Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation among six online platforms studied by the EU. Fake news comes primarily from Russia’s disinformation operation, a "weapon of mass manipulation." www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

EU official: X, formerly Twitter, is the biggest source of fake news

A study of six online platforms in Poland, Slovakia and Spain finds that Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation.

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"Musk secretly ordered engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet." It is incredibly irresponsible for the US government to be reliant on this wannabe supervillain for anything.

CNN Exclusive: 'How am I in this war?': New Musk biography offers fresh details about the billionair...

Elon Musk secretly ordered his engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast last year to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval...

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arme Argentijnen schijnen massaal te stemmen op een kandidaat die meent dat je organen verkopen de beste remedie tegen armoede is https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/argentina-far-right-populist-javier-milei-shock-lead-primary-presidential-elections

Far-right outsider takes shock lead in Argentina primary election

Former tantric sex coach and Donald Trump admirer Javier Milei has said he thinks the climate crisis is ‘a socialist lie’

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This is horrific. It's also not the first time we've seen similar stories about the traumatic, sometimes long term harm done to content moderators for social media platforms who are underpaid, not given the training or support they need, exposed to the worst elements of inhumanity. Now AI, too.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 3y ago

Kenyan content moderators who reviewed incredibly graphic material to train ChatGPT are asking the Kenyan government to investigate the exploitative conditions they were subject to, which included “psychological trauma, low pay and abrupt dismissal.”