New York Times Shares Results from Blockchain Project to Curb Fake News, Misinformation

NYT	2020-6-15 00:00

Major American daily, the New York Times, in partnership with IBM, recently piloted a blockchain-powered prototype to tackle the rampant fake news and misinformation circulating in today’s media space, Decrypt reports, June 13, 2020. origin »

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Facebook will clearly label fake news to prevent 2020 ‘election interference’

Social media, a tool created to guard freedom of speech and democracy, has increasingly been used in more sinister ways. From its role in lowering the levels of trust in media, to inciting online violence, and amplifying political disinformation in elections— Facebook isn’t just a space to share “what’s on your mind,” and you’d be naive to believe so.

2019-10-22 11:37	Tech
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This AI tool is smart enough to spot AI-generated articles and tweets

Researchers from Harvard University and MIT-IBM Watson Lab have created an AI-powered tool for spotting AI-generated text. Dubbed Giant Language Model Test Room (GLTR), the system aims to detect whether a specific piece of text was generated by a language model algorithm.

2019-7-29 11:00	Insights
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The New York Times wants to fight fake news using blockchain – good luck to it

Combating fake news, deepfakes, and misinformation is one of modern journalism’s biggest challenges. There have been numerous attempts to help readers recognize when a source shouldn’t be trusted.

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Facebook’s approach to fighting fake news is admirable, but not sustainable

With the huge EU elections around the corner, the issue of fake news has started to crop up again in headlines — and Facebook seems determined to make up for its mistakes from when the platform was abused in the 2016 US Presidential election.

2019-5-7 17:19	TNW2019
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WhatsApp says its fake news tip line is just for research

Earlier this week, WhatsApp announced that it’s launching a tip line in India to verify messages during the election. But as it turns out, the new service is not exactly a hotline for debunking fake news – but rather a tool for researching misleading information shared on the platform.

2019-4-4 16:47	India
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WhatsApp launches a tip line in India to battle fake news ahead of national elections

WhatsApp has launched its next weapon in the fight against misinformation on its platform in India: a tip line to which you can send forwards, rumors, and suspicious-sounding messages and have them verified.

2019-4-2 11:03	India
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Facebook and Instagram will hide pages that spread ‘vaccine misinformation’

I’d like to think that everyone who reads TNW knows that vaccines work. That they don’t cause autism, as demonstrated time and time again. That autism doesn’t need the extra stigma and is most certainly preferable to sick and dead kids.

2019-3-8 01:47	Insider
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It’s not just WhatsApp – India’s fake news problem plagues several popular social networks

You can’t discuss the ‘fake news’ phenomenon in India without bringing up WhatsApp. The Facebook-owned messaging service has been constantly under fire after several people were lynched across the country over a misleading video that did the rounds for a year.

2019-1-29 10:28	Insider
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Facebook ousts hundreds of fake news accounts tied to Russia

Facebook today removed multiple accounts, Pages, groups, and Instagram profiles that were related to Russian networks. The accounts in question were masquerading as news organizations and interest pages to spread misinformation.

2019-1-18 14:00	Insider
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This study shows why people fall for fake online profiles

The first step in conducting online propaganda efforts and misinformation campaigns is almost always a fake social media profile. Phony profiles for nonexistent people worm their way into the social networks of real people, where they can spread their falsehoods.

2018-12-24 16:00	Tech
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‘They clearly don’t care’: Fact-checkers on the state of misinformation at Facebook

After a deluge of fake news began to overwhelm Facebook, it got proactive. The social media platform tapped bi-partisan organizations, such as Snopes, to fact-check content on the platform and use their expertise to combat the spread of misinformation.

2018-12-14 05:53	Insider
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WhatsApp’s first ever TV commercial warns against fake news in India

WhatsApp has faced a lot of criticism for the way it’s handled fake news in India. In its latest move to battle misinformation, the company has launched three TV commercials in India to spread awareness about the issue amongst its users in the country.

2018-12-3 15:14	Insider
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Nigeria caught in WhatsApp fake news whirlwind ahead of elections

After numerous infamous cases of people in India and Brazil falling prey to fake news spread on WhatsApp, the problem is now spreading to Nigeria. The West African nation is hosting its national elections in February next year, and a report from The Poynter Institute says its citizens are at risk of being conned by misinformation surrounding political parties – and it’s reaching people through WhatsApp.

2018-12-3 11:35	Insider
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Facebook will delete posts that spread voting misinformation this election

Facebook today announced it’s tackling the most basic form of fake news to circulate around the time of an election: Voter misinformation and anything that might keep users away from the voting booths this fall.

2018-10-16 03:36	Facebook
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WhatApp’s using street theater to fight fake news in India

After facing backlash about fake news in India, WhatsApp is now trying to spread awareness about misinformation. The company is doing an actual roadshow with skits and songs to convey their message to the locals.

2018-10-12 15:50	World
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WhatsApp appoints a grievance officer to handle fake news concerns in India

WhatsApp has appointed a ‘grievance officer’ to address complaints concerning the spread of fake news and misinformation on its platform in India, reports the Press Trust of India on NDTV. This comes in response to the government’s demands from earlier in the year, following a nationwide string of lynchings believed to be incited by false information shared on WhatsApp.

2018-9-24 10:36	India
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WhatsApp won’t help India monitor messages to stop fake news

Following a spree of lynchings across India spurred on by misinformation spread through messaging services like WhatsApp, the country’s IT minister Ravi Shankar Prasad asked the company to figure out a way to trace these misleading messages back to the original sender earlier this week.

2018-8-24 10:54	India
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Twitter should try a new approach to tackling misinformation already

Addressing the spread of misinformation on Twitter, CEO Jack Dorsey told CNN’s Brian Stelter over the weekend that the company isn’t in a hurry to begin proactively taking down fake news posted on its platform.

2018-8-20 10:23	#twitter
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WhatsApp limits message forwarding to fight the spread of fake news

WhatsApp is making yet another change to its service to prevent the spread of misinformation by neutering its message forwarding function. Users will now only be able to forward messages to 20 contacts at a time; people in India will be limited to forwarding messages to only five people at a time.

2018-7-20 09:10	India
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The internet has become information chaos

A simple search on Google or a scroll through Facebook will reveal hundreds of contrasting posts and articles about any subject imaginable. The internet has become cluttered with too many opinions and an overload of information.

2018-7-18 22:18	Contributors
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Blockchain Network Raises $3 Million to Combat Fake News With Decentralization

In this age of disinformation, misinformation and fake news, information vetting has become a highly anticipated subject and recently, another startup emerged with plans to use a decentralized blockchain system to filter out the noise and get to the truth.

2018-7-13 14:00
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