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A Zelensky Deepfake Was Quickly Defeated. The Next One Might Not Be
Other conflicts and political leaders may be less fortunate, and could be more vulnerable to disruption by deepfakes, says Sam…
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Russia Blocks Facebook and Twitter in a Propaganda Standoff
Russia’s government announced on Friday that it has blocked Facebook, raising the stakes in a standoff between Big Tech and…
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The War in Ukraine Is Keeping Chinese Social Media Censors Busy
“Artillery fire lights up the sky and breaks my heart. I hope my compatriots in Ukraine are taking care of…
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TikTok Was Designed for War
TikTok’s algorithm feeds people videos it believes they are hungry to see. And there’s plenty of appetite for videos about…
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YouTube’s Captions Insert Explicit Language in Kids’ Videos
Nearly 400,000 people subscribe to the YouTube account Rob the Robot – Learning Videos For Children. In one 2020 video,…
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China Is About to Regulate AI—and the World Is Watching
Wen Li, a Shanghai marketer in the hospitality industry, first suspected that an algorithm was messing with her when she…
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Germany Has Picked a Fight With Telegram
In December, around a dozen anti-lockdown protesters gathered together on a cobbled street in the eastern German town of Grimma.…
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Facebook Says Its New AI Can Identify More Problems Faster
Few-Shot Learner is pretrained on a firehose of billions of Facebook posts and images in more than 100 languages. The…
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Facebook Is Everywhere; Its Moderation Is Nowhere Close
Facebook launched support for Arabic in 2009 and scored a hit. Soon after, the service won plaudits for helping the…
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How an Obscure Green Bay Packers Site Became the Biggest Thing on Facebook
The Green Bay Packers play in one of the tiniest media markets in the NFL, with a small but famously…
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