{"id":20421,"date":"2025-10-12T12:37:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/meta-ai-adviser-spreads-disinformation-about-shootings-vaccines-and-trans-people\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T12:37:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T10:37:22","slug":"meta-ai-adviser-spreads-disinformation-about-shootings-vaccines-and-trans-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/meta-ai-adviser-spreads-disinformation-about-shootings-vaccines-and-trans-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for \u2018peddling lies and pushing extremism\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests.<\/p>\n<p>Robby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August as an adviser by Meta \u2013 owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other tech platforms \u2013 in an August lawsuit settlement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2025\/oct\/12\/meta-ai-adviser-robby-starbuck\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/5aaa6edfd926c7c8572a9d50752d6894915c1006\/381_0_3334_2668\/master\/3334.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=4f6506ff5ea59a4a032f0a82ebe25709\" title=\"Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people\" \/>Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for \u2018peddling lies and pushing extremism\u2019<br \/>\nA prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests.<br \/>\nRobby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August as an adviser by Meta \u2013 owner of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and other tech platforms \u2013 in an August lawsuit settlement. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for \u2018peddling lies and pushing extremism\u2019 A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests. Robby Starbuck, 36, of Nashville, was appointed in August &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/12\/meta-ai-adviser-spreads-disinformation-about-shootings-vaccines-and-trans-people\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}