David Gilbert

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DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big X Ad

At a press conference in the Oval Office this week, Elon Musk promised the actions of his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project would be “maximally transparent,” thanks to information posted...

Meta’s Fact-Checking Partners Say They Were ‘Blindsided’ by Decision to Axe Them

Meta’s fact-checking partners claim they were “blindsided” by the company’s decision to abandon third-party fact-checking on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads in favor of a Community Notes model, and some say they are...

Meta Ditches Fact-Checkers Ahead of Trump’s Second Term

Meta announced Tuesday that it is abandoning its third-party fact-checking programs on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads and replacing its army of paid moderators with a Community Notes model that mimics X’s much-maligned...

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have all been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race science and the idea that whites are genetically superior to nonwhites.Patrik Hermansson,...

A US-Sanctioned Oligarch Ran Pro-Kremlin Ads on Facebook—Again

Last February, when researchers at London-based nonprofit Reset found that Meta was allowing Ilan Shor, a Moldovan oligarch with links to the Kremlin, to run an ad campaign on Facebook, the company...

The GOP Presidential Debate Is Livestreaming on Rumble, Home to White Nationalist Nick Fuentes

Tonight, the third GOP presidential primary debate will take place in Miami. The event is sponsored by the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) at a time when antisemitic incidents in the US, according...

The UN Hired an AI Company to Untangle the Israeli-Palestinian Crisis

Training artificial intelligence models does not typically involve coming face-to-face with an armed soldier who is pointing a gun at you and shouting at your driver to get out of the car....

TikTok Streamers Are Staging ‘Israel vs. Palestine’ Live Matches to Cash In on Virtual Gifts

TikTokkers are using a little-known livestreaming feature to cash in on the huge interest in the Israel-Hamas war despite having no links to the crisis. TikTok, meanwhile, is taking up to 50...

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