An anonymous reader quotes a report from Gizmodo: Cindicator Capital is the kind of investment fund that relies on software and algorithms to model investment strategies based on any number of disparate factors. In the wake of the WallStreetBets subreddit throwing hedge funds into chaos and driving stock prices to non-sensical extremes, Cindicator has posted a job listing on LinkedIn hoping…
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Facebook Said It Would Ban Holocaust Deniers. Instead, Its Algorithm Provided a Network for Them
Last month, Facebook announced a crackdown: The platform would no longer permit content that “denies or distorts the Holocaust” as part of its larger policy prohibiting hate speech. From a report: While noting that successful enforcement could take time, Monika Bickert, Facebook’s vice president of content policy, explained the ban in a blog post. “Our decision is supported by the well-documented…
AI Researchers Made a Sarcasm Detection Model
An anonymous reader shares a report: Researchers in China say they’ve created sarcasm detection AI that achieved state-of-the-art performance on a dataset drawn from Twitter. The AI uses multimodal learning that combines text and imagery since both are often needed to understand whether a person is being sarcastic. The researchers argue that sarcasm detection can assist with sentiment analysis and crowdsourced…
Stupid Russian Disinformation Campaign Targets Oxford Vaccine
The Times of London reports that “a Russian disinformation campaign designed to undermine and spread fear about the Oxford University coronavirus vaccine has been exposed by a Times investigation.” Pictures, memes and video clips depicting the British-made vaccine as dangerous have been devised in Russia and middlemen are now seeking to “seed” the images on social media networks around the world….
Citigroup Tech Executive Unmasked as Major QAnon ‘High Priest’
QAnon’s biggest news hub was run by a senior vice president at Citigroup, the American multinational investment bank and financial services company Citigroup. Jason Gelinas worked in the company’s technology department, where he led an AI project and oversaw a team of software developers, according to Bloomberg. [Alternate URL] He was married with kids and had a comfortable house in a…
Twitter Hashtag For Far-Right Group Taken Over By Gay Men
“The Proud Boys hashtag, which members of the far-right group have been using, was trending Sunday,” reports CNN, “after gay men on Twitter hijacked it and flooded the feed with photos of their loved ones and families and with memes.” On Thursday 83-year-old George Takei (who’d play Sulu, the helmsman of the starship Enterprise, on the original Star Trek TV series)…
How wholesome memes could save us all
It is time to rekindle the idea of netizens – upstanding internet citizens that band together to tackle important global problems, writes Annalee Newitz Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732970-200-how-wholesome-memes-could-save-us-all/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
YouTube Bans Thousands of Chinese Accounts To Combat ‘Coordinated Influence Operations’
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: YouTube has banned a large number of Chinese accounts it said were engaging in “coordinated influence operations” on political issues, the company announced today; 2,596 accounts from China alone were taken down from April to June, compared with 277 in the first three months of 2020. “These channels mostly uploaded spammy, non-political content,…
Nutrition memes forget that there is no such thing as a ‘healthy food’
Shareable online graphics give easy to understand breakdowns of the nutritional content of food, but they may be misleading, says James Wong Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24732940-200-nutrition-memes-forget-that-there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-healthy-food/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Full Text of US State Department Cables Finally Released, Showing Safety In Chinese Lab
Slashdot reader destinyland writes: On April 7th, a Trump campaign advisor told the Los Angeles Times “One way we still win this election is by turning it into a referendum on China.” Within weeks the Washington Post noted “reports that the Trump administration has sought to pressure U.S. intelligence agencies to search for proof of a link between the Wuhan lab…