Tag: Misinformation
Europe Union braces for foreign disinformation as voters head to polls
BRUSSELS -- Voters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc's parliament, in a major democratic exercise...
Tests find AI tools readily create election lies from the voices of well-known political leaders
NEW YORK -- Embargoed for 9a ET Friday__As high-stakes elections approach in the U.S. and European Union, publicly available artificial intelligence tools can...
Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020
A pair of studies published Thursday in the journal Science offers evidence not only that misinformation on social media changes minds, but that...
Cats on the moon? Google's AI tool is producing misleading responses that have experts worried
Ask Google if cats have been on the moon and it used to spit out a ranked list of websites so you could...
News organizations have trust issues as they gear up to cover another election, a poll finds
NEW YORK -- Even as many Americans say they learn about the 2024 election campaign from national news outlets, a disquieting poll reveals...
Insider Q&A: Trust and safety exec talks about AI and content moderation
Alex Popken was a longtime trust and safety executive at Twitter focusing on content moderation before leaving in 2023. She was the first...