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TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/mar/16/tv-tonight-inside-facebook-and-meta-with-ex-staff-and-whistleblowers #Television #TelevisionRadio #Culture #Facebook #Meta #MariannaSpring #Media #SocialNetworking #Technology #MackenzieCrook #SteveCarell #JasonBateman
TV tonight: inside Facebook and Meta with ex-staff and whistleblowers

Marianna Spring goes Inside the Rage Machine. Plus: the finale of the brilliant comedy Small Prophets. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian
Show threadGrantDec 27, 2024

@randahl

So Musk's 'free speech' drivel has had a little hiccup?

" Elon Musk has hailed Twitter as a bastion for freedom of expression ever since he acquired the social media site two years ago. But over the course of 2024, X, as it is now called, has evolved from what felt like a communal town square into a polarised hub where views and posts seem even more controversial "

#BBC #BBCInDepth #MariannaSpring #Musk #Trump #USPolitics #X #Twitter
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1elddq34p7o

The evolution of X: How Musk transformed the social media giant in 2024

New users? New algorithms? Or something else going on behind the scenes? The story behind the new changes on the social media site

DrBob, 🧠 MechanicApr 22, 2024

Check out @aaron.rupar panel discussion at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia about #Twitter’s decline and fall under Elon #Musk’s erratic right-wing stewardship.

“The talk was titled, “#X and journalists: should I stay or should I go?” It was moderated by #PhilChetwynd, the big boss at #AgenceFrancePresse, and I was joined on stage by two of the foremost experts on the fraught social media landscape — #ZoeSchiffer, managing editor of #Platformer and author of the highly recommended book “#ExtremelyHardcore: Inside Elon Musk’s Twitter,” and #MariannaSpring…#BBC…”

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/aaron-rupar-international-journalism-festival-24

Watch my panel discussion on Twitter's decline and fall

Some quick thoughts on traveling to Italy for the International Journalism Festival.

Public Notice
JProl 🌍🎶💾🆓🐦Mar 24, 2024

«En realidad, lo mejor de las redes sociales también es lo peor: nos conectan a las personas como nunca nada lo había hecho antes. Pero, además, están hechas a base de algoritmos que funcionan con reacciones extremas; todos los matices y la complejidad desaparecen, mientras nos bombardean con contenidos que nos enfadan, nos alegran, nos molestan o nos asustan. Juegan con esa parte de nuestra naturaleza.»

#RedesSociales
#RRSS
#Desinformación
#MariannaSpring
#Entrevista

https://elpais.com/eps/2024-03-23/marianna-spring-especialista-en-fake-news-de-la-bbc-la-desinformacion-tiende-a-hacerse-viral-porque-queremos-creerla.html

Marianna Spring, especialista en ‘fake news’ de la BBC: “La desinformación tiende a hacerse viral porque queremos creerla”

Es la primera corresponsal de la BBC especializada en desinformación y redes sociales. Con 28 años, se ha tenido que acostumbrar a vivir y trabajar entre insultos y amenazas. Acaba de publicar su primer libro, en el que relata su experiencia en el universo de los troles y las teorías de la conspiración

El País
Iain MacLean (he/him)Mar 10, 2024

'Among the Trolls' by Marianna Spring

https://venera.social/display/85a863ed-2765-ee1a-725f-422799551304

'Among the Trolls' by Marianna Spring

I just finished reading this today. I thought it was very good. Marianna Spring includes a few case studies of organised disinformation campaigns by mysterio...

GrantMar 4, 2024

AI Deep Fake and politics.

There's a bad bad time lying ahead, as the powerful have a new tool for manipulating the uniformed/gullible. Seems clear to me, that publishers/platforms must be held to account in some way.

#AI #Artificial_Intelligence #Manipulation #Trump #MAGA #Politics #BBC #BBCPanorama #BBCAmericast #MariannaSpring

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68440150

Trump supporters target black voters with faked AI images

Faked images of black voters with Trump are a growing disinformation trend in the US election, the BBC finds.

Show threadCharles RoperOct 30, 2023

@davidnjoku At present they are experimenting with a Mastodon instance to guage value vs effort. See here: https://social.bbc/about

Unfortunately, I'm not sure how much of a useful experiment it can be if BBC journalists aren't involved directly. It's the individuals working within BBC and posting to social media that are important, like #MariannaSpring. At the moment, the posts from the handful of accounts on there appear to be mainly promotional.

cc @BBCRD @BBC_News_Labs @BBCRadio4 @BBC5Live

BBC Mastodon

This is an experimental Mastodon instance run by BBC Research and Development.

Mastodon hosted on social.bbc
Show threadCharles RoperOct 29, 2023

It was ex Tesla board member and tech investor Ross Gerber that said that by the way.

The BBC's excellent #MariannaSpring is also on there. Some of her work, in case you're interested:

— https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-67177744

— https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/04/bbc-marianna-spring-violent-rhetoric-conspiracyland

— https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-bbcs-marianna-spring-its-really-normal-to-really-hate-me-g8nkbmfvl

#BBC #SocialMedia #Fediverse #News #Disinformation

How to spot disinformation on social media

The BBC's Marianna Spring shares tips to help you spot what's real and what's fake on your timeline.

BBC News
J.Sʜᴀʀᴘ🌍🇺🇦Fʀᴇᴇᴅᴏᴍ&DᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏOct 21, 2023

ℹ The conflict between #Israel and #Gaza has been full of claims and counter claims from both sides about what is happening on the ground

Those claims have been turbocharged by social media, which has been flooded with #news, pictures and videos.

There’s lots of misleading and false information, and conspiracy theories too

The #BBC's #disinformation and social media correspondent #MariannaSpring shares her tips to help you tell what is real and what is fake

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-67177744

How to spot disinformation on social media

The BBC's Marianna Spring shares tips to help you spot what's real and what's fake on your timeline.

BBC News
CheshireSep 9, 2023
The BBC’s Marianna Spring: ‘The more violent the rhetoric, the more important it is I expose it’
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/sep/04/bbc-marianna-spring-violent-rhetoric-conspiracyland?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#DisinformationCorrespondent
#MariannaSpring
The BBC’s Marianna Spring: ‘The more violent the rhetoric, the more important it is I expose it’

The broadcaster’s disinformation and social media correspondent spends her time pursuing trolls and dismantling conspiracy theories. In return she is abused, slandered, threatened. She talks about battling cranks, extremists – and Elon Musk

The Guardian