My new paper 'Crimes of Influence: Generative Artificial Intelligence-led Crime as a Service,’ co-authored with Chris Wilson, has been published in the Commonwealth Cyber Journal. thecommonwealth.org/publications...
The abuse of public records to attack researchers, a thread: On Tuesday morning of this week (May 21), Matt Taibbi began to send me a series of messages requesting my response to a series of leading questions about public records that he planned to publish as part of an upcoming series of articles.
If this is what the apocalypse looks like, I’m in. 📱 iPhone 15 Pro Max - 3 second exposure- tripod. North Island, Aotearoa New Zealand.
This makes me very happy. One of my main reasons for writing this is as a former researcher of misinformation I found that a lot of work in it was hitting these definitional and descriptive problems, with researchers often unaware there were existing rich models from rhetoric on which to draw.
English was not the first language pack installed on my OS 🧠 Subsequent language-pack installations & updates have not resolved a persistent glitch in my matrix ⚛️ My grammar? Sub-optimal. However, if MS Word says it's fine, your argument is in fact, with Microsoft.
Got an email about GIFs landing on BlueSky...
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It’s called “fog of war” for a reason. Uncertainty drives the rumor mill. Online sensemaking during crisis events and conflict is extremely vulnerable to manipulation. The clout chasers, political point scorers, and disinformation agents are all out in full force. Consume (and share) with care.