Mike's new book has become an unexpected smash, selling thousands of copies in its first month. The KDADS sit down to talk about the book, where it came from, and some of the ideas—lingering especially on the idea of the good king and how modernity tells you to distrust authority.
Mike's new book has become an unexpected smash, selling thousands of copies in its first month. The KDADS sit down to talk about the book, where it came from, and some of the ideas—lingering especially on the idea of the good king and how modernity tells you to distrust authority.
"The argument from Telegram is, 'You should trust us because we tell you that we're trustworthy,'" Maréchal said. "It's really in the eye of the beholder whether that's something you want to buy into." WhatsApp, a rival messaging platform, introduced some measures to counter disinformation when Covid-19 was first sweeping the world. Founder Pavel Durov says tech is meant to set you free DFR Lab sent the image through Microsoft Azure's Face Verification program and found that it was "highly unlikely" that the person in the second photo was the same as the first woman. The fact-checker Logically AI also found the claim to be false. The woman, Olena Kurilo, was also captured in a video after the airstrike and shown to have the injuries. For example, WhatsApp restricted the number of times a user could forward something, and developed automated systems that detect and flag objectionable content.
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