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Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online. Now, some of those researchers are fighting back. Last week their lawsuit—which could have global...
Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The printing press spread vernacular literacy, helping give rise to the Reformation and, eventually, representative government. The telegraph made it possible to administer vast nations like the US,...
For years, experts have warned that deepfakes—AI-generated videos, images, or audio recordings of people doing or saying things they haven’t actually done in real life—could be deployed in malicious ways. These dangers are now here. Improvements in deepfake technology, and the widespread...
L'émergence d'eYou, un nouveau réseau social européen fondé par deux entrepreneurs français et intégrant un système de fact-checking en temps réel,...
Si vous avez l'impression que tout ce que vous lisez en ligne est conçu pour vous énerver... vous avez probablement raison ! Le rage bait, élu mot de l'année 2025 par Oxford, c'est exactement ça. Et RageCheck , un outil gratuit lancé début janvier, se propose justement de le détecter pour vous. En...
La plateforme X (anciennement Twitter) intègre désormais Grok, l'IA de Musk, pour générer les premières ébauches de ses « Community Notes ». Cette...
It was early evening in Berlin, just a day before Christmas Eve, when Josephine Ballon got an unexpected email from US Customs and Border Protection. The status of her ability to travel to the United States had changed—she’d no longer be able to enter the country. At first, she couldn’t find...
La professeure d’économie à Sciences Po a mené, avec un groupe d’économistes, une étude sur l’efficacité du travail de vérification des informations à partir d’une collaboration avec l’Agence France-Presse. Elle détaille, dans un entretien au « Monde », les conditions nécessaires à la performance...
At some point next month, a handful of volunteers will be injected with two experimental gene therapies as part of an unusual clinical trial. The drugs are potential longevity therapies, says Ivan Morgunov, the CEO of Unlimited Bio, the company behind the trial. His long-term goal: to achieve...
Something is rotten in the city of Nunapitchuk. In recent years, a crack has formed in the middle of a house. Sewage has leached into the earth. Soil has eroded around buildings, leaving them perched atop precarious lumps of dirt. There are eternal puddles. And mold. The ground can feel squishy,...
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral Wikipedia is the most ambitious multilingual project after the Bible: There...