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Google Maps, the Fraud Frontier
It’s the wild, wild west. Why has Google Maps, “plagued by fake reviews, ghost listings, lead generation schemes and impersonators,” barely begun to fight back? These online volunteers fight fake...
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Academic Journalism?
Three academic scholars prove once again that you can’t trust academic journalism, especially when it comes to “grievance studies”. From Vinay Menon in The Star: “They are self-described liberals. They...
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Shooting Fish in a Barrel for Profit
This pathetic story oozes with irony. h/t Felipe & Eli ‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America by Eli Saslow Washington Post November 17, 2018 Christopher Blair, 46,...
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The Best Defense Against a Bad Guy With a Bot
During the 2016 US election cycle, artificial intelligence was wildly successful at spreading lies and propaganda. These researchers suggest weaponizing better bots and aiming them in the opposite...
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Deep Fakes: Down the Horrifying Rabbit Hole
On the topic of our tenuous collective relationship with the concept formerly known as “truth,” this examination of “deep fakes,” high-tech simulated video recordings of people you recognize doing...
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Reality: Now Faker Than Ever
In a brilliant and dizzying end-of-year rant, Max Read takes stock of how much of our digital world is constructed from weapons-grade fraud, deception, nonsense, hokum, and miscellaneous bullshit. “How...
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Michael Cohen, Idle Worship
When vanity gets the best of you… 11 Tweets From The Fake Fan Account ‘Stud’ Michael Cohen Paid To Fawn Over Him by Lee Moran HuffPost January 18, 2019 Michael Cohen reportedly hired an IT company to...
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Political Prank Topples the Austrian Government. Joey Skaggs Swears He Didn’t...
Joey Skaggs visited Vienna, Austria, in June. Coincidentally, a surreptitiously filmed video had just been released showing the far-right Freedom Party’s leader and then vice chancellor of the Austrian...
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Be Aware: The Age of DeepFakes is Upon Us
This must-see “DeepFake” video transforms Bill Hader, when he was on Late Night with David Letterman, into Tom Cruise before your very eyes. Watch the video: Bill Hader channels Tom Cruise [DeepFake],...
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Fake News, Fake Fans: We’re All Faked Out
David Strom reports on his Web Informant blog about two interesting studies: one from researchers at Oxford about how ubiquitous global disinformation and social media manipulation has become, and the...
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BP or Not BP: Be Wary of Petroleum Based Companies Bearing Gifts
The art activism group BP or not BP is planning a “Trojan Horse” action for November 23 at the British Museum to protest arts organizations that take oil funding. The public is invited. Anti-Oil...
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New York Subway Poster Promotes the Real Rudy Giuliani
How the mighty have fallen. h/t Nancy NYC subway riders greeted by ad hyping ‘crazy’ Rudy Giuliani’s law offices: ‘Will work when drunk!’ by Michael Elsen-Roonet and Chris Sommerfeldt New York Daily...
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To Trump You’re a Moving Target
Want to be “micro-targeted” by the Trump campaign? Just make a donation and they’ll handle the rest. Trump campaign says it can track your phone by Matt Binder Mashable September 26, 2019 President...
View ArticleSacha Baron Cohen Brilliantly Calls Out Social Media For Spreading Hate
On November 21, 2019, in accepting the Anti Defamation League’s (ADL) International Leadership Award, Sacha Baron Cohen shamed social media networks that, under the guise of freedom of speech, allow...
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Always Check Your Sources Before You Get Outraged
“Ghostwriter” global disinformation campaign takes aim at NATO Hackers post fake stories on real news sites ‘to discredit Nato’, BBC News, July 30, 2020 Hackers have broken into real news websites and...
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The Writing’s on the Wall
Read a Trump lie on air at Radio Free Brooklyn and help promote voter registration. Wall of Lies A public art project displaying more than 20,000 Trump lies with voter registration drive October 3rd –...
View ArticleRe-framing Russian Farming
Russian technology has come a long way… RUSSIAN CYBERPUNK FARM “They say that Russia is a technically backward country, there are no roads, robotics do not develop, rockets do not fly, and mail goes...
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It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. It’s a… What?
It’s not Casper the Friendly Ghost! ‘Flying Aliens’ Harassing Village in Peru Are Actually Illegal Miners With Jetpacks, Cops Say, by Nathaniel Janowitz, Vice, August 14, 2023 Authorities announced...
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The Battle of Burning Disinformation
A war with never ending ammunition. Ukraine’s fight against disinformation is creating a new startup sector, by Thomas Macaulay, thenextweb.com, September 6, 2023 Counter-disinformation is a growing...
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The High Cost of Dissent in Russia
Droplifting–adding objects or messages to store shelves to make a political statement–is treated as a minor irritant in the United States. Placing 5 labels protesting Russia’s war against Ukraine on...
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