disinformation
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The World Health Organisation’s Making TikToks To Tackle Coronavirus Misinformation
On Friday the World Health Organisation took the fight against online health misinformation to TikTok, the same day it elevated its coronavirus threat assessment to the organisation’s highest possible level.
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Mark Zuckerberg To Somehow Become Even More Unlikable In The 2020s, Mark Zuckerberg Says
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has an ominous message for the rest of us: You may not like me, but you will understand me.
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How YouTube Profits From Climate Denial And Misinformation
If you search for videos about climate change on Youtube, you might run into one from PragerU called What They Haven’t Told You About Climate Change. In the video, a Canadian energy consultant named Patrick Moore claims that the world hasn’t been significantly warmer in the 21st century (which is not true) and that there’s…
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Facebook Bans Deepfake Videos That Would Mislead The Average Person, Fails To Define ‘Average Person’
Facebook announced overnight that it will ban any deepfake videos that wouldn’t be recognised by the average person as parody or satire. There was just one problem: the tech giant didn’t clearly define any of those terms. The Book of Faces didn’t bother to say what “parody,” “satire,” or “average person,” means, which will probably bite…