The Trump administration has abruptly canceled several scientific research grants meant to fund studies tracking misinformation and other harmful content online.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU8.zBn3.LIsWVfbIlGJC&smid=url-share&ref=platformer.news

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Trump Administration Cancels Scores of Grants to Study Online Misinformation

Digital Wellness 📱🧘

The Trump administration has abruptly canceled several scientific research grants meant to fund studies tracking misinformation and other harmful content online.  https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/business/trump-online-misinformation-grants.html?unlocked_article_code=1.HU8.zBn3.LIsWVfbIlGJC&smid=url-share&ref=platformer.news   #Digital Wellness 📱🧘

Sam Mendoza

OpenAI said it had discovered 10 operations misusing its services in the past three months, four of which were likely based in China. Among other things, they used ChatGPT to write comments for social media intended to sow division in the United States.

good thing Trump dismantled the parts of government that protect us from foreign manipulation operations! 🤦‍♂️

https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5423607/openai-china-influence-operations?ref=platformer.news

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 #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖

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OpenAI said it had discovered 10 operations misusing its services in the past three months, four of which were likely based in China. Among other things, they used ChatGPT to write comments for social media intended to sow division in the United States.  good thing Trump dismantled the parts of government that protect us from foreign manipulation operations! 🤦‍♂️  https://www.npr.org/2025/06/05/nx-s1-5423607/openai-china-influence-operations?ref=platformer.news   #Artificial Intelligence    #🇨🇳 ChinA.I. 🤖🧠🦾🤖

The company said China and other nations are covertly trying to use chatbots to influence opinion around the world. In one case, operatives also used the tools to write internal performance reports.

OpenAI takes down covert operations tied to China and other countries

Nate

I'm sure we've all failed at this from time to time but it's worth nudging each other so we don't contribute to the already monumental and ever-growing sludge and morass of fake content. To the ever-spreading desert of the real.

https://stribs.medium.com/this-product-isnt-real-0baee60cc53e

I'm sure we've all failed at this from time to time but it's worth nudging each other so we don't contribute to the already monumental and ever-growing sludge and morass of fake content. To the ever-spreading desert of the real.  https://stribs.medium.com/this-product-isnt-real-0baee60cc53e

What a fake image of a new OpenAI product tells us about misinformation online

Sam Mendoza

A group of likeminded people in Digital Wellness 📱🧘 are talking about this.