GeekWire

JANUARY 31, 2024

A new nonprofit, nonpartisan technology organization called TrueMedia is developing an AI-powered tool to detect deepfake videos, photos, and audio, aiming to combat political disinformation in the leadup to the 2024 elections. The plan, in essence, is to use AI to fight AI.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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Vox

APRIL 22, 2022

This buzzy phrase , popularized on social media in the pandemic, rejects work as a basis for identity, framing it instead as an act to pursue out of financial necessity. The difference is, more young people are airing these indignations and jaded attitudes on the internet, often to viral acclaim.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2020

Performative social media is just a step toward lasting, impactful change. Navigating social media in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd and the subsequent national wave of protests has been a frustrating experience for many people — especially if they’re trying to figure out what to do and what not to do.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Axon’s in-car video technology for police. For example, transcripts of body camera videos that detect use of racial slurs will be automatically ranked higher for supervisor review. Related: As protests spread across the country, mobile video creates mosaic of violence and tool for change. . Axon Photo).

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Dataconomy

APRIL 18, 2023

Musk saw TruthGPT as a way to change the direction of OpenAI, the AI software nonprofit he helped start and which now has a for-profit branch. ” -Elon Musk So-called TruthGPT can be used for various purposes, such as education, research, journalism, entertainment, and social media. Elon Musk responded with a picture and a video.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In an effort to keep things simple, Egan also recommends creating small 3-minute videos because this makes training more manageable. Although by reporting that's how the FTC, that's how the FBI, and that's how the State Attorney General brings their law enforcement actions to find and stop those that are emitting internet fraud.

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Dataconomy

APRIL 25, 2023

“ChatGPT net worth” is one of the most searched queries on the Internet. ChatGPT may make money from companies that wish to advertise to its user base by placing such adverts on its website and social media pages. One of the main issues is the ethical and social implications of using such a powerful and versatile AI tool.

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Vox

APRIL 10, 2023

The hope is that while the new technology could cause some disruption in what people do, it will ultimately lead to more and better work, much like previous technological advancements, such as the personal computer or even the internet, didn’t spell the end of white-collar jobs. They certainly don’t feel like frogs boiling in a pot.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” At the time, McLeod said all this was meant to make the experience less anonymous and more like being on a social network than a dating app. None of this is exactly high praise.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 28, 2021

The video game industry came into 2021 with a lot of momentum , with millions of new customers, high sales, and venture capitalists falling over each other to put more money into the system. Bungie, makers of Destiny 2 (above), are one of several video game developers rocked by allegations of misconduct in 2021. Bungie Image).

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ForAllSecure

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Some of those who bought the spyware were allegedly able to see live locations of the devices, view the targets emails, photos, web browsing history, text messages, video calls, etc. What about social media? So here's the thing, SpyPhone is not an isolated incident. There are literally dozens of other examples.

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Vox

MARCH 30, 2023

A lot of people who saw it thought it was fun, too, so they spread it around social media. You might even call it a turning point in the war against mis- and disinformation, which the people fighting were, frankly, already losing simply because social media exists. We’ve had this issue with text and misinformation on social platforms.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 14, 2022

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. So one security researcher decided to poke the tiger.

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Vox

MARCH 4, 2023

The big difference is that generative AI can create new content, such as images, text, audio, video, and even code — usually from a prompt or command. Generative AI is already starting to find its way into mainstream applications for everything from food shopping to social media. It can write news articles , movie scripts , and poetry.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

Any type of text that’s been uploaded to the internet has likely become grist to GPT-3’s mighty pattern-matching mill. You may have seen examples floating around Twitter and social media recently, but it turns out that an autocomplete AI is a wonderfully flexible tool simply because so much information can be stored as text.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

A widely used social news and entertainment website built around user submitted content. We do have we do have some people on the internet who have expressed concern about, you know, cyber criminal, I think is what we were originally going with. I had tweeted this video, it's pinned on our Twitter account hack, not crime.

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The Verge

MAY 20, 2020

Lil Nas X’s “Panini,” NASA’s social media presence, Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty line, and John Krasinski’s Some Good News YouTube show are among the winners of this year’s Webby Awards. National Geographic took away this year’s most awards, 15 total, with wins for its science podcasts, travel videos, and photos on social media, among other things.

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The Verge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Among the biggest beneficiaries has been Signal, the encrypted messaging app whose development is funded by a nonprofit organization. Adding millions of users has served as a vindication for a company that has sought to build a healthier internet by adopting different incentives than most Silicon Valley companies.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

The phrases that triggered automatic deletion included “communist bandit” and “50-cent party,” a slang term for internet users paid to defend the CCP. When did YouTube end up the de facto enforcer of Chinese censorship rules on the world’s internet? Roberts, a professor at UCLA who researches content moderation and social media.

