Quick-spreading claims on social media over the weekend about a suspected serial killer in the Seattle area have been refuted by law enforcement officials and debunked by fact checkers. A… Read More
There has been a robust debate over disinformation online since the 2016 U.S. presidential election showed the world how social media can be weaponized to push a political agenda. But… Read More
Facebook says it’s working with Microsoft, the Partnership for AI and an international team of academics to create the Deepfake Detection Challenge, a competition to develop better tools for flagging… Read More
Americans were shocked to learn how misinformation was weaponized during the 2016 presidential race and experts believe it was just the beginning. As foreign adversaries become more sophisticated in this… Read More
Computer scientists from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have mapped the ebb and flow of Reddit’s discussions about cryptocurrency — not only to see how online chatter can predict market… Read More
In the battle for AI supremacy, the best defense is a good offense. That’s the philosophy behind Grover, a neural network application that is fighting disinformation by creating its own… Read More
Microsoft is looking to warn users about unreliable news sources with a new feature on its Edge browser on mobile devices. In an extension of a partnership NewsGuard, alerts have… Read More
Facebook and Twitter have been cracking down on political disinformation during the current election cycle, but there are signs that the fight against fake news has spread to new battlefields,… Read More
The rise of the Internet was only the beginning of the disruption for the news business. The past ten years have been a wild ride, to say the least. Social… Read More
The U.S. is approaching a big midterm election, but unlike almost every other major election in the country’s history, this one has a new and worrying shadow hanging over it:… Read More
Elon Musk’s Tesla electric-car and power company has been getting some bad press lately, and today the tech billionaire pushed back with a tweetstorm criticizing “the holier-than-thou hypocrisy of big… Read More
A study published in the journal Science provides hard evidence that fake news — or, to use the researchers’ preferred term, false news — spreads via Twitter significantly more rapidly than verified… Read More
BELLEVUE, Wash. — Agata Burdonova may marvel on LiveJournal over the fact that she lives just a couple of miles from Bill Gates’ house, but I’m marveling more over the fact… Read More
Facebook’s image suffered some serious blows in 2017. So rather than wear a tie everyday or learn a complex foreign language (as he has in years past), Mark Zuckerberg’s personal… Read More
Snapchat parent Snap has redesigned its social app to draw a clear line between users’ friends and brands that the company says “separates the social from the media.” The new… Read More
Update: Manka Dhingra was ahead with 55 percent of the vote in early election results released Tuesday at 8 p.m. Bots and other suspicious social media accounts were used in an… Read More
Top lawyers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google confirmed that they still don’t know how much influence Russian government-backed agents wield on their platforms during a hearing before the Senate Intelligence… Read More
The controversy over fake news may focus on politics, but it’s also slipping into the scientific realm, says one of the country’s pioneers in the study of B.S. The hunger… Read More
Technology has changed just about everything it has touched, and that is especially true when it comes to the distribution of news and information around the planet. Early hopes that… Read More
I can’t decide if I like HEADLINER or not. It’s an addictive game — when I sat down to try it out at the Seattle Indies Expo over Labor Day weekend,… Read More
There is a fake news problem across the internet. The spreading of misinformation is having a direct affect on society, ranging from events like the 2016 presidential election or Hurricane Harvey, to less… Read More
Google cracked down on bad advertising in 2016, taking down 1.7 billion ads that violated its advertising policies, the company announced Wednesday. That’s more than double the amount it took… Read More
As it continues to fight the spread of fake news, Facebook announced major changes to its Trending Topics section Wednesday. The section, which features popular topics being shared on the… Read More
Facebook announced a new initiative Wednesday, the Facebook Journalism Project, designed to strengthen relationships with publishers and journalists and stop the kinds of hoaxes that became prevalent during election season. In… Read More
Facebook is grappling with growing pains. The $350 billion company, powered by more than a billion users, is coming to terms with the fact that is far more than a… Read More
In the crucial final months of the election, Facebook engagement with bogus news stories outpaced legitimate news, according to BuzzFeed’s analysis. It’s an alarming trend, particularly when you look to the… Read More