All posts tagged "misinformation"
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900FutureFollowing Pressure, X Removes Hundreds of Hamas Accounts and Tens of Thousands Of Disinformation Content
On October 12, the platform formerly known as Twitter (‘X’) announced they have removed hundreds of Hamas-affiliated accounts and purged tens of...
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930FutureIt Has Come to This: Court Says YouTube Can’t Be Forced to Host Anti-Vaccine Content
One of the biggest spreaders of anti-vaccine content has lost their lawsuit against YouTube this week. A well-known anti-vaxx activist, Joseph Mercola,...
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1.3KSocialNew Twitter Labels, Enough to Stop Misinformation?
Twitter is fighting the good fight – or at least that seems to be what’s happening with their soon-to-launch labels. The company...
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977FutureFacebook Delivered 10 Billion Impressions from Misleading Pages
A recent report claims that the world’s largest, and most influential social media could have prevented a little over 10 billion estimated impressions “for...
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1.7KSmart LifeFacebook Is Trying To Get More People To Vote But Does Little About Misinformation
Facebook launched, what it calls, “the largest voting information effort in US history“. This campaign was designed to get about 4 million...
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4.1KPhonesWhatsapp Cuts The Spread Of Viral Messages By Limiting Forwarding
At the beginning of April, Whatsapp introduced new forwarding limits for messages in response to the spread of coronavirus-related misinformation on the...
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1.5KMiscFacebook Will Turn To Humans To Select News Stories
It’s no secret that Facebook has often relied on algorithms to take care of most of the tasks that happen within it,...
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2.1KSecurityTwitter Removes Nearly 4,800 Accounts Linked To The Iranian Government
Twitter has been publishing transparency reports on the investigations it makes about state-backed information operations since 2018. These reports have seen...
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2.5KSecuritySingapore Passes New Law Aimed At Stopping Fake News
On Wednesday, the Singapore parliament passed the Protection of Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Bill, after a two-day debate. The bill requires companies...
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2.9KMiscFacebook Can’t Stop Fake News, Tries to Shrink Them
The rise of fake news seems to be more than Facebook can handle. The company has been under fire for allowing the...
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8.5KMiscFacebook Update Shows Which People Share Fake News
While the Cambridge Analytica scandal is fresh on everyone’s mind, social media giant Facebook still faces several other issues. From the incendiary...
