Twitter has the highest prevalence of disinformation among six online platforms studied by the EU. Fake news comes primarily from Russia’s disinformation operation, a "weapon of mass manipulation." www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

"Musk secretly ordered engineers to turn off his company’s Starlink satellite communications network near the Crimean coast to disrupt a Ukrainian sneak attack on the Russian naval fleet." It is incredibly irresponsible for the US government to be reliant on this wannabe supervillain for anything.

arme Argentijnen schijnen massaal te stemmen op een kandidaat die meent dat je organen verkopen de beste remedie tegen armoede is https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/14/argentina-far-right-populist-javier-milei-shock-lead-primary-presidential-elections

This is horrific. It's also not the first time we've seen similar stories about the traumatic, sometimes long term harm done to content moderators for social media platforms who are underpaid, not given the training or support they need, exposed to the worst elements of inhumanity. Now AI, too.