Coronavirus misinformation highlights a recurring issue with misinformation on Facebook groups.
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Misinformation On College CampusesTechnically, misinformation is just another form of voter suppression.
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And trying to debunk misinformation can often backfire and entrench that misinformation stronger.
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It&aposs based on all the misinformation, the intentional misinformation being pushed by the left.
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When we try to find out who is producing the misinformation you find more misinformation.
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Researchers worry Beijing could leverage the growth of TikTok to spread misinformation in the U.S. Go deeper: The misinformation age Welcome to our new synthetic realities Misinformation haunts 2020 primaries
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Mistrust and misinformation In addition to the violence, the medical response has been hampered by widespread mistrust and misinformation.
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"Regrettably, as they spread this misinformation, some members of the public accept this misinformation as true," he told Axios.
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Fighting misinformation on WhatsApp presents different challenges than misinformation on Facebook, because of the different ways the networks operate.
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Twitter's updated misinformation policy forms part of a broader movement among social media platforms to restrict coronavirus-related misinformation.
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While misinformation has been the object of great attention in politics, medical misinformation might have an even greater body count.
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Facebook has cracked down on anti-vaccination misinformation, banned white nationalism and hired fact-checkers that de-prioritize posts containing misinformation.
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Tougher misinformation tracking: Encryption makes it even harder for researchers to track and study misinformation, and for platforms to limit it.
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India's case also highlights legitimate democratic fears about misinformation, as well as how misinformation can be top cover for internet repression.
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As for hate speech and misinformation, he said Google has also been trying to deal with misinformation and seek to do more.
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Misinformation: News companies like CNN, NBC and BuzzFeed have all hired dedicated reporters to covering misinformation and the future of online discourse.
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While any strain of misinformation is not ideal, misinformation related to a public health crisis has an especially dangerous element to it.
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The company says all misinformation on COVID-19 is removed as it's in violation of its health misinformation policy, established in 2017.
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"Misinformation is a difficult challenge and any misinformation on medical topics is especially concerning," a YouTube spokesperson told CNN Business on Monday.
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Users can also use a reporting feature the company introduced last month to streamline the reporting of election misinformation to flag census misinformation.
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But while the two problems — misinformation affecting democracy and misinformation affecting public health — will have similar solutions, the latter is much less political.
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The children's game telephone is a fun metaphor to use to express how easily misinformation can be spread, but subtweets aren't about spreading misinformation.
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A forthcoming book, titled Misinformation and Mass Audiences, is one of the first attempts to systematically analyze how misinformation functions in the modern age.
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In a report studying online misinformation, the company's security researchers admitted that they had to take action against roughly 30,000 pages that spread misinformation.
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A second is to issue immediate corrections, although the efficacy will vary based on the type of misinformation you're correcting — for example, there is evidence of this being a successful strategy for misinformation in the health realm, but for political misinformation the evidence is mixed.
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He added that Twitter hasn't dealt with misinformation spanning a number of topics, and he didn't note whether Twitter would start addressing anti-vaccination misinformation.
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Go deeper: The misinformation age 2020 misinformation threats extend beyond Russia Human actors are changing the spread of disinformation Welcome to our new synthetic realities
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"When misinformation has reached a tipping point, aggressive responses to misinformation that seek to reframe the debate tend to be most effective," the DNC said.
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But the number of misinformation campaigns by autocratic nations that continue to be uncovered means the geopolitical forces leading to misinformation campaigns have gotten stronger. 6.
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Spread voter misinformation Social media become one of the most powerful tools for the campaigns to spread information, and for those causing mischief to spread misinformation.
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Fake news and misinformation Fighting fake news and misinformation is a constant process and something where everybody ... has to share a load and carry some responsibility.
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"Health misinformation has started to infiltrate more mainstream," Dr. Brittany Seymour, a professor at Harvard University who studies health misinformation online, told NBC News in June.
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They try to get the best messages out and stuff like that, but you started to look into the area where of misinformation — not misinformation, disinformation.
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Daniel Funke reports: The research projects were selected from more than 600 proposals and will investigate misinformation in four key areas, including digital literacy and election misinformation.
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Misinformation about whether a celebrity is dead or not is harmless, but misinformation about the effectiveness of a dangerous homeopathic treatment could have much more serious effects.
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You are willfully spreading misinformation to an enormous audience, misinformation that could put their health in danger or put the health of those around them in danger.
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Health misinformation online surrounding the effectiveness of homeopathy provides a welcoming, and costly, alternative that is compounded by conspiracy-related content and misinformation about treatments and cures.
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Karolin Schwarz, who runs a Berlin-based organization that tracks social media misinformation, said she often worked with German police departments to combat misinformation on social media.
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Although questions remain about how fact-checkers can successfully identify misinformation, vetting the truth of online content is a critically important strategy for stemming the tide of misinformation.
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It announced Tuesday that it added a tip line for misinformation on its popular messaging app WhatsApp, since the encrypted network makes it nearly impossible to track misinformation.
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Democrats, meanwhile, have accused Facebook of boosting misinformation posted by conservative outlets or prominent conservative figures, and recently criticized Facebook's advertising policy, which allows ads with debunked misinformation.
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Earlier this year, the company said it would start blocking hashtags that surface vaccine misinformation, but two months after that announcement, misinformation was still rampant on the platform.
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If Facebook or Google takes ad revenue for promoting political misinformation, or misinformation of any kind, it should face the same regulatory punishments that a broadcaster would face.
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Midway through the study, in March of this year, Facebook also pledged to "combat vaccine misinformation," promising to reduce the rankings of pages and groups that spread vaccine misinformation.
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Why is educating citizens about digital literacy the solution to misinformation, as Mr. Goldman suggested, rather than fixing the tech platforms that make misinformation hard to distinguish from truth?
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"I hope you recognize that Facebook's ability to effectively combat misinformation during the 2020 Census will presage your ability to combat similar misinformation during the upcoming elections," Harris wrote.
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"I hope you recognize that Facebook's ability to effectively combat misinformation during the 2202 census will presage your ability to combat similar misinformation during the upcoming elections," Harris wrote.
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The Ministry's inability to quickly adapt to combat rapidly spreading misinformation has raised fears that panic and misinformation could drown out government agencies in the event of a real crisis.
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"Whatever has been thrown as an accusation is all based on misinformation and we think that the entire crisis being based on misinformation," the foreign minister told CNN's Becky Anderson.
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Political misinformation has certainly gotten a lot of attention over the last year or so, but there's also plenty of misinformation in the realm of health, science, and nonpolitical news.
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That's partly because of social media, which makes it easier to unwittingly spread misinformation, as explained to Vox by political scientist Emily Thorson: People have always been susceptible to misinformation.
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And blindly-accepted misinformation flooding social media became a global problem, with often-deadly consequences: One of the deadliest consequences of misinformation occurred in India, in the summer of 2018.
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In addition to removing ad money from climate misinformation, Castor wants Google to "take steps to correct the record" for users who have been exposed to climate misinformation on YouTube.
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" 'Total misinformation' Speaking at a press briefing Thursday, Zakharova dismissed media reports about the encounters between Sessions and Kislyak as "shameful," an "attempt at total misinformation" and a kind of "vandalism.
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Facebook, Reddit, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube issue joint statement on misinformation Twitter's new set of coronavirus-related misinformation rules is as thorough as it will be difficult to enforce.
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Iowa state officials and Democratic Party members are fighting online misinformation and conspiracies alongside widespread technical problems, and the resulting chaos is putting platforms' newly released misinformation policies to the test.
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Riots and misinformation have been driving forces here, with problematic interplays between the two—a rash of cases where misinformation went viral on WhatsApp in India and subsequently led to violence.
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" Authorities in Chechnya dismissed the reports Monday as "misinformation.
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What about political misinformation — why is that so problematic?
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People have this notion that something is either misinformation or not, but the reality is there is a lot of space between misinformation, satire, people just being wrong, trolling, and biased reporting.
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So I would argue that political misinformation is most dangerous not in high-profile partisan races, but when the misinformation is about policies and issues where people don't have strong preexisting opinions.
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"Over the past year alone, we've launched over 30 different changes to reduce recommendations of borderline content and harmful misinformation, including climate change misinformation and other types of conspiracy videos," he said.
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"Unlike larger social media platforms, there aren't as many moderation guidelines over misinformation on smaller networks, so when you solely rely on the crowd, the opportunity to intervene with correct information decreases and there is a greater potential for misinformation," said Ben Decker, who runs the digital investigations consultancy Memetica and follows the spread of misinformation.
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Firstly how powerful misinformation can be, says van der Linden, but also — on the positive side — that 'inoculating' people against misinformation can be effective even if a person has an entrenched prior viewpoint.
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Facebook sent me the following statement about their approach to misinformation on the site: We value authentic communication, and hear consistently from those who use Facebook that they prefer not to see misinformation.
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Jonathan Zittrain: Well, it's Mark Zuckerberg: No, but I mean, look, I think solving– preventing misinformation or spreading misinformation is hard enough without also trying to develop high school students in a direction.
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Money and misinformation move equally fast in the modern world.
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To cut through misinformation, it is important to be educated.
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But they were soon overwhelmed by the volume of misinformation.
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Facebook also removed hundreds of pages spreading hate and misinformation.
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It could help fight off the next generation of misinformation.
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Facebook's crackdown on vaccination misinformation will also extend to Instagram.
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They have been spreading dangerous misinformation based on fake science.
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It took five hours for RT to remove the misinformation.
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Still, the social media giant has not banned misinformation entirely.
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The pages and websites often pushed conspiracy theories and misinformation.
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It had never considered working on technology or misinformation issues.
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It has remained relatively free of political content and misinformation.
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The nature of the news misinformation problem may be changing.
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The other one on misinformation, I think is really tricky.
