#MediaManipulation

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Miguel Afonso Caetano"When Reddit rebranded itself as “the heart of the internet” a couple of years ago, the slogan was meant to evoke the site’s organic character. In an age of social media dominated by algorithms, Reddit took pride in being curated by a community that expressed its feelings in the form of upvotes and downvotes—in other words, being shaped by actual people.So earlier this week, when members of a popular subreddit learned that their community had been infiltrated by undercover researchers posting AI-written comments and passing them off as human thoughts, the Redditors were predictably incensed. They called the experiment “violating,” “shameful,” “infuriating,” and “very disturbing.” As the backlash intensified, the researchers went silent, refusing to reveal their identity or answer questions about their methodology. The university that employs them has announced that it’s investigating. Meanwhile, Reddit’s chief legal officer, Ben Lee, wrote that the company intends to “ensure that the researchers are held accountable for their misdeeds.”Joining the chorus of disapproval were fellow internet researchers, who condemned what they saw as a plainly unethical experiment. Amy Bruckman, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology who has studied online communities for more than two decades, told me the Reddit fiasco is “the worst internet-research ethics violation I have ever seen, no contest.” What’s more, she and others worry that the uproar could undermine the work of scholars who are using more conventional methods to study a crucial problem: how AI influences the way humans think and relate to one another."<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/reddit-ai-persuasion-experiment-ethics/682676/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/reddit-ai-persuasion-experiment-ethics/682676/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chatbots</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIBots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIBots</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reddit</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Persuasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Persuasion</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"If any anti-Zionist with a public profile had said Jews control Silicon Valley and use it to influence public opinion for the benefit of Israel, they’d be forcefully denounced by the entire western political-media class as a rabid antisemite. But a Jewish politician saying Jews must use their control over Silicon Valley to influence public opinion about Israel receives no attention from that same political-media class.Interestingly, at that same event, Meta’s “Jewish Diaspora” chief Jordana Cutler noted that Meta platforms like Facebook and Instagram “banned content claiming Zionists run the world or control the media.” Under Cutler’s own guidelines, the prior comments from her fellow attendee would have been banned if he had said them on Facebook instead of at the Jewish News Syndicate International Policy Summit.Israel’s backers have been whining about losing control of the narrative for months."<a href="https://x.com/caitoz/status/1917768641560600987" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://x.com/caitoz/status/1917768641560600987</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Zionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Zionism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to research whether AI could be used to change people’s minds about contentious topics. The bots made more than a thousand comments over the course of several months and at times pretended to be a “rape victim,” a “Black man” who was opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement, someone who “work[s] at a domestic violence shelter,” and a bot who suggested that specific types of criminals should not be rehabilitated. Some of the bots in question “personalized” their comments by researching the person who had started the discussion and tailoring their answers to them by guessing the person’s “gender, age, ethnicity, location, and political orientation as inferred from their posting history using another LLM.”Among the more than 1,700 comments made by AI bots were these:"<a href="https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.404media.co/researchers-secretly-ran-a-massive-unauthorized-ai-persuasion-experiment-on-reddit-users/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/GenerativeAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GenerativeAI</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Reddit</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LLMs</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Chatbots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chatbots</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/AIPersuasion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIPersuasion</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialPsychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialPsychology</a>

