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GPT-3 Can Write Disinformation Now—and Dupe Human Readers
When OpenAI demonstrated a powerful artificial intelligence algorithm capable of generating coherent text last June, its creators warned that the…
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Phone Cracking Tech is Being Used to Target Journalists in Botswana
Photo: David Ramos (Getty Images) The willingness of digital forensics firms to sell to pretty much any paying law enforcement…
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis Is Real Mad YouTube Took Down Video
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis hasn’t quite reached the last stage of mad, red, and nude…
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Big Tech CEOs Waffle on Banning the 12 Major Anti-Vaxxers
Anti-vax conspiracist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Berlin in August 2020.Photo: Sean Gallup (Getty Images) After a report from the…
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Facebook Missed 10.1 Billion Instances of Misinformation in 2020, Study Finds
Photo: Lionel Bonaventure (Getty Images) If Facebook had moved sooner to restrict hoax, toxic, misleading, or other content attempting to…
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Negligence, Not Politics, Drives Most Misinformation Sharing
you don’t need a study to know that misinformation is rampant on social media; a quick search on “ vaccines”…
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How to Stop People From Sharing Misinformation, ‘Fake News’
Photo: JOSH EDELSON / Contributor (Getty Images) A new study in Nature suggests that shifting reader attention online can help…
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‘Fake News’ About Covid-19 in Malaysia Can Now Get You Three Years in Prison
Malaysia’s Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin takes part in the online Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) leaders’ summit in Kuala Lumpur on…
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Far-Right Propaganda Gets the Most Engagement on Facebook, Especially When It’s Lies
Republican Senator Rand Paul appears before a Facebook logo at a Fox News/Facebook hosted presidential primary debate in 2015; used…
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Twitter Launches Five-Strike System to Ban Users Who Spread Covid-19 Lies
Austin Beutner, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), receives the covid-19 vaccine on March 1, 2021 in…
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