2024-12-19
Things are moving fast.. This is a wild story in Wired today: The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto https://www.wired.com/...
Wired
A look at Truth Terminal, an AI bot on X that was created to spark debate about AI alignment, as its crypto wallet swells to ~$40M after boosting memecoins
Truth Terminal started as a techno-modernist art project meant to invite discussion about the applications and potential dangers of autonomous AI agents.
2021-09-21
The president of El Salvador—long known for weaponizing Twitter in his comms strategy—just updated his Twitter bio: “Dictator of El Salvador” In his new profile photo, he is seen holding his phone, prolly checking his favorite platform Recently, there were protests against him. https://twitter.com/...
The Block
As bitcoin falls to ~$43K, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele says the country “bought the dip” and acquired 150 more BTC, taking its total holding to 700
Yogita Khatri / The Block : Source: @nayibbukele .
2020-10-28
Jack Dorsey's testimony tomorrow before the Senate Commerce Committee is the “right” and “accurate” message, argues @mmasnick on @techdirt. “And it will be stomped on by the message from Zuckerberg agreeing to throw the open internet under a speeding bus.” https://www.techdirt.com/...
Techdirt
In Mark Zuckerberg's prepared testimony for Wednesday's Senate hearing, he advocates for Congress to update Section 230 to “make sure it's working as intended”
This shouldn't be much of a surprise, unfortunately, but it appears that once again Facebook is the first to crack …
2020-05-08
.@Graphika_NYC says it received a dataset from FB re. a coordinated inauthentic behavior allegedly linked to Iran broadcaster that was “unusual for the temporal and geographical range of the assets it involved” >500 pages/groups/accounts, as early as 2011 https://public-assets.graphika.com/ ... https://twitter.com/...
NBC News
Report: Facebook posts from 2012 show Iran's national broadcaster trialed a US political influence campaign via 300+ fake accounts, years earlier than thought
in 2012!!! https://public-assets.graphika.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... @4ngl3rf1sh : 1/ Facebook Downs Inauthentic Cluster Inspired by QAnon Below are some key elements from th...