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GOOGLE to Fight Fake news – Google News Initiative

EDITOR APPROVED - 14/06/2018

There are three specific goals of the Google News Initiative: highlight accurate journalism while fighting misinformation, particularly during breaking news events; help news sites...

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Can artificial intelligence solve the internet’s fake news

EDITOR APPROVED - 09/05/2018

Fact-checkers and journalists try their best to surface facts, but there are just too many lies and too few of us. How often the...

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Fake news ‘travels faster’, study finds

EDITOR APPROVED - 22/04/2018

A study of 126,000 rumours and false news stories spread on Twitter over a period of 11 years found that they travelled faster and...

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How low-paid workers at ‘click farms’ create appearance of online popularity

EDITOR APPROVED - 19/02/2018

Dispatches found one boss in Bangladesh who boasted of being "king of Facebook" for his ability to create accounts and then use them to...

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He Predicted The 2016 Fake News Crisis. Now He’s Worried About An Information Apocalypse.

EDITOR APPROVED - 15/02/2018

In mid-2016, Aviv Ovadya realized there was something fundamentally wrong with the internet — so wrong that he abandoned his work and sounded an...

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Facebook totally meant to lose a million daily users

EDITOR APPROVED - 12/02/2018

Facebook lost daily users for the first time ever in the U.S. and Canada. CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he meant for that to happen....

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Pope says serpent temptation in Bible ‘first fake news’

EDITOR APPROVED - 24/01/2018

Pope Francis has denounced the "snake tactics" of those who spread fake news, saying the first case of misinformation is in the Bible when...

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Twitter to tell 677,000 users they were had by the Russians

EDITOR APPROVED - 24/01/2018

Twitter says it will notify nearly 700,000 users who interacted with accounts the company has identified as potential pieces of a propaganda effort by...

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Twitter tells 677,775 tweeters they were duped by Russian election trolls

EDITOR APPROVED - 22/01/2018

TWITTER HAS REVEALED that 677,775 users were duped into following more than 50,000 automated profiles it believes were used by Russians to influence the 2016 US...

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