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Fake News and Bad Bots: The Next Infodemic Weapon

Fake News and Bad Bots: The Next Infodemic Weapon

At a time when transparency and facts are essential, an infodemic undermines the public’s trust in information. Disinformation and fake news, which drives fear and doubt among people, can easily become a weapon of influence and political bias — with far-reaching social, economic and geopolitical implications. In this digital era, we consume information from multiple

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Fake and inaccurate reviews driving billions in ‘wasted’ consumer spending [Report]

American consumers said they wasted $125, on average, in 2019 due to inaccurate reviews, a new report finds. If we extrapolate that across the adult population, as much as $25 billion in U.S. consumer spending has been wasted due to inaccurate (or fake) online reviews. The report portrays a kind of dissonance or ambivalence among

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On Twitter's experiment with community based points system to identify and label misleading posts / fake news by public figures

On Twitter’s experiment with community based points system to identify and label misleading posts / fake news by public figures

arguably this was the idea behind that popular link aggregation website called REDDIT. Every Community focused web group seems to fall into the same problems with authenticity and moderation. AOL moderators, message board mods, corruption, and more. I really think a well educated highschooler can be more critical of what they see online but the

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These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People For Years. We Found Out Who Created Them.

These Fake Local News Sites Have Confused People For Years. We Found Out Who Created Them.

Alex Merto for BuzzFeed News Jay Pinho and his wife, Victoria, rely on Google Alerts to track the public appearances of US Supreme Court justices on their website, SCOTUS Map. But late last year, the results began to worry them. “A crop of news [website] domains were popping up that I’d never heard of before,

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4 Major Brands and Platforms Addressing Digital Literacy and Fake News in 2020

January 8th, 2020 Tech Erica Perry The majority of marketers realize the issues presented by fake news and “deepfake” techniques in skewing the information we’re exposed to and the implications for determining what is fact from fiction. We face a critical point in our industry where many brands and platforms are facing increased pressure for

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Fake polls - how to spot them?

Fake polls – how to spot them?

Reading time: 3 mins It isn’t just fake news.  There are now multiple examples of fake polls — not just limited to one country, but in several places throughout the world. — ESOMAR and SAVA (the Slovakian insights association) earlier this year issued a press release about Media T polling:  http://www.eglobaltravelmedia.com.au/esomar-and-sava-raise-questions-about-media-t-polling/ This was the second

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