Greetings Humanoids! Did you know we have a newsletter all about AI? You can subscribe to it right here. Often, world-breaking news complete with video or images will first be tweeted by on-site responders, participants, and eyewitnesses. These cover the whole gamut of news from different fieldspolitics, world events, business, entertainment, etc. Our teams are looking into the findings of the study and as always continue to explore ways where appropriate to improve our systems.” Twitter is already the go-to site for live breaking news, trending news, or viral news. Update (11:30AM CET, June 9, 2021): A Twitter spokesperson told TNW: “ In our work to support the health of the public conversation we regularly monitor Trends and Search type-ahead suggestions to prevent content and/or behaviors that are against the Twitter Rules. “Broader media outlets report on trends, which are used as a proxy for what people are talking about, but unfortunately, it’s a manipulated proxy, distorting the public view of what conversations are actually going on.” “This manipulation has serious implications because we know that Twitter trends get attention,” said Overdorf. The company has acknowledged that the attacks do exist, but the researchers say the problem has still not been fixed. The team says they’ve twice notified Twitter about the issue. “This was then picked up by several news reports, other social media platforms, and in academic papers,” said study co-author Rebekah Overdorf in a statement. “In reality, it was completely fabricated.” One of the manipulated hashtags that were artificially pushed to Trends was #SuriyelilerDefolsun (“Syrians get out.”) The attackers employed both bots and compromised accounts to generate the fake trends, which included phishing apps, disinformation campaigns, hate speech, and even marriage proposals. They found that these attacks accounted for at least 47% of local trends in Turkey and 20% of top 10 global trends analyzed during their study. The researchers inspected both Turkish local and global Twitter trends to investigate the impact of ephemeral astroturfing. However, despite the importance of the integrity of the list of trends, the algorithm does not check whether those tweets are still available or have been deleted. Trends are refreshed every five minutes, taking as input tweets that have been published in some time interval. The mechanism generates significant influence and potential revenue, which makes it an attractive target for adversaries seeking to manipulate users.Įphemeral astroturfing enables them to boost their messages by exploiting the design of the Twitter trends algorithm. On Twitter, trending topics are determined by an algorithm that identifies subjects that are popular at a given moment. In this attack, a chosen keyword or topic is artificially promoted by coordinated and inauthentic activity to appear popular, and, crucially, this activity is removed as part of the attack. The Duchess angered South Africans with her words as she described of the residence as "housing unit".The researchers call this new form of attack “ephemeral astroturfing:” She explained her son had not been harmed as he was not in the room thanks to his nanny Lauren, who had taken the tot downstairs with her for a snack. The Duchess of Sussex said: "The moment we landed, we had to drop him off at this housing unit that they had had us staying in. In the first episode of her podcast series Archetypes, Prince Harry's wife appeared with tennis star Serena Williams sharing an incident sparked by a heater placed in the nursery where her then-four-month old son Archie was meant to be napping while his parents were executing royal duties. Meghan Markle reportedly angered people of South Africa with her first podcast in which she spoke of an incident which took place during the couple's last royal tour. While it was not immediately known whether people who posted tweets under the hashtag were actually South Africans, several British royal fans and commentators were seen using the hashtag on Sunday. Thousands of tweets were posted under the hashtag "VoetsekMeghan (Go away Meghan) as South African users criticized Meghan Markle.
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