Ben Horne
@benjamindhorne.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, School of Information Sciences @ UT-Knoxville. I study trust in media ecosystems, particularly when interventions are introduced.
Computational Social Science | Disinformation | Content Moderation | Alt-Tech
benjamindhorne.github.io
Computational Social Science | Disinformation | Content Moderation | Alt-Tech
benjamindhorne.github.io
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"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"They're trying to change our habits, because all of the projections rely on people becoming truly dependent on the technology. Whether or not it's actually a good thing for society isn't considered to be a factor."
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Here it is, the most damning academic figure in the history of all figures: Russian IRA accounts deeply embedded in both sides of the 2016 Twitter BLM "discussion" (by @katestarbird.bsky.social & team, 2018).
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
November 25, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Here it is, the most damning academic figure in the history of all figures: Russian IRA accounts deeply embedded in both sides of the 2016 Twitter BLM "discussion" (by @katestarbird.bsky.social & team, 2018).
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
THIS is what our information ecosystem supports. Twitter just made it 1% more visible.
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So Corporate Media amplifies Trump's disinformation instead, and calls that being neutral.
October 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
So Corporate Media amplifies Trump's disinformation instead, and calls that being neutral.
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Now we have no rule-of-law: Trump brazenly commits crimes while using Justice Department to prosecute his enemies on absurd political charges. Our Elite are so bad for US.
October 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Now we have no rule-of-law: Trump brazenly commits crimes while using Justice Department to prosecute his enemies on absurd political charges. Our Elite are so bad for US.
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Pretty crazy that government is arguing they need the military for an active war in Portland OR, but no Corporate Media can bother to send a reporter out there to investigate the situation on the ground and show US there is no violence to justify their war against US
October 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Pretty crazy that government is arguing they need the military for an active war in Portland OR, but no Corporate Media can bother to send a reporter out there to investigate the situation on the ground and show US there is no violence to justify their war against US