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Why Wikipedia Decided to Stop Calling Fox a ‘Reliable’ Source | WIRED
by Noam Cohen
2 days ago
In an aggressive move that is anything but sitting back, a panel of Wikipedia administrators in July declared that Fox…
Health insurance whistleblower: I lied to Americans about Canadian medicine | The Washington Post
by Wendell Potter
4 days ago
In my prior life as an insurance executive, it was my job to deceive Americans about their health care. I…
Murdoch’s misinformation: COVID-19, China and climate change | Al Jazeera
by Anne Davies and colleagues
4 days ago
From the United States to Australia, Rupert Murdoch's media empire regularly courts controversy. Its coverage of COVID-19, however, is on…
Fighting Election-Related Disinformation with the Election Integrity Partnership | Cyber Policy Center | Stanford University
August 7, 2020
As we observed in the United States in 2016, and in numerous other countries since, the spread of viral misleading…
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…
Hackers Broke Into Real News Sites to Plant Fake Stories | WIRED
by Andy Greenberg
July 31, 2020
Over the past few years, online disinformation has taken evolutionary leaps forward, with the Internet Research Agency pumping out artificial…
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…
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…