In Bonn in July and attending the DW Global Media Forum ?
Come join our session on spotting AI fakes! 
And don't forget to say hi to Eva Lopez Lopez, Anna Schild, and the rest of the team. 
Details in our latest blog post:
https://innovation.dw.com/articles/meet-us-at-gmf2025
I used Google's Gemini LLM to solve a #quiztime challenge by @juliabayer . 
https://bsky.app/profile/fstegers.bsky.social/post/3lozxfno5y32a
Hat tip Henk van Ess who recommend Gemini (as well as other tools and methods) to decipher blurred text in images the most recent issue of his newsletter. #osint #verification https://www.digitaldigging.org/
It’s (ehem) well time for a #FridayQuiz
Which type of aircraft is this?
Bonus: Where might I have traveled to this week?
Reply to all to collaborate
Reply just to me with an answer
Back up your answer with proof
BlueSky is now rolling out the broken verification system of only "notable" people and orgs get the blue checks. Again, this is the WRONG way of it. Verification means "I am who I say I am". You shouldn't be famous or be on the Fortune 500 to qualify for it! I'm at risk of impersonation just as much as Bill Gates. https://bsky.social/about/blog/04-21-2025-verification
Unlike BlueSky, the fediverse offers tools for account verification that are *not* controlled by a single corporation, and has for years;
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/verification-in-the-fediverse/
Can your distinguish real images from fake or manipulated ones?
Our colleagues over at DW Fact Check put together a #quiz that will help you improve your #verification #skills.
The fedi discourse on Bluesky's verification is very frustrating Don't et me wrong, there's a lot to critique with Bluesky's approach of combining their own platform-level verification with initially annointing a handful of third-party verifiers:
community-oriented verification, along the lines that @rudyfraser.com suggests, would be much more power-distributive and equitable
as @ngerakines.me notes, Bluesky's approach is missing something critical: consent
as @DataDrivenMD points out, the current framework functionally disenfranchises community organizers who lack social networks with access to mainstream media and other institutions that are designed to exclude marginalized people
just like on Twitter, he people initially verified are overwhelmingly cis, white, and male;
the three initial external verifiers include the anti-trans NYTimes and one of their subsidiaries
Bluesky hasn't said anything about their process for making decisions about who's "notable" enough for them to verify and how they decide somebody's "authentic".
To be fair, I am seeing a bit of discussion of some of these issues here. But I'm not seeing anything about consent, or community moderation, or equity. Instead, the vast majority of what I'm seeing is people saying hat the approach of external verifiers (run by entities other than Bluesky) and the Bluesky app attaching privileged semantics to the annointed ones isn't "decentraized."
Is that really the important thing here?
Or you can just verify yourself with a domain.
Bluesky is getting blue checkmarks and an official verification system
wow, #Bluesky just deleted all the comments for people who didn't like that users were objecting to them making it more like #Twitter:
There are direct links to the comments in:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/18/2231252/users-react-to-blueskys-upcoming-blue-check-mark-verification-system
But they are no longer visible on the GitHub issue. Unfortunately, no one got a archive.org capture before that happened.
https://www.europesays.com/2013972/ Listening Economy: Profitable Customer Conversations #ConnectedEconomy #Coupa #Data #ebook #Economy #FeaturedNews #FIS #Marqeta #News #partnerships #PYMNTSNews #ValidiFI #verification #Worldpay
LUXHUB chosen by six Luxembourg banks as VoP service provider https://www.byteseu.com/910385/ #Banks #InstantPayments #Luxembourg #LUXHUB #OpenFinance #Payments #PSD2 #PSPs #Spuerkeess #verification #VerificationOfPayee
List of fact-checking websites
Dozens of services for checking news information (both political and non-political) for different countries and regions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fact-checking_websites
A *gentle* reminder that, I have a funded #PhD position for UK students, available with myself and @bentnib
This project will be looking at developing new methods for asserting the resilience of existing communicating systems by developing new static analysis methods derived from advanced programming language research.
Deadline for getting in contact is: Thursday 20th March 2025
You will belong to @StrathCyber and @mspstrath, as well as gaining access to @spli
Call for Papers
16th International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving — ITP'25
Reykjavik, Iceland
27 September – 3 October 2025
https://icetcs.github.io/frocos-itp-tableaux25/itp/
ITP is concerned with all aspects of interactive theorem proving, ranging from theoretical foundations to implementation aspects and applications in program verification, security, and the formalization of mathematics.
- Abstract submission deadline: 12 March 2025
- Paper submission deadline: 19 March 2025
- Author notification: 23 May 2025
- Camera-ready copy due: 27 June 2025
Interesting story from @tedium about an extortion scheme targeting prominent personalities on Bluesky who don't own their own domain.
"Cybersquatting is not a new issue, of course, but Bluesky’s decision to tie verification to domains as social proof shows the limitations of the strategy."
https://tedium.co/2024/12/17/bluesky-impersonation-risks/
I wonder how this would play out in the fediverse.
TIL: Ihr braucht eine Packstation für euren Hackspace, wollt aber nicht durch die nervige Verifizierung durch?
Legt euer Konto einfach als Firmenkonto an.
Ihr müsst nur folgende Daten preisgeben:
Vorname, Nachname
Email, Passwort
Irgendeine Adresse
Fertig. Schön könnt ihr an Packstationen versenden.
Seid auch das nächste mal dabei, bei Post-Tipps mit @Yonggan. #verification #dhl #packstation
