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  • Sunday, 21 February, 2021
    Marietje Schaake
    Australia’s fight with Big Tech previews other battles to come

    The country’s new law highlights how platforms are more interested in following their own rules than being held accountable

  • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
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    What can be a powerful tool in the fight against online falsehoods is often abused

  • Friday, 5 February, 2021
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    As vaccines are rolled out around the globe, we are more vulnerable than ever to disinformation

  • Thursday, 4 February, 2021
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    Several of channel’s stars and Trump allies Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell named in voting tech company’s action

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
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    Google uncovers use of bogus Twitter and LinkedIn profiles to identify and exploit vulnerabilities

  • Tuesday, 26 January, 2021
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    Digitally manipulated media do not have to appear authentic to successfully spread misinformation

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
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    A new lease of life for the American expert Premium

    The US — and elsewhere — has been undergoing a mass experiment in Dunning-Kruger psychology for the past four years

  • Friday, 22 January, 2021
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    A wilderness of mirrors in the US

    How President Biden was elected but, in the eyes of the parallel US state, this was just a fantasy . . . 

  • Friday, 15 January, 2021
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    James Murdoch blasts US media for unleashing ‘insidious forces’

    Comments from Rupert’s son are his strongest rebuke of industry practices since leaving the family business

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  • Thursday, 14 January, 2021
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    Conspiracy theorists destroy a rational society: resist them

    We need to rebut propagandist falsehoods before they infect the real world

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Emily Bell
    Trump shows US needs a European approach to online regulation

    After deaths at the Capitol, social media must adopt a new model for preventing abuses of power

  • Wednesday, 13 January, 2021
    Boom in private companies offering disinformation-for-hire

    Oxford researchers find contractors employed to manipulate opinion in 48 countries

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
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    Rightwing media scrambles to shift tone in wake of US Capitol attack

    Conservative outlets reported baseless claims of mass voter fraud in presidential election

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Cécile Guerin
    France’s anti-vaxxers show deepening distrust of elites

    A mix of medical scandals and anti-establishment sentiment have fuelled high vaccine hesitancy

  • Thursday, 7 January, 2021
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    The tech platforms are not entirely to blame for Washington unrest

    Knee-jerk reactions in the wake of the storming of Capitol Hill could have unintended consequences

  • Saturday, 26 December, 2020
    ‘Rudderless’ QAnon may reinvent itself after US election, warn experts

    Trump’s defeat hits movement but influencers and politicians continue to fan conspiracy theory

  • Tuesday, 15 December, 2020
    Facebook finds French and Russian trolls sparring in Africa

    More than 100 accounts with fewer than 7,000 followers were ‘linked to French military’, company says

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    UK on high alert for anti-vaccine disinformation from hostile states

    Army information warfare unit drafted in to help Whitehall officials as Covid vaccination is rolled out

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
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    Facebook vows to remove false claims about Covid-19 vaccines

    Social media platform’s policy change comes as UK prepares to roll out jab next week

  • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
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    Twitter flags misleading post from Indian government official

    First time social platform has targeted a prominent member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party

  • Wednesday, 2 December, 2020
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    Australia’s new tech code is a road worth exploring

    Effort to force Facebook and Google to share revenue with news sites is a novel way of dealing with a global problem

  • Wednesday, 25 November, 2020
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    Health misinformation pollutes the web, with consequences for all

    Conspiracy theories about vaccines could affect how smoothly the world recovers from the coronavirus crisis

  • Thursday, 19 November, 2020
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    Have journalists finally learnt how to challenge political lies?

    The profession needs much higher standards to prevent Trump-like figures broadcasting falsehoods

  • Friday, 13 November, 2020
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    False and misleading claims have proliferated across platforms at unprecedented levels

  • Wednesday, 4 November, 2020
    Social Media
    Facebook and Twitter scramble to curb tide of election misinformation

    Experts say platforms’ efforts to label posts from Trump and others do not go far enough

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