Social Media In Wartime + Betting on the Future + A.I. Passes the Smell Test

<p>As the Israel-Hamas war broke out, misinformation and fake imagery surged on X, the platform formerly known at Twitter. Can Meta’s Threads fill the real-time news hole that X created? Should it?</p><p>Then, Kevin debriefs us on his reporting on Manifold Markets, where Silicon Valley Rationalists bet on the likelihoods of different events.</p><p>Plus: The company digitizing smell.</p><p><strong>Today’s Guest:</strong></p><ul><li>Alex Wiltschko is the founder of Osmo, a company trying to digitize smell.</li></ul><p><strong>Additional Reading:</strong></p><ul><li>Casey Newton on how the war in Israel may<a href="https://www.platformer.news/p/how-the-attacks-in-israel-are-changing" target="_blank"> change Threads</a>.</li><li>Some tech insiders believe<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/08/technology/prediction-markets-manifold-manifest.html" target="_blank"> betting can change the world</a>.</li><li>The company Osmo put out a <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ade4401" target="_blank">research paper</a> showing that an A.I. model it had created was performing better than the “average human panelist” in predicting odor. We want to hear from you.</li></ul>