It’s very frustrating because you have to work hard to avoid having it pushed on you.
Tag: the internet of fakes
Youtube is slipping in unwanted AI editing in people’s uploads that become Youtube Shorts.
Why? Why do they have to force this AI stuff in everywhere?
Youtube allows ads that make a really great argument for the government to crack down on this stuff.
These bonkers eyeglasses commercials aren’t even the worst commercials I’ve seen on Youtube, but a lot of these ads are great arguments for government regulation that’s unfortunately not happening. Ever since I was getting new glasses recently, which involved a multiple trips to eye care over a couple of months in order to get it […]
Ghost health insurance plans.
Spread the word about sketchy health insurance! You never know who in your life might be buying health insurance and walk ass-backwards into one of these hustles. Health insurance plans tied to fake jobs. Self-employed, small business owners and people in the gig economy are getting ripped off when they think they’re buying health insurance […]
Pulling back the curtain on fake testimonials.
“More Google Review Extortion” because this channel has multiple examples of evidence of extortion operations using google reviews.
It’s good if the Jeffrey Epstein files debacle leads to more people learning about inauthentic persuasion on social media.
The split in MAGA over the Jeffrey Epstein Files issue has led to chatbot programmed troll farm accounts in a social media botnet to start putting out confusing and conflicting posts.
PA Gov. Shapiro to summit with Trump and Dave McCormick, to push power plants motivated by AI hype fabricated demand and to shut out locals from what happens in our neighborhoods.
These boondoggles to build the data centers for the AI investment bubble seems at its root a reason to keep burning more fossil fuels.
Check it out before you send a check – or cash app, or whatever.
Beware new exciting people bursting onto your internet scene with an uncanny amount in common with you…
Anyone citing pandemic profiteering anonymous accounts on the app formerly known as twitter should stop.
Anonymous covid influencer accounts on “X” (twitter) who post affiliate links to bogus & junk covid products should be dumped as information sources of any kind.
Online troll farm mercenaries to be hired by US government to police speech online.
There are operatives celebrating a boon in their job market.
Yes, shadowbanning is real.
It’s probably happening on all the platforms, and most people probably don’t even know it’s happening to them.
The information zombies of pandemic misinformation.
There are things that have stuck with people from the beginning of the pandemic when we didn’t know much, and science & clinical information on covid was new, but we need to move with the times.
No social media platform is a safe space – people need to diversify.
I’ve been saying this for years, that people are foolish if there’s only one social media platform where they say something or publish important information. But even among the people who’ve heard me, most have never listened to me. I think mainly because people fall in love with a platform, they are habit forming. They […]
Community notes is not freedom and social media algorithms do not make for a community center.
Almost any flawed org, coffee klatch, or chat group is going to have more social ROI and less disinformation than mixing it up with fake accounts and targeted marketing on the big platforms.
Stephen Miller behind a lawsuit for an anti-vax activist seeking to silence internet researchers.
“a remarkably unprecedented state of affairs like that is an astonishing breach of norms”
The problem with going to social media for “information”.
Yes, this is something I hear about regularly, people saying how they’re relying on social media sources for “good information” and seeking it nowhere else.
Trickle down economics – the trick tycoons just can’t pull off.
The “bringing the jobs” stuff is insulting people into early graves, but the power consumption inequality may be what finishes off a lot of humans.
Communities have been, and continue to be, manipulated.
Public health isn’t about a niche group with special or secret practices, and community care shouldn’t be gate kept away from people who for whatever reason haven’t been afforded information or opportunity.
“Behind the scenes” hopium peddling needs to stop.
Savior syndrome, normalcy bias, and apocalyptic hopium, it’s all a bamboozle.
Online troll armies in service to business and political interests.
This is a real thing on The Internet of Fakes.
Neera Tanden’s missteps and the disability justice information space.
A reputation that was never that great. Neera Tanden has been accused of Hatch Act violations while working at the White House. This embarrassment is not unexpected sadly. Government Executive – Senior White House official violated the Hatch Act, OSC says A filing with the Merit Systems Protection Board alleges that Biden’s domestic policy advisor […]