India’s election overshadowed by the rise of online misinformation
[ad_1] As India kicks off the world’s biggest election, which starts on April 19 and runs through June 1, the...
Meta and Google fuel abortion misinformation across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, report finds
[ad_1] The fight for reproductive rights is happening on social media — and major tech giants may not be helping...
Here’s OpenAI’s big plan to combat election misinformation
[ad_1] Yesterday TikTok presented me with what appeared to be a deepfake of Timothee Chalamet sitting in Leonardo Dicaprio’s lap...
Posts with misinformation on X become ‘ineligible for revenue share’ says Musk
[ad_1] X posts that are corrected by Community Notes, the platform’s crowd-sourced fact-checking system, will become “ineligible for revenue share,”...
Did Trump sell Mar-a-Lago? It now appears an incorrect Zillow listing spread misinformation
[ad_1] Did Donald Trump quietly sell off his Mar-a-Lago estate for hundreds of millions of dollars just a few short...
Online misinformation runs rampant during coup attempt in Russia
[ad_1] The potential coup attempt in Russia by a paramilitary organization may already be over(opens in a new tab), but...
Spotify does nothing as Joe Rogan peddles vaccine misinformation
[ad_1] After Baylor microbiology professor and public health advocate Peter Hotez, MD Ph.D. tweeted out a Motherboard article about Spotify’s...
Meta to roll back Covid-19 misinformation measures
[ad_1] Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is rolling back its COVID-19 misinformation rules in countries that have...
YouTube rolls back its rules against election misinformation
[ad_1] YouTube was the slowest major platform to disallow misinformation during the 2020 U.S. election and almost three years later,...
New York City schools ban access to ChatGPT over fears of cheating and misinformation
[ad_1] The New York City Department of Education has blocked access to ChatGPT on its networks and devices over fears...
Twitter will no longer enforce its COVID-19 misinformation policy
[ad_1] Twitter is no longer enforcing its COVID-19 misinformation policy, scrapping it less than a month after Space Karen Elon...
TikTok and Facebook fail to stop paid ads promoting election misinformation before midterms, experiment finds
[ad_1] Facebook and TikTok failed to block paid advertisements spreading misinformation about voting in the 2022 midterm elections, according to...
China’s WeChat Is a Hot New Venue for US Election Misinformation
[ad_1] When Chinese-language misinformation appears on US platforms like YouTube or Facebook, activists say it seems to get less actively...
TikTok is removing millions of accounts that spread misinformation
[ad_1] TikTok continues to combat growing concerns around the prevalence of misinformation on the platform by assuring us that it's...
TikTok’s search suggests misinformation almost 20 percent of the time, says report
[ad_1] Young people seeking to slake their curiosity are increasingly turning to TikTok as a substitute search engine, with the...
Google has a new way of protecting you from misinformation in Search
[ad_1] Google is updating its search engine to cut down on misleading snippets and improve the ways it educates people...
Google Search will improve snippets to avoid misinformation
[ad_1] The team behind Google Search is tweaking its featured snippets — the text boxes that sometimes spread false information...
Wikipedia turns to surprising ally in fight against misinformation: Meta
[ad_1] Wikipedia is a unique fountain of free knowledge, but the world’s most popular encyclopaedia isn’t always accurate. The site’s...
Twitter’s new misinformation policy aims to tamp down misleading viral tweets
[ad_1] Your Twitter timeline's going on a cleanse. The social media giant announced a new policy Thursday which aims to...
Pinterest bans all climate change misinformation on its platform – TechCrunch
[ad_1] Pinterest announced today it’s becoming the first major digital platform to introduce a comprehensive misinformation policy designed to combat...
