Taking a somewhat longer view, a recent study found that humans, not bots, have been the most important source of Covid-related misinformation. One individual was by far the biggest problem. Guess who?
This isn’t a place for political news but we can’t pretend yesterday was normal. So let’s talk about the social media sites that drive so much violence. We’ll start with a report that Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter put a brief restriction the President’s riot-stoking messages. It’s like keeping your teenager home from soccer practice for one day because she murdered Granny.
You didn’t expect yesterday’s events to delay Facebook’s continued assault on privacy, did you? They just changed the WhatsApp privacy policy to require users to share data with Facebook or lose their accounts.
Salesforce’s Dreamforce mega-conference is next week and the company’s publicity elves are already working overtime. In the first of what are sure to be daily announcements this week, the company announced 100+ industry-specific prompts, data models, and AI capabilities across its fifteen industry clouds. It also launched an AI Use Case Library to house its industry-specific AI offerings.