☀️ Lead Researcher, @AmericanSunlight.org
👨🏻🎓 Doctoral Student, @dsrc.bsky.social
🇪🇺 AI Expert from time to time, @coe.int
🍊 #MaxwellMafia Alum & Lecturer
🤖 Hobbies include hunting Russian bots
https://www.benmshultz.net | 📍Berlin
Ben Shultz
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The European Commission has ordered Meta to give competing AI assistants free access to WhatsApp, a rare emergency intervention that will stay in force until it completes an antitrust investigation into the company.
A 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Monday, killing at least 15 people, injuring dozens and displacing tens of thousands of others as it toppled buildings and damaged bridges.
Looking very awake sir!
Small amounts of money go a long way in European politics. Very much worth watching this closely. It can be impactful if done indirectly
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Bill Pulte’s appointment as the acting director of national intelligence is “a threat to the effective functioning of the intelligence community, national security and the rule of law,” the editorial board writes.
☀️New research☀️
LLM Grooming has been thoroughly examined in the last year, yet a critical question remains:
At what scale are ordinary users exposed to groomed outputs?
We at ASP estimate that users across 🇪🇺 interact with at least 500,000 Russian-influenced, Ukraine-related responses per month.
The US used to fund democracy support worldwide. Now it wants to export the MAGA revolution.
Even if not much will come of it and even if we repeat that Trump and Vance are toxic, this whole thing is hostile and worrying ↘️
⚡Facing stockpiling shortages, the Russian army has reportedly revived a decommissioned anti-tank mine based on a 1930s Soviet design.
united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
🇷🇺 A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weaponized authentic identities rather than relying on fake accounts.
www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Hong Kong protests and the erasure of the individual – in pictures
The 7.8-magnitude quake struck off the island of Mindanao, toppling buildings and damaging bridges. Dozens were injured and tens of thousands displaced.
A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weapon...
www.france24.com
The US used to fund democracy support worldwide. Now it wants to export the MAGA revolution.
Even if not much will come of it and even if we repeat that Trump and Vance are toxic, this whole thing is hostile and worrying ↘️
How Was Your Dream? is a documentary project by Thadde Comar, a Franco-Swiss photographer, created during the extradition bill protests in Hong Kong between June and October 2019
Russian forces are mass-producing a modernized plastic version of the 1930s PMD-6 anti-personnel landmine, which was originally decommissioned in 1949.