Credit to Author: cbibe| Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2019 04:29:51 +0000
Misinformation risks worsening ethnic and religious tensions in Nigeria at a time of concern about internal security and community relations.
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:34:19 +0000
As tIndia starts voting this week, citizens’ attitude is posing a problem for election officials seeking to combat the spread of fake news.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2019 13:45:20 +0000
Senator Panfilo Lacson said rumors that the pension for retired military and uniformed personnel will be cut this year is ‘fake news.’
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Read moreCredit to Author: eestopace| Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2019 12:33:47 +0000
India’s Election Commission is struggling to cope with the fake news swirling on Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Twitter and other platforms.
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Credit to Author: eestopace| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 13:04:14 +0000
Nine people have been arrested in Thailand for spreading “fake news” on Facebook with posts about sacked election officials and bogus ballots.
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Read moreCredit to Author: lalos| Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 09:29:11 +0000
Vice President Leni Robredo cited the need for Congress to pass a law regulating social media, which she said is “being abused in a very negative way” especially during elections.
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Credit to Author: jespinosa| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 08:46:09 +0000
A man who was tagged as one of the suspects of the brutal killing of a teenager in Lapu-Lapu City denied his involvement in the crime and said his name and photos were wrongly used by a Facebook page accusing him as such.
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Credit to Author: Emilie Friedlander| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:18:05 +0000
When it comes to the stories we share on the internet, the line between empirical truth and emotional truth can be extremely hard to parse.
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Credit to Author: David Uberti| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:16:49 +0000
Brooke Binkowski spends her days in search of the misinformation and propaganda that have infected digital media. We caught up with her to talk Facebook and fact-checking.
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Credit to Author: Gavin Haynes| Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 19:14:09 +0000
On July 1, in a tiny English village, eight-year-old Sarah Payne was playing with her brothers and sister in a country lane. Then she wasn’t. The media panic that followed is a case study in how urban legends are born and spread.
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