Social: Combat disinformation via thinking
What a radical concept – so radical this just might work! “Instead of relying on regulation, we should be relying on building more robust social resilience,” said Vilas Dhar, president…
Doomerism: Doomscrolling
Doomscrolling is the constant checking of news, typically seeking out scary news that has a negativity bias. Doomscrolling leads to mental health problems.
Media: Much “journalism” writing to be replaced by AI?
G/O media will make more AI-generated stories despite critics – Vox If you use Bing News or Yahoo News, you likely see a LOT of “stories” that are along the…
Instagram really is killing off still photos
Instagram is gradually eliminating still photos and adding 20% of posts as "suggested' - so you don't see those you follow.
Follow up: Trevor Jacob and his [faked] plane crash
The original stunt: Trevor Jacob and his plane crash – Coldstreams Skeptic As of May 2023, Trevor Jacob admits it was a faked stunt for a promotional opportunity. He also…
Security: Lily Collins Facebook hack garnering media coverage
The hack swipes 2FA authentication tokens from the user’s computer and then uses those to login to their FB account, change their password, change the account name to Lily Collins,…
Security: Details on one of the Lily Collins Facebook Hack Methods
So far, at least 3 Chrome extensions contained compromising code to do these attacks. Plus it looks like a FB ad network delivered add did a drive-by install of a…
How the Lily Collins Facebook Hack May have worked
Details are here. I believe there were multiple attack vectors. The one described at the link is an analysis of a Google Chrome extension that grabbed the authentication cookie for…
Facebook “Lily Collins” hack
The Lily Collins hack is gradually encompassing more and more Facebook accounts. The attack has been underway since January and is still underway in late March. Facebook has no comment…
The “Lily Collins” Facebook hack is still underway
Facebook has no control over the hack. It’s being blamed on a Google Chrome extension – but I don’t use Google Chrome. It’s also been blamed on a drive by…