oatmeal[cont’d] Quoting Noa Limona on Netanyahu’s gaslighting of the Israeli public: <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a>'s "poison machine" has expanded from domestic gaslighting to foreign policy distortion. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Netanyahu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Netanyahu</a> Jr's attack on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Macron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Macron</a> exposes a calculated system that labels democratic leaders supporting Palestinian rights as "enemies" while embracing far-right populists worldwide. This propaganda mechanism has successfully conditioned even opposition voices to fear being labeled "leftist" (now synonymous with "traitor"). The result? A warped reality where human rights advocacy equals betrayal, empathy equals <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/antisemitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#antisemitism</a>, and "peace" has become taboo. The antidote requires rejecting this entire toxic framework, not just its symptoms.[…] Netanyahu Jr.'s statement was what the linguistic philosopher John Austin called a "speech act," not a statement that can be said to be true or false but an expression that constitutes an action in the world. In this case, the act constituted labeling Macron – a leader of a democratic country who expressed his recognition of a Palestinian state – as an enemy.[…] The antidote to poison cannot be based on accepting the toxic machinery and only partially rejecting its symptoms. Our obligation is to oppose the entire propaganda apparatus that has dulled our senses, clouded our simple reasoning, and eroded the ethical criteria that should guide us.<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-04-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-netanyahu-poison-machine-turns-to-foreign-policy/00000196-3049-dc5b-af96-79fdd4860000" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-04-14/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-netanyahu-poison-machine-turns-to-foreign-policy/00000196-3049-dc5b-af96-79fdd4860000</a> or <a href="https://archive.is/pwYx5" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.is/pwYx5</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@palestine</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@israel</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IsraelPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IsraelPolitics</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#palestine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThePoisonMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThePoisonMachine</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OatmealQuotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OatmealQuotes</a>* Edit: typos, article is in English not Hebrew

Miguel Afonso Caetano"The platforms are not worried whether the content people are seeing is accurate—once a person starts down the pro-Trump rabbit hole, that’s what he or she will be fed. No wonder so many people have come away with a delusional understanding of the Trump agenda. Capital was not “woke” before Trump, and it is not “anti-woke” now; it is capital, and its incentives are always toward profit. But authoritarianism, by nature, skews those incentives toward subservience to the state.The Trump agenda, if successfully carried out, will lead to misery on a massive scale. It will test the bars of the algorithmic cage—will Americans judge based on their own experiences, or by what they see on their screens? As Chris Hayes writes in his new book, The Siren’s Call, “Before you can persuade, you must capture attention.” Where Trump and his allies are at fault for hardship, they will seek to persuade, using the networks of communication they have captured, that someone else is at fault, that the debacles they have concocted are not occurring or are in actuality positive events. Where they cannot do this, they will simply try to bewilder Americans by clogging these channels with toxic waste, flooding “the zone with shit,” as the Trump stalwart Steve Bannon once put it."<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-administration-voter-perception/681598/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/trump-administration-voter-perception/681598/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Algorithms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Algorithms</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"It’s worth noting that not all of Musk’s attacks on the administrative and liberal state are equally pernicious. There are real issues with USAID and its role as a soft power arm of meddling US imperial bureaucrats, as well as a political shield for U.S. atrocities, from Yemen to Gaza, as I’ve noted here and elsewhere. But USAID also does objectively useful work because many countries grow dependent on them, and it’s very clear that, based on recent statements made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, what is most likely going to happen is the sinister activity USAID does will simply be folded back into the State Department directly or the CIA (as it used to be) while the Incidentally Good Stuff USAID does will be be eliminated. Despite his faux libertarian posturing, Musk, of course, doesn’t care about the anti-imperialist argument. He hates USAID because he thinks it helps keep black and brown people alive, which—by virtue of the US being a largely unipolar empire—it very much does, regardless of motives.The Times, Washington Post and CNN were not alone in having a blasé attitude about DOGE in the run up to Trump taking office. As I noted at In These Times, many Democrats indulged the patently false “cost savings” premise, and made no effort to paint it as a far right coup on the liberal state—which it clearly was. Pod Saves America’s Tommy Vietor treated DOGE as a good-faith effort that was simply misguided, and establishment journalists frequently mocked or downplayed its potential to disrupt our government.This is part of a much larger media regime that, above all, must assume good faith from those in power, no matter their past lies, far-right ideological beliefs, or brash and illegal behavior. Let us call it the “Inverse Power-Skepticism Principle, which can be seen here:"<a href="https://www.columnblog.com/p/us-medias-credulous-depiction-of" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.columnblog.com/p/us-medias-credulous-depiction-of</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Plutocracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Plutocracy</a>

rijoICYMI: Network of AI-generated fake news sites uncovered in advertising fraud scheme <a href="https://ppc.land/network-of-ai-generated-fake-news-sites-uncovered-in-advertising-fraud-scheme/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ppc.land/network-of-ai-generated-fake-news-sites-uncovered-in-advertising-fraud-scheme/</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/FakeNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FakeNews</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/AIFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIFraud</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/AdvertisingFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdvertisingFraud</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/DigitalMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMarketing</a> <a href="https://frankfurt.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

