The group intends to fight what its leader, Nina Jankowicz, and others have described as a coordinated campaign by conservatives and their allies to undermine researchers who study disinformation.
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TikTok Faces E.U. Inquiry Over ‘Addictive’ Features
European officials threatened to fine TikTok and force it to remove some features, the latest regulatory challenge for the Chinese-owned social media app.
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AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material May Overwhelm Tip Line
A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to help fight the new epidemic.
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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.-generated sexually explicit images of minors.
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Windows vulnerability reported by the NSA exploited to install Russian malware
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Kremlin-backed hackers have been exploiting a critical Microsoft vulnerability for four years in attacks that targeted a vast array of organizations with a previously undocumented tool, the software maker disclosed Monday. When Microsoft patched the vulnerability in October 2022—at least two years after it came under attack by the Russian hackers—the...
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Black coaches in NCAA men’s basketball have a deeper bench but a quieter voice
A couple of weeks ago, the college basketball community was shocked when John Calipari announced that he was leaving University of Kentucky and going to the University of Arkansas. The shock for me was that in all the talk about who would replace Calipari at Kentucky, not one Black coach’s name was mentioned. Nate Oats...
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New York Knicks guard Jalen Brunson ‘never changed’ in his rise to stardom
New York City has long been known for celebrating bigger-than-life sports icons like Babe Ruth, Joe Namath, Joe DiMaggio, Patrick Ewing, Pele, Lawrence Taylor, Derek Jeter, Darryl Strawberry, Walt “Clyde” Frazier and Reggie Jackson, to name a few. Then there’s the current king of the New York sports scene who has little interest in the...