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Riding Rage Over Israel to Online Prominence
Jackson Hinkle’s incendiary commentary has generated over two million new followers on X since October —...
An A.I. Researcher Takes On Election Deepfakes
Oren Etzioni was once an optimist about artificial intelligence. Now, his nonprofit, TrueMedia.org, is offering tools...
China’s Advancing Efforts to Influence the U.S. Election Raise Alarms
China has adopted some of the same misinformation tactics that Russia used ahead of the 2016...
Russia Amps Up Online Campaign Against Ukraine Before U.S. Elections
Moscow has found better ways to conceal influence operations that spread arguments for isolationism, officials and...
Kate Middleton, Britney Spears and the Online Trolls Doubting Their Existence
Whether it is just for kicks or propelled by genuine doubt, the unsupported claims about celebrities...
From Russia, Elaborate Tales of Fake Journalists
As the Ukraine war grinds on, the Kremlin has created increasingly complex fabrications online to discredit...
Supreme Court Wary of Limiting Government Contact With Social Media Companies
The justices tried to distinguish between persuading social media sites to take down posts, which is...
Shafiqah Hudson, Who Fought Trolls on Social Media, Dies at 46
When the hashtag #EndFathersDay began trending on Twitter, she realized it was more than a joke....
Fake and Explicit Images of Taylor Swift Started on 4chan, Study Says
The people on 4chan who created the images of Ms. Swift thought of it as a...
Fake Explicit Taylor Swift Images Swamp Social Media
Fans of the star and lawmakers condemned the images, probably generated by artificial intelligence, after they...
No, Taylor Swift no está vendiendo ollas Le Creuset
El supuesto patrocinio de Swift a los productos de la empresa, que ha aparecido en anuncios...
Elections and Disinformation Are Colliding Like Never Before in 2024
A wave of elections coincides with state influence operations, a surge of extremism, A.I. advances and...
No, That’s Not Taylor Swift Peddling Le Creuset Cookware
The singer did not promote a giveaway of the popular cookware, but an artificially generated version...
Dark Corners of the Web Offer a Glimpse at A.I.’s Nefarious Future
In the hands of anonymous internet users, A.I. tools can create waves of harassing and racist...