misinformation
Verified Twitter Accounts Spread AI-Generated Hoax of Pentagon Explosion
An AI-generated image of a fake explosion near the Pentagon went viral thanks to blue-check Twitter accounts.
Every Day is April Fool’s Day Now
Deepfakes, Puffy Popes, AI-generated Trump arrest photos, articles written by GPT-4: We're living in a world where fear of being fooled is constant.
People Are Creating Records of Fake Historical Events Using AI
Never heard of the Great Cascadia 9.1 Earthquake of 2001, or the USSR's Blue Plague Incident? That's because they never happened.
An Ivermectin Influencer Died. Now His Followers Are Worried About Their Own ‘Severe’ Symptoms.
Danny Lemoi took a daily dose of veterinary-grade ivermectin and told his thousands of followers to give the drug to children. He died of a common side effect of the medication.
Why Do People Believe Everything They Watch on TikTok?
We're just as bad as boomers falling for misinformation on Facebook.
Irrational Fear Is a TikTok Genre Now
Videos that claim to help prevent sex trafficking or expose spycams in Airbnbs are actually superspreaders of misinformation.
Facebook and Twitter Take Down a U.S. Propaganda Operation Targeting Russia, China, Iran
"These findings unveil what we believe are the first major covert pro-America and Western operations identified and suspended by Twitter and Meta,” a researcher who examined the operation told Motherboard.
Connecticut Is Paying Someone $150,000 to Search 4chan for Election Misinformation
Dubbed the “Misinfo Sheriff,” the full-time position will “bat down the BS before it gets out there.”
Meta Congratulates Itself for Trying to Moderate Misinformation in Australia
The big tech behemoth is desperate for you to know that it has done the absolute bare minimum on purging its platforms of COVID-19 misinformation.
Kendrick Lamar’s New Deepfake Video Is a Masterpiece. That’s Exactly the Problem
“The Heart Part 5” is poised to make deepfake technology more mainstream, but should it?
Everything We Know About the US ‘Freedom Convoy’
From mainstream GOP personalities to Fox News hosts to neo-Nazis, many Americans are working to get their own anti–vaccine mandate convoy going.
COVID Conspiracists Are Threatening Schools With a Fake Police Investigation
A disinformation campaign falsely claiming that COVID vaccines are under police investigation is targeting UK schools, advising them to cancel immunisation sessions or be held criminally liable.