Who Controls Your News? Meta Election Scrutiny & AI Romance Deception

Opublikowano: 2026-10-20

Who decides which political messages reach your feed? Meta faces election scrutiny, a Brazilian man travels more than 2,000 kilometres to meet an AI-generated woman, and duct tape beats sandbags in laboratory flood tests. On Hashtag Trending for Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Jim Love examines platform power over political communication, the consequences of AI-generated personalities, and a surprising result from flood-protection research. Mother Jones reports on Meta's mistaken suspension of the No Kings coalition's Instagram account and restrictions on advertising for Alex Gibney's Elon Musk documentary. TikTok, YouTube and Meta reversed restrictions they described as errors; X refused...