Beth Goldberg

It’s not just bad word lists: There’s a massive opportunity to build T&S tools as common goods, in public.

@derekslater.bsky.social @betsym.bsky.social wrote a whole report about this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/scaling-trust_annex2/

Quote from @maargentino.bsky.social !

Facebook banned 'Boogaloo'-related groups — but new research suggests a 'boomerang' effect Members of the loose-knit Boogaloo movement who found each other online joined armed protests against Covid lockdowns.

"it's like putting a bandaid on a gunshot wound"

Check out our new research showing a "boomerang" of extremists back after removals

Yup, terrified about this precedent. @klonick.bsky.social nails how this ruling is "a bellwether of a disconcerting new political tactic: using state and local authorities, along with federal forum- and judge-shopping, to make national internet policy."

ok, dial up the AI doom a wee bit, just 3%...

"people were 3% less likely to spot false tweets generated by AI than those written by humans"

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1850

Humans may be more likely to believe disinformation generated by AI The way AI models structure text may have something to do with it, according to the study authors.

“Just because AI makes it easier to write a tweet that might be more persuasive than whatever some poor sap in some factory in St. Petersburg came up with, it doesn’t necessarily mean that everyone is ripe to be manipulated” -Jon Roozenbeek dialing down the AI doom in @techreview.bsky.social

it's better than tv