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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Celebrities rarely sue when their AI-generated images are used in scam online advertisements.</li><li>Mike <keyword id="23762289" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="huckabee" source="keywords">Huckabee</keyword>'s lawsuit over his bogus CBD gummies ads on Facebook is an exception.</li></ul>When celebrities get deep-faked, they don't tend to run off to the nearest courthouse to sue Facebook or YouTube. Oprah Winfrey did not file a lawsuit earlier this year after her AI doppelganger hawked a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67703018">$37 self-help course</a> based on "missing" Bible scriptures. Neither did <keyword id="19897184" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="taylor-swift" source="keywords">Taylor Swift</keyword> after her recent deepfake "endorsement" of Donald Trump. When dueling deepfakes of <keyword id="19928904" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="tom-hanks" source="keywords">Tom Hanks</keyword> shilled for a dental plan last October and a miracle cure in August, the real Tom Hanks sued no one. Likewise, Jennifer Aniston, whose AI double recently told Facebook users that she owes her timeless bikini body to collagen supplements, did not run to the courthouse. Amid this litigation restraint, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee stands apart. He, too, has been targeted. In May, Huckabee, a Baptist minister and staunch conservative, discovered his manipulated image had been used for months in Facebook ads for CBD gummies. "CBD cured me and can save American lives," the ads quote the two-time GOP presidential candidate as saying. "It was quite the shock," Huckabee told Business Insider Wednesday. "I was just outraged." Huckabee may now be the only deepfaked American public figure who is taking his outrage to court. His lawsuit against <keyword id="19911549" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="meta" source="keywords">Meta</keyword>, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, demands unspecified damages "for its malicious conduct." "Meta profited from these unlawful advertisements, and because of Meta's approval, these advertisements reached millions of Facebook users," the lawsuit alleges. An attorney and spokesperson for Meta did not return requests for comment for this story. The company is fighting to dismiss the lawsuit, an effort centered on Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act. Since 1996, Section 230 has generally immunized publishers of third-party content from lawsuits. Experts in digital law told Business Insider that Section 230 protections make it virtually impossible to successfully sue a social media platform over deepfake scam ads. So while public figures get deepfaked all the time, Huckabee v Meta, filed in federal court in Delaware, is unsurprisingly a rare effort, they said. "He's going straight into the teeth of an impressive record of courtroom futility," said Eric Goldman, a professor of digital law at Santa Clara University. Huckabee said he remains determined. "There are so many people who have been defrauded in this way, and either they don't have the energy to pursue it, or they think it's an effort in futility, which I disagree with," he said. "Quite frankly, it's kind of a Wild, Wild West approach that they've taken, that they can do whatever they want to do, and no one can touch them," he added, referring to Meta. "I think it's time to touch them." <div type="image" title="Attorney Scott Poynter, left, and former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee after taping the October 12 episode of the Trinity Broadcasting Network talk show, &quot;Huckabee.&quot;" height="3712" width="5568" msid="114654293" hostid="261"></div><h2>Facebook is "an advertising company"</h2>Huckabee's lawyer, Scott Poynter, said he knows of one lawsuit that's similar to the former governor's, and he said its progress has given him hope. Three years ago, in federal court in California, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-new-crack-down-scam-accounts-banks-sharing-data-2024-10">Australian mining magnate Andrew Forrest</a> filed a lawsuit making a similar claim. The billionaire alleged that Meta was negligent in posting deepfake cryptocurrency scam ads using his image. The ads remained up on Facebook and Instagram despite Forrest's repeated demands they be taken down, and defrauded victims out of millions of dollars, his suit alleges. In June, US District Court Judge P. Casey Pitts rejected Meta's argument that the case should be dismissed pretrial on Section 230 grounds. The decision means Forrest may proceed to trial on this claim: that Meta was more than just a neutral conveyor of content and, therefore, has no immunity from a negligence claim. That's Huckabee's argument in a nutshell, Poynter said. "Facebook is an advertising company," he told BI. "Almost 98% of Meta's $134 billion in revenue last year came from the sale of advertisements. Its algorithm decides how many of these ads will be sent out, and who will see them." "We argue that Meta is no longer a third-party content provider protected by 230 immunity when it manipulates and pushes an ad, through its algorithm, to the people who are most likely to buy." Goldman, the digital law professor, thinks the Forrest decision may be "an anomaly." "If I were Facebook, I would appeal," he said. Still, there are warning signs that 230 immunity is in legal jeopardy, he said. He pointed to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/blackout-challenge-tiktok-death-could-end-section-230-liability-protections-2024-9">Anderson v. TikTok</a>, a lawsuit on behalf of a 10-year-old girl, Nylah Anderson, who died trying the "Blackout Challenge" promoted on her TikTok feed. In August, a federal appeals court in Pennsylvania found that because its algorithm fed these videos to the girl, TikTok served as more than just a neutral repository of third-party content. The court rejected TikTok's 230 challenge, allowing the case to go forward. "They found that algorithms are content, protected by the First Amendment, so they're not covered by 230 immunity," Goldman said. "It's obviously wrong, and it will be appealed, maybe to the US Supreme Court," he added. "And if it works, it's the end of 230 protection" for social media platforms. <div type="image" title="A false Facebook ad, since taken down, in which former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee &quot;endorses&quot; CBD gummies." height="538" width="1028" msid="114654296" hostid="261"></div><h2>'What the heck is going on?'</h2>Mike Huckabee can't remember the precise moment in May when he realized his doppelganger was selling CBD gummies. He just remembers he was "livid." "I was getting a number of friends who were sending it to me," he remembered. "And they were saying 'What the heck is going on?'" The ads used photos of the former governor, including from his nationally syndicated talk and variety show, "Huckabee," which runs weekly on Trinity Broadcasting Network. Other photos were clearly AI-manipulated, his lawsuit says. "There is no real photo of me like it. It looks like I'm crying," Huckabee told BI. "I'm in a bright red paisley shirt, and it looks like I'm at the end of my rope." At least one of the ads took the form of a Fox News story, the lawsuit alleges. All of the ads falsely said Huckabee was leaving Trinity Broadcasting because he had nearly died after a four-year battle against an auto-immune disease — but that the "miracle" of Fortin-brand CBD gummies had saved his life. The ads also falsely claimed that because he'd switched to gummies, he no longer needed to take opioid painkillers. Fortin is still selling CBD gummies online without the help of a bogus Huckabee endorsement. The company is not named as a defendant in Huckabee's lawsuit, and a representative did not respond to requests for comment for this story. Huckabee said he was soon inundated with calls from friends, fans, people from the network, and sponsors from the show, all wondering if he was really sick, really quitting, and really popping CBD gummies. "Governor Huckabee does not endorse CBD gummies or any marijuana derivative," Poynter told BI. "For decades, Governor Huckabee has been against marijuana and its derivatives." The former governor said he has more than 2 million followers on Facebook and has had beef with Meta before, including when it temporarily froze his account after he criticized the government's COVID response. "Everybody I know has been Facebook jail," he said. "If they're monitoring the content of people who don't have that much content, why can't they see these ads?" Huckabee said he is no fan of Section 230 immunity. The law was enacted to encourage the growth of the internet and protect free speech, but "I don't think we have to worry about that now," he said. "We have to worry about how the internet has become a monster and it's gobbling up people's lives," he added. As for his lawsuit, "We're going to take it as far as we can take it," Huckabee said. Meta is due to file additional papers supporting its motion to dismiss the Huckabee lawsuit on Monday. In the Forrest case, the company continues to argue that it has meaningful safeguards in place to combat scam advertisements. Correction: October 28, 2024 — An earlier version of this story misspelled Taylor Swift’s name.

