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A new Democratic-aligned political action committee advised by retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former head of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, is planning to deploy technology originally developed to counter […]
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MPs have accused Twitter, Facebook and Google of being “unwilling” to give clear answers on how they are tackling false information during the pandemic. The social media companies were criticised […]
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Just as the natural world is besieged by the climate crisis, our digital world is besieged by the network crisis. Polarization is at a fever pitch. Polluted information floods social […]
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China, Iran and Russia are using the coronavirus crisis to launch a propaganda and disinformation onslaught against the United States, the State Department warns in a new report. The three […]
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Fact-checkers around the world have encountered a specific odd chain message about COVID-19 that has nothing to do withĀ false curesĀ orĀ who is immune. Itās about helicopters. And, quite often, it talks […]
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Itās clear who loses from health misinformation. Mothers lose children after seeking advice in Facebook free-birth groups, measles break out in anti-vaxx communities, children with autism are poisoned from being […]
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The same coronavirus post kept popping up on my Facebook feed last week. People in my networkāa friendās mom, a college classmate and another āfriend,ā who Iām not sure Iāve […]
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At first glance, Misrad Sulejmanovic could be your typical YouTuber. The 25-year-old from Bosnia and Herzegovina has a following of about 3,300 subscribers on his channel. He goes by the […]
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Disinformation-spewing online bots and trolls from halfway around the world are continuing to shape local and national debates by spreading lies online on a massive scale. In 2019, Russia used […]
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Pro-Kremlin media have been spreading disinformation about coronavirus with the aim of āaggravatingā the public health crisis in the west, the European Unionās diplomatic service has concluded in a leaked […]