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Conservative sites like Newsmax and Washington Examiner have published Middle East hot takes from “experts” who are actually fake personas pushing propaganda.
Niet de strijd tussen waarheid en leugen is wat onze tijd bepaalt, schrijft Bas Heijne, het gaat om hoe we de dingen voelen. „Zelden wordt iemand door een handvol getallen op andere gedachten gebracht.”
An anonymous reader quotes the BBC:
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controversial "fake news" law. Singapore claimed the post, by fringe ne...
De politie wil morele grenzen passeren. De krijgsmacht wil desinformatie verspreiden. Als gewone burger kan ik daarbij niet achterblijven. „It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me.” Na vandaag ga ik liegen om de wereld beter te maken.Vorige week organiseerde de politie „op een waanzinnige locatie” een innovatiefestival onder de titel Crxssing Bxrders. Volgens de annonce ging men er…
It’s an old story: someone searches Google for a common keyword — “jews,” “women,” “black people” — and gets back a bunch of far-right conspira…
Several times over the 13 years that I’ve been writing this column, I’ve railed against the toxic myth that science fiction is a predictive literature, a way to know the future. Scienc…
Mass murders present challenge for search engine to deliver accurate results
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On the eve of European elections, the tech giants stand accused of sabotaging the European Union’s fight against disinformation.
News site says it wants to ensure its efforts are a ‘net positive’ for community, as some journalists doubt program’s effectiveness
Technology has given rise to an age of misinformation. But philosophy, and a closer look at our own social behavior, could help eliminate it.
At Facebook, where men outnumber women almost two to one, the future of news is female.
We're in an arms race of disinformation. Let's make things harder for the bad guys.
For the last couple of years, fake news has been towards the top of my agenda. As an investor for Matter, it was one of
From ‘spygate’ to ‘fake news’, Trump has turned words into weapons. The press must do more to dull their power
Technological advances have made it easy to spread fake news. But after these fabrications become familiar, their danger is likely to recede, the economist Austan Goolsbee says.
Op het beleidsforum van Science verscheen een artikel waarin beschikbare wetenschappelijke kennis over nepnieuws samen wordt gevat. Er wordt een definitie gegeven, ingegaan op de geschiedenis, op d…
YouTube gaat extra informatie tonen bij video’s rond populaire samenzweringstheorieën om disinformatie tegen te gaan.
As a film studio revitalizes a once-successful super-villain franchise for a new generation of moviegoers, we're back to Russia occupying center stage.
Exiled Cambodian opposition leader sues Facebook in California over allegations of collusion with Cambodia's dictator
De EU-organisatie EU vs Disinfo – onderdeel van de East StratCom Task Force – een in 2015 met goedkeuring van alle lidstaten door de Europese Unie opgerichte en gefinancierde club die zich
Even though Trump supporters are impervious to fact-checks on most subjects, they still know that the GOP tax plan is a giveaway to the super-rich
Old fights about radio have lessons for new fights about the Internet.
We will continue to invest in our people and technology to help provide a safe place for civic discourse and meaningful connections on Facebook.
Speaking at Hay festival, writer accuses ‘aggregating news agencies’ of not taking responsibility for their content
Report published on Thursday reveals how countries and governments exploited Facebook platform to spread falsehoods for political gain
1. Just before Christmas 1953, the bosses of America’s leading tobacco companies met John Hill, the founder and chief executive of one of America’s leading public relations firms, Hill &…
Tim Cook says fake news is "killing people’s minds."
Sociaal netwerk Facebook test in Duitsland nieuwe opties, die nepnieuws moeten weren in de tijdlijnen van gebruikers.
Google toont niet langer controversiële websites als gebruikers zoeken naar de Holocaust.
Growing concerns of fake news on the social network see CEO relent on protest that Facebook is not a media company
Free online course: how to write and read fake news
Facebook vraagt sommige gebruikers om te beoordelen of nieuwsartikelen die zij op het sociale netwerk aantreffen misleidend zijn.