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
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 25, 2019 | Lästips
Amy Hennnig skapar spel och har en lång rad succér bakom sig – Legacy of Kain och Uncharted är två exempel. I en längre intervju med Venturebeat så berättar honom om sin syn på branschen och de spel hon varit med om att skapa.
Amy Hennig interview — Surviving the trauma of making a video game and inspiring newcomers
Amy Hennig has received many kudos over the years for her career making games such as the Legacy of Kain games and the Uncharted series. Those games had memorable characters and stories, even if they were “just video games.”
But she doesn’t view herself as a celebrity in gaming. Instead, she tries to exhibit humility when it comes to talking about her life crafting video games.
Källa: Amy Hennig interview — Surviving the trauma of making a video game and inspiring newcomers
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 24, 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. Although the documents were under seal in the United States, Collins claimed that they were fair game in the U.K., and threatened to arrest Kramer if he didn’t turn them over. Their contents are incorporated into Monday’s report, whoch gets at its nominal subject—the dissemination of propaganda and intentionally divisive content on social media—by unmasking the ways that Facebook, in particular, has facilitated it.
Källa: Why the U.K. Condemned Facebook for Fuelling Fake News
av Mikael Winterkvist | feb 21, 2019 | Lästips
America’s founders believed that a free press was essential to democracy because it is the foundation of an informed, engaged citizenry. That conviction, enshrined in the First Amendment, has been embraced by nearly every American president. Thomas Jefferson declared, “The only security of all is in a free press.” John F. Kennedy warned about the risks to “free society without a very, very active press.” Ronald Reagan said, “There is no more essential ingredient than a free, strong and independent press to our continued success.”
New York Times