PPC LandICYMI: Network of AI-generated fake news sites uncovered in advertising fraud scheme: Investigation reveals over 200 fraudulent websites using AI to generate content and deceive advertisers through fake news domains. <a href="https://ppc.land/network-of-ai-generated-fake-news-sites-uncovered-in-advertising-fraud-scheme/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ppc.land/network-of-ai-generated-fake-news-sites-uncovered-in-advertising-fraud-scheme/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FakeNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FakeNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AIFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AIFraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdvertisingFraud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AdvertisingFraud</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DigitalMarketing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalMarketing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"Although it’s easy to get distracted by the schoolyard nicknames and irresponsible pedophilia accusations that Elon Musk flings around, these are the real questions posed by his open, aggressive use of X to spread false information and promote extremist and anti-European politicians in the U.K., Germany, and elsewhere. The integrity of elections—and the possibility of debate untainted by misinformation injected from abroad—is equally challenged by TikTok, the Chinese platform, and by Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, whose subsidiaries include Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads. TikTok says the company does not accept any paid political advertising. Meta, which announced in January that it is abandoning fact-checking on its sites in the U.S., also says it will continue to comply with European laws. But even before Zuckerberg’s radical policy change, these promises were empty. Meta’s vaunted content curation and moderation have never been transparent. Nobody knew, and nobody knows, what exactly Facebook’s algorithm was promoting and why. Even an occasional user of these platforms encounters spammers, scammers, and opaque accounts running foreign influence operations. No guide to the algorithm, and no real choices about it, are available on Meta products, X, or TikTok."<a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34_jHWNsAU1mvPsKLSJcYGQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/musk-tech-oligarch-european-election-influence/681453/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK34_jHWNsAU1mvPsKLSJcYGQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/EU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EU</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitter</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Musk</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

Mojo ♻️News Corporation has misled the Australian Parliament. In a Senate submission, they claimed Foxtel pays “millions of dollars” in income tax, GST, and payroll tax—unlike their international competitors. However, Foxtel was actually paying zero income tax at the time. Lying to the Senate can result in imprisonment, but ‘contempt of Parliament’ laws are rarely enforced.<a href="https://aus.social/tags/NewsCorp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewsCorp</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Foxtel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Foxtel</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/TaxDodging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TaxDodging</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Accountability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accountability</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AusPol</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CorporateGreed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CorporateGreed</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Parliament" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Parliament</a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Transparency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Transparency</a><a href="https://michaelwest.com.au/rupert-murdochs-foxtel-misleads-parliament/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://michaelwest.com.au/rupert-murdochs-foxtel-misleads-parliament/</a>

