This is Miyamoto. Filming is underway for the live-action film of The Legend of Zelda in a lush, natural setting, with Bo Bragason-san who will play Zelda and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth-san who will play Link (1/2).
It was an intense 2.5-day convening.
I’m thrilled to join the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Information Integrity. Looking forward to contributing to discussions on actionable strategies.
I've been a heavy user of Perplexity (with all the cautions). Now, they dropped this cool ad 😀 youtu.be/4UKM_yvTexI?...
This is a bit embarrassing, Germany’s Goethe Institut created a cartoon (and a video) story about my news literacy work. I am not sure how this would be helpful to anyone, but here it is. youtu.be/FOQ6SAe4jGs
Yes, the cameraperson was genuinely in tears, but the footage is nine years old. It has nothing to do with the recent meeting between Zelenskyy and Trump. annielab.org/2025/03/13/m...
Does the arrested man look like Hong Kong Cantopop heartthrob Keung To? Nope, the image shows a typical face swap manipulation. annielab.org/2025/03/12/f...
[Quote]“In exchange for the ability to establish operations in China, FB will agree to grant the Chinese government access to Chinese users’ data — including Hongkongese users’ data,” one privacy policy staffer wrote. [Unquote] www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Tempting... Should I give a nudge to get a free snack?
Tempting... Should I give a nudge to get a free snack?
Executive Summary A pro-Russia content aggregation network, Pravda, appears to be set up to flood large-language models with pro-Kremlin content, The American Sunlight Project has found. Over the past several months, ASP researchers have investigated 108 new domains and subdomains belonging to the Pravda network, a previously-established ecosystem of largely identical, automated web pages that previously targeted many countries in Europe as well as Africa and Asia with pro-Russia narratives about the war in Ukraine. ASP’s research, in combination with that of other organizations, brings the total number of associated domains and subdomains to 182. The network’s older targets largely consisted of states belonging to or aligned with the West. Notably, this latest expansion includes many countries in Africa, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and North America. It also includes entities other than countries as targets, specifically non-sovereign nations, international organizations, audiences for specific languages, and prominent heads of state. The top objective of the network appears to be duplicating as much pro-Russia content as widely as possible. With one click, a single article could be autotranslated and autoshared with dozens of other sites that appear to target hundreds of millions of people worldwide. ASP researchers also believe the network may have been custom-built to flood large language models (LLMs) with pro-Russia content. The network is unfriendly to human users; sites within the network boast no search function, poor formatting, and unreliable scrolling, among other usability issues. This final finding poses foundational implications for the intersection of disinformation and artificial intelligence (AI), which threaten to turbocharge highly automated, global information operations in the future.
A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans.
So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content:
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National Security Department police have taken Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute CEO Robert Chung in for questioning over allegedly assisting a wanted fugitive.
Former HKPORI deputy CEO Chung Kim-wah was placed on the NSD wanted list last December.
HK01:
"I'm just a simple European but…the United States seems to be the only country in the world where adding information is seen as censorship," said Maarten Schenk, Lead Stories chief operating officer and co-founder.
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I updated the description of the fact checking Starter Pack a bit...
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This week, Meta announced it’s ending its US fact checking partnerships.
In six years, we’ve fact checked 2,596 cases on critical issues like elections and public health. We’re proud to have played a part in ensuring people get access to good information.
IFCN's formal response. Open letter to him whom must not be named 😐 www.poynter.org/ifcn/2025/an...
This fun event was a significant step forward for our initiative across Asia. Participants, thank you for bringing all your enthusiasm and creativity to the event. talk.annieasia.org/p/fact-check...
BREAKING: Founding member of the Democratic Party Martin Lee has been stripped of his title as Justice of the Peace by #HongKong leader John Lee. No reason was given.
Lee, 86, was a founding member of the Democratic Party and a lawmaker for over two decades. hongkongfp.com/2024/12/27/b...
この分野に本腰を入れ始めてから12年経ちますが、2024年になって、日本の各方面から結構頻繁に声がかかるようになりました〔去年までは散発的にちらほらという感じだったので、大きな変化でした）。今年最後のインタビューも日本のYahoo!です。みなさま、よいお年を！
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Saw this in Nagoya this summer. A Hong Kong-themed restaurant serves only Korean-style ちゃんぽん (짬뽕?) noodle in Japan? Mind blown 🤯
NEW: We’ve updated our Government Tracker to include Labour’s newly-announced pledge to raise living standards by the end of the Parliament. We’ve currently rated it ‘Wait and see’.
I guess no method can accurately predict or evaluate future risks. Each methodology has its limitations and pitfalls. Aggregating experts' research results and opinions has some value, nonetheless, I suppose. Here's the full report. www.weforum.org/publications...
Revisiting this report/graphic. Wonder how the "risk" has materialised in these countries this year.
It tries to explain two circulation types: 1) organic spread driven by human psychology/natural behaviours; 2) coordinated efforts orchestrated by motivated actors with vested interests. Distinguishing them helps discuss mitigation/intervention strategies for each, as their target outcomes differ.
I am writing a book chapter called "Misinformation in Asia" for a future title in the field of law. Is anything missing or off-the-mark here? Any feedback is welcome 🙂
