THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread
This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.
According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat
Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating.
This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens.
(Even better: Tesla will hate this)
The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND getting prestigious pubs as incentive.😫
To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled on the possibility of a lab leak in the past. Horrid but true.
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The global AI arms race is on—can Europe keep up, or is it still looking for the start button? 🚀🤖 www.france24.com/en/technolog...
GovWayback Access historical versions of U.S. government websites from before January 20, 2025 with a simple URL change. How it works: Take any .gov URL and add wayback.com right after .gov, and you'll be redirected to the Wayback Machine's archived version of the page. Examples: Simple domain: www.epa.gov → www.epa.govwayback.com Specific page: www.whitehouse.gov/administration → www.whitehouse.govwayback.com/administration Complex URL: www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2 → www.congress.govwayback.com/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2
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"Instead of a futile effort to keep this genie bottled up, the government and the industry should be preparing our society for the sweeping changes that are soon to come." by @zey.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...
Voi’s eight-year vehicle lifespan proves to be a big contributing factor to the operator's first profitable year.
Read more: zagdaily.com/trends/vois-...
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Today at Voi Technology we report our first profitable year ! Massive achievement for the micromobility industry t.co/wkv1wpizxf
photo of a bodysuit filled with garbage and a taped portrait of Elon Musk hangs upside down on the gate near piazzale Loreto in Milan, Italy. Photo from Ansa Italia 2025
Today in Milan, a student activist group hung a trash-filled effigy of Musk upside down on a gate outside of piazzale Loreto, where Mussolini's body was displayed in 1945.
They left the message: "C'è sempre posto a piazzale Loreto, Elon" (There's always room in piazzale Loreto, Elon)
The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention
www.404media.co/decentralize...
Zuckerberg says they’re unleashing free speech and “masculine energy”, but Meta is REMOVING THEME COLORS for personalizing PRIVATE messenger chats.
Such free speech.
Praising the politician who had just said he should be imprisoned for life?
So brave.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...
Russia, China and Iran all demonstrated a growing ability to create and disseminate AI-generated media and digital content during the 2024 campaign.
Beyond the US, over 130 deepfakes have been identified in elections worldwide since September 2023.
www.iss.europa.eu/pu...
Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes says Washington Post blocked her cartoon — first time, she says in her career — on tech moguls donating to Trump inauguration so she resigned from the job she had since 2008.
Thinnest of skins, I guess.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
New from me on what the rage and glee on public display after the killing of a healthcare CEO portends.
I suspect the corporate world will respond with more security and retreating even more into their gated lives.
They would be advised to read up on history.
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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/o...
NEW: X has become a hotbed of neo-Nazi content under Elon Musk. We identified the operators of four anonymous accounts that share racist, antisemitic, and neo-Nazi content. Three live in Texas. Musk has replied to two of them. One works for the Navy.
www.texasobserver.org/revealed-ope...
Pffff
Typical mainstream politician reaction. “It was TikTok’s fault! Let’s haul their CEO in front of the EP!”
Can we please *think* what specific problem we want to address here instead?
www.politico.eu/article/elec...
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology.⬇️
Why the people who hope RFK Jr will bring some amount of needed reform to the nation’s health and food are wrong.
He will likely bring a wrecking ball to the good parts, but doesn’t have the chops or the evidence mindset to go after, say, unhealthy food.
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