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Jun 07 2021
Opinion
The Media's Lab Leak Debacle Shows Why Banning 'Misinformation' Is a Terrible Idea
Facebook made a quiet but dramatic reversal last week: It no longer forbids users from touting the theory that COVID-19 came from a laboratory.
"In light of ongoing investigations into the origin of COVID-19 and in consultation with public health experts, we will no longer remove the claim that COVID-19 is man-made or manufactured from our apps," the social media platform declared in a
ReasonOct 29 2020
News
Big Tech Testifies
“The CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google rebuffed accusations of anti-conservative bias at a Senate hearing Wednesday and promised to aggressively defend their platforms from being used to sow chaos in next week’s election… the Trump administration has asked Congress to strip some of the protections that have generally shielded the tech companies from legal responsibility for what people post
The Flip SideJan 07 2017
News
Nat'l intelligence report unlikely to change minds about Russian hacking
The 25-page report states that the CIA, FBI, and NSA have concluded that Russia was behind a series of attacks, as well as disinformation disseminated via various media, with the goal of undermining faith in U.S. elections and harming Hillary Clinton’s presidential prospects and her prospective administration. They have concluded, however, that there was no meddling in vote tallying.
Daily KosJan 08 2020
News
Fake Trump video? How to spot deepfakes on Facebook and YouTube ahead of the presidential election
Just months before the presidential election, Facebook says it's taking steps to combat deepfakes, videos that have been manipulated using artificial intelligence to make it appear that someone has said or done something they haven't.
Facebook is banning videos that are "edited or synthesized" to fool users but will allow parody and satire.
Why now? Many fear this insidious form
USA TODAYMay 06 2020
Analysis
US-China: Are Americans ready for a (costly) breakup?
The Commerce Department announces tighter standards for the export of some sensitive technology to China.
Members of Congress send a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo encouraging him to investigate the role of the Chinese Communist Party in what they say was a cover-up of the coronavirus’ origins and a disinformation campaign about the outbreak.
And President Donald Trump
Christian Science MonitorNov 01 2019
Opinion
To protect free speech online, we need transparency, not secrecy
Five years ago, as vice chairwoman of the Federal Election Commission, I wrote a statement calling on the commission to discuss online political messaging, which was and still is completely exempt from federal campaign finance disclosure laws. While I didn't foresee exactly what would happen over the next half-decade — Russia's interference in the United States' elections, the rise of the far-
The FulcrumMar 05 2021
News
Controlling the spread of misinformation
Misinformation on COVID-19 is so pervasive that even some patients dying from the disease still say it’s a hoax. In March 2020, nearly 30% of U.S. adults believed the Chinese government created the coronavirus as a bioweapon (Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 263, 2020) and in June, a quarter believed the outbreak was intentionally planned by people in power (Pew Research Center, 2020).
American Psychological AssociationNov 12 2020
News
Are we ready for the next wave of misinformation about a COVID-19 vaccine?
Pfizer’s announcement this week that it had a 90% effective vaccine against COVID-19 provided a glimpse of the wave of mis- and disinformation that could engulf any effort to bring about broad distribution – and acceptance – of such a vaccine.
The announcement itself was the subject of a conspiracy theory: that it came out after the election so that voters couldn’t give the Trump
PoynterSep 02 2022
Perspectives Blog
Media Bias Alert: FBI Agent Resigns, Facing Criticism for his Handling of the Hunter Biden Probe
Each week, AllSides Media Bias Alerts examine media bias in coverage of a major or important story using the AllSides Media Bias Ratings™ and our AllSides Media Bias Chart™.
The Hunter Biden laptop investigation is back in the news.
One official who said the story “looks like Russian intelligence” early in the investigation has been promoted to the Presidential Intelligence
Clare AshcraftJul 13 2021
News
On TikTok, audio gives new virality to misinformation
In December, a Wisconsin man who goes by the username the_alpha_k9 on TikTok uploaded a testimonial-style video to the platform, telling his thousands of followers that he wouldn’t be taking a Covid-19 vaccine.
“You’re telling me in 40 years of research there is no vaccine for HIV … for cancer, no vaccine ... the common cold, no vaccine,” he said. “Yet in one year we’ve developed a
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