Generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are supercharging the problem of misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, and various image, voice, and video generators have made it easier than ever to produce content, while making it harder to tell what is factual or real. Malicious actors looking to spread disinformation can use AI ...
The debate on how to combat social media misinformation is as relevant as ever. In recent years, we’ve seen medical misinformation spreading alongside COVID, and political misinformation impacting the outcome of elections and national referendums. Experts have largely placed the impetus to stop misinformation on three groups: social media users, government regulators, and social media ...
If someone were to tell you that our society is similar to a group of prisoners in a cave watching shadows and believing those shadows to be actual objects, would you agree with them? Or would you think they were blabbering nonsense? One of the world’s best-known philosophers and famous thinkers, Plato, suggested exactly that ...
The Iranian regime is “doubling down” on the manipulation of media in response to recent protests to create armed conflict between different ethnic groups, an expert has warned. Officials are using fake news and misinformation to portray the uprising as a separatist revolt, preying on the already-fragile tensions between Persian and non-Persian communities. The Iranian ...
The digital revolution has closed the information gap, but it also has increased the chances of citizens falling into tropes created by foreign state-sponsored disinformation. The spreading of disinformation by a government is nothing new. With the digitalization of news, it just spreads faster. And even when people are becoming more aware of disinformation, it ...
A peace sign from Martin Luther King, Jr. becomes a rude gesture, President Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd scenes inflated, dolphins in Venice’s Grand Canal, and crocodiles on the streets of flooded Townsville — all manipulated online images posted as truth. Image editing software is so ubiquitous and easy to use, according to researchers from QUT’s ...
With several countries introducing or proposing to introduce laws against fake news, many social activists fear that such laws could be misused to eventually impose censorship and curtail free speech. What is fake news? In the media, fake news today is regarded as untrue information with the goal of damaging the reputation or falsifying the ...
In this age of deception, a story about Socrates remains relevant. The famous Greek philosopher teaches us how to deal with rumors — in other words, fake news. It began with Socrates taking his usual strolls to the gym, when suddenly, one of his disciples ran up to him, and in an eager voice, called out ...
Facebook has announced that it will alert users who have been exposed to fake news about the coronavirus. People who have commented, liked, shared, or committed any action on a post that is red-flagged as harmful by Facebook will be directed to a website that debunks incorrect information. However, it seems as if Facebook is ...
Christopher Wray, Director of the FBI, has pointed to China as the single biggest law enforcement threat and tech thief facing the United States and warned that Beijing was seeking to acquire American technology through any means necessary. He was speaking at a conference held by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in ...
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