New US OMB guidance states that LLMs procured by federal agencies must comply with two “unbiased AI principles”: “truth-seeking” and “ideological neutrality”
A curated weekday guide to major news … Office of Management and Budget : MEMORANDUM TO HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES Courtney Rozen / Reuters : US to mandate AI vendors measure politica...
Meta says it will continue to use its fact checkers outside of the US “for now”, and plans to see how its Community Notes system works in the US before deciding
Meta, which said it will replace third-party fact checkers in the US with a community notes system …
Ex-Facebook Director Katie Harbath says Mark Zuckerberg's team uses elections to take stock of “where society is, to readjust how they're approaching content”
and Mine, The Audacity of Copying Well Sean Burch / The Wrap : Meta Pivots Away From Protections, Guardrails as Trump 2.0 Looms Mat Smith / Engadget : The Morning After: Meta gives up on fact checking...
An interview with Oren Etzioni, the former CEO of Allen Institute for AI, on his nonprofit TrueMedia.org, which offers free tools for identifying deepfakes
We are excited to announce the launch of TrueMedia.org … Glory Kaburu / Cryptopolitan : Ghost in the Machine: Deepfake Tools Altering India's Political Landscape TrueMedia.org : TrueMedia.org Launches...
The number of fact-checking sites has declined worldwide, as social media platforms reduce disinformation efforts and false AI content keeps fact-checkers busy
The momentum behind organizations that aim to combat online falsehoods has started to taper off. X: @brookingsfp , @nytimesbusiness , @stuartathompson , @mausellmoli , @nytimesbusiness , @corrie_pikul...
In four new studies with collaboration from Meta, researchers find Facebook's algorithm is “influential” but doesn't necessarily change beliefs, and more
Ekeoma E. Uzogara Authors Info & Affiliations — pp. 386-387 Washington Post : Changing Facebook's algorithm won't fix polarization, new study finds Science : How do social media feed algorithms aff...
Facebook rolls out new features for Group admins, including the ability to automatically decline incoming posts with information marked false by fact checkers
Center for Countering Digital Hate: Substack makes at least $2.5M/year via anti-vaccine posts; Substack defends hosting “writers with whom we strongly disagree”
Newsletter company Substack is making millions off anti-vaccine content, according to estimates Tweets: @lulumeservey , @neontaster , @alexhern , @chelseaclinton , @ggreenwald , @philthatremains , @ge...
Twitter tests adding an option for users to report misinformation in the US, Australia, South Korea, and will use the reports to study and identify trends
- Not all flagged tweets will be reviewed by fact checkers — Experiment will run in the U.S., Australia and South Korea
Michigan GOP lawmaker introduces a bill that requires fact checkers to register with the state using a $1M fidelity bond, and levies $1K/day fine for violations
Lansing — A Michigan lawmaker who's been at the center of efforts to question the 2020 election introduced a bill Tuesday that would require … Tweets: @ddale8 , @jtemple , @campuscodi , @mcmuckraker ,...