I Traded My News Apps for Rumble, the Right-Wing YouTube. Here’s What I Saw

• Blame for any hiccups in Mr. Trump’s strategy was assigned to Democrats or even Republicans who were not sufficiently obedient.

Speaking of detecting and disrupting manipulation: A phone company developed an AI ‘granny’ to beat scammers at their own game. The number seeding is a literal counterattack/exploit in its own right

• O2, the company behind the scam-baiting granny, said the AI technology can keep scammers on the phone for 40 minutes at a time. Daisy was trained with the help of YouTuber and software engineer Jim Browning, who has made an online career exposing scammers to his community of 4.4 million subscribers.
• In order to bait scammers into time-wasting calls, the company utilized the practice of “number seeding,” which put the AI granny’s number on lists used by scammers to find their victims. The granny gimmick’s goal is twofold: to keep scammers away from real people and to raise awareness about the dangers of risky phone hoaxes.