Etiket: misinformation
US midterm elections: Election tensions raise fears of renewed misinformation
Far from drying up, the flood of disinformation around the American mid-term elections is likely to swell as the wait for the final results of certain very tight duels continues.…
Vegan YouTubers, contradictions and misinformation
Janie Perron sees herself in her bedroom, a teenager, watching videos of vegan youtubers. Girls from USA, Australia, UK. “I found them very convincing,” she recalls. A few years later,…
With 2024 in sight, Trump is doubling down on election misinformation
Banned from Twitter and Facebook after the attack by his supporters on the Capitol in Washington in January 2021, Donald Trump has been back since April on his own platform,…
Misinformation about COVID-19 | Award for controversial Iranian doctor postponed
(OTTAWA) The International Society of Urology (IUS) has backed away from its plans to reward an Iranian doctor who has been accused of spreading misinformation about COVID-19 and supporting the…
Misinformation | Harassment against election workers on the rise
(Leesburg) Many leave due to burnout, others worry for their safety: Poll workers are increasingly being harassed in the United States, the result of conspiracy theories born out of the…
Twitter | A rumor shared by Elon Musk raises fears of a resurgence of misinformation
(Washington) Elon Musk on Sunday echoed a rumor about the assault of the husband of congressional Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi as his recent acquisition of the platform raises fears of…
US election misinformation gives TikTok a hard time
TikTok’s algorithms are very good at riveting users to their screens for hours on end. But they are less good at detecting ads with misinformation about US elections, according to…
How Social Media Amplifies Misinformation
It is well known that social media amplifies fake news and other harmful content. The advocacy group Integrity Institute is now trying to establish exactly how much — and on…
TikTok would contribute to misinformation among young people
(San Francisco) Misinformation about TikTok has reached alarming levels, especially as the app is increasingly used by teens as a search engine, according to research published by NewsGuard on Wednesday.…
The presidential election in Brazil plagued by misinformation
(Rio de Janeiro) One month before the presidential election in Brazil, if the authorities seem better equipped to fight against the misinformation that floods social networks, the content is more…
Seen, read and verified | Has misinformation crept in around monkeypox?
Yes. They are falsely portrayed as having monkeypox on social media, due to marks on the skin. They suffer the consequences. But no, they are not. With the rise in…
YouTube introduces measures to end misinformation about abortions
(San Francisco) YouTube announced on Thursday that it has taken steps to ban abortion-related misinformation, nearly a month after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down federal abortion rights. Posted at…
YouTube tackles misinformation about abortions
YouTube announced on Thursday that it has taken steps to ban misinformation related to abortions, nearly a month after the United States Supreme Court struck down the federal right to…
On social networks, misinformation based on weather maps
Climate change critics have found a viral way to spread doubt on social media during a heatwave: posting weather maps out of context, suggesting that forecasters are exaggerating about climate…
WHO and UNICEF report | Sharp drop in childhood vaccination linked to COVID-19 and misinformation
(New York) The COVID-19 crisis and misinformation are behind the largest continuous decline in childhood immunizations against other diseases in nearly three decades, according to a report by the World…
Online hate: Ottawa should tackle misinformation, expert panel says
The experts appointed by the Trudeau government to define the limits of its plan to fight online hate agree that action must be taken against disinformation on the Internet, but…
COVID-19 | Misinformation breathes new life into the anti-vaccine movement
(Washington) As misinformation about COVID-19 continues to flourish, more parents in the United States are questioning whether other vaccines are necessary for their children and more adults prefer to go…
According to the Elections Commissioner | Canada is ‘not immune’ to misinformation ‘virus’
(Ottawa) He is normally the rather low-key type; little was heard of him in the media during the decade he spent at the helm of the commissioner of federal elections.…
Misinformation should fall under online hate legislation
Misinformation, including ‘deepfake’ videos and software spreading falsehoods, should be included as part of a future online harms bill, says a panel of experts appointed by Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez…
Canadian politicians quoted in study on climate misinformation
Former Conservative MPs Maxime Bernier and Derek Sloan are quoted in an English study that analyzed misinformation on social media about climate change during COP26 in Glasgow last fall. The…