How Ready Is Meta for the Biggest Election Year in History?
WIRED spoke with a member of Meta’s Oversight Board about how the company plans to handle elections around the world in 2024.
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Inside an Election Denial Facebook Group on Primary Day
Read more: Inside an Election Denial Facebook Group on Primary DayNew Hampshire’s Voter Integrity Group on Facebook has almost 7,000 followers. On Tuesday, it was filled with conspiracies, confusion, and outrage.
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The Biden Deepfake Robocall Is Only the Beginning
Read more: The Biden Deepfake Robocall Is Only the BeginningAn uncanny audio deepfake impersonating President Biden has sparked further fears from lawmakers and experts about generative AI’s role in spreading disinformation.
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The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023
Read more: The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2023From Sam Altman and Elon Musk to ransomware gangs and state-backed hackers, these are the individuals and groups that spent this year disrupting the world we know it.
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politics, Politics / Disinformation, Politics / Global Elections, Tech Industry, Tech News, The AI Elections
Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lies
Read more: Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and LiesResearch shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.
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White Supremacists Are Celebrating Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘Great Replacement’ Rant
Read more: White Supremacists Are Celebrating Vivek Ramaswamy’s ‘Great Replacement’ RantPresidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy boosted multiple far-right conspiracy theories during the GOP debate on Wednesday night, in a dangerous mainstreaming of once-fringe claims.
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A Kremlin-Linked Network Used Fake Taylor Swift Quotes to Push Anti-Ukraine Propaganda
Read more: A Kremlin-Linked Network Used Fake Taylor Swift Quotes to Push Anti-Ukraine PropagandaA disinformation campaign led by a group linked to Russia’s GRU is using images of celebrities like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kim Kardashian, Justin Bieber, and Oprah to lambast Ukraine.
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Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 Elections
Read more: Elon Musk Is Giving QAnon Believers Hope Just in Time for the 2024 ElectionsMusk’s recent use of the term “Q*Anon” is his most explicit endorsement of the movement to date. Conspiracists have since spent days dissecting its meaning and cheering on his apparent support.
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Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth Social
Read more: Inside the Operation to Bring Down Trump’s Truth SocialThe North Atlantic Fellas Organization is trying to shut down Trump’s flailing social media platform before the 2024 election—by shitposting.
