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X Fires Its Election Team Before a Huge Election Year
X, the company formerly known as Twitter, has fired its head of threat intelligence, Aaron Rodericks, and four other members…
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The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse
“In most of these areas, you already have existing statutes that prohibit the behaviors that we want to continue to…
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Meta Isn’t Enforcing Its Own Political Ads Policy, While the 2024 US Election Looms
“America’s education system has been hijacked by one side,” Marissa Streit, PragerU’s CEO, told Time earlier this month. Some of…
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It Costs Just $400 to Build an AI Disinformation Machine
In May, Sputnik International, a state-owned Russian media outlet, posted a series of tweets lambasting US foreign policy and attacking…
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Donald Trump’s Mug Shot Matters in a World of Fakes
For months, Etsy has become littered with a new genre of T-shirt: the Donald Trump mug shot. And they’re available…
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Facebook’s 2024 Election Policy May Hinge on a Cambodian Video
The speed of the prime minister’s about turn, and his unwillingness to act against Facebook, show how important the platform…
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How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
“If I want to launch a disinformation campaign, I can fail 99 percent of the time. You fail all the…
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Meta’s Election Research Opens More Questions Than It Answers
In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, Meta set out to conduct a series of ambitious studies on the…
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Big AI Won’t Stop Election Deepfakes With Watermarks
In May, a fake image of an explosion near the Pentagon went viral on Twitter. It was soon followed by…
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Spain’s Elections Pit Gig Workers Against the Far Right | WIRED
The election sees Sumar and center-left PSOE facing off against the Popular Party, the traditional party of the right wing…
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