#media bots fakes
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
honestly, FUCK ISRAEL!!
#pro israel propaganda#influence campaign#us lawmakers#pro israel content#fake accounts#social media manipulation#israel's ministry of diaspora affairs#stoic marketing firm#chatgpt generated posts#misinformation watchdog#fakereporter analysis#fake news sites#online disinformation#us politics interference#social media bots#israel-palestine conflict#online influence operations#diaspora affairs denial#achiya schatz comments#new york times report
86 notes
·
View notes
Text
The most powerful moment of the coronation of King Charles III was not the gold glittering off carriages or epaulettes — not the pomp and show and signifiers of power.
It was precisely their opposite: when Charles shed his gold robes and stood in a thin white shirt, his frail humanity implied.
Then a screen was erected around him and, shielded, he had a private consultation with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who dabbed anointing oil with his hands on Charles’s bare breast.
"This was the most solemn and personal of moments,” Buckingham Palace said.
Charles was bare before God, in privacy, God being one of the last beings with no need to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
The Princess of Wales looked on as the screen shielded her father-in-law.
By contrast, she was at that point the most magnificent she had ever been, swathed in layer upon layer of regality, the dress, the robes, the hanging chains, headpiece and ribbons all serving to move the viewing gaze — subjects in every sense — from our awareness of Catherine Middleton with her everyday human DNA and towards the shared fiction of her transcendent queenliness.
Less than a year later, this moment is remembered with new and terrible power.
It is spring again, but it’s a time of hard Lenten moral reflection for us as a nation, in relationship to our royals, as well as an ever more voraciously unprivate modern celebrity culture.
Both the King and the princess have cancer, the latter’s disclosed by Catherine in an unprecedented video address on Friday, March 22.
Catherine’s speech was something of a plea bargain in which she traded not only her customary silence but her most personal of health ordeals in order to put an end to toxic rumours swirling online that had become in tone like an unruly mob rattling at the palace gates.
Or rattling at the figurative locks on her medical notes, with three workers at the London Clinic, where she and the King were treated, suspended and under investigation for allegedly trying to access her records (hers, it is important to note, the King’s were unmolested).
📷: Getty Images
What was so powerful about the anointing of the King was the sacredness of that space in which he could be fully human away from observation and judgment.
There should be another one-on-one consultation that is sacred, where anyone, from King to princess to pauper, can expect to be shriven in total privacy, and that is the sanctity of the medical room.
It used to be that priests were our only bound confidants, we could trust them to be privy to all our spiritual ills.
Now doctors are our secular priests: bound by law and ethics to enshrine confidentiality at the heart of the patient relationship.
As a result, our medical privacy in an age of oversharing and online surveillance feels both stranger and more necessary.
If we knew our every GP-inspected rash was to be posted on TikTok for the nation, many of us would quite literally die of embarrassment.
The King’s appointment behind the three-sided screen can now be viewed through the lens of royal illness.
The lavishly embroidered panels and expensive white shirt now replaced by the flimsy three-sided ward screen on wheels and thin hospital gown that can humble us all.
But it also enacts a principle at the very heart of becoming the monarch.
The medical-like screen is erected in the coronation to tell us there are some places the public cannot go; to tell us that there are sacredly personal moments in which a person, any person, however swathed in our projections of power, needs to be nakedly human.
Otherwise, they will go mad. We need to make sure the screens are erected around Catherine now.
Much is said, quite a lot of it by Prince Harry himself, of the dangers of the wives of the princes repeating the tragic history of their mother, Princess Diana, hunted by photographers.
He remains phobic to any hint of tabloid persecution or paparazzi chase. But this is a sideshow, even an anachronism in 2024.
He and others have not recognised how the “chase” has changed. Who needs paparazzi when there are a billion citizen hacks ready to take pictures with their phones, in case a convalescing woman nips to a Windsor farm shop with her husband?
Instead, the appetite now is not to see but to know.
The royals used to have a contract with the public: we pay for them, and in return, they give us their presence.
Nearly all of their official job is to do with surface: to show up, to put in appearances at a set number of functions, whether at the opening of parliament or the opening of a leisure centre.
