continuing my break from this platform for many reasons, but especially this heinous treatment of nonbinary folks. take care of yourselves out here ✊🏳️‍⚧️🌈🦄 businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says…

Are there long-term effects of toxic comments? #WikiWorkshop research found toxic comments reduced contributions from editors that 'amounts to multiple human-years of lost productivity...and significantly increases the risk of editors leaving altogether arxiv.org/pdf/2304.13568…

I’ve watched the OSINT community come together many times to assess the soc media detritus of mass shooters.

1) The evidence is rarely as clear as in Dallas. Aric Toler pulled it together well and quickly.

2) Yet I have NEVER seen such a fierce far-right denial campaign.

I’m fascinated by Twitter applying “community notes” to ads. It’s a legitimately bold move that I originally assumed was oversight but is clearly not and is truly novel.

new content farms, just in time for 2024 💣 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

News can help! - talked about research on the role of journalism in countering misinformation at European Digital Media Observatory event.

In work led by Sacha Altay, we find that news helps people become more informed and, in some cases, more resilient to misinformation journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11… 1/3

Thanks to @Twitter removing state-controlled media labels 'Russian state media accounts are now earning *33% more views* than they were just weeks ago, before the change was made' according to findings released Monday by Reset and confirmed by DFRLab - @dfrlab.bsky.social demdigest.org/twitter-change…

with all the wild catastrophizing around #AI , I'm grateful that my talented Jigsaw teammates were quietly building these LLM safeguards behind the scenes for the last 5 years, now used by Google Meta OpenAI medium.com/jigsaw/reducin…

love to see free resources and training around climate misinfo reporting! FYI Sander van der Linden Abbie Richards Stephan Lewandowsky afp.com/en/agency/pres…

Valuable takeaways here on what the Hamburg shooter represents - his ideology had been misdiagnosed as 'muddled'. But as Dr. Cynthia Miller-Idriss notes, this muddling of anti-democratic and supremacist attitudes IS the extremist ideology

On my way to Perugia 🇮🇹 for the journalism festival! Excited to be speaking with Stefan Voss from dpa and my colleague Beth Goldberg from Jigsaw about pre-bunking tomorrow. Join us ⬇️ #ijf23

Are other #genAI tools beyond Claude trained with 'Constitutional AI'? This is the right direction, but can we ensure the principles are developed rigorously rather than randomly (as described here)? medium.com/mlearning-ai/p…

👋 🇮🇹 off to Perugia for the International Journalism Festival - ready for hot takes on the future with #genAI + #misinformation for journalism! #ijf23 #internationaljournalismfestival

New pub Royal Society Publishing Open Science, with Yamil Ricardo Velez and Tom Wood! Fact-checking COVID-19 misinfo in ten countries. TLDR: Fact-checking improves accuracy BUT doesn't move needle on vaccination attitudes/behaviors. Open access: bit.ly/3FUoCVN