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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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Deepfakes, Cheapfakes, and Twitter Censorship Mar Turkey’s Elections | WIRED
On the evening of Turkey’s most significant elections of the past two decades, Can Semercioğlu went to bed early. For…
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Brazil Proposed Internet Regulation. Big Tech Took the Gloves Off
On April 28, Felipe Neto, a Brazilian YouTuber with more than 45 million followers, was angry. He had just received…
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Brace Yourself for the 2024 Deepfake Election
“It consistently amazes me that in the physical world, when we release products there are really stringent guidelines,” Farid says.…
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4 People Tweeting’ Changed the Face of Nigerian Politics
A lot of the young online support gravitated toward Obi, 61, a businessman and former member of the PDP who…
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