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Twitter is building ‘Birdwatch,’ a system to fight misinformation by adding more context to tweets | TechCrunch
by Sarah Perez
October 6, 2020
Twitter is developing a new product called “Birdwatch,” which the company confirms is an attempt at addressing misinformation across its…
Recognizing AI’s misinformation | College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
by Madison Brewer
October 6, 2020
What does cybersecurity have to do with human recognition of false data? A lot, says MechE’s Conrad Tucker, who teamed…
Community Conversation: Combatting Misinformation | Duke Neurobiology
October 5, 2020
Why do we see so much misinformation? Why do people accept and believe incorrect data? And what we can do…
Speaker Series on Misinformation with Natalie Jomini Stroud | Shorenstein Center
September 29, 2020
Natalie (Talia) Jomini Stroud (Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania) is a Professor in the Department of Communication Studies and…
Young People More Likely to Believe Virus Misinformation, Study Says | The New York Times
by Adam Satariano
September 24, 2020
As public health officials raise alarms about surging coronavirus cases among young people, new research suggests that Americans under 25…
Covid-related misinformation videos spread primarily through Facebook, as its fact-checkers fail to spot false information, finds new Oxford study | Oxford Internet Institute
by Aleksi Knuutila, Aliaksandr Herasimenka, Hubert Au, Jonathan Bright, Rasmus Nielsen & Philip N. Howard
September 23, 2020
In a new study by the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford analysis shows that Covid related misinformation videos primarily…
Why COVID-19 misinformation spread faster than pandemic in early March | Phys.org
by Stefan Stevenson
September 23, 2020
In early March, when the true scope of the coronavirus pandemic was still widely unknown to the public, misinformation was…
YouTube’s Plot to Silence Conspiracy Theories | WIRED
by Clive Thompson
September 22, 2020
In January 2019, YouTube began rolling out the system. That's when Mark Sargent noticed his flat-earth views take a nose…
Just like Australia, disinformation is thriving during the US fire crisis | The Guardian
by Jason Wilson
September 22, 2020
Disinformation successfully obscured the real causes of Australia’s catastrophic bushfire season. Now the same thing is happening around me, as…