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Meta is only firing fact checkers in US
Fake news only available in countries run by oligarchs
Meta has told the Brazilian government that it doesn't yet have to worry about the end of fact checkers in its country because it is only removing them in the United States.
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Foreign powers stepping up cyber attacks on US
Trying to influence the US election
Software King of the World Microsoft has noticed an uptick in the amount of attacks by foreign powers trying to influence the US elections.
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Royal society says fake news has been overstated
Most people are sensible
UK's national academy of sciences, The Royal Society has published a report on what it calls the "online information environment," challenging some key assumptions behind the movement to de-platform conspiracy theorists spreading hoax info on topics like climate change, 5G, and the coronavirus. The Royal Society said that while online misinformation is rampant, its influence may be exaggerated, at least in the UK.
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Court rules that forcing sites to publish fake news supresses free speech
Sorry politicians, your words do not have to be published.
It turns out that forcing social networking to print politician’s lies and fake news is suppressing free speech.
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Facebook hired PR company to write fake news
Wanted to get at Google
Facebook hired a public relations firm last year that wrote fake news critical of Google and conspiracy theories which claimed that George Soros was behind a growing anti-Facebook movement.
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Apple serves up fake news and conspiracies
Fanboys will believe anything
Apple’s AI has been encouraging its fanboys to believe debunked conspiracy theories and fake news.
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Kremlin takes on Google
Publish our fake news or face the consequences
A spat has broken out between the search engine Google and the Russian government over Tsar Putin’s right to flood Google News with fake news.
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Boffins claim AI can spot fake news
Can even tell if it is a doctored video
While a third of US people wait for President Trump to tell them what news is fake, a team of boffins at the University of Washington has used artificial intelligence to work it out.
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Google "fake news" filter serves up fake penis pills
Looks like it needs a bit of work
Search engine Google’s attempts to filter out fake news have cocked-up badly as its health section has fast filled with adverts for pills designed to, er, stiffen your resolve.
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Facebook steps up fake news monitoring
More than 30,000 fake accounts linked to the French election
Facebook says it has targeted 30,000 fake accounts linked to France ahead of the country's presidential election, as part of a worldwide effort against misinformation.