An Instagram account masquerading as a U.S. government news agency was used to promote misinformation about potential fallout from America’s targeted killing last week of Iran’s top general.
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Tiger burns in Australia’s bushfires? It’s a 2012 photo from Indonesia. Young girl rescues koala? Actually an artist’s impression. Social media is packed with powerful images of Australia’s bushfires — but many are fake.
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On the eve of a congressional hearing on media manipulation and deception, Facebook said it will remove digitally manipulated videos – commonly called “deepfakes” – from its platform.
Read moreSweeping his terror claims into the courthouse dustbin, the Second Circuit on Monday rejected claims from former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page that so-called fake news about him puts his personal safety at risk.
Read moreAccusing a digital-media giant of defamation as well as terrorism, former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page argued Friday before the Second Circuit that so-called fake news about him puts his personal safety at risk.
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In a time of ever-widening political divides, most Americans also struggle to determine whether the news they read every day is accurate, according to a poll by The Associated Press released Thursday.
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Most registered voters want social media giants to enact policies banning all false or misleading political ads on their platforms, a Morning Consult poll found Thursday.
Read moreSocial media giant Twitter announced Wednesday it will ban all political advertisements, claiming large-scale, targeted messages influences too many votes and disinformation can impact the lives of millions.
Read moreFacebook announced a new initiative Monday aimed at combating disinformation campaigns on its platform – a bid to protect the integrity of elections in the United States and abroad.
Read moreCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill Friday meant to cut down on the use of deepfakes meant to disrupt elections after a viral video was released earlier this year of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, manipulating her to appear drunk in it.
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As the number of Americans who get their news from social media grows, concerns about what that means for political diversity are also on the rise, the Pew Research Center reported Wednesday.
Read moreU.S. President Donald Trump on Monday denied an Axios report that he wanted to drop nuclear bombs on hurricanes before they made landfall in the United States, calling it “ridiculous.”
Read moreFacebook can’t be sued for blocking from its network a Russian news agency with alleged connections to a plot to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election, a federal judge has ruled.
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News sources that are considered honest may still lose credibility with people if they are seen as biased, according to a study released Monday that shows news audiences distinguish between sources that are dishonest and those that might be biased.
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Here is a roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, though they were shared widely on social media. Here are the facts, beginning with the false claim that California Sen. Kamala Harris was not actually in the second racially integrated class in Berkeley.
Read moreWith the 2020 election cycle picking up steam, a California lawmaker is seeking to protect candidates from fake social media videos he believes have the potential to change election outcomes.
Read moreOfficials from Google, Twitter and Facebook testified Wednesday before a House committee on strategies for countering misinformation and terrorist propaganda on their platforms, amid President Donald Trump claiming they are trying to rig the 2020 election.
Read moreSomewhere between fact and fiction, seeing and believing, satire and solemnity, a technology driven by artificial intelligence is on the rise, posing a threat to national security and civil rights that regulators of yesteryear could scarcely imagine.
Read moreThree weeks after Facebook refused to remove a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi slurring her words, Mark Zuckerberg is getting a taste of his own medicine: fake footage showing him gloating over his one-man domination of the world.
Read moreBig Tech has become big politics in Washington. The House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday is launching its investigation into the market dominance of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, starting with a look at the impact of the tech giants’ platforms on news content, the media and the spread of misinformation online.
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