Tag: disinformation
Norwegian startup Factiverse wants to fight disinformation with AI
In the wake of the U.S. 2024 presidential election, one fact became clear: Disinformation proliferated online at a startling rate, shaping Americans’ views...
It’s Election Day, and all the AIs — but one — are acting responsibly
Ahead of the polls closing on Tuesday, most of the major AI chatbots wouldn’t answer questions about U.S. presidential election results. But Grok,...
Elon Musk’s false and misleading election claims have been viewed 2 billion times on X
The world’s richest man buys out one of the most popular social media platforms and uses it as a propaganda and disinformation machine...
Meta axed CrowdTangle, a tool for tracking disinformation. Critics claim its replacement has just ‘1% of the features’
Journalists, researchers and politicians are mourning Meta’s shutdown of CrowdTangle, which they used to track the spread of disinformation on Facebook and Instagram.
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Disinformation may ‘go nuclear’ rather than ‘go viral,’ researchers say
We say something “goes viral” because we tend to think of rumors and disinformation spreading the way that an infection spreads. But these...