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Anti-vaxx 'mobs': doctors face harassment campaigns on Facebook | Technology | The Guar... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...t-campaigns-doctors-fight-back

ITGS facebook memory ethics integrity authenticity fakenews control doctors

shared by dr tech on 01 Mar 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Mar 19
     
    ""The idea that we can have counter-speech when [Facebook] groups become brigade mobs is ludicrous," said Renee DiResta, an expert in online misinformation and co-founder of Vaccinate California. "It makes just participating as an everyday citizen a high-stakes ordeal.""
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Data Mining Has Revealed Previously Unknown Russian Twitter Troll Campaigns - 0 views

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ITGS politics and government twitter data mining authenticity russian campaigns

shared by dr tech on 03 Nov 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Nov 18
     
    "That's interesting work suggesting that Russian troll activity was significantly more ambitious on an international scale than previously thought. It also suggests a way of spotting this kind of meddling as it is happening by looking for the kind of forensic fingerprint the team identified. Of course, finding trolls is a cat-and-mouse game. For the organizations responsible for Russian troll activity, it ought to be a straightforward matter to change the pattern of activity in a way that does not create the same signature."
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"The Biology of Disinformation," a paper by Rushkoff, Pescovitz, and Dunagan / Boing Boing - 0 views

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ITGS fake news disinformation social media ai algorithm authenticity

shared by dr tech on 01 May 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 01 May 18
     
    "Already, artificially intelligent software can evolve false political and social constructs highly targeted to sway specific audiences. Users find themselves in highly individualized, algorithmically determined news and information feeds, intentionally designed to: isolate them from conflicting evidence or opinions, create self-reinforcing feedback loops of confirmation, and untether them from fact-based reality. And these are just early days. If memes and disinformation have been weaponized on social media, it is still in the musket stage."
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Welsh police wrongly identify thousands as potential criminals | UK news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ousands-as-potential-criminals

ITGS facial recognition ai false positive reliability authenticity

shared by dr tech on 06 May 18 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 06 May 18
     
    "However, according to data on the force's website, 92% (2,297) of those were found to be "false positives". South Wales police admitted that "no facial recognition system is 100% accurate", but said the technology had led to more than 450 arrests since its introduction. It also said no one had been arrested after an incorrect match."
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Facebook fires trending team, and algorithm without humans goes crazy | Technology | Th... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...trending-topics-team-algorithm

ITGS facebook algorithm humans ai news authenticity reliability peopleandmachines

shared by dr tech on 30 Aug 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 30 Aug 16
     
    "Facebook announced late Friday that it had eliminated jobs in its trending module, the part of its news division where staff curated popular news for Facebook users. Over the weekend, the fully automated Facebook trending module pushed out a false story about Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a controversial piece about a comedian's four-letter word attack on rightwing pundit Ann Coulter"
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In the age of the algorithm, the human gatekeeper is back | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...-of-algorithm-human-gatekeeper

ITGS algorithm human peopleandmachines bias authenticity reliability

shared by dr tech on 01 Oct 16 - Cached
  • dr tech on 01 Oct 16
     
    "Facebook is mired in a series of controversies about the curation of its news feed, from its broadcasting live killings, to editing out an iconic photo of the Vietnam war, to accusations of political bias. It recently tried to smooth the process out by firing its human editors … only to find the news feed degenerated into a mass of fake and controversial news stories."
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The future of fake news: don't believe everything you read, see or hear | Technology | ... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ump-face2face-doctored-content

ITGS fake news authenticity peopleandmachines photoshop video

shared by dr tech on 26 Jul 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Jul 17
     
    "However, there's a new breed of video and audio manipulation tools, made possible by advances in artificial intelligence and computer graphics, that will allow for the creation of realistic looking footage of public figures appearing to say, well, anything. Trump declaring his proclivity for water sports. Hillary Clinton describing the stolen children she keeps locked in her wine cellar. Tom Cruise finally admitting what we suspected all along … that he's a Brony."
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Philippine president admits he used an army of social media trolls while campaigning - 0 views

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ITGS social media authenticity control politics and government bot

shared by dr tech on 26 Jul 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 26 Jul 17
     
