New Head of New Disinformation Governance Board, resigns
The mission of the board was not clear. The newly appointed head had, herself, a history of spreading disinformation online.
Stanford’s Professor Michael McFaul is a fool [has since apologized and backpedaled on his original comment]
Stanford’s Professor Michael McFaul is a fool. He said on MSNBC that Hitler never targeted ethnic Germans. McFaul is a fool, an idiot, and makes us wonder if his biography is a fraud. He is a professor of International Studies at Stanford, Director of their International Studies Institute, and was a White House policy advisor for five years on Eurasian affairs. He also is why “expert” has become synonymous with idiot.
I’m so old, I remember when Facebook said AI would fix everything
Thanks to Facebook’s artificially stupid recommendation algorithm: Facebook mistakenly labels black men ‘primates’ Source: Facebook mistakenly labels black men ‘primates’ – France 24
17 year old arrested for hack that took over Twitter
Twitter was hacked and taken over by a 17 year old.
Social media: Wanna-be Instagram star forces airliner to turn around and fly 1,000 miles back to airport
Wanne be social media star forces a Canadian airliner to retrace 1,000 miles of flight and return to Canada with 243 passengers on board. His goal was to film a video on board as he falsely claimed he had coronavirus with the goal of creating a social media viral video. He’s now under arrest in Canada and may eventually be sentenced to prison. His actions demonstrate how social media turns people into self absorbed, narcissistic idiots.