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#infodemic — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #infodemic, aggregated by home.social.

  1. BNONews *looks* real, but cites no sources & lists no human editors.

    Who or what is BNONews? Derivative genAI news that grants no credit or attribution to its training data? A sole human who types punchy things that sound true-enough alongside hand-drawn line graphs?

    #RealNews #FakeNews #GenAI #WhereAreWe #pandemic #infodemic #journalism

  2. Oct 29 MAGA Pushes Vaccine Conspiracy Theory After Matthew Perry's Death (Newsweek) newsweek.com/maga-covid19-vacc - 1) Getty Kandiss Taylor, a 2022 Georgia Republican gubernatorial primary candidate, 2) activist Laura Loomer, who unsuccessfully ran to represent Florida's 21st Congressional District in 2020, and 3) Robby Starbuck, a former Republican candidate for Tennessee's 5th Congressional District all tweeted the meme that COVID vaccine was possible cause-of-death. #COVID #infodemic #WedgeIssue

  3. My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by and and true believer's hoped-for . This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death tracingcovid.substack.com/p/ap

  4. My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death tracingcovid.substack.com/p/ap #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth

  5. My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death tracingcovid.substack.com/p/ap #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth

  6. My latest Tracing newsletter is out. Tracing #53, "Apple Engineer Walter Huang’s Survivors" forecasts this year's information landscape, by looking into how it's already affected by #AI and #AIHype and true believer's hoped-for #AGI. This newsletter talks about Huang's survivors who are suing Tesla and Elon Musk for wrongful death tracingcovid.substack.com/p/ap #COVID #COVID19 #infodemic #ElonMusk #antivaxx #HCW #Healthcare #PublicHealth

  7. nymag.com/intelligencer/articl "The membrane between academia and industry is permeable almost everywhere; the membrane is practically nonexistent at Stanford, a school so entangled with tech that it can be hard to tell where the university ends and the businesses begin." #COVID #infodemic #BayArea #SanFrancisco #PaloAlto #COI #GBD