Elon Musk says he will “fix” Community Notes as they are “increasingly being gamed by governments & legacy media”, after disagreeing with notes about Ukraine
which often gets the facts wrong. Worthy mission. But X is dominated by more lies & often deranged bigotry. It's disappointing. Senator Stan Kutcher / @stankutcher : Trying to have a rational and cons...
Documents show direct ties between Russia's government and a former Florida deputy sheriff behind a network of fake news sites using AI and targeting US voters
hard to see how this guy doesn't qualify: — https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... X: Shayan Sardarizadeh / @shayan86 : BBC Verify has extensively reported on an AI-powered influence operation run by M...
As Meta proudly unveils AI tools, Facebook users find feeds clogged with AI junk, even when Facebook is needed as a civic resource to coordinate disaster relief
by which they mean there are no instances of deep fakes of candidates themselves or voting-related activities. It has been a weird coverage cycle. Mark Little / @marklittlenews : A big concern at the...
In a now-deleted X post, Elon Musk reposted a fake Telegraph story shared by a far-right party about the UK opening “Detainment Camps”; the post had 1.8M views
The reason Musk holds this belief is that he has completely surrounded himself on Twitter with people exactly like the racist hoodlums who have been terrorizing immigrants and asylum seekers. … Joshua...
In a now-deleted November 28 post and on November 20, Elon Musk boosted the debunked Pizzagate conspiracy that led a man to fire an AR-15 in a DC eatery in 2016
in other words, implying that the debunking was BS because the journo was corrupt ergo Pizzagate is real. … Renato Mariotti / @renato.mariotti : Elon Musk has moved on from promoting antisemitism to ....
Elon Musk responded to tweets that called a Texas mass shooting a “psyop”, remarking that the case was “odd”, “very strange”, and “gets weirder by the moment”
and only if you are not particularly insightful. https://twitter.com/... @dangoodin001 : In today's installment of why it's hypocritical for activists and journalist to stay on Twitter: https://www.vi...
Source: in February, Meta started an official internal process to shut down CrowdTangle, but paused the plan as the EU's Digital Services Act gained traction
and fund it for a year or two — to ensure that this vital tool is here for the next series of elections. https://twitter.com/... Davey Alba / @daveyalba : NEW from me: CrowdTangle has been in limbo fo...
Britain's QAnon movement is still fringe compared to US but shows no signs of stopping, and may have begun with one woman who created the FFTCUK Facebook group
Shayan Sardarizadeh / BBC : Tweets: @ciaranoconnor , @drjohnhorgan , and @franklangfitt Tweets: Ciarn O'Connor / @ciaranoconnor : How did a wide-ranging conspiracy about Satan-worshipping elites in t...
Facebook's QAnon ban left some high-profile Australians who are linked to the conspiracy theory untouched because the ban does not extend to individual profiles
I spoke to Trump supporters in Minnesota last week who had already become believers, many of them were getting their QAnon information from Facebook and Instagram. https://www.cnn.com/... https://twit...