Below are posts associated with the “misinformation” tag.
🔗 linkblog: The Israel-Hamas War Is Drowning X in Disinformation | WIRED'
How a platform is managed has real consequences.
🔗 linkblog: Disinformation Researchers Raise Alarms About A.I. Chatbots - The New York Times'
Important to keep an eye on this.
🔗 linkblog: 4chan users embrace AI voice clone tool to generate celebrity hatespeech - The Verge'
Why… why don’t we better anticipate better misuses like this? Are technological “progress” and market opportunities more important than these side effects?
🔗 linkblog: Kentucky’s county clerks deal with misinformation as election approaches – 89.3 WFPL News Louisville'
We’ve had it better than some states, so it’s disappointing to hear all of this.
🔗 linkblog: Russia’s Bucha “Facts” Versus the Evidence - bellingcat'
Not that I was inclined to believe Russian cries of fake news anyway, but I still appreciate Bellingcat on the case.
🔗 linkblog: Hacked News Channel and Deepfake of Zelenskyy Surrendering Is Causing Chaos Online'
Oh good, our fears about deepfakes are coming true.
🔗 linkblog: Millions of Leftists Are Reposting Kremlin Misinformation by Mistake'
Interesting if disconcerting story. The idea of whataboutism as misinformation is particularly disturbing, and it’s important to remember that misinformation is a non-partisan phenomenon (even if the GOP is particularly keen on it). The worst part from a personal angle is how this relates to my own struggling to balance calling out the invasion of Ukraine with knowing that I haven’t been as attentive to other conflicts that deserve my brainspace.
🔗 linkblog: Russia Can Now Jail People for 15 Years for Tweeting About the War on Ukraine'
On one hand, this is actual social media censorship, not what bad actors in the U.S. complain about. On the other, it is a reminder that even the best intentioned laws against misinformation, etc. could have unintended effects. We need to tread carefully when figuring out legal responses to social media problems.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Ivermectin misinformation has poisoned Amazon’s platform, with few fixes planned - The Verge'
Happy to say that my local indie bookstore does not have this problem.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Facebook's Most Viewed Article In Early 2021 Raised Doubt About COVID Vaccine : NPR'
I agree that it’s difficult to define misinformation in cases like this, but “cleaning house before inviting company” is absolutely a problem if the mess is what we’re coming to evaluate. Even a fact-based article can be used to misinformative ends, and it’s important that we know things like that are happening.