by admin | Jul 21, 2025 | Column, Columns, Internet News, misinformation, News, Social media, TikTok, Toby Shapshak
After sending me numerous fake video clips, clearly from TikTok, I told an old friend last year to get back to the basics and read a proper newspaper. The final nonsense clip featured two guys claiming that Turkish Olympic pistol shooter, Yusuf Dikeç, famous for his... by admin | Jan 9, 2025 | Community Notes, facebook, Internet News, Meta, misinformation, News, The Conversation
Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies among more than 3 billion people who use Meta’s social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads. In a... by admin | Nov 8, 2024 | AI, artificial intelligence, misinformation, News, Other Tech News, The Conversation
In the ambitious pursuit to tackle the harms from false content on social media and news websites, data scientists are getting creative. While still in their training wheels, the large language models (LLMs) used to create chatbots like ChatGPT are being recruited to... by admin | Nov 7, 2024 | App News, Google, google image search, misinformation, News, WhatsApp, whatsapp web search
WhatsApp is rolling out another Android feature for beta testers, select users can now directly Google search images straight from the app. With this update, users can verify the authenticity of images received in chats by searching them directly on the web. The... by admin | Aug 9, 2024 | App News, Community Notes, Internet News, misinformation, News, Youtube
In a bid to make itself a more reliable source of news and information, YouTube has begun the rollout of its new Community Notes-like feature. First announced in June, the feature aims to reduce misinformation by allowing users to provide contextual notes to any... by admin | Feb 26, 2024 | fake news, misinformation, News, Other Tech News, Smartphones, Social media, The Conversation
As misinformation and radicalisation rise, it’s tempting to look for something to blame: the internet, social media personalities, sensationalised political campaigns, religion, or conspiracy theories. And once we’ve settled on a cause, solutions usually follow: do...