misinformation stories

"Big Tech has made mega profits by turning a blind eye to the true extent of misinformation on their platforms."More

Australians want to see greater transparency about the extent of the problem, new polling has found.More

This time last year nobody predicted that the world would be battling a pandemic and fighting off hordes of cybercriminals using the pandemic as a topical way of peddling their wares.More

The increase in misinformation and fake domains have left organisations perceiving the threat level to be ‘very significant’, with a third planning greater emphasis on their ability to respond in coming months.More

Enforcing the existing law will be difficult enough, and it is not clear that any new law would be able to do better. Overseas attempts to draft law for deepfakes have been seriously criticised.More

“We also show related articles from fact-checkers for more context and notify users if a story they have shared is rated as false.”More

Lies, fake news and misinformation – this is the age of the internet, and Twitter bots are largely responsible for perpetrating it.More

"Some of the worst offenders use a technique known as ‘cloaking’ to circumvent Facebook’s review processes..."More