Facebook uses “AI” software to interpret posts and grade the posts for its automatic content moderation. But FB’s systems do not support many languages, enabling much content to glide through moderation.
Scientific American reports on how government agencies use “media embargoes” to control reporting.
An earlier claim from NOAA that July 2021 was the hottest month ever appears to no longer be true after more temperature data was collected. The issue here is: the initial claims made headlines all over the media landscape. The revision, and effectively a correction, has received no publicity. This is unfortunately how media works – and why I consider most news stories to be false until they withstand the test of time.
The algorithms lead to an increase in angry people and divisiveness, leading to a world of angry people, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The researchers find we evaluate unknown sourced information based on whether it agrees with our existing thoughts. We judge information we agree with (even if factually wrong) as more credible merely because it aligns with our pre-existing thoughts.