Mike Huckabee is the unlikely avenger of deep-faked celebrities

Thiruvananthapuram, <keyword id="19896018" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Kerala" source="keywords">Kerala</keyword>: In a move to empower school children, the <keyword id="22767948" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Kerala-General-Education-Department" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Kerala General Education Department" meta.hostid="83" meta.entityid="Kerala General Education Department">Kerala General Education Department</keyword> has added 'Fact-Checking' modules as part of new <keyword id="21870096" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="ICT-textbooks" source="keywords">ICT textbooks</keyword> for Classes 5 and 7, designed to help students recognize fake news and perform fact-checking on online platforms. The move by the Kerala government was implement even ahead of UK which reportedly is is planning to revise their primary curriculum by including this topic. Earlier in 2022, Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE), the technology arm of Kerala General <keyword id="19921999" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="education-department" source="keywords">Education Department</keyword>, had imparted Fake News prevention and awareness creation training for 19.72 lakh students of Grades 5 to 10, as part of the Digital Media Literacy programme. It was the first time in India that such a massive training was given to 9.48 Lakh Upper Primary students and 10.24 High school students with the help of 5920 trainers. The 2.5 hours of training which was titled 'Satyameve Jayathe' focused on four sections which included the 'Use of the Internet in day-to-day life', 'Social Media requires us', 'Rights and Wrongs in Social Media' and how to prevent the spread of fake news. The false information shared through digital media, the negative impact it creates on society and the verification of the authenticity of information were made part of the training through various 'Case Studies'. The training also focused on areas such as understanding the influence of digital media in information transactions, creating an urge towards knowing non-factual interference in digital media and how to react to them constructively, acquiring technical knowledge in understanding the truth behind transacted messages, developing skills to identify and react to glitches in information transaction through media literacy. It also includes specific areas such as the meaning and definition of Misinformation and Dis-Information and their impact on society, non-factual and misinterpreting information shared through digital media, the social impact of facts presented in an emotional language, authenticity of information etc. "The new ICT textbook includes chapters that equip students to identify fake news and malicious content, embodying the spirit of Satyameva Jayate", said K.AnvarSadath, CEO, of KITE. Next year, when the ICT textbooks for Classes 6, 8, and 9, and 10 are revised, they will incorporate the latest developments in this field. Not only does it teach students to identify fake news and verify its authenticity, but the chapter titled 'Let's Search the Internet' in the Class 5 ICT textbook also covers how to effectively manage screen time. Similarly, the Class 7 ICT textbook chapter titled 'Let's Search and Find' elaborates on the importance of verifying the authenticity of information and explains why spreading or sharing false information is a crime. Further, the ICT textbook also includes information about the precautions to be taken before sharing information with others, the need to educate those who provide such information about its potential consequences, and the concept of copyright. In the new (same) ICT textbook for Class 7, for the first time in the country, 4 lakh students have been given the opportunity to learn Artificial Intelligence (AI). Textbooks in Malayalam, English, Kannada and Tamil media are available at www.samagra.kite.kerala.gov.in.

