propaganda
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Meet The Deepfake Zuck, Same As The Flesh Zuck
Mark Zuckerberg may be famed for looking and acting like a (infiltrate human society, but a team of artists working with advertising company Canny appears to built a software version of the Facebook CEO that could one day threaten to make hardware Zuckerberg obsolete.
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Facebook Says It Removed 1.5 Million Videos Of Christchurch Massacre Within 24 Hours
Facebook said on Saturday night that within the first 24 hours of a horrific attack on Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand that killed at least 50 people and wounded dozens of others on March 15, it had blocked 1.5 million attempts to share a video of the attack live-streamed on Facebook by the shooter, with…
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Facebook Now Says It Will Remove Misinformation That Inspires Real-World Violence
After a rough week of criticism over Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s shoddy explanation for why he won’t ban conspiracy site Infowars — including a very awkward tangent into apparently believing Holocaust deniers are not “intentionally getting it wrong” — the social media giant has announced it will begin removing misinformation that provokes real-world violence.
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YouTube Will Warn Users When They’re Watching State-Sponsored Propaganda
Confirming an unusual screenshot which circulated earlier this week, YouTube has officially announced its intentions to mark content from certain news agencies as “funded in whole or in part” by whatever state happens to be their patron. In short, the platform is calling out propaganda.