Elon Musk’s Twitter dropped its new pay-for-play verification checkmark on Wednesday (Nov. 9) and, shocker, it was a huge boon for the fake news industry. The new Twitter Blue costs $8 per month and comes ...
Between posts about conspiracy theories and right-wing grievances was an unusual advertisement: a photo of former President Donald J. Trump holding a $1,000 bill made of gold, which he was apparently offering free to supporters. ...
If you’re pondering what will be the stupidest right-wing freakout of 2023, you can probably stop now. We’re barely three weeks into the year, but the uproar over the personalities and images of M&M’s candies ...
Since the pandemic, where online disinformation surged online about Covid-19, the social media sites have all committed to doing more to battle falsehoods. On the whole, they have seen some success in removing harmful mistrust ...
Just over a month ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a text-producing artificial intelligence (AI) application. ChatGPT is impressive. It can draft unique, plausible, college-level essays on topics ranging from economics to philosophy—in iambic pentameter if asked. ...
University of Southern California (USC) researchers may have found the biggest influencer in the spread of fake news: social platforms’ structure of rewarding users for habitually sharing information. The team’s findings, published by Proceedings of ...
Gary Fowler is a serial AI entrepreneur with 17 startups and an IPO. He is CEO and cofounder of GSDVS.com and Yva.ai. getty A couple of months ago, I got a few messages from my ...
Adidas had to deny a published press release announcing the company had appointed a former Cambodian union leader as its new co-CEO and another launched a Derelicte-style collection of apparel pre-worn by factory workers. The ...
With a cacophony of scientific voices on social media – some well informed, others crackpot – establishing scientific consensus on key issues is proving more difficult than ever. But a project led by Durham University ...
