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Comment COVID-19 misinformation and false election claims (Score 1) 172

Misinformation such as:

a. COVID-19 vaccines were ineffective, most likly origininated in the Wuhan virology lab and caused long term damage to the immune system.

b. The Russians were manipulating US election and not Hilary Clinton and the DNC financing the Steele dossier through Fusion GPS.

Comment Only could have been catastrophic :o (Score 1) 32

How do they know it wasn’t already exploited? Dirk-jan Mollema created a test account that could authenticate as any user without being detected. Why didn’t the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) catch this? Is it due to the nature of the product, a highly interconnected system made up of numerous components. Making it difficult for developers to fully understand and, most importantly, hard to clone?

Comment Decades-long dip in teen mental health? (Score 1) 112

In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt explores the simultaneous rise in teen mental illness across various countries, attributing it to a seismic shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” around the early 2010s. He argues that the negative effects of this “great rewiring of childhood” will continue to worsen without the adoption of several norms and a more hands-on approach to regulating social media platforms.’

Comment Panopticon in the Age of Digital Media (Score 1) 23

Surveillance Society – Panopticon In The Age Of Digital Media (Donna Susan Mathew), Part 1

“The social technologies we see in use today are fundamentally panoptical – the architecture of participation is inherently an architecture of surveillance.” – Joshua-Michéle Ross

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