Kerala government implements 'Fake News detection' in school textbooks

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>ChatGPT denied 250,000 requests for deepfake images of candidates in the last month, OpenAI said.</li><li>It answered millions of prompts about voting by directing users to official outside sources.</li></ul>In the run-up to this week's presidential election, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/openai">OpenAI</a> fielded thousands of requests to generate fake images of candidates.Earlier in the year, the artificial intelligence company said its AI products had "guardrails" to prevent abuse, such as deepfakes or chatbots impersonating candidates.The announcement came amid concerns that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-deepfakes-threaten-havoc-with-the-worlds-year-of-elections-2024-1">AI would wreak havoc</a> during the campaign, churning out deepfakes and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda-fuel-conspiracy-theories-ahead-election-2024-6">conspiracy theories</a> for users to spread online. In January, New Hampshire voters <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-hampshire-democrats-received-deep-faked-calls-from-joe-biden-2024-1">received deepfake robocalls</a> from a fake President Joe Biden discouraging them from voting in the state's presidential primary that month.OpenAI said <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/category/chat-gpt">ChatGPT</a> rejected an estimated 250,000 requests to generate images of the candidates using <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whisper-openai-dalle-2-ai-art-codex-who-owns-chatgpt-2023-3">DALL-E</a>, the company's AI art generator, in the month before the election."In the month leading up to Election Day, we estimate that ChatGPT rejected over 250,000 requests to generate DALL·E images of President-elect Trump, Vice President Harris, Vice President-elect Vance, President Biden, and Governor Walz," OpenAI said in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://openai.com/index/how-openai-is-approaching-2024-worldwide-elections/">blog post</a> on Friday.OpenAI previously said it would instruct ChatGPT to answer logistical questions about voting by directing users to <a target="_blank" href="http://CanIVote.org">CanIVote.org</a>, a US voting information site run by the National Association of Secretaries of State. ChatGPT gave about 1 million responses telling users to check the voting site in the month prior to November 5, the company said.OpenAI also said that on Election Day, it would answer questions on election results by referring users to news organizations like the Associated Press and Reuters."Around 2 million ChatGPT responses included this message on Election Day and the day following," the company said in Friday's blog post.ChatGPT also avoided expressing political opinions on candidates, unlike chatbots like Elon Musk's Grok AI, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-search-2024-presidential-election-mixed-results-2024-11">which expressed excitement</a> that Trump won.

ChatGPT denied 250,000 requests to generate deepfake images of candidates in the month before the election

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Googlers have been using an internal message board to vent about the election.</li><li>There's just one problem: they aren't allowed to make political posts, so they're being creative.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-workspace-chief-stepping-down-leaked-memo-2024-11">Google</a> employees are, as ever, meme-ing through it.As the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/election-results-trump-harris-presidential-election-2024-11">2024 US election</a> unfolded, Googlers have taken to the company's internal message board — <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/google-io-memes-layoffs-phones-duck-lip-mascot-2023-5">a meme generator named Memegen</a> — to express their feelings.There's just one problem: Google leaders have cracked down on employees making political posts, so staff have been poking fun at the inability to express their views on the election, according to several of the posts seen by Business Insider.One of the top Memegen posts on Wednesday was a picture of a fake newspaper named "The Memegen," with the headline, "Nothing Happened. For the first time in history nothing happened for a whole day."Another read: "It's not a permitted personal political opinion at the workplace unless it comes from the C-suite region of the org chart."Another popular meme showed a scene from Disney's "Raya and the Last Dragon," with the dragon Sisu telling Raya to "Bring your whole self to work." In the meme, Raya asked, "Even my political opinions?" to which Sisu responded, "Not that part."Two former Googlers built Memegen in 2010 as a way for employees to vent about work, life, and even their C-suite. While home to often silly creations, it has long acted as something of a town square for Google's workforce and an effective way to read the temperature of its over 180,000 employees.Earlier this year, after employees used Memegen to share their thoughts on the war in Gaza, Google barred staff from making political posts, several employees told BI. A message on Memegen now reads, "Memegen isn't a place for personal political opinions or statements," according to a picture seen by BI.A Google spokesperson said that the company made and tested these changes in response to employees requesting to make adjustments to its moderation practices and that Googlers have said political topics were distracting.Leaders have been reckoning with an increasingly outspoken workforce in recent years while fending off perceptions it is politically biased. In 2018, right-wing news site Breitbart <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/technology/leaked-google-video-trump.html">posted a video from an internal Google town hall</a> where leaders expressed dismay over Donald Trump's election as president. In the meeting, Google cofounder Sergey Brin called Trump's election "deeply offensive."Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a memo to employees on Monday thanking them for their hard work ahead of the election and saying that Google should be a "trusted source of information" for everyone, according to a copy reviewed by BI. The memo also asked staff to abide by company guidelines against conducting political activity on company time.Are you a current or former Google employee? Got something to share? You can reach the reporter Hugh Langley via the encrypted messaging app Signal (+1 628-228-1836) or email (<a target="_blank" href="mailto:hlangley@businessinsider.com">hlangley@businessinsider.com</a>).

