"A team of Israeli contractors who claim to have manipulated more than 30 elections around the world using hacking, sabotage and automated disinformation on social media has been exposed in a new investigation." theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…
"Hanan told the undercover reporters that his services, which others describe as “black ops”, were available to intelligence agencies, political campaigns and private companies that wanted to secretly manipulate public opinion." amp-theguardian-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.thegua…
"He said they had been used across Africa, South and Central America, the US and Europe."
🎙️There were two hearings on Capitol Hill this week that addressed claims of "censorship" by Republicans animated by the Twitter Files. I discussed the questions raised with Shoshana Weissmann (@senatorshoshana),@DarrenLinvill and Mike Masnick (@mmasnick): techpolicy.press/evaluating-cri…
Twitter API Changes Set to Disrupt Public Interest Research
Independent researchers, journalists, NGOs and civil society groups are scrambling to figure out what's next if the API is cut off on Thursday: techpolicy.press/twitter-api-ch…
Concerns in the research community follow an announcement from Twitter last week.
While @elonmusk believes he is targeting "scammers & opinion manipulators," one researcher told me “many bot creators on the black market use simulated Android systems to control the Twitter client directly to access their bot accounts these days."
My conversation with Michael Running Wolf (@Obnoxious_Wolf), a computer scientist and indigenous AI ethicist about the implications of generative AI systems like Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT: techpolicy.press/an-indigenous-…