disinformation
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YouTube Wants to Give the Internet’s Worst Commenters the Ability to Fact-Check Videos
YouTube will soon be testing a feature that allows users to add notes under videos to correct inaccurate or misleading information, according to an announcement from the video-sharing platform on Monday. And while it sounds strikingly similar to X’s Community Notes program, there are still a lot of questions about how it will work. The…
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Elon Musk and X/Twitter’s CEO Can’t Seem to Agree on Whether Their Election Integrity Team Is ‘Gone’
At a conference on Wednesday, X CEO Linda Yaccarino contradicted Elon Musk’s claims that the platform’s election monitoring team has been eliminated. Yaccarino disputed these claims, saying the team is “growing” and will continue to monitor political misinformation on the platform. Musk announced that the X, formerly Twitter, election team was disbanded in a tweet on…
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Judge Upholds Ban on Feds Asking Social Media Companies to Take Down Posts
A federal judge appointed by Donald Trump held firm this week by declining a request to delay a controversial order barring government agencies from making content moderation requests to social media companies. The Justice Department is already appealing the decision, according to court filings, and said in a statement it would seek an emergency action from…
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Google Hopes to Inoculate Internet Users Against Misinformation with Expanded ‘Pre-bunking’ Campaign
Google plans to expand a campaign against online misinformation to Germany this week, and later India, as first reported by the Associated Press. The strategy, known as “pre-bunking” or “attitudinal inoculation,” aims to train people on how to recognise false information and manipulated facts on the internet before they even encounter them.