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The University of Münster is tracking misinformation and elections integrity.
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"The bottom line is: we take misinformation seriously," Zuckerberg wrote.
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The accounts also amplified other quickly evolving conspiracies and misinformation.
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"There is a lot of misinformation out there," Berwick said.
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It is all full of Russian lies, propaganda and misinformation.
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A lot of misinformation is driven by financially motivated spam.
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Most of the research on misinformation has mimicked casual situations.
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Some of the misinformation that's out there is not accidental.
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Misinformation can't spread virally unless we infect others with it.
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There's a stunning lack of information, or explicit misinformation, spread.
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That's particularly true of financially motivated misinformation, says Jennifer 8.
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Misinformation looks different around the world — but so does credibility.
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"There's a lot of misinformation on this issue," he said.
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We're also aware of the misinformation being spread on Twitter.
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He said misinformation campaigns are growing in size and sophistication.
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Third, spreading of misinformation and unverified information can be enhanced.
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He warned against "misinformation and lies" circulating in social media.
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Angela King: I think it's all the misinformation out there.
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It's all about misinformation and a complete lack of logic.
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But the misinformation led to a significant decrease in vaccinations.
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"People have always been susceptible to misinformation," she told me.
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Is the misinformation problem worse today than in the past?
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I mean, you have one around identity and misinformation, disinformation.
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Some percentage of people will invariably be hoaxed by misinformation.
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They'd received misinformation that Peters had just shot his roommate.
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Some religious groups have also been targeted with vaccine misinformation.
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Goldman says fighting misinformation wars can be done using education.
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Many bots simply introduce chaos and misinformation to poison discourse.
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But the fearmongering and misinformation about immigrants rarely matches reality.
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This is a bit of rare good news about misinformation.
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"There were a lot of people giving misinformation," Stewart said.
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Dictionary.com's word of the year is: Misinformation Drag us, Dictionary.com.
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There were so much misinformation and propaganda around my report.
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Blocking misinformation will help protect the company's brand and credibility.
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Block Together is also ideal to tackle the misinformation threat.
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Was it a slip, or a masterstroke of digital misinformation?
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What can WhatsApp do to stop the spread of misinformation?
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Twitter is sick and tired of your coronavirus misinformation bullshit.
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Disney's Star Wars franchise has thrived on speculation and misinformation.
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Its updated its policies to keep misinformation off the platform.
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Misinformation has thrived on social media ahead of the vote.
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He also pushed for organizational changes to better prevent misinformation.
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It isn't living up to its own promises on misinformation.
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Look, there's a lot of misinformation, and people are afraid.
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Misinformation swirled as the chaotic recovery efforts unfolded on Thursday.
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There may be more such misinformation campaigns, the researchers added.
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In other words: You're still likely to see misinformation today.
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But Facebook and Twitter didn't force users to share misinformation.
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He went on to outline Facebook's current policies around misinformation.
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All of which can be filed under misinformation 'snake oil'.
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Misinformation itself is "a manifestation of polarized society," said Kajimoto.
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Some ads circulated misinformation — or told people not to vote.
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Many coronavirus memes are doing their part to quash misinformation.
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Misinformation about the coronavirus is spreading rapidly on the internet.
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Zero Hedge was banned from Twitter for Wuhan coronavirus misinformation.
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WATCH: Tech firms step up efforts to fight coronavirus misinformation
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There's a growing recognition about the harm misinformation can do.
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We saw the misinformation and provocation attempts via social media.
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Misinformation about the impeachment inquiry is spreading on social media.
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"The misinformation on this project has been stunning," said Chao.
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Facebook has spent years awash in fake news and misinformation.
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They're focused on misinformation related to the candidates and voting.
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There have only been scattered examples of misinformation so far.
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He has to realize that he has been fed misinformation.
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But by then, the initial burst of misinformation has spread.
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Misinformation peddlers know that emotional appeals can overwhelm rational thought.
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Mr. Xiao's disappearance has been marked by confusion and misinformation.
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"There's a huge amount of misinformation out there," she said.
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Big government special interests flooded Wisconsin with distorted facts & misinformation.
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She also wants to dispel misinformation about infertility and miscarriage.
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In some cases, LAX's official accounts responded individually to misinformation.
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That can lead people to conspiracy theories, misinformation, and misunderstanding.
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The nation is confused enough with divisive narratives and misinformation.
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It only today began globally fact checking posts for misinformation.
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Simply put, Russia is better at misinformation than its opponents.
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They've tried to stem the spread of misinformation on vaccines.
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I'm as worried about the spread of misinformation as anyone.
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Facebook stopped short of identifying the source of the misinformation.
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All of these foundations have ties to the spread of climate misinformation, according to Robert Brulle, a Drexel University professor who has mapped the financial connections of climate misinformation groups from 2003 to 2010.
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"Whatever has been thrown as an accusation is all based on misinformation and we think that the entire crisis being based on misinformation," Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told CNN.
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Instagram has been ramping up its work on misinformation amid a record-breaking measles outbreak in the U.S. this year, which has been attributed in part to the rise of anti-vaccine misinformation online.
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Facebook (FB), which owns Instagram, first said two months ago it was working to address vaccine misinformation on its platforms, including not showing or recommending misinformation about vaccinations on Instagram's Explore page or hashtag pages.
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Per Zuckerberg, the reasoning behind the changes is to start to address Facebook's major problems with facilitating the spread of misinformation across the internet: There's too much sensationalism, misinformation, and polarization in the world today.
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Based on data collected by the Cofacts team on the messages they've received so far, the misinformation debunked on the platform can range from fake promotions and medical misinformation to false claims about government policies.
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Also, when you see a news report that repeats the misinformation and then tries to correct it — you might have people remembering the misinformation because it's really surprising and interesting, and not remembering the correction.
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The groups said threats, allegations and misinformation had led to "genuine fears" among aid workers, and they called for an end to "misinformation and unfounded accusations" and for the government to ensure aid workers' safety.
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Experts have warned that, as Facebook has clamped down on misinformation on its main platform, its messenger service WhatsApp, which was bought in 2014, is increasingly becoming a key arena for the spread of misinformation.
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All of this is part of Twitter's effort to combat misinformation.
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The majority of the top posts under the hashtag were misinformation.
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The duo spent the hearing spreading misinformation about social media companies.
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This only furthers Russia's goal of sowing division and spreading misinformation.
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"You can make it harder to share misinformation," says Mr Cheeseman.
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But even without propaganda, misinformation is a grave threat to democracy.
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And it's probably just going to get easier to spread misinformation.
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Fringe groups have used those services to spread conspiracies and misinformation.
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But with the debates comes a lot of misinformation about abortions.
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The largest search engine in the world has a misinformation problem.
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For years, she'd been studying how misinformation spreads on the platform.
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Interested parties would learn how to create misinformation regardless, he argued.
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Read more about the misinformation surrounding the pipe bomb scares here.
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An excerpt from a street play warning of misinformation on WhatsApp.
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Facebook's misinformation efforts are appreciated, but more than a little late.
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In particular, YouTube was lambasted for spreading misinformation during mass shootings.
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There's a wide spectrum of what might count as health misinformation.
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The company stopped short of identifying the source of the misinformation.
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He denied Facebook instructed the outside research firm to spread misinformation.
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And what if the Wikipedia page is edited to include misinformation?
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" In Wallace's paradigm, "curiosity" is the "antidote to misinformation and disinformation.
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Want to see us debunk even more misinformation circling the internet?
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The whole reason for the panel's existence is to fight misinformation.
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Read Tamerra Griffin's report on the people fighting misinformation in Nigeria.
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Many teachers also provide misinformation about climate change, the survey found.
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"The Dr. Oz Show" tries to dispel misinformation about your health.
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This time, Facebook did not identify the source of the misinformation.
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It's too easy for misinformation to spread on the webFake news!
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All of this misinformation can add to people's anxiety, she says.
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The key finding: misinformation is still thriving across the social network.
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Each piece of misinformation contributes to the shaping of our opinions.
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Now, spreading misinformation isn't necessarily a silver bullet for winning elections.
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In this light, misinformation online prevents citizens from enjoying their liberties.
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Twitter also agreed to help mitigate misinformation, according to the notes.
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Discussions about misinformation can quickly turn into freshman-year philosophy seminars.
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We saw misinformation, we went a little bit after that. Right.
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The category we're most focused on is click-bait and misinformation.
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Go deeper: Senate-commissioned reports show scale of Russian misinformation campaign
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That misinformation was intentional and contributed to the harm, he argued.
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That&aposs called propaganda, misinformation, outright lying to the American people.
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Instagram is, very slowly, ramping up its tools to fight misinformation.
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And that's the kind of misinformation that ultimately gets people killed.
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Since 2016, digital propaganda and misinformation campaigns have become increasingly sophisticated.
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I categorically disavow the use of misinformation to sway an election.
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YouTube has removed ads from videos it considers as spreading misinformation.
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Misinformation about other people potentially involved in the shooting also circulated.
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This misconception was aided and abetted by the White House's misinformation.
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That's an awful lot of people possibly being exposed to misinformation.
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Twitter is stepping up its fight against misinformation and voter manipulation.
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But we shouldn't forget the misinformation can have a real impact.
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Specifically, misinformation that encourages harm, like what we've seen in Myanmar.
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There's a lot of hype and misinformation floating around about EVs.
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But in other realms, like health, misinformation can really change behaviors.
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It's as if we've engineered a world designed to produce misinformation.
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Fighting misinformation takes a multi-pronged approach from across the industry.
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Sri Lanka, like other emerging nations, has previously battled with misinformation.
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What's the price of letting this misinformation persist another generation longer?
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It now also harbors bullying, misinformation and controversial self-expression content.
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He thought that the tours were okay, but prone to misinformation.
