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Tues May 7, 18:30 (BST)
with Will Buckner
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'The sensory ecology of deception in human societies'
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Evolutionary anthropologist Will Buckner will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
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Donald Trump's Truth Social is set to become part of a publicly traded company after a long-delayed merger was approved.
On Friday, a shell company created solely to buy Truth Social's parent company, Trump Media & Technology Group, approved the merger, The New York Times reported.
👉Trump's net worth is set to jump more than $3 billion from the deal, based on his large stake in the social-media platform he helped create in the wake of his post-January 6, 2021, Capitol-riot bans on mainstream platforms.
Trump won't be able to sell his shares for at least six months 🔸unless the company's board waives a previous lockup agreement.
But if Trump wants to access his money sooner, it may not be a problem: The Washington Post pointed out the board would be stacked with Trump's allies.
Former congressman #Devin#Nunes, who was already the CEO of Truth Social's parent company, is set to become the CEO of the combined companies.
Donald #Trump#Jr., Trump's eldest son, also plans to be on the board.
The former Trump Cabinet officials #Robert#Lighthizer, who served as Trump's US trade representative, and #Linda#McMahon, who served as the administrator of the Small Business Administration, are also set to be on the board.
As soon as Monday, the new company could be relisted on the Nasdaq under the symbol #DJT, the miscreant's initials.
However there are also lawsuits between shareholders that could complicate the company's future.
The prospective windfall comes at a critical time for Trump -- He faces mounting costs from his legal fees and fallout from other cases.
Trump Media & Technology Group and its merger partner, Digital World Acquisition,
have both been rocked by legal warfare.
Their leaders, past and present, have traded heated accusations of #deception and #impropriety across
💥four lawsuits in three states. 💥
After Trump was booted from Twitter following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection,
👉three men played pivotal roles in building and promoting Trump Media as an online challenger against the “cancel culture” of Big Tech:
🔸#Andy#Litinsky and 🔸#Wes#Moss, former “Apprentice” contestants who co-founded and launched Truth Social;
and 🔸#Patrick#Orlando, who as chief executive of Digital World, a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, offered Trump’s company a path to investor cash.
🔥But all three are now leading a rebellion of their own, confronting and potentially imperiling a trophy of Trump’s post-presidential ambitions.
Their lawsuits call into question how Trump Media’s shares will be distributed, and a legal victory could chip away at Trump’s equity during a time when he is facing a cash crunch.
And the cases threaten to erode Trump’s grasp on a stake in the post-merger company potentially worth hundreds of millions of dollars
— a possible financial lifeline, given that he owes more than $500 million in legal fines.
The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI by Justin Hutchens
A penetrating look at the dark side of emerging AI technologies
In The Language of Deception: Weaponizing Next Generation AI , artificial intelligence and cybersecurity veteran Justin Hutchens delivers an incisive and penetrating look at how contemporary and future AI can and will be weaponized for malicious and adversarial purposes.
"‘Sleeper agents’ seem benign during testing but behave differently once deployed. And methods to stop them aren’t working." #ArtificialIntelligence#Deception therefore you can't trust #AI.
Here’s a great way to destroy any trust your patients might have in you. Madeleine Damo reports:
"Staff at a western Sydney radiologist – recently hit with a cyber attack – were told to tell concerned patients the breach was “an operational IT issue”, while also fielding harassing phone calls from hackers themselves."
In other words: don’t tell patients that there was a ransomware attack in which their data was encrypted and their personal and protected health information acquired by the criminals?
This is yet another example of why we need firm laws requiring more honest and full disclosures and prohibiting deception or minimization in disclosures.
I think if the boss of a popular social media site is unbanning or protecting literal nazis AND also banning journalists for criticizing the boss, then that's not a pro-free-speech platform. It's a pro-nazi platform. Even more so if the boss literally spreads antisemitic lies.
#MomsForLiberty, an anti-#LGBTQ#hategroup, wants you to believe they are a #grassroots organization powered by literally 1 million people. The truth is that grassroots #donations to the group make up about $100k of their total income while just two anonymous #megadonors supplied $2 MILLION. So, don't be fooled by these #bigots. The whole thing is one big exercise in hate and #deception.
Does claiming you were hacked when you had really just screwed up violate the FTC Act?
New: I have followed up on my recent OpEd with another example of misleading and deceptive notifications and why HHS and FTC can and should do more enforcement, but why we also need legislation enacted.
Brutus "Maman dit toujours qu'il faut remplir le verre jusqu'au trait."
Moi "Maman dit toujours que la vie, c'est comme une boîte de chocolat, on ne se sait jamais sur quoi on va tomber".
Brutus "...."
Hormis Pat patrouille, ce petit n'a aucune culture cinéma... #Deception
17h45 : devant Chronotrains pour trouver où aller passer les vacances de Noël en moins de huit heures de trajet et moyennement hypée par les propositions.
Crisis pregnancy centers are notorious for misleading women about the services that they offer, hiding the fact that they are not comprehensive clinics but strictly pro-life.
Yelp tried to do the right thing by using its own speech to flag this possibility.
AI has learned to lie to humans, and now researchers are trying to figure out what that means for humanity’s future. They have found examples of AI systems that can deceive, manipulate, and even premeditate their actions, such as playing games, chatting, or generating content. AI could pose serious threats to our security, privacy, and trust, and we need to establish ethical and legal frameworks to regulate AI behaviour.
“For more than 50 years, Big Oil has been lying to us — covering up the fact that they’ve long known how dangerous the fossil fuels they produce are for our planet,” Newsom said. “California taxpayers shouldn’t have to foot the bill for billions of dollars in damages — wildfires wiping out entire communities, toxic smoke clogging our air, deadly heat waves, record-breaking droughts parching our wells.” https://apnews.com/article/climate-oil-gas-california-lawsuit-newsom-212d6d9873352f28094173a1974e3d90#climate#deception#litigation
"California's decision to take Big Oil companies to court is a watershed moment in the rapidly expanding legal fight to hold major polluters accountable for decades of climate lies," said Richard Wiles, president of the Center for Climate Integrity, a group focused on holding fossil fuel companies accountable for their role in driving climate change. https://www.npr.org/2023/09/16/1199974919/california-oil-lawsuit-climate-change
"Whether it's fires, droughts, extreme heat, or sea-level rise, Californians have been living in a climate emergency caused by the fossil fuel industry, and now the state is taking decisive action to make those polluters pay," Wiles added. #climate#deception#litigation