Tag: disinformation

Conspiracy theories that took over social media amid Kate Middleton’s mystery health situation — before she revealed her cancer diagnosis last week — were amplified by Russian disinformation campaigns, according to security researchers at Cardiff University in Wales. While there was legitimate concern for the Princess of Wales’ health and ...

LONDON — Security researchers believe a Russia-based disinformation group amplified and added to the frenzy of social media conspiracies about the Princess of Wales's health.In the days before Catherine revealed her cancer diagnosis in a video message, there had been a surge in online rumors and often wild claims ...

Tech giant’s head of EU affairs says team will bring together experts from across the company.Facebook owner Meta has unveiled plans to launch a dedicated team to combat disinformation and harms generated by artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of the upcoming European Parliament elections. Marco Pancini, Meta’s head of EU ...

Information warfare abounds, and everyone online has been drafted whether they know it or not. Disinformation is deliberately generated misleading content disseminated for selfish or malicious purposes. Unlike misinformation, which may be shared unwittingly or with good intentions, disinformation aims to foment distrust, destabilise institutions, discredit good intentions, defame ...

If artificial intelligence (AI) can determine emotions, feelings and moods, possibly resulting in manipulated decisions, what kind of effect does that have on us as people? The question is made concrete by the philosopher Claudia Paganini. Following a burst of rain, the ballroom of Berlin's Humboldt University is now ...

#Pakistan News As social media helps them disseminate fake news and disinformation, anti-migrant groups in Türkiye, home to millions of refugees from Syria and migrants from around the world, flourish. Combatting disinformation spread by those groups and often picked by far-right media outlets, the Turkish Presidency’s Communications Directorate disproved ...

A report about a conference in Toronto on Sikh terrorism was posted in May on the website of a now defunct Canadian-based think tank.The problem? There’s no evidence the Star could find that the conference took place or that the listed speakers even exist. But multiple Indian news outlets ...

“We will not be silenced,” chanted several hundred protesters outside the Indian consulate in Vancouver on Saturday, waving signs with the face of murdered B.C. Sikh temple president Hardeep Singh Nijjar and calling him a martyr for advocating for the right to self-determination for his people. Protesters mostly wore ...

#Pakistan News Türkiye’s Directorate of Communications on Friday shut down allegations of issuing citizenships and identity cards to immigrants before the presidential and parliamentary elections scheduled for May 14. In its weekly bulletin released to counter disinformation, the directorate debunked the claim that the Directorate of Migration finalized the ...

From top-left: Former US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, former US first lady Michelle Obama, Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska, French President’s wife and President of the Hospitals Foundation Brigitte Macron, and New Zealand’s former leader Jacinda Ardern. Photos: Various sources / AFP Source link