    "It found that social media bots were used by many countries to drum up ideas aligning with party messaging, by inflating social media engagement, "creating an artificial sense of popularity, momentum or relevance." An army of 500 to "amplify" ideas In Duterte's case, his social media manager has said they've used some 400 to 500 people to "amplify" ideas. They individually handled groups on platforms like Facebook, that each had hundreds to hundreds of thousands of followers."
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'Fontgate': Microsoft, Wikipedia and the scandal threatening the Pakistani PM | World n... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...l-threatening-the-pakistani-pm

ITGS peopleandmachines authenticity system wikipedia font

shared by dr tech on 14 Jul 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 14 Jul 17
     
    "Documents claiming that Mariam Nawaz Sharif was only a trustee of the companies that bought the London flats, are dated February 2006, and appear to be typed in Microsoft Calibri. But the font was only made commercially available in 2007, leading to suspicions that the documents are forged."
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Could 'fake text' be the next global political threat? | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...t-2-concerns-false-information

ITGS fake text integrity authenticity fake text deepfake

shared by dr tech on 05 Jul 19 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 05 Jul 19
     
    "he foresees fake text being used "for the production of [literal] 'fake news', or to potentially impersonate people who had produced a lot of text online, or simply to generate troll-grade propaganda for social n"
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ITGS photoshop authenticity memory politics and government

shared by dr tech on 25 Jan 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 25 Jan 20
     
    "Doctored images have become a fact of life for political campaigns. When they're disproved, believers 'just don't care.'"
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The Hidden Signs That Can Reveal a Fake Photo - 0 views

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ITGS fake photoshop authenticity

shared by dr tech on 16 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 16 Feb 20
     
    "A picture may say a thousand words, but what if the photograph has been fabricated? There are ways to spot a fake - you just have to look closely enough."
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$45m, 1.6bn views and 'Crazy Donald': How Bloomberg bought your Facebook feed | US news... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...bloomberg-facebook-ad-campaign

ITGS government and politics facebook feed integrity ads authenticity

shared by dr tech on 23 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Feb 20
     
    "In the first six weeks of 2020, more than 1.6bn of the 2.4bn presidential campaign ads shown to US Facebook users were from the Bloomberg campaign. Since launching his campaign in mid-November, the former mayor of New York City has spent nearly $45m on Facebook ads - more than all his opponents combined."
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Coronavirus: US says Russia behind disinformation campaign | World news | The Guardian - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...ormation-campaign-us-officials

ITGS russia authenticity facebook government and politics feed fake news

shared by dr tech on 23 Feb 20 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 23 Feb 20
     
    "The disinformation campaign promotes unfounded conspiracy theories that the US is behind the new coronavirus outbreak, in an apparent bid to damage America's image around the world."
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Computer science students should learn to cheat, not be punished for it - 0 views

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ITGS authenticity plagiarism coding algorithm

shared by dr tech on 03 Jun 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 03 Jun 17
     
    "There's a certain irony that, in fields outside of computer science, plagiarism is a sign that you didn't understand the question. Within computer science, the opposite is true. Not only have you found an acceptable solution, you've understood it enough to use it within the parameters of your own project."
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China's social credit score is like a 'Black Mirror' episode - Business Insider - 0 views

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ITGS privacy security anonymity authenticity social media trust

shared by dr tech on 11 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • dr tech on 11 Nov 17
     
    "The Chinese government is planning on implementing a system that connects citizens' financial, social, political, and legal credit ratings into one big social trustability score. The idea would be that if someone breaks trust in one area, they'd be adversely affected everywhere."
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Google says AI better than humans at scrubbing extremist YouTube content | Technology |... - 0 views

www.theguardian.com/...bing-extremist-youtube-content

ITGS ai fake news authenticity peopleandmachines google machine learning

shared by dr tech on 02 Aug 17 - Cached
  • dr tech on 02 Aug 17
     
    "Google has pledged to continue developing advanced programs using machine learning to combat the rise of extremist content, after it found that it was both faster and more accurate than humans in scrubbing illicit content from YouTube."
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