Summary: Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Democratic Republic of Congo faced a surge in AI-driven disinformation campaigns across social media. These sophisticated misinformation endeavors aimed to undermine confidence in COVID-19 […]
Summary: A few days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Twitter announced that it would start labeling tweets containing links from Russian state-linked media outlets, noting their affiliation. Additionally, Twitter […]
Summary: In December 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, an Argentinian government official published a post about the approval of a new Argentinian-developed treatment for COVID-19 to his […]
Summary: In its 15 years as a micro-blogging service, Twitter has given users more characters per tweet, reaction GIFs, multiple UI options, and the occasional random resorting of their timelines. […]
Summary: For years now there have been concerns raised about the possibility of “deep fake” videos impacting an election. Deep fakes are videos that have been digitally altered, often to insert […]
Summary: Three weeks before the presidential election, the New York Post published an article that supposedly detailed meetings Hunter Biden (son of presidential candidate Joe Biden) had with a Ukrainian energy firm […]
Summary: With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the large social media companies very quickly put in place policies to try to handle the flood of disinformation about […]
Summary: Following on its efforts in tamping down on election-related misinformation, Twitter’s latest moderation efforts target misleading posts about COVID and the coronavirus. Despite being months into a global pandemic, there has […]
Summary: Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte’s rise to power was greatly aided by Facebook and its overwhelming popularity within the country. An estimated 97% of Filipinos have Facebook accounts and the company […]
Twitter’s swift enforcement against misinformation leads to suspension of fact checking accounts that point to the original deceptive content. Summary: President Trump appeared on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” and […]
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