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WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformation
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Turn up at a CPC, and you'll typically hear more misinformation.
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Like an underpowered antibiotic, facts could actually make misinformation even stronger.
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The World Health Organization has labeled both those claims as misinformation.
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Putin has used cyberattacks, misinformation campaigns and support for rightist parties.
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Facebook has continued its crackdown on coordinated misinformation in the Philippines.
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Warraich has studied and criticized the presence of medical misinformation online.
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Instead they look like swampy quagmires, where misinformation and bullying abound.
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White, the Pentagon spokeswoman, meanwhile, warned that Russia was spreading misinformation.
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I feel there was a lot of weird misinformation out there.
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The Checkpoint Tipline represents an attempt to address political misinformation specifically.
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Misinformation spreads with ease, and open platforms amplify voices of panic.
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In addition, misinformation here often travels in the form of memes.
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What sort of misinformation have you been tracking about the coronavirus?
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We each play an integral role in flattening the misinformation curve.
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That difficulty multiples when the misinformation is dispersed in private groups.
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The Stone Technology has given rise to an age of misinformation.
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Moments when Fauci has contradicted Trump's misinformation have also drawn ire.
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This makes sense when you look into the scholarship on misinformation.
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Here are six types of misinformation to beware on Election Day.
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Anyone making that leap is peddling "misinformation," Mirijanian told Fox News.
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Readers also submitted examples of local and statewide voter suppression misinformation.
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I try to remember they're also the terrified victims of misinformation.
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One thing that's increased in recent years: the visibility of misinformation.
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"There's a lot of misinformation out there about Lyme," he said.
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God bless America, with its sloppy ooze of agenda-driven misinformation.
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Facebook has been cracking down on coronavirus misinformation across its services.
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Both avow a commitment to combat hate speech, extremism and misinformation.
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And she has to filter out misinformation on the fly too.
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Fact-checkers cannot rebut viral hoaxes and misinformation they cannot see.
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Until then, we'll be stuck wading in the sea of misinformation.
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Twitter has taken aggressive measures to combat misinformation regarding COVID-85033.
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YouTube faces an onslaught of misinformation and unsavory content uploaded daily.
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Misinformation spreads widely before it can be downgraded in the algorithms.
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There isn't too much room for misinformation from the reconnaissance data.
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One challenge: to prevent the spread of misinformation on its platforms.
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Would we have avoided a wave of dystopian propaganda and misinformation?
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Until we do, prediction markets are potentially another channel for misinformation.
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"Misinformation is increasingly used to achieve political ends," Mr. Sarts said.
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I would enjoy that, because there is a lot of misinformation.
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The myth of "designer babies" has become an emblem of misinformation.
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"Misinformation and external forces' meddling will affect public opinion in China."
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For another, information wants to be free, but so does misinformation.
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"It's time to stop the fear and misinformation," the ad says.
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In a tweet, Trump called it "another misinformation campaign" by Democrats.
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We won't let the potential for misinformation spread through Health Guide.
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But that's not what the WikiLeaks misinformation campaign has given us.
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"This is a tsunami," Quran said of the amount of misinformation.
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Rather, he wants to reach people who are susceptible to misinformation.
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Chiang and Leslie are also using TikTok to combat health misinformation.
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The president remains one of our most powerful purveyors of misinformation.
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Solving misinformation and disinformation isn't as simple as following a checklist.
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Particularly if the misinformation has solidified into a firmly held belief.
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Russian intelligence agents used a variety of means to spread misinformation.
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Now, thanks to dangerous misinformation, some parents fear the vaccines more.
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It's inviting researchers like Aral to investigate misinformation on the platform.
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It could kick off more users who are willfully spreading misinformation.
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As I've reported, Oz is a longtime purveyor of medical misinformation.
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Late last year, Facebook outlined a modest effort to curb misinformation.
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Will that approach work with people who believe misinformation about vaccines?
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Goop has struggled with credibility and with accusations of spreading misinformation.
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The company stopped short of identifying the source of the misinformation.
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"Sorry for the misinformation," spokespeople added in an email to Motherboard.
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And his willingness to disseminate misinformation appears to eclipse his peers.
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Facebook's roundtable, and the idea of country-specific policies for misinformation and inflammatory rhetoric, seems a small, but reasonable step in grappling with the misinformation and social discord problems plaguing the platform, sources told BuzzFeed News.
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Stamos outlined breaches and newly revealed social media misinformation campaigns that surfaced months after it was revealed that Russian hackers attempted to breach congressional campaigns and Facebook disclosed that it had discovered a separate misinformation campaign.
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"When you see a news report that repeats the misinformation and then tries to correct it — you might have people remembering the misinformation because it's really surprising and interesting, and not remembering the correction," he says.
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So fact-checking to the extent that it can prevent the spread of misinformation — creating incentives for politicians not to lie, disincentives for them to lie, preventing the spread of misinformation — would be the gold standard.
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Chetwynd said that "What everybody wants from Facebook is an improvement in the quality of information, in the quality of misinformation being flagged to us," alluding to an improved flagging system for misinformation spread on the platform.
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Political observers note that many individuals spreading misinformation are often simply sharing content aimed at bending discourse to the most advantageous political ends, even if they are not tied to any type of broader, coordinated misinformation efforts.
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Imagine Facebook and Instagram trying to outdo each other to protect your privacy and keep misinformation out of your feed, instead of working together to sell your data, inundate you with misinformation, and undermine our election security.
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Instagram's clarification comes less than a week after the platform rolled out a tool allowing users to flag misinformation after reports it played a role in the spread of anti-vaccine misinformation amid an increase in measles.
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Facebook tries to curb the spread of misinformation by down-ranking the pages and posts of users that post misinformation — or if they do it often enough, removing their ability to advertise, or removing the page altogether.
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While American tech companies have mostly been in the spotlight on misinformation issues in the past, TikTok, an app owned by a Chinese company, is also drawing scrutiny in how it is handling misinformation about the coronavirus.
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At this time, Ulta is looking into who tweeted out the misinformation.
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Social media continues to amplify misinformation from hundreds of anti-vaccine websites.
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More broadly, he shares Chiang's concerns about the proliferation of health misinformation.
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Nonetheless, misinformation was circulating and the outbreak was a widespread public concern.
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However, misinformation and "toxin-free" movements are contributing to birth control myths.
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Remember that there's a lot of misinformation on the internet about abortions.
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Creating bogus videos, spreading misinformation, and inciting fake outrage is next level.
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"Susan Olsen spreads outrageous misinformation & it is dangerous and unprofessional," he wrote.
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"Where the rubber hits the road is misinformation and disinformation," he said.
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And with it, there's been a lot of misinformation that's been spread.
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"I did not mean to spread misinformation," Fischer wrote in her apology.
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They have promoted dangerous misinformation, abetted racism, and accidentally censored bisexual content.
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But the Zuckerberg deepfake is not part of a malicious misinformation campaign.
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Several companies are overhauling policies to curb misinformation ahead of the vote.
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Van der Linden has been studying fake news and misinformation for years.
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Wohl has gained a measure of fame for dealing in misinformation before.
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Others are put off by mobs of trolls and reams of misinformation.
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And according to researchers who study misinformation and design, Facebook blew it.
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Both countries have already held hearings on Facebook, politics, data, and misinformation.
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But "addressing misinformation properly can cause change — as it did for me."
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This is especially true when they level such threats based on misinformation.
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What they can do is spread information, and misinformation, with alarming speed.
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In battling misinformation the big tech platforms face a steep uphill battle.
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As a bonus, they'll discuss how to spot misinformation on social networks.
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The changes introduced today won't eliminate all misinformation from the News Feed.
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It's also easy to overstate the importance of reducing misinformation on Facebook.
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Critics also fear that deepfakes could be used to spread political misinformation.
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But, he said, this case has provoked an unprecedented amount of misinformation.
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WhatsApp did, however, acknowledge its role in spreading misinformation in the country.
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Google, which owns YouTube, has struggled to excise misinformation from its platforms.
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SLAC's employees and advertisers may have sometimes given customers misinformation, Owens admitted.
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The Mercers have previously funded groups with some ties to climate misinformation.
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Instead, Facebook hopes users will help dispute misinformation and challenge "provocative perspectives."
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FAKE FACEBOOK ACCOUNTS, MISINFORMATION SPREAD QUICKLY IN WAKE OF SANTA FE SHOOTING
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In West Africa, online health misinformation added to the Ebola death toll.
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It also deploys "sharp power" to manipulate other societies, often through misinformation.
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That's SO MUCH misinformation and confusion coming straight from the president's mouth.
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"People are receiving so much misinformation through the conservative media," asserts Miller.
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Many have provided misinformation about what works and what does not work.
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So you remember the misinformation, but not the fact that it's false.
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We also took action against some additional Pages that repeatedly posted misinformation.
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There was misinformation we worked to clarify so that people got comfortable.
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"There's been such a high volume of misinformation," Askew said on Monday.
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Misinformation about vaccines has led to an alarming number of measles outbreaks.
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In the cold war, America fought Russian misinformation with diplomats and spies.
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Go deeper: 2020 misinformation campaigns take aim at the latest spook issues
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Essentially, WordPress' ToS is filled with loopholes for abusers to spread misinformation.
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And, of course, the misinformation results in millions of people being misinformed.
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Digital literacy programs help users navigate online harassment, hate speech, and misinformation.
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His name is now synonymous with fame and misfortune, fearlessness and misinformation.
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On Google search, dangerous anti-vaccine misinformation can commandeer the top results.
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"Hacking and misinformation are the death knell," Isabel, the journalism professor, says.
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The company actually did make changes in an attempt to combat misinformation.
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Here's his statement in full: We take misinformation on Facebook very seriously.
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"This is part of the way we deal with misinformation," Bickert said.
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Thorson's focus is on how misinformation and misperception works in American politics.
