A wave of AI deepfakes has coursed through social media for months, serving as a warning for more than 50 countries heading to the polls this year.| AP News
A review of the ten most widely used AI chatbots found that their accuracy on news-related questions has declined. NewsGuard’s one-year audit shows the tools repeated false claims in 35 percent of responses in August 2025. The figure was 18 percent a year earlier.| Digital Information World
As extremism and radicalization worsen in the United States, a group of researchers is trying out a new approach that addresses the issue as a public health problem.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
El año pasado, el Southern Poverty Law Center registró 1.371 grupos extremistas y de odio que están activos en todo el país y que fomentan disturbios.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
Get our weekly newsletter, The Week in Brief, featuring a roundup of our original coverage, Fridays at 2 p.m. ET.| Articles Archive - KFF Health News
On July 22nd, Health & Medicine’s Senior Policy Analyst, Mayra Diaz, delivered remarks to Chicago’s City Council at a hearing for the Committee on Health and Human Relations. The hearing […] The post Senior Policy Analyst Mayra Diaz delivers testimony on disinformation and underinvestment in public health appeared first on Health & Medicine Policy Research Group.| Health & Medicine Policy Research Group
"The mistake involves grouping together into an all-or-nothing package entire sets of claims whose epistemological credentials are quite varied. It also often involves collapsing epistemic and moral concerns." In the following guest post, Eric Winsberg, Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida and British Academy Global Professor of History and Philosophy of Science| Daily Nous - news for & about the philosophy profession
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is targeting the government’s Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, without which manufacturers might cease producing shots.| KFF Health News
Lately, I forced myself to watch the quite popular Paul Watson : Une vie pour les océans [Paul Watson: A... Read More The post “Captain” Paul Watson: The Grand Illusion appeared first on Truth About Fur - The Blog!.| Truth About Fur – The Blog!
For almost four years, supporters and opponents have debated the idea of making Summit Avenue’s on-street bike lanes into off-street, protected paths. Both sides presented and debated their views in public meetings and in the media. For Summit Avenue trail supporters, parking-protected, off-street bike paths have three major benefits: They would make a safer, more comfortable bikeway that encourages new or more cautious riders. They would create a major east-west route to downtown that can ...| Streets.mn
Generative AI (GenAI) models like DALL-E and ChatGPT showcase the creativity and utility of AI. Yet these tools – which can generate realistic image, audio and video simulations at scale and then personalize this content – have serious implications for how much people trust the information they see and hear. Civil society organizations are highly...| Technology Salon
A Venezuelan-American Journalist’s Journey| Ideas and Insights from the JSK Journalism Fellows at Stanford - Medium
Exploring ways to keep up with the bottomless pit of misinformation| Ideas and Insights from the JSK Journalism Fellows at Stanford - Medium
“Something that’s difficult for people is: we all want to have answers, we all want to come to a definitive conclusion. And sometimes that’s not there — and we have to be okay with that.” …| Listening to the Universe
With migration continuing to make headlines in the media, a new episode of the Office for National Statistics’ (ONS) podcast Statistically Speaking unpacks what actually defines a “migrant”, and| National Statistical
More than a third of UK residents in a 2023 survey1 by Murray Blackburn Mackenzie—a Scottish independent policy analysis collective—did not know that “transgender women” are natal males. The findings show significant misunderstanding of the term and emphasize the need for clearer language in policy and media communication. The post More than a third of UK residents in a survey did not know that “transgender women” are male. appeared first on Stats for Gender.| Stats for Gender
Join Center for an Informed Public co-founder Kate Starbird for a discussion about her work understanding online rumors, misinformation and disinformation.| Center for an Informed Public
We can’t both accept speculation that Darwin and Einstein were probably autistic, and also claim that all autistic people used to be institutionalized, killed, or abandoned as changelings. The post Autistic People Are Not New to This World appeared first on THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Journalists and public health experts share strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the AHCJ annual conference.| The Journalist's Resource
The digital revolution and dawn of generative AI are fundamentally reshaping the conditions for science communication and journalism, giving rise to new threats but also new opportunities to improve the reach and accessibility of scientific knowledge. These themes are the focus of the European Science-Media Hub (ESMH) Summer School ‘Science Communication in the Digital Age‘, ...| European Science-Media Hub
This year, on 13 June, the European Science-Media Hub hosted a science communication workshop at the European Youth Event in Strasbourg. We talked to its| European Science-Media Hub
The original version of fake news was called propaganda — originally a means of disseminating the Catholic religion, then from about 1914, a news item meant to promote a political point of view. Pr…| Dowsing for Divinity
Explore how LLMs tackle misinformation in AI content. Learn to discern truth from AI-generated falsehoods.| AI GPT Journal
Journalists and public health experts share strategies for building trust, using careful language and improving coverage of health misinformation during a workshop at the AHCJ annual conference.| The Journalist's Resource
