Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting in Atlanta. NBC News reports: "Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation."
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Anti-vaccine myths surged on social media ahead of the CDC shooting
Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation.
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Canada is experiencing its second-worst wildfire season on record (more than 7.3 million hectares have burned so far in 2025) and it's been particularly bad in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Paris Marx writes about how social media, particularly Facebook, has led to the spread of misinformation. False claims include that resources are being taken from one fire to prioritize another, and even that the states of emergency declared are part of a government campaign to take people's rights. "We can become accustomed to the harms of these platforms and the information environment they create, but the social damage really comes to the fore in a moment of crisis when you can see just how bad they are informing people," Marx says. https://flip.it/5o4Hw1 #Canada #Wildfires #Environment #Tech #Technology #SocialMedia #Facebook #Misinformation #Disinformation
Oopsie! It's Signal Gate, the sequel. A random person was added to a law enforcement group chat that included officers from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). In it, they discussed highly sensitive information about an active search for an individual seemingly marked for deportation. Here's more from @404 Media
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ICE Adds Random Person to Group Chat, Exposes Details of Manhunt in Real-Time
The texts were sent to a group called “Mass Text” and show ICE using DMV and license plate reader data in an attempt to find their target, copi...
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As artificial intelligence takes jobs from office workers, drivers and others, where is the fabled universal income that was promised as part of an AI utopia? [@WSJ](
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Russia restricts calls via WhatsApp and Telegram, the latest step to control the internet. [@AssociatedPress](
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Russia restricts calls via WhatsApp and Telegram, the latest step to control the internet
Russian authorities have announced partial restrictions on calls in messaging apps Telegram and WhatsApp. This is part of a long-standing effort to...
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A new study from two researchers at the University of Amsterdam looks at what makes social media so terrible — and found that it's not algorithms, non-chronological feeds or humans' tendency to seek out negativity. "Rather, the dynamics that give rise to all those negative outcomes are structurally embedded in the very architecture of social media. So we're probably doomed to endless toxic feedback loops unless someone hits upon a brilliant fundamental redesign that manages to change those dynamics," writes @Ars Technica's @npub1u7g7...72fa. She spoke with Dr. Petter Törnberg, one of the study's authors, to learn more.
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Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed
The [structural] mechanism producing these problematic outcomes is really robust and hard to resolve."
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Inside Silicon Valley’s growing obsession with having smarter babies, from [@WSJ](
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New proposed government rules could hasten the use of delivery drones in the U.S. [@AssociatedPress](
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Delivery drones may soon take off in the US. Here's why
Delivery drones are supposed to be fast, yet the long-promised technology has been slow to take off in the United States.
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Less than a week after demanding his resignation, President Donald Trump is now calling the career of Intel’s CEO an “amazing story.” [@AssociatedPress](
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Trump says Intel CEO has an 'amazing story' days after calling for his resignation
Less than a week after President Donald Trump called for the resignation of Intel’s CEO, shares of the chipmaker are rising after Trump said he h...
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Maybe it’s Mars, maybe it’s … Nevada? A 360-degree panorama taken by the Perseverance Rover on Mars looks a lot like many of Earth’s rocky desert landscapes. There is a slight color contrast, however. [@ScienceAlert](
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Mars Looks Strangely Familiar in Stunning New Panorama
With just a splash of color, the red planet's horizons can look remarkably like our own – blue skies and all.
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