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- Google uses the code and reasoning capabilities of LLMs to replicate human behavior and identify and demonstrate security vulnerabilities. The "Naptime" name refers to software engineers being allowed to take naps while the software helped to solve problems.
- Powerful creative tools such as generative artificial intelligence have led to concerns that video and audio content can be easily manipulated to spread misinformation and propaganda.
- While Americans generally value the idea of press freedom, they are more divided over the issue of protecting a free press or preventing the spread of misinformation.
- Two Microsoft researchers set out to determine whether or not developers could make large language models unlearn any part of the data they have been trained on.
- About 10,000 of 50,000 channels presenting themselves as CTV channels were found to consist of content such as ad-supported screensavers, white noise generators, game channels and mobile apps posing as CTV.
- Combating accusations of fake news, falling ad revenue and lack of staffing are the biggest concerns of journalists worldwide.
- The study indicates that the structure of social platforms such as Facebook reward users for continually sharing information, and finds that posting and sharing with others on social media can become a habit.
- More than half of voters said they're extremely concerned about biased media, but there are differences among people from different political affiliations.
- Colab made it easier to create deepfakes, with forums to discuss and learn how to create images, but Google's restriction is expected to strongly impact the process.
- When we asked a second question about the liability for advertisers, there was more of a disconnect.
- The Republican party's kibosh on future presidential debates is ironic, given how important free speech is to its members. Misinformation, not so much.
- "The vast majority of the sites spreading election misinformation a year ago have continued to promote the narrative that the election was not legitimate, while defending, downplaying, or redirecting blame for the riot," NewsGuard's analysts note in the new report.
- 81% of the 113 U.S. websites known to have spread election misinformation following the 2020 presidential election still do, according to NewsGuard, a media watchdog.
- Media veracity watchdog NewsGuard published its annual list of best and worst informers of the year, including the top 10 "misinformers" generating the most engagement.
- OpenWeb on Thursday announced a partnership with NewsGuard to help OpenWeb combat disinformation and ensure it only partners with publishers publishing quality, reliable news.
- Pew's analysis covers areas including privacy, on-platform abuse and Republicans' and Democrats' differing views on Twitter's major issues and overall impact on democracy.
- Facebook's major rebrand to Meta is distracting. Media Matters for America, a nonprofit media watchdog, wants the public to be aware of what the Facebook Papers made clear just days ago: the social media platform puts profits ahead of ethics.
- A report by The Center for Countering Digital Hate estimates advertisers have paid Facebook up to $140,667 to run "abortion reversal" ads since Jan. 2020. Facebook has a policy banning ads that promote "inappropriate, illegal, or unsafe" products and services to minors.
- It's little surprise that programmatic advertising underwrites lots of nefarious activities, including ad fraud, organized crime and publishers of misinformation. But who knew it was all being funded by legitimate advertisers? NewsGuard did.
- "We're on the verge of having platforms and companies so powerful and so influential in the political process that they're ungovernable," Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer told Bloomberg. He expects Congress to pass legislation to rein in big tech companies.
- I only ask because I'm growing weary of the harangue of Fox News "media relations" execs kvetching when I express my views that advertisers are culpable in all the damage the network does because they provide the financial support for Fox News to do it.
- Should social media and search engines lean on AI to determine whether news informs or misinforms? Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suggests AI can help readers make better judgements to correctly identify fake news, but only on breaking stories and when the reader has not yet formed an opinion.
- As 2020 comes to an end, will next year return to a more balanced sense of reality? You know, one based on facts, not divisive demagoguery?
- Combating conspiracy theories and removing dangerously misleading content has been daunting during the 2020 election period for tech firms.
- A startling insight from Ipsos suggests many Americans won't accept the outcome of next week's election because they come from another planet: Fox News.
- Cloned versions of banks such as HSBC and Paragon Bank as well as global media sites experienced major losses and fake news this year.
- After years of calling America's major news outlets "fake news," the President's own TV news brand has actually crumbled, while a first-time benchmark for Democratic opponent Joe Biden comes in at nearly four times the incumbent's level, but nonetheless half of what the major TV network news brands yield. The unique analysis, which is conducted by independent brand researcher Brand Keys, assesses the degree to which trust plays a role in valuing news brands. Since Brand Keys began tracking it for MediaPost in 2018, it has looked at both print and TV news brands, and has also tracked the President within that.
- Research by Channel 4 not only shows that its viewing figures are up, particularly among the young, but also shows that tv is more trusted for COVID-19 news. "The Drum" reveals the research shows the least trusted channel is social media, where nearly two in three have seen fake news surrounding the pandemic.
- Most consumers worldwide said the media they use are contaminated with untrustworthy information.
- Publishers of journalism worldwide give the highest marks to Twitter for combating misinformation and/or disinformation, according to the 2020 edition of an annual study by the Reuters Institute and the University of Oxford.