Miguel Afonso CaetanoSubliminal Class Warfare - Give voice to the already powerful to surreptitiously to oppress the less powerful:"In an effort to understand the media diet of a generation, Bloomberg watched and analyzed over 2,000 videos from nine prominent YouTubers.Reporters reviewed nearly 1,300 hours of footage from their channels, mapped out the podcasters’ guest networks and quantified the frequency of key political messages that they distributed to tens of millions of subscribers each day.To hear them tell it, America is in a desperate place, destabilized by soaring inflation, migrants streaming across the border and the beginnings of a third world war. Gender politics have gotten out of hand while schools and the medical establishment duped the public. The same messages were communicated in Trump’s inaugural address on Monday. Now that Trump is back in power, the broadcasters are well-positioned to help build support for his political agenda, transforming grievances into policy that could have lasting effects even beyond Trump’s term in office. In the months leading up to election, hosts had more politicians and pundits on their shows and discussed the issues more frequently. Of the broadcasters’ videos that reached over 1 million views on YouTube during the time span Bloomberg reviewed, more than a third of videos mentioned voting or the US elections — often with the host explicitly calling on listeners to vote."<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-youtube-podcast-men-for-trump/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Podcasts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Podcasts</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YouTube</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Influencers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Influencers</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Ideology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ideology</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano<a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gaza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumanRights</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Media" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Media</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Journalism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>: "In garish contrast to the clear identification of Russian barbarity in Ukraine, the passive voice is the preferred mode in Western reports of Israeli atrocities, making it harder to see who is doing what to whom, and in what circumstances. (“The lonely death of Gaza man with Down’s syndrome” was the initial headline of a BBC report on Israeli soldiers unleashing an attack dog on a disabled Palestinian and then leaving him to die.) The New York Times’ report on a grim landmark, the killing by Israel of thirty thousand Palestinians, overwhelmingly women and children, was headlined “Lives Ended in Gaza.” A more recent report on the Israeli regime of starvation by the Associated Press is titled “A 10-month-old Palestinian baby suddenly stopped crawling. Polio had struck Gaza.”Unverified reports, eventually exposed as false, of beheaded Israeli babies were given prominence by journalists as well as the US President. They have together drawn a veil of silence over the multiple documented reports of rape and torture in Israeli prisons. An article in the Atlantic, presently edited by a former IDF operative and peddler of a notoriously false report about Iraq, could argue, even after the murder of thousands of children in Gaza, that “it is possible to kill children legally.”Certainly, the Western media’s account of Israel’s “self-defense” yet again exposes the radical discrepancy between what is said by mainstream journalists in the West and what the rest of us see happening in the world. I cannot avoid a sense of deja vu, and an old question: is it still possible to enlarge cognitive capacity within the dwindling kingdom of Western journalism—the enchanted realm in which I have profitably spent most of my own life?" <a href="https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-mankind/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/the-last-days-of-mankind/</a>

Miguel Afonso Caetano"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 volunteer program, which allows users to publicly flag content they believe to be incorrect or misleading.In a blog post announcing the news, Meta’s newly-appointed chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan said the decision was taken to allow more topics to be openly discussed on the company’s platforms. The change will first impact the company’s moderation in the US.“We will allow more speech by lifting restrictions on some topics that are part of mainstream discourse and focusing our enforcement on illegal and high-severity violations,” Kaplan said, though he did not detail what topics these new rules would cover."<a href="https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ditches-fact-checkers-in-favor-of-x-style-community-notes/</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SocialMedia</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Disinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Disinformation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/LieMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LieMachine</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Propaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Propaganda</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/FactChecking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FactChecking</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Misinformation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Misinformation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/ContentModeration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ContentModeration</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Instagram</a>

