Donald Trump spoke at West Point’s commencement on Saturday. After the speech, he left the stage by walking down a ramp. You’d think this would be a pretty straightforward exit, but it was not: Trump scooted down the ramp with noticeable caution, then spent the lead-up to his own birthday tweeting lies about it to…
Facebook researchers would like to be able to detect the deepfakes their own platform helps spread. On Friday, the company published a blog post summarizing months of collaborative work aimed at developing a framework for automatically detecting the form of machine-learning generated manipulated media known as deepfakes. Called the Deepfake Detection Challenge, the project brought…
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Hey, maybe you were arguing with a bot after all. On Thursday, Twitter reveled an effort to dismantle three separate “state-linked information operations” that, according to the San Francisco-based social media company, worked to spread misinformation and attack political dissidents. One such effort, allegedly run by the People’s Republic of China, reportedly focused on how…
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but it’s perfectly OK for someone to post on social media even though they haven’t replied to your text messages yet. Sure, it’s polite and respectful to respond to messages and answer questions as soon as possible, but taking a few hours — or even days — to do…
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One of Twitter’s most inconsistently applied features will hopefully make more sense in the near future. Jane Manchun Wong, who frequently reverse-engineers apps to discover upcoming new features, figured out that Twitter is planning to give users a way to request verification. The social network then confirmed the development to TechCrunch. What this means is…
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