Googlers poke fun at a policy against making election memes — by making memes

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Nvidia's much-anticipated Blackwell AI chip appears to be back on track.</li><li>CEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia had fixed a design flaw with the chip with the help of Taiwanese tech firm TSMC, per Reuters.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-stock-price-blackwell-ai-market-value-costco-jensen-huang-2024-10">Nvidia</a> seems to have fixed a design flaw in its next-gen AI chip, thanks to a little help from TSMC.CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday the chip giant and its Taiwanese partner had fixed an issue in its much-anticipated Blackwell AI chips, per <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-design-flaw-with-blackwell-ai-chips-now-fixed-ceo-says-2024-10-23/">a report from Reuters</a>.That will come as a relief to tech giants like Meta and Google, which are <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-product-shortages-making-customers-emotional-tense-2024-9">hungry for Nvidia's chips to build more powerful AI systems</a>. Morgan Stanley analysts <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-stock-forecast-blackwell-gpu-demand-ai-tech-stocks-nvda-2024-10">estimated this month</a> that Blackwell was sold out for the next 12 months."We had a design flaw in Blackwell. It was functional, but the design flaw caused the yield to be low. It was 100% Nvidia's fault," said Huang, in comments reported by Reuters.The Nvidia boss said that TSMC, which is <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tsmc-earnings-taiwan-semiconductor-chip-ai-chip-demand-asml-china-2024-10">the world's largest chipmaker</a>, helped the tech company recover from that yield deficiency and resume manufacturing of Blackwell "at an incredible pace."Huang also reportedly denied media reports that the delays in Blackwell production had caused tension between Nvidia and TSMC, calling them "fake news."<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ai-chip-blackwell-delay-new-annual-product-launch-2024-8">Reports had previously suggested</a> that the problems with Blackwell were due to a new manufacturing process employed by TSMC.Nvidia has ridden the fever-pitch excitement over AI to <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/nvidia-stock-bigger-than-apple-2nd-most-valuable-company-global-2024-6">become one of the world's most valuable companies</a>, with its H100 chips in intense demand.The company <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-ceo-jensen-huang-unveils-next-generation-ai-chip-blackwell-2024-3">revealed Blackwell, its follow-up to the H100, in March</a>, with Huang saying the new AI chip will be twice as fast as its predecessor.TSMC's intervention appears to have put Blackwell's production back on track. Huang <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La89mauYQl8">told a Goldman Sachs conference in September</a> that the chip was in full production, and shipping was set to start in Q4.TSMC recorded bumper earnings last week, including a <a target="_blank" rel="" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tsmc-earnings-taiwan-semiconductor-chip-ai-chip-demand-asml-china-2024-10">54% rise in third-quarter net profit, </a>raising hopes that the AI chip boom still has room to run.A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to comment beyond Huang's remarks.

Jensen Huang says a design flaw with Nvidia's Blackwell chips has been fixed — with TSMC's help

In times when cases of scam and <keyword id="20649571" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="spam-calls" source="keywords">spam calls</keyword> are on the rise, <keyword id="19951944" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Bharti-Airtel" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Bharti Airtel" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Bharti Airtel">Bharti Airtel</keyword>’s new AI-powered spam detection system has identified 51 million potential spam calls and 1.6 million <keyword id="23471655" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="malicious-SMS" source="keywords">malicious SMS</keyword> messages in Rajasthan—all in just the first 10 days since its launch. This technology, rolled out at no additional cost to <keyword id="19896909" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="Airtel" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Airtel" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Airtel">Airtel</keyword> customers, promises to offer real-time protection against scammers and fraudulent links. Marut Dilawari, CEO of Bharti Airtel in <keyword id="19898913" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Rajasthan" source="keywords">Rajasthan</keyword>, shared the news on Tuesday, revealing the breakthrough solution that’s already making a significant impact. “For this, Airtel has built a centralized database of blacklisted URLs, and every SMS is scanned in real-time by a state-of-the-art AI algorithm to caution users from accidentally clicking on suspicious links,” he explained as per PTI. <h2>How the tool works </h2> Airtel’s AI-powered system works quietly in the background, scanning every incoming SMS for potentially dangerous links. When a suspicious link is detected, users are immediately alerted, helping them avoid accidentally falling victim to <keyword id="19939895" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="phishing-scams" source="keywords">phishing scams</keyword> or malicious websites. This isn’t just about blocking irritating spam—it also protects users against cybercriminals targeting unsuspecting customers. What sets Airtel’s solution apart is its extensive database of blacklisted URLs, which is constantly updated to ensure real-time protection. The AI system analyses every message before it reaches the customer. Airtel is the first telecom provider to roll out such an AI-driven spam protection system for its users, a move that places it ahead in the battle against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. The best part? It’s completely automatic and free for all Airtel users, with no need for customers to install additional apps or sign up for extra services. Dilawari talked about how important this solution is in today’s digital age. “The threat of scams, fraud, and malicious communications has become a growing concern for customers. In view of this, Airtel has introduced an AI-powered solution which equips all Airtel customers in Rajasthan with a powerful shield against the schemes of cybercriminals and scammers,” he told PTI. <h2>Spam calls are on the rise </h2> With phishing attempts and spam calls on the rise, especially in regions with high mobile penetration like Rajasthan, customers have been increasingly vulnerable to fraudsters. Whether it’s a fraudulent link promising a fake lottery win or a robocall posing as a government agency, the tactics are becoming more devious—and difficult to detect. Airtel’s move to integrate AI into its security systems is not only a step forward for telecom providers but also a much-needed layer of protection for millions of customers. As digital fraud continues to evolve, proactive measures like these will become essential in keeping users safe. (With PTI inputs)

