Yesterday's anti-science bingo. Started with a discussion with a herbalist who admitted that she didn't know much about it, but that "the body says when it doesn't like something", "and 90% of illnesses are psychological, like covid", "I'm not vaccinated", "and now they're selling us an asymptomatic heatwave, the weather's fine, where do you see the heatwave?".
What do we do when false certainties are more reassuring than facts?
@CJPaloma@Dahlialith major media outlets are largely compromised. Not only are they owned/controlled by the very billionaires who want corrupt puppets in power but the Russians and Chinese have been systematically infiltrating these pillars of influence with purveyors of #WhatAboutism and #FakeNews as a way of undermining our democracy. Which is the ONLY way they can prevail…
Texte schreiben oder Bilder generieren sind nur ein kleiner Teil der Einsatzmöglichkeiten von KI-Sprachmodellen wie ChatGPT. Aber ist KI nun eine Chance oder ein Risiko? Unser Podcast-Gast Dr. Christian Temath, Geschäftsführer von KI.NRW, hält KI für eine große Unterstützung, aber eben nur da, wo sie uns assistierend zur Hilfe kommt.
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@bsi Das Problem ist ja dass jene Werkzeuge fast immer #Müll ausspucken UND zugleich wir mangelnde #TechLiteracy & #MediaLiteracy in der deutschen Gesellschaft haben.
Dementsprechend ist jene Technik die es trivialisiert #FakeNews to generieren unverantwortlicher als Jugendlichen ne durchgeladene und aufmunitionierte Maschinenpistole zu schenken!
Washington Times says its article about new #Barbie dolls being plastic-free "was based on an elaborate media hoax involving spoofed email addresses, a faked press release, doctored images, fictitious quotations and a YouTube video that appears to show actress Daryl Hannah announcing the new product line." https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/aug/1/washington-times-editors-note/
I’m here with a horde of other journalists because we’re hoping that the magistrate judge will read Trump’s name or initials—DT or DJT—if an indictment is handed down.
You do amazing 👏 work.
You should be the benchmark for "keeping up."
If only 20-30% of journalists were so devoted here in the #Fediverse and not on billionaire sites, this could change #democracies around the globe 🌎 .
The majority doesn't enjoy being lied to with #FakeNews.
Wie lässt sich das derzeitige Umfragehoch der #AfD erklären? Dieser Frage gehen Wolfgang Schroeder von der @unikassel und Bernhard Weßels vom @WZB_Berlin im neuen OBS-Arbeitspapier „Radikalisiert und etabliert“ nach. Allein an Defiziten der Ampel liegt es nicht. 1/19
@nf3xn The first link points to statements like "the soldiers were unable to tell their psychologist, who specialises in troubled young men, what had happened to them while they were captured" and "I knew from previous cases they had probably been tortured". Unfortunately, those are only claims, no evidence.
The second link points to a hit list with just one item: "United States Deportation Policies Expose Salvadorans to Death and Abuse" -- nothing about Ukraine.
Twitter: Accounts mit blauen Haken verbreiten Fake News zum Ukraine-Krieg
Auf Twitter gehen immer wieder falsche Behauptungen zum Ukraine-Krieg viral, unterstützt durch Accounts mit den blauen Haken. Das hat die BBC ermittelt.
False and misleading posts about the Ukraine conflict continue to go viral on major social media platforms, as Russia's invasion of the country extends beyond 500 days.
Some of the most widely shared examples can be found on Twitter, posted by subscribers with a blue tick, who pay for their content to be promoted to other users.
the circus that currently performs in finnish government is getting so out of hands that im just waiting for the day it just implodes in on it self like couple billionaires in a submarine.
I don’t usually gift breaking news articles before the context and analysis are added. But holy moly, a preliminary injunction against Biden officials communicating with the social media companies. https://wapo.st/44snxyc
@JosephMenn#FreeSpeech#misinformation#fakenews#journalism So it’s okay to yell fire in the theater when there isn’t one and cause people to die when they are trampled at the exits? Social media speech that lies about disasters, when and where to evacuate from wildfires, hurricanes and earthquakes is just A-Okay. Emergency Man comms need to be done by those in charge of managing the disaster. Vulnerable communities are at risk when social media is used against them.
Oh yeah - #aspartame causes #cancer ... again ... This myth has been going around for decades. Recently with #IARC move to classify it as "probable carcinogen for humans" it's an ultimate reckoning with the skeptics and a final proof that they have been right all along. After all, the International Agency for Research on Cancer is gotta be right, right? And the media are happily spreading the news for some clickbait. Only one problem - it's probably complete BS ...
This event shows time and again, that even the world institutions that are supposed to be impartial are plagued by activism, wishful thinking and ideology. As this linked article outlines, the importance of multiple source corroboration, critical thinking and scientific objectivity and taking media clickbaits with a grain of salt is more important than ever ... So, no, I'm not stopping drinking Zero Coke ...
A test of five #AI-image detection tools finds they often struggle with altered and low quality images and sometimes even fail when an image is obviously fake.
Ukraine: No, a video does not prove the Russian airstrike on a cathedral in Odesa was staged.
Multiple social media accounts falsely argue the attack is fake because a woman in the video can be seen picking up the debris with a little too much ease.
A better quality video shows the woman holding a material made up of small white bubbles resembling polystyrene.
#Brasil#BigTech#Google#Meta#Lobbying#FakeNews: "O Google e a Meta - controladora do Facebook, Whatsapp e Instagram – lideraram uma operação de pressão e lobby para derrubar o Projeto de Lei 2630, o PL das Fake News, da pauta do Congresso brasileiro. Ao longo de 14 dias, as empresas e outras big techs atuaram fortemente para deputados se posicionarem contra a proposta, com ameaças de retirar conteúdo das redes sociais e disseminação de uma campanha de ataques às contas deles na internet.
Um monitoramento do Estadão revelou que a pressão das empresas fez com que pelo menos 33 deputados mudassem de posicionamento entre a aprovação do requerimento de urgência, dia 19 de abril, e a retirada de pauta, em 2 de maio."