⚠️ Confirmed: “Access to Instagram, one of the last available social media platforms in #Iran, has been restricted amid protests over the death of #MahsaAmini; live metrics show frontends and CDNs now disrupted on multiple internet providers.” Via NetBlocks.

Key context here is that Candace Owens’ husband George Farmer is the CEO of Parler.

Today's media operations fail: Parler sent an email to all users with 300+ of their verified users CC'd instead of BCC'd Now hundreds of people are replying and everyone has access to the personal emails of many verified users and Parler investors

Kanye West meeting with misogynistic antisemitic white nationalist Christian fascist Nick Fuentes to plot running for president in 2024 seems like a solid career move.

On the podcast this week, MaxRizzuto and Alyssa Kann join to talk about the midterms and the lack of a catastrophic crescendo. postingthroughit.com/midterms-and-t…

NEW: Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club, an antifascist club which has acted as a volunteer armed deterrent for Proud Boys and militia members who have menaced LGBTQ+ events across north Texas, has been suspended. This comes after several anti-LGBTQ+ accounts and media figures were reinstated.

The podcast has returned (a few days early) from its winter slumber. On this J6 anniversary, I talked to @meghaneconroy and @AlexBNewhouse about their time working on the committee's investigation and what it says about the state of extremism today postingthroughit.com/181-meghan-con…

Criterion Collection has announced they will be launching a channel on TikTok to reach a new audience with their preservation of classic films. Launching today, Criterion has posted My Dinner with André (1981) as it’s first upload.

The viral spread of AI-generated images following former president Trump's indictment shows how synthetic media can be quickly deployed and exploited in information vacuums to sway public opinion. That’s bad. New from MaxRizzuto in Tech Policy Press: techpolicy.press/ai-propaganda-…

My latest in Tech Policy Press considered how the AI generated images of Donald Trump's arrest could serve as a bellwether for the future of AI-enabled propaganda.

After months of declining follower counts, some state-affiliated media outlets on Twitter started to gain more followers, all around the same date. Here's the sudden shift of an account from Russia's RT, beginning a period of follower growth March 28 and onwards:

NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO. Don't do this - human rights defenders already have images and videos undermined - don't contribute to it by utilizing AI-generated imagery in this way. Yes, there will be ways to use AI-generated imagery for advocacy - this is not it.

I didn't think it was real.

We lost to this...

No❤️

This is fast. Chrome running Gemini locally on my laptop. 2 lines of code.