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Pro-Russian actors are purposefully barraging journalists with fake news in an effort to spread verification resources thin and amplify the reach of disinformation, according to a new study. Dubbed “Operation Overload” by Finnish software and methodologies company Check First, which published the report, the ongoing scheme involves anonymous pro-Russian actors who contact journalists in a coordinated campaign to have them verify suspected fake news. The ploy relies on the simple principle that “all publicity is good publicity”. The verification requests usually target Ukraine, France and Germa...
Euronews (English)
Houston (AFP) - A US judge on Friday approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' personal assets, setting the stage for the repayment of a fraction of the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes families whose loved ones were killed in a school shooting. But the bankruptcy judge in Houston spared Jones from liquidating the parent company of his far-right website InfoWars -- long notorious for peddling misinformation -- in a reprieve that will allow it to remain in business. The serial provocateur had been ordered to pay the damages for calling a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook ...
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Houston (AFP) - A US judge on Friday approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' personal assets, media reports said, setting the stage for the repayment of nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes the victims of a school mass shooting. The ruling by a bankruptcy court in Houston throws into doubt the future of Jones's far-right website InfoWars -- long notorious for peddling misinformation -- which dangled the prospect of a "potential last broadcast" on Friday. The serial provocateur had been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages for calling a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy...
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Houston (AFP) - A US judge on Friday approved the liquidation of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' personal assets to help repay the nearly $1.5 billion in damages he owes the families of a mass shooting at a Connecticut school, media reported. The ruling by a bankruptcy court in Houston throws into doubt the future of Jones's far-right website InfoWars that has long been notorious for peddling misinformation. The serial provocateur had been ordered to pay nearly $1.5 billion in damages for calling a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook elementary school in the state of Connecticut –- which left 20 ...
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By Nidhi Jacob In May, BOOM published 128 fact-checks in English, Hindi and Bangla. We observed the highest occurrence of AI-generated fake news this year in May. From news channels predicting exit poll wins for political parties to celebrities promoting diabetes pills, we published 12 fact-checks involving deepfakes, artificial intelligence-generated images, and voice clones. Out of the 128 fact-checks published by BOOM, the Lok Sabha elections 2024, held between April 19 and June 1, were the leading topic of misinformation last month, resulting in 101 fact-checks. Additionally, the Muslim co...
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Europe’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are now intentionally spreading election-related disinformation to its users, an updated study has found. Democracy Reporting International (DRI) examined how chatbots responded to questions related directly to the electoral process with Google Gemini, OpenAI’s ChatGPT4, ChatGPT4-o, and Microsoft’s Copilot. From May 22-24, researchers asked the chatbots five questions in 10 EU languages, including how a user would register to vote if they live abroad, what to do to send a vote by mail and when the results of the European Parliament el...
Euronews (English)
By Mahera Dutta BOOM’s video series ‘Facts Neeti’ sought to capture what leaders across the political spectrum thought about fake news, especially in light of the 2024 general elections. Our primary focus was to find out leaders’ opinions about how misinformation adversely impacts the electoral process. We asked them if they thought fake news was a problem if they had ever been a victim of it themselves, and what policies can be brought in to curb the rise of misinformation. Who we interviewed: Party members from the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Indian National Congr...
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Google’s new search feature, AI Overviews, is facing mounting backlash after users pointed out some factually inaccurate and misleading answers to queries. AI Overview, which was launched two weeks ago, shows a summary of answers to common questions on Google Search at the top of the page that it gets from various sources around the Internet. The goal of the new feature is to help users answer “more complex questions,” according to a Google blog post. Instead, it has produced false answers like telling a user to glue cheese to pizza if it gets unstuck, to eat rocks to help with your health, or...
Euronews (English)
Measles is on the rise in the United States. So far this year, the number of cases is about 17 times what it was, on average, during the same period in each of the four years before, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Half of the people infected — mainly children — have been hospitalized. It’s going to get worse, largely because a growing number of parents are deciding not to get their children vaccinated against measles as well as diseases like polio and pertussis. Unvaccinated people, or those whose immunization status is unknown, account for 80% of the measles case...
Kaiser Health News
By Karen Rebelo Elon Musk owned X’s crowdsourced fact-checking program Community Notes is struggling to limit misinformation on its platform in India’s highly polarised election where political rhetoric has turned into anti-Muslim hate speech. Community Notes was rolled out to users in India on April 4, 2024, a fortnight ahead of the start of voting in a country known for having an acute misinformation problem. The rollout in India, as expected, was bumpy at the outset. The feature allows ‘contributors’ to write notes for tweets which they think are misleading or missing important context. Ind...
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