Ms. Que BanhWhen it comes to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/reporting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#reporting</a> on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/NorthAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NorthAmerica</a>’s <a href="https://beige.party/tags/OverdoseCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OverdoseCrisis</a> — the worst in our history — <a href="https://beige.party/tags/misleading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misleading</a> articles can increase <a href="https://beige.party/tags/stigma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stigma</a> against people who use <a href="https://beige.party/tags/drugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drugs</a>, skew the public’s understanding of the issue, inspire <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BadFaith" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BadFaith</a> policy and make it more difficult for other <a href="https://beige.party/tags/journalists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalists</a> to gain the trust and respect of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MarginalizedCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MarginalizedCommunities</a>.Which brings me to a splashy, new piece of drug <a href="https://beige.party/tags/journalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#journalism</a> from U.K.-based newspaper the Telegraph, falsely claiming that <a href="https://beige.party/tags/decriminalizing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#decriminalizing</a> the possession of small amounts of drugs “made <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vancouver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Vancouver</a> the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/fentanyl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fentanyl</a> capital of the world.” The Telegraph’s story, like others before it, makes a number of other <a href="https://beige.party/tags/misleading" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#misleading</a> claims, including stating that <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SafeSupply" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SafeSupply</a> programs, which provide pharmaceutical alternatives to street drugs, are making the situation worse because that supply is being sold to street users, including young people. Some safe supply is being diverted, but there is no evidence that it’s led to more deaths or teens forming new addictions.Reporting like this misses important context about the <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DrugCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrugCrisis</a>, allowing <a href="https://beige.party/tags/politicians" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#politicians</a> to drum up fear about <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HarmReduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HarmReduction</a> rather than confront how decades of <a href="https://beige.party/tags/prohibition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prohibition</a> have impacted the current <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FentanylCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FentanylCrisis</a>. After the 2010s crackdown on prescription pain pills, many people dependent on <a href="https://beige.party/tags/opioids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#opioids</a> turned to heroin instead. Eventually, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/DrugTraffickers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrugTraffickers</a> began cutting heroin with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 50 times stronger, that is also cheaper and simpler to make and smuggle. <a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/fearmongering-about-drug-dens-is-making-canadas-crisis-worse/article_3cb43484-444e-11ef-90b0-a7fbb265a168.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/fearmongering-about-drug-dens-is-making-canadas-crisis-worse/article_3cb43484-444e-11ef-90b0-a7fbb265a168.html</a><a href="https://beige.party/tags/CDNpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CDNpoli</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BCpoli</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BreakTheStigma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BreakTheStigma</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AddictionEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AddictionEducation</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Fearmongering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Fearmongering</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/StopStigmatizingAddiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StopStigmatizingAddiction</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Health</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Medical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Medical</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/HealthPolicies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HealthPolicies</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BreakStatusQuo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BreakStatusQuo</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FundTreatmentServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FundTreatmentServices</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FundHealthCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FundHealthCare</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FundMedicalServices" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FundMedicalServices</a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/CommunityHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CommunityHealth</a>

SilkesterReally? Trump Was Persecuted In NY? <a href="https://medium.com/@silkester/really-trump-was-persecuted-in-ny-2b7e51d21e30" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://medium.com/@silkester/really-trump-was-persecuted-in-ny-2b7e51d21e30</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#justice</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#law</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/prosecution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#prosecution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/publicInterest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publicInterest</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/persecution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#persecution</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#trump</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#democracy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElectionIntegrety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ElectionIntegrety</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ForeignInfluence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ForeignInfluence</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaManipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MediaManipulation</a>

NeuralNEW BOOK: Tactical Publishing! I’m very excited to announce my new book “Tactical Publishing, Using Senses, Software, and Archives in the Twenty-First Century”, now published by MIT Press. It has taken many years to research and finalise the book, which I hope will be a solid sequel to "Post-Digital Print", and now it is finally in print. A huge thank you to all the generous people who have supported me over the years (the list is long), especially Ryan Bishop, Jussi Parikka, who along with Scott Rettberg and David Garcia has written very generous praise, my fabulous colleagues Jo Turney and Daniel Cid Moragas at Winchester School of Art - University of Southampton, Sean Cubitt and Doug Sery at MIT Press and Nick Montfort who wrote the beautiful foreword!Available here in print <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Publishing-Software-Archives-Twenty-First/dp/0262542056/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Tactical-Publishing-Software-Archives-Twenty-First/dp/0262542056/</a>and in Open Access here: <a href="https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5716/Tactical-PublishingUsing-Senses-Software-and" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5716/Tactical-PublishingUsing-Senses-Software-and</a><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/tacticalpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tacticalpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/digitalpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#digitalpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/publishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/publishinghistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#publishinghistory</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/indiepublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indiepublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/independentpublishing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#independentpublishing</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/mediaart" class="mention hashtag" 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class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mediamanipulation</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/hacktivism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacktivism</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/postdigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postdigital</a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/postdigitalprint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#postdigitalprint</a>

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