Dead man walking

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🙀Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them

｢ what we're actually seeing is fear mongering, which exaggerates the potential of the technology and serves to boost stock prices. And it encourages a narrative that regulators must stand aside, because these AI companies are the only ones who can stop the bad guys and build this technology responsibly ｣

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260428-ai-companies-want-you-to-be-afraid-of-them

#ai #doomerism #disinfo

My personal 9 questions before believing anything.

SOURCE — primary or secondary?
NORMALIZATION — duplicate or original?
EVENT vs NARRATIVE — fact or interpretation?
ACTORS — who communicates, who benefits?
INCENTIVES — cui bono?
MANIPULATION — fear, urgency, vague sources?
CROSS-CHECK — independent or just repeated?
SCORING — relevant, reliable, distorted?
DECISION — ignore, monitor, investigate.
news → opinion. or news → analysis → decision.
#MediaLiteracy #Disinfo #Privacy #InfoSec

Kid Cudi tosses controversial co-headliner from his #RebelRagers comeback tour after #MAGAT Sri Lankan Tamil heritage rapper who dated Diplo and had a child with a Canadian Seagram$ scion, has become problematic for fans. Concert goers became particularly upset about onstage rants, pronouncements and polarizing politics decrying "illegals".

in recent years, after her 2010 breaktru hit #PaperPlanes , M.I.A. flipped off #NFL #SuperBowl XLVI halftime viewers onstage, and eventually evolved into an #AntiVax crusader spreading #disinfo about Covid-19 and sold a line of anti-5G clothing via #AlexJones #InfoWars . Her career has commercially stalled, particularly since leaving a 2012 management deal with Jay-Z's Roc Nation and a 2017 conversion to Christianity, while displaying Kanye-esque stances and evolving from anti-Trump to becoming a non US citizen who virulently supports #DJT.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/maga-rapper-mia-kicked-off-tour-after-texas-crowd-booed-her-down/

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/kid-cudi-drops-m-tour-174258891.html

"The challenge is no longer only to correct the public record, but to intervene in the private, communal and relational flows where falsehoods often take hold before they become visible to institutions."

For Poynter, Laura Zommer and Natalia Colombo discuss how journalistic fact-checking could and should evolve in this day and age:

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https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2026/fact-checking-has-to-go-where-misinformation-actually-spreads/

#misinfo #disinfo #factchecking

How to prove you're a human

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