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Dearborn, MI has often been subject to racist and Islamophobic scapegoating online, ranging from claims that the city is full of terrorist cells to complaints about a cop wearing a hijab.
As seen in this graph of X posts, this activity tends to occur in waves (often correlated to major events).
More context for researchers:
Dearborn Heights is not Dearborn.
A little big of context for researchers:
Temple Israel in West Bloomfield is *huge*.
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If you’re in Metro Detroit, 95.5fm has stopped playing music and is covering the shooting in West Bloomfield.
Gen Z rappers could never
A dangerous beast has appeared, should I be concerned?
As mentioned earlier, “Tech News World” is far from the only Facebook page posting AI-generated fake war footage. As with “Tech News World”, many (not all) of the other Facebook pages posting AI-generated videos of warfare have been repeatedly renamed and repurposed.
The “Tech News World” page has been renamed repeatedly, and content from at least two of the page's prior eras is still visible. Until late 2024, it posted plagiarized dog photos, at which point it pivoted to AI-generated movie posters, which remained the theme until the recent fake war footage.
Meet “Tech News World”, a Facebook page that recently pivoted from spamming the platform with AI-generated movie posters to spamming the platform with AI-generated videos of war in the Middle East.
Sadly, “Tech News World” is not the only spammy account exploiting the violence for views and clicks.
#Caturday is mandatory.
A cat relaxes in her nest on #CaturdayEve.
Over on Facebook, a page named "Beautiful USA" has been spamming the platform with USA-themed posts featuring exaggerated patriotic imagery (often AI-generated). Although the page claims to be based in Los Angeles, Facebook’s Page Transparency feature indicates that it is operated from Romania.
In a possible sign of the actual goal of the spam pages, several periodically post right wing politial content. This includes (among other things) posts praising Charlie and Erika Kirk, and a racist meme insinuating that multiple elected U.S. Representatives should be ineligible for public office.
Most of the USA-themed Facebook spam pages make prolific use of hashtags. In some cases, the spam pages have flooded hashtags with off-topic content; for example, the #CaliforniaRealEstate hashtag has been largely taken over by "Beautiful USA" posts unrelated to California.
Many of the spam pages' posts include AI-generated patriotic imagery, frequently involving absurd displays of the US flag, such as the locomotive belching red, white, and blue smoke seen in the leftmost post in this collage. Plagiarized photographs of major US cities and landmarks turn up as well.
"Beautiful USA" follows several other USA-themed content farm pages; recursively mapping follow relationships yields a set of 20 USA-themed spam pages run from a variety of countries, including Sri Lanka, Greece, Pakistan, and others. Only 4 of the 20 pages (20%) have a US-based administrator.
Over on Facebook, a page named "Beautiful USA" has been spamming the platform with USA-themed posts featuring exaggerated patriotic imagery (often AI-generated). Although the page claims to be based in Los Angeles, Facebook’s Page Transparency feature indicates that it is operated from Romania.
Keeping an eye on all the things on a #Caturday morning...
Here’s a thought: maybe we should *not* vote for candidates that embody toxic masculinity just because they put a D behind their name.
Maybe we do *not* need our own version of Trump.
Maybe the people who say we do are fucking stupid.
My goodness.
I had to watch like 70 hours of Candace Owens for work. So the least you could do is read my dispatch from hell. www.ms.now/news/bride-o...
It is men who pervert religion.
It is men’s fault.
I’m just saying.
“How advanced is Iran’s nuclear program? Here’s what we know.”
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