Duncan StephenFrom answer engines to learning engines — Why fast answers are like fast food
People crave fast answers. But the purpose of information systems is to help people gain knowledge. So we should seek better questions.
❄️SnowyIn❄️ 🇨🇦🚫🦻⚠️ Fake news for dummies 🗞️ 📰 🛑
Check It Out
The “Check It Out” database is a collection of useful tools and initiatives to learn about online disinformation: what it is, how it spreads and how to counter it.
Use the filters below to sort out the initiatives by country, type, target audience and platforms addressed!
#News #Disinformation #Malinformation #Misinformation
#Democracy #Elections #Hate
#Resist
Martin NuttyHow are we to understand the Information Disordered Landscape created by #SocialMedia ?
Is Western Democracy being degraded by #algorithms ?
Excellent conversation hosted by Peter Geoghan of #DemocracyForSale, in conversation with Eliot Higgins of @Bellingcat
NAFO CathyRFK Jr
His fake CDC website
Don't be fooled
#Malinformation
Weekend reads: Inside mass resignations; Ukraine’s “stolen institutions”; federal U.S. cuts hit journal subscriptions
A second article describing new pain syndrome under scrutiny Kidney researcher debarred from federal U.S. funding for image manipulation Why do nearly 45,000 scholarly papers cite themselves? Cureu…
Mickaël Réault🧠 L’importance d’une information de #qualité
Une #information pertinente permet d’anticiper les changements et d’adapter sa stratégie, que ce soit à titre individuel ou collectif. Elle aide à prendre des décisions réfléchies, en évitant les biais liés à l'emballement médiatique, la mésinformation, la #malinformation ou la désinformation.
Pauline Bourmeau (old account)Behind the scenes hackers and coders have been raising the alarm about the
privacy risks (reality, not a risk) of the use of commercial tools to access LLM'z, pushing themselves hard to provide advice and code to companies - at the cost of their sleep for the vast majority, under the pressure of management, in order for these companies to enter the market of "AI" to make profits at the cost of our security.
It makes me sad that today the majority of publication about #deepseek, (which is released in Opensource) availability turns around threats on privacy while our infosec community's work has been ignored for now more than two years. The topic of privacy will circulate on social networks to be ignored in a couple of weeks (I am optimistic), pushed out by another topic about LLM, eluding again the fact that any company can run its own models locally on dedicated servers.
Bests,
katzenberger 🇺🇦In 2025, it might be a good idea to install "Who wrote that?" now, a browser add-on by @wikimediafoundation
It adds a link "Who wrote that?" under "Tools", on every #Wikipedia page. If you click it, the revision history for the respective page is scanned in the background, and you get tooltips giving you #author info for every piece of text, plus highlighting of the other parts of the page they also edited.
I believe you know why you might want this.
Currently works for the following Wikipedia languages: AR, DE, EN, ES, EU, FR, HU, ID, IT, JA, NL, PL, PT, TR.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Who_Wrote_That%3F
#misinformation #disinformation #malinformation #VanityEditing
BecA reminder:
IF IT ISN'T DELIBERATE and the bad info is RETRACTED OR UPDATED, it's #Misinformation.
IF IT IS DELIBERATE, it is #Disinformation.
IF IT IS INFORMATION REMOVED FROM IT'S ORIGINAL CONTEXT, it is #Malinformation.
Disinformation and malinformation are anti-meaning and destructive.
Misinformation is based on ignorance & misunderstanding and then acknowledged, retracted and / or updated.
Feilner ITJohns Hopkins Univ. : BIAS helps in making quick decisions. Being well-informed makes that harder and decision-taking takes longer - a critical aspect in evolution.
"illusion of adequate information" is the BIAS that makes people THINK they are well-informed. Not being well-informed is an evolutionary advantage.
#fakenews #malinformation #ignorance #misinformation #bias
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/wissen/verzerrte-selbsteinschaetzung-was-zu-einer-starken-meinung-fuehrt,US09vD6
"illusion of adequate information" is the BIAS that makes people THINK they are well-informed. Not being well-informed is an evolutionary advantage.
#fakenews #malinformation #ignorance #misinformation #bias
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/wissen/verzerrte-selbsteinschaetzung-was-zu-einer-starken-meinung-fuehrt,US09vD6
Jörg Honegger 
🇺🇦Von #StiftungFuture3 #Future3 und #ValentinePython, #Klimatologin (Dr. #EPFL), #Geografin und ehemalige Nationalrätin
Die Kampagne zur Biodiversitätsinitiative, über die in der Schweiz am 22. September 2024 abgestimmt werden soll, ist Gegenstand einer massiven Verbreitung von #Desinformation, #Fehlinformation und #Malinformation (#MDM).
#Biodiversität #Biodiversitätsschutz #JazurBiodiversitaet #Biodiversitätsinitiative #BiodiversitätsinitiativeJA
https://de.future3.ch/news/mit-desinformation-gegen-biodiversitaetsinitiative
