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May 23 2024
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: Is the U.S. Energy Independent?
The United States produced an average of 12.9 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2023, surpassing the all-time global record for average daily output. This milestone is consistent with a boom in crude oil production over the past decade, as U.S. energy production has grown faster in this period than at any other point in American history.
But is the U.S. energy independent, as
Quinn PoseleyMay 21 2024
News
There's a Missing Human in Misinformation Fixes
Misinformation solutions target a rational, ethical ideal who doesn’t exist; to combat misinfo, we need to start with a richer concept of the human Flicking through your social media feed, an image strikes you. It is outrage-inducing, confirming long-held beliefs about a group or an issue. You quickly repost it while stating your viewpoint, signaling to your family and friends whom you stand
Scientific AmericanMay 07 2024
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: Is the World Overpopulated?
The global human population reached 8 billion people in November 2022, marking a fourfold population increase over the past 100 years. Population has ballooned during the past two centuries, prompting concerns that runaway growth could outpace the Earth’s resources.
Some fear overpopulation could lead to mass famine and environmental disaster, whereas others believe overpopulation is
Quinn PoseleyMay 26 2024
News
Inside the global campaigns to immunize voters against misinformation
Election officials and researchers from Arizona to Taiwan are adopting a radical playbook to stop falsehoods about voting before they spread online, amid fears that traditional strategies to battle misinformation are insufficient in a perilous year for democracies around the world.
Modeled after vaccines, these campaigns — dubbed “prebunking” — expose people to weakened doses of
Washington PostMay 30 2024
News
Misinformation works, and a handful of social 'supersharers' sent 80% of it in 2020
A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers,” predominately older Republican women, were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at. The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern,
TechCrunchMar 29 2020
Opinion
Here’s How to Fight Coronavirus Misinformation
Have you heard about taking a hot bath to kill the virus? Not only does it not work, but the World Health Organization is warning the public that people could scald themselves trying it. Then there’s the claim that the antimalarial chloroquine is a miracle drug. While the jury is still out on its efficacy, chloroquine is also potentially very dangerous, having recently killed a man in Arizona
The AtlanticMay 17 2024
Opinion
Reminder: ‘Misinformation’ is the word for facts the Biden administration dislikes
When the news media or Democrats call a statement “misinformation” or “disinformation,” it means they want to censor that statement. This is such an important idea to the modern Democrat and media establishment that the Biden administration even appointed a disinformation czar, and many news outlets hired “disinformation” reporters.
Timothy P. CarneyMay 30 2024
News
Rest of World retracts an article criticizing WhatsApp misinformation tip lines in India
Last week, the technology site Rest of World published a story on the apparent failings of WhatsApp misinformation “tip lines” in India. These are services that allow Indians to forward potential fake news and get information on its veracity. (We linked to it in our daily newsletter on Tuesday.) Here’s an excerpt: Nearly a billion Indians are expected to vote in the ongoing elections, where
Nieman LabMay 15 2024
News
New tool empowers users to fight online misinformation
Most people agree that the spread of online misinformation is a serious problem. But there is much less consensus on what to do about it. Many proposed solutions focus on how social media platforms can or should moderate content their users post, to prevent misinformation from spreading. “But this approach puts a critical social decision in the hands of for-profit companies. It limits the
MIT NewsMay 16 2024
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: What is the Real Death Toll in Gaza?
The United Nations recently updated how it shows data on the Palestinian death toll in Gaza, making some figures appear to decrease by nearly half.
Days later, Israel released its first estimate of the death toll in Gaza as 16,000, which is more than 50% lower than the toll kept by the Hamas-administered Ministry of Health (MoH) in Gaza.
Media on the left tend to accept the
Clare Ashcraft