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The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has launched a special operation aimed at removing online social media accounts that spread “fake news” and impersonate government-run media. The CAC said on Wednesday that since April 6 it had removed 107,000 accounts that disseminated false news and rumors on the internet. Hundreds …

From August 2020 to January 2021, “fake news,” or misinformation, got six times more clicks and likes than trustworthy news sources on Facebook, according to a study. The peer-reviewed study looked at user behavior on Facebook around the 2020 US election campaign, according to a report by The Washington Post. …

Wikipedia can serve as a model to combat disinformation and distrust online.

US President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, has said that he thinks smallpox and polio would still be spreading in the United States if today’s “false information” was there then. “If you look at the extraordinary historic success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio from most of the …

Bolivia’s immunization drive against COVID-19 is being hit by anti-vaccine misinformation that is stoking skepticism and leaving inoculation centers half empty, a challenge for the government facing a wave of new infections. Health workers and officials have raised concerns about low turnout at some vaccination sites, saying jabs are going …

Facebook, Alphabet unit Google, and other tech giants will have to pledge to do more to curb the monetisation of false information through advertisement placements, according to a European Commission document seen by Reuters. The EU executive also wants smaller social media or search services, private messaging services, ad exchanges, …

For years, Twitter and Facebook have enjoyed a healthy rivalry: They’ve competed for acquisitions, talent, and advertising dollars, and sometimes gone so far as to copy each others’ features in the never-ending pursuit to grow their audiences. But the clash between the two tech companies appeared to take on new …

In early April, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte vowed that he would not hesitate to order the police to shoot and kill those Filipinos who defy the coronavirus-related lockdown in the country. Senator Bong Go, who is also President Rodrigo Duterte’s personal aide, has promised body bags for all those who …

A violent and disturbing video of a fake President Donald Trump shooting, assaulting and stabbing his critics and the media was played at a conference held by a pro-Trump group at his Miami resort last week.

Donald Trump’s idea to fire nuclear weapons into hurricanes to prevent them hitting the US has been dismissed by his own government as “not a good idea”. The president is said to have raised the idea of bombing tropical storms on numerous occasions with national security officials since 2017, Axios …

Instagram is rolling out a new feature that allows users to flag misinformation. The Facebook-owned photo-sharing platform said in a statement that the tool will be available to all users by the end of August. “I’m proud that, starting today, people can let us know if they see posts on …