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Misinformation is most dangerous when it causes people to change their behavior.
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There is a lot of misinformation (or lack of it) out there.
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How can the big online platforms fight back against abuse and misinformation?
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The tweets are riddled with misinformation and, in some cases, outright falsehoods.
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Not telling falsehoods, misstating the facts, or spreading misinformation—but outright lying.
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Unfortunately, misinformation tends to spread faster and more profusely than the truth.
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However, he said he "can't guarantee" that Facebook would stop misinformation entirely.
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It seems to be better suited for transmitting misinformation than factual information.
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" "When people spread misinformation, they often believe the information they are sharing.
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Meanwhile, amid hacks and misinformation, the Internet is entering a new frontier.
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Social media platforms can — and must — take substantive steps to decrease misinformation.
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Spreading misinformation and propaganda have become vital to regimes across the world.
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The first is campaigns of misinformation (or "fake news," if you prefer).
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Some of her mistaken views may simply be the result of misinformation.
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Business Insider was easily able to run Facebook ads with misinformation, though.
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Pressure to clamp down on health misinformation has been on the rise.
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Perhaps that is the way forward to curb the spread of misinformation.
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He bragged about the deployment of misinformation against a client's political opponents.
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Facebook just took down multiple misinformation campaigns linked to Russia and Iran.
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Magazines, peers, TV shows, and movies spread plenty of misinformation as well.
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Pyongyang, in response, called the report false and dismissed it as misinformation.
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The two women spent the hearing spreading misinformation about social media companies.
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The problem with that is that her Twitter account often spreads misinformation.
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It also creates an environment conducive to viral misinformation and hate speech.
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Misinformation about the science, including inaccurate statements and articles, makes that harder.
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"I am very concerned as it is filled with misinformation," she wrote.
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The social network is promising to remove misinformation that could cause violence.
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And Google also faces questions about its role in the misinformation economy.
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But misleading ads were often a small component of the misinformation campaign.
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But it's a reminder that misinformation is not an internet-exclusive phenomenon.
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Every American must therefore do their part to flatten the misinformation curve.
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The coronavirus outbreak has seen the simultaneous rise of numerous misinformation strains.
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Twitter will crack down on tweets about fake coronavirus treatments and misinformation.
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Your job on Tuesday is not to debunk misinformation, it's to vote!
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We're now at a point where misinformation may cost [people] their lives.
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Misinformation as been a problem since the dawn of communication between humans.
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There's every reason to expect misinformation to be rampant during a pandemic.
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Is censoring the spread of breaking misinformation even possible for these platforms?
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Instead, the city's focus is on battling misinformation about the measles vaccine.
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There's no question that the amplification of misinformation or propaganda ... On Facebook.
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Products that we enjoy continue to create privacy, misinformation and workplace issues.
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Rumors, misinformation, and bad reporting can and do exist in any medium.
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Yet some of Facebook's fact-checkers may themselves be contributing to misinformation.
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"There is a lot of misinformation on the internet," Porath told me.
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Previous ones have called attention to misinformation, internet misuse and improving access.
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WhatsApp has long grappled with its platform being used to spread misinformation.
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Think misinformation about treatments, symptoms and anecdotes tainted with racism and xenophobia.
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Twitter is cracking down on coronavirus misinformation with stricter rules on accuracy.
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"People spread misinformation because they do not know the truth," she said.
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"WhatsApp should recognize that it's a huge vector for misinformation," Wardle said.
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All they've done since AB5 was introduced is spread misinformation and fear.
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But he believes other systems will also get better at identifying misinformation.
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People often share misinformation "without even giving it a thought," Villanueva said.
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In Brazil, it's been used for conspiracy theories and other political misinformation.
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As the coronavirus continues to spread, misinformation is spreading just as quickly.
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That said, misinformation is an impossible problem that they can't solve, right?
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Even when we do, misinformation on the internet leads pet owners astray.
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Other worrying misinformation includes fake footage of Chinese officials executing coronavirus victims.
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It was classic Trumpian bluster, with giant dollops of misinformation and misdirection.
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Facebook will start removing misinformation about the coronavirus outbreak from its platforms.
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The anti-hysteria push also comes in the face of rampant misinformation.
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On Monday, it'll watch for misinformation about how and where to caucus.
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Robby Mook, Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign manager, says misinformation makes Facebook money.
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Misinformation on the climate crisis runs rampant, destroying truth and stalling action.
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The media cycle is easily commandeered by misinformation, innuendo, and outrageous content.
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" Any talk about them intending to build a wall was simply "misinformation.
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But online, misinformation about the scale of the virus is already trending.
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Historically, the company has accepted political ads, even when they contain misinformation.
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This bit of misinformation started to spread during last Wednesday's impeachment hearing.
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" He said Hager's letter "was full of misinformation" and "shameful, politically motivated.
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Zuckerberg answered that question with another question: Hey, what is misinformation, anyway?
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Misinformation is also stoking fears about the spread of the coronavirus online.
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Reuters Fact Check will review content across the spectrum of misinformation formats.
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Gutting the Jones Act is a misguided proposal being fueled by misinformation.
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Confusion and misinformation are rampant in the debate over treating transgender adolescents.
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It is not helpful and spreading misinformation does not offer anyone protection.
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Tech Tip Q. What is Facebook doing to stop misinformation from spreading?
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Facebook is now taking steps to limit the misinformation on its site.
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Now it is where your aunt goes to read misinformation about vaccines!
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Deep fakes can be used as powerful weapons of misinformation or abuse.
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But Sotomayor was asked by one student about misinformation and political polarization.
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Their job is made even harder by politicians who themselves spread misinformation.
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But by tying them together, ad targeting can kick misinformation into overdrive.
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"Once again misinformation is being distributed by the majority," she said. Sen.
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Until then, they're just making noise to continue their campaign of misinformation.
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Do research before you tweet misinformation in the middle of a crisis.
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However, coronavirus misinformation is rampant, as little is known about the virus.
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Misinformation is spreading rapidly and so is the panic among our citizens.
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"Fake news" isn't novel either, nor is medical misinformation on the internet.
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Macron spoke of fighting back against misinformation as fundamental to protecting democracy.
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To its credit, YouTube has taken some minor steps to curb misinformation.
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What to watch: Still, there's reason to watch China's misinformation efforts closely.
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Again, it's a mass misinformation campaign by the other side on this.
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This job candidate, however, is offering serious factual misinformation about his career.
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Chakrabarti says Facebook needs to improve catching misinformation that isn't in text.
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Their work is often seriously compromised by misinformation, victim politics, and spin.
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How do you stem the spread of misinformation published by a bot?
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One of the channels in there is related to disinformation and misinformation.
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Facebook, too, appears to be removing user accounts that are spreading misinformation.
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Misinformation and conspiracy theories are a flagrant, long-term problem on YouTube.
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He's also heartened by the possibility that inoculation messages could create a kind of herd immunity: Other researchers have found that when people receive inoculation messages against public health misinformation, they spread their immunity to misinformation through conversation.
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Except Trump the Crusader is targeting the press as his heretical entity, pointing them out as a source of harmful misinformation that must be destroyed (even as he himself proves to be a frequent source of harmful misinformation).
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The News Feed is where misinformation on vaccines is delivered, it's how all misinformation on the platform spreads rapidly, and it's ground zero for strange news stories that sow fear and go unfathomably viral without any real explanation.
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In other words, every alternative fact that Trump disseminates on Twitter, in interviews, and in statements serves to further delegitimatize sources of accurate information, and also to normalize both the act of spreading misinformation and the misinformation itself.
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On Facebook, third party fact checkers hunt down misinformation, and when they mark something as false, users are shown a message that directs them to a correcting or clarifying post before they are permitted to share the misinformation.
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Facebook announced in March that it was working to tackle vaccine misinformation on its platform by reducing the distribution of groups and pages that spread anti-vax content and rejecting ads that include misinformation about vaccines, among other strategies.
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"If a group or Page admin posts this vaccine misinformation, we will exclude the entire group or Page from recommendations, reduce these groups and Pages' distribution in News Feed and Search, and reject ads with this misinformation," Facebook says.
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Earlier this year, Mahima Kaul, Twitter's head of public policy in India, was asked about how the social network dealt with misinformation and fake news on its platform at an event on misinformation held in New Delhi in February.
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With new tools and technologies now available to help identify where and how health misinformation spreads, evidence is building that the health misinformation we encounter online can motivate decisions and behaviors that actually make us more susceptible to disease.
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So long as social media platforms continue to fail to warn their users about the nature of sites promoting misinformation, it will remain easy for even a small group of unreliable sites to hijack social media to amplify misinformation.
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"Imagine Facebook and Instagram trying to outdo each other to protect your privacy and keep misinformation out of your feed, instead of working together to sell your data, inundate you with misinformation, and undermine our election security," she said.
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The series "really presents misinformation," Mr. Kratz said in an interview on Monday.
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This is far from the first time Google's search results have purveyed misinformation.
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And it has entertained champions of thoroughly debunked misinformation for scientific advisory roles.
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The most dangerous thing that brings people to that situation is usually misinformation.
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But beyond the confines of that world, misinformation is spread and myths perpetuated.
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Even lay citizens today are familiar with misinformation and clickbait on social networks.
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Some of Facebook's efforts have been to kill the business behind spreading misinformation.
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Still, cutting down on how misinformation spreads on Facebook is a worthy pursuit.
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Amazon has reportedly pulled books relating to autism cures and anti-vaccination misinformation.
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The group's ominous lawn army is part of its campaign to fight misinformation.
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The proliferation of misinformation masquerading as truth has made theorists out of thousands.
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Lack of education and misinformation are being used as weapons of blatant discrimination.
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Perhaps that's no surprise given that the President-elect also is promoting misinformation.
