av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 10, 2019 | Lästips
The Making of the Fox News White House
Fox News has always been partisan. But has it become propaganda?
In January, during the longest government shutdown in America’s history, President Donald Trump rode in a motorcade through Hidalgo County, Texas, eventually stopping on a grassy bluff overlooking the Rio Grande. The White House wanted to dramatize what Trump was portraying as a national emergency: the need to build a wall along the Mexican border. The presence of armored vehicles, bales of confiscated marijuana, and federal agents in flak jackets underscored the message.
Källa: The Making of the Fox News White House
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 7, 2019 | Lästips
IF YOU CLICK enough times through the website of Saudi Aramco, the largest oil producer in the world, you’ll reach a quiet section called “Addressing the climate challenge.” In this part of the website, the fossil fuel monolith claims, “Our contributions to the climate challenge are tangible expressions of our ethos, supported by company policies, of conducting our business in a way that addresses the climate challenge.” This is meaningless, of course — as is the announcement Mark Zuckerberg made today about his newfound “privacy-focused vision for social networking.” Don’t be fooled by either.
Källa: Mark Zuckerberg Is Trying to Play You — Again
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 7, 2019 | Lästips
Adios, Alexa: why must our robot assistants be female?
Microsoft’s Cortana, Google Home and other AI devices tend to be voiced by women, playing into the stereotype that serving is a woman’s job. But do robots need to be gendered at all?
Microsoft has Cortana, Amazon has Alexa, and Google has … well, Google Assistant. That last name doesn’t give it away, but get it talking and the common link between all three AI assistants is revealed: they are all supposed to be women.
Providing assistance has long been considered a woman’s role, whether virtual or physical, fictional or real. The robots that men voice, meanwhile, tend to be in positions of power – often dangerously so. Think Hal 9000, or the Terminator: when a robot needs to be scary, it sounds like a man.
Källa: Adios, Alexa: why must our robot assistants be female?
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 4, 2019 | Lästips
Han hävdar att han är doktor, att han har publicerat en rad viktiga avhandlingar och fått pris av presidenten – som 28-åring.
Inte ett ord är sant
The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality
If you look up Dr. Damian Jacob Markiewicz Sendler online, you might think he hasa MD and a PhD from Harvard Medical School. He presents himself asthe chief of sexology at a non-profit health research foundation based in New York. His website states he’s one of the youngest elected members of the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and that Barack Obama gave him a President’s Gold Service Award for his contributions in medicine and mental health.
Based on the information available online, Sendler could be one of the most accomplished 28-year-olds in medicine.
But he’s not. Those are all lies.
Källa: The Fake Sex Doctor Who Conned the Media Into Publicizing His Bizarre Research on Suicide, Butt-Fisting, and Bestiality
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 4, 2019 | Lästips
The Verge har intervjuat flera av Facebooks moderatorer, de som ska granska de inlägg som görs på webbplatsen och som utan förvarning kan ställas inför skakande, vidriga bilder och videro.
The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
”I’m fucked up.”
The panic attacks started after Chloe watched a man die.
She spent the past three and a half weeks in training, trying to harden herself against the daily onslaught of disturbing posts: the hate speech, the violent attacks, the graphic pornography. In a few more days, she will become a full-time Facebook content moderator, or what the company she works for, a professional services vendor named Cognizant, opaquely calls a “process executive.”
For this portion of her education, Chloe will have to moderate a Facebook post in front of her fellow trainees. When it’s her turn, she walks to the front of the room, where a monitor displays a video that has been posted to the world’s largest social network. None of the trainees have seen it before, Chloe included. She presses play.
Källa: The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America
av Mikael Winterkvist | mar 1, 2019 | Lästips
If there remained any doubt that Facebook’s business practices intentionally compromise users’ privacy and recklessly undermine democratic norms, it was put to rest on Monday, when the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee of the British House of Commons issued a hundred-and-eight-page report, incongruously titled “Disinformation and ‘fake news.’ ”
In a drama that played out over a few days in November, the committee’s chair, Damian Collins, a Tory M.P., had outwitted Facebook’s legal team when he summoned an American app developer named Ted Kramer to Parliament. At the time, Kramer’s company, Six4Three, was embroiled in a lawsuit with Facebook, and the documents that he just happened to have access to while on a business trip to England—and whoch Collins just happened to know about—were obtained during the discovery process.
Källa: Why the U.K. Condemned Facebook for Fuelling Fake News
