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The new enforcement tool will take aim at groups with histories of violating Facebook’s rules San Francisco: Facebook has launched an effort targeting users working together on the platform to promote real-world violence or conspiracy theories, beginning by taking down a German network …
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Internet feeds swarm with cats and bots and trolls. Malicious posts, disguised on behalf of foreign agents trying to sow political and social chaos, compete for attention in comment threads, social media ads, and sophisticated Big Data-assisted influence campaigns. It can be challenging to connect …
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The BBC’s chairman Richard Sharp is calling for tighter regulation of the world’s major social networks and platforms to crackdown on disinformation and fake news. Speaking at the RTS Convention in Cambridge today, Sharp wants the BBC “to define itself globally as a pre-eminent purveyor of facts in …
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The pandemic and associated lockdowns have given rise to an acceleration in ‘fake news’ around the world over the last year. The phenomenon of mis- and disinformation takes root, evolves and proliferates and can cause real world harm. In this blog post, Pratik Dattani, of consulting group Economic …
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BERLIN—One Saturday last month, thousands of anti-lockdown protesters stormed my quiet neighborhood, crashing into the weekly farmers’ market with signs discouraging vaccinations against COVID-19. But their concerns appeared to go beyond supposedly overreaching public health measures. One …
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An outspoken anti-vax conspiracy theorist has died of COVID-19 complications in Chicago, after QAnon believers spent weeks trying to bully the hospital into giving her the unproven drug ivermectin. Veronica Wolski, 64, died early Monday of pneumonia related to COVID-19, the Amita Resurrection …
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The Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker is the high priest of rationalism. His 2018 book, Enlightenment Now, argued that liberal, rational, humanist values have made the world a better place. Bill Gates called it his “new favorite book of all time”. The same Whiggish, technocratic optimism was the …
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20 years on from the terror attack of the World Trade Center, conspiracy theorists continue to peddle misinformation. Now, some are using the anniversary to spread falsehoods about COVID-19. One message in a Telegram channel says the two events show “the elites waging a biological and genetic …
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Former governor Chris Christie says the GOP needs to kick out QAnon followers, white supremacists and wild extremists to “leave the lying” to the “far-left” Democrats. The once and potentially future presidential candidate included believers that the 2020 election was stolen among his “truth …
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Meanwhile, Truther communities cropped up online and believers met at conferences across the country. A new class of “experts” also emerged. Fenster explained that academics such as physicist Steven Jones and theologian David Ray Griffin, as well as longtime conspiracy theorists including Alex …
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