Astroturfing

wandero:brap: I'm not familiar with this Hot Take Fembot's oevre but I'm guessing that he purchases huge amounts of subscribers to boost his ranking as an "influencer" and as blogs and media sources continue to post these subscriber numbers as gospel - as if …

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Indiana University's Observatory on Social Media has launched a new tool in the fight against online disinformation: BotSlayer. The software, which is free and open to the public, scans social media in real time to detect evidence of aut…

After President Trump declaredU.S. talks with the Taliban dead on Monday, the commander ofCENTCOM told Reuters that the U.S. military is likely to ramp up operations against Taliban fighters across the country. Marine Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, speaking at Bagram…

Hardly a day passes without a major news story about climate change and the damage we are doing to our natural habitat. Rising global temperatures, melting arctic sea ice, plastic contamination in the ocean, a steep increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and…

Start of the race Getty The UK is currently third in the world for raising investment in AI and second for the number of AI companies in operation during 2019 (Crunchbase data). Still, 89% of the AI ecosystem in the UK consists of startups with 50 or fewer …

What Remains is an 8-bit game, blending visual novel and adventure elements. The story translates real events from the 80's into an epic quest to save the world. The game lets you experience the fight against industry disinformation, showing you several way…

A Joker fan attending the 2017 New York Comic Con Getty In the soon to be released Joker movie, Joaquin Phoenix plays Arthur Fleck as he morphs into the complex, twisted and downright scary character we know from the Batman comic books and films. Back in th…

Posted in Free/Libre Software, FSF, GNU/Linux, Google, GPL, Microsoft, Red Hat at 1:58 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz A great Microsoft selloff or a chance/opportunity to turn Microsoft staff away from the anti-GPL agenda? Summary: Richard Stallman (RMS) reporte…

Posted in Europe, Free/Libre Software, Patents at 7:18 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz Patent trolls already infest London, but that’s good for London-based law firms (not a tourism attraction, just a drain and a stain on the British economy) Summary: The EPO was…

We have witnessed a lot of wailing and hand-wringing from #NeverTrumpers about the death of conservatism in the “age” of Trump.  Never mind that eight years is hardly an “age,” and that’s the maximum Trump can spend as president. You’d never know it from the…