Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Ohne Social-Media-Plattformen erreichen politische Akteur:innen junge Menschen mit politischen Themen kaum. Denn über das politische Geschehen informieren sich junge Zielgruppen mehrheitlich auf Socia...

Protest movements against COVID-19 containment measures, like Germany’s Querdenken, aim to put their position on the political agenda. The German far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) acted...

Artificial intelligence played a key role in the riots that followed the stabbing attack in Southport, UK, which claimed the lives of three young girls on 29 July 2024. By facilitating the circulation of fake news and racist conspiracy theories, algorithmic systems of recommendation mobilised hundreds of people to target asylum seeker facilities and harass perceived racialised migrants, particularly Muslims. The process of mass radicalisation accelerated and amplified by AI resulted in the “worst wave of far-right violence in the UK post-war.” Although much has been said about recommendation systems, the influence of Generative AI remains largely overlooked. This Insight seeks to address this gap by examining how both algorithmic systems of recommendation and GenAI tools were weaponised through the visual storytelling of the great replacement conspiracy theory. 

The discovery raises serious concerns about the integrity of the research in the papers and highlights flaws in academic publishing.

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