AI helped Airtel detect 51 million spam calls in 10 days, all details

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Meta is partnering with banks to identify scam accounts.</li><li>Meta's new system allows banks to share data with the company directly.</li></ul>Deepfake scams have skyrocketed on Facebook in recent years. And the banks dealing with the fallout are not happy about it.So Meta launched a new program that allows banks to "share intelligence" directly with the social media conglomerate to more efficiently combat scams. Meta announced the new program, called the Fraud Intelligence Reciprocal Exchange, or FIRE, on Wednesday.NatWest and Metro Bank were the first two banks to participate in the pilot in the UK. Meta said in a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://about.fb.com/news/2024/10/meta-partners-with-uk-banks-to-combat-scams/">statement</a> that, based on data shared by the two banks, it has already removed 20,000 accounts it believes were run by scammers.Meta also unveiled the program in Australia, where it says it has been operating with several banks since January, according to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/oct/02/more-than-9000-scam-facebook-pages-deleted-after-australians-lose-millions-to-celebrity-deepfakes">The Guardian</a>. In just the first six months, the program blocked 8,000 different pages and 9,000 celebrity scams, Meta told the outlet.The statement said that in the UK, the program has already helped take down a "significant concert ticket scam network," and Meta plans to expand eligibility to more banks in the future.David Lindberg, NatWest CEO of Retail Banking, said in the statement that the best way to stop scammers is to identify them before they are able to target consumers."Partnering with Meta is an important step in tackling the epidemic of fraud," he said. "We welcome the opportunity to deepen our collaboration and ensure a cross-industry approach to fraud prevention and enforcement."Scam operations on Facebook have become a serious problem in recent years. Facebook users encounter scams at a higher frequency than any other social media platform, according to cyber security company F-Secure.In March, <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/its-a-scam-celebrities-are-not-getting-rich-from-online-investment-trading-platforms">Australian authorities warned</a> of a rise of scammers using fake news articles and deepfake videos to trick victims into believing celebrities are asking them for large sums of money or trying to get them to invest in cryptocurrency.Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest filed a <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/19/metas-bid-to-dismiss-case-brought-by-andrew-forrest-over-facebook-scam-ads-dismissed-by-us-court">federal lawsuit against Meta</a> earlier this year, claiming that the company profited from thousands of ads that used deepfake photos of himself to promote scams on Facebook.Australians have lost up to $8 million to scammers using online investment platform scams this year, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission said in the warning.Meta did not immediately return a request for comment from Business Insider.

