Jamie Duke’s life as she knew it ended three and a half years ago. That’s when her doctor delivered the news that would change everything: She had breast cancer. Her mother had just passed away; now on top of the grief, she was terrified…
Since the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in 2021, fake news on social media has been widely blamed for low vaccine uptake in the United States—but research by MIT Sloan School of Management Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Allen and Professor…
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Tech giant Meta just published its yearly ‘Widely Viewed Content Report’ for the Facebook app. This means we finally get to see what was trending on the platform during Q4 of last year. The report is designed to give the world an up-close…
Tech giant Meta is constantly faced with threats of fake accounts from all over the place and according to the company’s latest inauthentic behavior report, such ordeals continue to run high as we speak. Facebook’s parent firm just caught…
It’s dictating people’s lives. One person scheduled surgery to maximize trial-watching time. Another sweats through boot camp with his phone in front of his mat. The case has become “my entire personality,” said another.
How the Integrity Institute, a nonprofit founded by two ex-Facebook staff to help tech companies create more welcoming spaces, lost control of its own culture — Two ex-Facebook employees founded the nonprofit Integrity Institute to clean…
Meta removed hundreds of Facebook accounts linked to influence campaigns from China, Israel, Iran, and others, some of which used AI to generate disinformation — Meta, the parent of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has seen threat actors…
“I don’t have time, life is stressful, if you’re talking to me for morning, I’m already billing you for evening, if you don’t have the money, then you go."
The network of accounts likely used generative AI tools to create text for comments left on posts from media publications and public figures, Meta said.
Amarillo is getting creative in ways that we get to address different concerns in our area. Thanks to good ol' social media we are getting our fair share of outlets to let it all out. Our social media groups are a way to share what could…