Category «Social Media»

New York Times, Washington Post compete with meme accounts for chance to be first with big headline

NiemanLab: “The ways people hear about big news these days; “into a million pieces,” says source. It’s not often that massive political news breaks on a Sunday afternoon — especially one in steamy late July, the leading edge of the Greater August vacation season. But break news Joe Biden most certainly did with this tweet …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Social Media

NewsGuard Launches 2024 Paris Olympics Misinformation Tracking Center

“…To date, NewsGuard’s team has identified and is tracking 14 misinformation narratives relating to the 2024 Paris Olympics  in 13 languages: Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish. The claims have spread on social media as well as on 31 unreliable news and information websites.  Sixteen of the 31 sites have …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

A week of nonstop breaking political news stumps AI chatbots

Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “In the hour after President Biden announced he would withdraw from the 2024 campaign on Sunday, most popular AI chatbots seemed oblivious to the news. Asked directly whether he had dropped out, almost all said no or declined to give an answer. Asked who was running for president of the United States, …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Search Engines, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 20, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 20, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: Courts, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Commerce, E-Records, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

USPS shared customer postal addresses with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap

“The U.S. Postal Service was sharing the postal addresses of its online customers with advertising and tech giants Meta, LinkedIn and Snap, TechCrunch has found. On Wednesday, the USPS said it addressed the issue and stopped the practice, claiming that it was “unaware” of it. TechCrunch found USPS was sharing customers’ information by way of …

Subjects: E-Commerce, E-Mail, E-Records, Privacy, Social Media

Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attempt

2024 U.S. ELECTIONS RAPID RESEARCH BLOG This is part of an ongoing series of rapid research blog posts and rapid research analysis about the 2024 U.S. elections from the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Key Takeaways After the assassination attempt on presidential candidate Donald Trump, people converged online to make sense of available …

Subjects: AI, Congress, Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 13, 2024

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 13, 2024 – Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex …

Subjects: AI, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media, Transportation

TikTok Content Farms Use AI Voiceovers to Mass-Produce Political Misinformation

“In September 2023, NewsGuard identified what appeared to be the first of its kind: a network of 17 TikTok accounts using AI text-to-speech software to create videos advancing conspiracy theories about celebrities, amassing hundreds of millions of views. Now, the phenomenon appears to be growing and shifting its focus to politics. NewsGuard has identified 41 …

Subjects: AI, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Social Media

Search everywhere optimization: 7 platforms SEOs need to optimize for beyond Google

Search Engine Land: “It’s “search everywhere optimization.” This means that, as organic search strategists, we must take more ownership to optimize beyond Google. Search is more fractured than ever, so people turn to places beyond Google to find what they need. My agency has access to a wealth of proprietary and client data and we’re …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketing, Search Engines, Social Media