Duncan Allen

Chris Cuomo posting a deepfake of AOC the same week that Jim Acosta “interviews” a deepfake of a school shooting victim are both harbingers of how traditional media power players will help usher in the worst of the AI slop era

Peter Bienart standing outside speaking into a mic

@peterbeinart.bsky.social : “Israel has tried expulsion, blockade, occupation. What it hasn’t tried is treating Palestinians like human beings. This rally can’t just be about ending Gaza’s starvation. The people of Gaza deserve more than flour. They deserve freedom.”

What the F are we doing, people????

There Is an Information Blackout at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Migrant Detention Camp Public records related to Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp have...

Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...

This is skin-crawling bad and morally upsetting in service of a cause I'm broadly on board with, but it won't be that long until we get AI animations of the victims of crimes being asked to speak as the dead for all sorts of things, facsimile paraded as truth, machine output as divine seance. No, no

If your anti-imperialism requires denying atrocities, attacking victims, and shielding dictators, it’s not anti-imperialism. It’s just inversion, reactive, predictable, and morally bankrupt.

Many such cases, especially in the podcast / American left. Very frustrating

As someone who works in the field and has listened to QAA since 2019 this was a really disappointing episode to listen to. There are some valid critiques of disinfo research but I feel like Jutel didn’t address any of them. There are some problematic orgs but @bellingcat.com is not one of them.

Great piece on #slopaganda: «Whether it's a self-assured small social media account … or, indeed, a department of the US government, the viewing public isn't the only target of this new form of propaganda. In this manner, the creator also experiences the same reassurance from interactions online.»

"Innocents are now starving to death. All that is not action is noise."

Disinformation doesn’t just fill gaps in knowledge, it fills vacated social space. When trusted community institutions are hollowed out, there’s no one left to contest falsehoods in context. Platforms don't replace the parish hall or the youth centre, it just isolates and amplifies.

The challenge of responding to disinformation isn't just creating good information, but getting that to people who need to hear it and engaging with them in a constructive way, and online spaces aren't suited for that. We need real-world community spaces as much as we need fact-checking.

This is one of those moments when the hollowness of our democratic systems becomes visible to the public. Facts are verified, but deliberation is pure performance, and accountability is nowhere. The system absorbs truth without ever acting on it.

exact same pattern as the iraq war where the dirty hippie anti-war protesters being retroactively completely vindicated just makes the elites despise them more.

It strikes me that Germany has a similar illusion regarding its influence on Israeli policy making as it had on Russia, before the 2022 invasion.
Some idea about a special relationship which gives it special access.
It’s just that that doesn’t seem to have any impact in the real world.

official DHS account posting fourteen word long tweets with the H's randomly capitalized

groyper occupied government

Gotta love how transparent this is. We're dedicated to free speech and also we're banning any reference to misinformation, DEI, or climate change.

a cartoon of a boy reading a book surrounded by books . Alt: Linus van Pelt (of the Peanuts) doing his own research.

🧵Thread that gathers studies, reports and news on what I’d like to call #ContraAI : showcasing the detrimental effects of #ArtificialIntelligence, particularly in the realms of #research and #education. If you want to contribute posts on the theme, add them below.
No posting of AI prompts, please! 🤖

All These Stories About Trump Making the Epstein Files a Winning Issue Have a Funny Thing in Common Is Trump really turning the tables on this one?

The Times, Post, CNN, and Politico all ran stories this weekend or this morning about Trump getting his base back behind him on Epstein. The most prominent source cited to justify this claim _in all four publications_ was Steve Bannon. slate.com/news-and-pol...

As with UN petitions this is all mostly performative, but Germany’s predictable absence from this list speaks volumes. Feckless leadership

This is a combination of “the NYT leadership like Trump and wish him to rule over us like a king” and “the NYT finds the Epstein scandal vulgar and what it says about the rich, power and sex distasteful”

Yeah because the opposition has done so well with capturing the American attention on “kitchen table” issues. A fucking plane flew into a Black Hawk helicopter over DC in the first American passenger jet crash in 15 years and you still couldn’t stoke enough outrage to stop a mass layoff at the FAA

Flight Manifests Reveal Dozens of Previously Unknown People on Three Deportation Flights to El Salvador Hacked data obtained by 404 Media reveals dozens more people on deportation flights to El Salvador who are unaccounted for. “We have not heard from these people’s families, so I think perhaps even the...

SCOOP: The manifests for three legally contested deportation flights to El Salvador contain the names of dozens of people who have not been acknowledged in any way by the US government. Immigration experts following the case say they don't know where these people are

www.404media.co/flight-manif...

🚨NEW: A horror story emerges from hacked flight logs of the March 15 flight to El Salvador: mass disappearances.

It's possible there are DOZENS of additional people the Trump admin sent to be imprisoned in El Salvador without trial who are imprisoned there whose names have never been disclosed.

Opinion | I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. A scholar of genocide comes to a painful conclusion about Israel’s actions in Gaza.

“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” writes Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University. “I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.”

These awful individuals made $18 million on the pain and invasion of privacy of untold thousands of women and girls.

Exclusive: Hundreds at Alligator Alcatraz have no criminal charges, Miami Herald learns Descriptions of the Everglades detention center as a place for violent criminals tell only part of the story.

250 people detained in the Florida Everglades have no criminal convictions or pending charges.

Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ [FREE TO READ] A US-backed scheme forces hungry Palestinians to trek kilometres for food aid. Many never make it back

NEW: Inside Gaza’s ‘death traps’ via @FT
GHF’s plan forces hungry Palestinians to trek miles to aid sites, often through the IDF’s active military areas. Hundreds have been killed and thousands injured. This is how…
www.ft.com/content/6c74...

It has long been a feature of Trump’s regime that displays of domination and cruelty have to be made in public, in a style of vulgar, over-the-top obviousness. Branded like a low-budget movie, the Everglades site combines the extraordinary racism and contempt for human rights of the Trump anti-immigration effort with the sleazy camp of his movement’s style of masculinity. “Alligator Alcatraz” is the kind of place the hero would have to escape from in a television show, or in a level of a video game, and its stylized cruelty is supposed to seem hyperreal, even uncanny. Perhaps this sense of scripted unreality surrounding what is in fact a concentration camp is supposed to help Trump’s supporters and the rest of the American people partake in the pleasures of domination while avoiding the recognition that the horror and pain they are inflicting is real.

I wrote about “Alligator Alcatraz” and the spectacle of concentration camps that are built to be Instagrammed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right And blowing its credibility in the process.

the new york times got rid of its public editor some time ago, so I took the position out for a spin www.theverge.com/culture/7000...