But now parts of the online mob seem to be staging a coup. We want more than the surface, we want to puncture the skin barrier of the royal family and occupy from the inside.
The “fans” have become an invasive virus. The royal analogy is often that they are trapped in a gilded zoo. This new model, instead, casts the royals more as lab rats.
When Catherine disappeared from view in January after announcing a “planned abdominal operation,” the response from internet truthers was one of irate entitlement.
They are now the 1980s tabloids: ravening for intimacies and making stuff up when thwarted.
This wasn’t the boomer generation, who are both more respectful of the royals and more private about their own health.
It was the fortysomething mothers frustrated when they can’t track the phone location of everyone in their life; or the twentysomethings on Snap Map.
Both desperate for their personalised new Netflix season of “The Royals” to drop.
Catherine presents with such stoicism and dignity, it is easy to forget where this new invasiveness started: when she was pregnant with Prince George in December 2012 and hospitalised for extreme morning sickness.
While she was sleeping on the ward, a radio station in Australia rang the hospital switchboard pretending to be the Queen.
They broadcast the nurse’s comments about Catherine’s “retching.”
One could only find this prank funny if Catherine had already — a young, wretchedly ill, pregnant woman — been dehumanised.
George is now ten and his mother hospitalised again, and in that decade, the physical security of ill royals may have tightened but their claim to bodily autonomy seems to have weakened.
Some say Kensington Palace “brought it on themselves” by their wish for discretion; this claim is duplicitous.
The late Queen Elizabeth II became increasingly debilitated in her final years with not much detail ever given; just as her father, King George VI, died without disclosing his lung cancer.
I’m glad that the British do not subject their heads of state to the same publicised medical reports as the president of the United States; one shouldn’t have to present a stool swab to sit on the throne.
No, instead the apparent justification of all those clicking and posting conspiracy theories “worried for Catherine’s welfare” was this sinful truth.
As a beautiful, 42-year-old mother of three, her drama was more box office than the ailments of those older, a pound of her flesh was worth more.
Pity, Susan Sontag said in her 1978 book Illness as Metaphor, is close to contempt.
Back then cancer was still taboo. Those around the patient, Sontag says, “express pity but also convey contempt.”
Ask any cancer patient and they will say they don’t want pity: it is too isolating, it sets them apart, an unwanted privilege.
This is why the video plea of Catherine was one of affinity, rather than pity or privilege.
Last year, she sat in robes in Westminster Abbey at the coronation of her father-in-law, next to her future king son and future king husband.
In her video address last week, she sat on a classically English garden bench, pale, alone and in jeans, as bare of pomp as any royal can be.
No mention of kings or titles, just Diana’s ring on her hand.
Rather she gave an appeal, parent to parent, human to human, about her “huge shock” and her care for her “young family.”
And, finally, her kinship with anyone who lives in a vulnerable human body susceptible to a democratic illness like cancer, “you are not alone.”
Or, to paraphrase Richard Curtis:
“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a public, asking for some time to endure gruelling chemotherapy."
NOTE: Additional photos have been included in this article.
