Misinformation
AI Overviews Rife With Scam Phone Numbers
In a new take on an old scam, AI Overviews are inadvertently coughing up fraudulent phone numbers for companies that appear in search queries leading callers to miscreants who elicit sensitive data and ...
TikTok’s New U.S. Deal and Privacy Policy: What Users Don’t Understand
TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements and avoid a ban. This week we discuss why a recent privacy policy ...
Seeing Is Not Believing: How to Spot AI-Generated Video
In this episode we discuss the rising challenge of AI-generated videos, including deepfakes and synthetic clips that can deceive even a skeptical viewer. Once the gold standard of proof, video content is ...
Trump’s TikTok Tarry — Yet Again, Ban-Can Kicked Down the Road
PAFACA Pause Persists: Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the children? ...
Facts, Schmacts – Meta Joins X in Ceasing Content Moderation
On January 6, 2025, Meta, formerly known as Facebook, formally announced that it would cease its “fact-checking” operations, and allow the internet itself, through comments posted, to be the final arbiter of ...
Trump U-Turn: TikTok’s On-Again/Off-Again U.S. Ban
Not For You: “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act” shouldn’t be enforced, orders President Trump ...
Meta Ditches Fact-Checking for Community Notes, RedNote and the TikTok Ban
In this episode, we explore Meta’s recent decision to replace traditional fact-checking with community notes and its potential impact on misinformation. We also discuss the implications of a TikTok ban in the ...
Misinformation is Ruining our Elections. Here’s How we can Rescue Them.
As the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election approaches, along with other pivotal elections worldwide, the online spread of misinformation is reaching new heights ...
TikTok ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ — Idiots Chased by JPMorgan
Dimon’s dollars (not yours): No, Chase Bank isn’t going to let you cash bad checks. It’s fraud—no matter what X and TikTok tell you ...
Olympic Gold at Risk: AI Cybercriminals Target 2024 Games.
The Summer Olympic Games will be held in Paris this year, and while the athletes will be focused on breaking world records, there are plenty of opportunistic cyberthreat actors who will be ...
