Collaborate Disseminate
Crypto scamming Thai cave scoundrels! $25 million to make anti-fake news videos! TimeHop data breach! Phone number port out scams!
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by comput… Continue reading Smashing Security #086: Elon Musk submarine scams and 2FA bypass
Facebook would like you to believe that it’s serious about ridding its platform of fake news. So how come InfoWars, one of the most notorious outlets of sick conspiracy theories, is allowed to maintain a page on the social network?
Continue reading Facebook doesn’t want to eradicate fake news. If it did they’d kick out InfoWars
Chasing AI-created fake videos with AI moderators doesn’t work, as Gfycat may be finding out. Continue reading Gfycat’s AI Solution for Fighting Deepfakes Isn’t Working
The plan: figure out how it affects people; ID users behind fake accounts, fake news & porn posts; and maybe cook up its own social network. Continue reading Facebook to be blocked in Papua New Guinea for one month
Can synthetic data solve the issue of fake news and discern truth from lies in the digital world? What lessons can data engineers and consumers of information in today’s digital world take from Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave“? Actually, qui… Continue reading Allegory of the ‘Synthetic Data Cave’
People are rushing to push the shooter into the opposite political camp. Continue reading People Are Making Fake Facebook Profiles of the Santa Fe Shooter to Fit Their Political Narratives
On a daily basis, it disables millions of fake accounts before they ever hatch. Continue reading Facebook crushes 583 million fake accounts in 3 months
Google will now require people or groups purchasing federal election ads to show that they’re US citizens or lawful residents. Continue reading Google cracks down on election meddling advertisers
A rapidly swelling botnet of Twitter accounts advertising “adult dating”-themed scam websites has at least 80,000 nodes to date. Continue reading Pr0nbot is Back – and Evading Twitter Censors
How Russian trolls embraced rule 34 (but Redditors didn’t buy it) Continue reading Fake Hillary porn just the tip of Russia’s Reddit penetration