feedle (@feedle@mastodon.social)
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GoWeaponsHot (@GoWeaponsHot@mstdn.party)
"Those bodyguards, #Israel discovered, were not only carrying #cellphones but even posting from them on #socialmedia.
âUsing so many bodyguards is a weakness that we imposed on them, and we were able to take advantage of that,â one Israeli defense official said."
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remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"Minutes after the perpetrator of the shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis last week was identified, YouTube appeared to delete several videos they had shared that morning.
But not before the videos were downloaded and reshared in full on X.
Within hours, the platform was flooded with wild claims about the shooter and her motivation, with everyone from Elon Musk, the siteâs owner, to the head of the FBI and left-wing activists posting half-baked allegations blaming anti-Christian hate, transgender genocide, and white supremacy. Many of the posts racked up millions of views per Xâs public metrics.
While other social media platforms were also used to share unfounded claims about the shooterâs motivations, X, under Musk, has become the perfect platform to supercharge the spread of dangerous disinformation during breaking news events. The entire team tasked with tackling disinformation on the platform was first culled years ago, and now X's biggest users claim they are incentivized by the platform to share out-of-context clickbait content over verified facts."
https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-minnesota-shooting-x/
#SocialMedia #Disinformation #Twitter #Propaganda
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remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"As detailed in a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study, coauthors Petter Törnberg, AI and social media assistant professor, and research assistant Maik Larooij simulated a social media platform that was populated entirely by AI chatbots, powered by OpenAI's GPT-4o large language model, to see if there was anything we could do to stop social media from turning into echo chambers.
They tested out six specific intervention strategies â including switching to chronological news feeds, boosting diverse viewpoints, hiding social statistics like follower counts, and removing account bios â to stop the platform from turning into a polarized hellscape.
To their dismay, none of the interventions worked to a satisfactory degree, and only some showed modest effects. Worse yet, as Ars Technica reports, some of them made the situation even worse.
For instance, ordering the news feed chronologically reduced attention inequality but floated extreme content to the top.
It's a sobering reality that flies in the face of companies' promises of constructing a "digital town square" â as billionaire and X owner Elon Musk once called it â where everybody coexists peacefully.
With or without intervention, social media platforms may be doomed to devolve into a highly polarized breeding ground for extremist thinking."
https://futurism.com/social-network-ai-intervention-echo-chamber
#SocialMedia #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Chatbots #Echochambers #Disinformation
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fictograma (@fictograma@mastodon.social)
En un condominio amarillo, TomĂĄs, mecĂĄnico, vive con Laura y su hijo. Ella se enamora de Paul, profesor de quĂmica. Su amor furtivo dura 4 años hasta que TomĂĄs encuentra una carta. La ignora.. https://fictograma.com/ver_cuento?id=1001
#literature #books #socialmedia
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fictograma (@fictograma@mastodon.social)
Temma, revela su naturaleza no humana y, tras un enfrentamiento, mata a Nintali arrancĂĄndole el corazĂłn, asumiendo el poder como nuevo tahal. La veneran como un dios serpiente https://fictograma.com/ver_cuento?id=1005
#literature #books #socialmedia
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r (@r@fed.brid.gy)
Loving #BlueSky's new "show more/show less" function in Custom Feeds!! #CustomFeeds #SocialMedia #UserExperience
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2025 (@2025@www.theperiscope.net)
Content warning:body shaming
A Great American
This is how dark and ugly Donald Trumpâs soul is. He published this real post on Truth Social.
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cheryanne (@cheryanne@aus.social)
What The Data Says
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-the-data-says/
#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia #Business #Entertainment #News #Marketing #SocialMedia
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faab64 (@faab64@freefree.ps)
EU pushed for censorship of website naming pro-genocide lobbyists
This is EXACTLY what BlueSky did with my list of Hasbara Trolls and Genocide apologists on their platform.
They really don't want the public to know who is getting money from Israel to silence us.
#EUpol #Politics #Israel #Censorship #Hasbara #Propaganda #Corruption #Politics #Fascism #Freedom #SocialMedia
#Gaza #Genocide
@israel @palestine@lemmy.ml @palestine@a.gup.pe
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media (@media@eicker.news)
»Facebook is trying to make âpokesâ happen again« https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/facebook-is-trying-to-make-pokes-happen-again/?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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sivagurudurai (@sivagurudurai@mastodon.social)
Hot take: Social media managers donât need another âall-in-one tool.â They need a single solution that makes posting effortless. Everything else? Just noise.
Whatâs your go-to tool for simplifying workflows? Letâs discuss!
đ» #SocialMedia #DigitalMarketing #ContentCreation
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