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Dec 05 2022
Fact Check
‘PR for a Billionaire’ Is the New ‘Russian Disinformation’ for a Press Desperate to Avoid the Hunter Biden Story
The time for pretending the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation has come and gone. Faced with the fact that they shamefully ignored the laptop story and Twitter’s outrageous censorship of it, mainstream reporters and pundits have latched onto a new narrative to justify their dismissal of a consequential matter.
All at once, they waved away Matt Taibbi’s release of the “
National Review Fact Check
Mar 30 2022
News
How to spot disinformation around the war in Ukraine
Shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in late February, false information about the conflict began circulating online -- like the now-debunked story about the Ukrainian fighter pilot known as the “Ghost of Kyiv” who was rumored to have brought down six Russian planes.
Distorted footage and false claims about the war quickly filled Facebook, Instagram, Tik Tok and Twitter, with critics
The Hill
Oct 03 2020
Analysis
Trump Is a Super-Spreader of Disinformation
A super-spreader—a term we didn’t much use nine months ago—is a person with a contagious disease who gives it to a lot of other people. In the coronavirus pandemic, super-spreaders have played an outsize role. Scientists have identified super-spreaders who have infected dozens of people with the virus, while others with the illness haven’t infected anyone at all. Super-spreaders may explain
The Atlantic
Aug 04 2022
Perspectives Blog
Facts vs Myths: Was Hunter Biden’s Laptop Russian Disinformation?
The Hunter Biden laptop story has accentuated the disparity in media coverage from left and right outlets as much as any story since Joe Biden became president.
Some news outlets, especially ones that are rated as Lean Right or Right by AllSides, decried this saga as a ‘national tragedy’ of corruption by the Biden family (Tablet Mag, Lean Right), or ran opinion articles noting a ‘
Ethan Horowitz
Nov 03 2022
News
Biden’s war on ‘disinformation’ ramps up as GOP accuses officials of playing politics with the truth
A handful of President Joe Biden's most important federal agencies are stepping up efforts to monitor and counteract "disinformation" on social media platforms, even in the face of criticism that the administration is attempting to silence conservative or opposing viewpoints.
The actions by the federal agencies come as Missouri and Louisiana are pursuing legal action against Biden,
Fox News (Online News)
Feb 19 2021
News
How countries amplify COVID disinformation
China, Russia and Iran — drawing on one another’s online disinformation — amplified false theories that the COVID-19 virus originated in a U.S. bioweapons lab or was designed by Washington to weaken their countries, according to a nine-month investigation by AP and the Atlantic Council’s DFRLab.
Why it matters: Through a series of overlapping, if slapdash, efforts, America's global
Axios
Jun 10 2022
Fact Check
Turkish ‘disinformation law’ will make it a crime to spread ‘fake news’
A “disinformation law” that, if passed, would impose up to three-year jail sentences for the spread of “fake news” or “disinformation,” has been sitting in Turkish parliament for years.
While the bill itself makes no attempt to define fake news or false information, independent journalists in the country speculate the so-called “disinformation” law may be a euphemism. In fact, the law
Poynter Fact Check
May 17 2023
Opinion
AI needs superintelligent regulation
Powerful artificial intelligence systems can be of enormous benefit to society and help us tackle some of the world’s biggest problems. Machine learning models are already playing a significant role in diagnosing diseases, accelerating scientific research, boosting economic productivity and cutting energy usage by optimising electricity flows on power grids, for example. It would be a tragedy
Financial Times
Aug 25 2022
News
DHS Folds Disinformation Board After Criticism Over Threat to Free Speech
The Department of Homeland Security has terminated a government board formed earlier this year to combat online disinformation, after a range of critics said it could stifle free expression on the internet and had an unclear mission.
It encountered widespread criticism from conservatives, civil liberties advocates and some current and former officials.
The decision to fold the
Wall Street Journal (News)
Aug 09 2021
News
The social network for doctors is full of vaccine disinformation
Dr. Paul Malarik, a retired psychiatrist, now spends about 50 hours a month helping to administer Covid-19 vaccines at pop-up clinics near his home in San Luis Obispo, California. So he’s particularly troubled when he logs onto Doximity, a site used by doctors, and reads anti-vaccine comments.
“You rarely get to the level of microchips in vaccines, but a lot of this stuff is pretty
CNBC