disinformation
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Netflix’s Sweet Tooth Advertorial in USA Today Was Beyond Irresponsible
In Netflix’s new live-action adaptation of Jeff Lemire’s DC Comics series Sweet Tooth, the sudden appearance of half-human/half-animal hybrids during a pandemic prompts many “regular” humans to begin hunting and murdering the hybrids out of fear and, quite literally, open speciesism. Timed with Sweet Tooth’s premiere, the June 4 weekend edition of USA Today hit…
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Facebook Missed 10.1 Billion Opportunities to Stop Juicing Hoaxes and Propaganda in 2020, Study Finds
If Facebook had moved sooner to restrict hoax, toxic, misleading, or other content attempting to interfere with the 2020 elections, it could have limited its reach by around 10 billion views, according to a report by the advocacy group Avaaz.
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Facebook Bans Actual News Then Signs Up For Government’s Disinformation Code
The Digital Industry Group (DIGI) has launched a new voluntary code of practice for tech companies to combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation in Australia. So far it has been adopted by Google, Microsoft, Tik-Tok, Twitter and, ironically, Facebook. This disinformation code has come at a crucial time DIGI has been working on the…
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Viral Video of Man Burning Trump Ballots Is Totally Fake
Have you seen that viral video of a man supposedly burning about 80 ballots marked for Donald Trump? The footage has been circulating on Twitter and Facebook over the past 48 hours and the president’s son, Eric Trump, even retweeted the video. But it’s completely fake.