Meta found a new way to crack down on scam accounts, and it seems to be working

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Former FBI agent Jason Hogg shared five tips to stay safe online.</li><li>Hogg emphasized the importance of verifying messages and being cautious with social media.</li></ul>This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jason Hogg, a former FBI agent and an executive at the private equity firm Great Hill Partners. It has been edited for length and clarity.I can't talk too much about it, but I was a special agent with the FBI.As a member of Special Operations Group 13, I was exposed to a wide range of humanity's worst — from organized crime and terrorist activity to financial abuse and online death threats.After I left the FBI, I became the global CEO of a cybersecurity firm, where I ran everything from digital forensic investigations to penetration testing.The problem with staying safe on the internet nowadays is that the horse is out of the barn. But there are still things you can do.Here are five simple things to bear in mind on the internet:<h2 id="66b0c235-2235-478c-bdd0-056dacd9b5d0">Always be suspicious</h2>If you receive a video, phone call, voicemail, email, or direct message, try to confirm independently with the sender that it's real.If you don't recognize the number on a phone call, but it sounds like the person, put them on hold and independently verify it.Someone once tried to execute a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/hacker-online-scams-getting-worse-ai-cybersecurity-expert-2024-9">deepfake call</a> on my mother. They sounded like my eldest daughter. My mom was 80 years old then, but the good news is that multiple people in her family were FBI agents or detectives, so she was immediately suspicious.She called me to check, and my daughter was with me, so she knew it was fake. Other people have not been that careful in the past.<h2 id="32b738df-1457-478e-b66d-725359185f66">Listen to your phone</h2>You know how your phone sometimes tells you your passwords have been compromised in a data leak? Some people just ignore that, which is astonishing to me.My father was the former CEO of MasterCard and a former FBI agent himself, but he still ended up having a significant amount of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/how-avoid-online-scam-ex-mastercard-exec-2024-9">money removed from his checking account</a> due to compromised credentials that he did not reset.Check the list of apps that have compromised passwords — you might be surprised at how many websites you have a password for in the first place — and go into the apps and change your passwords, at least for the important ones.Don't use the same password for absolutely everything. You don't need to have 150 passwords for 150 websites — but spread them out.I know it's a pain, but you are better safe than sorry.<h2 id="839fa3ab-b7e4-4211-b803-7ad79d39b394">Free WiFi is a risk</h2>If you are going to be using free WiFi at coffee shops or stations, definitely think about installing a VPN on your phone. It's so easy.And do not make financial transactions on a public WiFi network. You don't know who could have access to that information.<h2 id="75e4280b-83f0-4d43-8c6f-ee90d7127f83">Lock your credit information down</h2>It's easy. Just call the reporting agency (like Experian) and tell them you want to lock your credit bureau. They will develop a passkey for you to unlock it later.My lifelong friend's father had his <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/personal-finance/credit-score/how-to-reduce-identity-theft-risk">identity stolen</a> once, and he didn't have his credit bureaus locked down.The criminals used a false identity to purchase real estate in Brooklyn in his name and used the real estate to conduct fraudulent transactions.It was quite a personal and financial disruption in his life.This is something a lot of people don't do, but it's a free procedure that makes you instantly more protected against fraud.<h2 id="83142354-c2c2-4d7c-94f5-e5a3c69a407c">Post intelligently</h2>Whenever you are posting, always assume it could be used in some form against you. Would you still post it?It's one thing to post pictures of you having a good time — you do you — but it's another thing to go and publicly tag every person in the photo.For all the positive things that come from social media, it creates a treasure trove of information for bad actors. You have video, you have pictures, you have associations of friendship. You also have machine learning that can go through all of that at an incredible rate of speed — something that we've never seen before until now.There are service platforms and ransomware on the dark web that accelerate these exploits. That's also how <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-image-generators-used-by-children-to-create-indecent-images-safety-group-2023-11">deepfakes</a> are becoming more and more convincing — they use voice and image models from videos and photos that are out there already.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-connect-launch-celebrity-voices-ai-assistant-openai-scarlett-johansson-2024-9">Meta is reportedly using celebrities</a> like John Cena, Judi Dench, and Awkwafina to voice new AI chatbots.</li><li>Its earlier attempts at AI chatbots using the faces of celebrities like Kendall Jenner and Tom Brady didn't catch on.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta">Meta</a> is reportedly set to introduce AI chatbots voiced by celebrities like John Cena, Awkwafina, Keegan-Michael Key, Kristen Bell, and Dame Judi Dench. This is, of course, huge news for the underserved market of the Denchbench. (I assume that's the name of the Judi Dench stan-dom) who haven't yet found the right reason to experiment with an AI voice chatbot.For the rest of us, the logic behind Meta's celebrity collaboration is a little more perplexing.Around this time last year, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-chatbots-assistants-tom-brady-mr-beast-kendall-jenner-2023-9">Meta introduced a different round of celebrity AI assistants</a> as part of Messenger. These chatbots had the faces of celebrities like Kendall Jenner, Mr. Beast, Tom Brady, Snoop Dogg, and more. Strangely, these chatbots used the likenesses of the celebrities, but not their real names. For example, I chatted with "Billie," the character portrayed with an image of Kendall Jenner, whose chat persona was of a helpful sister-like friend.For the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-paying-celebrity-faces-of-ai-chatbots-as-much-as-5-million-2023-10">celebrity-faced AI assistants, Meta reportedly paid as much as $5 million</a> over two years — for six hours of work sitting in a studio. The deal didn't seem to work out too well for Meta. The <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-scraps-kendall-jenner-tom-brady-celebrity-ai-chatbots-2024-8">chatbots were discontinued</a> by August, less than a year after their launch.So why is Meta using the celebrity AI playbook again if it apparently crashed and burned last time?<h2 id="b5b28601-135c-4d5b-9c10-917b127344b6">Celebrities might help AI be less threatening</h2>Maybe last year's chatbots weren't a failure by some metrics. Sure, people didn't seem interested in sticking around talking to fake Tom Brady, but maybe the goal was to get enough people to try using an AI chatbot just one time — and the celebrity gimmick worked for that.Or maybe Meta just has a really strange relationship with the concept of celebrity: It's not a brand like Doritos that uses celebrities in Super Bowl ads or a fashion house where an actress is the face of a perfume. