More trouble at Twitter
Tech Life
BBC
4.3 • 227 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
On Tech Tent this week, reporter Chris Vallance runs us through the serious allegations about lax security levelled at Twitter by its former employee Peiter "Mudge" Zatko. Dr Jon Roozenbeek, of Cambridge University, explains how educating people about how misinformation works appears to be an effective way of informing their online experience. And the makers of a voice changing technology respond to accusations it is increasing prejudice rather than addressing it.
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| 0:41.3 | No. sounds. There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love. Welcome to TechTent with me, Shona McCallum. This week we'll be delving into the latest |
| 0:47.3 | controversy surrounding Twitter, this time allegations that it lied about how secure it was. |
| 0:53.9 | But that's not all. |
| 0:54.9 | You may have heard of debunking. |
| 0:57.3 | Well, we'll be talking about pre-bunking, |
| 1:00.5 | stopping someone for falling for fake news |
| 1:02.8 | by explaining to them how disinformation works |
| 1:05.8 | before they're exposed to it, |
| 1:07.9 | and is altering the voices of those in call centres in an attempt to stop them |
| 1:12.9 | being abused, helping or actually reinforcing racism. |
| 1:17.7 | This sort of technology will enhance division. Where does this go next? You know, |
| 1:22.0 | you're trolling to a bot, you know, should we just alter people's skin colours because |
| 1:26.0 | somehow some people might not like |
| 1:27.7 | that because they're racist. We cannot be moving into this direction. We'll speak to the man |
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