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  1. Vanellus

    How different social media deal with election disinformation

    TikTok and Facebook fail to detect election disinformation in the US, while YouTube succeeds | Global Witness "The investigation revealed starkly contrasting results for the social media giants in their ability to detect and act against election misinformation. TikTok fared the worst; the...
  2. Valletta

    Judge orders Biden admin to turn over Fauci, Jean-Pierre 'misinformation' emails sent to social medi

    A federal judge in Louisiana ruled Tuesday that the Biden administration has 21 days to turn over all relevant emails sent by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Dr. Anthony Fauci to social media platforms regarding alleged misinformation and the censorship of social media...
  3. SummerMadness

    Black Lives Matter Fights Disinformation to Keep the Movement Strong

    Black Lives Matter Fights Disinformation to Keep the Movement Strong As with an civil rights movement, there is always a disinformation campaign launched against movement that advocates for social change. Considering what is happening in Belarus with Roman Protasevich or Russia with Alexei...
  4. Tom 1

    The misinformation pandemic

    Nb. I don't think the below is exclusive to scientific/unscientific thinking. More generally anyone can have this tendency to think that expertise in one area means that their opinions on some other, unrelated, area are valid, despite any lack of knowledge of that other field, topic etc. That...
  5. SummerMadness

    'Pink slime' local news outlets distribute algorithmic stories and conservative talking points

    Hundreds of 'pink slime' local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
  6. Christsfreeservant

    Mouths Of Liars Stopped

    We live in an age of great deception. So much of what we hear from the pulpit (podium) in churches, from the news media, and from our government leaders cannot be trusted. We can’t trust much of what we read on the internet, either, or on social media sites, or even on Christian-based discussion...
  7. Lulav

    Have we been dumbed down to the point of no return?

    Many may call this a conspiracy theory, but I say it's not a conspiracy 'theory' if it's true. One study found roughly half of Americans believe at least one so called conspiracy theory and a good percent believe in even more than one. It's not about tabloid headlines to sell newspapers...
  8. SummerMadness

    Blacks4Schultz... or what I learned from a Russian troll farm

    In a now suspended Twitter account a fake account for Howard Schultz was created. Some signs this is an obvious fake account is the language used in one of the deleted tweets: Yeah, nobody talks like that. But this is yet another example of the fact that this nation has not done anything to...
  9. Tom 1

    The ‘real’ fake news

    if you can make the time to watch it, this short series of vids is well put together, and provides a fascinating overview of Soviet and current disinformation activities: Operation Infektion Opinion | Operation Infektion
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