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Google Search’s AI answers may be pushing fake information to the forefront of people’s minds, as it hallucinates responses.
A collective $2 million was spent on a project by Microsoft and OpenAI to hinder the spread of deepfakes regarding the 2024 elections.
Google will launch an anti-misinformation campaign across five countries in the EU, the company said ahead of parliamentary elections.
Google’s Jigsaw subsidiary is launching a new anti-misinformation project in India, aimed at preventing misleading information that has been blamed for inciting violence, a top executive said. The initiative will use “prebunking” videos – designed to counter false claims before they become widespread – circulated on the company’s YouTube platform and other social media sites. […]
Misinformation is jeopardizing efforts to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenges, be it climate change, COVID-19 or political polarization, according to a new report from the Aspen Institute that’s backed by prominent voices in media and cybersecurity. Recommendations in the 80-page analysis, published Monday, call for new regulations on social media platforms; stronger, more consistent […]
YouTube announced on Wednesday that it has removed over 1 million COVID-19 misinformation videos. The video-based platform has being removing content related to false cures and claims of coronavirus being a fraud since February 2020, YouTube’s chief product officer Neal Mohan wrote in a blogpost. Based on the data, the company removed around 10 million […]
The U.S. ranked the second highest country worldwide with 54,615 CoV-2 Delta variant cases on Monday, according to Statista, amid a similar wave of virus misinformation that spiked noticeably between June and July. Rates of COVID-19 misinformation and its vaccines increased significantly from June to July, according to U.S.-based AI intelligence cloud that tracks relevant phrases on social media and news outlets, Zignal Labs. Among the most common falsehoods according to the AI media firm, 437 percent claimed that vaccines don’t work, 156 percent […]
Facebook clapped back Saturday against U.S. President Joe Biden’s comments accusing the social networking site of “killing people” by allowing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation being posted and argued that vaccine acceptance among U.S. users has risen. “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” he said. The social media network considered that the facts tell a different story to the one promoted by the Biden administration. Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice […]
Last May, as Twitter was testing warning labels for false and misleading tweets, it tried out the word “disputed” with a small focus group. It didn’t go over well. “People were like, well, who’s disputing it?” said Anita Butler, a San Francisco-based design director at Twitter who has been working on the labels since December […]