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The Verge

MARCH 4, 2021

It is the final work of a coalition of some of the most respected names in platform analysis in academia and the nonprofit world: the Stanford Internet Observatory, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public, Graphika, and the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab. no widespread fraud.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook. Riley writes (emphasis hers): Researchers at the global nonprofit group Avaaz found nearly two dozen Facebook pages affiliated with the “boogaloo” movement, a generally anti-government and anti-law enforcement ideology.

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The Verge

MAY 19, 2020

And he’s learning to make pizza from scratch by watching YouTube videos. “It I saw the intro to the video where you said, “This phone sells more than the Galaxy.” I actually watched the video. I think I learned it from watching your video. It came out okay,” he said. NP: That’s a cheap phone. He gave it a seven.

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GeekWire

APRIL 22, 2021

Last month Vulcan announced that EarthRanger and a number of other AI-related projects would be moving to the nonprofit Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, another organization founded by Paul Allen. As the Internet of Things makes new sensors and devices available, many of these will be integrated, too.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

In that spirit, I thought today we could look at the particularly newsy week the ByteDance-owned video app has had, and then contribute some additional speculation that I will later have to disown or apologize for. In November, Dwayne Johnson, the actor and former wrestler known as The Rock, posted his first video to the app.

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Vox

JANUARY 12, 2021

Signal, once a niche messaging service for the privacy-minded, is currently the most downloaded app in the United States, unseating perennially popular social media and gaming apps. Previously, the number of new Signal users has rocketed up following social or political unrest. What makes Signal different?

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

She led a research project on the Future of Data and investigated topics such as 3D printing, social enterprise, and the evolving role of the state. Chung has been a Co-Curator of TEDxSingapore, and she continues to advise teams of undergraduate students about their management consulting projects for clients in the social sector.

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

On Tuesday morning, Mark Zuckerberg held a meeting with employees over video chat to address concerns related to the company’s decision not to take action on some recent posts by President Trump. He noted that the original video of George Floyd’s murder by a police officer had been posted to Facebook, sparking global protests.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. YouTube may have removed some of their videos after the change, but it doesn’t retroactively issue strikes, on fairness grounds. Photo by FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images. India bans TikTok.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

And while I ultimately come to some different conclusions than the authors do, the book is worth reading for everyone interested in social networks, trust and safety, and cybersecurity. The Internet Research Agency, a “troll farm” that the New York Times had first profiled in 2015 , was running its own attack.

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Vox

JANUARY 20, 2021

Here are some of the most pervasive election conspiracy theories and false claims being shared on social media around Inauguration Day. That these theories continue to spread on social media impacts all of us, regardless of whether or not we believe them. We live in a social world, and people’s beliefs do have consequences.”

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Vox

AUGUST 25, 2023

Creators must designate their entire channel or individual videos on it as “made for kids,” in which case Google won’t collect any data on viewers for personalized advertising purposes, nor will it target ads to them. The nonprofit placed an ad campaign on “made for kids” channels and asked to target the ads to various audience segments.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

All of it is basically in keeping with how American social platforms manage these concerns, though it’s worth noting that 2-year-old TikTok built this infrastructure much faster than its predecessors did. Huang told us that when a new user opens TikTok, the algorithm fetches eight popular but diverse videos to show them.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

The “Tide Pods challenge” surged on social networks in 2018, and ultimately more than 10,000 children were reported to have been exposed to whatever extremely inedible substance is actually inside Tide Pods. The privilege of accessing the open internet should extended only to companies from countries that respect that openness themselves.

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The Verge

MAY 14, 2020

Some of the videos have racked up hundreds of thousands of views. (EJ Social media is already filling up with misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine, months or years before one even exists. They are savvy media manipulators, effective communicators and experienced at exploiting the weaknesses of social media platforms.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

But Democrats are increasingly worried about the influence of misinformation on social media aimed at Latino voters in the runup to the election. Several misinformation researchers told Recode that they’re seeing alarming amounts of misinformation about voter fraud and Democratic leaders being shared in Latino social media communities.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

But you could also use it as an umbrella term to talk about initiatives related to what Facebook and other social networks have lately taken to calling “platform integrity” — removing hate speech, for example, or labeling misinformation. He threatened to shut down social media companies. He said “big action” would follow.

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