Millions of voters across the US received robocalls and texts encouraging them to stay at home on Election Day, in what experts believe were clear attempts at suppressing voter turnout in the closely contested 2020 political races. Employing such tactics to spread disinformation and sow confusion amid elections isn’t new, and it’s not yet clear […]
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Seven types of election misinformation to watch out for
There was a time when misinformation was thought of as something that fought its way from the fringes into the mainstream, as if it lived in a darker parallel reality that was waiting to invade our own. That’s never been quite right, but in 2020 it’s an obvious misconception. Cornell researchers recently identified President Trump […]
Despite Hacking Fears, Election Day Has a Mostly Smooth Start
Plenty of hours remain. But so far, the worst-case scenarios about ransomware and other meltdowns have seemingly not come to pass. Powered by WPeMatico
Despite Hacking Fears, Election Day Has a Mostly Smooth Start
Plenty of hours remain. But so far, the worst-case scenarios about ransomware and other meltdowns have seemingly not come to pass. Powered by WPeMatico
How to Watch the Election 2020 Results Tonight—and Beyond
The winner of the US presidential election may take days to determine. Here’s how to take in the results—and not jump the gun. Powered by WPeMatico
My Life as a Blue-Haired ‘Commie Bitch’ in Portland
I dyed my hair mid-lockdown because it looked fun and I was bored. But to the online far-right, I became a social media stereotype. Powered by WPeMatico
Five ways political groups are getting around ad bans
Online platforms have made bans of political advertising a core part of their plans to mitigate the spread of disinformation around the US elections. Twitter moved early, banning political ads in October 2019. Facebook stopped accepting new ads last week and will indefinitely remove all political ads, old and new, after the polls close on […]
AI godfather Geoff Hinton: “Deep learning is going to be able to do everything”
The modern AI revolution began during an obscure research contest. It was 2012, the third year of the annual ImageNet competition, which challenged teams to build computer vision systems that would recognize 1,000 objects, from animals to landscapes to people. In the first two years, the best teams had failed to reach even 75% accuracy. […]
How social media sites plan to handle premature election declarations
The election results will start to come in as early as 7pm Eastern Time on Tuesday, when seven states begin closing the polls. The next few hours will see more polls close around the country, more votes processed, more counts updated. But we won’t have the final result that night.This isn’t unusual: In the US, […]
The Genshin Impact Backlash Is Here
So-called gacha mechanics are central to the blockbuster open-world RPG and many other games from China, Japan, and South Korea. But they’ve left US players smarting. Powered by WPeMatico