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Just your usual, run-of-the-mill hyperpartisan misinformation and easily debunkable hoaxes.
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Facebook's efforts to curb misinformation have grown significantly since the U.S. presidential election.
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This misinformation started with a Spanish Twitter user who originally posted the video.
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Loomer was banned from Twitter last year for spreading misinformation about Minnesota Rep.
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If a hashtag has a "high proportion" of misinformation, it will be blocked.
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He doesn't know anything about me and the letter was full of misinformation.
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This account has spread other misinformation, including posts from the fake Facebook account.
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Almost immediately after the women came forward, misinformation began spreading about the accusations.
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Under his leadership, WhatsApp added forwarding limits to decrease the spread of misinformation.
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A high-stakes clash, accusations of misinformation and residents who have had enough.
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Parental fears around vaccines that are stoked by misinformation can erode that protection.
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The effort was a part of the Dhule Police's early anti-misinformation work.
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Since May, WhatsApp misinformation has contributed to 17 different lynching incidents across India.
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Its feeds have long been filled with trolls, misinformation, performative outrage, and abuse.
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Shulman says that misinformation, rather than disinformation, poses the bigger threat next week.
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Like hate speech and misinformation meant to sway elections and attack minority groups.
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In reality, sensational misinformation spreads much further and faster than level-headed truth.
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Frank Lucas brought up future misinformation issues posed by deepfakes spreading on Facebook.
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"I'm just thinking this guy's an idiot because he's spreading misinformation," Joey says.
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Platforms are removing content from their sites in response to hoaxes and misinformation.
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Milloy said he disputes the characterization that he pushes misinformation on climate change.
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Some features on WhatsApp designed to reduce misinformation are also coming to Messenger.
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None of this absolves Badger or Daubenspeck for passing on misinformation to investors.
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The company recently started blocking searches relating to vaccine misinformation on its website.
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It's unusual, as technology companies have struggled to take ownership of misinformation campaigns.
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Facebook is turning to its users to help fight misinformation and fake news.
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YouTube has made some changes to address misinformation, although results have been mixed.
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However, the site's misinformation probably didn't get it blocked from Google's search results.
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Catastrophic events such as the massacre in Parkland often trigger flurries of misinformation.
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Ten years later, we have an industry of fake news and digital misinformation.
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It's high time we make consuming and sharing misinformation a socially unacceptable behavior.
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By spreading conspiracy theories and misinformation online, Jones creates his own stultifying din.
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She added that these communities have been targeted with misinformation that has spread.
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But it shows how quickly misinformation can spread with just a few clicks.
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And understand that the new normal are these fake personas with misinformation campaigns.
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Quizzes and games like Factitious will test your personal ability to spot misinformation.
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They also watch for behaviors that suggest a botnet or coordinated misinformation campaign.
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In both cases, some of the most effective misinformation plays on voters' suspicions.
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Now an "Action Group" dreams of doing the same through pressure, misinformation & demagoguery.
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"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Zuckerberg writes.
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I posed this question to Brendan Nyhan, the leading scholar on political misinformation.
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Why it matters: Misinformation online can have real-world health and safety repercussions.
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WhatsApp is funding studies into the issue of misinformation in countries including India.
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But public health officials say that misinformation about vaccinations is partly to blame.
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Officials say that misinformation about vaccinations makes parents hesitant to vaccinate their kids.
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" The school superintendent, Charles Dupre, tweeted his apology for what he called "misinformation.
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"This is part of the way we deal with misinformation," Bickert told Cooper.
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Hate speech and misinformation were another thorny topic that came up several times.
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While there's some truth behind it, it's also filled with plenty of misinformation.
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Whether and how a piece of misinformation is dangerous depends entirely on context.
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Watch: Zuckerberg's push to make posts private could cause more misinformation, says expert
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We know that misinformation, rumors, and salacious or divisive content drives significant engagement.
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They spread misinformation across social media platforms and attempted to infiltrate voting machines.
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There's also a sordid history surrounding cannabis, sex, and misinformation in this country.
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They need to take the spread of misinformation on their platforms more seriously.
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Anti-vaxxer misinformation has not taken center stage in this debate until recently.
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This was not the first campaign to be marred by misinformation, of course.
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But as Vanity Fair's Maya Kosoff notes, they don't cover misinformation at all.
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Mostly, they're histrionic, self-contradictory whirlpools of misinformation, pseudoscience, and venomous personal attack.
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The low-budget misinformation quickly reached the upper ranks of the State Department.
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Public health officials blame the resurgence on the spread of misinformation about vaccines.
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They will also build a database of such content to better understand misinformation.
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He said there had been a lot of misinformation regarding the NSE's stance.
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The university is navigating a delicate balancing act as rumors and misinformation spread.
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Facebook and Twitter declined to comment when asked about misinformation on their platforms.
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When this happens, the entire flow of misinformation can get exacerbated, Albright warned.
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Misinformation and distortions about it were part of the soundtrack of his childhood.
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Elizabeth Warren, another Democratic candidate, intentionally ran ads with misinformation on the platform.
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This scenario pits the forces of fact against the dark forces of misinformation.
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Facebook has said that it will work to curb misinformation on its website.
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But instead they are spreading misinformation and encouraging non-participation in the Census.
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Misinformation spreads quickly on social media, and it's only going to get worse.
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And it is expanding that program to include misinformation that originates on Instagram.
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Contrary to any misinformation campaign, the safety of children is paramount for DHS.
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I think that it has speed up the dissemination of misinformation for quotations.
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But it seems like she is weirdly okay with spreading her own misinformation.
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Today, running misinformation campaigns remains attractive because of how cost effective they are.
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Mexico had to deal with misinformation campaigns heading into national elections this summer.
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We assess that the Russians think you're helping them whenever you spread misinformation.
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It is also possible that misinformation or intimidation could have been especially bad.
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Recently, Facebook has been running online ads focused on how it fights misinformation.
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" The project will "create a database of rumors to study misinformation during elections.
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"There's too much sensationalism, misinformation and polarization in the world today," Zuckerberg wrote.
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Academics: More universities and are creating programs to study misinformation and online propaganda.
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The arguments for withdrawing from the Paris Agreement rely on misinformation and propaganda.
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And as the virus has spread way beyond China, so has the misinformation.
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Epidemics of misinformation may turn out to be as costly as the disease.
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It has denied past accusations by Rappler that it is behind misinformation campaigns.
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Social media companies began an aggressive response to misinformation related to the coronavirus.
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So far, though, none of the pages have been accused of spreading misinformation.
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"We are concerned about the business of fake news and misinformation," he said.
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While it starts off correct, the rest is riddled with misinformation and inaccuracies.
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Has it become a virulent new force in global misinformation and political trickery?
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Bolsonaro also takes advantage of conspiracy theories and misinformation to bolster his support.
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Twitter is the latest firm to join the global fight against coronavirus misinformation.
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WhatsApp has previously struggled with the spread of misinformation on its encrypted platform.
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But despite the misinformation and myths, transgender kids are, in many cases, thriving.
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"We saw Google reviews as a tool to combat that misinformation," she explained.
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You could introduce a few nudges of misinformation that would redirect the flock.
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It is nearly impossible to quantify the scale and resonance of the misinformation.
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It's also nearly impossible to quantify the scale and resonance of the misinformation.
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It's the latest example of the ease with which misinformation can spread online.
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It was supposed to prevent the spread of misinformation after bombings on Easter.
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Unfortunately, there is no simple solution for problems like hate speech and misinformation.
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But there is also plenty of misinformation, which provides fuel for more disaffection.
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Also harmful are rumors and misinformation, which can spread quickly during epidemic outbreaks.
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Also harmful are rumors and misinformation, which can spread quickly during epidemic outbreaks.
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It is escalating our anxieties with unending access to information and misinformation alike.
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The newspaper has been publishing stories about widespread misinformation spread by Bolsonaro's supporters.
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Mr. Paul is not the only one to spread misinformation about the forest.
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Our office has received reports of robocalls stating misinformation about today's primary election.
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All they've done since AB-5 was introduced is spread misinformation and fear.
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Online, an equally bitter battle is being waged using the weapon of misinformation.
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This isn't misinformation, says Klenk, but a very different view of the forest.
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Should that 'strategic silence' be extended to extremist speech, misinformation, and propaganda, too?
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And of course we're talking all about Covid-19 again, in particular, misinformation.
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Misinformation about the coronavirus is spreading despite aggressive countermeasures from social media companies.
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How can you do that in the face of social media spreading misinformation?
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Conservative political and media elites were spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories then, too.
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Apple has been specifically evaluating coronavirus apps to prevent the spread of misinformation.
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Trending up: Instagram rolled out an update to combat misinformation about the coronavirus.
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The Russians refer to misinformation as a weapon, and they are probably right.
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Other tech companies have also taken steps to remove misinformation about the virus.
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"Donald Trump's entire life has been spent using misinformation," Todd told Rolling Stone.
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Is it dangerous when democratically elected leaders curtail press freedom or spread misinformation?
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He didn&apost get elected because of Russia or misinformation or Cambridge Analytica.
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In a statement on Instagram, Don Q blamed "misinformation" from the Police Department.
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Second, they would hire fact-checkers to make sure they weren't promoting misinformation.
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Facebook says it is also training AI to detect click-bait and misinformation.
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Oz-like font of right-wing misinformation, and just as abruptly alighting on
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Today's announcement is more window dressing around their decision to allow paid misinformation.
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First, there's a bit of misinformation out there about the jade roller's benefits.
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Hashtags used to spread misinformation on Instagram will also be blocked or restricted.
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Zero Hedge has been aggressive in its promotion of misinformation about the coronavirus.
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WhatsApp even began taking out newspaper ads to warn the public about misinformation.
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Misinformation for political gain Others continued to use the clip for political gain.
