Slashdot Items Tagged "misinformation"

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Tuesday February 13, 2024 @06:19PM Tech Companies Plan To Sign Accord To Combat AI-Generated Election Trickery
Thursday July 27, 2023 @05:28PM Conservatives Bombarded With Facebook Misinformation Far More Than Liberals In 2020 Election, Study Suggests
Wednesday July 05, 2023 @05:11PM Judge Rules White House Pressured Social Networks To 'Suppress Free Speech'
Friday June 02, 2023 @04:34PM YouTube Will Stop Removing False Presidential Election Fraud Claims
Thursday February 09, 2023 @11:10PM Influence Networks In Russia Misled European Users, TikTok Says
Thursday October 27, 2022 @05:14PM Did PayPal Just Reintroduce Its $2,500 'Misinformation' Fine, Hoping We Wouldn't Notice?
Thursday October 20, 2022 @05:39PM Anti-Vaccine Groups Avoid Facebook Bans By Using Emojis
Thursday September 01, 2022 @03:59PM Many Developed Countries View Online Misinformation as 'Major Threat'
Tuesday August 23, 2022 @01:35PM New Breed of Video Sites Thrives on Misinformation and Hate
Wednesday June 01, 2022 @05:18PM Connecticut Will Pay a Security Analyst 150K To Monitor Election Memes
Thursday May 19, 2022 @05:22PM Twitter Will Hide Tweets That Share False Info During a Crisis
Monday April 11, 2022 @01:21PM Pinterest Announces Ban on All Climate Misinformation
Friday April 01, 2022 @09:08AM Misinformation is Derailing Renewable Energy Projects Across the United States
Monday February 28, 2022 @07:25PM Twitter To Label Tweets Linking To Russian State Media
Wednesday January 19, 2022 @05:59PM Social Media Bans of Scientific Misinformation Aren't Helpful, Researchers Say
Wednesday September 01, 2021 @05:26PM Reddit Bans Anti-Vax Subreddit After Site-Wide Protest
Wednesday August 11, 2021 @07:49PM DoD Awards $1 Billion Contract To Peraton To Counter Misinformation
Tuesday July 27, 2021 @05:14PM YouTube Punishes Brazil's President For Spreading Lies About COVID
Friday July 16, 2021 @07:12PM Biden Says Platforms Like Facebook Are 'Killing People' With COVID-19 Misinformation
Wednesday July 14, 2021 @05:35PM White House May Work With Carriers To Screen Anti-Vax Messages
Monday May 10, 2021 @05:46PM Facebook Is Testing Pop-Up Messages Telling People To Read a Link Before They Share It
Tuesday March 23, 2021 @05:14PM Facebook Waited Too Long To Stop 10 Billion Pageviews of Repeat Misinformation Spreaders
Thursday March 11, 2021 @05:27PM YouTube Removed 30,000 Videos With COVID-19 Misinformation
Friday February 05, 2021 @05:47PM Russian Campaign Promotes Homegrown Vaccine and Undercuts Rivals
Monday January 25, 2021 @03:25PM Twitter Launches 'Birdwatch,' a Forum To Combat Misinformation
Tuesday November 24, 2020 @06:19PM Twitter Will Warn You If You 'Like' Misleading Tweets
Thursday November 19, 2020 @04:13PM Election Misinformation Often Evaded YouTube's Efforts To Stop It.
Thursday November 12, 2020 @06:03PM Facebook Extends Political Ad Ban In US For At Least a Month
Tuesday November 10, 2020 @06:19PM Steve Bannon Caught Running a Network of Misinformation Pages On Facebook
Tuesday November 03, 2020 @06:25PM Election Hoax Spreading Through Text Messages In Michigan
Monday November 02, 2020 @07:30PM Internet Archive Adds Fact Checks To Explain Web Page Takedowns
Tuesday October 13, 2020 @05:00PM Facebook Bans Anti-Vaccine Ads, But Not Organic Misinformation
Friday October 02, 2020 @08:59PM Twitter Is Building 'Birdwatch,' a System To Fight Misinformation By Adding More Context To Tweets
Monday August 31, 2020 @06:07PM Facebook and Google Serve As Vectors For Misinformation While Hobbling Local Journalism and Collecting Taxpayer Subsidies, Group Says
Friday July 10, 2020 @04:45PM Facebook Considers Political-Ad Blackout Ahead of US Election
Monday May 11, 2020 @02:27PM Twitter To Label Disputed COVID-19 Tweets
Tuesday May 05, 2020 @08:45PM Trust In Scientists Grows As Fake Coronavirus News Rises, UK Poll Finds
Wednesday April 22, 2020 @09:58PM Chinese Agents Helped Spread Messages That Sowed Virus Panic In US: Officials
Friday April 03, 2020 @04:08PM Twitter Removes 9,000 Accounts Pushing Coronavirus Propaganda Praising the United Arab Emirates
Thursday March 19, 2020 @03:35PM Twitter Broadly Bans Any COVID-19 Tweets That Could Help the Virus Spread
Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:22PM Twitter is Testing New Ways To Fight Misinformation
Monday August 12, 2019 @06:53PM Most YouTube Videos On Climate Change Deny Its Existence, Study Finds
Tuesday July 02, 2019 @04:16PM Google Tweaked Algorithm After Rise In US Shootings
Tuesday April 16, 2019 @06:51PM Is It Time To Rethink the Fundamental Dynamics of Twitter?
Friday March 01, 2019 @02:30PM Know-It-All Robot Shuts Down Dubious Family Texts
Monday November 26, 2018 @10:03PM Dictionary.com Picks 'Misinformation' As Word of the Year
Wednesday November 21, 2018 @05:49PM 'Relatively Few' Twitter Bots Were Needed To Spread Misinformation and Overwhelm Fact Checkers, Study Finds
Monday October 15, 2018 @04:48PM Facebook To Ban Misinformation On Voting In Upcoming US Elections
Thursday August 23, 2018 @06:39PM Google Removes Accounts Tied To Iran-Led Misinformation Campaign
Wednesday August 08, 2018 @06:34PM WhatsApp Flaw Could Allow Hackers To Modify, Send Fake Messages
Wednesday July 14, 2010 @01:05PM Given Truth, the Misinformed Believe Lies More