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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
kissane@mas.to ("Erin Kissane") wrote:
This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it?
https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/
It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely reported on for years. Karen Hao's work on this is outstanding:
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait