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People are hungry for accurate and reliable information online and may just need help to find it, according to a new media literacy project launched by Microsoft.
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On the verge of tears, Nathan Nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and another of a woman being killed.
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Research from James Cook University shows increasingly complex website password restrictions often leave users frustrated and lead to poor password security.
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Each day, messages from Nigerian princes, peddlers of wonder drugs and promoters of can't-miss investments choke email inboxes. Improvements to spam filters only seem to inspire new techniques to break through the protections.
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If you search "shrimp Jesus" on Facebook, you might encounter dozens of images of artificial intelligence (AI) generated crustaceans meshed in various forms with a stereotypical image of Jesus Christ.
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How times have changed. Just a few years ago, Americans were uncomfortably amused at the presence of social bots but were confident they could tell tofu from prime rib.
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) have recently carried out a study investigating the interactions among different world leaders and influential political figures on social media. Their findings, ...
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On social media platforms such as Reddit and Twitter people can express their opinions and take part in discussions about a variety of topics. This is generally done in comment threads, which allow users to comment on existing ...
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Researchers at the Indiana University Observatory on Social Media have launched upgrades to two tools playing a major role in countering the spread of misinformation online.
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A team of researchers with members from several institutions in Denmark, Sweden and Japan has developed a means for sending 1.84 petabits of data per second via a fiber-optic cable over 7.9 km. Their report is published in ...