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Misinformation has a powerful half-life, particularly when it comes to public health.
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We retweet without a second thought, spreading outrage and misinformation at warp speed.
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Under the Donald Trump administration, misinformation is as constant and pervasive as oxygen.
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There is rampant misinformation about vaccines that in part influences anti-vax parents.
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"There continues to be misinformation circulated in conjunction with this issue," Levatich said.
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These approaches wouldn't take misinformation off Facebook but rather make it less prominent.
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For example, quarantining problematic content doesn't address problems related to misinformation and disinformation.
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Misinformation is something the company says it's deeply concerned about heading into 2020.
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Mr. Misinformation I'd like to kick off this newsletter with some good news.
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Taking advantage of public misinformation and reinforcing it is the definition of demagoguery.
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The point is that the misinformation campaign is ongoing and must be addressed.
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Out-of-context emails from WikiLeaks have fueled viral misinformation on social media.
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In the letter, Weber claimed Facebook had helped spread misinformation about the coronavirus.
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"America's allies all need to be on guard against Russian propaganda and misinformation."
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There's a lot misinformation about who I am or why I'm doing this.
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What makes people susceptible to fake news and other forms of strategic misinformation?
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Instagram's strength as a misinformation spreader might also be linked to engagement farms.
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"This changed the game significantly with regards to the misinformation landscape," Ahmed said.
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So yeah, he gave me misinformation, he changed the topic, then he left.
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Particularly around the misinformation stuff that's happened, around privacy and around search bias.
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"Misinformation includes that emergency contraception causes infertility, cancer and an abortion," she said.
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Sometimes there are high-profile misinformation peddlers who need to be held accountable.
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The social media giant has been used to spread misinformation about previous elections.
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Tackling the rampant online spread of health-related misinformation is a tall order.
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Facebook announced in March that it was working to tackle vaccine misinformation on its platform by reducing the distribution of groups and pages that spread anti-vax content, and by rejecting ads that include misinformation about vaccines, among other strategies.
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And as Stewart notes, the very fact that a Russia misinformation campaign is in the public discourse hampers the democratic process by damaging public trust: But it's not just the misinformation itself that sows division, it's also the debate about it.
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We're Tracking Misinformation About The Migrant Caravan Headed To The US Jane Lytvynenko and Hayes Brown are rounding up some of the viral misinformation that is being spread about a group of 7,000 people seeking refugee status in the United States.
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In a telling exchange, Gianluca Mezzofiere of Mashable reached out to the operator of one Twitter account sharing misinformation and reported the following: Mashable reached out to the troll to ask why he's spreading misinformation during such a critical time.
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By piling his own misinformation on top of Russian misinformation, he's creating an environment in which voters don't know what to trust — even if it comes from the IC. FDR once said that repetition does not transform a lie into truth.
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"We're committed to providing timely and helpful information at this critical time, including raising authoritative content, reducing the spread of harmful misinformation and showing information panels, using WHO data, to help combat misinformation," a spokesperson for YouTube told BuzzFeed News.
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" He chalked up the chatter following Tank's death to mere "misinformation" and "conspiracy theories.
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Of course, the choice architect has tools to try to remedy misinformation and misperceptions.
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India's marathon election is winding down, but the country is still fighting misinformation online.
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Collecting hoaxes and misinformation about possible shooter situation at YouTube HQ in this thread.
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The other kind of misinformation is that the user didn't do their homework before.
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It is a proven fact by now that political misinformation can have harmful effects.
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The change also does not extend to generalized propaganda and misinformation about the elections.
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This can result in misinformation and outright fraud that hurts customers and legitimate businesses.
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Watson, who appeared with Jones on Monday's Infowars webcast, is notorious for spreading misinformation.
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Suu Kyi has blamed "terrorists" for a "huge iceberg of misinformation" about the violence.
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That's one of the reasons the sexual organ is surrounded by misinformation and mystery.
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There's no shortage of misinformation in the world — particularly around health and science topics.
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This story is ripe for hoaxes, so we're tracking misinformation about it right here.
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This is not the first time Pope Francis has been the subject of misinformation.
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YouTube has been accused of being a source of radicalization through spread of misinformation.
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The site already allows users to report suspected misinformation regarding the 2020 presidential election.
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"I didn't anticipate that the misinformation would be so overwhelming for people," he says.
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Now the platform is turning its attention to cracking down on anti-vaccine misinformation.
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It's not clear yet what the pop-up for anti-vax misinformation will say.
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And much of that was a result of lobbying and misinformation by tobacco companies.
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Gouthro says Musk tried to damage Tripp's reputation by spreading misinformation, according to Bloomberg.
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With every fresh tragedy comes a new, more sinister evolution of previous misinformation tactics.
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Budak, who wasn't involved in the new study, researched how to combat online misinformation.
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Google has previously said its ad network will not work with publishers of misinformation.
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It's also taking place during an extended fight over Facebook's role in political misinformation.
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But one of the most effective ways to suppress votes is to push misinformation.
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But on Facebook, the crackdown on vaccine misinformation has not extended to black salve.
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This post will be updated as we see more hoaxes and misinformation being shared.
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A few hours later, Facebook and Google issued statements apologizing for promoting such misinformation.
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It will also help people spot inefficiencies, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities to manipulation and misinformation.
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Twitter will evaluate content flagged by users for potential misinformation under the new policy.
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How different is that scenario from the current worry about "fake news" and misinformation?
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The World Health Organization is warning against rapidly spreading misinformation about the new coronavirus.
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"Misinformation affects us all," says the letter, which you can read in full here.
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And WhatsApp wouldn't comment on the record about its misinformation problem in the country.
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We also encourage local leaders to provide accurate, scientific-based information to counter misinformation.
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To that end, he almost always uses the opportunity to spread lies and misinformation.
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If governments complacently leave misinformation unanswered, they risk the spread of potentially harmful ideas.
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Various bad actors race to fill social platforms with misinformation and outright hate speech.
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The most important thing we can do is improve our ability to classify misinformation.
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But Mallard said it was a case of suspending the group for spreading misinformation.
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"We've been brutalized over the last 18 months with misinformation, no information," he said.
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But they have also been criticized for spreading so-called fake news and misinformation.
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What you get is a thousand niche realities, each spreading misinformation, mistrust, and rage.
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That kind of coverage can spread misinformation by repeating rumors and falsehoods ad nauseam.
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Fake news and misinformation are circulating widely, fueling communal hatred and political power grabs.
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And more importantly, the scale of the disinformation and misinformation, people tend to underestimate.
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First, Russian hackers stoked pro-Russian support in Georgia using propaganda and misinformation campaigns.
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They could accompany the sharing of posts with reminders of the harm from misinformation.
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The game's creators describe Bad News as a way to vaccinate people against misinformation.
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Anti-vaccination misinformation can lead to a drop in the number of children immunized.
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The groundwork is being laid though a misinformation campaign with links to the Kremlin.
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Public health officials blame the measles resurgence on the spread of misinformation about vaccines.
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Noise and misinformation, especially on climate, has long been a problem on social media.
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"The process of fighting misinformation has been compared to the flu vaccine," she says.
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Simply run your content through a deepfake detector and bang, the misinformation is gone!
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Once Facebook has a handle on misinformation, its technical systems could use an audit.
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They are dealing with trying to piece everything together and filtering out the misinformation.
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Some platforms have done better jobs than others at countering the spread of misinformation.
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Misinformation and hate speech spread quickly on their platforms, amassing audience in the millions.
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The company will face continued pressure to address misinformation across all of its platforms.
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It is unclear how exactly such misinformation spreads, not least because traffic is encrypted.
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CDC says a key focus is to fight misinformation campaigns by anti-vaccination groups.
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And misinformation is far from eradicated, even if specific voter suppression efforts have stopped.
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But misinformation to the contrary is spreading rapidly across social media and conservative websites.
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Giving people a way to check sourcing offers some insulation against misinformation run amok.
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They also want to use it to help clear up market misinformation, he added.
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Is Facebook unwittingly connecting the world to too much misinformation, political manipulation, or worse?
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Voting misinformation is already rampant, and we're still days away from the midterm elections.
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The first step, Krikorian said, is recognizing that misinformation is a long-term problem.
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But you don't just relay the misinformation in your social media copy and headlines.
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At the same time, they have become petri dishes of misinformation, radicalization, and abuse.
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PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is a breeding pool for misinformation, and in some ways that's wonderful.
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But every new online platform is also a conduit for spreading criticism or misinformation.
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Malaysian officials reacted angrily to Switzerland's announcement about misappropriation, accusing it of spreading "misinformation".
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Facebook also reasserted that it is fully committed to fighting misinformation on the platform.
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I aim to sensitize people to the fact that there's a lot of misinformation.
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When it comes to small space living, there's a lot of misinformation out there.
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Of course, whenever Facebook shows more information, it creates more potential vectors for misinformation.
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This new health misinformation initiative, uh, also doesn't appear to be working so hot.
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The word "maskirova" often describes a Russian military strategy in which misinformation is spread.
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But part of this agitation seemed to be grounded in a bit of misinformation.
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This is why medical misinformation is so concerning — it has direct effects on behavior.
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And the motives behind the production of this misinformation is all over the place.
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What does the data tell us about how public opinion is shaped by misinformation?
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How is increasing access to information and misinformation impacting our culture, society, and politics?
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I do think that saying deepfakes are different form misinformation is a reasonable perspective.
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Despite its reliable history and sound science, misinformation about the sterile insect technique abounds.
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There is plenty of misinformation and myths that dissuade patients and friends from vaccinating.
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The solution to this problem should be to educate voters and correct this misinformation.
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This misinformation could have cost me my life: Vic made bail within 24 hours.
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It both captivated the public imagination and has led to a lot of misinformation.
