Climate change denial on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and TikTok is 'as bad as ever'
The climate is changing, but misinformation about it on the major social media platforms is not.
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The climate is changing, but misinformation about it on the major social media platforms is not.
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More than 80 fact-checking organisations Wednesday urged online video platform YouTube to better combat disinformation, offering to help debunk false statements.
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Parenting communities on Facebook were subject to a powerful misinformation campaign early in the COVID-19 pandemic that pulled them closer to extreme communities and their misinformation, according to a new study published ...
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At the end of 2020, it seemed hard to imagine a worse year for misinformation on social media, given the intensity of the presidential election and the trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. But 2021 proved up to the task, starting ...
Dec 31, 2021
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Dec. 28—A video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi seeming to slur her speech at an event tore through the internet, gaining steam on Facebook. Share after share, it spread to the point of going viral.
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TikTok is one of the top five social media platforms in the world this year.
Dec 21, 2021
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The spread of misinformation on social media is a pressing societal problem that tech companies and policymakers continue to grapple with, yet those who study this issue still don't have a deep understanding of why and how ...
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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.
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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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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.
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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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