If there’s no counter-speech, no pushback against rumors or misleading claims, all the algorithms have available to surface is the nonsense.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Explore how generative AI and deepfakes are threatening the 2025 Philippine elections—and how communities are fighting back with truth and verification.| WITNESS Blog
Our visual effects work for "Transformers" (2007) is still being lauded to this day, which is a testament to the amazing talents of the visual effects teams at Industrial Light & Magic under the supervision of Scott Farrar, Russell Earl and Scott Benza.| FXRant
A Twitter account with a verified blue checkmark and over 1 million followers regularly peddles misinformation about how movies are made. Here's how they described the making of the first shot from "Severance" (Apple TV+) season two, episode one:| FXRant
Church leaders can help people unite around the unchanging truth of God’s Word. By standing on the truth, pastors can grow churches that are healthy, compassionate, and effective. The post Handling Political Divisions in a Digital Age appeared first on Church Growth Magazine.| Church Growth Magazine
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he would find the cause of autism in five months and “eliminate those exposures.” This is pseudoscience.| THINKING PERSON'S GUIDE TO AUTISM
Disinformation & deepfakes in Ghana’s elections exposed a new age of political deception, which we must combat by fortifying community truths| WITNESS Blog
How Wikipedia’s volunteer community fought back against right-wing extremists trying to rewrite history – and won.| TheBetter.news
The Royal Society is a venerable institution founded in 1660, whose original members included such eminent men as Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Robert Boyle and Isaac Newton. It promotes science in many ways: administering grants, advising government, holding meetings and lectures, and publishing expert reports on scientific matters of public importance. | BishopBlog
Australia is one of the few countries of its size, democratic or otherwise, that doesn’t protect human rights in its constitution. Although the High Court has judicially constructed a few constitutionally implied human rights, these are very narrow. In particular, the implied freedom of speech right recognised by the High Court only extends to political […] The post Australia Versus Human Rights Online appeared first on Jeremy Malcolm.| Jeremy Malcolm
Science fascinates us as children and challenges us as adults, a 33-year study by University of Michigan researchers reveals.| University of Michigan News
"What happens when anyone can make it appear as if anything has happened, regardless of whether or not it did?"| BuzzFeed News
Advancements in AI technology, and the changing “information environment” undoubtedly influenced how voters made decisions.| Colorado Newsline
A movement originating in Ukraine has been spreading globally to systematically deliver climate disinformation under the guise of climate change awareness. Although its main premise — the world ending in 2036 — may seem fringe, its proponents recently secured an audience with Pope Francis and engaged a registered lobbyist to work on their behalf in the US.| Context.ro
WITNESS hosted over 40 key stakeholders from the Asia-Pacific region to discuss threats and opportunities related to generative AI, synthetic media and human rights.| WITNESS Blog
With early voting ongoing, local officials say they are fighting a losing battle against fast-moving social media rumors.| Source New Mexico
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The U.S. government announced indictments, seizures and sanctions against individuals they say were associated with a propaganda campaign targeting the 2024 election.| CyberScoop
The increased use of deepfakes has raised questions around the responsibilities of social media platforms in identifying this content.| Interhacktives
This blog post discusses threats from synthetic media and opportunities from generative AI that arose from a WITNESS workshop in Brazil.| WITNESS Blog
By Richard Mott, PhD candidate The World Health Organization has referred to the current situation with COVID-19 as an infodemic, in recognition of the large amount of information being circulated on this subject. Clearly not all information being circulated is false; in fact, the majority of information in circulation is factually correct. Conspiracy theories (such as […]| Naturally Speaking
4min read Is it because the X algorithm in fact serves to do the exact opposite of what is claimed?| PANDA
Mark Cuban criticizes Elon Musk's free speech rhetoric on X, calling it a "power play." Read this article to know more about this.| TechStory
Musk's trans daughter told NBC News that Elon a "cruel" and "uncaring." In 2024, he wants the world to know it.| Unprecedented
A new report from the Bipartisan Policy Center shows that local election offices are adopting .gov domains for their websites, but only slowly.| StateScoop
ADF STAFF When reports surfaced in late April that the Burkinabe Army massacred hundreds of civilians, its military-led government sprang into action. It suspended a host of media outlets, blocked websites, and shut down radio and television broadcasts, while warning international media networks not to report on the story. Burkina Faso’s chilling treatment of journalists […]| Africa Defense Forum
BuzzFeed News identified more than 100 pro-Trump websites being run from a single town in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.| BuzzFeed News
Perspectives from Latina America on threats and opportunities that generative AI and synthetic media bring to audiovisual witnessing.| WITNESS Blog
“You can always take an existing article and rewrite it just enough to avoid copyright infringement."| BuzzFeed News
Everyone would agree that media literacy and critical thinking are essential in a world where information flows freely....| Inoreader Blog
This blog post identifies and prioritises collective responses that can have a positive impact in the information landscape in Africa.| WITNESS Blog
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An election misinformation expert and Georgetown professor explains how to respond to misleading information online in the 2024 elections.| Georgetown University
We expected our pandemic baby to get sick eventually, but we did not expect what RSV would do.| Voices For Vaccines