#King Charles III#Prince William#Prince of Wales#Princess of Wales#Catherine Princess of Wales#Catherine Middleton#Kate Middleton#British Royal Family#cancer#chemotherapy#preventative chemotherapy#social media#fake news#click farms#bots#trolls#disinformation#misinformation#viral#abdominal surgery#celebrity culture
80 notes
·
View notes
Text
Source
110 notes
·
View notes
Text
girl math is not whatever tiktok thinks it is girl math is me getting a 100% on my quantum physics assignment because i know what the fuck i’m doing
#girl math girl dinner i’m just a girl LITERALLY SHUT THE FUCK UP.#‘‘what’s the girl version of the roman empire’’ THE ROMAN EMPIRE.#GIRL IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH EASY. GIRL IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH STUPID. GIRL IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH SIMPLE.#congratulations tiktok you’ve sent the feminism movement back 70 years are you proud of yourself#AND THE WORST PART IS. MOST OF THE PEOPLE DOING THIS SHIT THINK THEYRE PROGRESSIVE#it’s not a silly little joke. where do you think it comes from in the first place. use your critical thinking skills that i know you have.#literally fuck this. social media has become a cesspool#like every tiktok trend has some insidious origin whether intentional or not. every comment section is filled with the most rancid shit ever#the only platform not as horrible is here but even THEN there is so much rampant bigotry if you step slightly outside of your curated bubble#i can only hope to hope that most of the rancidness is fake. that they’re just trolls or bots or smear campaigns.#and i can only hope that people in these tiktok trends just simply don’t know any better and are willing to learn.#mari is irrelevant
25 notes
·
View notes
Text
I know my silly little shitpost doodle complaining about spambots all over insta and tumblr has breached containment somewhat bc i’ve got a delightfully diverse amount of ppl in the tags of that post either a.) also complaining abt the spambots, b.) furries and other artists tagging it as such, c.) ppl making DOOM and pyro tf2 references, d.) fellow robotfuckers reblogging the addition I made giggling and throwing in their takes on robot fucking and what that entails, e.) ppl mortified by robotfucking at all, and last but not least, this one user who had this absolutely hilarious take that had me actually bust out laughing irl:
#words of meg#I LOST MY SHIT HELLPPPPP#I just. bruh.#i have the assume the op's only seen bayverse and not any actually good tf media bc i mean come on. have u SEEN his tits????????#i mean sure on like a top ten list of tf characters i'd wanna fuck#he'd rank lower than someone like. soundwave. or cyclonus#BUT I WOULD STILL GLEEFULLY FUCK SHOCKWAVE ARE U KIDDING#AND ANOTHER THING I only mentioned shockwave in reference to that other popular post someone made#calling out the ppl who wanted to fuck the androids from detroit become human as fake robotfuckers#bc 'you'd either fuck shockwave or you wouldn't'#because tf ppl will know#there are WAY worse bots i could've picked#i could've said like tarn or overlord or sunder or someone fucked up like that#buddy they're all war criminals we simply do not care. now open those panels for me#naw and the fact that they censored shockwave's name is SENDING MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
32 notes
·
View notes
Text
This post looks at a collection of accounts on different online platforms. While the accounts described in this post are just spammy at this point in time, they provide a useful, concrete, fully functional example of how the web could be destroyed. It’s easy to do — my sense is that a reasonably motivated high school student could replicate the system described in this post over a few days.
And, so we’re all clear: if I’m seeing this without trying while I’m online, criminals, thieves, scammers, spammers, and disinformation purveyors are implementing more sophisticated versions of this as we speak. Also, so we’re clear: the destructive power of this basic implementation is only possible because large platforms don’t have adequate checks in place around inauthentic engagement and harmful content. These are thorny issues, the platforms have been behind for years, and automated content creation will make these ongoing failures worse.
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
(Tumblr owners are legally responsible for directing some types of accounts (empties social media bots and hate and sex contents) to users, under the laws of several countries, including the laws of the network's country of origin. These accounts like 'empty tumblrs' and 'tumblrs with sexual contents' are directioned for Tumblr social media through the its mechanisms or other ways. It is declared BULLYING. So...STOP bots!
😠👩🏻⚖️⚖️ Tumblr does not comply with what has been publicly proposed.
Tumblr não cumpre o que se propôs publicamente.
Os proprietários do Tumblr são legalmente responsáveis por direcionar alguns tipos de contas (tumblrs vazios bots de rede, discursos de ódio e de conteúdos sexuais) aos usuários, de acordo com as leis de vários países, incluindo as leis do país de origem da rede. Essas contas como "tumblrs vazios" e "tumblrs com conteúdo sexual" são direcionadas para as mídias sociais do Tumblr através de seus mecanismos ou de outras maneiras que a empresa conhece bem. É declarado BULLYING. Então… PAREM!
https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2015/lei/l13185.htm
https://www.tumblr.com/policy/br/community
https://computerhoy.com/noticias/tecnologia/tumblr-eliminara-contenido-sexual-aunque-habra-excepciones-339765
https://sobre-tmblr-blog.tumblr.com/post/134407370622/tumblr-x-conte%C3%BAdo-inapropriado
And others...
