Tag: Misinformation
Welcome to the AI election – POLITICO
This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide.
Callum Hood has the power to undermine any election with a few keystrokes from his Boston apartment.
Hood, a British researcher, fired up some of the latest artificial intelligence tools made by OpenAI and Midjourney, another AI startup. Within seconds of him typing in a few prompts — “create a realistic photo of voter ballots in a dumpster”; “a photo of long
What London’s mayor learned when he took on the cars – POLITICO
It looked like group therapy. One late summer day, Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, sat with a group of faith leaders and clean-air campaigners in a small circle in the near-empty hall of a suburban church.
The moment was meant to be one of celebration, for Khan and for London. He was marking the creation of the largest clean air zone in the Western world through the expansion of restrictions on polluting cars to cover the entire British capital,
Mike Huckabee Is Now Peddling Climate Misinformation to Children – Mother Jones
Beverly Grimmett thought the kids magazines she saw stacked on a coworker’s desk this spring were perfectly innocent, until she picked one up.
The guides were decorated in bright colors and cheerful cartoons, with titles like, The Kids Guide to Socialism, The Kids Guide to Our One Nation Under God, and, finally, The Kids Guide to the Truth About Climate Change.
Grimmett, who works in construction project management at a six-person office in Norfolk, Virginia, had happened … Read more
Internal Facebook Emails Reveal White House Pressured Social-Media Platform to Censor Covid ‘Misinformation’
WH adviser Andy Slavitt was ‘outraged’ that Facebook refused to remove a joking Covid-related meme, according to one email.
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The Alternative Facts of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
In November, 2007, the junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, appeared on ABC News for one of those soft-focus get-to-know-the-candidate segments. Obama admitted that, after he was at Harvard Law School for a while and felt “comfortable” among his hyper-ambitious classmates, he allowed himself to think that maybe he’d run for President someday. “Did you think to yourself, Barack, what kind of hubris is this?” the broadcaster Charlie Gibson said.
“I think if you don’t have enough self-awareness to see
How Republicans Fed a Misinformation Loop About the Pelosi Attack
WASHINGTON — Within hours of the brutal attack last month on Paul Pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the House, activists and media outlets on the right began circulating groundless claims — nearly all of them sinister, and many homophobic — casting doubt on what had happened.
Some Republican officials quickly joined in, rushing to suggest that the bludgeoning of an octogenarian by a suspect obsessed with right-wing conspiracy theories was something else altogether, dismissing it as an inside
The shit-posting, Twitter-trolling, dog-deploying social media army taking on Putin one meme at a time – POLITICO
Ivana Stradner opened her iPhone and typed a simple call-to-arms: Unleash the hounds.
A Washington think-tanker and an expert in Russian propaganda, Stradner is also a member of NAFO — or the North Atlantic Fellas Organization — an informal alliance of internet culture warriors, national security experts and ordinary Twitter users weaponizing memes, viral videos and, yes, dog photos to push back against Russian online disinformation.
“I see myself as a NAFO civilian propagandist,” said Stradner, an adviser to
Verbindungen zwischen Alex Jones und Radio Network Show Economics of Misinformation
Ted Anderson, ein Edelmetallverkäufer, hoffte, ein Geschäft für seinen Gold- und Silberhändler ankurbeln zu können, als er vor ein paar Jahrzehnten in einem Vorort von Minneapolis ein Funknetz gründete. Bald darauf nahm er einen dreisten jungen Radiomoderator namens Alex Jones unter Vertrag.
Zusammen formten sie schließlich die heutige Fehlinformationsökonomie.
Die beiden bauten ein lukratives Unternehmen aus einem verworrenen System von Nischenwerbetreibenden, Spendenaktionen und Werbung für Medienabonnements, Nahrungsergänzungsmittel und Überlebensartikel auf. Mr. Jones wurde zu einem Schwergewicht der Verschwörungstheorie, während Mr.
Verbindungen zwischen Alex Jones und Radio Network Show Economics of Misinformation
Ted Anderson, ein Edelmetallverkäufer, hoffte, ein Geschäft für seinen Gold- und Silberhändler ankurbeln zu können, als er vor ein paar Jahrzehnten in einem Vorort von Minneapolis ein Funknetz gründete. Bald darauf nahm er einen dreisten jungen Radiomoderator namens Alex Jones unter Vertrag.
Zusammen formten sie schließlich die heutige Fehlinformationsökonomie.
Die beiden bauten ein lukratives Unternehmen aus einem verworrenen System von Nischenwerbetreibenden, Spendenaktionen und Werbung für Medienabonnements, Nahrungsergänzungsmittel und Überlebensartikel auf. Mr. Jones wurde zu einem Schwergewicht der Verschwörungstheorie, während Mr.
The von der Leyen Commission’s half-time scorecard – POLITICO
If Ursula von der Leyen’s five-year term can be likened to a soccer match, her team is heading for the half-time break with the scores even and a few bruised shins (mostly from self-inflicted errors).
It’s been a wild ride.
When they took the field in December 2019, von der Leyen’s squad of commissioners envisioned a diplomatic offensive in which Brussels would sneak a few goals past its chief geopolitical counterparts, China and the United States. Tactically, the formation was