Twitter applied its "manipulative media" label to a deceptively edited video showing presidential hopeful Joe Biden saying, "re-elect Donald Trump" -- the first time the service enforced… Read More
Months ago, Prince Harry penned an essay about corporate responsibilities in our age of the internet.
His words were both accurate and prescient.
Now, pointing to the horrifying Capito… Read More
A new report from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) and Anti-Vax Watch has identified 12 individuals, dubbed the “Disinformation Dozen,” as being responsible for spre… Read More
Social media platforms are doing all they can to terminate misinformation and fake news on their platform but humans will
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When the pandemic had hit the world last year there was a lot of misinformation circulating about it around the web and the tech companies were trying their best to provide users the correct… Read More
With the pandemic continuing to dominate how we lead our lives, there is one practice that seems to be worsening for all of us: our screen time. For parents, this reality is particularly con… Read More
26/04/2021The internet, or particularly social media, allows anyone to voice their thoughts, opinions and concerns. As people's disposal, social media has become the powerful tool that can m… Read More
The COVID-19 situation in India is only getting worse by the day as the number of cases keeps rising with a shortage of oxygen and medical supplies. India is currently riding the second wave… Read More
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter Verification PR enquiries have increased by 300% in past 15 months – Explained by Kunwar Devender Singh
It was only around 18 months ago when a negligib… Read More
U.S. President Joe Biden believes social media platforms have a responsibility to “stop amplifying untrustworthy content,” the White House said on Wednesday, even as it decline… Read More
Detecting sarcasm in textual communication is not a trivial task as none of these cues is readily available
Properly understanding and responding to customer feedback on social media plat… Read More
Long-time Slashdot reader jhylkema writes:
Just 12 people account for the lion's share of anti-vaccination propaganda posted to three of the leading social media outlets, according to a stu… Read More
The New York Times reports on misinformation that's further inflaming the Israeli-Palestinian conflict:
In a 28-second video, which was posted to Twitter this week by a spokesman for Pri… Read More
Washington: During a new study by computer science researchers at the University of Central Florida, they developed a sarcasm detector for properly understanding and responding to customer… Read More
The post Facebook Wants Other Social Media Companies To Use Its Content Oversight Board appeared first on Facecrooks.
Facebook created its Oversight Board to handle its most difficult conten… Read More
Florida’s new social media legislation is a double landmark: It’s the first state law regulating online content moderation, and it will almost certainly become the first such la… Read More
Ever encountered someone who’s so full of themselves? Someone who feels so entitled? Have you encountered someone who never hesitates to speak to a manager to talk—nay, impos… Read More
Social media is internet-based applications designed for users to share varied content that could include intra-personal, inter-personal, individual to group’s thoughts, opinions, incl… Read More
Social media users are comparing an old statement of Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar to the recent statements passed by Prime Minister Imran Khan on rising sexual violence against women.
In one… Read More
Social media companies such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube are not doing enough to stop the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 on their platforms, a new report has found… Read More
The political scenario around the world has evolved quite a bit in the last few years. Social media has become a significant force in political campaigns and shaping the public’s opini… Read More
Dia Mirza has always been vocal about various social issues. She has been involved in various ventures and initiatives that move around environmental and social issues. Not many would know t… Read More
Dia Mirza warns against sharing fake news online( Photo Credit – Instagram )Bollywood actress and UN Environment’s Goodwill Ambassador for India, Dia Mirza took to social media o… Read More
The prevalence of social media these days has resulted in it having a huge influence on the global conversation, and many would say that the bulk of its impact has been more or less negative… Read More
There have been various misconducts circulating on social media. It is not just a single platform being subjected, but the whole chain is under attack. Different evil activities include the… Read More
Highlights:
“Because of the platform they provide, they have an impact on populations across the borders. One such corporation is Facebook,” the bench remarked.“The basi… Read More
White House press secretary Jen Psaki suggested Friday that people on social media “shouldn’t be banned from one platform and not others” if they post “misinf… Read More
US President Joe Biden on Friday criticised social media platforms like Facebook for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines, as his administration has blamed them for… Read More
US President Joe Biden criticised social media platforms like Facebook for spreading misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines, as his administration has blamed them for stalling US… Read More
President Joe Biden said Friday that social media misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people” and the White House said Facebook needs to clean up its act… Read More
WASHINGTON — President Biden unleashed his growing frustration with social media on Friday when he said platforms like Facebook are “killing people” by allowing disinforma… Read More
US President Joe Biden holds a press conference after the US-Russia summit in Geneva on June 16, 2021. (Photo by PETER KLAUNZER / POOL / AFP)
President Joe Biden said on Friday that socia… Read More
US President Joe Biden said Friday that social media misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is “killing people” and the White House said Facebook needs to clean up its ac… Read More
About two days ago, one of the news journalists requested the president of the US to comment on misinformation issue of social media platforms (such as Facebook) during the pandemic situatio… Read More
Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the White House does “clearly not” find Facebook’s action on vaccine misinformation sufficient. Since the rise of COVID-19, the outlet has be… Read More
20/07/2021While media companies and journalisms will always thrive as long as there are newsworthy topics to cover.
