Misinformation

Twitter steps up its fight against election misinformation

Separately, Google said Thursday it is adding its own precautions ahead of the election, including for any candidate prematurely declaring victory. Twitter’s expanded policies come as social media, more than ever, has become the central electoral information battlefield, as the coronavirus pandemic has drastically limited traditional rallies and door-to-door campaigning. The tech companies have heeded […]

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Twitter labels Trump video tweet as manipulated media, continuing its crackdown on misinformation

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“Racist baby probably a Trump voter,” the headline then says in a subsequent screen. The video then cuts to the original clip of the children hugging, and then cuts to the message “America is not the problem. Fake news is.” The label is the latest flash point in an increasingly contentious debate over tech companies’

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Ads Appearing on Google’s Network Alongside COVID-19 Misinformation

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Search and social platforms have had a lot to contend with when it comes to COVID-19. From struggling monetization to constantly evolving ad policies, and blatantly false information slipping through the cracks in approval, adapting quickly has been the name of the game. There is another side of Google’s advertising web that had been somewhat

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COVID-19 Misinformation Remains Difficult To Stop On Social Media

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Exaggerations can be amplified on social media Getty According to a new report published earlier this week by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford found that roughly one third of social media users across the United States, as well as Argentina, Germany, South Korea, Spain and United Kingdom,

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As The U.S. Prepares For COVID-19 Disinformation Stokes Panic And Discord

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Getty Carefully planned posts on Twitter by Russian and Chinese sources are using the COVID-19 pandemic to spread discord in the west. The apparent goal is to confuse people about the facts of the disease, to discredit official sources of information, and where possible to degrade confidence in the ability of western governments to deal

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WhatsApp is limiting message forwarding to combat coronavirus misinformation

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The news: WhatsApp has said it will implement new limits on message forwarding amid growing concerns that it is being used to spread misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic. From today, messages identified as “highly forwarded” can be forwarded to only a single person as opposed to five, the company, which is owned by Facebook, said in a

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Clumsy Social Media Campaign Against Coronavirus Misinformation May Have Drastically Reduced Public Awareness of Pandemic in Early February; Delayed Meaningful Preparation by Weeks : socialmedia

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It was widely publicized in late January that social media companies including Facebook and Twitter were going to crack down on Coronavirus related misinformation. This effort by social media companies was unprecedented, with Consumer Reports saying in an article that “experts say their efforts appear more aggressive than any previous crackdown on false and misleading

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How do we avoid social media misinformation on coronavirus? There’s a tool for that.

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How do we avoid social media misinformation on coronavirus? There’s a tool for that. With the hundreds of thousands of pieces of media, social media and online communities talking about coronavirus, it’s only expected that there’s an environment ripe for rumors and misinformation. When we hear words in the media like “panic,” it really signifies

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Google BERT Misinformation Challenged – Search Engine Journal

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The backlash to the BERT update was swift and without mercy. Many SEOs warned about “how to optimize for BERT” articles before any “how to optimize for BERT” articles were published. Ryan Jones (@RyanJones) tweeted: “the most exciting thing about BERT is that suddenly, overnight, every SEO is now an expert on neural networks and

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Answer To An Anti-Vaxxer Question Highlights Facebook’s Problematic Response To Misinformation

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in a hearing … [+] focused on Facebook’s digital currency project, called Libra. Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to Capitol Hill on Wednesday for the first time since April 2018, answering a litany of questions about Facebook’s digital currency project and how

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