#Facebook #NonEnglish #ContentModeration #misinformation #disinformation

'Meta’s automated filters and content moderators often fall short when dealing with non-English content. This isn’t just a technical limitation — it’s a dangerous oversight. In communities where English isn’t the dominant language, this gap leaves space for disinformation to flourish unchecked.

Two recent examples show the effects disinformation can have.'

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/meta-disinformation-non-english-languages/

“That is, the most likely reason why Trump’s entire national security team was using an insecure platform to plan war strikes was to ensure there were no embarrassing records for posterity, a violation of the law.”

Folks, I’m seeing more of this lately so please, stop. Understand what you’re taking about before spouting off. Signal *is* a secure platform and peddling nonsense like this is only going to make people less secure if they believe it and stop using it. What it can’t do is protect you if you’re clueless enough to add someone to your *secure* conversation who shouldn’t be there.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/seven-reasons-trumps-entire-national-security-team-should-resign-in-disgrace/

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the #Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from #extremist groups, #misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.

https://www.science.org/content/article/pentagon-guts-national-security-program-harnessed-social-science

Persuading others who support the right wing extremist views can be challenging, but it's possible through thoughtful, empathetic communication and evidence-based arguments.

Here are some approaches to help foster understanding and shift perspectives: 1)
#farright #rightwing #Facist #Liberal #conservative #Libertarianism #Libertarian #totalitarianism #Counterview #misinformation

Folks, can we please be careful about misinformation, no matter which side it comes from?

I've seen a lot of people claiming that Facebook are banning posts linking to Distrowatch or mentioning Linux.

Now, I know it's tempting to believe that because FB are evil, they would therefore do something like this, but that doesn't mean it's necessarily true.

I posted a link to Distrowatch and praising Linux on my FB page earlier. It's still there.

As we enter a new phase in American politics, we’re reaffirming our commitment to facts, journalism and open discourse. Our values have not changed.

Our managing editor @csullivan explains more.

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-commitment-to-facts-for-a-new-political-era/

@nick_anderson_ sums up the political environment succinctly!

(while this cartoon is focussed on the LA fires, it's relevance is much, much wider!)

"The adoption of large language models (LLMs) in healthcare demands a careful analysis of their potential to spread false medical knowledge. Because LLMs ingest massive volumes of data from the open Internet during training, they are potentially exposed to unverified medical knowledge that may include deliberately planted misinformation. Here, we perform a threat assessment that simulates a data-poisoning attack against The Pile, a popular dataset used for LLM development. We find that replacement of just 0.001% of training tokens with medical misinformation results in harmful models more likely to propagate medical errors. Furthermore, we discover that corrupted models match the performance of their corruption-free counterparts on open-source benchmarks routinely used to evaluate medical LLMs. Using biomedical knowledge graphs to screen medical LLM outputs, we propose a harm mitigation strategy that captures 91.9% of harmful content (F1 = 85.7%). Our algorithm provides a unique method to validate stochastically generated LLM outputs against hard-coded relationships in knowledge graphs. In view of current calls for improved data provenance and transparent LLM development, we hope to raise awareness of emergent risks from LLMs trained indiscriminately on web-scraped data, particularly in healthcare where misinformation can potentially compromise patient safety."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-03445-1?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Our app may be 15 years old, but our values are timeless. They’re rooted in first principles that don’t change every four years.

We’re still here for you.

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Sorry to hear of Zuckerberg's passing. They say 'never speak ill of the dead' but his cosying up to Trump was unforgiveable not to mention his complicity in the spread of harmful disinformation.

We haven’t changed.

We still believe in #facts.

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Want to be more intentional about how you consume news this year? Kick off 2025 with a mindful approach on Flipboard. Our tips will keep you informed and inspired in an environment designed to keep out misinformation.

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/new-year-new-news-diet/

Finland is winning the war on #fakenews. Other nations want the blueprint https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/ “The course is part of an anti-fake news initiative launched by Finland’s government in 2014 – two years before Russia meddled in the US elections – aimed at teaching residents, students, journalists and politicians how to counter false information designed to sow division.” #misinformation #disinformation

mathematical modelling has been used to show that #misinformation spreads across the internet like a virus spreading through a population.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/11/26/misinformation-really-does-spread-like-a-virus-suggest-mathematical-models-drawn-from-epidemiology/

Fuck yes, CORK.

"Cork City Council has become the first to pass a motion committing “to using factual and accurate information, based on credible sources” in its discussions and debates."

Cork City Council passes first motion tackling misinformation following Belong To 'Check the Facts' campaign:

https://gcn.ie/cork-city-council-passes-misinformation-motion/