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Apr 20 2024
News
TikTok star on why US must force sale of Chinese-owned app: ‘I am terrified of what I’m seeing’
The House on Saturday voted to ban TikTok — and even some Americans who make bank on the Chinese-owned app believe its end can’t come soon enough, saying it’s become a cesspool of hate and misinformation. Comedian and actor Zach Sage Fox, who earns his living in part by posting clips of his standup to over 1.1 million followers on TikTok, was sweating what the ban on the app could mean for his
New York Post (News)Oct 13 2023
Analysis
Inside X’s Community Notes, fact-checks on known misinformation are delayed for days
The community fact-checking feature that Elon Musk has touted as a way to fight false and misleading information on X is struggling to keep up with a flood of content related to the Israel-Hamas war.
The system, Community Notes, relies on approved volunteers to suggest notes to be appended to posts. Those posts are then voted on by other volunteers and eventually published after they
NBC News (Online)Nov 07 2023
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: Did Joe Biden Accept ‘Laundered Money’ From a Chinese Company?
Analysis from the CenterKey Takeaway: The findings of the House Oversight Committee’s impeachment probe into President Joe Biden are worth following, but not yet worth drawing definitive conclusions.
For almost a year now, the House Oversight and Accountability Committee has been investigating President Joe Biden and his family, probing for potential instances of corruption.
Isaiah AnthonySep 14 2023
News
Right-wing media are spewing COVID misinformation as new wave surges
As COVID-19 rates have risen over the past month, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has recommended a new vaccine booster, right-wing media outlets and figures have reacted with outrage about temporary mask mandates, claims that the vaccines are a “scam” and dangerous, and allegations that recent surges and attention are a political ploy.
COVID-19 cases are increasing,
Media MattersApr 09 2024
News
League of Women Voters are Combatting Disinformation
LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTER OF BOULDER COUNTY TO HOST EVENT ON MISINFORMATION IN LONGMONT The League of Women Voters of Boulder County (LWVBC) is hosting a presentation on Making Democracy Work in an Age of Misinformation with keynote speaker Dr. Ian Shapiro. Dr. Shapiro will highlight the spread of political lies, why people fall for misinformation, and how to defend democracy in this highly
Yellow Scene MagazineApr 24 2024
News
Fauci to testify before Congress for the first time since stepping down
Anthony Fauci, former chief medical advisor to President Biden, will testify before the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on June 3, making it the first time he will appear before a congressional panel since leaving government work at the end of 2022. Subcommittee Chair Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) announced the hearing on Wednesday. Fauci had committed to testify late last year
The HillMar 25 2020
Fact Check
Correcting Trump’s Press Conference Misinformation
President Donald Trump has been holding daily press conferences to provide the latest information about the coronavirus from the federal government, but his rhetoric has sometimes been imprecise, misleading or outright incorrect.
Here are three recent examples:
News reports suggest China may have known about and concealed emerging information in the weeks after the novel
FactCheck.orgApr 22 2022
Background
The challenge of detecting misinformation in podcasting
Confronted by viral conspiracy theories, climate change denialism, extremist movements, and anti-democratic groups (among others) feeding off false information online, social media platforms have taken steps in recent years to curtail the spread of misinformation. But even as tech companies have come under pressure to crack down on misinformation, one key avenue of information distribution in
Brookings InstitutionApr 14 2024
News
McCaul says ‘important’ for Johnson to talk Ukraine with Trump: ‘He has tremendous influence over my conference’
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) said on Sunday that it bodes well for Ukraine aid for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to discuss the matter with former President Trump, noting the former president still has “tremendous influence” in shaping the party’s policy positions. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” moderator Margaret Brennan asked whether McCaul
The HillJun 03 2023
News
YouTube Nixes 2020 Election ‘Misinformation’ Removal Policy
YouTube has stated that its latest policy changes were in response to a desire to create an environment where users could “openly debate political ideas, even those that are controversial or based on disproven assumptions.” With the primary season just eight months away, YouTube has declared it’s reversing its policy of taking down videos that claimed any US presidential election in history
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