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Russians Again Targeting Americans With Disinformation, Facebook Says
The company said it had been warned by the F.B.I. that a so-called troll farm in St. Petersburg set up a network of fake user accounts and a website.
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Facebook is a global threat to public health, Avaaz report says
"Superspreaders" of health misinformation have no barriers to going viral on the social media giant
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Hackers post fake stories on real news sites
Researchers say articles on genuine sites were replaced with ones that matched Russia's interests.
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Trump Shared A COVID-19 Video Full Of Lies and Misinformation. Twitter Just Deleted It.
Facebook took hours to remove the video, showing once again that the company simply cannot control the spread of disinformation on its network.
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Brazil's Fake News Bill Would Dismantle Crucial Rights Online and is on a Fast Track to Become Law
Despite widespread complaints about its effects on free expression and privacy, Brazilian Congress is moving forward in its attempts to hastily approve a "Fake News" bill.
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Twitter labels video tweeted by Trump as 'manipulated media'
Twitter labeled a video tweeted by President Donald Trump on Thursday night as "manipulated media" because it attributes to news media a nonexistent story on race. The video depicts a fake CNN headline that states, "TERRIFIED TODDLER RUNS FROM RACIST BABY," as a Black toddler runs ahead of a white toddler in the same direction and ominous music plays.
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Facebook Groups Are Destroying America
They're built for privacy and community—and that's just what makes them dangerous.
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Social media companies distrusted by most Americans on content decisions: Poll
Most Americans do not trust social media companies to make the right decisions about what should be allowed on their platforms, but trust the government even less to make those choices, according to a poll released on Tuesday by Gallup and the Knight Foundation.
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More than half of Twitter's ‘Reopen America’ calls from bots, study finds
In a now-familiar truth, scenario, malicious actors are creating bots to sow discontent and division. That's according to a new study out of Carnegie Mellon, which found that half of all Twitter calls to reopen the country may be from bots. It adds a new chapter to the misinformation that helped stoke ire during the 2016 elections and led to awareness of the role of social media as arbiter of perceived truth and ultimately political power.
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Covid-19 misinformation: pro-Trump and QAnon Twitter bots found to be worst offenders
Researchers find coordinated effort to promote conspiracy theory that coronavirus is a bioweapon engineered by China
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Google removes QAnon apps from Play Store for violating terms
The search giant says it's combating "harmful information."
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Please get your parents off Facebook
Facebook has lowered the bar to share ideas as low as it can get and now it is failing its users, exploiting them and systematically misinforming them.
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How the truth became whatever makes you click
Just like our education and healthcare systems, our information supply has been heavily commercialised in the past decades. Truth has become a product, aimed at satisfying a need. The advent of digital capitalism turned truth into whatever makes you click.
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Vietnam introduces 'fake news' fines for coronavirus misinformation
A new decree took effect in Vietnam on Wednesday introducing fines for the dissemination of ‘fake news’ or rumours on social media, amid the rapid spread of comment online about the novel coronavirus in the Southeast Asian country.
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‘Fake News’ Increases Consumer Demands for Corporate Action
Study finds “fake news” inspires consumers to demand corrective action from companies.
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Facebook takedowns reveal sophistication of Russian trolls
Facebook and Twitter revealed evidence Thursday suggesting that Russian efforts to interfere in the U.S. presidential election are getting more sophisticated and harder to detect.
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‘I have a duty to do this’: Meet the Redditors fighting 2020’s fake news war
Despite the site’s reputation as a sometimes-toxic rumor mill, Reddit has become an unlikely home for passionate users who aim to call out disinformation as it spreads.
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The Billion-Dollar Disinformation Campaign to Reelect the President
How new technologies and techniques pioneered by dictators will shape the 2020 election
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These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People For Years. We Found Out Who Created Them.
Jay Pinho and his wife, Victoria, rely on Google Alerts to track the public appearances of US Supreme Court justices on their website, SCOTUS Map. But late last year, the results began to worry them. “A crop of news [website] domains were popping up that I'd never heard of before, and they were often publishing directly plagiarized pieces from real outlets,” he told BuzzFeed News.
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Internet Deception Is Here to Stay—So What Do We Do Now?
Fake followers. Fake news. Foreign influence operations. The last decade revealed that much of what's online is not as it seems.
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