Computer Sciences
An American University math professor and his team have created a statistical model that can be used to detect misinformation in social posts. The model also avoids the problem of black boxes that occur in machine learning.
Dec 02, 2021
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Internet
Twitter users will soon see new warning labels on false and misleading tweets, redesigned to make them more effective and less confusing.
Nov 16, 2021
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Internet
Leaked internal documents suggest Facebook—which recently renamed itself Meta—is doing far worse than it claims at minimizing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation on the Facebook social media platform.
Nov 03, 2021
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Internet
Twitter accounts linked to China were discovered spreading misinformation about the origins of COVID-19, such as lies that the virus came from a shipment of Maine lobsters to Wuhan.
Oct 22, 2021
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Internet
YouTube announced Wednesday it would remove videos and some high-profile users that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous, as social networks seek to crack down on health misinformation around Covid-19 and other diseases.
Sep 29, 2021
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Internet
More than 500 websites have promoted misinformation about the coronavirus—including debunked claims about vaccines, according to a firm that rates the credibility of websites.
Sep 08, 2021
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Internet
Reddit has banned a community linked to misinformation about the COVID vaccine following a series of protests from other subreddits.
Sep 02, 2021
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Business
Amazon said it plans to block some autocomplete responses to address concerns over ivermectin, an unproven treatment for COVID-19, coming up as a suggestion when users type "iv" in the shopping platform's search bar.
Sep 01, 2021
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Internet
YouTube said Wednesday it has removed more than one million videos with "dangerous coronavirus misinformation" since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Aug 25, 2021
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Internet
Twitter on Tuesday announced a new feature to allow users to flag content that could contain misinformation, a scourge that has only grown during the pandemic.
Aug 18, 2021
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Misinformation is false or inaccurate information that is spread unintentionally. It is distinguished from disinformation by motive in that misinformation is simply erroneous, while disinformation, in contrast, is intended to mislead.
Adam Makkai proposes the distinction between misinformation and disinformation to be a defining characteristic of idioms in the English language. An utterance is only idiomatic if it involves disinformation, where the listener can decode the utterance in a logical, and lexically correct, yet erroneous way. Where the listener simply decodes the lexemes incorrectly, the utterance is simply misinformation, and not idiomatic.
Damian Thompson defines counterknowledge as "misinformation packaged to look like fact." Using the definition above, this may refer to disinformation, as the motive is deliberate and often pecuniary.
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