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PBBM: Fake news should have ‘no place’ in a modern society
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. said his administration will launch a youth-oriented media and information campaign and an expanded Freedom of Information (FOI) program to combat “fake news.”
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‘Mis/dis analysis’
“Disinformation is false information deliberately spread to deceive people. It should not be confused with misinformation, which is false information but is not deliberate. Where misinformation refers to inaccuracies that stem from error, disinformation is a deliberate falsehood promulgated by design.”
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Is it real or made by AI? Europe wants a label for that as it fights disinformation
LONDON—The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said Monday.
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Rohingya seek reparations from Facebook for role in massacre
Despite years of warnings, Amnesty found, the company not only failed to remove violent hate speech and disinformation against the Rohingya, it actively spread and amplified it until it culminated in the 2017 massacre. The timing coincided with the rising popularity of Facebook in Myanmar, where for many people it served as their only connection to the online world. That effectively made Facebook the internet for a vast number of Myanmar's population.
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California 1st to make firms disclose social media policies
The bill's author, Democratic Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel, said the measure includes the world's most stringent transparency requirements for companies like Facebook and Instagram to disclose in detail how they remove content including hate speech, disinformation, extremism, harassment, and foreign political interference.
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Propaganda, fake videos of Ukraine invasion bombard users
The invasion of Ukraine is shaping up to be Europe's first major armed conflict of the social media age, when the small screen of the smartphone is the dominant tool of communication, carrying with it the peril of an instantaneous spread of dangerous, even deadly, disinformation.
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