In an interview with Bloomberg, Microsoft President Brad Smith said the company won’t label social media posts that appear to be false in order to avoid the appearance that the company is trying to censor ...
Our publication sister European Seed is diving into a series on Myths, Fake News, Misinformation and Disinformation. Today, we dive deeper into the matter and put the spotlight on various aspects. In this article, we ...
Image credits: Jagoba Malumbre-Olarte Around one in ten people suffer from arachnophobia, or the fear of spiders. Some people have such an extreme aversion to spiders they may even be afraid to enter a basement ...
We refer to teens today as “digital natives” and often turn to them for technical assistance when navigating the apps and platforms that have become essential to our daily functioning. But although today’s teens can’t ...
SÃO PAULO – Although the electoral campaign officially started on Aug. 16, the attacks against the two leading presidential candidates in Brazil – current President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, ...
The more widespread the news, the more scams and hoaxes you’ll see. The pandemic gave rise to countless scams involving fake news, fake testing kits, and dangerous misinformation disguised as legitimate research. We saw similar ...
A Chinese marketing firm hosted a ring of at least 72 fake news sites in 11 languages with corresponding fake social media personas that pushed Chinese government talking points, according to research published Thursday. NBC ...
Fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories abound. If you want to understand the crazy, mixed-up, 21st century information ecosystem, think about it as what is called a “tragedy of the commons.” That tragedy is enacted ...
CHAMPAIGN — When curator Maureen Warren first began working on Krannert Art Museum’s newest exhibit, “Fake News & Lying Pictures: Political Prints in the Dutch Republic,” five years ago, she faced pushback over the topical ...
A Chinese cyber espionage group has been using a fake news site to infect government and energy industry targets in Australia, Malaysia and Europe with malware, according to a blog posted online Tuesday by Proofpoint ...