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram">Instagram</a> has been so embedded in the concept of fame and celebrity for the last decade that it's impossible to imagine Meta and famous people existing without each other (whereas I can imagine Doritos getting along just fine).When Meta's <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/threads-app">Threads</a> launched in the summer of 2023, a real tension appeared: Big, A-list celebrities — the kind who hadn't used Twitter in years — suddenly flocked to the new platform, bringing big follower counts with them. But most of those celebrities went silent after a day or two, perhaps realizing that a text-based medium wasn't really their jam. A few months later, Meta rolled out a program to give cash bonuses to reality stars in exchange for posting on Threads.When <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-tortured-poets-department-album-reviews-critics-reviews-2024-4">Taylor Swift released her latest album</a>, she did post to Threads, where Mark Zuckerberg enthusiastically posted to welcome her. There was even a custom sparkle effect made for users when they typed her album name. But after Meta rolled out the welcome mat for the star, she never posted again on Threads.And recently, when Swift made her announcement supporting Kamala Harris, she did it only on Instagram — not even a cross-post to the platform's text-native cousin (for <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-instagram-twitter-elon-musk-2024-9">good reasons, as my colleague Peter Kafka explains</a>).There have been other flops in the celebrity-Meta-ad world. In 2019, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://mashable.com/article/facebook-portal-tv-ad-jennifer-lopez-kim-kardashian-west">Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Lopez</a>, two celebrities whose endorsements usually aren't cheap, starred in three TV spots to promote the Facebook Portal. The <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/facebook-portal-rip-amazon">Portal was discontinued</a> in late 2022.<h2 id="f684fc34-9ed2-45f0-89eb-636509c56634">How celebrities can help Meta</h2>So, Meta relying on celebrity voices for its AI products feels a little odd to me. Meta's products are usually really good at selling themselves because people love to use them. Celebrities even use them — without getting paid!But reuniting the cast of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/whatsapp-modern-family-tv-ad-us-growth-2024-7">"Modern Family" for a WhatsApp ad</a> suggests Meta might be using celebs to reach normies who might not typically be using AI or <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/tech/what-is-whatsapp-guide">WhatsApp</a>. And with these latest AI assistant voices, Meta is not going with the hottest Gen Z influencers; it's using Judi Dench, after all.I mean, at least Meta didn't "accidentally" <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-scarlett-johansson-sam-altman-chatgpt-disaster-why-2024-5">hire a soundalike of a well-known celebrity to be the voice for an AI companion</a> like, uh, some other AI competitors. Could be worse!Perhaps it's just that AI is still a little scary and impersonal, and Meta execs think putting a celebrity face — or voice — to it will help make it feel more accessible. Oddly, the ability of AI to impersonate celebrities is one of the things I think many people fear about the technology. But, ah well.My final guess as to Meta's play here is that these decisions come from somewhere deep inside the company, perhaps a decision based on an executive's instinct about what will pop, mixed with some data from the marketing team. I'm sure many meetings were held!I still hold on to my personal pet theory: <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://ai.meta.com/people/396469589677838/yann-lecun/">Yann LeCun</a> is a frothing fan of "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" franchise and demanded the Dame.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Bloomberg analyzed nearly 400 posts that shared disinformation about the Israel-Hamas war.</li><li>It reported Community Notes typically took 7 hours, and sometimes as long as 70 hours, to flag the posts.</li></ul>X's Community Notes feature typically takes seven hours to flag disinformation, according to a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-israel-hamas-war-misinformation-twitter-community-notes">Bloomberg analysis</a> of posts about Israel and Gaza.Since taking over the company formerly known as Twitter, <a target="_blank" href="https://businessinsider.com/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> has championed Community Notes as a way to give readers important context without having to remove posts.This program relies on thousands of volunteers to flag posts that lack context or are wrong.Users who volunteer to become contributors can suggest and rate notes to add context to a post. A Community Note only appears next to a post if contributors with a "<a target="_blank" href="https://communitynotes.twitter.com/guide/en/contributing/diversity-of-perspectives">diversity of perspectives</a>" agree that a post needs one.Bloomberg analyzed nearly 400 posts that contained false information from between October 7 — when news of Hamas' attack on Israel first broke — and October 21. These were drawn from a public database of Community Notes."We consider posts to contain "false information" if they include provably inaccurate text, photos, or other media," Bloomberg said.It found that it took almost three days for some of these posts to be flagged by the Community Notes program. Examples of the disinformation included claims that video game footage was of the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/israel-hamas-conflict-shows-how-dangerous-social-media-is-now-2023-10">Israel-Hamas war</a> and an image of chemical attack victims in Syria from 2013 which was falsely labeled as Palestinian babies killed by Israel.According to Bloomberg, there were also several repeat offenders of accounts that spread disinformation that were previously suspended by Twitter but reinstated when Musk took over the company. Some of these accounts' posts were also more visible because they are subscribed to X Premium.Musk announced last month that creator posts that have been corrected or amended by Community Notes are not eligible to make money from X's creator compensation program. But he said they would generally stay on the platform.He undid much of the platform's previous system which prevented the spread of potentially problematic tweets before they could be checked by its trust and safety team — which was <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-appears-to-disband-its-trust-and-safety-council-2022-12">largely disbanded</a> soon after Musk's takeover.X <a target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/CommunityNotes/status/1722375372153512141">says</a> that images that have been flagged by Community Notes will also receive the added context when they are duplicated and reposted, but Bloomberg found this didn't take place for the image from Syria.X did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Meta is banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya, and other Russian state media from its platforms globally.</li><li>The company accused the media outlets of "foreign interference activity."