"For years I had told myself (and others) that I was opposed to branding, yet here I was, trying to assert my sovereign self in the face of an off-brand me" https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/naomi-klein-naomi-wolf-book < This is a really interesting piece from Naomi Klein on personal branding in the age of content production and speaking truth to power on both the left and the right #branding#fakenews#COVID19
Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Tracing the Story of Psychological Targeting on Social Media
By Sander van der Linden
The million dollar question, van der Linden writes, is whether psychological targeting effects users on platforms like Facebook. Until recently, the effects remained opaque. But new experiments are starting to clear up the picture, as van der Linden explains in the excerpt below
The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
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…
Menschen in der EU wünschen sich stärkeres Vorgehen gegen Desinformationen
Desinformationen werden gezielt eingesetzt, um Menschen zu verunsichern. Die Bertelsmann Stiftung wirbt für ein flächendeckendes Monitoring und mehr Gegenwehr.
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.
🎧 Die ganze Folge #33 hört ihr bei Spotify, Deezer, YouTube, Apple iTunes und Google Podcasts – oder über diesen Link: https://www.bsi.bund.de/dok/1092764 🤗
@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!
My mom emails me so much fake news and conspiracy theory nonsense everyday that I made a mail rule to automatically move any of her email to a folder. I’ve asked her to stop but she doesn’t. 🙄
This rule has been running for a couple of years. I have hundreds if not thousands of these by now. I never open any of it but as you can see there’s a lot of wild stuff. This is just from this week. #fakenews#psuedoscience#skeptic
Annique Mossou, istruttrice e ricercatrice di @Bellingcat, ci consegna una guida semplice e chiara per verificare ed approfondire le informazioni in rete, in termini semplici e comprensibili.
Purtroppo è in inglese, ma speriamo che lo troverete comunque utile!
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.
"What I have found is that throughout history, speeches by dictators and autocrats have one thing in common: they use dehumanizing metaphors to instill and propagate hatred of others"
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/