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W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data
W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.
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Mark Zuckerberg argues that more information reaching more people enhances democracy. But, as the adage goes, quantity does not equal quality.
The Verification Ladder: A Framework for Evaluating Video When You Can’t Tell What’s Real
"Is this real?" isn't a straightforward question anymore. What to ask instead, and why the source often matters more than the footage itself.
How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation
The company’s AI algorithms gave it an insatiable habit for lies and hate speech. Now the man who built them can't fix the problem.
How Social Media Rewards Misinformation
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55 AI-Generated Video Statistics: Disclosure, Detection, and Trust
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Facebook and the Cost of Monopoly
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Facebook snooped on Snapchat, Amazon, and YouTube user data, documents reveal
"Project Ghostbusters" lies at the core of it all.
Russian Bots Manipulate View Counts on Fake Videos Ahead of US Midterms
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Facebook Is Hosting Huge Numbers of Horrifying AI-Generated Videos of Violent Child Abuse, and Meta Is Barely Even Pretending to Care About Taking Them Down
Facebook is hosting huge numbers of horrifying AI-generated videos of violent child abuse, and Meta is barely taking them down.
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace
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The Problem with Facebook and Virtual Reality
Virtual reality has always been destined to be less important than augmented reality, and Facebook taking a stake has never made much sense.
Everyone bought into the fable that users actually wanted more video.
NEW: In one of the most horrifying stories I've ever reported, I found that Facebook is hosting huge quantities of AI-generated videos of violent child abuse -- kids being beaten, burned, and far more But the genuinely shocking thing was how little Meta seems to care futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/faceb…
The lie here is suggesting that "9% of @bsky.app users are active daily" is the same measurement as "9% of @wsocial.eu users have ever posted more than once". #Wsocial 's actual DAU is less than 1%. This is how propaganda works. Tell little lies often enough and eventually it sounds like truth.
Ingmar Rentzhog
Yes read the analysis. Not number of users but user activity. denys.dev/w-mythology-vol3/
