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Feb 29, 2024 | 
vox.com | Abby Ohlheiser
Those Tumblr, Reddit, and WordPress posts you never thought would see the light of day? Yep, them too.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
vox.com | Abby Ohlheiser
Getting AI to improve mental health outcomes is not as simple as firing up ChatGPT.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
nbcnews.com | Abby Ohlheiser |Micah Herskind |Tsach Saar
Abby OhlheiserAbby Ohlheiser is a technology reporter covering digital cultures, online influence, and trans issues. They have reported extensively on the Southern Baptist Convention as well as the conspiratorial turn within Evangelical churches. Additionally they hold a MA degree in religious studies focused on Evangelicalism. Micah HerskindMicah Herskind is an organizer and writer and has written for publications including New York Magazine, Vogue, Scalawag, Prism, Teen Vogue and Race & Class.
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Oct 29, 2023 | 
vox.com | Abby Ohlheiser
“Algospeak” is an evasion tactic for automated moderation on social media, where users create new words to use in place of keywords that might get picked up by AI-powered filters. People might refer to dead as “unalive,” or sex as “seggs,” or porn as “corn” (or simply the corn emoji).
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
vox.com | Abby Ohlheiser
It’s no mystery that after buying Twitter, now known as X, Elon Musk has taken steps to weaken the platform’s defenses against unchecked amplification of misinformation. In early October, the Israel-Hamas war became the first real test for how X now handles major breaking news events. By many accounts, it’s not going well. It’s clearer than ever that X has changed more than just its name. Misinformation has circulated freely on X in the minutes, hours, and days following Hamas’s attack on Israel.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
vox.com | Abby Ohlheiser
After Hamas militants launched a surprise attack on Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,000 and taking at least 150 hostages, and Israel declared war against Hamas and retaliated, photographs and videos of violence flooded out of the region and onto social media. Some of the images were posted by victims on the ground at the attacks. Some were reportedly seeded by Hamas, but others were years old, taken from conflict zones in other parts of the world, or even from a fictional video game.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
flipboard.com | Abby Ohlheiser
6:1414 hours agoGaza in ruins as Israeli forces continue attacksFOX 10 Phoenix - KSAZ • 14hIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and a leading opposition figure on Wednesday created a war-time Cabinet overseeing the fight to avenge a stunning weekend attack by Hamas militants. In the sealed-off Gaza Strip ruled by Hamas, Palestinian suffering mounted as Israeli bombardment demolished neighborhoods and the only power plant ran out of fuel.
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Oct 5, 2023 | 
vox.com | Abby Ohlheiser
For the past few weeks, TikTok creator Busy Belle has been telling her nearly 30,000 followers that castor oil, if applied to the belly button, can fight bacterial infections and dissolve tumors. She’s posted several videos to TikTok Shop, the platform’s new e-commerce tool, promoting Aliver Jamaican Black Castor Oil. One of these videos has more than 1.5 million views and the product she links to lists more than 33,000 total sales. Belle presumably got a cut from more than a few of these.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
vox.com | Sara Morrison |Abby Ohlheiser
The Big Tech antitrust reform movement has come for Amazon. On September 26, the Federal Trade Commission and 17 states sued the Everything Store for “illegally maintaining monopoly power.” This comes after two different antitrust lawsuits against Google from the Department of Justice — one of which is currently on trial — and another one against Meta from the FTC.
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Sep 21, 2023 | 
msn.com | Abby Ohlheiser
Anyone can get scammed online, including the generation of Americans that grew up with the internet. If you’re part of Generation Z — that is, born sometime between the late 1990s and early 2010s — you or one of your friends may have been the target or victim of an online scam. In fact, according to a recent Deloitte survey, members of Gen Z fall for these scams and get hacked far more frequently than their grandparents do.
