How “The female-dominated New Age (with its positive focus on self) and the male-dominated realm of conspiracy theory (with its negative focus on global politics)” has synthesized into a hybrid system of belief dubbed “Conspirituality” by sociologists Charlotte Ward and David Voas. Why a ...
Everyone, from the President of the United States, Donald Trump, to the roadside political henchman today knows about fake news. This is the news that does not exist but has been cooked up to influence and provoke people into action. Images, videos and texts are morphed and created to give...
Fake newsSocial mediaPeople are increasingly consuming news curated by machine learning (ML) systems. Motivated by studies on algorithmic bias, this paper explores which recommendations of an algorithmic news curation system users trust and how this trust is affected by untrustworthy news stories like...
What’s more, the impact on reputation does not only affect public figures. While celebrities and politicians may be more likely to be targeted by deepfakes in the first place, they also have more recognition, resources, and status to help control the narrative. However, an ordinary person ma...
Sometimes trolls are also hackers. Not allhackersare cut from the same cloth. Some use their programming knowledge to probe code and programs to see how they work. They might create their own applications based on the work of others or modify code so that a program does something new. Other...
How does the liar’s dividend affect democracy? It impedes empowered inclusion when doubts about the misconduct of public officials, political candidates, or representatives prevent citizens (or relevant bodies) from holding perpetrators accountable, e.g. by deselection (Warren, 2017: 48) or prosecu...
He also suggests using a credit card, not a debit card, for daily and online purchases because unauthorized transactions on debit cards can affect the balance available. Johnson adds that customers should alert their card providers to any international trips in advance to avoid having a card ...
Good news about bad news: gamified inoculation boosts confidence and cognitive immunity against fake news. J. Cognition 3, 2 (2020). Google Scholar Dias, N., Pennycook, G. & Rand, D. G. Emphasizing publishers does not effectively reduce susceptibility to misinformation on social media. ...
Sadly, when your TikTok account is shadowbanned, it will negatively affect your reach and halt your growth. Influencers and businesses rely on social media to create a community. And when they lose a part of that community, they feel a loss of support.Wondering what shadowbanning entails, ...
or that it was like a fake or staged, or that we did it. we blew up the towers. for our listeners. hasan does not believe that. yeah, i don't believe that, but tower seven, kind of weird. makena kelly: allegedly. very leah feiger: really allegedly. really, really hardcore ...