Eliza Mackintosh, CNN, https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/05/europe/finland-fake-news-intl/ Helsinki, Finland (CNN) – On a recent afternoon in Helsinki, a group of students gathered to hear a lecture on a subject that is far from […]Read More
Daniel Funke, September 12th 2019, Poynterhttps://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2019/here-are-4-new-terms-to-describe-online-deception-and-misinformation/ New terms for the misinformation trade The language surrounding misinformation seems to change as fast as the tactics used by the people who spread […]Read More
Hannah S. Chapman and Theodore P. Gerber, September 5th 2019, Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/05/russian-propaganda-isnt-effective-you-may-think/ Considering the Russian government’s disinformation efforts to polarize American voters during the 2016 presidential election, the […]Read More
Pratik Jakhar, BBC News, September 7th 2019 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-49511231 According to China, its Confucius Institute is “a bridge reinforcing friendship” between it and the world. But to its critics the government-run […]Read More
Google’s knowledge panels contain helpful facts and tidbits. But sometimes they surface bad information, too. Lora Kelley, The Atlantic, September 23rd, 2019 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/09/googles-knowledge-panels-are-magnifying-disinformation/598474/ Martin John Bryant was lying on his […]Read More
Christina Nemr and Will Gangare, War on the Rocks. September 20th, 2019 In 2017, Myanmar’s military led a protracted propaganda campaign that resulted in mass murder. Over 25,000 of the […]Read More
Zoe Schiffer, The Verge, September 16th 2019 https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/18/20872084/ai-deepfakes-solution-report-data-society-video-altered A new report from Data and Society raises doubts about automated solutions to deceptively altered videos, including machine learning-altered videos called deepfakes. Authors […]Read More
Nathaniel Gleicher, Head of Cybersecurity Policy, September 16th 2019, Facebook Newsroom https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/09/removing-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior-from-iraq-and-ukraine/ Today, we removed multiple Pages, Groups and accounts that were involved in coordinated inauthentic behavior on Facebook and Instagram. We […]Read More
AFP in France24, Washington DC, September 20th 2019 https://www.france24.com/en/20190920-twitter-closes-thousands-of-fake-news-accounts-worldwide Twitter said Friday it has closed down thousands of accounts across the world for spreading fake news as well as pro-government […]Read More
2016 Russian cyberattack on Ukraine intended to cause far more damage than it did. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/new-clues-show-how-russias-grid-hackers-aimed-for-physical-destruction/ ANDY GREENBERG, WIRED.COM – 9/14/2019, 8:15 AM For nearly three years, the December 2016 cyberattack on the Ukrainian […]Read More
