SohanDsouza

SohanDsouza, 7 days ago to OSINT

Handy and timely ad transparency guide from Craig Silverman

https://digitalinvestigations.substack.com/p/a-guide-to-investigating-digital

#OSINT #transparency #platforms #investigations #advertising #electionYear #socialMedia

SohanDsouza, 7 days ago to Futurology

〝Simply declaring that ‘facts are facts’ is not sufficient, particularly given that people’s processing of evidence and knowledge claims is to some extent determined by social factors. It is precisely because truth is not self-evident that malicious actors can easily create confusion.〞
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01587-3

#misinformation #disinformation #research #intervention #prebunking #democracy #politics

SohanDsouza, 1 month ago to Russia

At @DFRLab: 〝The disinformation campaign is similar to ones seen in Europe. Both seek to decrease support for Ukraine, undermine public trust in their institutions and polarize society, says Jakub Kalenský, a senior analyst at Helsinki-based European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats.〞
https://www.voanews.com/a/how-russia-s-disinformation-campaign-seeps-into-us-views-/7566503.html

#disinformation #infops #Kremlin #Russia #Ukraine #polarization

SohanDsouza, 3 months ago to Russia

〝All the outlets use the same WordPress software to build the sites and, as a result, have similar designs.
The outlets have logos and names that evoke a bygone era of American journalism, an effort to create a semblance of authenticity.〞
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/07/business/media/russia-us-news-sites.html

#Russia #America #propaganda #inauthentic #pinkSlime #media #news #PotemkinJournalism

SohanDsouza, 4 months ago to psychology

«Experiments have revealed that “children as young as two will prefer other children randomly assigned to the same T-shirt color,” Christakis writes.
What’s most striking is that in the process of defining who is in and who is out of a group, enmity and derision can arise independently of any rational reason for it.»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/01/20/polarization-science-evolution-psychology/

#tribalism #polarization #psychology #politics

SohanDsouza, 5 months ago to hacking

From Gerry Shih and @JosephMenn: «A day after Apple warned independent Indian journalists and opposition party politicians in October that government hackers probably tried to break into their iPhones, officials under Prime Minister Narendra Modi promptly took action … against Apple.»
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/27/india-apple-iphone-hacking/

#hacking #India #Adani #Modi #Apple #journalism #Pegasus #infosec

troublewithwords, 5 months ago to random

FYI: anything an American business does between December 24 and January 3rd will be skeevy as hell hoping it gets no press.

For example, Amazon just announced that all of Prime Video will get ads.

SohanDsouza, 5 months ago to journalism

«My worry is that everyone benefits from favorable mis- or disinformation to varying degrees: our citizens are amused by such content, our political leaders may campaign with it, and the media garners traffic by covering sensationalist examples. The existing incentive structures will make misinformation hard to eliminate.»
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/15/1085441/eric-schmidt-plan-for-fighting-election-misinformation/

#elections #democracy #media #socialMedia #transparency #platforms #misinformation

SohanDsouza, 6 months ago to random

On #dropdashers and food delivery platform #enshittification

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1725091448431792329.html

SohanDsouza, 7 months ago to Philippines

〝What the Philippines needs, according to Migrante, is inward investment, not to export its workforce. Forcing workers into exploitation overseas, its members say, is not a solution to the country’s problems. The Philippines imports, in the words of Concepcion, “everything, even toothpicks … we are not a self-reliant economy. We are rich in natural resources, and yet we might as well still be a colony.”〞

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/oct/26/how-filipino-domestic-workers-become-trapped

#Filipino #UK #foreignWorker #exploitation #law

SohanDsouza, 7 months ago to Massachusetts

#Massachusetts

SohanDsouza, 7 months ago to aitools

Musk is taking fake advertiser money to place ads that use his own name and face to falsely endorse their product, and burdening the fact-checking community with annotating it.
I can't even.

#ElonMusk #advertising #blueCheck #Twitter #Xitter #scam #newLow

SohanDsouza, 8 months ago to Russia

NEW: Alethea has detected a network of accounts on X posting near-identical content about the Israel-Palestine conflict and promoting misleading and out of context translations of statements from Vladimir Putin and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
#disinformation #MDM #cheapfakes #Russia #war #Twitter
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinformation/x-misinformation-israel-hamas-war-network-disinformation-rcna119696

thejapantimes, 10 months ago to Japan

For years, the platform formerly known as Twitter has been the most popular for Japan’s municipalities to use when sending out natural disaster warnings. That might not be the case anymore. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/japan/2023/08/09/society/japan-prefectures-x-diasaster-warnings/?utm_content=buffera606b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #japan #society #twitter #x #socialmedia #typhoons #kumamoto #okinawa #kagoshima

SohanDsouza, 11 months ago to boston

#Boston

SohanDsouza, 11 months ago to boston

Too much cloud close to sea level in #Boston made for suboptimal #FourthOfJuly #fireworks, sadly.

SohanDsouza, 11 months ago to boston

#FourthOfJuly #Boston

emmalbriant, 1 year ago to internet

This isn’t just about #Turkey and #Erdogan. What is the message #elonmusk is sending out to the world’s despots and dictators here? If you threaten to throttle @Twitter in your country he’ll do whatever you want. #socialmedia

davidrevoy, 1 year ago to random

Tried to install cat on Windows. Failed, instruction unclear.
#caturday