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AI gave us Jesus hugs and automated CCP propaganda
🤥 Faked Up #34: AI hugging videos are a prelude to more deepfake harassment, DeepSeek parrots CCP talking points, and two new surveys contradict…
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Deepfake labels and detectors still don't work
🤥 Faked Up #33: Catholic page uses Google to spread unlabeled AI slop on Meta, Deepfake image detectors flop basic test, and Kent Walker thinks…
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AI nudifier makes a mockery of Meta's moderation
🤥 Faked Up #32: Crush AI ran 8,010 ads on Meta, Fact-checkers and crowds are not mutually exclusive, and AI slop tops Google image results for [does…
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Chasing the crowd
What we seek when we turn to crowd-driven fact-checking
Zuck chucks fact-checkers to cosplay as Elon Musk
🤥 Faked Up #31: Meta terminates fact-checking program, Matryoshka migrates to BlueSky, and Spiegel identifies MrDeepFakes
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🤥 Faked Up #27
The Onion attempts to buy InfoWars, BlueSky braces for disinformation, and Reuters corrects a video of the Amsterdam riots
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🤥 Faked Up #26
X's Community Notes on Election Day were noisy and marginal, Instagram ads flog deceptive AI influencer get-rich schemes, and bots target Ghana's…
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Q&A with Bill Adair on "Beyond The Big Lie"
Bill would like to apologize to C-SPAN caller Brian from Michigan, thinks Meta avoids fact-checking politicians out of self-interest, and is still…
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🤥 Faked Up #18
Americans turn to Search for debate fact-checking, Meta buries its AI labels, and Australia tries to regulate misinformation (again).
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🤥 Faked Up #17
Brazil's disinformation takedowns lack transparency, RT covertly paid right-wing influencers $400K/month, and Meta ran hundreds more ads for deepfake…
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🤥 Faked Up #15
Google reimagines deceptive photo editing, Facebook's AI single parent cops drive a content farm and Telegram's channels for undresser apps reach…
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🤥 Faked Up #11
Generative AI is brat | Spying the fact-checkers | DEFIANCE clears the Senate
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