A false story is spreading on Mastodon and other social media, claiming that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz believes, Ukraine cannot join NATO in the next 30 years.
I investigated this, and it is a lie. As anyone can see from this video, Scholz is talking about how Putin used a potential NATO membership as an excuse for attacking Ukraine, and Scholz is saying that AT THE TIME, he did not expect Ukraine to join NATO in the next 30 years.
Active measures is a term used to describe political #warfare conducted by the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The term, which dates back to the 1920s, includes operations such as espionage, propaganda, sabotage and assassination, based on foreign policy objectives of the Soviet and Russian governments against the United States and democratic western countries. Active measures have continued to be used by Vladimir Putin to control US politics through disinformation that enable controlling the Republican party.
KI generiert kein Wissen, sondern setzt gemäss voreingestellten Parametern und Algorithmen Wörter in eine in erster Linie grammatikalisch richtige Abfolge - in neuer Zusammensetzung.
Was darüber hinausgeht, bleibt am verfügbaren Datensatz an Informationen hängen. Sind die Informationen (aka der Datensatz) Müll, dann gibt KI grammatikalisch korrekten Müll in anderer Zusammensetzung wieder.
"After The Markup first reported on how Ohlala regularly translated misleading far-right websites like The Gateway Pundit and Newsmax into Vietnamese, more than a dozen Vietnamese community members asked The Markup to dig further. They wanted to know why she was broadcasting in Vietnamese and why her videos were so heavily pro-Trump. Several community members also shared suspicions that she was a Russian agent..."
⭐ Last year's theme for our games was #criticalthinking because it's clear bad actors will continue to use mis/disinformation to influence and harm young people.
We'll do what we can to prevent this through the use of intentionally designed prosocial video games.
Here are some tips from our free game 'MushWhom?' for students
💡 Be Curious
💡 Be Questioning
💡 Be Open
The narrator (Critical Thinking Cat) shares these tips and how they apply both to the game & to real-life.
"Americans are woefully ill-informed. That’s the only conclusion one can reach from a bunch of new polls that are chronicled in the links section below.
According to a new Harris poll for the Guardian, 55% of respondents think the economy is shrinking, 56% think the U.S. is in a recession, 49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, and 49% believe that unemployment is at a 50 year high."
"A whopping 72% also say they think inflation is increasing.
There is only one problem. NONE of those things is true. The market went up roughly 24% in 2023 and is up another 12% this year. The unemployment rate is under 4%, a near 50 year low. GDP is growing and there hasn’t been a recession since early in the pandemic year of 2020. And the inflation rate is dropping — down to 3.4% in April."
"This data indicates that it’s very possible Biden could lose in November because people’s perceptions about the economy are flat out incorrect and many voters have little grasp of what is happening in our politics.
The media is almost certainly at fault for the misperceptions about the economy."
"Jinping's political ideology
China’s latest artificial intelligence chatbot is trained on President Xi Jinping’s doctrine in a stark reminder of the ideological parameters that Chinese AI models should abide by"
"Something future historians will struggle to explain is that, in the 21st century, all of human knowledge became instantly available to anyone in the world, and the primary effect was to make everyone dumber.”
'Just 10 "superspreader" users on Twitter were responsible for more than a third of the misinformation posted over an eight-month period, according to a new report.
In total, 34 per cent of the "low credibility" content posted to the site between January and October of 2020 was created by the 10 users identified by researchers based in the US and UK.'
David Weiss now says the salacious conspiracies were false. With the indictment yesterday of Alexander Smirnov, the source of those false claims, Weiss confesses he is a direct witness in an attempt to frame President Joe Biden, even as Weiss attempts to bury it.
US Govt is seeking a protective order in the #Smirnov case disclosing what was fairly obvious: that the case involves sources & methods. And if there was an active #FISA order while the nitwit caucus was potting with Comrade Smirnov there's going to be a lot of panic in Dog Patch.
Republicans disseminated disinformation from Russian intelligence to harm President Biden. The Kremlin Hunter Biden Operation is used to gain control of American political outcomes.
Donald Trump and His Personal Attorney Rudy Giuliani Worked With #Russian Intelligence Agents to Try to #Steal the 2020 U.S. #Presidential#Election.
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) charged parliament member Oleksandr Dubinsky with treason, working with Russian FSB/KGB agents of russia, indicting him alongside Andriy Derkach and former prosecutor Kostyantyn Kulyk, who have both fled the country. The three were part of a Kremlin-backed effort to feed Giuliani russian disinformation in an attempt to harm President Joe Biden.
Our democracy is at war against far-right goons who want to establish a white-supremacist, #Christofascist dictatorship in America.
You understand—that an orchestrated plot against higher education is one front in the ongoing insurrection these traitors are waging, and that that insurrection dwarfs everything else in significance.
The #insurrectionists have put themselves permanently outside civil discourse in the United States, as they want nothing but the destruction of this country. They are not waiting to be preached to and converted; they are dangerous cultists who support the terrorism of #January6th#Jan6th.
The men orchestrating this #fascist assault on our values—Mike Flynn, Stone, Patel to Kirk, Rufo to Trump, Posobiec to Jones—aren’t stupid. Many of them have comms capabilities significantly beyond those of 90% of Americans—or intelligence backgrounds. They’re fighting an information war against us in a dastardly way they’ve long planned.