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Artificial intelligence may not actually be the solution for stopping the spread of fake news | The Conversation
by Sze-Fung Lee and Benjamin C. M. Fung
November 29, 2021
Disinformation has been used in warfare and military strategy over time. But it is undeniably being intensified by the use…
Why Political Disinformation in Honduras Is Spreading | Time
by Vera Bergengruen
November 17, 2021
At 10:16pm on October 7, a cluster of nineteen Twitter accounts shared identical opinions about the upcoming presidential election in…
Accounting for AI — a Comparison of Methods | Berkman Klein Center
November 1, 2021
A few years ago, Finale Doshi-Velez and Mason Kortz – and a squad of collaborators – unpacked explanation as one…
Cyabra gets $5.6M Series A to launch news disinformation detection analysis tools | TechCrunch
by Kate Park
October 27, 2021
Misinformation and disinformation content has continued to increase across social media channels, and its effects have impacted every type of…
This startup is creating personalized deepfakes for corporations | Rest of World
by Nilesh Christopher
October 22, 2021
Umang Agarwal is a Hrithik Roshan superfan. For the past five years, he’s run a YouTube channel dedicated to the…
Frances Haugen says Facebook’s algorithms are dangerous. Here’s why. | MIT Technology Review
by Karen Hao
October 8, 2021
On Sunday night, the primary source for the Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files, an investigative series based on internal Facebook documents,…
Eric Schmidt: AI Could Worsen Our Misinformation Problem | The Atlantic
by Saahil Desai
September 29, 2021
For years now, artificial intelligence has been hailed as both a savior and a destroyer. The technology really can make…
Blackbird.AI grabs $10M to help brands counter disinformation | TechCrunch
by Natasha Lomas
September 22, 2021
New York-based Blackbird.AI has closed a $10 million Series A as it prepares to launch the next version of its…
Facebook’s algorithms fueled massive foreign propaganda campaigns during the 2020 election – here’s how algorithms can manipulate you. | The Conversation
by Filippo Menczer
September 20, 2021
An internal Facebook report found that the social media platform’s algorithms – the rules its computers follow in deciding the…