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Silicon Valley is losing the battle against election misinformation | POLITICO
by Mark Scott and Steven Overly
August 7, 2020
Videos peddling false claims about voter fraud and COVID-19 cures draw millions of views on YouTube. Partisan activist groups pretending…
Facebook removes a coronavirus misinformation post from Trump for the first time ever | The Washington Post
by Heather Kelly
August 6, 2020
Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday took extraordinary action against President Trump for spreading coronavirus misinformation after his official and campaign accounts…
WhatsApp Hopes its Misinformation-Busting Feature Will Help Democracy | Red Herring
by Red Herring
August 6, 2020
Social media platform WhatsApp has launched a new feature it hopes will make discourse more truthful. “Search the web” allows…
Facebook and Twitter fail to fact-check Trump’s latest claims about mail-in voting in the 2020 elections | Vox
by Shirin Ghaffary
July 31, 2020
Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. Twitter and Facebook are not fact-checking factually…
Climate: The science may be settled, but the press coverage isn’t | Ars Technica
by John Timmer
July 31, 2020
Lots of the mainstream press has struggled with a desire to maintain what they think is objectivity in the face…
Addressing Deepfakes in the U.S. 2020 Elections | Center for an Informed Public
July 29, 2020
In mid July, the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public (CIP), together with Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program, brought…
Fighting False News in Ukraine, Facebook Fact Checkers Tread a Blurry Line | The New York Times
by Anton Troianovski
July 28, 2020
Facebook hired a Ukrainian group battling Russian disinformation to flag misleading posts. But critics say the fact checkers’ work veers…
Combating COVID-19 in Burkina Faso: Dr. Moumini Niaoné’s approach | CSMonitor
by Clair MacDougall
July 24, 2020
Moumini Niaoné is a doctor and public health specialist in Burkina Faso. But often, he feels like a translator. During…
Disinformation campaigns are murky blends of truth, lies and sincere beliefs – lessons from the pandemic | The Conversation
by Kate Starbird
July 24, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has spawned an infodemic, a vast and complicated mix of information, misinformation and disinformation. In this environment,…