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

JUNE 3, 2023

Within a matter of minutes of being posted, the realistic-looking image spread on Twitter and other social media networks after being retweeted by some popular accounts. The group is tasked with helping to create an interoperable open standard for companies to share the provenance, or history of ownership, of a piece of media.

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Vox

JUNE 24, 2020

For most people, Instagram has long been the social media platform where they escape from the real world — and politics — to share a curated highlight reel of their lives. Of course, political activism on social media platforms, including Instagram, isn’t new. Zac Freeland/Vox. But recently, that’s changed.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

” A recent study on local media by Northwestern University found 18 digital news sites in Washington — nine for profit, and nine nonprofit. Policies trying to bolster local journalism need to distinguish between online sites that provide trustworthy, original content from those masquerading as news.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

What he touched off instead was a rampant epidemic last November that infected a national defense network of computers among others. He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Either in courts or in the media, hackers have been demonized. McAninch: Excellent.

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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. This year’s winners, announced on Tuesday , were largely dominated by media and entertainment companies. New Media Inc.

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Vox

JUNE 25, 2020

While it poses as a news outlet, Natural News is actually a network of sites filled with bylined articles and flanked by ads for survivalist gear and dodgy health cures. That a network like Natural News can continue to spread misinformation on Facebook shouldn’t be surprising. A brief history of Natural News.

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Vox

MAY 1, 2023

That month, bold-faced names canceled their attendance at Davos in the Desert , a giant event in Riyadh hosted by the Future Investment Initiative Institute, a nonprofit linked to the Public Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia and the sponsor of the Miami conference. Even Wag, the dog-walking app, got $300 million.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

And in Las Vegas, three men were indicted “for allegedly conspiring to destroy government and private property during protests in that city on May 30, and for allegedly possessing Molotov cocktails,” the Wall Street Journal reported. Also of note is where Boogaloo adherents are organizing themselves: social networks, most notably Facebook.

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Vox

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen created an international media blitz earlier this year when she leaked tens of thousands of damning internal company documents to the Wall Street Journal and US government. A new network of tech whistleblowers. Even a few years ago, it was a lonelier world for would-be tech whistleblowers.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

With a PhD in Planning and Innovation Studies, and a Master’s degree in Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning, Karuri-Sebina has a sound knowledge base for her work as Executive Manager of programs at the South African Cities Network. One of her focuses is building networks between Azerbaijani people and researchers across the world.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday we talked about the audio-only social network Clubhouse , which found itself at the center of controversy after failing to take action or even make a public comment after users began to experience harassment within the app. The result was a stack of policies that are largely offensive to mainstream American sensibilities. “In

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The Verge

JUNE 3, 2020

from what our policy is and the principles of the platform we’re running are — knowing that the decision that we made was going to lead to a lot of people being very upset inside the company and a lot of the media criticism we’re going to get,” said Zuckerberg. Mike Cherney / The Wall Street Journal ). Data from The New York Times.

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The Verge

JULY 1, 2020

Facebook bans a violent Boogaloo network. It was just a few days ago that I wrote this column about how the Boogaloo movement — a loose-knit collection of anti-government types, some of whom are agitating for a second civil war — had hijacked social networks to spread. for 5G networks. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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Vox

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Journalism, as an industry, is struggling badly. Employment in US newsrooms fell by 26 percent from 2008 to 2020 , and this fall has seen another end-of-year wave in media layoffs. But the honest answer to whether I regret taking the money knowing what we knew then , the answer is no.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Most people get broadband through coaxial cable networks for that last mile, while others go through DSL that runs on copper phone lines. Sometimes, companies don’t wind up building out the networks they promise. Comcast is an investor in Vox Media.) The former is slow, the latter slower.

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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. Facebook has since learned that lesson; it has never been harder to set up a network of fake accounts on the network and keep it operational.

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The Verge

JULY 17, 2020

It won’t say; Dustin Volz describes the range of possibilities nicely at the Wall Street Journal : The social-media company hasn’t said specifically how the attackers penetrated its internal systems and tools or indicated how long they had access to them. of the social media company’s technical roles, up from 1.5% How exactly?

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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. Still, Facebook made it clear today that, like other networks before it, the company does consider QAnon a problem. Governing. ?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Social networks contain multitudes. Facebook has sometimes faced doubts over why a social network would invest so much time and money into a hardware project with no uncertain payoff. Simington played a significant role in the Trump administration’s social media executive order issued over the summer. Ashley Gold / Axios ).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

The problems are somewhat different on the two networks — Facebook is primarily talking about ideological diversity, where TikTok is more concerned with promoting different types of content — but I still found the distinction striking. Do social networks pull us into self-reinforcing echo chambers, or don’t they? Governing. ?

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

Certainly there are good questions about what the news media chooses to amplify. I can’t see a good reason, in most cases, for a big social network to deny the president his right to speak. The White House spread an unproven conspiracy theory on social media blaming Antifa for placing pallets of bricks at protests to incite violence.

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Vox

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Ultimately, the platform is facing the same challenges of polarization and misinformation as other social networks like Facebook and Twitter. The company has long aspired to be a social network where civility and neighborliness prevail; there’s even a guide to being respectful to your neighbors in the Nextdoor help center.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal published a report about Facebook’s efforts to fight polarization since 2016, based on internal documents and interviews with current and former employees. Anyway, Facebook reacted to the Journal report with significant frustration. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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