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Nonilex

…Even before Jair #Bolsonaro was charged in February with a plot to violently cling to power after his 2022 election loss, #Moraes had emerged as an adversary of #Trump allies for his judicial campaign against #misinformation on #socialmedia. Moraes has ordered the takedown of more than 100 accounts, alleging they violated Brazilian #law. Trump & his allies have accused him of violating the free speech rights of users in US territory.

#justice#felon47#judiciary
Aaron

Google is so hellbent on stealing intellectual property so that websites don't get clicks that it actively increases #misinformation

When I searched for "air india fuel shutoff automated" in order to see if there had been any developments on this, Google's scraped answer made it seem like a conclusion about the Air India flight already found this.

However I'd already read this article so I knew that the scraped text was about a different flight.

Many people don't click, though.

Bích-Mây Nguyễn :verified:

"While Kennedy lambastes federal agencies he says are overly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry, he and some other figures of the 'Make America Healthy Again,' or MAHA, movement — such as siblings Calley and Casey Means, Robert Malone, and Peter McCullough — have their own financial ties to a vast and largely unregulated $6.3 trillion global wellness industry they also support and promote."

kffhealthnews.org/news/article

KFF Health NewsVested Interests. Influence Muscle. At RFK Jr.’s HHS, It’s Not Pharma. It’s Wellness. - KFF Health NewsHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lambasted federal agencies he accused of being overly influenced by the pharmaceutical industry. But he and other “Make America Healthy Again” notables have their own financial ties to the vast and largely unregulated $6.3 trillion global wellness industry that ethicists say raise red flags.
#healthcare#PublicHealth#MAHA
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"It's hard to say exactly when these AI obituaries first began appearing, but they've clearly exploded in the past year.

NewsGuard, a misinformation watchdog that tracks AI content, identified just 49 sites as "unreliable AI-generated news sites" with little human oversight when it started tracking them in May 2023. That number stands at 1,200 today.

"A lot of the sites are specific and focused solely on creating obituaries, whereas others are just basic content farms that publish a range of content," says McKenzie Sadeghi, NewsGuard's AI and Foreign Influence editor.

I found more than 20 websites publishing AI obituaries while researching this story, but I got the sense that the true number was much higher — and impossible to definitively capture. They seemed to come and go in rapid succession. One day I'd see one on a domain like deltademocrattimes.space; the next day it would redirect to a page of cascading popups that crashed my browser.

Joshua Braun, an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who studies profit-driven hoaxes, tells me that the goal for spam sites isn't just to get eyes on ads — it's also to camouflage bot traffic that's used to drive up page views.

"When it comes to taking in ad revenue, drawing real visitors is part of the game, but a lot of it is also pumping in fake traffic," he says. "Drawing enough human visitors would throw off the detection mechanisms that might otherwise take note of all the automated traffic."

Sometimes, the people being memorialized aren't even real. Scheirer tells me he first became aware of AI obituaries a couple years ago when he began seeing classmates he didn't recognize on a page for alumni from his high school."

cnet.com/tech/services-and-sof

CNETDigital Grave-Robbing: How AI Is Plundering Online ObituariesThe rush to monetize grief leads to the creation of AI obituaries, turning personal loss into clickbait and exposing the dark side of online memorials.
#OnlineObituaries#AI#GenerativeAI
gualdo :privacypride: :cc:

Per alcuni gli #LLM sono gli oracoli digitali: si chiede e si hanno risposte

Uno studio di AI4TRUST ha dimostrato che #GPT-4o, #Gemini, #Llama e #Grok hanno fornito il 100% di risposte sbagliate a domande relative alla salute

I prompt erano costruiti per favorire l’errore, ma gli LLM non hanno applicato sistemi di controllo e verifica, rivelandosi inattendibili

Uno scenario ideale per gli agenti della #disinformazione

#AI#Bigtech#disinformation
Mark

5 ways the New York Times fails its readers in its most recent piece about #Russia’s #war

It also:

- Twists the narrative

- Stays mute on the factors that led to #Ukraine's #incursion into Russia two and a half years after #RussiaInvadedUkraine

- Doesn’t mention the #civilian toll of the ongoing #aggression

- Legitimizes a #terrorist organization

- Blames the #victim for #self-defense

kyivindependent.com/five-ways-

The Kyiv Independent · 5 ways the New York Times fails its readers in its most recent piece about Russia’s warBy The Kyiv Independent
#misinformation#HybridWar#NYT
Mark

Beneath the #problematic surface, New York Times’ #Kursk reporting reveals a deeper moral rot

At the end of the day, this is just a very simple question of #moral fiber.

As a flagship Western #media outlet, in a country that has long been the center of the free world – but is now facing a moral crisis of its own – The New York Times has an inherent duty to #document these #historic events with some level of moral grounding.

kyivindependent.com/beneath-th

The Kyiv Independent · Beneath the problematic surface, the New York Times’ Kursk reporting reveals a deeper moral rotBy Francis Farrell
#NYT#journalism#HybridWar
Kyiv Independent Daily Headlines

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

He wants to take all of it: Putin reportedly told Trump he’ll intensify eastern Ukraine offensive over next 2 months — [w/video] Ukraine’s new Liut ground drone ‘destroys’ Russian position with machine gun — Ukraine contracts ‘tens of thousands’ interceptor drones — Denmark to provide European-produced satellite communication services to Ukraine’s military … and more

activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025

#adolescence#aerialattacks#agriculture
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NewsGuard, the company that rates how reliable online information is with "nutrition labels," is retiring the words "misinformation" and "disinformation," saying they no longer help explain the threats they describe. "[They are] vague, overused, and increasingly seen as partisan. When everything is 'disinformation,' nothing is, and public trust continues to disintegrate," says a blogpost from AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi, who explains more about NewsGuard's rationale, and what terms they will be using in the future.

flip.it/7yTDjO

NewsGuard's Reality Check · Commentary: Why We’re Moving Beyond “Misinformation” and “Disinformation”By NewsGuard
#Misinformation#Disinformation#News
Headlines Africa

Africa: Deepfake Alert - Ai-Generated Video Falsely Portrays Well-Known Health Expert Criticising Covid-19 Vaccines: [Africa Check] IN SHORT: A video circulating on Facebook appears to show South African epidemiologist Salim Abdool Karim stoking fear about Covid vaccines in a TV news interview. But the video is a deepfake, and the falsely attributed claim has been widely debunked. newsfeed.facilit8.network/TLr5 #Deepfake #Covid19 #Vaccines #HealthExpert #Misinformation

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