The fight against disinformation It should not fall only on the platforms, but that governments must adopt legislative frameworks that systemically protect information integrity without exercising “arbiters of truth”as well as strengthening the means, according to the OECD. In a report published this Monday – the first on this problem – the Organization for Economic […]
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European Commission opens a file against social network X for not combating illegal content
The European Comission This Monday opened an infringement procedure against the social network because it suspects that it is not combating illegal content and misinformation and that it encourages users to subscribe to its paid version through blue verification. Brussels believes that it is also failing to comply with the new transparency requirements demanded by […]
USA: Many adults believe that AI will increase misinformation in elections
The warnings have grown louder and more urgent as 2024 approaches: the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence threatens to amplify disinformation in next year’s presidential election on a scale never seen before. Most adults in the United States think the same, according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research […]
Brazil accuses Google of “misleading and abusive” campaign against bill on ‘fake news’
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The Brazilian government accused Google this Tuesday of “misleading and abusive advertising” against a bill to combat online misinformation, and ordered the American tech giant to stay out of the debate or display its positions as publicity. The dispute came as lawmakers in Brazil’s lower house were preparing to vote on a so-called “fake news”, […]
Disinformation came from the hand of COVID-19 to homes, according to an expert
The pandemic of COVID-19 has demonstrated the breadth and impact of disinformation in society, explains Sebastian Dieguez, a researcher in neuroscience at the University of Friborg (Switzerland), and co-author of the book in French “Le complotisme”. What is your balance of these two years of massive misinformation? “For the first time we are faced with […]