E outros...
Se você configura para não mostrar, não tem como continuar sendo direcionado.
😠 Nem todo mundo é igual. Se vocês precisam de pornografia para ter desejo, vocês são um monte de bosta numa sociedade doente. Isso é fato. Isso é clínico.
Not everyone is the same. If you need porn to have desire, you're a piece of crap in a sick society. That's a fact. That's clinical.
#tumblr#empty tumblr#bots#media bots fakes#sex content#abuse#rights violation#respect#laws#leis#stf#brasil#brasileiros#bullying#justiça#justice#violaçãodedireitos#abusomoral#constituição federal#direito#direitoshumanos#rights#boots#law of internet#haters
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
Is it my imagination, or are there a lot of Obvious Bot Accounts showing up on Tumblr these days?
Because it seems like that's the case, and the bots are taking a leaf out of the later sections of the Evony Ad Playbook if you know what I mean.
#where are these obvious bots coming from anyway#they remind me of the once-common Obvious Fake Sexy Lady Accounts from Bird App#you know the ones#their profile picture was of a random Attractive Woman#probably stolen from an actual person's social media profile somewhere#usually coupled with either a generic New User Handle like Helena85773257#or one that was a name that was Unsettlingly Close To The Uncanny Valley#anyway it just seems weird that suddenly they're showing up here of all places#rambling in the tags
6 notes
·
View notes
Text
If you ever think that no way that many people could be this hateful/ignorant, you might be right.
That's how many fake accounts Ukraine managed to crack down on. All of them spread propaganda. Now imagine how many russia could have in the US, EU, or UK.
Ukraine might be fighting an open war, but never forget that russia is currently waging war against you, too. Against the principles of democracy and freedom. They spread everything, from Covid conspiracies to anti-Ukraine and even QAnon ideas. EU pretty much confirmed that russia stands behind the increase of right wing movements in Europe. They are responsible for every death, every brainwash that happened due to their propaganda to anyone's relative or friend.
It's time we fight back. Wherever you live, demand government crackdown on bot farms and social media accountability. A lot is at stake here, but we won't win this war without at least trying to fight back.
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
i am going to become the joker
#(i apologize for the following tags but i can't do this anymore)#this man is so full of shit i swear to god#these 'concerning tweets are from bolsonaro supporters who keep claiming the election was stolen because their candidate lost#to the point where they are until this day protesting in front of military headquarters begging for them to overthrow the government >#and install a new dictatorship.#this is so full of shit and the fact the new twitter owner is endorsing this by claiming twitter 'gave preference' to left wing candidates#is botherline dangerous and above all else a lie#many where the time where it was proved social media shadowed left wing content in favor of right wing#including twitter#because right wing content breeds on negative responses which in turn brings more views and attention and yada yada#it was only after huge pressure things began to change and even then right wingers were in greater advantage#the fact we won the elections was not 'favored'. not by twitter nor any other social media#it was a collective effort from the left to elect lula + people realizing bolsonaro is a piece of shit after four hellish years#the elections were not stolen. it was BOLSONARO and THE MILITARY who tried to suppress harass and straight up threaten people to vote 22#he tried to claim the ballots were fraudulent but when it was proven they weren't he tried to backtrack and double down#people were killed for expressing support for lula#and on the internet there is still a whole machinery of bots and fake news networks for bolsonaro#twitter was a breeding ground for right wingers to rise into public consciousness and eventually get into office#but of course they don't care about what happened here during these four years. they don't care about data or truth#elon is dickriding on right wing bullshit who only cares about his own ass and appeasing to his bootlicker followers#the day elon musk dies will be a happy day. just like when olavo died#txt.personal
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
#pro israel propaganda#influence campaign#us lawmakers#pro israel content#fake accounts#social media manipulation#israel's ministry of diaspora affairs#stoic marketing firm#chatgpt generated posts#misinformation watchdog#fakereporter analysis#fake news sites#online disinformation#us politics interference#social media bots#israel-palestine conflict#online influence operations#diaspora affairs denial#achiya schatz comments#new york times report
49 notes
·
View notes
Text
(CNN) — Jack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or rice terraces but its “click farms.”
