Police in Indonesia make arrests as Guardian investigation reveals fake Twitter accounts and violent propaganda Kate Lamb in Jakarta Tue 13 Mar 2018 A screengrab from the Muslim Cyber Army […]
Mislabeled footage of an aggressive “Muslim migrant” shared by President Donald Trump is just one more hoax in a long line of fabricated anti-Islam stories. Get the Newsletter Contact Us News Conspiracy Theories A Look at Some Widely-Spread Falsehoods About Muslims Mislabeled footage of an aggressive “Muslim migrant” shared […]
Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology. By Janna Anderson […]
Oct 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kelly Born Concern about the proliferation of disinformation, misinformation and propaganda has reached the point where many governments are proposing new legislation. But the solutions on offer reflect an inadequate understanding of the problem — and could have negative unintended consequences. This past June, […]
Military and media reports hyped the Zapad military exercise as a major threat. In fact, what took place was nothing as dramatic as the West’s warnings would have led you to believe Mary Dejevsky @IndyVoices Friday 22 September 2017 Russian military jets fly over Moscow in August during Zapad-17 AP Whatever happened to the imminent outbreak […]
The Local news@thelocal.de 14 February 2017 Frankfurt. Photo: DPA Prosecutors in Frankfurt are investigating two people for making up a crime, after they claimed in a national newspaper that dozens of Arab men rioted and sexually assaulted women at New Year. The claims first appeared in Bild newspaper on February […]
FACT CHECK By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi FEB 2, 2017 Some campaigners claim that Islamist extremists could obtain the Swiss passport under a proposed facilitated naturalisation procedure, as this poster from the youth wing of the Swiss People’s Party in canton Schwyz shows. (jsvp-sz.ch) Misinformation has been a recurring feature […]
Reuters International FEB 1, 2017 – JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia’s highest Muslim clerical council is to issue an edict, or fatwa, declaring the spreading of fake news un-Islamic, the organisation’s chairman said on Wednesday. Indonesia has one of the world’s highest number of Facebook and Twitter users, and the biggest […]
Source: The Independent I talked to Iraqi defectors in the 1990s who claimed to have plenty of information about WMDs and gossip about Hussein’s family affairs. It did not take long to work out that they were making it up when they produced convincing but uncheckable details By Patrick Cockburn […]
VERIFICATION By Geraldine Wong Sak Hoi DEC 21, 2016 Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California: the tech giant has announced plans to limit the spread of fake news, but whether it’ll succeed remains to be seen. (Keystone) Swiss and European researchers are working on algorithms to detect misinformation circulating […]
Fahrenheit 9/11 director compares Donald Trump to George W. Bush for not attending daily intelligence breifings Heather Saul @heatheranne9 Michael Moore’s warnings about Donald Trump are becoming increasingly apocalyptic and, judging by the absurdity of events in the US after the election, perhaps not entirely without reason. Debates over the impact […]
By John W. Whitehead Global Research, November 23, 2016 The Rutherford Institute 21 November 2016 “We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.”—Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s […]
THE INDUSTRY November 23, 20163:31 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered LAURA SYDELL FacebookTwitterInstagram “The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right.” Fanatic Studio/Getty Images A lot of fake and misleading news stories were shared […]
The US president denounced the spate of misinformation across social media platforms, including Facebook, suggesting American politics can be affected ‘If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won’t know what to protect. We won’t know what to fight for’: Barack Obama on fake […]