are: A new feature on the app lets you see (more or less)
Brazil was the testing ground for the new digital weapons of the Latin American far-right. And the success was so resounding that a provocative and virtually unknown congressman named Jair Messias Bolsonaro became president in January 2019. Four years later, the spotlight fell on Javier Milei: a vociferous Argentine economist with curly hair.
AI bots are everywhere now, filling everything from online stores to social media. But that sudden ubiquity could end up being a very bad thing, according to a new paper from Stanford University scientists who unleashedAI models into different environments - including social media - and found that when they were rewarded for success at tasks like boosting likes and other online engagement metrics,the bots increasingly engaged in unethical behavior like lyingand spreading hateful messages or misinformation.
as Candace Owens, Tucker [Carlson], etc. spread their Jews control everything' propaganda on the right, it isn't really Qatar that benefits, but China, wrote Erickson in a post on X. The Chinese have stirred the antisemitic pot, adjusted the TikTok algorithm to amplify antisemitism, etc.. All the people on the right suddenly blaming the Jews are not looking at China and the voices spreading the propaganda are silent on China and its influence operations, he added.
I was doing a play with the writer Suhayla El-Bushra at the National [Theatre], and we were approached about making a film. At the time, the media was full of stories of young people that made that fateful journey to Syria, including Shamima Begum [the London teenager who travelled in secret to Syria to become an IS bride in 2015]. We noticed how those young women were so vilified. They were portrayed as monsters, and nobody was really seeing the experience from their point of view. We felt that that that was really needed.