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    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      Why children can be better at spotting misinformation

      They don’t have the reflexive cynicism of many adults, but that’s a strength, not a weakness

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Venezuela
      Deepfake ‘news’ videos ramp up misinformation in Venezuela

      UK tech company developed software used in fake news videos promoted by authoritarian government

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Jemima Kelly
      You don’t restore trust in the media by abandoning objectivity

      In the current political climate we need to double down on fundamental journalistic principles, not surrender them

    • Friday, 3 March, 2023
      Healthcare
      US health and science bodies unite to fight misinformation ‘infodemic’

      Fifty organisations form coalition to counter dangerous falsehoods and rebuild trust in science

    • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Foolproof — how misinformation works, and how to counter it

      Social psychologist Sander van der Linden offers an authoritative guide to tackling fake news and false claims

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      Why chatbots are bound to spout bullshit

      Some of what they say is true, but only as a byproduct of learning to seem believable

    • Monday, 2 January, 2023
      Stephen Bush
      There is no such thing as a ‘marketplace of ideas’

      This unhelpful analogy disguises what’s really valuable about free speech

    • Monday, 7 November, 2022
      Twitter Inc
      Cyber experts warn of Twitter misinformation risk on eve of US election

      New owner Elon Musk has drawn fire for planning to loosen moderation at social media site

    • Sunday, 16 October, 2022
      David Rand
      Getting the facts straight on online misinformation

      Social media companies are exploring radical solutions to moderation, writes an academic researching the options

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Stephanie Shirley
      A deepening digital divide requires us all to challenge Big Tech

      The protean nature of the internet makes agreeing global rules for our engagement ever harder

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      EU tech regulation
      Big Tech makes concessions on EU’s new anti-disinformation code

      Facebook, Twitter and TikTok set to agree to provide country-by-country data on efforts to curb fake news

    • Tuesday, 7 June, 2022
      News in-depthBrazilian politics
      Social media platforms crack down on fake news ahead of Brazil election

      Disinformation is a potent political weapon in Latin America’s biggest country

    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Authenticity by Alice Sherwood — the fight against fakery

      An enjoyable investigation into imitation, imposture and the impossible search for our ‘real selves’

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      John Thornhill
      Only free societies can combat disinformation

      Naive democratic governments allow hostile regimes to exploit open technological platforms to peddle corrosive lies

    • Friday, 29 April, 2022
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      Musk takes aim at Biden’s counter-disinformation board Premium content

      Amazon faces slowest-ever revenue growth, robotaxi licences in Beijing and LCD sticky notes

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      Twitch Interactive, Inc
      Amazon’s Twitch bans some channels after researchers find pro-Russia propaganda

      Livestreaming platform has sought to block ‘harmful misinformation’ after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Sunday, 3 April, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Ukraine conflict: social media campaigns in Africa and Asia tap into distrust of west

      Zelensky has won information war in western countries but views elsewhere are divided

    • Friday, 1 April, 2022
      Undercover EconomistTim Harford
      Five ways to fight the information war

      ‘The good news is that every one of us has been in training for it all our lives’

    • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
      Eliot Higgins
      Bellingcat founder: Don’t let Putin’s disinformation distract from his war crimes

      Plentiful evidence of Russian violations — now available publicly — is only valuable if perpetrators are held to account

    • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
      John Thornhill
      The truth about war is messy — just read Wikipedia

      Crowdsourcing truth does not sound like the best idea in partisan times but disputed entries on the Ukraine invasion are factual

    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      Hannah Murphy
      Doom-scrollers, beware the feel-good social media posts in times of war

      Morale-boosting myths mark a new and dangerous frontier in the misinformation wars

    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
      Big tech
      Microsoft suspends Russia sales as Ukraine urges Big Tech action

      Ministers call on technology groups to ‘stop enabling propaganda and disinformation’

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      News in-depthWar in Ukraine
      Big Tech caught in information war between west and Russia

      Facebook, TikTok and YouTube block access to Kremlin-backed media in EU as Moscow complains of censorship

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      Special ReportFuture of AI and Digital Healthcare
      Brazil’s battle against Covid quack remedies

      Misinformation on remedies, seeded by officials and fuelled via social media, has had dire consequences for public health

    • Wednesday, 26 January, 2022
      LexDigital Media
      Cloned news sites: ad fraud raises the stakes of the imitation game Premium content

      Criminals use plagiarism to secure digital advertising but a fightback has begun

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