Richard Ngamita

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

“a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service *** Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.” (Andreessen also helped Elon by Twitter.) 10/24/24 … 1/

YouTube video by RastaChaka Ijahman - Are We A Warrior

Today i'm blasting to "Are we a Warrior" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WP3D...

really some great investigative journalist here 👇👏

Guns, cash and American aid: Investigation reveals Israel's support for Gaza militia The former looting gang is living in luxury thanks to aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and smuggled cash, cars and cigarettes.

guns, cash and US aid - israel's support for gaza militia via @news.sky.com news.sky.com/story/guns-c...

it's all Moldova this weekend and the massive targeting with FIMI (influence ops)

Here you go, Internet. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

What Does It Take To Moderate AI Overviews? | TechPolicy.Press After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims, raising urgent concerns about AI moderation, reports Varsha Bansal.

After Charlie Kirk's shooting, X's Grok and Google's AI Overviews spread false claims. Varsha Bansal explores how misinformation is laundered by AI during breaking news, and the challenges of moderating and regulating AI systems.

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is it just me or has it become impossible to know what's actually true online? how do we solve this?

The Disinformation Machine After a Murder Taylor Lorenz and Akela Lacy on how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.

This is how bots, influencers, and political actors distort real-world violence before facts emerge.

Charlie Kirk has been shot during an event at Utah Valley University.

Look what's in close proximity to Israel's illegal attack on Doha, at least 2 nurseries, 3 schools, 6 embassies, a petrol station, a public park. This all happened in the middle of the afternoon, when schools are ending and children engaging in extra curricular activities

this 👇

Not so secret: X’s new encrypted chat feature puts users at risk, experts say X's new XChat feature does not remove sensitive metadata from images, which could lead to the exposure of GPS coordinates.

“Social media sites and chat apps normally strip metadata by default,” which protects privacy, EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Straight Arrow News. ”If XChat is failing to strip metadata, it’s putting its users at risk.” san.com/cc/not-so-s...

Digital Fragments Unveil Online Campaign to Flip Iranian Nuclear Scientists Mysterious online campaign linked to Israel attempted to recruit Iranians to overthrow their government. Some appear placed by an Atlanta-based influencer.

Israel operated various fake Twitter, Telegram and websites to recruit Iranians to rise against their gov. #influence www.leefang.com/p/digital-fr...

thank you 🙏

Why the Global South Won’t Quit Russia For rising states with expanding ambitions, three great powers are preferable to two.

Geography matters hugely in geopolitics—Russia is almost entirely separated from the global south by a buffer of former Soviet states, Sarang Shidore writes.
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/g...

Donald Trump is reportedly planning to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War. @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues that the move is a stunt that could wind up embarrassing the Pentagon and costing millions.

Read more: theatln.tc/r1lU6FWz

Alt text: A tweet from Pete Hegseth reads: “Pronouns UPDATED: She/Her/Fired.” Below is a screenshot of a post by Libs of TikTok saying: “Yikes. This she/her Navy Commander is apparently a medical director for ‘transgender healthcare’ at a Naval center in California. Can you please look into this? @PeteHegseth @DODResponse.” The image shows a Navy officer’s profile with a rainbow background, pronouns listed as “She/Her,” and the role described as “Deputy Medical Director for Transgender Healthcare.” Red boxes highlight the pronouns and the words “Transgender Healthcare.”

This is the digital stasi. Social media influencers utilizing tips from followers for content that they monetize while working with state actors to target the people they want.

It's all a spectacle packaged as content. Destroying people's lives for profitable ideological bloodsport.

is there an api to this for someone who would want to track this programatically?

VIDEO/ Armata digitală a Kremlinului. Investigație sub acoperire. „Se plătește, hai să vă spun, se plătește direct de la Moscova” Sute de conturi cu identități false, în spatele cărora stau activiști reali ai Blocului „Victorie”, controlat de Ilan Șor de la Moscova, au fost create pentru a răspândi propagandă rusească pe TikTok ...

great investigation from ZdG re: Russia's troll farms in Moldova - www.zdg.md/investigatii...

Germany's far-right AfD suffers series of candidate deaths ahead of local vote Police say there is no evidence of foul play, ahead of local elections in western Germany.

what's going on in germany www.bbc.com/news/article...

National Guardsmen now stationed outside our DC building confirmed that the only thing they can do if they witness a crime is call 911. The have no more authority than my office mate to intervene. Despite the handcuffs, they can't make arrests. They are very expensive mall cops.

liars dividend ..

black toyota RAV4 rear saying "The Kant Car" with a message about being nice to LLMs because of Kant

The Kant Car

Alarm as US far-right extremists eye drones for use in domestic attacks Experts say extremists openly talking of how home-built drones will be critical tool in so-called second civil war

This is an OK piece on how drones could potentially be used for terrorism in the U.S….but the example case cited here, in which Neo-Nazi Skyler Philippi plotted to blow up an energy facility with a drone in 2024, has been, IMO, overblown as an example of a drone terrorism near-miss:

YouTube video by Reggae2Reggae Lee Perry - Perry In Dub

tonight "lee perry" in dub www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9R...

vibe coding music -- how did we get here 🤔

thx for sharing, this is the exact skynews segment that i watched.

80% of strikes in the russia/ukraine war are now done with drones, per @skynews. this changes everything about how war is fought going forward.