Researchers at the University of Southern California say they found evidence of thousands of X and Telegram accounts working together to artificially popularize right-wing narratives.
Influence groups coordinate to share specific content in order to create the appearance of widespread grassroots support for a given idea or opinion. Those artificially heightened engagement numbers then tell the social platform’s algorithm to distribute the content even more widely.
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YouTube’s advertising revenue has yet to reach a ceiling in its exponential growth. In Alphabet’s recent earnings call, the company claimed $8.9 billion in quarterly revenue from YouTube ads alone. At this rate, YouTube ads revenue could match that of the entire broadcast advertising industry for 2024.
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The cofounder of B Lab, the global nonprofit that came up with the B Corp certification for accountable, sustainable, and transparent companies, believes that OpenAI should sign up to its system and dedicate itself to becoming more responsible.
Andrew Kassoy tells Fast Company that as the leader of the AI revolution, the makers
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As the United States gears up for another Presidential election, government agencies face a daunting challenge that extends far beyond the ballot box. While elections signify the democratic process at work, they also represent one of the largest predictable instances of high employee turnover in the public sector. This mass transition of power and personnel creates a perfect storm for potential data breaches, threatening the int
Google is an incredibly powerful search engine, but many users aren’t tapping into its full potential. And with nearly limitless results on any given topic, effective searching is about being specific and using the right tools for the job.
Here are several tricks to help you refine your searches and find exactly what you’re looking for more efficiently.
Someone tracking the conflict raging in the Middle East could have seen the following two videos on social media. The first shows a little boy hovering over his father’s dead body, whimpering in Arabic, “Don’t leave me.” The second purports to show a pregnant woman with her abdomen slashed open and claims to document the testimony of a paramedic who handled victims’ bodies after Hamas’s attack in Israel on October 7, 2023.
Even though these videos come from different sides of the I
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Our digital activity, including our most private interactions and conversation, is constantly monitored and tracked. For Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, this is a break from human communication throughout history, and is not needed or wanted. Recorded live at the 2024 Masters of Scale Summit in San Francisco, Whittaker tackl