Last year, the British photographer spent a month in the capital Hanoi documenting some of the shadowy enterprises that help clients artificially boost online traffic and social media engagement in the hope of manipulating algorithms and user perceptions.
The resulting images, which feature in his new book “Beggar’s Honey,” provide rare insight into the workshops that hire low-paid workers to cultivate likes, comments and shares for businesses and individuals globally.
“When most people are on social media, they want nothing but attention — they’re begging for it,” Latham said in a phone interview, explaining his book’s title.
“With social media, our attention is a product for advertisers and marketers.”
In the 2000s, the growing popularity of social media sites — including Facebook and Twitter, now called X — created a new market for well-curated digital profiles, with companies and brands vying to maximize visibility and influence.
Though it is unclear when click farms began proliferating, tech experts warned about “virtual gang masters” operating them from low-income countries as early as 2007.
In the following decades, click farms exploded in number — particularly in Asia, where they can be found across India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, and beyond.
Regulations have often failed to keep pace: While some countries, like China, have attempted to crack down on operations (the China Advertising Association banned the use of click farms for commercial gain in 2020), they continue to flourish around the continent, especially in places where low labor and electricity costs make it affordable to power hundreds of devices simultaneously.
‘Like Silicon Valley startups’
Latham’s project took him to five click farms in Vietnam.
(The click farmers he hoped to photograph in Hong Kong “got cold feet,” he said, and pandemic-related travel restrictions dashed his plans to document the practice in mainland China).
On the outskirts of Hanoi, Latham visited workshops operating from residential properties and hotels.
Some had a traditional setup with hundreds of manually operated phones, while others used a newer, compact method called “box farming” — a phrase used by the click farmers Latham visited — where several phones, without screens and batteries, are wired together and linked to a computer interface.
Latham said one of the click farms he visited was a family-run business, though the others appeared more like a tech companies.
Most workers were in their 20s and 30s, he added.
“They all looked like Silicon Valley startups,” he said. “There was a tremendous amount of hardware … whole walls of phones.”
Some of Latham’s photos depict — albeit anonymously — workers tasked with harvesting clicks.
In one image, a man is seen stationed amid a sea of gadgets in what appears to be a lonely and monotonous task.
“It only takes one person to control large amounts of phones,” Latham said. “One person can very quickly (do the work of) 10,000. It’s both solitary and crowded.”
At the farms Lathan visited, individuals were usually in charge of a particular social media platforms.
For instance, one “farmer” would be responsible for mass posting and commenting on Facebook accounts, or setting up YouTube platforms where they post and watch videos on loop.
The photographer added that TikTok is now the most popular platform at the click farms he visited.
The click farmers Latham spoke to mostly advertised their services online for less than one cent per click, view or interaction.
And despite the fraudulent nature of their tasks, they seemed to treat it like just another job, the photographer said.
‘There was an understanding they were just providing a service,” he added. “There wasn’t a shadiness. What they’re offering is shortcuts.”
Deceptive perception
Across its 134 pages, “Beggar’s Honey” includes a collection of abstract photographs — some seductive, others contemplative — depicting videos that appeared on Latham’s TikTok feed.
He included them in the book to represent the kind of content he saw being boosted by click farms.
But many of his photos focus on the hardware used to manipulate social media —webs of wires, phones and computers.
“A lot of my work is about conspiracies,” Latham said. ” Trying to ‘document the machines used to spread disinformation’ is the tagline of the project. The bigger picture is often the thing we don’t see.”
Click farms around the world are also used to amplify political messages and spread disinformation during elections.
In 2016, Cambodia’s then-prime minister Hun Sen was accused of buying Facebook friends and likes, which according to the BBC he denied, while shadowy operations in North Macedonia were found to have spread pro-Donald Trump posts and articles during that year’s US presidential election.
