Ukraine and Russia are reporting cyber-attacks on their emergency alert apps, with fake warnings sent to users around the countries.

Ukraine was first to report problems, and for a short time the capital Kyiv was subject to a radiation threat, the Ukrainian Air Force has said.

A few hours later Russian authorities said its app was hacked, with a Ukrainian espionage group reportedly sending fake warnings of nuclear strikes inside Russia.

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Voters are gearing up to go to the polls in the consequential US midterm elections. What’s at stake? What are the key races to …

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How can you vote in an election if you can’t tell what is real?

Elections are more impacted by artificial intelligence than ever before, with millions being spent on ads to try and win over voters.
This week AI Decoded investigates how artificial intelligence is transforming modern elections, and whether democracy is prepared for the consequences.

Joining us are Oren Etzioni, one of America’s leading AI scientists and founder of TrueMedia.org, Sahil Shah, co-founder of Say No to Disinfo, and Priya Lakhani, CEO of Century Tech and a regular contributor to AI Decoded.

In this video:

0:00 – AI election ads
7:40 – Who is funding them?
9:47 – Is it legal?
12:55 – Can you avoid AI influence?

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Meta was ordered to pay $25bn (£18.6bn) by a judge in New Mexico after a two-week trial earlier this year which found it had spent years lying to the public about how it handled Facebook user data.

“The lies extend beyond Facebook’s data practices as well,” the judge said, adding they went to “the heart of Facebook’s core business practices”.

Meta’s head lawyer CJ Mahoney said the ruling made it “all but impossible to do business in the state of New Mexico”. The company intends to appeal, which Mahoney says will be successful.

New Mexico’s lawsuit stemmed from the role of Meta in what became known as the Cambridge Analytica scandal and New Mexico had also accused the company of intentionally misleading the public on how it benefitted from content that included hate speech.

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With the advent of OnlyFans, pornographic content has become a fixture of mainstream social media. But the influence of the adult entertainment industry on internet culture arguably began decades ago. On this episode, Matt and Marianna are joined by journalist Patricia Nilsson who has reported extensively on the secretive personalities who control ‘Big Porn’ and the business model behind it. We discuss the revolutionary data tracking practices first implemented by so-called tube sites to monetise attention, the regulatory trade-off between safety and privacy, and why anonymity online may be leading to more extreme pornography fuelled by our most primal instincts.

Top Comment is hosted by Marianna Spring and Matt Shea.

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