In the modern days of digital technology, information spread the fastest… Read More
Dimitri Snowden seems like a truly horrible and violent human being with no respect for women and no regard for anyone but himself.
That statement isn't especially relevant to this story… Read More
Democratic senators have introduced a bill that would hold Facebook, YouTube and other social media companies responsible if they promote harmful health claims on their platforms.(Image cred… Read More
If the internet is a universe, where smaller products orbit larger products, Facebook would be at the center.
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The new millennium introduced a propaganda technique more intense & more effective than Hitler & Goebbels’ “big lie” strategy & mode of repeating a falsehood so… Read More
We're all aware of the dystopian throttling of the free flow of information Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. But they're hardly the only ones. PR Newsire, Medium, Vimeo, LinkedIn are act… Read More
Do you remember the early days of the Internet? It was like “the wild west”, and that could be bad, but in many ways it was also very good. The Internet was very dece… Read More
Search for “Mercola” on YouTube. He’s one of the “Disinformation Dozen” that the Center for Countering Digital Hate named as a top spreader of COVID-19 misinfor… Read More
Have The Social Media Companies Become Way Too Powerful? - by Michael Snyder - http://endoftheamericandream.com/have-the-social-media-companies-become-way-too-powerful/ Do you remember the… Read More
This week a new issue regarding Snapchat's privacy practices making rounds on social media that claims that Snapchat takes one's birth information without consent.In defense, the platform st… Read More
The Department of Homeland Security might not rely solely on in-house systems to spot extremist threats on social media. Intelligence officer and initiative leader John Cohen told the Wall S… Read More
Videos of local government meetings have emerged as the latest vector of COVID-19 misinformation, broadcasting misleading claims about masks and vaccines to millions and creating new challen… Read More
While Facebook and Twitter are already struggling to handle vaccine misinformation and extremism, there's an increased focus on how social networks are handling Taliban-related content, foll… Read More
While Facebook and Twitter are already struggling to handle vaccine misinformation and extremism, there's an increased focus on how social networks are handling Taliban-related content, foll… Read More
The City Traffic Police today clarified false news is being spread by few persons in social media that the Telangana High Court has ordered that the “traffic police have no powers to s… Read More
In today’s day and age, it will certainly be difficult for people to survive even a day without the internet. Well, this is because the tech has made almost everything in our daily liv… Read More
By Moji Eniola Ikeja, Aug. 26, 2021 To curb the spread of misinformation, journalists should self-regulate their use of social media, rights lawyer, Mr Femi Falana said in Lagos on Thursday… Read More
The rise of social media has made it so that a lot of the news that we tend to rely on often comes from the social media platforms that we dedicate such large portions of our day to. A surve… Read More
Your cousin knows for a fact that coronavirus vaccines have mind-controlling microchips. "Stop the steal" conspiracy theories maybe flooded your social media feeds during and after the 2020… Read More
Console developer allies with experts to encourage vax program
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The chart above is from a survey done by the Pew Research Center. Their survey was done between July 26th and August 8th of a national sample of 11,178 adults, with a 1.4 point margin of err… Read More
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol Riot, sent Letters to 15 Social Media Companies, including Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, seeking to understand how Misinfor… Read More
When Twitter suspended Marjorie Taylor Greene for a week last month for posting misinformation about Covid-19 vaccines, it may have sparked some déjà vu. The Republican congres… Read More
Prince Harry called for more Big Tech censorship of COVID-19 vaccine ‘misinformation’ during the 2021 British GQ Men of The Year Awards.
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The Supreme Court on Friday deferred the hearing due to paucity of time in case of activist Leichombam Erendro’s compensation plea over his arrest on May 13 for a Facebook post th… Read More