Stephen
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Stephen
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🚨In Nature🚨
Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias?
We this test empirically & find that conservatives
* ARE suspended more
* BUT share more misinfo
So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Differences in misinformation sharing can lead to politically asymmetric sanctions - Nature
We find that conservatives tend to share more low-quality news through social media than liberals, and so even if technology companies enact politically neutral anti-misinformation policies, political...
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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This AI-generated image showing the New York Times office in flames offers a good reminder of what journalists and others are supporting when they keep using X
December 10, 2024 at 6:49 PM
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Fifa bid reviewers have given Saudi Arabia 2034 the "highest ever evaluation score" even though they don't even yet know when the World Cup will be played and the report references 40-degree summer heat (and cities suggested aren't yet built, let alone stadiums).
November 30, 2024 at 11:03 AM
#leadersdebate #climate THEY'RE HEATING THE DIGS.
November 26, 2024 at 10:59 PM
Independent Ireland have a mad idea to have a rainy day fund for
... checks notes...
rainy days.

#GE2024
November 22, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Did the maths and investing in my coffee machine 2 years ago was a significantly better investment than btc.
I'm not sure I should have bought 10 of them though 👀
November 21, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Radiator bleeding at record highs today.
Snow-Ice warning issued now for Munster for Thursday morning from 4am until Noon.
November 19, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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A year ago, I filmed this during the Dublin riots.

The person putting the burning box into the Garda car told a Dublin court today that “he made himself look like a scumbag”. He’s in custody and will be sentenced later this week. www.rte.ie/news/dublin/...
November 18, 2024 at 9:39 PM
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The Onion buys Infowars site from Alex Jones’s bankruptcy

heh
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/b...
The Onion Buys Alex Jones’s Infowars Out of Bankruptcy
The satirical news site planned to turn Infowars into a parody of itself, mocking “weird internet personalities” who peddle conspiracy theories and health supplements.
www.nytimes.com
November 14, 2024 at 2:35 PM