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Misinformation about the battery has proliferated, in part because of the secrecy surrounding it.
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The Obama picture is not the only piece of misinformation circulating about the storm.
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There is still a lot of misinformation about sexual practices being put out there.
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Spreading misinformation is a common tactic for partisan political machines and big corporations alike.
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Immigration There has been a lot of rhetoric and misinformation about immigration issues recently.
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Ressa has also been a vocal proponent of combating the spread of misinformation online.
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Now, this voluntary action is being used to confuse and spread misinformation, he said.
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Google has also previously removed hundreds of accounts linked to Iranian misinformation campaign efforts.
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He also tweeted in September that Airbnb's campaign is full of "lies and misinformation".
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The deletions were prompted by a larger investigation into medical misinformation on social media.
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But by seeking neutrality, Facebook may become complicit in politicians spreading misinformation, TechCrunch reported.
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The company is still struggling to crack down on misinformation spread by domestic groups.
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" She continued, "He's using misinformation to try to sow divisions in the United States.
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Despite misinformation, important efforts have been made to bring people together around this project.
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The platform is seeking to deal with the spread of general misinformation as well.
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The removal by Amazon comes amid mounting criticism of misinformation on the company's platform.
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Misinformation and disinformation is spreading in a variety of ways all around the world.
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For example, everybody seems to agree that "fake news" and Russian misinformation are bad.
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Today Facebook begins fighting misinformation with news literacy education, in addition to product features.
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"Misinformation can be sticky, spreading and replicating like a virus," van der Linden said.
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"There's been a tremendous amount of misinformation being put out by Greenpeace," he said.
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It opens the door to reputation-damaging speculation and harmful misinformation about U.S. activities.
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However, Twitter's move raises questions over how it will handle misinformation in disappearing posts.
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So much misinformation has been spread through WhatsApp and suspicious websites throughout the campaigns.
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At times, officials in Mr. Duterte's administration have openly shared misinformation on the platform.
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Tardáguila spoke with CNN Business on Wednesday about international efforts to combat coronavirus misinformation.
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As the coronavirus threat has evolved, Tardáguila said, so too has misinformation about it.
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Facebook has faced mounting pressure to stamp out propaganda and misinformation on its platform.
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WhatsApp said it was working to reduce the spread of misinformation on the service.
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As long as misinformation stays in the fringe, we'll have to live with it.
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During a public health crisis, this kind of misinformation isn't just unhelpful, it's dangerous.
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In interpersonal interactions, correcting misinformation can be helped by the strength of the relationship.
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Deliberately misleading governments with misinformation is just something we should not put up with.
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Many smart, well-educated people think they are immune from the risks of misinformation.
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Misinformation can affect society's ability to deal with a pandemic at many different levels.
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Platforms are under more and more pressure to potentially censor, and regulate dangerous misinformation.
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Its video clip, with more than 200 million YouTube views, mocked social-media misinformation.
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Smarter Living: Products that we enjoy continue to create privacy, misinformation and workplace issues.
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Enjoy. "I feel it's my duty to clear the lake of misinformation," she says.
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France has passed rules allowing judges to order the removal of misinformation around elections.
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We also explain six types of misinformation to be aware of on Election Day.
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And read about how to spot six types of voting misinformation you might see.
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Tech Fix Products that we enjoy continue to create privacy, misinformation and workplace issues.
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That brought me into this world of popular culture and trying to fight misinformation.
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Parents are calling a "misinformation hotline" to discuss reasons not to vaccinate their children.
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Now, they are more likely to be blamed for providing an outlet for misinformation.
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Misinformation is rampant, though Facebook and YouTube say they are working to reduce it.
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The reasons behind the misinformation associated with tick-borne diseases are multifaceted and complex.
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And Facebook's services were plagued by misinformation in last year's Mexican and Brazilian elections.
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The awareness campaigns are key to combating the myths and misinformation that surround leprosy.
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Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Reddit, and Twitter said they're working together to fight coronavirus misinformation.
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Stone thinks misinformation and fear around the coronavirus could lead to similar practices today.
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The hyperbolic attention by the media is driving a frenzy of overreaction and misinformation.
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Big Tech and government agencies have created task forces to fight coordinated misinformation campaigns.
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Berlin-based startup Arweave hopes to change an internet dominated by misinformation and rumor.
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He also cautioned Indians to be wary of misinformation and rumors during this lockdown.
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"It was this great case study in peer-to-peer misinformation," Ms. DiResta said.
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In addition, we've found that some purveyors of health misinformation have a financial incentive.
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He called panic over the virus "dumb" and has been spreading misinformation on Twitter.
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"Antivaccination campaigns have created misinformation and confusion in the Australian public," Dr. Bartone said.
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Smarter Living: There's far too much misinformation out there about boosting your immune system.
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It keeps saying that it has removed vaccine misinformation, but reporters keep finding it.
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On Wednesday, she outlined the steps she would take to curb election misinformation online.
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" He even deliberately spread misinformation, saying Ebola was: "Spreading all over Africa-and fast.
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Bernie Sanders -- a suggestion also floated by Trump, a skilled weaver of misinformation himself.
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Has Twitter commented on whether the string of tweets violate its policies on misinformation?
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Since 299, the panic about misinformation online has been driven by a similar fantasy.
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Combating misinformation will require the entire ecosystem — creators, publishers and platforms — to work together.
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Still, given the confusion, we are now seeing the right in full misinformation mode.
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The companies at the time said they work to curtail the spread of misinformation.
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Many of the rules are similar to the social network's policies around election misinformation.
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It also brings into sharper focus the specific danger that misinformation on Instagram presents.
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YouTube should turn off recommendations on anti-Muslim content that pushes misinformation and disinformation.
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As Republicans flock behind the president, they start to believe his exaggerations and misinformation.
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Facebook's position on coronavirus misinformation is similar to its position on anti-vaccination content.
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However, the priority for Facebook and Instagram seems to be posts with overt misinformation.
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He thought that, in general, the video platform isn't being scrutinized enough about misinformation.
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Removing misinformation from platforms completely also prevents watchdogs from knowing what to look for.
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"It's propagating stigma and misinformation while doing nothing to help prevent STDs," Hauser continued.
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Facebook has announced a new policy designed to deal with misinformation spread by deepfakes.
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However, the website's fairly weak rules still fall short of dealing with misinformation itself.
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I'd say there's a lot of misinformation and I came to talk to people.
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He denied disseminating misinformation, focusing instead on content that gushed about his clients's virtues.
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The person added that there was no easy fix in the fight against misinformation.
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The company does not have a date to roll out any new misinformation features.
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The misinformation spread across private messaging apps, as well as public platforms like Twitter.
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Now the publisher will bring that expertise to the fight against misinformation on Facebook.
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Society has enough trouble with misinformation on the internet, from trolls to election meddlers.
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Twitter is experimenting with placing brightly-colored labels beneath misinformation tweeted by public figures.
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" McClellan told CNN that "a lot of opposition is based on fear or misinformation.
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Of course, Jean is the star here explaining that misinformation is the real problem.
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"Misinformation as a whole does not violate our community standards," a Facebook spokesperson said.
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However, some have spread misinformation about what this law does or does not do.
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And I don't want to put all the responsibility for solving misinformation on individuals.
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Watch More from VICE: Reproductive rights organizations say this misinformation is a huge problem.
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How should platforms be held responsible for misinformation or hate speech on their sites?
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The CDC praised Facebook's latest move to stop misinformation from circulating on its platform.
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Why, then, would Russia even bother to attempt such a crude attempt at misinformation?
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It is questionable how successful this will be to combat distrust, misinformation and fear.
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"People in Narva are influenced by these channels' constant misinformation about Ukraine," he said.
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I also saw private groups that spread misinformation, harassed people and encouraged harmful behavior.
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These platforms are making good progress, but have not yet effectively combated vaccine misinformation.
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The company said Thursday that it had identified two new Russian-linked misinformation campaigns.
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Of the two volumes, "The Misinformation Age" takes the more methodical and earnest approach.
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This uncertainty, it turns out, is central to how so much contemporary misinformation works.
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Facebook has been at the center of the government's campaign of hate and misinformation.
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Others worried that the effort did not address the root of the problem: misinformation.
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Much of the misinformation is rooted in a misunderstanding of what these laws do.
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"There is clearly misconception and misinformation about what 'counts' as sexual assault," Bostick said.
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Twitter isn't the only company dealing with abuse and misinformation following the Parkland shooting.
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To be clear: Videos containing misinformation can still appear in the search results, but YouTube will generate these disclaimers when a query involves sensitive topics, with the intent to inform viewers as the company deals with the spread of misinformation on the platform.
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For a company that has spoken loudly and often over the past year about its commitment to reduce the spread of misinformation, the fact that it had hired a crisis communications agency to actively spread misinformation was hypocrisy of the rankest sort.
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Walker also outlined efforts by the Russian government Internet Research Agency (IRA), one of the primary misinformation peddlers on Facebook that also engaged in the spread of misinformation on Google-owned websites last year as part of a broader election influence campaign.
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In 2018, WhatsApp added a tiny "forwarded" label on all forwarded messages to control the spread of misinformation and added a limit to the number of people you could forward tests to, but misinformation continues to lead to violence and deaths in India.
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In the case of misinformation and harassment, it re-distributes power from platform governance—e.g.
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We have perceptions that aren't always accurate, that are based on misinformation or larger agendas.
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In Erdoğan, Yesil sees many comparisons to America's new leader — including his campaign of misinformation.
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Candidates and parties should not help them to spread their bile, misinformation and skewed narratives.
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The president is showing particular support for Watson, an InfoWars personality notorious for spreading misinformation.
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Facebook and Google are under fire for their role in spreading misinformation during the election.
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"Our community wants good information and no one ever said, 'I want misinformation,'" he said.
