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MICHAEL ANTHONY Says Someone "Was Not Playing Ball With Everybody Else" For Rumored VAN HALEN Tribute Concerts
"I'll let you all figure it out. And that's why none of it worked."
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No, AMY LEE Is Not LINKIN PARK's New Singer
"They should ask me about that. I don't have a ton of free time, but I might do it part time."
For California weather watchers, that other place 🙄 has had quite a meltdown this week (rampant misinformation by "blue check" nobodies)... rumors, more rumors, angry and hurt meteorologists and scientists... more rumors.
While we can say confidence is increasing in widespread rain chances next week, we can't quite comment on how much precipitation we'll see, and exactly when it'll happen. Those details at this point in time are very uncertain. #CAwx
Key takeaway: If there's a legit reason to worry about next week's rain, we or another core NWS partner will let you know. Please be conscious of where your weather info is coming from and ensure it is a credible and professional source. #CAwx
A key researcher in the fight against election misinformation – who herself became the subject of an intensive misinformation campaign – has said her field gets accused of “bias” precisely because it’s now mainly rightwingers who spread the worst lies.
Kate Starbird, co-founder of the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, added that she feared that the entirely false story of rigged elections has now “sunk in” for many Americans on the right.
“The idea that they’re already going to the polls with the belief that they’re being cheated means they’ll misinterpret everything they see through that lens,” she said.
Her work now focuses on election processes and procedures.
She says she now refers more to “rumors” than to “misinformation” – both because “rumor” has more historical context, and because “misinformation” is a much more politicized term, co-opted by people outside the field, similar to how the legitimate phenomenon of “fake news” on social media before the 2016 election got twisted by Donald Trump into an insult to journalists.
Her team will probably not flag content to social media platforms, either.
“That piece of the work has been so effectively twisted into a censorship narrative that it becomes hard to help out in that way,” she said.
While she had hoped to work with local and state elections officials – the experts on how elections work, who have themselves been subject to harassment – for context and help assessing viral rumors, “it’s increasingly hard for us to think that we’ll be able to communicate with them in a way that would be helpful for them, helpful for the world, and not cause more damage because it becomes fodder for these false claims”.
With misinformation research under fire and social media platforms less willing to factcheck viral posts, 2024 could see a flood of voter fraud lies, making for an even more contentious election than in 2020.
Even if social media platforms, which are optimized to spread the most attention-getting posts, did more work to address misinformation, they would still be accused of bias and censorship, Starbird said.
She fears that the election fraud narrative has now “sunk in” so deeply for so many Americans on the right that it could end up creating worse laws and procedures – and actually increase the possibility of a successful foreign interference campaign in US elections.
🎧 When "Cry Me a River" dropped in the fall of 2002, #rumors flew that the song was about #JustinTimberlake's broken relationship with a more-famous female musical artist. JT confirmed it years later.
I didn't GAF about that mess—I was into #Timbaland's beats and production and your boy's #falsetto!
Which there’s not even any evidence right now that this is the plan.
Now you also see why it’s such a bad idea to concentrate a large number of users on one server.
Just think, for those of you so paranoid about Meta and #Facebook, what do you think they would do if instead several million users weren’t concentrated on 2 or 3 servers but were spread out over 10,000?
Stop telling people to sign up for accounts on large servers and start supporting the little ones.
That’s how you save the fediverse, and that’s how you make it more resilient to attacks. Whether those attacks are from Meta, #Google, or whatever bogeyman is next on your list.
In a recently published Issues in Science and Technology article, @uwcip co-founders Emma Spiro and @katestarbird explore how decades-old research about how and why people share rumors is even more relevant today in a world with social media.
Spiro and Starbird write: "The study of rumors, which surged around World War II, is still very relevant."
Contrary to the ludicrous rumor posted above, he's NOT some oligarch making demands on his personal fiefdom network. Mastodon is #federated, meaning he's not running around, kicking people off on a whim.
MASTODON IS NOT TWITTER. IT WORKS VERY DIFFERENTLY. This is not one large network. It's a bunch of little networks, connected together.
The MISINFORMATION above should've been checked before being posted. The only actions being taken against #MastodonSocial were temporary and technical ones, in response to a #SpamAttack. It's a normal part of Administering an instance (server).
Please do NOT continue to spread #Misinformation and #rumors. This is not Twitter. We don't encourage lies here.
Be sure to follow and VERIFY rumors with accounts like @mastodonmigration and @feditips, for verified FACTUAL information.
Suns Emerge As Front-Runner to Sign Bol Bol, per Report (www.si.com)
The Suns are the front-runner to sign free agent Bol Bol, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania.
Stein: Suns are interested in recently waived Bol Bol (www.brightsideofthesun.com)
The Magic moved on from Bol. Should the Suns move in?
Bickley: Suns' superteam could include bold move in NBA Draft (arizonasports.com)
I take this with a grain of salt, Bickley says a lot of things, but it would be interesting to see what we would do in the draft.
Suns Contacted Mavericks for Sign-and-Trade Involving Kyrie Irving (www.si.com)
The Phoenix Suns' pursuit of Kyrie Irving didn't stop at the trade deadline.