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US House panel to Probe Oil Companies Over Climate Disinformation
2021-09-17 15:55:46| OGI
The requests come as Democrats seek to pass a massive budget reconciliation bill, some of which fossil fuel interests oppose because they could add costs to drilling and mining.
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Twitter works with news sites to tackle disinformation
2021-08-03 01:20:26| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Twitter announces it will cooperate with two news agencies to promote more reliable information.
Far-Right Spreads COVID-19 Disinformation Epidemic Online
2020-05-05 19:14:48| TechNewsWorld
Far-right groups and individuals in the United States are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to promote disinformation, hate, extremism and authoritarianism. "COVID-19 has been seized by far-right groups as an opportunity to call for extreme violence," states a report from ISD, based on a combination of natural language processing, network analysis and ethnographic online research.
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It's Time for a Social Media and Disinformation Reckoning: ECT News Roundtable, Episode 6
2020-02-13 21:23:57| TechNewsWorld
Can social media be saved? Can democracy be saved? The first question may seem less compelling than the second, but to some very worried observers, they are intimately entwined. Social networking -- on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and a host of other online networks -- is the root of all current cultural evils, in the eyes of some critics. Undeniably, social networks offer positive experiences too.
Google Reveals Its Game Plan for Fighting Disinformation
2019-02-20 14:00:00| TechNewsWorld
Google has unveiled its game plan for fighting disinformation on its search, news, YouTube and advertising platforms in a 30-page document presented at a security conference in Europe. "Providing useful and trusted information at the scale that the Internet has reached is enormously complex and an important responsibility," noted Google Vice President for Trust and Safety Kristie Canegallo.
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