20 Facebook pages spreading fake news to their 200,000 followers. A network of connected websites, and real money behind it.
We investigate a sprawling content farm. It gets pretty dystopian.
escapecollective.com/fake-cycling...
Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.
I’m going to be annoyed if Apple launches disappearing messages in Siri before iMessage
Here's the FTC press release: www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
"this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all [...] Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers."
The Federal Trade Commission will require Cox Media Group (CMG) and two smaller marketing firms to pay a total of $930,000 to settle allegations they deceived customers by falsely claiming to offer
www.ftc.gov
Inside the automated ad-tech machine flooding Facebook with AI-generated cycling misinformation.
Sources: Apple's revamped Siri may launch in beta, and will have an option to auto-delete chats; Apple plans to add Suggested Genmoji to iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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