Pinterest to direct vaccine-related searches to health orgs
Pinterest said Wednesday it will try to combat misinformation about vaccines by showing only information from health organizations when people search.
Aug 28, 2019
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Pinterest said Wednesday it will try to combat misinformation about vaccines by showing only information from health organizations when people search.
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Instagram on Thursday added a way for users to easily report deceptive posts at the photo and video-oriented social network owned by Facebook.
Aug 15, 2019
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The results are in: Teens turn to YouTube to keep up with current events instead of established news organizations.
Aug 14, 2019
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We live in an era of too much information—an endless stream of status updates, memes, reposts, infographics, quotes and hashtags roll daily through our social media feeds, meant to express viewpoints, drum up solidarity, ...
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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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