We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
WIRED / Issie Lapowsky
/ Nov 28“According to multiple researchers, more than one million of the record 22 million comments the FCC received on its plans to roll back net neutrality protections were from bots that used natural language generation to artificially amplify the call to repeal net neutrality protections. But while reports so far have focused on bad actors flooding the FCC with phony content, some of those same techniques also allowed legitimate groups to tell their members to click a button and send an auto-generated — albeit earnest —
comment to the FCC.” —
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