Check out and share my latest “Media Literacy Roundup” for July 9, 2024:
https://open.substack.com/pub/wfryer/p/media-literacy-roundup-9-july-2024?r=d4phj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
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#Disinformation Campaign of #Fake Images & #ConspiracyTheories On #SocialMedia Stoke #RightWing #Rage Around #LAProtests
Misleading photos, videos & texts have spread widely on social #media as #protests against #immigration #raids unfolded in #LosAngeles, rehashing old conspiracy theories‘ to support #Trump’s actions.
The flood of falsehoods appears intended to stoke outrage toward #immigrants & #Democrats.
#MediaLiteracy #moderation #TrumpLies #propaganda #Resist
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/la-protests-conspiracy-theories-disinformation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Well, I got something written before the start of work today.
There are so many other scattered thoughts I haven’t been able to set down properly over the last two weeks, but hopefully this piece explains at least some of the futility I’m moving through these days.
I hope it will offer some clarity and language to any others also trying to figure out what to do with the anger-in-grief they might feel these days.
#BetterWorldsTheory #MediaLiteracy #Politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/mlclark/p/overcoming-anger-at-the-ongoing-derangement?r=1ii76&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Bizarre
They Asked an #AI #Chatbot Questions.
The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.
#GenerativeAI #chatbots are going down conspiratorial rabbit holes & endorsing wild, mystical belief systems. For some people, conversations with the #technology can deeply distort reality.
Mr. Torres, 42, an accountant in Manhattan, started using #ChatGPT last year to make financial spreadsheets & to get legal advice.
#MediaLiteracy #tech #health #PublicHealth #MentalHealth
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/technology/chatgpt-ai-chatbots-conspiracies.html?unlocked_article_code=1.P08.q54v.5I9Hb7nYzpyW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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