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A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic

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A.I. Is Making Death Threats Way More Realistic - Online harassers are generating images and sounds that simulate their victims in violent ... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/business/media/artificial-intelligence-death-threats.html #videorecordingsdownloadsandstreaming #violence(mediaandentertainment) #demonstrationsprotestsandriots #threatsandthreateningmessages #rumorsandmisinformation #artificialintelligence #x(formerlytwitter) #cyberharassment #socialmedia #youtube.com

The White House Frames the Past by Erasing Parts of It - As the Trump administration pulls government websites and data offline, it is selectively... - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/technology/trump-history-websites.html #instituteofmuseumandlibraryservices #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #presidentialtransition(us) #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #librariesandlibrarians #archivesandrecords #internetarchive #waybackmachine #trumpdonaldj #datastorage #wikipedia

Kamala Harris Faces a Faster, Uglier Version of the Internet - Politicians have long faced racist and sexist attacks online. But Ms. Harris is being att... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/30/technology/kamala-harris-toxic-internet-politics.html #unitedstatespoliticsandgovernment #presidentialelectionof2024 #rumorsandmisinformation #conspiracytheories #raceandethnicity #cyberharassment #harriskamalad #socialmedia #blackpeople #minorities #elections #gender

Bots Tied to China Are Harassing a Dissident’s Teenage Daughter - A covert campaign to target a writer critical of the country’s Communist Party has extend... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/27/business/china-disinformation-critics-harassment.html #threatsandthreateningmessages #rumorsandmisinformation #cyberharassment #socialmedia #china

States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes to Fight Sexually Explicit Images of Minors - Legislators in two dozen states are working on bills, or have passed laws, to combat A.I.... - https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/deepfake-ai-nudes-high-school-laws.html #childsexualabusematerial(csam) #schooldiscipline(students) #teenagersandadolescence #rumorsandmisinformation #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #issaquahhighschool #washington(state) #childpornography #cyberharassment

Carmakers Are Pushing Autonomous Tech. This Engineer Wants Limits. - Missy Cummings, who spent more than a year at the federal auto safety agency, said that d... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/15/business/missy-cummings-tesla-autopilot.html #regulationandderegulationofindustry #driverlessandsemiautonomousvehicles #automobilesafetyfeaturesanddefects #electricandhybridvehicles #trafficaccidentsandsafety #rumorsandmisinformation #speedlimitsandspeeding #deaths(fatalities) #roadsandtraffic

What Texas Gains by Investigating Twitter’s Fake Accounts - For Ken Paxton, the state attorney general, there are positives. Aligning with Elon Musk?... - https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/technology/texas-twitter-ken-paxton.html #antitrustlawsandcompetitionissues #spaceexplorationtechnologiescorp #stormingoftheuscapitol(jan2021) #electionsattorneysgeneral #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #politicsandgovernment #teslamotorsinc #trumpdonaldj #socialmedia #paxtonken #texas

In New Facebook Effort, Humans Will Help Curate Your News Stories - A news section inside Facebook’s mobile app will be run by journalists and not just algorithms, th... more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/technology/facebook-news-humans.html?emc=rss&partner=rss #data-mininganddatabasemarketing #computersandtheinternet #rumorsandmisinformation #mobileapplications #newsandnewsmedia #browncampbell #socialmedia #facebookinc