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When Meta embedded AI bots in its apps, even students in the most remote corners of Colombia gained access. But rather than boosting learning, it’s getting in the way.

• Meta’s popularity has made it the first place many Colombian students encounter and use generative AI.
• Teachers report a surge in AI-generated homework and essays, while student performance on exams declines.
• Educators warn easy access to AI is deepening existing problems in the country, which was already struggling with low graduation and literacy rates.

I found the real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists. Many use their real names. With a little sleuthing, I could say with near-certainty: yep, this is them.

We’ve been scraping their accounts since summer 2024. Playlists, live listening feed, everything. I know what songs they played, when, and how many times.

Heard of the Panama Papers? That exposed offshore bank accounts. This is about onshore vibes.

Commit.

Source.

YouTube announced July 29, 2025, that videos containing strong profanity in the first 7 seconds will now be eligible for full ad revenue, reversing a policy that previously limited monetization for such content. The update, revealed through Jensen from TeamYouTube, eliminates restrictions that caused videos to earn limited or no ad revenue when strong language appeared during the opening moments.

According to the announcement, the policy originally aligned YouTube's content standards with television broadcasting guidelines. "The policy originally aligned YouTube's content standards with the guidelines set for TV," the update states. However, advertiser tools now provide businesses with choices over ad placement based on content profanity levels, reducing the need for blanket restrictions.

our results indicate that hate speech communities on Reddit share speech patterns with Reddit communities for Schizoid Personality Disorder, three Cluster B personality disorders (Borderline, Narcissistic, and Antisocial), and Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. While the Cluster B disorders would be expected due to prior studies into the Dark Triad and hate speech, this nonetheless offers confirmation that they are acting similarly to their Dark Triad counterparts when it comes to hate speech. Furthermore, the two non-Cluster B disorders have not been discussed in hate speech or misinformation literature to the best of our knowledge, and offer new routes of investigation.

The association in speech patterns between certain psychiatric disorders and hate speech (and misinformation to a lesser extent) suggests that, despite hate speech and misinformation being a social phenomenon, framing and approaching hate speech/misinformation as though they were psychiatric disorders may prove beneficial in combating them. For example, designing counter-messaging against these issues could utilize elements of therapy used for the psychiatric disorders that are most similar to hate speech and misinformation. Although hate speech embeddings being classified most frequently as Cluster B personality disorders could be seen as problematic due to those disorders’ historical resistance to treatment, the successes in treating Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy indicates that treatment of these disorders is not impossible and could be applied here [59,60]. Furthermore, although hate speech shares similarities with Cluster B personality disorders, that does not mean that it actually is a Cluster B personality disorder; it is most likely less resistant to change than a personality disorder is.

Misinformation’s relations to psychiatric disorder communities proved to remain elusive; a clear connection can be seen in the TDA mapping, and zero-shot classification had over 25% of the misinformation embeddings assigned to psychiatric disorders, but it was difficult to elucidate a clear pattern with the dataset at hand. A more robust dataset may be able to identify clearer trends.

They never knew they were being filmed — on subway trains, in mall fitting rooms, on university campuses, at home.

Since late June, a Chinese-language Telegram group chat named “MaskPark Treehole Forum,” reportedly with over 103,000 members, has sparked outrage on Chinese social media for circulating obscene covert footage.

Secret intimate recordings of women and individuals having sex were captured using hidden cameras disguised as screws, power sockets, and even bottles of toilet cleaner — and those sharing them could be a colleague, a classmate, or even a family member.

The revelations triggered widespread outrage on Chinese social media, drawing broad coverage from domestic news outlets.

State-backed outlet Guangming Daily called the case “exceptionally egregious” and urged swift regulatory action in a commentary, saying: “Regulators must move faster to fill the gaps, and law enforcement mechanisms need to be strengthened. Only by doing so can we enhance the overall sense of security, free women from the fear of being watched, and make the boundaries of privacy truly inviolable.”