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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mas.to  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it?

https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/

It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely reported on for years. Karen Hao's work on this is outstanding:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/11/20/1039076/facebook-google-disinformation-clickbait

MIT Technology Review

How Facebook and Google fund global misinformation

The tech giants are paying millions of dollars to the operators of clickbait pages, bankrolling the deterioration of information ecosystems around the world.
404 Media

AI-Generated Sora Videos of ICE Raids Are Wildly Viral on Facebook

An account is spamming horrific, dehumanizing videos of immigration enforcement because the Facebook algorithm is rewarding them for it.
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Dr Andrew A. Adams #FBPE 🔶
@a_cubed@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane @inthehands
See the work of philosopher David Livingstone Smith for in-depth, highly readable, explanations of the centuries old practices of dehumanization propaganda, from medieval art abotut Jews to the Nazis. to the Rwandan genocide.
https://www.davidlivingstonesmith.com/

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M. Grégoire
@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane Are the videos intended to provoke pro-ICE or anti-ICE reactions?

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Toni Aittoniemi
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane Yup. A lot of people want to see other people hurt.

And we go around making technology & politics like these people don’t exist at all.

We create these tools that are basically playing fields for far-right recruitment actors.

The tech leaders could be excused for being ignorant of this if they were regular people. Knowing this requires some knowledge and smarts.

But if you’re smart, it is assumed you know this, and are ignoring it. On purpose, for profit.

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Sassinake! - ⊃∪∩⪽
@Sassinake@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane

oh you just know the Regime would love to see Rwanda-style massacres on the streets of America. They fap to such fantasies of rape, pillage and murder.

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Olivier Forget
@teleclimber@social.tchncs.de replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane You can instantly tell the videos are fake because none of the ICE / CBP dudes are wearing masks.

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CakeMonster
@cakemonster@hear-me.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane this is designed to sowe distrust in online reporting...

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CakeMonster
@cakemonster@hear-me.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 7 hours ago

@kissane this is designed to sowe distrust in online reporting...

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zetabeta
@zetabeta@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@kissane
probably pointless for this audience, but anyway.

boycott meta inc, facebook, whatsapp, instagram and threads. particularly whatsapp, because it leaks almost all metadata to facebook for abuse.

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Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe
@phwolfe@scicomm.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 9 hours ago

@kissane How is this not the same level of criminality as a weapons dealer?

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 hours ago

Two years ago, I wrote at very great length about how this played out in Myanmar. It is so upsetting to see how many of the same dynamics are at work here now.

https://erinkissane.com/meta-in-myanmar-full-series

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Jan Lehnardt :couchdb:
@janl@narrativ.es replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@kissane “I wish more people would learn from history… not like this!”

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Erin Kissane
@kissane@mas.to replied  ·  activity timestamp 8 hours ago

@janl 🌬️

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