</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta">Meta</a> is banning RT, Rossiya Segodnya, and other Russian state media networks from its platforms, <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-russia-misinformation-ai-generated-news-stories-us-election-2024-8">claiming</a> the outlets had used deceptive tactics to carry out interference activity."After careful consideration, we expanded our ongoing enforcement against Russian state media outlets," a Meta spokesperson told Business Insider in a written statement, adding: "Rossiya Segodnya, RT, and other related entities are now banned from our apps globally for foreign interference activity."Meta owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads.The ban is expected to come into force across all apps over the coming days.Meta's decision comes as Russian media faces increased scrutiny from the Biden administration.On Friday, the Biden administration hit Russian state media outlets with new sanctions, accusing RT of acting as an arm of Moscow's spy agencies by engaging in covert information warfare operations around the world.James Rubin, the coordinator for the State Department's Global Engagement Center, called RT "a fully-fledged member of the intelligence apparatus and operation of the Russian government" for the Ukraine war, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/investigations/rt-russian-state-media-waging-covert-info-war-biden-admin-says-rcna171081">per NBC News.</a>Representatives for RT and Rossiya Segodnya did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI, sent outside normal working hours.Russian media entities have long faced accusations of attempting to influence Western politics. Russia's war in Ukraine has also provided a new avenue for <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/senate-dems-sound-the-alarm-about-russian-interference-in-2022-2022-6">Russian disinformation to flourish in the US on the far right.</a>Earlier this month, the Department of Justice <a target="_blank" href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-rt-employees-indicted-covertly-funding-and-directing-us-company-published-thousands">charged</a> two RT employees with money laundering and reportedly paying $10 million to an unnamed Tennessee-based company to produce English-language social media videos aimed at stirring up political divisions."The Justice Department will not tolerate attempts by an authoritarian regime to exploit our country's free exchange of ideas in order to covertly further its own propaganda efforts," Attorney General Merrick Garland said at the time.Meanwhile, an unnamed US intelligence official told <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/rt-russia-trying-push-us-voters-toward-trump-election-2024-9">Reuters</a> that RT was trying to sway voters toward former President Donald Trump ahead of the November election by using Western influencers.Meta, along with YouTube and TikTok, has already <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-instagram-youtube-tiktok-block-russian-state-media-in-eu-2022-3">banned</a> some Russian state media, including RT, in the EU, following requests from national governments after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.Meta has previously said that Russia is the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-russia-misinformation-ai-generated-news-stories-us-election-2024-8">top source of misinformation efforts in the world.</a>In a security report released last month, the company said Russian influence operations had leveraged generative AI to create personas for fake journalists and publish stories on fictitious news sites using distorted information from authentic articles.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Russian influence actors created a fake Georgia voter fraud video, according to US intel officials.</li><li>The video falsely shows Haitian nationals illegally voting for Kamala Harris in Georgia.</li></ul>Russian influence actors were behind the fake Georgia voter fraud video that's been circulating online, US intelligence officials said.In a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/press-releases/press-releases-2024/4014-pr-28-24">joint statement released</a> on Friday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said Russia made a false video purporting to show non-US citizens from Haiti illegally voting in multiple counties in Georgia.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/DominicScali/status/1852267380334039440">In the video</a>, a man claims that he and an unknown number of other people came to the US from Haiti six months ago, obtained US citizenship and licenses, and voted for Kamala Harris in Georgia's Gwinnett County and Fulton County. He holds up what appears to be fake licenses — all with the same ID picture — and invites "all Haitians to come to America and bring families."The video spread across multiple social media sites, including X, with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/DominicScali/status/1852267380334039440">users calling out voter fraud in favor of Harris</a>.But it's all fake, and the result of Russian interference, the US intel group says."This Russian activity is part of Moscow's broader effort to raise unfounded questions about the integrity of the US election and stoke divisions among Americans, as detailed in prior ODNI election updates," the ODNI, FBI, and CISA said in their joint statement.The intelligence group said they made their judgement based on "information available" to them and on "prior activities of other Russian influence actors, including videos and other disinformation activities."Prior to the statement, Georgia's Secretary of State <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/GaSecofState/status/1852140776882315763">Brad Raffensperger posted on X</a> on Thursday calling out the video as "obviously fake" and likely "a production of Russian troll farms."In a <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/GaSecofState/status/1852159394382786789">statement posted on X</a>, Raffensperger urges "Elon Musk and the leadership of other social media platforms to take this down."More disinformation is likely to crop up before Election Day and beyond, the US intel group warned."In the lead up to election day and in the weeks and months after, the IC expects Russia to create and release additional media content that seeks to undermine trust in the integrity of the election and divide Americans," the group said in its statement, referring to itself as the "intelligence community" or "IC."Russia has a long history of running disinformation campaigns in the US.A NewsGuard audit over the summer found that leading <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-chatbots-russian-propaganda-fuel-conspiracy-theories-ahead-election-2024-6">AI chatbots were falsely citing Moscow-funded</a> fake news sources as fact more than 30% of the time. And a 2023 US intelligence assessment found that Russia uses spies, social media, and state-sanctioned media to denigrate and sow distrust in democratic elections around the world, Business Insider previously reported.Meta wrote in a recent report that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-russia-misinformation-ai-generated-news-stories-us-election-2024-8">Russia is the top source of misinformation</a> in the world, warning that the country will focus on influencing the US election and gaining support for its widely criticized war in Ukraine.

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