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We have a responsibility to call out this birtherism and the continued spread of misinformation.
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Facebook and Google don't hesitate to throw algorithms at their online harassment and misinformation problems.
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Facebook's failure to prevent the spread of misinformation on its platform is a global problem.
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The violence was linked to Facebook's mishandling of misinformation and hate speech in the regions.
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Both individuals and online service providers can face penalties for generating, publishing, or circulating misinformation.
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His account had been banned after a Terms of Service change aimed at reducing misinformation.
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Word of the tragedy spreads like a virus online, riddled with misinformation and panicked confusion.
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The social media giant has been embroiled in the debate over fake news and misinformation.
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Misinformation is a means for sowing hatred, so there is more clamoring for war-mongering.
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Trolls and other agents of misinformation also often contribute to articles in the comment sections.
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It's home to some of the internet's worst behaviors, like trolling, misinformation and tribalized outrage.
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Our phones are furthering genocide in Myanmar, lynchings in India, misinformation in the United States.
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That hasn't stopped the misinformation from being spread, including long before Donald Trump became president.
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Alphabet-owned Jigsaw has started trying to analyze India's misinformation problem, BuzzFeed News has learned.
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And now, provenance may come to imply one question — is it fake news or misinformation?
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In many ways, social media has become a hotbed for radicalization and misinformation and bigotry.
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YouTube is doing more to combat the spread of misinformation during major breaking news events.
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Duterte's administration has used social media to try to influence public opinion and spread misinformation.
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These shelves will feature only authoritative coverage of the event and help stave off misinformation.
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Fakespot: Eliminates misinformation and deceptive content on e-commerce sites for consumers, brands and platforms.
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Schiff also sent a similar letter to Google's Sundar Pichai about vaccine misinformation on YouTube.
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"The latest example of misinformation from the left comes directly from the federal government," SarahPalin.
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We know people are overwhelmed with the amount of news and information, and indeed misinformation.
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This week alone there were multiple examples of misinformation spreading after the Las Vegas shooting.
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It will also block or restrict hashtags it finds are being used to spread misinformation.
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After warming up with a couple of Cambridge Analytica questions, she gets to political misinformation.
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Especially if that misinformation reinforces their opinions, it just becomes really hard to dislodge it.
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It ran advertising campaigns on television, newspapers, and radio warning against the dangers of misinformation.
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The first: Facebook announced a multi-step plan to crack down on anti-vax misinformation.
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The plan is to limit the intentional spread of misinformation while highlighting accurate vaccine information.
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"If a publisher posts misinformation, it will no longer appear in the product," he wrote.
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David Cicilline (D-RI) is drafting a bill to stop Facebook from profiting off misinformation.
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Grimm said qualms about transgender students using certain bathrooms come from misinformation and unfounded fears.
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As you are well aware, the spreading of misinformation can be dangerous to our society.
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During his latest appearance, Jones discussed dangerous conspiracy theories, including Pizzagate and misinformation about autism.
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And Butters and Vladimir Putin get grounded by Butters's dad for spreading misinformation on Facebook.
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Without advertising, he said there's less of a commercial incentive to publish and spread misinformation.
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"There are frankly a lot of groups that have now centered around misinformation," said Alberto.
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They also argue this campaign has been characterised by "a loop of misinformation and scaremongering".
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The protest movement is also fuelled at least in part by conspiracy theories and misinformation.
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The big picture: The IRA hackers are Russia's most prominent purveyors of social media misinformation.
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The company for years allowed the spread of vaccine misinformation to spread across its network.
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Meanwhile, Facebook said it's preparing more measures to reduce health-related misinformation over the platform.
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With access, hackers could enter false results that could temporarily spread misinformation throughout the country.
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's leader, has also spoken of "a huge iceberg of misinformation".
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It's far from the only platform dealing with issues of misinformation and Russian propaganda, however.
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Tech companies promote fake news, underinvest in moderation, and profit from the spread of misinformation.
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Consider the role played by misinformation on Facebook in the American presidential election of 2016.
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Facebook has had a hand in spreading misinformation, terrorism and ethnic violence around the world.
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Earlier, the Red Cross in Sri Lanka had used Twitter to push back on misinformation.
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Most of the negativity comes from misinformation that people spread, which ends up growing legs.
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We weren't prepared enough for the coordinated misinformation operations that we are now aware of.
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With the ability to mimic facial expressions, the possibilities for spreading misinformation could greatly expand.
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In the end it was hate speech, not misinformation, that got Jones booted from Facebook.
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When it comes to female pleasure, there's enough misinformation out there to fill a book.
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These differences may drive the supply of misinformation coming from political elites to some degree.
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Lies to the American people, literally, misinformation pushed out by a lot of these people.
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The skeptics out there will wonder how Facebook's misinformation problem might spill over onto Instagram.
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Coordinated misinformation campaigns focus not just on individual candidates but also the electoral system itself.
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Facebook is not the only service facing a battle to tackle misinformation and hate speech.
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Rumors and misinformation are everywhere, while life is improvised as best as it can be.
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"We also took action against some additional pages that repeatedly posted misinformation," the spokesperson added.
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These are all part of the changes we've made to our algorithm to combat misinformation.
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And for the past week, he's been confidently spreading misinformation to a Trump-ian degree.
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Second, the sophistication of the obfuscation and misinformation was far greater than Russian operations elsewhere.
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The company developed an initiative to fund research focused on stopping misinformation on the service.
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While misinformation may not be intended to deceive, disinformation is distributed intentionally and often strategically.
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Our partisanship even shapes whether we are exposed to that misinformation in the first place.
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There's the profit-driven "fake news" farms, but a lot of misinformation is less intentional.
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Facebook is promising yet again to tackle the spread of misinformation in your News Feed.
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The Czech Republic recently launched a specialized government division focused entirely on shutting down misinformation.
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"Sadly some people also use WhatsApp to spread harmful misinformation," WhatsApp said in a statement.
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In the months after, Facebook was heavily criticized for not doing more to curb misinformation.
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The effect misinformation has on our minds is much subtler; it works on the margins.
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Nothing new for News Feed, Facebook's mint but also the source of its misinformation woes.
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Misinformation about mental illness circulates through our society, fueling myths about what causes psychiatric disorders.
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Your statements that it's too early for a final report may be assessed as misinformation.
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Putting a price on a resolution of principles, not policies, is just Big Oil misinformation.
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Instagram is adding three new tools to prevent the spread of misinformation on the platform.
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Many teachers that received the material were aghast at the misinformation included in the package.
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Unfortunately, Mr. Acevedo Vilá is not the only one spreading misinformation about Puerto Rico statehood.
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As the FCC moves forward with its plan, its opponents will continue to spread misinformation.
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Other types of ads that include misinformation are not allowed on the social media platform.
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Ross and Chandler spread some sneaky misinformation about each other on their college alumni website.
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He sowed doubts often by spreading misinformation, especially when his political fortunes were at stake.
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Oftentimes, credible advice can be difficult to entangle from more dubious sources, and misinformation abounds.
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In the memo, Mercer responds to unidentified misinformation he says has been published about him.
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It has made promises and public apologies, and publicized misinformation campaigns when they are discovered.
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I don't know whether President Trump actually believes the misinformation he spreads about climate change.
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She has also publicly criticized Facebook's decision to exempt political ads from its misinformation policy.
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He or she has been under-educated or over-educated and either way taught misinformation.
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Russia is at the vanguard of state media control at home while generating misinformation abroad.
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Lawyer ads are supposed to conform to attorney ethics rules and not contain any misinformation.
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The Russian Internet Research Agency recruited unwitting "assets" to spread misinformation and targeted black Americans.
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We're developing systems to automatically reduce the distribution of borderline content, including sensationalism and misinformation.
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Instead, Crowell said, it is up to "journalists, experts and engaged citizens" to correct misinformation.
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Physicians are not practicing good medicine if they cannot deal with misinformation in pharmaceutical advertising.
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It was this terrible misinformation campaign she was subjected to, and she really was battered.
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Deepfakes could be used as propaganda, for misinformation campaigns, or to derail diplomacy, Scharre says.
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After the election, dozens of newsrooms assigned journalists to beats covering misinformation and fake news.
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Republicans made a fuss after Facebook (and Twitter) made minor changes aimed at curbing misinformation.
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Society is facing a reckoning today when it comes to the freedom to spread misinformation.
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Like many platforms, Twitter has struggled with spam, harassment, manipulated media, and coordinated misinformation campaigns.
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"It was an overwhelming sense of confusion, skepticism, misinformation, fear and frustration," Perlick told POLITICO.
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He warned against misinformation swirling on social media that blacks are immune to COVID-19.
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And while Twitter isn't fact-checking, the misinformation about coronavirus isn't restricted to New York.
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But the misinformation about the coronavirus shared on WhatsApp is often in plain text form.
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And in addition to Russia, there was a new misinformation culprit on Facebook's radar: Iran.
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Whether we are talking about the coronavirus, climate change, vaccines or something else, misinformation abounds.
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News organizations in the countries complained that it had led to a rise in misinformation.
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But you can break a country's will without combat, and that's how Russia uses misinformation.
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They spread fake images and misinformation about the school shooting last week in Parkland, Fla.
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Trump later offers some backward-looking misinformation about 703 that serves no obvious function whatsoever.
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In addition, misinformation and inappropriate content appeared in YouTube's recommendation engines, according to the complaints.
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It is unscientific, shaming and hurtful, and spreads misinformation about a natural, purposeful biologic process.
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Other executives, including some in the Washington, D.C. office, argued that the publication printed misinformation.
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YouTube, like other organizations, is trying to combat misinformation during the unprecedented global health crisis.
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YouTube, like other organizations, is trying to combat misinformation during the unprecedented global health crisis.
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The group taught students about journalism, but evolved to include social media and internet misinformation.
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