While researching, Latham said he found that algorithms — a topic of his previous book, “Latent Bloom” — often recommended videos that he said got increasingly “extreme” with each click.
“If you only digest a diet of that, it’s a matter of time you become diabetically conspiratorial,” he said.
“The spreading of disinformation is the worst thing. It happens in your pocket, not newspapers, and it’s terrifying that it’s tailored to your kind of neurosis.”
Hoping to raise awareness of the phenomenon and its dangers, Latham is planning to exhibit his own home version of a click farm — a small box with several phones attached to a computer interface — at the 2024 Images Vevey Festival in Switzerland.
He bought the gadget in Vietnam for the equivalent of about $1,000 and has occasionally experimented with it on his social media accounts.
On Instagram, Latham’s photos usually attract anywhere from a few dozen to couple hundred likes.
But when he deployed his personal click farm to announce his latest book, the post generated more than 6,600 likes.
The photographer wants people to realize that there’s more to what they see on social media — and that metrics aren’t a measurement of authenticity.
“When people are better equipped with knowledge of how things work, they can make more informed decisions,” he said.
“Beggar’s Honey,” co-published by Here Press and Images Vevey, is available now.
#Jack Latham#click farms#box farms#Hanoi#Vietnam#Beggar’s Honey#box farming#social media#algorithms#user perception#trolls#PR#marketing#advertising#likes#comments#shares#digital profiles#virtual gang masters#bots#spam#China Advertising Association#click farmers#mass post#disinformation#misinformation#fake news#metrics
13 notes
·
View notes
Text
I feel bad for Uerica, Sylvia, Nicole, Constance, Evangeline, Annie, Celia, Heather, Aggie, Georgie, Colleen, Katie, Melanie and Deborah. Why do parents give their girls first names the same as their last? OH, they're bots making social media worse. Got it.
#facebook #twitter #instagram #threads #girl #bots #socialmedia #exhausting
0 notes
Text
The Dark Side of Algorithms: Fake Accounts and AI-Driven Manipulation in Social Media
As AI continues to integrate itself into the fabric of modern life, the ethical challenges surrounding its use become increasingly critical. Nowhere is this more evident than in the world of social media, where artificial intelligence is being used to create fake accounts, skew public discourse, and promote harmful content for the sake of engagement. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter (X), and…
View On WordPress
#ai#AI algorithms#AI algorithms in social media#AI and compassion#AI and ethics#AI and hate speech#AI and human influence#AI and misinformation#AI and public discourse#AI and transparency#AI and truth#AI for the greater good#AI impact on society#AI in social media#AI manipulation#AI responsibility#AI-driven manipulation#AI-generated content#algorithm accountability#artificial intelligence#corporate responsibility AI#ethical AI#Facebook fake accounts#fake accounts#Nexus book#social media bots#Twitter bot accounts#Yuval Noah Harari
0 notes
Text
Israeli Psy-Ops on Americans
youtube
Some democratic ally...😒
#psy op#palestine#palestinians#gaza#genocide#israeli propaganda#israeli atrocities#israeli apartheid#israeli occupation#war crimes#free palestine#free gaza#justice#idf terrorists#iof war crimes#iof terrorism#arrest netanyahu#icc#icj#right wing extremism#influence campaign#fake news#chat bots#social media#lies#trolls#racism#american politicians#us politics#humanitarian crisis
0 notes
Text
Ew the bots have found me
#This is a warning if you just followed me and have a blank profile CUSTOMISE THAT BITCH BABY#and don't just make it a random picture of a girl that's definitely from porn! /j#Imma do a purge sometime later today or tomorrow and blanks will be blocked and reported#wouldn't wanna eject any Tumblr newbies by mistake#(but also how did you find me if that's you)#legit this is very funny though like? Has there been a sudden influx of bots recently or is it just me? Just went from 100 followers to 176#(I don't like playing the social media numbers game but I do keep a lowkey eye on my followers jbc I find it interesting)#(I am infinitely fascinated by the fact people are apparently perceiving me)#(a whole 100-ish of them?? Sounds fake but ok.)
1 note
·
View note