The X account of the Securities and Exchange Commission announced the approval of an investment product linked to Bitcoin. It wasn’t true.
Category: Social Media
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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 a pullback in social media protections.
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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 of her voice suggested otherwise.
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TikTok Quietly Curtails Data Tool Used by Critics
People and groups had harnessed the tool to scrutinize content on the site related to the Israel-Hamas war and other topics.
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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 material. It’s already happening on the anonymous message board 4chan.
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Switching to a Flip Phone Helped Me Cut Down on My Smartphone Addiction
Was it inconvenient? Yes. Did T9 texting drive me crazy? Definitely. Was it worth doing? Absolutely.
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Happy Puppies and Silly Geese: Using A.I. to Push the Limits of Absurdity
A recent update to ChatGPT made it easier to create images. It wasn’t long before some began pushing the chatbot to its limits.
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The Man Who Destroys $3,000 Handbags on the Internet
Under the handle Tanner Leatherstein, Volkan Yilmaz rips, burns and slices apart luxury goods to show how much he thinks they are really worth.
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What’s ‘In’ for 2024? In-and-Out Lists, Apparently.
In the final days of 2023, social media was overrun with tongue-in-cheek predictions for the year ahead from regular people moonlighting as professional prognosticators.
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SpaceX Illegally Fired Workers Critical of Musk, NLRB Says
The National Labor Relations Board said the rocket company had wrongly dismissed eight people for a letter raising concerns about the chief executive.
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Tales of the Black Underworld Fuel Rap. ValTown Recounts Them.
ValTown, an account on X and other social media platforms, spotlights gangs and drug kingpins of the 1980s and 1990s — and how crime and celebrity often intersect.
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12 Predictions for the Trends We’ll See in 2024
Here are 12 guesses.