How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites
How Much of the Internet Is Fake? Turns Out, a Lot of It, Actually. by Max Read (Intelligencer)

Some were sent to browse the internet to gather tracking cookies from other websites, just as a human visitor would have done through regular behavior. Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites — the fraudsters had essentially created a simulacrum of the internet, where the only real things were the ads.

How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was…

People living with long COVID explain how the disease changed their lives

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ype9O4rD3Gk&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour[/embed] The specter of long COVID, with its mysterious cause, no obvious cure and an unknown duration, haunts millions and millions of people. In this report, we hear from some of those who are suffering with it and Wiliam Brangham speaks with Dr. David Putrino of Mount Sinai Health in New York about the varied…

Bing’s ‘unhinged’ chatbot says it wants nuclear secrets | NewsNation Prime

chatbot says it wants nuclear secrets
Bing’s ‘unhinged’ chatbot says it wants nuclear secrets | NewsNation Prime from YouTube

Microsoft’s Bing chatbot has raised concerns after the AI sent alarming messages, including declaring its desire to be alive, its love for the user and even …

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTQNQDJpAHc&ab_channel=NewsNation[/embed] Microsoft’s Bing chatbot has raised concerns after the AI sent alarming messages, including declaring its desire to be alive, its love for the user and even its desire to obtain nuclear codes. Simon Willison, independent researcher and developer, joins “NewsNation Prime” to discuss what threat this technology could pose.

Anti-government [Actually Anti Fascist] protests continue – Globes

Protests Against Fascism in Israel 2023
Anti-government protests continue by Nitsan Shafir (Globes)

Nobel laureate Prof. Avram Hershko told a rally in Haifa: There will be no-one to protect the citizen from the tyranny of the regime.

Speaking in Haifa, Prof. Avram Hershko, a Nobel prizewinner for chemistry, said, “We must stop the madness. I can no longer stand aside, I must now express my opinion. What is happening here is an attempt to turn Israel from a democracy into tyranny, a dictatorship. There will be no-one to protect the citizen from…

Thousands in Israel protest far-right government’s plan to weaken nation’s judiciary

Israel protest far-right government's plan to weaken nation's judiciary
Thousands in Israel protest far-right government’s plan to weaken nation’s judiciary from YouTube

The recently elected far-right government in Israel took a clear step Monday toward passing highly controversial judicial “reform”. Its actions have created a massive reaction among Israelis who stand against it, saying they could fundamentally alter Israel’s democracy. William Brangham discussed the latest with David Makovsky of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO0v6Mcmg6Y&ab_channel=PBSNewsHour[/embed] Israel doesn’t have a constitution, but it does have a series of key rulings that, as best as possible under the circumstances and politics, protect the rights of Israeli citizens and residents. These rulings come through Bagatz, the Israeli equivalent of the supreme court of justice. The current government seeks to disempower Bagatz, putting…