EU warns Elon Musk after Twitter found to have highest rate of disinformation followed by Facebook ~tech facebook microsoft google Article 746 words 34 votes
Queensland neighbours show how Voice to Parliament is splitting Australia ~life Article 430 words 2 votes
China behind ‘largest ever’ digital influence operation ~tech social media Article 849 words, published Aug 29 2023 15 votes
Unbelievable: How too much attention to fake news undermines the real news ~news journalism Article 1225 words, published May 19 2023 44 votes
How Finland is teaching a generation to spot misinformation ~life education Article 1268 words 8 votes
As the midterm elections approach in the US, does Finland have the answer to fake news? ~society politics Article 6 votes
Sweden, which is holding a general election in September, has joined France in creating an agency to combat disinformation ~news sweden politics france Article 233 words 10 votes
“Hacker X”—the American who built a pro-Trump fake news empire—unmasks himself ~society politics Article 915 words 21 votes
How one man was wrongly accused in Kongsberg attack – many international media outlets picked up on speculative tweets ~news norway.kongsberg journalism crime Article 788 words, published Nov 7 2017 11 votes
Fact check: Story about organs found on a cargo ship was intended as satire ~news nsfw journalism Article 322 words 5 votes
Targeted by government misinformation, activists in the Phillipines are asking Facebook to do more to tackle a deadly epidemic of "red-tagging" ~tech facebook social media Article 2962 words 8 votes
Fake news (part 1/3): Origins and evolution ~humanities.history Video 13:21, published Feb 7 2018 5 votes
The (literally) unbelievable story of the original fake news network ~humanities.history Article 3019 words, published Aug 27 2020 11 votes
Facebook creates fact-checking exemption for climate deniers ~tech social media facebook Article 1614 words 17 votes
Twitter labels Donald Trump video tweet as "manipulated media" as it cracks down on misinformation ~tech social media Article 278 words 13 votes
Fox News runs digitally altered images in coverage of Seattle’s protests, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone ~tv Article 801 words 41 votes
CNBC reporter makes fake news website with plagiarized content, gets approved by ad tech companies ~tech Article 2411 words, published May 17 2020 10 votes
How Finland starts its fight against fake news in schools – country on frontline of information war teaches everyone from pupils to politicians how to spot slippery information ~life education Article 1543 words 7 votes
Chinese ambassador dismisses Uyghurs mass detention as 'fake news' ~news china.xinjiang australia politics Article 351 words 9 votes
ABBA's Björn Ulvaeus has gifted books to high school students across Sweden to try to stem the flow of fake news ~books Article 204 words 8 votes
Ads Inc. spent over $50M placing ads on Facebook with fake celebrity news and "subscription traps", scamming people out of millions ~tech facebook social media Article 5950 words 11 votes
Russian propaganda stoking 5G health fears in Australia ~tech social media Article 702 words 16 votes
Right-wing publications launder an anti-journalist smear campaign ~news usa journalism politics Article 938 words 11 votes
Facebook acknowledges Pelosi video is faked but declines to delete it ~tech facebook social media Article 1164 words 22 votes
The eerie absence of viral fakes after the New Zealand mosque attacks ~tech social media Article 530 words 12 votes
Did a former minister in Cameroon really burn embezzled money? ~society politics Article 734 words, published Feb 27 2019 5 votes
YouTube is rolling out a feature that shows fact-checks when people search for sensitive topics ~tech social media Article 495 words 18 votes
'Fake news' on India-Pakistan crisis raises fears before election ~news india pakistan politics Article 827 words 6 votes
Macedonia's former ruling party organized a trolling apparatus for spreading hate speech, threats ~society politics Article 1622 words 8 votes
Migrant caravan faces false accusations as it crosses Mexico ~news honduras usa mexico Article 518 words 3 votes
How companies can use fake websites and backdated news articles to censor Google’s search results ~tech google Link 7 votes
How Cambodia’s prime minister rigged an election ~society politics Article 1067 words, published Aug 14 2018 3 votes
Facebook bans 196 pages in Brazil, attempting to rein in abuse and disinformation ~tech social media facebook Article 1448 words 5 votes