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BREAKING: Reuters won the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting for a series of stories revealing how social-media behemoth Meta knowingly exposed users, including children, to harmful AI chatbots and made billions of dollars from fraudulent ads reut.rs/48GOvXD

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In Sweden a number of well known ppl have for quite some time tried to get fake AI ads where these ppl sell or promote stuff. Meta refused. That company is rotten to the core.

A project that used graphic-novel techniques to explore the scam compounds of Asia, where people were forced by criminal gangs to work in mass fraud operations, was a finalist in the category of illustrated reporting reut.rs/4emCVV7

reut.rsThey traveled to Thailand. They wound up cyber scam slaves in Myanmar.A multibillion-dollar fraud industry has taken root across Southeast Asia, fueled partly by trafficking victims. In lawless zones along the Myanmar-Thai border, Chinese-run compounds force thousands t...

It's all about the money, the Zuckerberger Bloke doesn't care about real people. Stop using his platforms and see him suffer, or keep using and see him get fatter .................. your choice. Well done @reuters.com

fantastic. Really important work. And I’ll mention it next time somebody uses the phrase ‘mainstream media’ as a useless catch-all that sweeps up not just the many awful media organisations but the many brilliant ones (who are often holding the former to account).